"S-Senior, m-my body..."
Cao Ying's voice rang out, frantic beyond measure. Within her soul sea, she could naturally sense the condition of her flesh. Her body still looked more or less intact on the surface, but its insides had been reduced to a complete mush. The realization drained all color from her beautiful face.
"As you can see, it's ruined. I used too much force just now and failed to hold back. I accidentally broke your body. Sorry."
Controlling Cao Ying's body, Hun Changqing shrugged. A hint of amusement appeared on her bewitching face as he spoke with casual indifference.
"Accidentally... broke it...?"
Upon hearing Hun Changqing's words, Cao Ying's soul body shuddered violently, as though struck by lightning. His breezy apology was like the sharpest knife in the world piercing straight through her heart, leaving her in such agony that she wished she were dead.
Her talent was her greatest pride in life, and the only thing she could rely on. Now that her flesh was ruined and her foundation destroyed, there was no longer any talent to speak of. How could she possibly accept this sudden, brutal reality?
She had even less idea how she could go on living and return to face her master and the Cao Family, who had placed such high hopes in her. For a moment, her illusory eyes filled with despair, without a single glimmer of hope. She no longer even had the heart to hate or blame Hun Changqing, the instigator of it all. Utterly lost, she merely said to him,
"Just destroy my soul..."
Seeing that Cao Ying had already begun wishing for death within her soul sea, the amusement in Hun Changqing's eyes deepened. He clicked his tongue with interest.
"Tsk. Some people fight with all their might to stay