Desperate Love: Rebirth of the Demon King

"You noticed it too, right?" Concubine Lan asked, trying hard to hold Jin Xuan's hand tightly.

"Mother, have you ever had any conflicts or disputes with the high priest? " Jin Xuan asked hesitantly.

"Why do you ask that?" Concubine Lan looked at her son with confusion.

Jin Xuan avoided her gaze, not knowing how to answer.

Concubine Lan knew that he had misunderstood something, so she angrily shook off his hand and explained resentfully.

"I was raised in my own house since I was young and had never been outside. When I reached the age of 15, I was granted marriage to your father as a concubine. During these long twenty years, I have never seen any other man besides your father. After your father ascended the throne, I was not favored. The only time I slept with him was with you. Since then, your father has never set foot in my bedroom again."

Concubine Lan said this without much emotion. The man who was her husband was the emperor, and she couldn't even remember what her husband looked like.

She did not blame him. As a woman, her mother only taught her how to obey her husband's wishes and raise her children well. She did not learn how to resent him because she had never experienced love. How could she hate him if she did not love him?

All she wanted in her life was to raise her children in an ordinary way, and her children would grow up and grow old in an ordinary way just like her.

"Mother, I'm sorry, it's my son's fault." Jin Xuan felt distressed when he saw Concubine Lan's confused face. He could still go out and see the beautiful mountains and rivers, but his mother had been moving from a small cage to a big cage since she was born. How sad it would be if a woman spent her whole life like this.

"I was able to see the high priest only after you succeeded to the throne. I had never met him before that." Concubine Shan explained with resentment.

She had noticed the way the high priest looked at him since the first time they met. At first, when she first saw this legendary high priest who had lived for more than 300 years, she was deeply attracted by his clear-cut, extremely bright face, and his gentle and charming charm, as if he had gathered all the charms in the world.

She even wondered why he looked at her with such charming yet resentful eyes. She wanted to ask him several times why he did that, but every time the words came to her lips she ended up dodging and escaping.

"If what my mother said is true, there is no dispute between you and the high priest, and the high priest's attitude towards my mother may not have any other intentions." Jin Xuan carefully recalled Lan Moqiu's expression. Maybe he was just distracted out of habit, which made him misunderstand that he was staring at his mother.

"I think so too. The high priest is loyal to the Crescent Moon Dynasty and also loyal to Your Majesty. Your Majesty must remember to listen to the high priest." Concubine Lan thought for a moment and then instructed.

"Mother, I understand. I will return to the palace to handle official business now. Mother, please take good care of yourself. I will come to accompany you when I am free." Jin Xuan respectfully said goodbye to Concubine Lan and took Xiao Yuanzi back to the palace.

On the way back to the palace, he still had doubts in his heart. If he was just distracted, he must not send all the palace people out of the palace.

He wanted to find the high priest to ask for clarification, but he immediately gave in. So he stood there in a daze again, his thoughts drifting to who knows where.

"Your Majesty, are you going back to your palace?" Xiao Yuanzi started calling Jin Xuan who was distracted.

"No, let's not deal with government affairs today. Let's go out of the palace for a walk." Jin Xuan decided to go out of the palace to relax on a whim.

"But Your Majesty, you are still wearing court robes?" Xiao Yuanzi reminded in a low voice.

"Let's go back to the palace and change into casual clothes." Jin Xuan said, and hurriedly walked towards his bedroom, with Xiao Yuanzi following hurriedly behind him.

Outside the palace, Fengyi Tower in the West Market...

In the attic room, Yu Xiaobai was tied up and thrown on the bed for several days. Except for the few minutes when he went to the toilet, he stayed like this all the time.

The man guarding her was named Bai San. He was tall and handsome, with an expressionless face, like a robot that would only move when receiving commands.

Yu Xiaobai's mouth was tied with a white cloth. She couldn't speak and could only stare at Bai San, her eyes desperately conveying signals of request.

Bai San really looked like a robot. He didn't even look at Yu Xiaobai and just stood there stiffly and motionless.

During these few days, Yu Xiaobai compromised a little, thinking that it was just chatting and drinking! She would naturally know how to chat and drink, and as for drinking, she could learn it if she didn't know how! What's the big deal, as long as she could survive.

As soon as this idea came to her mind, she was strongly opposed by Zi Yan.

"Stupid dog, do you know what we are talking about, what we are talking about, and what we are drinking? I strongly disagree." Zi Yan refused directly.

"If you don't agree, why don't you find a way for me to escape from here! You disagree with this and that, and it was you who proposed to escape in the first place. Now that I'm caught, you just hide in the corner and cry. I think of a way but you don't agree. What else are you going to do?" Yu Xiaobai yelled at Zi Yan angrily.

"As a girl from a decent family, I would rather die than become a prostitute." Zi Yan roared. If she had to make a living by selling her smiles, she might as well just kill her.

"Did I say I wanted to be a prostitute?" Yu Xiaobai kept rolling his eyes. Couldn't he just pretend to agree and then run away when he got the chance?

"Then you said you can have a chat, but you also want to learn how to drink?" Zi Yan asked sadly.

"Be more tactful, a little more tactful. Why don't you pretend to flatter and please her to let her guard down and untie our hands and feet first? How can we escape when we don't even have freedom?" This time, it was Yu Xiaobai who scolded Zi Yan in frustration.

"Then why didn't you tell me!" Zi Yan argued.

"When I asked you what to do before, didn't you say you didn't know? I can only think of a solution myself." Yu Xiaobai also defended herself. In fact, she had just thought of this solution, and she did want to compromise before.

After the two discussed for a while, Yu Xiaobai, who had control over the body, decided to carry out the plan.

“Mmmm…” She kept making noises.

When Bai San heard the noise, he thought she was going to the bathroom again, so he came over impatiently and untied the rope on her hands.

"I agree to your request." She said, quickly tearing off the cloth on her mouth.

"...Wait." Bai San said two words, tied her hands and blocked her mouth again before walking out the door.

The waiting process was undoubtedly torturous. She began to fantasize about how to gain the trust of the madam and how to find a chance to escape.

About an incense stick of time later, the woman brought Bai San to Yu Xiaobai and looked down at her.

"I heard you've figured it out, right?" the woman asked with a sneer.

"Yeah, yeah." Yu Xiaobai nodded repeatedly.

"Bai San, take away the cloth and let her talk properly." the woman ordered.

Bai San obediently stepped forward and tore off the cloth strip on Yu Xiaobai's mouth.

"I can chat, I can have a heart-to-heart talk, wine, wine, I, I can learn to drink. If I can't, sister, you can also teach me, right?" Yu Xiaobai said innocently and pitifully.

"Well, yes, as long as you are willing, sister can teach you." The woman changed her previous fierce look and immediately became gentle and amiable. She reached out and gently untied Yu Xiaobai's bound hands.

Isn't this what it looked like in the carriage before? This rich man is really scary, a two-faced man who changes his face faster than turning the pages of a book. I must be careful.

"Then sister, please start teaching me. I have nowhere to go anyway. If you can take me in and treat me well, I will work hard to make money to repay you." Yu Xiaobai continued to pretend to be pitiful and aggrieved.

"Then tell me, what can you do? How do you plan to make money for me?" the woman asked softly.

"I can chat and have a heart-to-heart talk, and I can sing very well." To be honest, Yu Xiaobai is pretty good at chatting. After all, she is quite happy to talk about entertainment gossip and celebrities and idols.

As for singing, she has to thank her mother, who grew up in an era when many stars gathered. Any song from that era could beat any new song of the new era. And she also knows a lot of good ancient style songs.

"Then can you play the piano?" the woman asked again.

"Play the piano?" The ancient piano was the guzheng, which she didn't know how to play, so she shook her head fearfully.

"Can you play the Pipa?"

"Where's the konghou?"

"Harp, flute, pipe..."

The woman listed a bunch of musical instruments that Yu Xiaobai had never heard of, and she shook her head.

The woman shook her head after hearing her answer. What can a woman who knows nothing do? How can she make money?

Yu Xiaobai's eyes lit up. Doesn't she also know how to draw talismans?

"Sister, I can also draw talismans. I can sell them to repay you."

"Pa..." A heavy slap suddenly hit her in the face, making her head buzz and she was unable to react for a while.

This woman really changes her attitude faster than turning the pages of a book. Why did she hit her again while we were talking?

Yu Xiaobai couldn't stand this abnormal person. She looked at the woman with horror and shrank back.

"Bai San, this little girl can't do anything. Clean her up and sell her tonight. List her for sale directly and the highest bidder will get her." When Yu Xiaobai heard this, his head went blank and blood rushed to his forehead.

"Xue'er, the most important thing in life is dignity. Instead of letting others slaughter you tonight, you might as well just kill yourself. At worst, you can be reborn as a human being." Zi Yan's voice suddenly sounded.

"Is that so? After death we can start over again, right?" Yu Xiaobai asked in confusion.

"It would be better to die by hitting one's head against a wall than to die in humiliation. We are living too unfairly like this. Go ahead and hit one's head against a wall! Xue'er..." Zi Yan cried and shouted.

As Zi Yan cried out in despair, Xiao Bai suddenly felt an impulse of passion. She pushed the woman away with all her strength and crashed into the sharp edges of the wooden purlin on the bed.

"Hurry up and hold her, don't let her die." The woman shouted urgently.

Bai San hurriedly used his body to block it, but Yu Xiaobai's action was too sudden, and his forehead still hit the wooden citron heavily. The wooden citron had sharp edges, and due to the strong impact, the impact knocked a hole in Yu Xiaobai's forehead, and blood slowly oozed out.

Yu Xiaobai felt a little dizzy, the wound felt a little spicy, and hot mucus was coming out of his head. This didn't feel like he was going to die, did it?

The moment the blood came out, the sky and the earth suddenly changed. There was clearly white snow and a dark sky, but in an instant there were lightning and thunder and black air.

"Xue'er?" In the high priest's mansion, Xue'er, who was sleeping on the couch, suddenly opened her eyes. Her eyes were deep and elegant, as if something was calling her. She disappeared in a flash.

"High Priest, High Priest..." Aji went out and shouted in panic.

Lan Moqiu flew out right after Xue'er went out a second ago.

"What happened?" Sa Yulong rushed over when she heard Aji's voice. Seeing that Aji ignored her, she followed Lan Moqiu out of the door one after another.

Outside the Imperial City...

"Really?" Zhu Ji.

"Let's go and take a look first." Hei Yu.

The two looked at each other and flew towards the place where the blood was spreading.

"Such a powerful demonic power..."

Countless demons gathered from all directions in an instant, all staring at the Crescent Moon Imperial City with excited expressions, waiting for what would happen next.

Fengyi Tower...

"Want to die? You wish. She's worthless if her face is disfigured. Lock her up in the woodshed and find a trafficker to sell her." The woman's cold voice sounded.

"Yes..." Bai San responded.

Suddenly, the window broke from the outside to the inside, and a white pug appeared in the room.

Yu Xiaobai stared in a daze as a white figure came in. She felt weak all over and could neither hear nor see anything.

"Where did this beast come from? How dare it act so rampant in my Fengyi Tower?" The woman was stunned at first, and then after seeing clearly that the person coming was just a dog, she roared contemptuously.

"Yan Niang..." Bai San was also startled. Isn't this dog just an ordinary dog? What force prompted it to break open a window?

"Why are you yelling? I'll kill it right now." Yan Niang was frightened and roared viciously.

Upon hearing this, Bai San immediately stepped forward to catch Xue'er, but found himself suddenly unable to move, and was stunned for a moment.

"Bai San, are you a dead man? You can't even catch a dog." Yan Niang said as she bent down to grab Xue'er, but found that she could not move either.

Lan Moqiu flashed into the room and frowned when he saw Zi Yan lying on the bed with blood all over her face.

"Could it be..." The words came to his lips but he swallowed them back. Lan Moqiu turned his head to look out the window. The sky outside presented a strange and unpredictable scene.

He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then took Zi Yan into his wide sleeves. Then he bent down, gently picked up Xue Er, and slammed Bai San and Yan Niang against the wall with a wave of his sleeves. Finally, they fell heavily to the floor, spitting out blood and falling unconscious.

Lan Moqiu had no time to stay, he had to leave here as soon as possible, so he used teleportation directly.

A moment later, Zhu Ji and Hei Yu, two envoys from the demon world, arrived.

"This blood?" Zhu Ji walked forward and gently touched the bloodstains on the quilt with her fingers.

"He should have just left not long ago..." Hei Yu said coldly.

"This is not the Demon King's blood. The demonic power is impure and it also carries a violent aura." Zhu Ji said doubtfully.

"But just now, the Nine-Eyed Golden Pearl did feel that the Demon King's soul appeared here." Hei Yu answered doubtfully.

"But what about now?" Zhu Ji wanted to laugh. She had followed this guy for more than a year, but she didn't find anything. Not to mention the Demon King's soul, she hadn't even seen a strand of the Demon King's hair.

"Believe it or not, I think the Demon King is nearby. I just didn't find out who he is for a while. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the Demon King's soul is still asleep."

"Let's go. It's a wasted trip. Otherwise, these two mortals will wake up and discover our existence." Zhu Ji said lazily and left.

"Wait for me..." Hei Yu said, and hurriedly caught up with Zhu Ji.

Lan Moqiu returned to the Priest's Mansion and went straight into the study.

"Master Priest..." Aji was interrupted before he could finish his sentence.