After five bigwigs in Beijing's elite circle fell into their trap, I fled.

Chapter 229 A Leisurely Person Amidst a Sea of ​​Flowers
Li Yubai, who was waiting quietly in the distance, could clearly feel that the boy seemed to have come back to life. From his angle, he could not see what the girl was drawing on the paper, but he could see the boy's devout eyes when he looked at his girlfriend.

"Xiao Shu, it's time to go." Li Yubai's gentle voice drew his girlfriend's attention back.

The girl gave the boy a thumbs-up, stood up, and walked towards Li Yubai. Li Yubai then affectionately embraced her, and they walked away from each other.

Under the moonlight, the humble boy knelt in the direction of the girl, unable to rise.

In her ear, she could faintly hear Li Yubai's gentle yet helpless voice: "What did you draw for him? I don't care about anything else, but you're not allowed to draw my face and give it away."

"No." The girl giggled. "You will always belong to me alone, and no one else can touch you."

The boy suddenly looked up and carefully examined Li Yubai's back.

The man's figure was tall and noble in the moonlight; he had never seen such a stunningly beautiful person in the clan.

He never imagined that one day in the future, he would stand on the opposite side of life and death with that man, their blood staining their entire clan.

Inside the hotel, Li Yubai asked with a hint of regret, "So, the face you're using now... is the one she drew for you?"

Ning Yunzhan remained silent.

"You've grown up very quickly. I only learned about your talent later, during our great battle. You have the ability to change faces at will, to transform into any face you desire." Li Yubai's tone turned colder. "The face she personally painted for you was used by you to get close to her now, and you even planned to imprison her. If she knew, do you think she would regret the kindness she showed you back then?"

Ning Yunzhan remained silent, but the wine glass in his hand shattered with a snap!
He sat quietly, casually spreading his palm. Red wine slowly dripped from the clear shards of glass in his palm, a truly eerie sight.

Li Yubai continued, "If she also knew that the gentle, romantic, and brilliant architect she had spent a year with was actually a bloodthirsty, brutal, and ruthless devil, would she still treat you the same as usual?"

Ning Yunzhan: "Heh."

"Let me make another bold guess: why would someone as cruel and obsessive as you choose to approach her with a personality so completely opposite to yours?" Li Yubai paused for a moment. "Is it because of me?"

Ning Yunzhan's expression gradually deepened.

“Because she loves me.” Li Yubai smiled calmly. “So, you’re copying me. Just like one of the reasons you started this war was to have her, now you’re copying me in every way, hoping that she can love you the way she loves me?”

Ning Yunzhan: "Are you finished speaking?"

"Are you enraged?" Li Yubai added fuel to the fire. "If I were to tell her that she died because of you, and that the mortal enemy she went to such lengths to find was you, what would she think?"

Ning Yunzhan's gentle face seemed to have been torn off, and his aura gradually turned cold and piercing.

“I can give you a chance to maintain the most perfect image of Ning Yunzhan in her mind.” Li Yubai tapped the table. “On the condition that you leave and you are not allowed to have any more ideas about her.”

Ning Yunzhan did not answer immediately.

He got up and opened the window.

From his vantage point, he could just see Jiang Shu and Feng Li laughing and playing amidst the vast expanse of black and red roses on the distant hillside...

So beautiful, so enviable!
Ning Yunzhan said softly, "Li Yubai, regarding your proposal—"

In the distance, Jiang Shu seemed to sense his gaze and suddenly looked in his direction, her eyes filled with a wanton smile:
"Ning Yunzhan, are you ready yet? Come over and take a family photo! This place is absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful flowers deserve handsome men by their side. I'm going to let our stunning beauties conquer this sea of ​​flowers!"

Ning Yunzhan's sinister expression softened, and he nodded slightly to Jiang Shu before saying the rest of his sentence: "I refuse."

They refused to leave.

“You’re not the only one who would put her in a difficult position,” Ning Yunzhan chuckled. “Li Yubai, I’ll give you a choice too.”

Li Yubai also got up, walked to the window and stood beside him, looking at the girl in the sea of ​​flowers: "Tell me about it."

"Either you expose my identity and we all perish. With my fighting power, you will all disappear from this world, and then she will belong to me alone. Perhaps she will hate me to the bone from then on, but... being able to have her all to myself is also good."

A hint of killing intent emanated from Li Yubai.

“You are now a broken mortal body, powerless, living in constant danger, and could die at any moment.” Ning Yunzhan’s smile was somewhat sarcastic. “Back then, I had to think twice because you had the magic puppet, but now the magic puppet has abandoned you. Li Yubai, you can no longer break my trap.”

Li Yubai remained calm: "Since it's a choice, there must be a second option?"

"I'm not greedy, I just want things to stay the same. To enjoy the wind and moon with her, to savor the simple pleasures of life, to laugh and joke around, even if there are a few of you spoiling the mood, I can still accept it with a smile."

Li Yubai closed his eyes: "Are you really determined to have her?"

Ning Yunzhan laughed: "Li Yubai, have you forgotten that she cursed me before she died? Her life is my life, her death is my death, she has tasted all the bitterness of the world, and I have also suffered all the sins of the mortal realm..."

Suddenly, Li Yubai recalled the fortune-telling session he had had a few months ago, which involved bone reading.

It was just a joke, and there was no need to take it too seriously, but looking back now, it feels so real.

At that time, Jiang Shu said that Ning Yunzhan had nine blood-related sons, and today they dug up nine snakes that he had fed with his blood...

That day, Jiang Shu also said that Ning Yunzhan's fate had long been intertwined with another person's; their lives were intertwined, and his fate was no longer in his own hands. When that person lived, he lived; when that person died, he died.

Li Yubai had considered many possibilities, but he never connected Jiang Shu with the new master...

Ning Yunzhan looked at Li Yubai's unpleasant expression and sneered:
"In that sense, I am the person in this world who is most inseparable from her. We have lived and died together, depended on each other for survival, and are intertwined with each other. Li Yubai, what do you say?"

Li Yubai did not answer.

After a long silence, Li Yubai finally spoke in a cool and firm tone:
"I went to great lengths to save her life, not so that she could be in love with a demon forever..."

He pointed outside: "Let's go, don't keep her waiting."

Ning Yunzhan watched Li Yubai's retreating figure as he walked out first.

For hundreds of years, it has always been so noble and elegant, like the moon in the sky.

But Ning Yunzhan knew that he was only temporarily compromising, waiting for the opportunity to strike a fatal blow.

When Ning Yunzhan and Li Yubai arrived on the hillside, Jiang Shu had already taken hundreds of photos and more than a dozen short videos with Feng Li.

Ning Yunzhan gazed at Jiang Shu, whose smile was more captivating than any blooming flower, and gradually drifted into a daze…