When Xia Qiu was awakened by the scent of plum blossoms next to the pillow, it was already early in the morning, because of the dragon's blood, she slept very deeply this night, and her weakened body due to poisoning was mostly better.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he suddenly found that Ouyang Xiaoleng was lying on the side of the bed and sleeping deeply, in his sleep, his face was not cold as usual, but more childlike purity and serenity, I don't know what kind of dream he was having, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. Looking at him like this, the pain she had suffered physically and mentally before disappeared in an instant, and she couldn't help but smile. She slowly got up, lightly draped him in a blanket, and walked out into the courtyard to stretch her stiff body.

It was raining outside, the air was foggy, and the plum blossoms on the branches were also wet with rain. Seeing the rain in the demon world for the first time made Xia Qiu overjoyed, she stood in the corridor and watched the rain outside, smelling the smell of rain in the air and enjoying this moment of tranquility.

This is not the first time that her life has hung by a thread, but after experiencing the catastrophe of yesterday, her heart has become much more detached, and she is no longer so afraid of life and death. She deeply realized that the tranquility in the Demon Realm King City that Ouyang Xiaoleng had said was just an illusion, and the tranquility that soon existed on the surface was about to be broken. During the time when Ouyang Xiaoleng left, Master Yong had told her in detail about the severity of the battle for the throne in the demon world, and all parties did not hesitate to use unscrupulous means to protect their interests, even staining their fingers with blood.

Although the demon world has long been less prosperous than in its heyday, the mysterious treasures of Nanzhejiang City, the rare ores of the hidden pine, and the stability and wealth of Dongyao are enough to make people obsessed with sex, because whoever gets the royal power can have all this. There is also the extreme fear of going to war with Qingyun again, these are the obstacles that stand in the way of Ouyang Xiaoleng's ascension to the throne. Xia Qiu thought about these while walking slowly along the corridor, walking, and a figure appeared in front of him who also looked at the rain.

Qianqi couldn't sleep because he was full of worries, so he walked out of the room to breathe while the sky was light, and when he saw that Xia Qiu was already able to walk, a smile finally bloomed on his face, and he asked, "Why did you get up so early?" Are you feeling better? ”

"Well, it's much better, how about you? It doesn't matter if you lose so much blood all at once to save me, right? ”

Xia Qiu remembered that last night Qianqi saved himself from being poisoned, and he did not hesitate to donate such precious dragon blood, in addition to being moved, he was also a little worried.

"It doesn't matter, you see! A little bit of blood is nothing to me, and I can fully recover after a little sleep. Qianqi deliberately raised his wrist to show Xia Qiu, although the wound on it had been completely healed, but in fact he was lying, losing so much dragon blood may take several weeks to fully recover his strength, but he didn't want Xia Qiu to feel indebted to him for this, he always felt that it was his negligence that caused her to almost die.

Xia Qiu and Qianqi stood side by side, but they turned their eyes to the smoke and rain in the yard again, she didn't look at anything, just let her eyes casually look into the distance and said, "That's good!" You've said you've fulfilled my three wishes, aren't you kidding? ”

"Of course, I will never break my word." Qianqi quietly looked at Xia Qiu's side face, feeling that as long as she said it, he would try his best to fulfill it, and it had nothing to do with the promise of the three wishes, because he had no strength to refuse her.

"Hmm." Xia Qiu thought that what Qianqi said was just a joke, but she didn't expect him to answer so seriously, and her mood became apprehensive.

If he begged Qianqi to support him for the sake of Ouyang Xiaoleng, would he agree? She knew in her heart that doing so would be tantamount to taking advantage of Qianqi, but she still came up with such an idea, and even she didn't know why she had become so selfish.

Just when Xia Qiu hesitated for a moment, Qian Qi asked tentatively, "Do you think Xiao Leng can successfully win the support of the rest of the people in the royal city at the Demon King Promotion Conference?" ”

Xia Qiu nodded very vigorously and asked rhetorically, "Will you stand with him?" If my first wish was for you to stand by his side and support him, regardless of the gains or losses, would you fulfill my wish? ”

"Hmm." Qianqi smiled and nodded without thinking, his body had made a choice for him before he thought about it, and he smiled at the human girl he had just met in front of Bo, he felt that everything was right and worth it.

Although everyone wanted Xia Qiu to take a day off, she still insisted on going to school, this was the first time she set off from the demon world to her high school, or with Ouyang Xiaoleng, the feeling could only be described as subtle.

Fortunately, when she went out the day before, she had lied to her grandparents that she was going to spend the night at Liu Lingmei's house, and her schoolbag was also left in Ouyang's ancient mansion, otherwise there would be a lot of right and wrong. In fact, on the other hand, she is anxious to return to her own world, because only by stepping on the streets and campuses that she is familiar with can she have a sense of being alive again.

The pace in the school is always fast on Mondays, and since the flag-raising ceremony in the morning, Xia and Qiu have not had a chance to recall the horrific experience of being abducted by the Rakshasa Mother yesterday. During the lunch break, she suddenly remembered that there would be no love bento made by her grandmother today, and at this time Liu Lingmei came over.

"What? Didn't bring any food today? Liu Lingmei asked a little mysteriously.

In the morning, she happened to see Xia Qiu coming to school with Ouyang Xiaoleng from the classroom window, and I don't know when the two of them became so close, Xia Qiu gradually began to talk about her own affairs, and even the details of Ouyang Xiaoleng's confession to her before did not take the initiative to reveal. From the day they became friends, she thought that there was no secret between her and Xia Qiu, until that Ouyang Xiaoleng appeared, her friend suddenly seemed to be a different person, this strangeness made her heart sour, she had been suppressing herself, but she was becoming more and more uncontrollable.

A trace of embarrassment flashed in Xia Qiu's eyes and replied to her: "I accidentally forgot!" ”

"Let's eat in two!" Liu Lingmei bit her lip and swallowed back a lot of questions that she wanted to throw to Xia Qiu, just put her lunch on her table, and then pulled a chair and sat opposite her as usual.

The two were just about to start, but Dong Muya walked in and shouted, "Xia Qiu, your family has brought you food!" ”

Xia Qiu hesitated for a moment and stepped forward to take the lunch box handed to her by Dong Muya, and at a glance she knew that it was not commonly used in their family, but when she saw the sticky note paper with red leaves on the top of the box, she guessed who sent it to her.

She walked back to her seat and opened the mysterious bento box, and Liu Lingmei couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow! ”

The bento box prepared for her by Ouyang Hongye can only be described as luxurious, the still sparkling black pepper steak and grilled cod cut into the shape of flowers, with cucumber fruit salad and pasta, all the food is steaming, making people feel that it must have been preserved in some "special" way, and it is definitely not as simple as just making it. She couldn't help but be grateful to Ouyang Hongye from the bottom of her heart, now he must be busy preparing for the promotion conference, and he would even think about himself.

"Would you like to have something to eat too?" Xia Qiu turned around and asked Ouyang Xiaoleng behind him.

"No!" Ouyang Xiaoleng also saw at a glance that it was Ouyang Hongye's trick, and he wanted to say more to Xia Qiu to eat more, but he couldn't say it in front of Liu Lingmei.

In the next few days, because Xia Qiu's body had just recovered and Ouyang Yong was busy preparing for the promotion conference, her training was suspended. Although Ouyang Xiaoleng was going back to the Demon Realm King City after school, what happened before made him even more insistent on picking her up in person. For a while, she seemed to have become an ordinary girl again, although it was only three days, but sometimes she couldn't help but wonder if everything about the demon world was just a dream, and Ouyang Xiaoleng was actually just an ordinary teenager. But she soon came to her senses that the peace would not last, and she had to regroup and cheer up, for the crisis between the two worlds was not over, and her contractors needed her support, and their adventures had just begun!

The Demon King Election Conference arrived as scheduled, and the Tianquan Hall as the venue was also ready.

Tianquan Hall is the most majestic hall in the entire Chenji Palace, there are nine folding doors in the front of the main hall, and thousands of people can be accommodated in the hall. The whole hall is supported by four huge pillars in the south, east and west, and the pillars are carved with the four ancient divine beasts, which are also the sons of the gods of heaven, the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird and the Xuanwu.

These four pillars of the gods were thrown here by the lord of the god realm - the god Qiansu himself, at that time the demon world did not exist, and the ghost and the human beings lived together in the world, in order to avoid the continuous struggle between the two races for a long time, the god Qiansu came up with the idea of using part of the divine power of his four sons, in another space to open up a new world to give to the demon race, and the entire demon world is gradually formed and developed with these four pillars as the center. Later, most of the ghosts came to this new world of their own free will, because they were the masters of the place, so they could get everything they needed without having to fight with humans. However, there are also a small number of demons, either because they still have nostalgia for the human world, or because they have violated the laws of the demon world to escape responsibility, and they continue to hide in the human world, and they disguise themselves as humans or animals to live around humans.

Chenji Palace was not built overnight with demon methods, but the black bee demon clan, which is the best at building in the demon world, was built brick by brick after several generations. Every piece of marble, every beam and column, every gold brick, every carving is handmade, and they have poured their hearts and minds into it. The black walls of Chenji Palace were formed by the black bee craftsmen who died of overwork during the construction of Chenji Palace at the end of their lives by integrating their bodies into the outer walls of Chenji Palace, and they made their bodies a part of Chenji Palace, and their souls remained in Chenji Palace forever. Occasionally, when the wind blows, it seems that you can still hear the unique song of the Black Bee Demon Clan, which is a chord generated by the resonance of the heart. After the Black Bee Demon Clan finished building the Chenji Palace, there was not much left, and the unique and exquisite construction skills were also lost, so not to mention the royal city Yongchuan, even the entire demon world could never have such a beautiful building.

Qianqi gave Xia Qiu's first wish in the early morning, and he was determined to let go of the mustard in his heart and give it a go to support Ouyang Xiaoleng. He even informed the commander of the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment who came to Yongchuan with him before the promotion meeting, once the situation changed, even if he surrounded the Tianquan Palace, he would suppress those who opposed Ouyang Xiaoleng, and he didn't care that he was still a little weak due to the large amount of blood loss in the past few days. It was a feeling he didn't understand, but it was still so strong even though it was painful. For the first time, he longed for the joy and happiness of another person for his choice, for no reason, and no expectation for anything in return.

He changed into a robe with a blue stabbed dragon pattern and a silver belt around his waist. Because he learned from Ouyang Hongye that most men in the human world had short hair like Ouyang Xiaoleng, he simply cut off his long hair and turned it into short hair that just covered his ears, and the whole person was suddenly much refreshed. In order to show the absolute strength of Dongyao City, which was ruled by his father, and to win the convincing of other elders and royal families, he deliberately wore a jade wrench that was usually regarded as a burden, and a dragon-shaped collar carved with a whole piece of gold carved in the air.

Ouyang Hongye, Mochizuki and Ouyang Yong went to the Tianquan Hall first, while Ouyang Xiaoleng was waiting for Xia Qiu and Qianqi on the corridor, he was wearing a robe of prickly pear flowers with silver thread on a white background, this piece of fabric was his father Ouyang Xueye's favorite before his death, he deliberately divided the fabric into two, one for his own use, and the other for Ouyang Hongye. Ouyang Hongye has kept it to this day, and made this robe for Ouyang Xiaoleng according to the style that Xue Ye often wore before his death, and the golden belt tied around his waist and the fox pattern agate wrench on his finger were all things used by his father Ouyang Xue Ye before his death. On his upper arm was a sterling silver armband carved with the symbol of the divine realm, which had been passed down from generation to generation from the ancestor of the demon king fox, the silver fox god monarch.

Qianqi walked out of the room first and stood beside Ouyang Xiaoleng, the two did not speak, but waited for Xia Qiu in silence.

Before going to the Heavenly Power Palace, Ouyang Yong instructed the female demon servants to serve Xia Qiu's purification, bathing, and changing clothes. She was changed into a white brocade robe with red plums pierced on the inside and red on the inside that Ouyang Yong had prepared for her, and her waist was fastened with a goose-yellow ribbon. The female servants wore her hair in a bun at the back of her head, and the plum hairpin, which could be turned into a plum blade, was inserted on it. They also gave her a little powder, and although her skin had only recently recovered from the poison inflicted by Mother Rakshasa it had become paler, it had also become more beautiful because of it.

With a shy smile on her face, she walked towards Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qianqi, like a white lotus that had just opened. Usually light clothes and plain noodles have made Ouyang Xiaoleng feel good-looking, although today is only slightly retouched, but she still makes him feel like a frightening and graceful dragon.

Her body, bathed in water soaked in plum blossom petals, wafted with the residual fragrance of plum blossoms with every step, which inevitably reminded Qianqi of the scene when she enjoyed the smoke and rain with Xia Qiu in the early morning, and it was this fragrance that spread in the courtyard in the smoke and rain, surpassing magnolia and beating rosemary.