Meng Chao's expression grew uglier and uglier. Suddenly, he struck like lightning and seized Lü Siya's wrist.
"What exactly did you tell my parents?"
He said in a low voice, "That made them misunderstand our relationship?"
"It hurts, it hurts so much!"
Lü Siya's face went deathly pale, tears welling in her eyes.
Only then did Meng Chao remember that her spirit veins had been severed and all her cultivation lost. For now—or perhaps forever—she was an ordinary person too weak to truss a chicken.
With a cold snort, he released Lü Siya's wrist and said icily, "You lied to them?"
"Meng Chao, you disappoint me too much."
Biting her lip, Lü Siya said, "You can question my stance, but you cannot insult my intelligence—do you think I need to deceive your parents to make them approve of and bless our relationship?
"I merely spoke frankly and put it into practice."
"What do you mean by 'spoke frankly'?"
Meng Chao frowned. "And what do you mean by 'put it into practice'?"
"Speaking frankly means honestly telling your parents about the relationship between us."
Spreading her hands, Lü Siya said, "I told them, and your little sister too, that you and I were intimate comrades-in-arms who had shared life and death, and that we had saved each other's lives countless times.
"I also told them that, because of the double baptism of the Red Radiance Jade Mine and the Blue Origin Motherstone mine cave, our Life Magnetic Fields had developed a miraculous resonance. When we stirred our Life Magnetic Fields in the same Cultivation Chamber, our cultivation efficiency was five or even ten times higher than anyone else's.
"I also told them that even if everyone believed you were dead, I would never accept it. So long as your corpse had