Milky-white steam curled above the bath.
Qian Renxue curled up in the warm water.
Her slender, snow-white arms were crossed tightly over her chest.
She desperately tried to cover her most private parts.
In the depths of her mind, a burst of wicked laughter came from the blood-red mist.
Qian Sha Yu's voice was full of undisguised teasing and frivolity.
"Enough. You can stop trying to cover yourself up."
"In these twenty-odd years, I've watched you from your own eyes at least a thousand times."
"Is there an inch of skin on your body I don't know?"
"Since you were nine, when have you ever managed to hide a bath or a change of clothes from me?"
"Why pretend to be some chaste maiden now?"
The words echoed again and again through Qian Renxue's mind.
A chill shot from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head.
Her scalp prickled.
Twenty-odd years.
A full twenty-odd years.
The man hidden deep inside her had been silently spying on everything she did all this time.
Whether she was changing clothes in her daily life or pretending to sleep late at night,
he had seen everything, whether he should have or not.
Qian Renxue gritted her teeth until they chattered.
A scarlet light glimmered in her eyes.
She could have killed him.
"Get back into the depths of my mind!"
"If you look at me one more time, I'll tear your consciousness apart, even if I have to mutilate myself!"
Qian Renxue threatened him through gritted teeth.
"Heh." Qian Sha Yu chuckled softly.
His laughter echoed incessantly through her mind.
"Mutilate yourself?"
"Would you really?"
"Stop deluding yourself. If you dared to die, you wouldn't have endured all that humiliation and stayed undercover for twenty years."
"Besides, I'm your Second Personality. Looking at my own body is only natural." "Relax."
"I'm just bored and wanted to chat."
Qian Sha Yu's tone was as calm as still water, but then he abruptly changed the subject.
"Answer my question from earlier."
"Forget those childish ideas about friend and foe."
"What kind of person is Tang San to you, really?"
In the bath,
Qian Renxue pressed her lips tightly together.
Shame brought an enticing flush to her skin from head to toe.
But she couldn't ignore Qian Sha Yu's piercing question in her mind.
Tang San...
The man who had thwarted her plans time and again, and had nearly driven her into a desperate corner.
Qian Renxue drew a deep breath.
Moisture gathered on her eyelashes.
"He's an extremely dangerous opponent."
Qian Renxue replied coldly in her heart, "He's exceptionally talented and an expert schemer."
"If you hadn't forced your way in today, I might really have fallen at his hands during the Heaven Dou Palace Coup."
"Heh." Qian Sha Yu's mocking laughter rang out again.
"An expert schemer?"
"Extremely dangerous?"
"Qian Renxue, don't you think you're rating him a little too highly?"
"To me, he's nothing but a hypocrite who got lucky and spouts double standards."
"What Clear Sky Sect prodigy? What Twin Martial Souls?"
"Once I take control of this body again, I'll crush his skull beneath my heel with my own hands!"
His domineering words reverberated through Qian Renxue's mind.
Her heart gave a violent jolt.
Crush Tang San?
In the past, she would have thought it was nothing but the delusions of an arrogant madman.
But after the battle at Heaven Dou Square, after seeing Bone Douluo flee with an arm severed and Emperor Xue Ye meet his end,
she knew that the Slaughter Demon Lord inhabiting her body truly had the power to do it!
"Qian Sha Yu!"
Qian Renxue shrieked furiously in her mental space.
"You shameless, filthy lecher!"
"I'll tear you to pieces!"
"Get back into the depths of my mind!"
"If you look at me one more time, I'll tear your consciousness apart, even if I have to mutilate myself!"
Qian Renxue threatened him through gritted teeth.
"Heh." Qian Sha Yu chuckled softly.
His laughter echoed incessantly through her mind.
"Mutilate yourself?"
"Would you really?"
"Stop deluding yourself. If you dared to die, you wouldn't have endured all that humiliation and stayed undercover for twenty years."
"Besides, I'm your Second Personality. Looking at my own body is only natural."
"Relax. I'm just bored and wanted to chat." Qian Sha Yu abruptly changed the subject.
He had no time to indulge her anger.
His wicked laughter faded, and his deep, hoarse voice went straight to the point.
"Don't fly off the handle just yet."
"I'll ask you one more time: what do you really think of that fellow, Tang San?"
"Answer my question from earlier."
"Forget those childish ideas about friend and foe."
"What kind of person is Tang San to you, really?"
In the bath,
Qian Renxue pressed her lips tightly together.
Shame brought an enticing flush to her skin from head to toe.
But she couldn't ignore Qian Sha Yu's piercing question in her mind.
Tang San...
The man who had thwarted her plans time and again, and had nearly driven her into a desperate corner.
Qian Renxue drew a deep breath.
Moisture gathered on her eyelashes.
"He's an extremely dangerous opponent."
Qian Renxue replied coldly in her heart, "He's exceptionally talented and an expert schemer."
"If you hadn't forced your way in today, I might really have fallen at his hands during the Heaven Dou Palace Coup."
"Heh." Qian Sha Yu's mocking laughter rang out again.
"An expert schemer?"
"Extremely dangerous?"
"Qian Renxue, don't you think you're rating him a little too highly?"
"To me, he's nothing but a hypocrite who got lucky and spouts double standards."
"What Clear Sky Sect prodigy? What Twin Martial Souls?"
"Once I take control of this body again, I'll crush his skull beneath my heel with my own hands!"
His domineering words reverberated through Qian Renxue's mind.
Her heart gave a violent jolt.
Crush Tang San?
In the past, she would have thought it was nothing but the delusions of an arrogant madman.
But after the battle at Heaven Dou Square, after seeing Bone Douluo flee with an arm severed and Emperor Xue Ye meet his end,
she knew that the Slaughter Demon Lord inhabiting her body truly had the power to do it!
"Could it be that you've really fallen for that shameless, double-standard bastard?" Qian Sha Yu asked, his brow furrowing deeply.
The words stabbed straight into her heart.
Qian Renxue's delicate body trembled.
Her blazing anger was doused as if by a bucket of ice water.
Her thoughts beneath the water knotted into a tangled mess.
Had she fallen for him?
Qian Renxue couldn't deny it.
On that night at Moonlight Pavilion, the blue-haired young man who went by "Tang Yin," with his flowing hair and peerless music, had indeed stirred ripples in her frozen heart.
But she couldn't deny this either:
Once the truth came to light, she had hated Tang San with every fiber of her being for destroying the work of twenty years.
Two starkly different emotions pulled fiercely at her heart.
Qian Renxue was so unsettled that she had no idea how to answer.
In the Sea of Spirit, where blood-red waves surged,
Qian Sha Yu watched Qian Renxue's conflicted, bewildered soul and furrowed his brow.
As someone who had read the original story, he knew all too well how Qian Renxue had met her downfall in the original.
It was all because of that inexplicable affection for Tang San.
She had spared him again and again.
Time after time, her love-struck brain had clouded her judgment.
Later, during the Divine Level battle, Tang San had even used her feelings against her and driven her back step by step.
In the end, her godhood shattered, she lost the chance to ever become a god, and she became a disgrace in the eyes of the world.
In other words, whenever Tang San was involved, Qian Renxue's brain and butt were joined together, and little fortune did the thinking for her.
Qian Sha Yu would never let his host become such a spineless loser.
If he didn't drain the water from Qian Renxue's brain today, how could he take this body and carve a bloody path across the continent in the future?
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