How could Ji Meng not hate him?
"That human had his eye on my strength."
Ji Meng sneered. "He wanted me to submit to him."
"Hmph!"
The disdain on Ji Meng's face was like a sharp blade, stabbing straight toward Xiao Xiao.
Xiao Xiao smiled faintly.
He felt rather unjustly accused.
He wasn't that human.
Seeing that Xiao Xiao hadn't been frightened by its imposing aura and had instead smiled, Ji Meng dug its claws into the ground.
"...He used a trick to capture me."
Humans were insidious and cunning.
Even though it was stronger, it had still fallen into the other party's trap and become a "prisoner."
"But so what if he captured me?"
The other party hadn't defeated it in a fair fight. He'd resorted to underhanded tactics.
That alone... "He thinks he can make me serve him?"
"Dream on!"
Thinking of how one moment of carelessness had left it trapped for so long, Ji Meng's entire face twisted.
"To make me submit..."
"He sealed me inside a jade bracelet."
"He wanted to wear down my strength that way."
"If I kept refusing to submit..."
Ji Meng fell silent.
"You would grow weaker and weaker."
Xiao Xiao continued, "Until you died."
Ji Meng said nothing.
The human wasn't wrong.
During those lightless days, all it could do was feel its demonic power slowly drain away.
That feeling of waiting for death... was terrifying.
"So, in a way, she saved you."
Xiao Xiao's words instantly twisted Ji Meng's face into a snarl.
"She didn't save me!"
"I don't need her to save me!"
It had been trapped inside the seal.
It had grown weaker day by day.
But as time passed, it wasn't only growing weaker. The bracelet's sealing power was, too.
Given