After deceiving the villain, I was forced to love him.

Chapter 182 She chose to leave

Even if she didn't say a word, as long as she was there, Wang Qingyan would sit with her all day without any problem. In this way, she and Baili Ce lived in harmony for more than a month.

Until the Great Cold Day, the year-end banquet, when the cold reaches its extreme.

After doing everything he could to persuade Wang Qingyan to wait for him on the west city tower, Baili Ce packed his things and headed straight for the east of the city, deliberately choosing sparsely populated roads.

"Baili Ce, isn't Wang Qingyan with you?" Sensing the approaching aura of the Heavenly Dao, the Ancestral Gu panicked a little.

Without saying a word, Bai Li Ce continued on his way and soon arrived at the wall that had been frozen solid.

But she didn't go up.

Instead, they went around to the east of the city and found a brick with a missing triangle. Following the direction indicated by the longer corner, they walked until they reached a row of low, old houses.

"Baili Ce! He's nearby, let's go!"

"Get back to Wang Qingyan's side! Why are you still going forward...?"

"Any later and it will be... wait, this aura seems to be... where are you?!"

"Why is the aura of the Heavenly Dao getting closer and closer?"

"Baili Ce! Are you even listening to me? You...you don't really intend to hand me over to the Heavenly Dao, do you...?"

Finding a door bathed in soft light, Baili Ce pushed it open without hesitation!

In an instant, the Ancestral Gu immediately sensed the Heavenly Dao within it, and cried out, "You're insane!"

"Shut up!" Baili Ce interrupted the ancestral Gu in his mind, which was so anxious it seemed like it wanted to hang itself, and closed the door and went inside.

In the vast white fog, with each step she took, her connection with the Ancestral Gu weakened...

Before long, the power of the ancestral Gu in his body began to disappear little by little, and the accompanying feeling of soul separation spread from the soles of his feet all the way to the top of his head.

Until she could no longer sense the presence of the Ancestral Gu.

Although this chicken can attach its thoughts to people or animals, it cannot directly see the outside world or hear outside sounds.

The reason He can distinguish who is who and whether the Heavenly Dao exists is entirely due to His high sensitivity to various auras and the host's own will.

If the host is unwilling, He cannot even communicate with the host.

Therefore, the Ancestral Gu had no idea that the Heavenly Dao had left something for her that day.

When Baili Ce looked out the window, he saw more than just snow.

What sent chills down her spine were those terrifying futures.

"You actually dared to come?" In this labyrinthine world, the Heavenly Dao still has not appeared.

Hearing the deep, aged, and arrogant voice, Baili Ce, who was dizzy from being shaken by the countless gates, sat down on the spot.

"The Heavenly Dao has made it so clear, how could I not come?"

Those apocalyptic scenes not only closely matched her dreams from her time in the Xianbei, but also filled in many unclear details.

Baili Ming, Lu Jian, He Yao, and others who had opposed Wang Qingyan...

Their fates were more than ten times worse than those of the seventeen she had personally killed.

The most ridiculous thing is that after struggling for so long, she was eventually assimilated by Wang Qingyan!

From beginning to end, she acted like an idiot.

"No regrets?" Although Baili Ce's body originally belonged to Him, seeing how readily she handed it over, the Heavenly Dao hesitated.

"As long as the Lord of Heaven keeps his promise, I will never regret it, even if it means dying nine times."

"Don't worry, since you dared to come, I will definitely keep my promise to you."

He is the Heavenly Way of this world, and a soul from another world is not under His jurisdiction. Sending her back to her original world is merely going with the flow.

Once He has torn Wang Qingyan to pieces and reduced his bones to ashes, everything will return to normal.

"Then let's begin. The process cannot be interrupted, and it may be a little uncomfortable."

"But you just need to remember that from now on, everything here has nothing to do with you."

"Then... Lu Jian, Baili Ming, and those human Gu?"

"Those who are still alive will live well."

"Okay," Bai Li Ce said calmly, closing his eyes.

As her five senses diminished, her breathing and heartbeat slowed down, and she gradually lost all sound in her world.

Then, she fell into darkness.

She vaguely seemed to "see" Wang Qingyan coming, and following the faint fragrance in the snow, she found her horse under the city wall on the east side of the city.

Wang Qingyan's first reaction was that Baili Ce had escaped again.

But after inspecting the scene, he changed his mind.

The icicles hanging under the city gate were intact; if someone had opened the gate, a part of them would have broken off.

The city wall is so high and so slippery that it would be impossible to climb over it without using something like a grappling hook or rope, but there are no scratches or holes on the wall.

Most importantly, all the Gu guards he had deployed in the east of the city had disappeared.

That means...

Find the marker along the base of the city wall, and follow its direction through the long, dark alleyway...

At the end of the mountainside lay desolate graves.

"Heh," Wang Qingyan chuckled softly.

He stepped in, transforming into a demon.

......

The moment her soul completely left her body, Baili Ce seemed to have truly returned to her era.

An ordinary life, an ordinary job, a life that can be seen from the beginning, and a self without any special characteristics.

So, why does she want to go back?

Perhaps it was because she had never seen anyone starve to death at her age.

Perhaps it's because eating, drinking, having fun, socializing, and going out are all so convenient.

Perhaps it's because typhoid fever isn't a life-threatening illness.

or......

It is because only "them" can truly alleviate poverty.

Although there were many bad aspects to that era.

But for the vast majority of people here, and for thousands of years of history, it is no exaggeration to say that her hometown is a fairyland.

She disliked wearing sky blue and jade white clothes.

I'm fed up with the days of weighing pros and cons and being overly cautious.

I loathe those inexplicable feelings of responsibility and guilt, and I can't bring myself to disregard human life.

It's bad but not completely bad, and good but not very good either.

She often thought that she wished she had a heart full of evil.

Or, if all else fails, obediently relying on Wang Qingyan wouldn't be so bad...

But the reality is, she's neither bad nor good enough.

So, she chose to leave.

As the Heavenly Dao gradually entered his body, Baili Ce, in his soul state, experienced excruciating pain.

Later, she couldn't bear it any longer and tried to escape, only to find herself trapped in a space the size of an urn... cramped, suffocating, and unsettling to the point of madness.

This isn't just a little uncomfortable; it's downright torture.

And even though she's left this body, why is she still in pain?

It's unfair, it's really unfair!

"return!"

"Baili Ce, come back here right now!"

"If you dare leave, I'll kill them all!"

Wang Qingyan's rage interrupted Baili Ce's thoughts. Under the barrage of incredibly powerful strikes, she not only felt so much pain that her soul was almost transparent, but she also felt dizzy and nauseous.

Wait, can the soul... also feel nauseous?

"No......"

"No......"

"still none!"

"Why is it still not there! She couldn't have escaped... she couldn't have escaped..."

"Yes! I must have missed something, I must have missed something! She wouldn't dare run away! She wouldn't dare..."

They dug up graves again and again, turning over countless bones...

Wang Qingyan only slowly stopped when the torrential snow covered the messy, desolate graves again.

With his eyes closed, relying on the primordial energy coursing through his body, he suddenly felt the presence of the Evil Heavenly Dao again.

So much so that he didn't resist when the sharp ice spikes pierced his body.

If the Heavenly Dao couldn't manifest before because Baili Ce was suppressing it, does that mean it has already...?

He forcefully shattered the ice spikes, breaking through the celestial barrier, and turned to ask, "Is she still there?"