Chapter 12

Yu Wu knew her heart was biased, but she was also angry at Li You. For the sake of her pride, she didn’t want to admit it.

“I can’t argue with you…”

Muttering softly, Yu Wu quickly took another sip of the cold tea.

Although Chang Yang Mountain was like spring all year round, it was approaching autumn. Seeing Yu Wu drink so much cold tea, Li You frowned.

“Don’t drink anymore. Cold tea is bad for your health.”

Yu Wu was stunned and looked at Li You, who had concern in his eyes. She gripped the teacup tightly and put it on the table.

Li You walked to the opposite side of the table and sat down, pursing his lips:

“I truly didn’t mean to hide it from you. I’m injured, and I went to the palace to avoid being discovered by the Celestial Realm. If I were exposed, I fear I would have been harmed by them long ago.”

Listening to Li You’s explanation, Yu Wu was a bit confused:

“Then why are you exposing yourself now, and even telling me you’re injured? Aren’t you afraid I’ll tell my mother and the Celestial Realm, causing you to lose your life on Chang Yang Mountain?”

Li You smiled lightly, but only for a moment:

“You won’t.”

Li You’s answer was clean, decisive, and very certain.

Yu Wu indeed wouldn’t, but seeing Li You’s confident look, she felt as if she had been stripped bare before him.

As expected of the Demon Realm’s ruler, he was skilled in the art of bewitching people.

“I remember telling you before that I didn’t want to marry the Demon Lord. How can you be so sure that I won’t betray you to destroy this marriage?”

“The hundred schools of immortal cultivation and even the Celestial Realm, everyone is good at twisting right and wrong. Telling the Celestial Realm about my injury would indeed bring you great benefits.

But I know you’re different from others. You won’t betray me for such small gains. If you would do that, you wouldn’t be the little Immortal Yu Wu I know.”

Yu Wu thought that although she hadn’t known Li You for very long, he seemed to understand her thoroughly.

No wonder he could usurp the throne at such a young age; his judgment of people was indeed accurate.

“Fine, everyone has their own unavoidable circumstances in life. You lying to others to protect yourself is understandable.

But you hid it so deep. Looking at you, I can’t imagine you being that cruel, violent, and tyrannical new Demon Lord.”

Li You lowered his eyes. In fact, the rumors Yu Wu had heard were not all fabricated by the immortals and the Celestial Realm.

In a place like the Demon Realm where the strong prey on the weak, if he wasn’t ruthless to others, the current Li You would have long since turned to ashes and disappeared from this world.

However, Li You had never harmed innocent people, and this was the only thing he could be clear about in his conscience.

“You came to the Qing Luan Sect with your true appearance today, not just to let us know that you are the Demon Lord himself, right? Or are you in a hurry to get married?”

At Yu Wu’s question, the tips of Li You’s ears suddenly turned red:

“It’s only the Celestial Realm that’s in a hurry for me to marry you quickly. I’m not in a rush at all. If it weren’t for the spiritual energy in the lake behind your mountain being abundant and helpful for my injuries to heal quickly,

If outsiders were allowed in, I wouldn’t have been so eager to let you know my identity.”

“Where are you injured? How come it hasn’t healed after such a long time?”

Upon hearing this, Yu Wu became a bit anxious. Although she knew Li You was the big villain, she couldn’t help but want to care for him.

She didn’t know what direction the plot in the book would take, and destiny might not be something that human efforts could change, but Yu Wu still didn’t want to live as miserably as she had in the past few days.

In any case, she already had an irreversible engagement with Li You now, so let things develop as they may in the future.

She would be spending more time with Li You in the days to come. Although she had kept a way back to the immortal realm and the Celestial Realm, she also needed to keep a way open on Li You’s side.

Moreover, Yu Wu still cared about Li You in her heart.

“At first, the injury wasn’t too bad, but later, for someone’s sake, I almost lost half my life. It needs more time to heal.”

“To make you risk your life, could it be your lover in the Demon Realm?” Yu Wu felt a bit sour.

Li You smiled gently, looking at Yu Wu’s seemingly jealous expression, but didn’t answer.

Yu Wu’s mother was still efficient in handling matters. She immediately removed the barrier on the back mountain. Li You had come this time to heal his injuries faster, so he hurriedly entered the back mountain.

After all, this was immortal territory, and knowing that the Celestial Realm would definitely send spies to watch, Li You came alone this time.

Yu Wu talked with her mother for a while and, after hearing about this, also slipped into the back mountain.

As Li You had said, if the Celestial Realm knew he was injured, they would definitely harm him secretly.

Yu Wu couldn’t bear it, so she thought that she could at least protect him while he meditated. She might not have great abilities, but at least she could wake him up in time if there was danger while he was in deep meditation.

Li You had mentioned the lake on the back mountain, so Yu Wu headed directly there.

As she approached, she saw Li You sitting in meditation on the jade stone that Yu Wu liked to sit on the most. His thin figure looked somewhat pitiful.

Li You looked young, but he had already become the lord of the Demon Realm. Without him saying anything, Yu Wu could guess the difficulties he had faced.

Moreover, Li You was a man. In this female-dominated society, for a man to reach Li You’s position, who knows how much inhuman hardship he had endured.

However, hearing from Lan Ruo and Yu Tong that most people in the Demon Realm were transformed from animals and plants, Yu Wu suddenly became curious about what Li You’s true form might be.

Yu Wu was lost in thought looking at Li You’s back, but as she looked, she felt a bit dazed.

Why did Li You sitting on that jade stone look so much like the silver dragon coiled into a circle that day?

Suddenly coming to her senses, Yu Wu immediately dismissed this impossible notion.

The silver dragon was of the god race. Why would a perfectly good high god go to a place like the Demon Realm?

It seemed that because the silver dragon and Li You had sat in the same position, Yu Wu had this strange illusion.

Thinking of the silver dragon, Yu Wu was startled again. When the barrier was up, that silver dragon would occasionally appear at this lake.

If the silver dragon and Li You met, wouldn’t this demon and dragon fight?

Yu Wu was on tenterhooks, becoming extremely alert. She tiptoed forward, believing herself to be silent, and stopped next to the jade stone.

Leaning against the jade stone and sitting down, Yu Wu turned her head and quietly watched the meditating Li You, completely unaware that as soon as she had stepped into the back mountain, Li You had already known it was her.

Li You put his mind at ease, tightly grasping the gold silk sachet containing the night-blooming cereus, and began to enter deep meditation.

With Yu Wu by his side, Li You could be at ease.

The back mountain of the Qing Luan Sect was indeed a good place. When Li You opened his eyes after meditating, the sky was already pitch dark.

Waiting is the most tormenting thing. Yu Wu was already exhausted but kept forcing herself to stay awake. She was afraid that the appearance of the silver dragon or outsiders would disturb Li You.

Finally seeing Li You wake up and notice her, Yu Wu quickly stood up.

Perhaps because she had been sitting for too long, and her attention was completely on Li You, Yu Wu didn’t realize her feet had gone numb.

As soon as she stood up, her feet couldn’t support her, and Yu Wu fell back down, her arm accidentally scratching against a sharp part of the jade stone.

Yu Wu fell too quickly. Li You saw and wanted to catch her, but it was too late.

Yu Wu fell and cut her arm, and Li You, lunging forward, also cut his arm.

The two looked at each other’s arms, both with the same wound. Although it hurt, they couldn’t help but laugh together.

Back at their lodgings, Yu Wu took out the medicine box to treat Li You’s wound.

“Don’t get it wet. It will heal in a few days.”

Yu Wu said as she was about to put away the medicine box. She had treated Li You’s wound but showed no intention of treating her own.

“Let me clean your wound too. You have a mortal body; it will get infected if not treated.”

Unlike Yu Wu, this small cut would heal on its own in a couple of days for Li You without treatment.

But Li You was an ordinary person. Having lived in the palace for a long time, he naturally knew that without proper treatment, it would get infected and might even cause a high fever.

Kindness is mutual. Yu Wu cared for him so much, so Li You naturally treated Yu Wu with sincerity as well.

Yu Wu had always been careless. She looked at her own wound and waved her hand:

“It’s fine. It’s too late now. I’ll treat it myself when I go back.”

As she spoke, Yu Wu took out some snacks wrapped in oiled paper from her bosom.

“The Qing Luan Sect has many rules, including a curfew. You’ve been meditating all day without eating anything. Eat some snacks later. Don’t go to sleep on an empty stomach. I’m going back now.”

Yu Wu took the medicine box and returned to her own room.

Li You opened the oiled paper and saw that it contained all the snacks he had liked best during his previous stay at the Qing Luan Sect.

Gently touching the white bandage that Yu Wu had just wrapped around his wound, Li You’s eyes reddened slightly.

When he first met Yu Wu, Li You saw how attentively Lan Ruo and Yu Tong took care of her, who had no spiritual power.

After coming to the Qing Luan Sect, he also saw the care and love that the Sect Leader Yu and everyone in the sect had for Yu Wu. Li You was genuinely envious from the bottom of his heart.

Since birth, Li You had always been alone, never cared for by anyone.

But Yu Wu didn’t care about her own injury and still worried about his. She even remembered such trivial things as the snacks he liked.

Having never experienced being cared for by others like this, Li You felt warmth spreading through his heart.