h4Chapter 437: Chapter 437: Can’t Understand? Say You Love Me (Bonus Chapter)/h4

"It can be opened, but I need to know where the entrance to the Secret Realm is." Lou Yanjin sighed.

To deliver the Cloud Mountain Jade to Xiao Jinsheng, Lou Yan Zhi used a thousand cranes to send a message.

He never actually saw Lou Yan Zhi.

"I know where the Secret Realm is." Xiao Jinsheng looked towards where she had descended from the Secret Realm yesterday.

Even though now, when looked at, there was nothing special beyond the rocks.

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Returning to the Secret Realm, Xiao Jinsheng clenched the Cloud Mountain Jade, the medium to find Lou Yan Zhi, in her hand.

Yet the environment of the Secret Realm waspletely different from when she left.

Mountains, rivers, and stones were like torn shards of a painting, floating in a viscous ink void.

Xiao Jinsheng realized that, despite regaining her superpower outside the Secret Realm.

Once entering this Secret Realm, she lost contact with the Star System Map and Caicai again.

Nor could she use her superpower within the Secret Realm.

Unable to rely on external forces to find Lou Yan Zhi, in this torn ’canvas’, the fragments drifted around like a scrambled puzzle.

Xiao Jinsheng surveyed her surroundings, forcing herself to calm down.

Her hand tightly gripped the Cloud Mountain Jade, pressing it against her heart.

In the silent void, she clearly heard her own heartbeat align in frequency with another heart’s voice.

With her eyes tightly closed, she walked in the direction indicated by the heartbeat tightly grasped in her hand.

As her steps moved forward, the heartbeat in her chest grew stronger and more intense.

Until Xiao Jinsheng crashed headfirst into a warm embrace.

Rubbing her forehead, she opened her eyes and looked up, locking eyes with Lou Yan Zhi gazing down at her with open arms.

Even in the darkness around them, Xiao Jinsheng could still see the joyful smile on Lou Yan Zhi’s face: "I bet my freedom."

"Betting that you would always have a soft spot for me in your heart."

"Xiao Jinsheng..." Lou Yan Zhi leaned closer, smiling as he looked at her: "Tell me, did I win the bet?"

"Haven’t you ever heard a saying?" Xiao Jinsheng mocked him with augh: "Those who gamble end up with nothing at the end."

"If it’s just another rejection, I don’t want to hear it." Lou Yan Zhi snorted, turning his back to Xiao Jinsheng.

With a smile, Xiao Jinsheng reached out, poking her fingertip at his lower back: "So after winning once, shouldn’t you quit gambling?"

"Lou Yan Zhi, will you quit?"

"What do you mean?" Lou Yan Zhi turned back, filled with disbelief.

His expression was excited, filled with joy at the thought of what Xiao Jinsheng’s words meant.

But soon, disappointment and sadness enveloped him again.

He was afraid of guessing wrong.

"I said you won the bet." Xiao Jinsheng helplessly smiled and replied.

"I don’t understand, are you saying..." Lou Yan Zhi paused for a second, then moved closer again, with a drawn-out voice asking her: "That you like me."

"No," Xiao Jinsheng shook her head with a smile.

Hearing this, Lou Yan Zhi hung his head in dejection.

"I can’t tell." Xiao Jinsheng shook her head, exining: "But I don’t dislike you. I can’t confirm what kind of liking I have for you."

"Because if someone epts both the ones they love and the ones that love them too much, it can cause confusion."

"You won’t be able to tell if the people you meetter are due to mutual attraction or simple admiration."

"Because the more you have, the more you want to get."

"It can make you think that all the good people and things should belong to you."

"That’s not love, that’s possession."

"And I can only control myself, to return true feelings for true feelings to me by the Beast Husband."

Even if she had many Beast Husbands, this was how the world worked.

epting the rules of the Mist Continent.

Xiao Jinsheng didn’t think there was a problem with loving more than one person at the same time.

She just needed not to mistake other feelings for love.

"I understand." Lou Yan Zhi curved his lips, full of joy.

Around them, the fragments caught in the ink began to shine again.

The shards converged in a haze, repainting andscape like a celestial sea of clouds and green mountains.

"Xiao Jinsheng, you are saying you’ve understood your feelings for me."

"It’s love, right?"

"It’s the love between a man and a woman."

"You talk too much." Xiao Jinsheng grunted.

"I’m obedient, if you think I talk too much, I’ll shut up right away." Lou Yan Zhi answered with a smile.

He tentatively reached out, gently tugging at Xiao Jinsheng’s sleeve.

Once assured that Xiao Jinsheng wouldn’t p his hand away, he reassuredly held her hand.

In Xiao Jinsheng’s palm, he encountered that familiar jade pendant belonging to him.

He raised her hand, showing the Cloud Mountain Jade in front of Xiao Jinsheng: "For the wedding feast, when you take me home, can it sit at the main table?"

"You still dare to go home with me?" Xiao Jinsheng feigned surprise.

"Aren’t you afraid of getting beaten up by a group?"

Knowing she had brought a man back from a trip to the Secret Realm.

Xiao Jinsheng understood that her Beast Husbands wouldn’t do anything to her.

But they wouldn’t go easy on a rival in love.

As long as he wasn’t beaten to death.

"But if I don’t follow you, where else can I go?" Lou Yan Zhi sighed with sorrow: "I don’t have a home."

"Isn’t your home in the Cultivation World?" Xiao Jinsheng maintained herposure, silently watching him act.

"Home doesn’t need me. Father has Lou Yanjin to apany him, and mother doesn’t have to worry either, there are siblings that I don’t even know."

"Plus, I’m the disobedient one, and I’ve reached the age and ability to live independently."

"Whatever path I choose for the future, they won’t care."

"I want to return to the Interster World." Lou Yan Zhi ced Xiao Jinsheng’s hand on his chest, smiling at her: "Will you take me home, Mistress?"

"Ahem." Xiao Jinsheng blushed at his sudden enchanting words.

She covered her reaction, deliberately putting on a serious face, her voice lingering: "I remember someone saying not too long ago, just following me, even without a title."

"What is this now?"

"Because I’m human." Lou Yan Zhi naturally replied: "Humans are very greedy."

Lou Yan Zhi raised an eyebrow, reaching out to y with the tips of Xiao Jinsheng’s hair: "Besides, I’m not a good person."

"How quickly you change, Lou Yan Zhi." Xiao Jinsheng pushed away the hand ying with her hair.

"But didn’t you like the bad ones?" Lou Yan Zhi inquired, puzzled.

"When?" Xiao Jinsheng asked in surprise.

"Not only the bad ones, you like the cunning, the crazy, the abstract, and the simple." Lou Yan Zhi spoke with grievance.

"What?" Xiao Jinsheng was dumbfounded.

Seeing Xiao Jinsheng not admitting, Lou Yan Zhi started listing his predecessors — also his numerous rivals.

"Cunning ones, Que Zelian, Huaiqing, Shi Xie, Xuan Jiu."

"Bad ones, Li, Shi Xie, Mo Jiao, Su Ye."

"Simple ones, Yu Yunxiao, Chen Yunji, Ying."

"Abstract, Xuan Jiu."

"And the green tea ones..."

"Alright, that’s enough." Xiao Jinsheng hurriedly covered Lou Yan Zhi’s mouth: "Small mouth, stay shut."

"I apply to say one more sentence." Lou Yan Zhi raised his hand.

"Granted." Xiao Jinsheng nodded modestly.

"No matter good or bad you like, I can act it out." Lou Yan Zhi rmended himself with a smile: "Whatever you like, I can be."