chapter 31

Yin Xuezhuo slowly walked to her side and curved his finger at the young boy in front of Ji Yan. The young boy immediately turned into a pile of ash and was slowly blown away by the wind.

Ji Yan was still kneeling on the ground with a blank expression on her face. Her head was lowered, but she said nothing.

Yin Xuezhuo teased her like she was his little pet hamster. But when he saw that he had teased her enough, he grabbed her collar and lifted her up.

“Look at these people carefully. You should not help them because sooner or later, they will bite the hand that feeds them. As such, this is the essence of human nature,” Yin Xuezhuo whispered in her ear in a bewitching tone.

She suddenly pulled out the hairpin from her head and pointed the sharp end of the hairpin at her neck.

“Take me out of here.” Ji Yan grabbed onto Yin Xuezhuo’s hand that was currently pinching her chin. She ignored the ice-cold and satiny feeling from his hand and looked straight into Yin Xuezhuo’s eyes courageously.

He lowered his head slightly to stare back at her. His long black hair fell on her shoulders, the two of them were standing very close to each other.

She firmly grasped onto Yin Xuezhuo’s hand and pushed the hairpin slightly into the neck. The hairpin broke through her skin and blood started to fall from the wound.

A bloody mark also appeared on Yin Xuezhuo’s neck.

She said, “I will not intervene in what you do, and I don’t care what you will do to me. However, don’t force me or try to twist my mind. Otherwise, I will make sure that we will both die together.”

Yin Xuezhuo chuckled softly, leaned toward her, and said, “Do you think you can threaten me like this?”

Ji Yan’s face turned ghastly pale and she began to tremble. Even so, she forced herself to stay composed as she said, “You won’t be able to threaten me. I am alone, with no relatives or friends. I have no one I’m close to in this world, so I’m not afraid of dying. I won’t lose anything if I die, but you will. You will not be able to get revenge.”

She was actually very afraid of dying.

She was trembling like a frightened little beast when she said that. She was obviously afraid to move the hairpin any deeper into her neck, but she still gritted her teeth as she threatened him.

Yin Xuezhuo hated to be threatened.

His face instantly darkened, and he stared at her with a gloomy expression for a long time. Then, he raised his hand and knocked off the hairpin in her hand.

When the hairpin fell onto the ground, it was immediately burned into ashes by the black mist surrounding Yin Xuezhuo.

Ji Yan was startled by his sudden action. He pulled her closer to him and started squeezing her neck again.

The woman immediately lost all strength as she leaned on him weakly. They looked like two lovers whispering sweet nothings to each other, but his hand was tightly squeezing on her neck until she had a pained expression on her face.

He didn’t care whether he was in pain or not.

“It’s such a pity that I can’t threaten you anymore.” Yin Xuezhuo said regretfully, “However, once we settle the matter here, I will bring you back the Demon Realm. I have 10,000 ways to kill you there.”

“In this world, there are many alternatives just to life and death. For example, I can turn you into a puppet, refine you into a human gu, or refine you into something else. Your soul will still be intact and healthy. As long as your soul isn’t destroyed, you will not die, and you can stay with me forever.”

T/N: Human gu – Humans who are immune to poison after consuming poison for a long time. It’s a very painful process.

He is insane!

Ji Yan didn’t expect her plan to backfire and for this to happen. She stared at him with wide eyes. Yin Xuezhuo’s ice-cold face was reflected in her dark pupils.

She was becoming more and more frightened as she thought of all the possibilities. Yin Xuezhuo wrapped his arm around her waist and started flying again. This time, she didn’t have a blanket wrapped around her, so she felt the full blast of the cold air that Yin Xuezhuo’s body was emitting. She was trembling in fear and from the cold. Yin Xuezhuo purposely dropped his own body temperature as a way to punish her since he was not afraid of the cold.

【Host, I will remind you once again. Yin Xuezhuo is your capture target. As long as the method he uses does not cause you injury or death, then, in theory, he can do as he had stated.】

The system suddenly popped up in Ji Yan’s mind and made an announcement.

Doesn’t that mean that I will become neither a human nor a ghost?! Yin Xuezhuo had already decided her fate already!

【This system cannot change the Host’s destiny. For the Host’s safety, this system wants to suggest this: Since Host transmigrated into this book for Yin Xuezhuo, why don’t Host become his branch line? You might be able to find new opportunities in the future to complete your mission.】

Ji Yan was confused by the system’s suggestion. She didn’t understand what the system meant by the word “branch line”.

However, Yin Xuezhuo was someone who did what he promised. As long as he could do it, then he would never go back on his word.

Ji Yan asked the system, “How can I cut off my connection with him?”

【There is only one condition.】

【You have to kill Yin Miaorou and Ji Yunqing.】

Ji Yan, “…”

In other words, she had to make sure that Yin Xuezhuo was the final winner in the power struggle. This way, no one in the world will be able to stop him.