I didn't dare to follow her closely for a moment, and always kept a distance from her, I didn't dare to come up to see her, for fear that I would be heartbroken by her grief-stricken look, but I didn't dare to relax for a moment, for fear that she would do something radical on an impulse.

The wind around the body, coming from the fire, as we walked away quickly, from the initial heat, gradually faded into a comfortable warmth, I looked at Xiao Wanying's thin figure, a little trembling in this heat, and my heart was a pain for no reason.

I saw her raise her hand again and again, as if she was constantly wiping her cheeks.

Perhaps, it was tears.

"I'm not sad, not at all!"

Sometimes, the heart is different, just to hide the cowardly side of yourself. But, Xiao Wanying, in front of me, you can actually be a little more honest, at least, you can be the real you.

"Auntie, I am not a person from Wuyuelou for a long time, and the life and death of Wuyuelou has nothing to do with me!"

"If it's burned, it's burned, it's not a big deal, it's not my home, it's my business!"

"Drive me away? Hmph, you deserve to be burned! If I'm here......"

"If I had been there......"

Xiao Wanying finally reached the limit, at this moment, all the strength in her body was completely drained by some invisible fetters, and her legs no longer had enough strength to support her entire body, she fell straight to the ground, her curled body, and she trembled violently uncontrollably.

She straightened her arms and tried to force herself to stand up, but after repeated attempts and failures, she had to completely dismiss this thought, but her hands were still stubbornly tugging at the corners of her clothes, as if she was screaming at something, and she refused to let go for a long time.

I couldn't find any suitable words to describe my heartache at this time, and the only thing I wanted to do was to hug this little person tightly, so that she could take off her disguise and cry uncontrollably.

But as soon as I took a step closer to her, she had already completely collapsed, and her hands finally let go of the wrinkled corners of her clothes, and she fell to the ground with a "plop", and her entire upper body was almost all attached to the ground.

Xiao Wanying rested her head on her bent left arm, her right hand clenched tightly into a fist, and she slammed the lifeless ground one after another.

Even though she had deliberately concealed it, tears still wet the sleeves of her entire arms as quickly as possible, and even on the ground under her arms, you could clearly see the water marks that began to gradually enlarge.

"Bang, bang, bang-" She was originally a fair-skinned and beautiful pink fist, and under the collision with the ground again and again, she made a dull sound, depressing, sad, and distressing.

It's not that I don't want to step forward to stop her, it's just that such a vent seems to be a more favorable relief for her now.

But when I saw the red nameless flower left on the ground under her right fist, I slapped myself hard and immediately stepped forward to stop her.

The moment I grabbed her slender wrist, the inexplicable anxiety, all kinds of depression, and endless heartache only turned into a simple sentence of "stop".

She turned to look at me, not with the hatred and resentment I expected, but with deep guilt and self-blame.

In her mouth, she kept muttering, but there was always only one sentence: "If I had been there at the time, wouldn't this qiē not happen?" ”

I can't empathize with the relationship between her and Wuyuelou, so I'm stupid enough to want to calm her down with a sentence of "It's not your fault".

She no longer had the strength to scream at me, tears running down her cheeks and down her lips into her mouth, causing the bitterness of tears to come out of her words.

"How can I leave the Moonless Tower?"

"It's not your fault."

It's really not her fault!

I know, I know it all!

From the beginning, everyone didn't like her, and it was also from the beginning that she decided to stay in Wuyue Tower for the rest of her life. However, the ignorant, ruthless and shameless deceased landlord drove her out mercilessly with just a suicide note, not even for any reason, even if it was extremely unreliable.

"Let's go, I'll take you home."

Ignoring her resistance, I insisted on taking her cold and stiff right hand, and at the same time, a blood-colored mandala bloomed in my palm.

I remembered that afternoon more than ten years ago, when I took her hand, which was still very immature at the time, and said the words to take her home for the first time, but looking back, it seemed that there was something wrong with things.

I'm just "me" and no longer her "daddy".

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"I told you to let go, didn't you hear?!"

Since Xiao Wanying was dragged straight by me and sat on her knees on the ground, this is the eighteenth time she has tried to shake off my hand holding her, but like the previous seven hundred and ninety-nine times, she has failed.

"Don't touch my aunt! Bastard, my aunt told you to let go! ”

Let go?

Let go of her hand and watch her continue to weep in pain? Continue to watch her pound the ground until her flesh and blood are blurred, continue to watch her chagrined and sorry to the point of breaking her liver and intestines?

How do you want me to let go of her like this?

Her hand was clenched into a fist by me and clenched into the palm of my hand. She is so thin, so clear that the hand bones are slightly abrupt, and the chrome makes me feel painful, but it is not a hand pain, but a heart ache. What kind of life has she lived all these years, and why is she so slender? Also, how desperate she is now, although she is stubborn in her mouth, she can't use any more strength in her hands......

"It's my fault, Xiao Wanying, you can scold me, beat me, whatever you want to me, as long as you cheer up, my life is here, at your disposal!"

What's wrong with me? I willfully accepted the gambling contract at the beginning, and then insisted on it against my will until now, just so that I could continue to "steal my life", but now I am actually handing over my life in vain? Do you know in vain? It's gratuitous, without any pay!

I thought, I must be crazy. I felt myself gradually losing myself, forgetting the meaning and purpose of my existence, and all because of one person......

Xiao Wanying stopped the noise, and in an instant, all that was left in the silence was her intermittent sobbing, and my irregular heartbeat, and every time she jumped, the pain was more.

We just kept moving in the same motion, and we were in a stalemate for a long, long time. It wasn't until the distant firelight behind me completely faded and the last ray of light on the horizon dissipated that I dared to muster up my courage under the invasion of the dark night and slightly pull the hand connected to Xiao Wanying.

It's just such a hand-holding action, just such a moment, it almost makes me almost lose my breath. I originally thought that after such an afternoon, no matter how strong a big man is, he should be exhausted, plus Xiao Wanying has been physically and mentally exhausted from the beginning, and now she is even more exhausted, and there should be no more perseverance to resist me.

I also prepared for the worst, but Xiao Wanying continued to scold me and told me to "let go", and then I continued to accompany her.

However, none of the above situations happened, that is, at the moment when I moved so slightly, I even touched Xiao Wanying beside me, and then, her head fell lifelessly on my shoulder. I knew very well in my heart that even if she urgently needed a shoulder to lean on now, it would definitely not be mine, so her move was very unusual for me.

Sure enough, the next moment Xiao Wanying leaned her head on my shoulder, her entire upper body fell to me without warning, and before I could react more surprised, she slashed straight down from me and fell to the ground.

My heart, at the moment when her head slipped off my shoulder, skipped more than a beat, and if it weren't for my instinctive desire to reach out and catch her rapidly sinking body, I'm afraid my heart would have really been stopped by her at this moment.

Luckily, I caught her steadily. Fortunately, her body was still warm, although her hands were cold to the bone. I put a free hand and put it around her neck with a trembling feeling......

Fortunately, there is still a noticeable jump under my fingertips.

Seeing Xiao Wanying's peaceful sleeping face, I couldn't help but worry for a while, but it was precisely because of the tranquility of this moment that I suddenly realized my negligence.

It was the first time I had been in a place where I was unaware of myself for so long that I was startled almost completely unwitting by the imposter when he came out of my back coldly. As for the reason why I lost my soul so much, I didn't want to think about it.

I don't know when he was here, or how long he was staring at me, but one thing is for sure, if he did anything to me before he revealed his whereabouts, I would have been overwhelmed, and perhaps it would have been planted in his hands.

However, this guy is not ordinary stupid, and he actually clapped his hands and laughed so badly as he approached me. Or is it understandable that for him, it is much more interesting to see my embarrassment than to kill me directly?

"Bang Bang Bang-"

"The love is so deep, it is worthy of being the king of a generation of demons, and it is worthy of the word 'no love and no joy' in the next day."

He smiled, just like every conversation he had with me before.

I didn't want to pay attention to this deliberate cynicism at all, so I didn't even look back, only sneered and replied: "I have to admire your strength in a sense, and I'd rather give up a great opportunity to take my life than stupidly carry out a life attack on me that I think is strong." ”

"Thank you for ...... compliment"

"But......" I know he didn't finish speaking, but I don't want to give him another chance to continue, "Now please shut up, my little Wanying is tired and resting." Get out of here before I get angry, and disappear before I can change my mind about sending you on your way. ”

My voice is very small, as I said, Xiao Wanying needs to rest, I don't want to disturb her dreams, even if it is a nightmare......

"It doesn't matter." The impostor gently kicked the ground with his toes, kicking away a few small pebbles under his feet, and the dust that was slightly raised in the night revealed a hazy grievance.

"I'm just here to inform you, don't just care about your 'new love' and snub your 'old love'. As you wish, your delicate fiancée has woken up and is asking you both about your whereabouts. I'm just afraid that your good brother won't be able to resist her for long. So, don't indulge in gentleness, you know, although the peony is beautiful, it will mercilessly stab the flower admirer. In particular, the 'domestic peony' that has been cultivated artificially. ”

Although I don't know why, I always feel that the last four words of the imposter must have some special meaning, otherwise, he would not have shown such a look when he said these four words, as if he was smiling but not smiling, weird and gloomy.

"Don't you understand what that means?" The impostor squatted down, staring at me with a pair of eyes, but his hand reached out to Xiao Wanying in my arms.

I tightened my arms and leaned sideways, avoiding his dirty hands full of blood debts.

He didn't mind at all, and his hand, which had remained in the air by my movements, changed its trajectory and began to reach out in front of me.

I don't dodge or hide because I know what he wants to do.

He unhurriedly took off my mask and said to me in a tone that I didn't know whether to be happy or sad, "It's me who changed her mind with illusion." It was I who made her become a long-cherished enemy. It was also I, with a face exactly like yours, who took away your most beloved things. ”

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It makes sense to hear an imposter say something like this, and I should have been furious.

But I'm calm now, although I did guess before that it was he who made Xiao Wanying what she is now, but now that I hear him confess himself, I seem to think his words are a little funny.

"Oh? Is it up to you? "I'm a demon, and I'm the head of the demons, so I can clearly distinguish what the true body and primordial god of each demon clan are, but this guy is ......

Actually, I didn't know what he was.

I'm not going to admit that it's my own immaturity to discern, so I'm all an "outlier", and I'm not interested in this guy anyway.

But now that he has mentioned it himself, of course I will naturally continue to follow his words.

"Then I want you to say that, are you a cat family?"

I didn't know if I had said anything wrong in this concise and clear sentence, or if it touched the sadness of this impostor, his smile completely retreated, and there was a faint sadness in his expression.

I was inexplicable, but he asked me in a deep voice, "How can I see it?" ”

"Poof—" I laughed. Looking at him like this, I really thought he would break out some earth-shattering news, for example, he was bitten by a certain cat demon, so he has the blood of our demon clan, or that he is the same as Mochen,