After reaching out to help Ji Caidao up, Lou Shenghao thanked her again, and gave her a gentle and sweet smile by the way, but this "unexpected surprise" did not make Ji Caidao's joy last long.

The next moment, Ji Caidao lowered his eyelids and asked in a low voice, "Don't you want to ask me something?" Aren't you curious...... With my status, how could I have such a precious gold silk soft armor?"

If it were the former Netherworld Demon Emperor, he would not ask, but would ask carefully. But now Lou Shenghao has already learned how to "love" people subtly, and most of his anger has been removed.

So, he just smiled and shook his head: "I know you're doing it for my good, and that's enough." So I don't want to know about those things that don't matter, and you don't have to answer if you don't want to tell me. ”

“...... Emperor. ”

The moment this sentence blurted out, Ji Caidao actually had the desire to hug the man in front of her. Her hands were already lifted to her waist, but the remaining sanity in her mind still made her dispel this idea.

No matter how their relationship evolves, they will never escape the fate of "master and servant". Ji Caidao can always recall Bai Yuxian's white and flawless gown out of place, and even stubbornly thinks that she is the love of Lou Shenghao's life.

What's more, Ji Caidao couldn't tell his feelings for Lou Shenghao at all...... Whether it is the favorite of her daughter's family or not, because Cheng Yinni has also walked into her dreams more than once.

She can't let go of the beauty of the past, and she can't bear the rare stability of the present, but she doesn't dare to imagine her future.

Just when Ji Caidao was confined in his own small world and couldn't extricate himself, Lou Shenghao suddenly raised a crumpled letter and shook it in front of her: "I'm going to go to the Western Regions to meet the sender, are you willing to go with me?"

"Of course I do!" Ji Caidao nodded without thinking.

After throwing the letter to the ground with a "snap", Lou Shenghao's expression became solemn: "What if I say that this trip is very dangerous? Are you willing to accompany me to experience nine deaths in a foreign land? Even if you can't return to the Netherworld Palace alive, are you still willing?"

"As long as you can be by the emperor's side, Caidao is not afraid of life and death. At the ends of the earth, the yellow springs are green, I am willing to follow you around and never give up. This time, Ji Caidao still nodded without thinking as Fang Cai.

Staring at Ji Caidao's innocent and flawless eyes for a while, Lou Shenghao laughed out loud after a "poof": "Why don't you ask where I'm going to take you, aren't you afraid that I will sell you halfway?"

After pursing his lips lightly, Ji Caidao rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "I know you want to take me with you, that's enough." So I don't want to know about those things that don't matter, and you don't have to answer if you don't want to tell me. ”

"Okay, whether it's life or death on this trip, the two of us won't be separated!" After that, Lou Shenghao took the initiative to stretch out his hand to Ji Caidao for the first time: "You don't have to be afraid, I will protect you." After arriving in the Western Regions, we can still be called brothers and sisters. ”

“...... Are they really only brother and sister forever?"

After asking these words, Ji Caidao quietly lowered her head, because she wanted to hide the tears that were about to burst into her eyes, even though she didn't know why she was sad.

After quickly withdrawing his hand, Lou Shenghao pinched her chin very seriously, even if he looked at the tearful beauty, he didn't have the slightest pity.

"Have you forgotten what I told you at the Lantern Festival?" Obviously, Ji Caidao was trying his best to avoid his eyes, and Lou Shenghao leaned in with her aggressively: "If you forget, I don't mind helping you remember the past......

'Don't like me, I'm not a person to be trusted with my life, I don't deserve to be liked by you.' Do you remember that? It doesn't matter if you forget it, I will keep it in my heart for a long time, and I will always warn you. ”

When Lou Shenghao's hand left her chin, Ji Caidao let out a helpless laugh: "I have never forgotten, but I never take the initiative to think about it...... The emperor's status is precious, so he naturally looks down on us as subordinates, and his subordinates categorically dare not have any ideas of exceeding their duties. ”

Lying back on the soft couch, Lou Shenghao mercilessly stretched out his hand and pointed to the gate of the Wuji Palace: "If you have nothing to do, you can go to the Xuanqiong Hall for me to bring a word to Guili, during the days when I was not in the Netherworld Palace, he was the only one in charge of the size of the Netherworld." ”

"Yes, the subordinates are retired!"

Ji Caidao turned around, and Lou Shenghao's voice sounded behind him: "If you regret it, you can switch identities with Guili." I'm also very relieved that you are in charge of the Netherworld, and you can change the content of your words to follow me to the Western Regions. ”

"Sitting in the Netherworld Palace is a big deal, even if the emperor is willing to rest assured, his subordinates are not at ease...... Because I don't know I have that ability. ”

Ji Caidao's figure disappeared from front of him, and Lou Shenghao took out a pair of wooden figures only the size of a palm from under the pillow and played with them in his hands.

This pair of wooden people can be described as hard-won things, and it is a skill that he learned after grinding Gu Huaiyan for a long time during his recuperation in Mo Linfeng. It took a lot of effort to carve, and even with the tireless guidance of the master on the side, it was almost exhausting half of his life's patience.

Looking at the pair of "golden boys and girls" in the palms of his hands, Lou Shenghao's sorrow and joy for love were also hooked. Unfortunately, this feeling only lasted for less than a moment.

"The friendship between me and Huaiyan has been a bond, and I really don't have the courage to stain that holy and noble love again. I was born to dominate the world and become the supreme martial arts leader, and I will never make mistakes again and again.

If you're just a passerby, just a tool I use to pass on your lineage, it doesn't matter...... As long as you don't force love, what's the matter if I marry you?

But you're a living person...... It's someone I care about, and someone I want to protect...... I can't guarantee that my feelings for you will be love, but at least I have considered you my family.

It's a pity that I have chosen power as the basis of my life, and I no longer dare to hope for the so-called love. I don't dare to give you hope, and I'm even more afraid that you won't be able to bear the disappointment after hope...... Anything that distracts me from a position of power, I will stay away from ......"

After muttering these things softly, Lou Shenghao still hid the pair of wooden figures in the mezzanine of the wardrobe. It was a gift he decided to give to Ji Caidao, but in fact, he was always haunted by the little clay figure that was broken by Ji Caidao.

But as long as he remembered Gu Huaiyan's joy and joy because of Liu Yanxue, Lou Shenghao's heart couldn't help but have a strong resistance to the word "love".

He couldn't imagine that one day in the future he would give up the faith he had held for years because of a woman who had lived an ordinary life.

After picking up the crumpled letter on the ground again, Lou Shenghao only snapped his fingers, and a blue-green flame quickly swallowed the letter paper into a pile of ashes. The wind blew softly, and the ashes scattered, and no one would remember that the letter had ever existed in this world. If a person dies like a lamp goes out, let alone a mere piece of letterhead?

A long time ago, in the same place...... Lou Shenghao had burned a disobedient bird with a similar flame, and he had burned the corpse of his own sister.

Sitting alone in the Wuji Hall for a long time, Lou Shenghao, who rarely felt lonely, slowly walked to the room where his grandfather lived before his grandfather's death, accompanied by the moonlight.

Unlike the dark and cold Hongyi Hall, this room is remote, in disrepair and uninhabited for many years, and it is already covered with thick dust and sticky cobwebs.

Coupled with the fact that the various formats were already close to decaying, the windows shrouded in black cloth prevented sunlight from entering. The environment of this room is not much better than that of the Yama Palace, and even Lou Shenghao can't help but tremble slightly when he stands in it.

But what he feared was not the suffocating environment, but the people who lived here during his lifetime and the unbearable past, the childhood he was most reluctant to mention. In other words, since the death of his mother, he has not had a childhood at all, and only the urging and teaching of his maternal grandfather and father.

They kept urging him to practice all year round, but they never asked him if he was tired. They taught him day and night to be the most prestigious man in the world, but they never asked him if he wanted to.

After Lou Ying's death, this fatherless and motherless child not only did not receive the love and affection of his grandfather, but the training became more rampant than before, causing him to be full of malice towards the world at a young age.

He swore that he would sit in the highest position so that he would not be forced to do something he didn't like.

In fact, Lou Shenghao's extreme conceit also has a little inferiority complex, because he really envies the children who run and frolic on the street carefree.

Ever since his father Lou Ying was alive, he had been indoctrinated with ideas that did not belong to his age, as if he had committed a mortal crime if he could not dominate the martial arts. And the only person in the world who has taken him to fly kites, buy him toys, and feed him candy is his mother.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the only person who could make him feel a trace of family affection died in childbirth. In some senses, he was full of hatred for Lou Jinchen because she took away the only mother who loved him.

So, he didn't like to see her. Therefore, he sent her to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion in the name of forgiveness and tasking.

Day after day, year after year, until Lou Jinchen turned into a pile of ashes and could no longer appear in front of his eyes, he never knew whether he had regretted it or not.