I Want It All.

Consciousness gradually returned...

When Li Chang'an woke from his coma, he found that everything around him was pitch-black. Only two points of green light not far away gleamed eerily in the darkness.

Thinking back to everything before he had passed out, he formed a few guesses about where he was now. His heart immediately grew a little excited.

Calm down! Calm down!

I can't act like I knew this all along.

I have to keep playing this scene out!

Li Chang'an forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, pretended he knew nothing, and rolled over to sit up. He circulated the Soul Power inside him through his whole body, and the weakness from his coma quickly faded. He gathered Soul Power into his eyes and swiftly adapted to the pitch-black surroundings.

"To wake so suddenly and still remain this calm in an unfamiliar, unknown environment—boy, you're doing well." A hoarse voice came from beside him. As his eyes adjusted to the light, Li Chang'an used those two faint green lights to vaguely make out Dugu Bo sitting not far from him. And those two points of green light were actually Dugu Bo's eyes.

Li Chang'an did not speak. His entire body only tensed as he put on a wary posture, as if he could launch an attack at any moment.

"Boy, do you know who I am?" Dugu Bo leaned against the stone wall behind him and asked indifferently.

"..."

Li Chang'an was silent for a moment before saying, "You're an elder from Yanzi's family?"

"Oh? How did you figure that out?"

Dugu Bo asked with great interest.

"By feeling."

Li Chang'an said steadily, "I can sense that your Martial Soul and Yanzi's Martial Soul should belong to the same type. It's just that you're stronger than her."

"Since you've guessed my identity, why don't you guess again? Why did I abduct you here?" Dugu Bo smiled coldly. If someone did not know the truth about him, anyone who saw him like this would probably take him for a cruel, heartless, perverted old monster.

But Li Chang'an, who had read the Original Work and knew he was clearly trying to scare him, did not panic in the slightest. He only showed a somewhat puzzled expression and said, "Could it be... related to Yanzi?"

After thinking it over, at this stage, the only reason that could make Dugu Bo come looking for him was probably Dugu Yan. Especially not long ago, when Dugu Yan had hurriedly asked for leave and left without saying goodbye. That made him feel even more certain that it was most likely related to her.

Otherwise, he had neither provoked him, nor cured his poison and run his mouth insulting his poison as trash. How could a dignified Titled Douluo come knocking at his door?

"Do you know my title?"

Dugu Bo did not answer him. Instead, he asked a seemingly unrelated question.

"I do not. May I ask for your honored title, senior?"

Li Chang'an asked as if feeding him the perfect setup.

"Hmph. This old man's compound surname is Dugu, and my title is Poison!"

Dugu Bo put on an expression that seemed to say, "Mortal, worship me."

"Ah!!!! So you are Your Highness Poison Douluo, known as the one whose poison dominates all under heaven!" Li Chang'an cooperated perfectly, revealing an expression of shock and disbelief. Only at the end did he sigh and say, "I never imagined Yanzi was actually your granddaughter... No wonder she's so outstanding."

Dugu Bo was very satisfied with Li Chang'an's performance, his vanity receiving immense gratification. So he waved his right hand. Who knew how he did it, but a ring of emerald green flames immediately ignited around the cave.

Under the illumination of the green fire, Li Chang'an finally saw clearly that he was inside a cavern nearly a thousand square meters in size. Clearly, this place was none other than the place he had been thinking about day and night.

"Boy, enough flattery." Though he was rather pleased with Li Chang'an's attitude inwardly, Dugu Bo naturally could not show it on the surface. He still kept a cold face and said in a stiff tone, "Since you know Yan Yan is this old man's granddaughter, you should know why this old man brought you here, shouldn't you?"

"This... please forgive this junior's ignorance. I ask senior to enlighten me." Li Chang'an truly had no idea what was going on now; he was not pretending. Although he had guessed that Dugu Bo had captured him because of Dugu Yan, he really did not know the specific reason.

"Hmph!"

Dugu Bo snorted coldly and simply laid it bare. "You clearly already have a marriage contract, so why did you still come provoke this old man's granddaughter! Don't tell me you want this old man's granddaughter to become your concubine?!"

Only at this moment did Li Chang'an finally understand where the problem lay. So it was actually because of his status as Imperial Son-in-Law.

In this world, an Imperial Son-in-Law could only have one wife, and that was the Princess. So in everyone else's eyes, since he had a marriage contract, he was destined to be unable to marry any other woman. As for becoming a concubine... what proud daughter of heaven would willingly become a concubine?

Tsk, this was a little troublesome.

Li Chang'an instantly felt that this was thorny. He had no idea which bastard had told Dugu Yan about his status as Imperial Son-in-Law. Their intentions were simply damnable!

And now, facing Dugu Bo's questioning, Li Chang'an's thoughts raced. Very quickly, he figured out what to say. His expression became dejected, and he gave a faint sigh. "I have never thought of making Yanzi a concubine..."

Before he could finish, Dugu Bo flew into a rage and said, "Wonderful! So you brat plan to eat her up, wipe your mouth clean, and then refuse to take responsibility, is that it!"

The emotions Li Chang'an had painstakingly built up were interrupted. He looked at Dugu Bo a little speechlessly before continuing, "This junior absolutely has no such intention! Besides, nothing has happened between Yanzi and me yet, and we haven't even confirmed a romantic relationship. How can there be any talk of eating her up and wiping my mouth clean?"

"It is precisely because I have a marriage contract that I have never dared to express my feelings to her. As for my engagement with the Princess, I had no choice in the matter. I haven't even seen what that Princess looks like..." he said somewhat helplessly. His words and tone made him seem very innocent.

Dugu Bo, who did not know the truth, was successfully fooled by him. He thought Li Chang'an was also extremely unwilling about the engagement and was merely helpless because an imperial decree was hard to defy. He had no idea that the fellow before him was purely acting. Li Chang'an had not the slightest rejection toward the marriage contract at all; he simply wanted it all.

And at this moment.

Someone who had long been hiding in the shadows could no longer control the emotions in her heart after hearing this.

Along with a waft of fragrant wind.

"Chang'an Gege~"

Li Chang'an only felt a soft young girl's body crash into his arms. That familiar body fragrance and familiar voice made him recognize at once who the girl in his embrace was.

"...Yanzi, you... why are you here?" he murmured instinctively.

The girl did not speak. She only hugged him tightly, as if she wanted to melt her own body into his.

After learning the entire "truth," however disappointed and heartbroken she had been before, that was how joyful and happy she was now. Her heart was filled with the wild joy of regaining love she thought she had lost.

Because she knew Li Chang'an liked her. He was not casually playing with her feelings.

That was enough.

Even though she knew he had a marriage contract, Dugu Yan did not care at all right now. It could only be said that adolescent girls really were easy to fool, and also very easy to satisfy.