Chapter 48: I Have Come to Take You Home

Ren Yidao looked at his miserable Senior Sister and added with a smile:

"Come with me, little one."

Seventy years ago, that was exactly what you said to me.

Miss Jing, the tides of fortune have turned.

Jing Yueqin stared blankly at the intruder who shouldn't have been here, her chaotic thoughts startled into a state of relative clarity.

Is this also an illusion?

"You, why are you here?"

Are you also an illusion constructed within my Heart?

Could it be that even you have been...

Seeing that the look in Jing Yueqin's eyes was wrong, Ren Yidao hurriedly reassured her:

"Stop right there!"

"No matter what you're thinking, I am still alive and well."

"I, Ren Yidao, am standing right here in front of you, Jing Yueqin, in perfect health, preparing to kidnap you and take you home."

He reached out, lifted Senior Sister's chin, and smiled pleasantly:

"By the way, I'm not asking for your opinion."

You said this line back then, too.

I remember every single evil deed you committed against me!

You broke into my little nest, kidnapped me, and in the end, left me with no home.

Now, you want to just walk away by yourself?

Too late.

You want to run after doing bad things?

There is no such cheap deal in this world!

"Stop pretending you can't hear me; come, come with me."

Slap!

Shaking off her Junior Brother's palm, Jing Yueqin scrambled up in a panic and retreated.

"No, that's not right! You aren't real!"

"You must be fake!"

Her face was full of fear; she refused to believe everything before her.

"It must be another illusion; when I wake up, nothing will have changed!"

She had been deceived too many times already.

This must be the Heart Demon at work again.

Ren Yidao stood where he was, not flustered by Jing Yueqin's loss of composure, and instead asked:

"Isn't it quite good for things to remain unchanged?"

He pointed out the most critical issue with amusement:

"I didn't run away from home like Master did, or are you hoping I'll run away too?"

"No!!!"

Without even reacting, Jing Yueqin refused outright, clutching her head and whispering:

"Don't go, don't go, don't..."

Ren Yidao took a step forward, stood before her, and gently lifted her chin, making her look directly into his eyes.

He said:

"I won't go."

"I am right here."

"I am not going anywhere."

Ah, ah, ah...

Tears welled up from her eyes and flowed down, washing away the bloodstains on her face and leaving two tear tracks.

But soon, she pushed Ren Yidao away again, clutching her head and shouting:

"No, you can't, you have to go, you all have to go!"

"You cannot stay by my side, otherwise you will all meet with misfortune..."

If you continue to stay, then only I can feel happiness, while you will all encounter misfortune.

No!

Snap!

A sharp pain came from her forehead, and Jing Yueqin looked at Ren Yidao in confusion.

???

Why did you flick my forehead?

"What are you looking at? You're even feeling aggrieved now!"

Snap!

"I'm asking you, what have you been muttering to yourself about this whole time?"

"Do you take me for you? Knowing nothing at all?"

Ren Yidao flicked his finger again and said irritably:

"It's not like it's the first day I've known your fate is that of a Heavenly Fiend; what are you being so pretentious about?"

Jing Yueqin: "Huh?"

"Rather than that, haven't you felt that your luck has improved a lot over these past few decades?"

"Did you think it was just a turn of fortune?"

Patting his own chest, Ren Yidao said with heartbreaking grief:

"It's not that, it's my credit!"

"Things like white foxes, no matter where they are, are considered an Auspicious Beast from the start."

He pointed to the Fox Tail protruding from behind him, deliberately emphasizing:

"I am an Auspicious Beast! Do you understand what an Auspicious Beast is? It's exactly what suppresses someone like you, a Heavenly Fiend Lone Star."

"If I hadn't been diligently doing good deeds all these years to offset your Evil debts, do you think you could have slept so comfortably every day!"

When you were living in peace and quiet, did you know I was the one carrying the burden for you?

Hmph.

You ungrateful woman!

Listening to Ren Yidao's words, Jing Yueqin's body gradually lost its strength, and she knelt powerlessly to the ground.

"I, I..."

Suddenly her expression changed, and Jing Yueqin began tearing at her own hair with both hands, roaring in pain.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

Then...

A claw pierced through the youth's body.

"..."

Looking down at the arm thrust into his chest, he twitched his cheeks and coughed lightly:

"Cough, cough, I admit my voice might have been a bit loud just now."

"But personally, I do not advocate domestic violence; communication can solve problems."

First pulling his arm out from his chest, he then knelt down with her, directly embracing her petite body that was trembling and trying its best to restrain itself.

Holding her tightly, Ren Yidao whispered in her ear:

"No matter what the problem is, I will solve it with you, okay?"

"Besides, didn't we already agree? You were going to keep my secret for me, weren't you?"

"You aren't going to break your word, are you?"

"Come home with me, Yueqin."

Finally, upon hearing these words, Jing Yueqin regained her senses, and she wept as she hugged him back tightly.

She kept exerting force, as if afraid he would disappear.

She sent out a plea for help to the youth who had come to save her:

"Yidao, what should I actually do?"

"I'm so tired, I want to give up."

"But if I don't go look for her, Master she..."

And Ren Yidao, after listening, began to smile.

He said:

"What are you struggling with?"

"No matter what you do, hasn't it always depended on your own thoughts?"

Releasing the embrace, Jing Yueqin looked up blankly and saw a pair of gentle eyes.

Gently stroking her cheek, the youth spoke as if it were a matter of course:

"This is your life; do it if you want to, and stop if you feel tired."

"No one can say anything about it; I can't, Master can't, and outsiders have even less right to point fingers."

"Whether you follow tradition or act against the grain, these are all your choices."

"Just like when you chose to take me up the mountain back then, did you ask if I was willing? Wasn't that your choice?"

He beamed, wiped the bloodstains from her cheeks, and then smeared that blood between his own brows.

"Your misfortune, I will take away."

"Your happiness, I will bring."

The patterns formed by the fresh blood were inscribed between his brows, making him look both divine and demonic.

Full of divinity.

He said:

"If you want to keep persisting, I can accompany you to find my cheap Master."

"If you don't want to, I can also accompany you to stay here for a lifetime."

"But other than that, I cannot help you decide anything more."

Closing one eye, he stuck out his tongue, dispelling the divinity on his body, and laughed playfully:

"After all, I am just a little fox who doesn't know anything."

"Woman, don't act spoiled with a little fox anymore."

Ren Yidao stood up and reached out his palm toward Jing Yueqin once more.

He said:

"Stand up, come with me."

"I am not here to save you."

"I am only here to take you home."

And Jing Yueqin, after countless hesitations, finally revealed a smile.

She raised her hand, grabbed that palm, and gripped it tightly.

She said:

"Mm!"

We are going home!

From this moment on, the darkness before her eyes collapsed with a boom!

Brilliant light burst forth from behind the youth, illuminating all things!

……

……

The scene before her eyes gradually recovered, but before Jing Yueqin could see her surroundings clearly, she heard a furious roar coming from the distance.

That person was bellowing.

"Zuo Su!!!"

"How dare you!!?"