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

Chapter 179 The Heavenly Dao Has Arrived

Even though Wang Qingyan was very satisfied, Seventeen's death did not change his decision in any way.

Just as Baili Ce had anticipated before making her choice, no matter what she said or did, she couldn't completely avoid the blades hidden behind her choice.

All she could do was to minimize the casualties she could foresee, within her capabilities.

And she calmly accepted the life of being inseparable from Wang Qingyan, spending every day with him.

"Don't flip through it so fast, I haven't finished reading it yet."

Wang Qingyan placed one hand on her waist and used the other to turn the page she had just turned back to, completely disregarding the fact that he had interrupted her three times while she was reading a ghost story of less than eight hundred words.

"Aren't you bored?"

After reading the last line word by word, Wang Qingyan turned the page. "My life used to be much more boring than this."

Who cares about you?

“…” I took a deep breath and simply closed the book.

"Why don't you just ask what you want to ask?"

Five days! A full five days!

It's so agonizing.

Seeing that she had gripped the edge of the book tightly just before speaking, he knew that Baili Ce actually disliked the current state of affairs. "Is she really that impatient?"

Wang Qingyan's eyes were filled with tenderness and affection, but beneath that sweetness lay sharp teeth, gleaming in the sunlight.

"Can you see the snow outside?"

"Um"

"Is it big?"

"..."

"If there's nothing else, go outside and calm down."

"..." The hand around her waist tightened suddenly.

Bai Li Ce immediately mimicked his tone, "You're angry already? So petty?"

He silently let go of her hand, got up and sat opposite her. Since she was serious, he didn't need to hold back anymore.

"If I ask you directly, I'm afraid it will scare you."

"Would you refrain from asking because I'm afraid?"

"No," without the slightest hesitation.

Bai Lize poured him a cup of hot tea, and said frankly, "That's right."

Instead of racking my brains trying to guess what he wants to do, I'd rather let him "know" what I want to do.

"But you shouldn't be afraid."

"..." Bai Li Ce's hand, which was holding the teacup, trembled slightly.

Is this really something a human being could say?

Whether you're scared or not is not your problem.

"Please look for your own problems instead of always blaming me."

Blowing on the steam rising from the cup, Wang Qingyan didn't think there was anything wrong with him.

On the contrary, she had too many concerns: "Since you love me, you shouldn't be afraid of me."

"Okay, okay, I was wrong." He knows when to stop and admits his mistake, but he's just going through the motions.

And then they started to subtly change the subject, saying, "But you can't scare me half to death every time, I..."

Under Leng Ran's gaze, Bai Li Ce obediently shut up.

"A-Zhu"

Looking at her very seriously, Wang Qingyan's words were both a warning and an expectation: "If you play the same trick too many times, I'll find it hard to trust you."

Bai Li Ce pursed his lips, unable to utter a single curse word.

But he muttered to himself, "It's not like you ever trusted me..."

“…” Wang Qingyan remained silent, seemingly not intending to learn anything from her.

But his eyes were indeed filled with... something we might call a thirst for knowledge.

Note: It is known that Baili Ce possesses the power to temporarily resist divine punishment. The question asks for how to control this power.

"Want to know what gift I'll give you?" After a moment of stalemate, Baili Ce, prioritizing his own safety, took the initiative to ease the tension.

"Let me make this clear first, this was prepared for you for the Chinese New Year. If you look at it now, it won't be available during the New Year."

Setting down his cup, Wang Qingyan's eyes finally lit up a little. "We must give gifts now, and we must also give gifts for the New Year."

If it weren't for that last sentence, she probably would have thought he was being coquettish.

"If I'm not satisfied, I'll kill all the human Gu and make a new batch!"

“You…you…” He trembled with anger and cold.

Wang Qingyan feigned confusion and gave a nasal sound, "Oh? You're angry again~"

"Did I say I wouldn't kill them? No, I didn't."

"..." Bai Li Ce lifted the table with both hands, looking as if he was about to overturn it.

Seeing her face turn green, Wang Qingyan laughed gleefully, "Hahaha..."

As she laughed, a ruthless glint appeared in her eyes. "My dear Ah Zhu, how could you forget my heart..."

"But it's black."

......

After his defeat, Baili Ce was so angry that he went to take a nap.

Wang Qingyan didn't really want to be with her every single hour of the day. Once Baili Ce fell asleep, he would go out.

Having barely recovered but suffering a severe blow, the Ancestral Gu began to scream again, seemingly out of its mind.

"Baili Ce, wake up!"

"Stop sleeping! If you keep sleeping, you'll never wake up again... Baili Ce... Baili Ce..."

"You fucking wake up right now!!"

bass!

Awakened from a dream by the curse of the ancestral Gu, the "shadow" that had climbed onto the bed suddenly retreated, disappearing in an instant into the pattering snow outside the window.

I looked outside, drenched in cold sweat...

It turned out that Wang Qingyan hadn't closed the window properly to allow for ventilation.

"Phew..." The ancestral Gu in his mind let out a long sigh of relief, both weak and relieved.

"It's alright, go close the window."

Will this work?

Despite his doubts about physical methods to ward off ghosts, Baili Ce still got up to close the windows, moved the stove from the inner room to the outside, and then went back to bed to pretend to sleep.

Before long, she saw a half-dead, flickering "light" in her mind.

"Was that what just happened?" She hadn't dared to ask, but the Heavenly Dao, which had frightened the Ancestral Gu even more than she had been frightened by Wang Qingyan, had actually come.

"Yes, He has been eyeing your body for a long time."

"how long?"

"About ten years or so."

Good heavens, does that mean they've been eyeing her since the moment she transmigrated here?

"What will I do if I succeed?"

"Zhou Tianben's body was also possessed in his early years, and his biggest problem is that his health is extremely poor."

"In other words, if He succeeds, I will too..."

"Not at all."

"The others survived because they were not suitable to be vessels for the Dao of Heaven."

"After the Heavenly Dao enters, it will naturally be rejected in various ways, causing some problems for the host. But it is precisely because of this that it is unable to eliminate the host."

“And your body is the most suitable vessel for Him. If I’m not mistaken, He must have spent a long time choosing it.”

"In other words, this body was prepared for me by the Heavenly Dao from the very beginning?"

This explains why, when she transmigrated, the original owner of this body had been dead for three days but hadn't started to rot or stink.

It must be the special nature of the Heavenly Dao's vessel that allows this body to remain incorrupt for such a short time.

As for why the Heavenly Dao failed to possess her for three days and was "taken advantage of" by her, that remains to be verified.

"If He had actually succeeded, your consciousness and soul would have completely disappeared, and I would have been completely absorbed and contained by Him."

That was close! I almost gave it away for free!

However… looking thoughtful, she said, “In that case…”

She suddenly had a very mature idea.

"Don't even think about it!" Ancestral Gu suddenly became energetic.

He stubbornly refused to admit it, saying, "What did I think?!"

"If you hand me over directly to the Heavenly Dao, you'll die even faster."

"If we don't deliver it, can you guarantee my safety? Or are we certain we can kill Wang Qingyan?"

"cannot"

“Real food”

"......"silence.

He tried to explain, "My power is already very weak, you can't expect me to beat Him up."

"Then what is His reason for merging with you?"

"Do you remember me telling you that I was born to suppress all abnormal existences?"

"Remember"

Clearly, Wang Qingyan is the one who is "abnormal".

Since the power of the Heavenly Dao is far inferior to that of Wang Qingyan, it naturally needs the Ancestral Gu to strengthen itself and return to the altar where it controls the fate of all living beings.