RoCD Chapter 100

Before the woman could even speak, Youyou exploded.

“I! Am! Not! A! Good! For! Nothing!”

Extremely sensitive to those words, Youyou’s eyes flew wide open as she glared at Bai Qu. She bit her cherry-pink lip hard, and in a rare show of defiance toward him, puffed out her cheeks in displeasure. Wuwuwu, this is so embarrassing! How could Bai Qu call her a good-for-nothing in front of the beautiful lady? That bully Su Ling must have taught him to say that.

Youyou, who wore every thought on her face, had an exceptionally colorful expression right now. Bai Qu suppressed a laugh, but under the little girl’s furious glare, he managed to hold it in. Covering his face with his hand, he nodded at her, his voice trembling slightly. “Alright, alright. Now sleep.”

If she doesn’t sleep soon, he won’t be able to hold it in anymore.

“Hmph.”

Turning over, she lay down properly in bed. Under the covers, she secretly touched the hand resting on her waist, then muttered softly, “So cold.”

Slowly closing her eyes, Youyou silently endured the chill and heard the woman say, “Bai Qu, is it? My name is Wuyou, not Miss Unknown. I adore Youyou, and I am happy to accept everything about her. As for whether my feelings are genuine… setting aside the fact that I have watched over her for a long time, the existence of those incarnations alone is proof enough, is it not?”

She had had countless names, but only “Wuyou” was given to her by this person. Her icy, blood-red eyes were filled with indifference when she looked at Bai Qu. As an existence that even the Main God could not judge, Wuyou looked down on everyone.

“About that…”

Raising an eyebrow noncommittally, Bai Qu was about to say more when he suddenly noticed Youyou’s flushed cheeks.

It wasn’t just Bai Qu; Wuyou had noticed her strange state as well.

“Hey, don’t look at me!”

Although her eyes were closed, Youyou keenly sensed their gazes on her. She shyly covered her face with her small, tender hands, and her sweet, soft, milky voice easily softened the tense atmosphere.

She… adores me.

The tips of her ears grew redder and redder. Youyou’s blood was boiling, and her body grew hotter and hotter.

“Okay, we won’t look.”

Both amused and exasperated by her cute antics, Bai Qu simply lowered his head and stared at the bedsheets, afraid that a certain little girl might lash out at him in a fit of pique.

Nearby, Wuyou also slowly averted her gaze. A smile played on her lips and danced in her eyes. Her heart filled with sweetness at Youyou’s reaction.

With no one looking at her, Youyou secretly lowered her small hands.

She turned over and affectionately buried her head in Wuyou’s embrace.

She was very happy.

“Eee, this is so nice.”

Muttering this contentedly, Youyou began to drift off. It wasn’t long before the carefree girl was fast asleep.

Seeing this, Bai Qu also rested his head on the edge of the bed to catch up on his sleep.

The pressure of Asura City on the taskers was, after all, unimaginable. With the exception of Youyou, every one of them had their nerves stretched taut.

They had to be on guard against one another while conserving their strength as much as possible. This, combined with the pressure of scarce food, kept the taskers constantly on the brink of slaughter. A single mistake, and the price was death.

In Asura City, one becomes an Asura.

Even Bai Qu and Su Ling, who lacked neither food nor weapons, had been exhausted lately, to say nothing of the other taskers.

The room gradually fell silent, filled only with the sound of rhythmic breathing. Wuyou held the girl through her cloak, completely unwilling to close her eyes.

For countless days and nights, she had been entangled by malicious thoughts, driven to madness, and only by thinking of her could she regain her sanity for a moment.

The price of her rapidly growing power was that she had to expend immense effort to slowly digest all those negative emotions. Wuyou had no regrets, as long as this person could live.

Because every time she lost control, a world would be destroyed, that person had made a deal with her out of pity. He promised to let her incarnations meet this person, and in return, she had to do things for him. But though it was called “doing things,” it was merely a veiled attempt to restrain her. After all, even if he controlled all the heavens and myriad worlds, there was nothing he could do to her. In a sense, she, who lived by devouring the malicious thoughts of all creation, could not die.

Because malicious thoughts are an endless, inexhaustible source, if she so wished, all living beings could become her nourishment.

She was formless and bodiless, unbound by the rules of space. Her willingness to bind herself to the sea of blood now was for one reason only.

It was only for her.

“Foolish Youyou, how could you be so silly? Are you satisfied now?” Unable to resist, she leaned over and gently nipped Youyou’s ear. If she hadn’t experienced it herself, Wuyou would have found it hard to believe that her fated adversary was, of all things, such a little fool.

Yes, adversary.

Just like light and darkness, illusion and reality, she and Youyou were supposed to be on opposing sides.

And in that kind of relationship, Youyou represented the source of all disasters—pure and true in essence, yet always bringing forth calamity—while she was the contradictory anomaly, the ultimate yin and evil that quelled the chaos.

But now…

“I’ve really lost to you.”

The night passed without another sound. The next day, when Su Ling woke up and walked into the bedroom, he saw his lover pitifully slumped over the edge of the bed. And on the bed, a certain little fool was nestled comfortably in the beauty’s arms, sleeping soundly.

His mouth twitching speechlessly, Su Ling gave a nod to the expressionless, beautiful woman, then went over and carried his lover out.

Bai Qu woke up midway. Su Ling gave him a bright, sunny smile. “You should sleep a little more. I’ve got this.”

For a grown man to sleep curled up like that… Su Ling’s heart ached just thinking about it. But he also understood that Bai Qu wouldn’t listen to him on this matter. It was just like before, when he had said he wanted the little fool to stay with him in Asura City. When it came to issues concerning her, Bai Qu was incredibly despotic and stubborn.

“Mm.”

Closing his hazy, sore eyes again, his head groggy, Bai Qu let Su Ling carry him to the sofa.

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