FVN Chapter 406: 223, _2
Chapter 406: 223, _2
Chapter 406: 223, _2
The dim candlelight illuminated her snow-white robe, making it as radiant as the rosy hues of dawn.
Tian Liuli stood in a corner, staring blankly at the moon’s reflection outside the window.
Xu Yuan pushed the door open, looking at the dull interplay of light and shadow that seemed to steal away all the brilliance of the room, a chilling silhouette.
A kind of indescribable sadness flowed through the crack of the door, pouring over him.
His throat moved slightly, and he suddenly felt at a loss for words.
The words he had planned to say were stuck in his throat.
...
She seemed unaware of him, standing quietly to the side, lost in thought. Her lustrous, dark hair fell like a nocturnal icy cascade, seen for its chill, unheard for its sound.
Xu Yuan turned back to close the door, whispering, “I’m back.”
“...”
Silence, like the street at the City Lord’s Mansion that was bustling in the afternoon but fell suddenly silent and cold at night.
“I thought if this lamp went out before you came back, I might as well leave on my own.”
Tian Liuli’s lips parted slightly, beginning to speak in a soft voice.
Her voice was like a cold spring flowing over a millennia-old glacier—ethereal and clear, yet one could feel the chill underlying it at first glance.
Xu Yuan’s gaze fell on the lamp on the table. A wind blew in from the outside, making it sway like a swing.
On the table, you could also see spots of moisture, seemingly from melted butter.
“Later, I saw it blown out by the wind, yet I couldn’t help but relight it, thinking that it was the wind’s doing, it didn’t count, then it ran out of oil, so I couldn’t help but add more oil to it.”
She chuckled softly at this point.
That laughter contained no self-mockery nor bitterness—just a simple laugh.
“Then later, I thought, why deceive myself? If I want to leave, I’ll leave; if I want to stay, I’ll stay.”
Watching her still here, Xu Yuan didn’t feel overly delighted.
With her hands clasped behind her back, she turned to look at him and said earnestly and slowly.
“Do you, too, deceive yourself?” she asked.
That’s why you can say those words so unabashedly, the words about liking me?
That’s why, after declaring your affection for me, you immediately engage flirtatiously with other women?
“...”
Xu Yuan remained silent for a long time, then nodded slightly, “Perhaps, I don’t know if I’ve deceived myself, but I don’t think I have; if I have, then so be it.”
Tian Liuli smiled faintly, “I won’t give you any more chances.”
Xu Yuan felt a tightness in his chest.
“You know, in your memory, I may seem unreasonable, but in my memory, I’ve always thought of myself as a reasonable person, because my heart held only the Daoist path, at least before the Tribulation of the Dao. After the Tribulation of the Dao, I thought it still did.”
She gave a slight smile and continued, “So, in the beginning, even when Lin kept picking fights and entangling with you, I really didn’t care, because I wasn’t jealous. I was just worried that maybe she would delay your practice, preventing your ascension. If you couldn’t ascend, it would have troubled me.”
“Do you still think I’m not troublesome now?”
She revealed a slight smile.
“Might be troublesome, but, I rather like the trouble.”
Xu Yuan gasped sharply.
The sudden action by Tian Liuli wasn’t particularly fast, and he wasn’t without time to react.
But he did not resist.
Still, despite this, one must admit, the speed at which these obsessives change their demeanor is indeed consistently fast.
A moment ago, still and calm, the next, dismembered with not just one head but two.
“But what if this trouble doesn’t like the other troubles in you?”
Her eyes unwaveringly fixed on him, “If you don’t rid yourself of the other troubles, one day, this trouble will crush you.”
This wasn’t a threat but a foretold future.
“Then we’ll address that when the day comes,”
Xu Yuan calmly returned her gaze, “At least today, I’m still standing.”
“One last question.”
Tian Liuli turned around, her hands clasped behind her back, silently enjoying the night breeze flowing in from the window.
“Do you know why I just severed your hands?”
“...”
Xu Yuan held his breath, thought for a moment, and said, “Because my hands had just touched someone else?”
“You’re not too stupid,”
Tian Liuli nodded indifferently, “If you had said something like my answer made you dissatisfied, that would have truly made me dissatisfied.”
Xu Yuan didn’t ask how she knew, nor did he ask if she knew what happened even before that.
Questions likely to chill one’s spine are best left unasked.
“In the future, I won’t forbid you from doing anything, but whatever you do, you will bear the consequences, and I hope you understand that, now I can still vent this way,”
She suddenly appeared silently beside him, reached out to gently stroke his cheek, tenderly wiping the blood that had splattered onto his face, softly saying, “But if there comes a day when I really can’t endure, then don’t blame me.”
“I, I understand.”
For some reason, Xu Yuan always felt that she would do something terribly frightening one day.
If it had been earlier, her most likely action would have been to confine him right here like a caged canary until his Ascension into the Immortal Realm.
But now, what she would do next, he dared not be sure of.
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