"Since you are not willing, then forget it. Don't blame this seat if I happen to change my mind next time."
The black bird desperately suppressed the churning emotions within her heart, yet that voice still involuntarily carried a trace of tremor.
At this moment, her heart felt as though it were being pierced by tens of thousands of needles, unbearably painful. Every single word uttered from her mouth felt like she was cutting away her most precious possessions.
In order to prepare this plan to kill Jiang Yun, she had invested a massive amount of origin, condensing that eerie starfire within her body. She had harbored full expectations of succeeding in one strike, killing Jiang Yun, and recovering the losses she had suffered from being suppressed by him all these years.
However, Jiang Yun's sudden backpedaling instantly shattered her hopes. That feeling of plummeting from the clouds to the bottom of the abyss drove her to the verge of madness.
Yet even so, she still forced herself to hold on, compelled to put on an incomparably arrogant facade as if she were proclaiming to Jiang Yun that her majesty must not be violated.
"A nine-story tower rises from the ground, and I prefer a solid foundation. If Emperor Xuan changes her mind by then, it will simply mean my affinity is insufficient, and I cannot blame you."
Jiang Yun's voice was gentle and sincere, with a modest smile on his face, yet beneath that smile lay bottomless ripples.
He knew very well that the relationship between himself and the black bird was nothing more than mutual exploitation.
This black bird understood numerous secrets and still held enormous value upon her body.
Although he had already perceived the black bird's intent to kill, he did not wish to tear faces