He just broke up with his girlfriend and is already living with the devilish rich girl.

When Bai Ziheng pushed open the door, the monster was squatting on the living room floor.

Luo Yao was slumped on the sofa, one leg draped over the armrest, the other dangling down, her toes barely touching the floor.

She was wearing a silk black loungewear nightgown, the straps of which had slipped off her shoulders, revealing a whole expanse of fair neck and collarbone.

Her nightgown barely covered her upper thighs. When Bai Ziheng entered the room, she was changing channels with the remote control and didn't even lift her eyelids.

"You're back."

Bai Ziheng tossed the key into a bowl on the shoe cabinet, changed into slippers, and walked into the living room.

He glanced at the monster crouching on the ground and frowned.

"How come this thing is still here?"

"She has a proper name, Chen Li. Don't call her that old thing, it's impolite."

Luo Yao corrected him, casually placing the remote control on the coffee table and stretching.

The strap that had slipped down fell a little further with the movement, but she didn't try to pull it up; she just let it hang there.

Bai Ziheng went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water, held the glass against the kitchen door frame, and glanced at the monster.

It remained crouched there, its two slender arms neatly placed on its knees.

"Why are you so concerned about her?" Bai Ziheng asked.

Luo Yao put the remote control she was holding on the coffee table and turned to look at him.

Those golden, vertical pupils looked exceptionally soft under the warm yellow light of the living room, and a mischievous smile that he knew all too well lingered on his lips.

"Because she saved my life."

Her voice was very soft.

"He was also the first human friend I made in this world."

Luo Yao sat up from the sofa and patted the spot next to her.

Bai Ziheng carried his water glass over and sat down.

"More than ten years ago, I awoke from a long sleep."

"At that time, my body had no strength at all, and barely maintaining a human form was the limit."

"But I remember one thing: before I fell into a deep sleep, those who had sought my power all gave me tokens."

"They said that no matter how much time has passed, I can use the token to go back to them and get my things back."

Bai Ziheng paused for a moment while holding the water glass.

"You went?"

"I've gone."

Luo Yao smiled.

"One of the tokens is a waist tag from the Celestial Master's Mansion a thousand years ago."

"Back then, those people couldn't even stand up straight in front of the outsiders. It was I who gave them the power to control, which enabled them to build their later empire."

"I thought to myself, a thousand years have passed, the Celestial Master's Mansion should still be there, so I took that sign and went around asking."

She tilted her head.

"Do you know how stupid I was back then?"

"I stopped a passerby and asked him if he knew where the Celestial Master's Mansion was."

"The person said, 'Are you going to the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain for tourism? Just take the high-speed rail to Yingtan North Station.'"

"I was stunned for a long time. What is a high-speed rail? Where is Yingtan?"

Bai Ziheng almost choked on the water.

"Back then, I didn't even know what a cell phone was."

"I saw everyone on the street looking down at a glowing cube. I thought it was some kind of magical artifact. I thought to myself, the cultivation world in the human realm has developed too fast these days, everyone has a magical treasure."

Luo Yao smiled and shook her head.

"Later, I was almost kidnapped by human traffickers."

"That person said he could take me to the Celestial Master's Mansion, and I actually believed him."

He said he would take me somewhere to stay for the night and we would leave early the next morning. I got into the car with him, and when we arrived, I realized that he was going to make me work at a nightclub.

Bai Ziheng put down his water glass.

"Then what."

Then Chen Li arrived.

Luo Yao's voice suddenly softened.

"She was an officer in the logistics department of the Ninghai Special Administration Bureau at the time, and she happened to be conducting a follow-up investigation in that area that day."

"Just then, I saw those people trying to lure me to a nightclub."

"She saved me, so I will remember this for the rest of my life."

Luo Yao paused.

"I showed her the waist tag, and she took it and looked at it over and over. She said it was an antique and asked me where I got it. I said it was mine."

"She didn't suspect me."

"Perhaps she knew from the beginning that I wasn't human, so she took me back to the Special Administration Bureau, gave me a shower, and gave me a set of clean clothes."

"She even got me a meal at the cafeteria, saying, 'No matter who you are, eat first.'"

Bai Ziheng remained silent.

"Later she took me to get a physical exam."

She said that since you've come to the Special Administration Bureau, you must follow the proper procedures and register, so that you'll have an explanation if anyone asks in the future.

"At the time, I didn't understand what 'following procedures' meant; I just found her rambling on and on quite funny."

Luo Yao's fingers gently traced circles on the sofa armrest.

At the time, after the test results came out, the entire building exploded.

A high-level anomaly that has never been detected before, whose power core data far exceeds that of any known sample.

Chen Li immediately went to find the then director of the Ninghai Municipal Bureau.

The bureau chief, however, demanded that Luo Yao's file be encrypted.

But on that day, the head of the Biological Department of the General Administration happened to be at the Ninghai Special Industrial Park Administration Bureau.

Isabella Valentine, the woman who came was wearing a white coat and had a very kind smile.

She walked up to Luo Yao, squatted down, and spoke to her in a coaxing tone.

"Your health data is somewhat abnormal, and you need to undergo a few more tests."

"It won't hurt, it'll be over soon."

Luo Yao's eyes slowly turned into golden vertical pupils.

"She wants me to be her guinea pig."

"That night, Chen Li sneaked into the observation room during a shift change. She pulled me out of bed and said, 'You have to leave, you have to leave now. The head of the Biology Department is going to transfer you to the General Administration's laboratory.'"

"She took off her coat and draped it over me, then led me out of the building through the back corridor."

"I had already been injected with drugs at that time. Those drugs would suppress the power of the alien and prevent my body from maintaining a stable form."

"When I ran out, my fingers had already started to harden, the bones were protruding outwards, and my skin was becoming rough layer by layer."

Luo Yao held her hand up to her eyes and turned it over to look at it.

"I finally escaped to a culvert under a bridge, which was the only place I could find that could shelter me from the wind and rain."

"I huddled in the corner, my muscles and bones changing every day, gradually turning into that ugly monster."

"Chen Li was also implicated. She let me escape and was dismissed by the Special Administration Bureau for dereliction of duty."

"Her husband divorced her, saying she was crazy and ruined her future for an outsider."

"She didn't defend herself; she just moved to a rented room in the old town with her child."

"She knew Isabella wouldn't let the child go, so she sent the child to her ex-husband's hometown and stayed in Ninghai alone."

"What a pity, even so, that old man still didn't let his daughter go."

Luo Yao's fingers stopped on the sofa armrest.

"After that, I stopped trusting any human being, until I met that silly boy who stood at the bridge arch and brought me bread."

She turned her head, looked at Bai Ziheng, and smiled.

"I see."

Bai Ziheng placed the water glass on the coffee table and turned his gaze to the monster squatting on the ground.

It remained quiet, its head slightly bowed.

"Where is her daughter?"

"Don't worry, her daughter is safe now."

Luo Yao resumed her usual sly, mischievous smile.

"I asked those clergy to take care of it for me."

"Will they listen to you?"

Bai Ziheng was somewhat surprised.

Luo Yao tilted her head and looked at him with a smile.

"They will listen to the gods. In a sense, I am also a god of China."

Bai Ziheng raised an eyebrow: "Weren't you a demon? Now you've become a god?"

Luo Yao rolled over on the sofa, supporting herself on the cushion with one hand, and reached out with the other to touch Bai Ziheng's chest, her fingertips slowly sliding down through the fabric.

"I can become whatever you like."

"If you like demons, then I am a demon. If you like gods, then I am a god."

"You like the girl next door, and I'm Luo Yao, the one who wears a cotton dress and has a ponytail. You like bad women—"

Her fingers stopped on his heart, she leaned closer, her voice low, her pupils gleaming with a cold, alluring golden light.

"Then I'm the bad woman who sneaks into your bed in the middle of the night."

Bai Ziheng turned his face away and his throat moved.

"Be serious, your friend is watching."