Chapter 378: Are You Teaching Me How to Act? (Please Subscribe!)

The moment their eyes met, a greedy light instantly erupted from the hollow gaze of the demon beast.

"The fate of Lone Star and Calamity Star, ah... truly an exhilarating scent!"

"Eating you will surely restore much of my strength!"

The demon beast's laughter sent shivers down the spine as it stepped toward Little Shenhe.

Its pace was not fast.

Perhaps because it was currently a grievously wounded body.

Yet even so, fear showed on Little Shenhe's face.

After all, to a child, a ferocious and terrifying demon beast was no different from a devil.

Little Shenhe instinctively tightened her grip on her father's hand.

Only then would her heart not feel so afraid.

But.

Little Shenhe's father no longer wore the gentle and doting expression from before; it had been replaced by coldness.

It even carried a hint of sycophancy.

He quickly broke free from Little Shenhe's grasping hand and left the cave without looking back.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye; before Little Shenhe could even react, her father had already reached the entrance.

When she finally came to her senses, she turned her head, looking at her father in disbelief.

"... Father? Father?"

Little Shenhe spoke with a trembling voice.

"I am sorry, Little Shenhe."

"For your mother's sake, I had no choice but to do this!"

The tone in Little Shenhe's father's voice carried bone-chilling coldness; in an instant, Little Shenhe felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over her.

She understood.

The so-called surprise was merely a trick her father used to lure her up the mountain.

The true purpose was to bring her before the demon beast!

Little Shenhe shook her head; she could not believe that the father who had stood tall and mighty, omnipotent in her heart, was about to abandon her in the blink of an eye.

To offer her up to that demon beast!

"Father, w-why... why treat He'er like this... what did He'er do wrong..."

Little Shenhe's voice trembled, laced with a sobbing tone.

Tears fell from her face to the ground, clearly unable to believe all of this.

Ever since her mother passed away, her father had been unable to emerge from his grief day after day.

So she had always behaved very obediently and sensibly, just wanting to give her father some comfort.

But she did not understand.

She had clearly done nothing wrong.

Why did her father have to abandon her? (abbh)

She lifted her foot, wanting to catch up with her father.

But her father extended his hand and sealed the cave entrance with a forbidden formation.

Little Shenhe ran to the forbidden formation and frantically pounded on the wall-like barrier before her.

"I am sorry, Little Shenhe."

"You were born with the fate of Lone Star and Calamity Star; your mother was killed by your curse!"

"My lord said that as long as you are sacrificed to it, it can bring your mother back."

Little Shenhe's father looked at the tearful Little Shenhe before him, and a trace of reluctance flashed in his eyes.

But he still cruelly turned his head away and left without looking back.

Little Shenhe stood there, stunned.

Her father's words echoed repeatedly in her mind, like needles, deeply piercing her heart.

She could not believe such words came from her own father's mouth.

Her own father had actually always regarded her as the calamity star who cursed her mother to death!

Little Shenhe's eyes were hollow and lifeless.

Was she truly the calamity star who cursed her mother to death?

If that were the case...

"He'er, I only wish for you to grow up healthy, safe, and happy..."

Her mother's words before passing away suddenly rang out in Little Shenhe's mind.

"Mother..."

Little Shenhe raised her head, and light rekindled in her eyes.

She wanted to live!

She must live no matter what!

"Hehehe, what a foolish father."

"He really just sent his own daughter straight to my presence."

The demon beast let out a cackling, eerie laugh, mocking as if in jest.

Little Shenhe pulled a dagger from her bosom.

It was a weapon to ward off evil spirits left to her by her mother!