"All right, I promise."
Bibi Dong swept a hand across the water, her fingertips stirring a ring of ripples through its warmth.
"Once Xue'er and her beloved leave, I'll accompany you to Star Dou Forest."
"Thank you!" A delighted smile instantly blossomed on the phantom's face.
Her figure stirred gently, turning into a wisp of pink light that slipped back into Bibi Dong's body.
Once the phantom disappeared, silence returned to the bathroom.
Bibi Dong lowered her head to gaze at her blurred reflection in the water. Her fingertips slowly brushed over her full, high breasts as the sorrow in her eyes began to recede, inch by inch.
In its place came a vicious gleam as keen as a blade!
"Yu Xiaogang!"
"You're the one who did this to me!"
"You turned master and disciple against each other!"
"You ruined my life!"
During those years when the Rakshasa God had been corrupting her, how many of her decisions had been secretly manipulated by that evil phantom?
How much of her hatred had been magnified without cause?
Her coldness toward Qian Renxue over those years, her almost fanatical fixation on Yu Xiaogang...
How much of it had been her own will, and how much had been that dark-purple phantom stirring up wind and waves behind the scenes?
The more she thought, the more she hated him, until her eyes nearly split with rage and her heart felt as though knives were twisting through it.
Under the turbulence of her emotions, the warm bathwater began to churn gently. Fine ripples spread across its surface, as though an invisible wind had ruffled it.
And just as Bibi Dong grew angrier and angrier, longing to rush outside and tear Yu Xiaogang into ten thousand pieces-
"Mom!"
Qian Renxue's voice suddenly came from beyond the