After I left, the devil was distraught

Xue Qiong couldn't help but chuckled amused by his annoyed appearance, and asked softly, "Have you eaten yet?"

"No." Ember answered honestly, he only wanted to go home, and he didn't want to waste time with that Li Yuanwai at all, so how could he really have dinner with him.

Xueqiong shook her head helplessly, got up and went to the kitchen to take out some side dishes and a bowl of white fungus porridge that were still warm in the pot, put them in front of Ember and said warmly: "Eat, I made too much leftover just now."

"Okay." Ember automatically ignored the second half of the sentence, picked up the rice bowl and began to drink porridge with a look of joy.

After he finished his meal, the two of them stretched out and lay down.

Xueqiong recalled the dream from last night, and asked in a low voice with some tentativeness: "Yu Jin, did we buy a rabbit together before?"

In the darkness, Ember couldn't help pursing her lips tightly upon hearing this.

After a long time, he sighed silently, and replied softly as if in compromise: "I bought it."

Now that he is like this, he really doesn't want to provoke Xue Qiong to go to war and get angry.

Luckily, he thought that this incident should not bring Xueqiong back to memory.

Seeing that Ember did not avoid talking about it, Xueqiong subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked softly, "Then does it have a name?"

"Snow Velvet." Ember replied hoarsely.

Mentioning the name of the rabbit, he couldn't help thinking of the joy in Xue Qiong's eyes when she wrote the word "Snow Velvet" that day, that was the day when he personally cut off a piece of flesh from the boy's forearm and ruined the boy's life. The light in the bottom of the eyes.

She didn't dare to recall those things for a long time, but when she recalled it now, Ember only felt a pain in her heart, and the old injuries that hadn't recurred for a long time began to ache.

"Then how...how did it die?" Xue Qiong's eyes darkened, and the sadness in her voice could not be concealed.

He remembered that in the previous dream, the rabbit died in the end.

With embers stuck in his throat, it took him a long time to answer in a hoarse voice: "... was killed by a fox demon."

"Then...have you caught the fox demon who killed it?" Xueqiong couldn't help but sat up from the bed, feeling really uncomfortable.

"...not yet." Ember said and relighted the candle, got up and sat down on the side of the couch, he gently patted the young man's thin back, and comforted him softly: "But there are already signs, you Don't worry, I won't let him go."

"...Okay." Xueqiong nodded, lowered her head and lightly touched the rabbit pendant hanging on her chest.

Seeing him like this, Ember felt uncomfortable, but he didn't know how to comfort him, and in the end he just hugged the boy carefully.

After being quiet like this for a long time, he tentatively said softly: "It's cold, the ground is really cold, how about sleeping on the couch together tonight?"

Hearing the words, Xue Qiong suddenly regained consciousness from the sadness, he squeezed his palms nervously, seemed to be a little entangled, but finally he nodded slightly.

Ember's heartbeat fluctuated for a moment, and she quickly got on the couch and lay down beside the young man.

At this moment, neither of them seemed to care about being sad anymore.

Clinging to the man's warm body by her side, Xue Qiong's palms were slightly sweating.

For such a long time, this was the closest time the two of them had been together, but he couldn't help but think of those lingering stories he had heard from the storyteller during the day.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but opened his eyes and secretly glanced at Ember, but suddenly met the smiling eyes of the man.

A faint blush appeared on the base of Xueqiong's ears instantly, and her somewhat flustered drooping eyes avoided Ember's sight.

"What are you thinking about, why is your face so red?" Ember asked with a light smile.

"...It's nothing." Xue Qiong turned her back to Ember, her voice was muffled.

Ember couldn't help but curled his lips into a smile, and leaned closer to the young man's ear, his voice was low and hoarse: "What I promised you before, I won't go beyond that even a little bit before you allow me."

After saying that, Ember waved his hand to extinguish the candle, and tentatively wrapped his arms around the boy's waist and abdomen gently.

Although a little uncomfortable, Xueqiong did not refuse this time.

He thought, maybe he should try to accept the embers, maybe he shouldn't be obsessed with those memories anymore.

----

Does Ember really like to be a Taoist priest and catch ghosts everywhere?

He is not, he has always been cold-tempered, and he is even less lazy to flatter him.

He just remembered what Xueqiong said that day, and he just didn't want the young man to worry about money.

It was just because the two of them went home together that night, when he reached out to touch the boy, the boy didn't hide from him for the first time.

He thought that the young man liked money, so he would do things he didn't want to do in the past.

If things go on like this, I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is a cold day.

The brazier inside the house crackled, and the snow fell heavily outside.

In the past six months, the two of them had saved a lot of money, teasingly discussing that next year they would change to a bigger yard and buy two little maids.

At that time, they looked like an ordinary couple.

Xueqiong rarely wanted to eat hot antique soup, so she asked Yu Jin to go out and buy some mutton.

In the kitchen, he was washing the vegetables, but suddenly there was a shrill scream outside, which made him almost throw the cabbage out of his hands.

Xue Qiong frowned instantly, and hastily put down the cabbage in her hand, ran out of the yard and opened the gate.

But the scene in front of him made him freeze in place for an instant, unable to move an inch.

Outside the gate, the young man fell on the snow in pain, with a bloody dagger beside him.

At this time, his chest was bleeding out continuously, and he tried his best to block the opening, but he couldn't stop the blood from draining after all.

The young man's eyes were a little dizzy, he looked straight at Xue Qiong, and stretched out his blood-stained palm in an attempt to ask for help.

"......help me......"

The man quickly closed his eyes unwillingly, Xueqiong's feet were stiff, and she felt a splitting headache.

He stared blankly at the blood slowly soaking through the snow, and then spreading to his feet.

Xueqiong's body shook involuntarily, his lips moved, but no sound came out.

Suddenly, he saw Ember running towards him.

Xue Qiong reached out her hand to say something, but her eyes went dark and she lost all consciousness.

----

Blood, blood everywhere, dazzling scarlet, strong bloody smell.

Blood stained the bed and the floor red.

Yun Cheng's eyes were filled with pain and unwillingness, and Hu Qian's face was filled with the joy of revenge.

He remembered everything, those bloody, cruel, unbearable past, those memories that have been sealed for a long time.

On the bed, Xue Qiong slowly opened her eyes, and met Ember Ember's concerned eyes.

The boy's eyes were distracted, and it took a long time before he opened his mouth in a hoarse voice: "Why...you want to save me?

Ember was struck by lightning, and the palms tightly holding the young man's hands suddenly dropped, and he stood there blankly, his lips moved but he couldn't make any sound.

Xue Qiong just stared at Ember without moving, and asked hoarsely again: "Why...did you drag me back to this hellish world?"

Ember's eyes turned red in an instant, and after a long time, he finally murmured, "You...remember? I...know, know, know that Guning Mountain was saved by you. of me..."

"You know..." Yiqiao Xueqiong was lifeless, paused, and said, "Since you know, let me go."

Ember panicked in an instant, he shook his head desperately, his eyes were full of fear, he said in a panic that almost begged: "No, you can't go, you can't go..."

"I really know that I was wrong, and I will make up for it. Except for leaving me, you can do whatever you want..."

"Can you give me a chance...can you forgive me this time..."

Hearing this, Xue Qiong smiled contemptuously, tears pouring down uncontrollably.

He sat up with his arms propped up, his eyes full of sadness: "I will give you a chance? You asked me to give you a chance? Ember, why are you so funny?"

"At the beginning... did you give me a chance, did you give me a chance to explain when we got married? When Su Qingyao harmed me... did you give me the slightest trust?"

"Did you give me a chance when you took my blood and cut my flesh? Did you give me a chance when you locked me on the couch with shackles?"

"Whether I live or die, have you ever given me a chance to choose?"

"Xueqiong, I was wrong, I'm sorry for you." Ember interrupted the young man's heart-wrenching words in pain, grabbed the young man's hand humblely with scarlet eyes and begged: "But please... ..Don't want me, okay...I will never do that again...never again..."

Xueqiong's eyes were red, and she withdrew her hand with all her strength and mocked sharply: "Since you were so decisive at the beginning, who are you showing such affectionate appearance now?"

"You know that I don't want to have any more entanglements with you, why do you still impose your will on me? Why do you want to make decisions for me?"

"Ember, are you disgusted?"

After saying that, Xue Qiong tore off the jade pendant around her neck, and used her spiritual power to crush it instantly.

"do not want!"

The young man's actions were so decisive that Ember didn't even have time to stop him, so he could only watch helplessly as the jade pendant shattered into powder.

Seeing this, Ember vomited out a mouthful of blood from his old wound in grief, and he knelt down at the young man's feet while clutching his painful chest.He subconsciously raised his hand to wipe off the blood from the corner of his lips, and begged desperately: "Xueqiong, please...don't want me...please..."

Xue Qiong lowered her eyes and stopped looking at his humble appearance. After a long time, he let go of the powdered jade pendant in his hand, and then said softly:

"It's hard to get over the water, we can't go back."

"Ember, don't be obsessed anymore, let me go."

Ember broke down and shook her head, her eyes were scarlet and she choked up her sobs to explain: "You said it, you said that if you make a mistake, as long as you really repent and try your best to make it up, you will be forgiven. This is what you said."

Hearing this, Xueqiong laughed mockingly and said: "I said it, but it was just what you coaxed me to say when I had no memory. How could it be that you admitted the wrong person and did the wrong thing in those things between you and me?" Can things be dismissed lightly?"

"Xiang, if you force me again, I will kill you."