"Okay." Liu Lanyan nodded obediently, left the soft couch, and walked towards Liu Xinya. "Sister Xinya, let's go."
After Liu Xinya bowed to the Demon God, she left with Liu Lanyan. Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, the Demon God smiled.
Is Liu Xinya trying to test the waters?
However, this method is too clumsy.
"Lanyan, where is this place? How will I know if you don't tell me?" Liu Lanyan had been leading the way without saying a word, so Liu Xinya couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know either," Liu Lanyan said innocently. "My master didn't tell me where this place is either."
Liu Xinya was furious. Was he just leading her around aimlessly?
No, she had to find out what was going on inside Wuchen Residence.
"Since you don't know, then let's just take our time." Liu Xinya's eyes darted around, and an idea came to her. If she couldn't get any information from Liu Lanyan, couldn't she find out for herself?
"Walk slowly?" Liu Lanyan was taken aback, clearly not expecting Liu Xinya to make such a suggestion. After thinking for a while, she reluctantly nodded, "Okay."
Then Liu Lanyan followed behind Liu Xinya and wandered around Wuchenju.
After wandering around for a while, Liu Lanyan grumbled unhappily, "Sister Xinya, there's nothing to see here, just trees and rocks."
“Lanyan, you don’t understand. The scenery inside Wuchen Residence is extremely beautiful. Every brick, tile, blade of grass and tree is carefully crafted. The place where the Venerable One resides is perfect in every way. If you savor it carefully, you will be able to appreciate its secrets.”
Liu Xinya explained to Liu Lanyan with a mix of truth and falsehood, while inwardly sneering.
As expected, this is the place where the demon god resides. She has already discovered that there are many places where people can hide. If there are indeed powerful demons hiding there, then Wuchen Residence can truly be described as having a guard every three steps and a sentry every five steps.
"Oh." Liu Lanyan nodded as if she understood, and continued to follow Liu Xinya around blankly.
They wandered around all day until the evening sky was ablaze with color. Liu Lanyan couldn't help but frown. Several times she stood beside Liu Xinya, wanting something, but Liu Xinya deliberately ignored her.
“Miss Liu, it’s getting late.” Peng Zhen suddenly appeared out of nowhere and blocked Liu Xinya’s way. “You must be tired.”
Liu Xinya was taken aback, her heart skipped a beat. Could it be that her secret notes about Wuchenju had been discovered?
That's impossible. She did it very discreetly, and spent more than half the time creating mystery. There's no reason for her to be discovered.
"I'm not tired yet, thank you for your concern, Steward." Liu Xinya calmed herself and smiled lightly.
Peng Zhen smiled ingratiatingly and said earnestly, "I meant that Miss Liu is tired and it's time for dinner." He glanced at Liu Lanyan, who was standing timidly to the side, and automatically ignored Liu Xinya.
The meaning is obvious: what does it matter to him whether Liu Xinya is tired or not?
What he cared about was that Liu Lanyan was tired.
Liu Xinya almost choked on her words, but forced a smile and suppressed her anger: "That's right, Wuchen Residence is so beautiful that I forgot the time and almost made my sister hungry."
"Lanyan, let's go have dinner." Liu Xinya said, reaching out to grab Liu Lanyan's arm, but Lanyan quickly dodged and fearfully hid behind Peng Zhen.
This action made Liu Xinya's face turn pale, and she was extremely embarrassed.
"Miss Liu, rest assured, the Lord is waiting for you. Please." Peng Zhen naturally stood between Liu Xinya and Liu Lanyan, separating the two of them.
"That's excellent." Liu Xinya nodded with a smile and followed, pretending nothing was wrong.
After Liu Lanyan entered the courtyard where the demon god resided, Peng Zhen, with his back to Liu Xinya, instructed the maid at the gate: "Take Miss Liu back for a meal."
"Thank you for your trouble." After calming down along the way, Liu Xinya had suppressed all her emotions and thanked her quietly, showing the demeanor of a general's wife in every way.
Just as Liu Xinya was about to leave with her maid, Peng Zhen's words floated into her ears: "Miss Liu, if Wuchen Residence still needs to be heavily guarded, then the Venerable Lord would not have become the God of the Demon Realm."
One sentence struck Liu Xinya like a thunderbolt, leaving her petrified on the spot.
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Chapter 64 She still remembers
In an instant, Liu Xinya felt as if the blood in her body was about to freeze, and she felt cold from head to toe. She couldn't feel her surroundings at all, as if all her consciousness had been frozen. All she could hear was a buzzing sound and her heart pounding violently.
No, we can't be discovered.
On the verge of a breakdown from fear, Liu Xinya clung desperately to the last shred of clarity, struggling to regain her senses.
This is the territory of the Demon God. If she were to be exposed, wouldn't it be extremely dangerous?
Coming to her senses, she found only a meek maidservant beside her, who hadn't even noticed her reaction. As for Peng Zhen, who had given her pointers earlier, he had long since disappeared, presumably having gone into the courtyard.
Liu Xinya couldn't help but clench her hands, which were hidden in her sleeves, into fists.
Disdain!
She was utterly despised by the demon god.
Every move she and Liu Lanyan made must have been observed by the Demon God and his group. They even knew about her discreetly investigating the situation at Wuchen Residence.
Once you have control, you should immediately drive her away or kill her.
She might feel a little better, at least that would make her feel that her actions posed a certain threat to the demon god.
What's going on here?
It was just a warning, but beyond the explicit warning, the implied meaning was—they didn't care.
She didn't care at all about being investigated. To put it more accurately, they looked down on her abilities; in their eyes, she was utterly insignificant.
How could she not be angry?
How could I not be angry?
Demon god, you've gone too far!
"Go back." Liu Xinya took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down, and then instructed the maid.
"Miss Liu, please come with me." The maid obediently said, leading the way.
Peng Zhen entered the room and saw Liu Lanyan wolfing down her dinner. He couldn't help but chuckle and asked, "Miss Liu, why are you so hungry?"
"Of course I'm hungry after walking all day," Liu Lanyan replied matter-of-factly.
"Eat slowly, don't choke." The demon god watched Liu Lanyan's appearance with a smile, not feeling disgusted at all by her hearty eating and drinking, but rather extremely happy.
Anyone would feel uncomfortable being stared at like that while eating.
Liu Lanyan swallowed the food in her mouth, took a sip of soup, and then frowned and asked, "Why are you staring at me like that?"
The demon god reached out, his slender fingers lifting a strand of long hair that had fallen beside Liu Lanyan's temple, gently tucking it behind her ear, and softly sighed, "I'm so glad to see you eating so happily."
Are you sick in the head?
The words that were on the tip of her tongue, Liu Lanyan couldn't bring herself to say.
My heart skipped a beat, as if it had been suddenly gripped tightly by a large hand, a sharp, constricting pain.
Why was there such sadness in his words?
It made her feel so sad and aching inside.
He lowered his head, picked up his chopsticks, quickly put the delicious food into his bowl, pushed it in front of the demon god, and simply said one word: "Eat."
They always said they ate together, but most of the time she ate while he watched. He didn't really need the food; sometimes he'd just eat a few bites with her, but that was very rare.
He would only pick up a couple of bites with his chopsticks before putting them down; even the most delicious dishes couldn't pique his interest.
Liu Lanyan's commanding tone caused the demon god to smile slightly. He looked down and saw the dishes in the bowl, and his smile froze for a moment.
It was just a fleeting moment, but Liu Lanyan didn't miss it.
"What's wrong?"
The demon god picked up his chopsticks, gently picked up some food from the bowl, put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully, and swallowed it slowly before answering Liu Lanyan's question: "I like to eat these."
"Really? Then eat more." Liu Lanyan said with a smile, and quickly put a lot more food on the demon god's plate. "You always need to eat something. Don't look like you're detached from worldly affairs and might ascend to immortality at any moment."
"Ascension to immortality?" The demon god was slightly taken aback, his hand movements paused for a moment, and then he chuckled, "Lanyan, don't worry. I will never ascend to immortality in my life."
Liu Lanyan tilted her head, not asking the question that was on her mind, because she sensed a faint, inexplicable sadness in the myth of the demon.
It's not entirely tragic; it feels like it's a mixture of very complex emotions.
"It's fine if I don't ascend, I can stay by Lanyan's side." Liu Lanyan blurted out these words without even thinking.
As soon as the words left her mouth, Liu Lanyan was surprised. She never expected that she would say such a thing.
"Lanyan, what did you say?" The demon god turned his head in astonishment, no longer the gentle and refined gentleman he usually was. He opened his thin lips slightly without any regard for his image, staring intently at Liu Lanyan, his gaze burning as if he wanted to confirm something or get some kind of guarantee.
"Master, don't you want to be with Lanyan?" Liu Lanyan pursed her red lips and asked the Demon God earnestly.
The demon god smiled, a smile that came from the bottom of his heart. He reached out and gently touched Liu Lanyan's long, jet-black hair: "Yes, Master really wants to be with Lanyan. But I'm afraid Lanyan won't like Master, that she'll find Master too old and ugly."
"Master, you are really too modest." Liu Lanyan rolled her eyes speechlessly. The warm atmosphere just now had been completely ruined by the demon god.
How dare he say someone is old and ugly? Does he even want anyone else to live?
"Alright, let's eat." The Demon God smiled and flicked Liu Lanyan's pretty nose, causing Liu Lanyan to frown in displeasure. Then, she turned around angrily and ate and drank heartily with her back to the Demon God.
Liu Lanyan vigorously poked at the glistening rice in the bowl with her chopsticks, watching the plump white grains of rice being "cut in half" by her chopsticks, a satisfied smile appeared on her face, as if each plump grain of rice had become some annoying fellow beside her.
After "taking revenge," Liu Lanyan was in a great mood and her appetite increased.
Before long, Liu Lanyan finished eating and drinking, ignored the annoying guy, got up and left to go back to her room to rest.
"Your Majesty..." Peng Zhen finally spoke, asking in a low voice, "Should the food be taken away?"
Liu Lanyan had already finished eating, and since the Venerable One wasn't a big eater, the food should be cleared away so they could discuss serious matters.
"I haven't finished eating yet." After saying that, the Demon God continued eating the dishes that Liu Lanyan had just put on his plate, completely ignoring the terrified Peng Zhen.
Peng Zhen rubbed his eyes in disbelief, looking at the demon god to confirm that he was eating the food bite by bite.
Peng Zhen tried hard to recall and pondered. He thought about it and realized that in the thousand years he had been with this Venerable Lord, the Venerable Lord had eaten very few times. What was wrong with him today?
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck me, and it seemed like I had an answer.
Could it be that these dishes were served to the Venerable Lord by Liu Lanyan?
The Demon God had no time to think about Peng Zhen's guesses; all his thoughts were focused on one question—she remembered.