Madam General, please run slower.

Li took a sip of the tea in his hand, and a faint sweetness lingered at the tip of his nose. The temperature, time and technique were all just right, which showed the care of the tea maker.

"I seem to have never asked you, why did you choose to die when you had so many choices?"

"Li'er, I..."

"Don't say you're wrong anymore." Li interrupted Yu Xun's words, "I'm asking for the reason, not discussing the result with you."

Yu Xun was silent for a moment, then spoke honestly, "Actually, I had nightmares for a while and couldn't sleep for nearly half a year. They said I was crazy, and I admit that I was not in a good state at that time."

"Nightmare? What did you dream about?"

Yu Xun did not answer Li's question immediately. He clenched and then loosened his hands at his side. Then he reached out and pulled Li to sit on his lap, sniffing the fragrance from her neck.

Even though Yu Xun didn't say anything, Li guessed that the nightmare was related to him. He gently rubbed the back of his head and whispered, "If you don't want to talk about it, forget it."

Yu Xun shook his head and hugged the person tighter. After he could truly feel the warmth of the person in his arms, he slowly said, "I saw you die... You were tied to the altar, and they drained your blood and ate your flesh. This lasted for three days, and in the end, only a pile of bones was left to be eaten by wild beasts."

Yu Xun was a little out of breath when he said this, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble, "You... you died countless times in my dreams, countless times! And I couldn't do anything, I could only watch this scene happen again and again."

When Yu Xun said this, Li knew what was going on. This was most likely the work of the inner demon.

"Dreams are always the opposite of what they actually are. I'm fine. Axun, don't scare yourself."

"It's a lie..." Yu Xun murmured in a low voice: "It's all true. Those dreams really happened, right?"

"Why do you think so?" Li tilted her head and looked at him with a chuckle.

Yu Xun lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look her in the eye. "You seldom call me A Xun."

Li didn't expect that he would be exposed here, and couldn't help but laugh, "Axun knows me very well. You guessed right, those dreams did happen in reality, but the person who died was me and not me, they were all my past lives."

In the previous life, he possessed a kind soul and could happily offer his hand even when asked to cut blood and eat meat.

"This matter is very complicated. I will explain it to Axun slowly later." Li lifted a strand of Yuxun's hair and twisted it around her fingertips, brushing Yuxun's cheek deliberately. "Don't worry, this kind of thing will never happen again in this life."

The itch on his face made Yu Xun instinctively want to avoid it, but he was unwilling to give up this rare opportunity for Li to tease him, so he could only endure the discomfort on his face and let Li do what he wanted. "Can I ask why it won't happen?"

"You can understand that their original plan was to target Qu Tangli, but my appearance interrupted everything." They planned everything and even predicted the location of Shanpo's reincarnation. What they didn't expect was that after her unexpected death, the evil soul would merge with the good soul.

After the evil soul and the good soul merge into one, the speed of absorbing divine power will be faster, and the strength will be closer to the ability of the fallen angel in the first life. The inner demon that has been bound by clan beliefs for thousands of years is no match for the fallen angel.

Hearing Li's words, Yu Xun murmured in a low voice, "I am too weak..."

"Hmm? Why did you bring this up?"

"I'm too weak to help you at all." During this period, he learned a little bit from Jin Lin, and also knew what Li had been facing. "I know you don't want to hear me say sorry, but I still feel that I have held you back."

Li rubbed Yu Xun's ears with a chuckle, "Ah Xun, how long has it been since you last practiced hard?"

Yu Xun pursed his lips and did not answer. He was busy fighting wars in his early years, and later he began to take care of state affairs. He indeed had not practiced for a long time.

"Most of the people who practice Qianwu are from the royal family. Have you ever thought about why your strength is higher than that of the royal family?" Li discovered the problem very early. Yu Xun was very talented in practice, but he just lacked guidance. "Maybe you don't even know how strong your talent is."

No matter how talented he is, how can he be better than the person in front of him? The smile on Yu Xun's lips was tinged with bitterness, "There is no shortage of geniuses in this world, aren't you one?"

"A genius needs a fool to set him off." Li pulled his cheek, interrupting the smile that was uglier than crying, "Ah Xun, are you willing to be my foil?"

"Yes." Yu Xun did not hesitate at all. He reached out and took Li's hand, and gave an almost pious kiss on the back of her hand.

"I'm a selfish person. I won't give away something I like even if it's ruined~"

"I am yours, always." Yu Xun hoped that Li would never let him go in this life. He didn't know since when, he had already willingly become the prey in her hands.

"Axun will listen to whatever I say?"

"Of course." Li's question made Yu Xun feel uncomfortable. He had always listened to her.

"Okay, then from now on, Axun will stay in the forbidden area to practice."

"What about you?" Yu Xun didn't expect Li was talking about this. He always felt that Li was going to send him away to do something again.

"I have to earn money to marry a husband."

As soon as Li finished speaking, she felt the hand around her waist tighten a little. Before she could say anything more teasing, she heard Yu Xun's gloomy tone, "Who do you want to marry, Wei Xianchen? Wei Shiliu? Shi Yaojue? Or the one called Meiying?"

Yu Xun spoke very naturally, and didn't feel at all that it was unreasonable for Li to say that she wanted to marry a husband.

"How about I marry them all?" Li looked at him inexplicably. Forget about Wei Xianchen and Meiying, after all, they were her subordinates. Wei Shiliu's words were understandable, but she hadn't seen Shi Yaojue for a long time, so how could they still be related?

"Okay." Yu Xun was stunned for a long time before he responded, "I'll write a letter to Yao Jue right now..."

Yu Xun said as he gently pushed Li who was sitting on his lap, indicating that he was going to stand up. Li hugged his neck in disbelief and pushed him back to his seat again, "You are kidding me, right? You are joking, right?"

The one who answered Li was Yu Xun, who looked serious but lonely. Li was speechless. She really trained a wolf into a dog.

"Yu Xun, Yu Xun, are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? Don't say you don't understand what I just said."

"I don't understand." Yu Xun turned his face away awkwardly. He didn't dare to understand, for fear that it was just his despicable wishful thinking.

Li immediately understood the meaning in his eyes, reached out and held up his face, and forced her to look him in the eye, "You are the majestic General Zhennan, why are you so inferior?"

Facing the deep pupils, Yu Xun smiled self-deprecatingly, "What's the use of being a general? After all, I can't protect General Yu, I can't protect my family, and I can't protect... the people I love."

Li was once again irritated by him and laughed, "In your eyes, am I someone who needs protection? Or in other words, how many people in this world do you think can protect me?"

No, no one has the ability to protect Li. She is so powerful that she can do whatever she wants without anyone else.