"Chen Meiyu refused to turn back into her original monstrous form, because once she did, she would also become a Deceiver like me."
Red Eyes wove the stars filling the sky into a flower crown. Pale blue specks adorned the flowers of various sizes, and some of them even bore dewdrops.
"Why do you want to kill the god seed?"
Since Red Eyes was unwilling to answer her previous question, Jiang You simply changed the subject.
"It's not that I absolutely have to kill her. I just want a wish."
Red Eyes' short fingers seriously fiddled with the petals in her arms. "But those monsters won't allow me to enter the Land of Origin. The Land of Origin is at its weakest when the previous god seed has died and the next one hasn't taken over yet. That's when I can enter.
Once the next god seed appears, I'll be able to accomplish what I want to do.
You know, a god seed can't refuse someone else's wish.
But those cowards actually kept hiding in the Land of Origin. They wouldn't come out, and they wouldn't let anyone in.
Several thousand years ago, I finally succeeded in luring a monster out of the Land of Origin and into the human world. I also schemed to strip her of all her power, leaving her with only a shell. I waited for her to beg me—beg me to take her back.
But I never expected that she would rather split herself apart than bow her head to me."
"The monster you tricked was Chen Meiyu? She doesn't look like someone who'd fall for that so easily."
"Hmph. She's shrewd because she's spent too long in the human world. Every monster that has just left home is an idiot!" Red Eyes snorted coldly,