Chapter 15

Ye Lixiao glanced sideways at Xing Luo.
At this moment, she was still holding onto his arm, looking up at him with an innocent, obedient expression.
The man narrowed his eyes dangerously. Even if she pretended to be obedient now, it would be useless. Ye Lixiao’s thin lips parted slightly as he asked, “You are the woman I love most?”
“…” Xing Luo swallowed nervously. She released Ye Lixiao’s arm and quickly explained, trying to cover herself: “Your Highness, she misheard. What I meant was. I am the woman who loves you most!”
Now it became clear that it was her expressing unilateral affection for Ye Lixiao!
“Is that so?” he murmured, lowering his gaze to study her.
He knew that Cheng Xinyan would never dare lie to him. In fact, no one could lie to the Demon King, except for that person.
It was highly unlikely that Cheng Xinyan had misheard. “Most loved” and “loves most”, the words might be the same, but their meanings were worlds apart. How could she have possibly misheard?
That meant Xing Luo was trying to talk her way out!
If anyone else dared to brazenly lie to him like this, he might have ended their life on the spot.
But this little cat.
Why was even her act of arguing so similar to that person?
“Your Highness, of course what I said is true~ You are so handsome and elegant, how could there be any woman who doesn’t like you.” Xing Luo cooed, full of flattery. Her cultivation was too low now; any minor figure could crush her with ease. She certainly could not afford to anger Ye Lixiao, he was currently her benefactor!
Ye Lixiao studied her for a long while, unable to tell if her words were true or false. He had already realized that this little creature was nothing like a newborn kitten, far too clever.
A newly shaped kitten should be innocent, not cunning like Xing Luo.
And she wasn’t afraid of him.
There were just too many anomalies about her.
Ye Lixiao suppressed the emotions in his eyes. “I keep you by my side and indulge you for a reason. But you need to understand one thing: I am not a master with a good temper.”
The implication was clear, Xing Luo needed to mind her behavior. This time he wouldn’t make an issue of it, but it wouldn’t happen again.
“Your Highness, I understand, I’ll be good.” Xing Luo replied obediently.
“Return,” Ye Lixiao said coldly, and turned back to his study.
Afterwards, Xing Luo returned to her residence, which was Ye Lixiao’s bedchamber.
Once back, she noticed many women’s clothes and personal items on the table, presumably prepared for her.
After changing into female attire, Xing Luo opened the white porcelain bottle Ye Lixiao had given her. Inside were pills that could permanently and rapidly increase cultivation. For those below level twenty, one pill could increase a level.
In her previous life, Xing Luo’s cultivation had already reached level ninety-nine. If she had broken through to level one hundred, she could have obtained immortality, but she had failed.
Ye Lixiao’s cultivation now was level ninety-nine, making him an unparalleled existence in the world. Xing Luo, having just been reborn, was at the lowest zero level!
Restoring her past cultivation would take who knew how long.
Xing Luo counted the pills, there were exactly twenty. Taking them all at once would bring her to level twenty. She swallowed every pill in one go.
Then she sat down and meditated, waiting for the pills to take effect.
After an unknown amount of time, her cultivation successfully rose to level twenty. She felt strength surging through her body, and she could hardly wait to show her prowess.
Xing Luo condensed energy at her fingertips, drew a symbol in the air, and released it.
“Boom!” The table in front of her shattered instantly.
At the same time, at the entrance of the bedchamber.
Xing Luo, focused entirely on her cultivation, didn’t notice Ye Lixiao already standing at the doorway.
His expression was inscrutable.
The symbol she had just used. was one only that person would employ.