Mr. CEO Wants to Renew Our Contract-Chapter 1082: With You Always (227)

"Rong Xiuxiu is just a pawn in our hands; she thinks the Second Master really likes her. I believe Rong Fei will contact her sooner or later. I asked you to escort her out of the Demon World. Where did you take her?"

"She and her personal maid were taken away by the Second Master’s people."

"Excellent. Not a word of this should be leaked."

"Yes."

Gu Lili’s gaze was icy. Rong Xiuxiu deliberately approached Jun Yu, thinking Jun Yu had some genuine affection for her. Little did she know it was Jun Yu who gave her the opportunity to approach him.

So naive, thinking she could use Jun Yu, not realizing she’s walking closer to the edge of a cliff, destined to fall herself.

"You have been lurking in the Demon World for years, making significant contributions for our Bashen Sect. Take this time to relax and rest here. I will give you new tasks when they come."

"Understood."

Ah Luo dared not ask about Long Yubei, but he understood in his heart. Seeing that the Master did not say anything else, he went to attend to his duties.

Gu Lili looked at Gu Xichen, "It’s not safe lately. Do you want to stay here or return to the mortal world? If you return, you will have to stay by my side until the danger subsides."

"I’ll stay with you."

Gu Lili took him back to Qin Garden. The barrier in the bedroom was lifted. She sat up from the bed, looked at Long Yubei beside her, wrapped her arms around his shoulders, and couldn’t help but burst into tears.

Gu Xichen sensed her distress and softly spoke while sitting at the bedside, "Lili..."

Gu Lili’s hand caressed Long Yubei’s cold face,

"He fell into Nila Lake."

Gu Xichen’s eyebrows furrowed, "What kind of place is Nila Lake?"

She lowered her head, her fingers tracing Long Yubei’s brow bone, "It’s a place where no one who falls in can come out..."

"What?!" Gu Xichen exclaimed in shock, "Then Long Yubei, he..."

"He went there for me. Despite my repeated warnings, he wouldn’t listen and went. I would rather be taken away by Rong Fei’s Illusion Realm than see him fall into Nila Lake."

"It’s all because of us," Gu Xichen said, full of guilt. "If it weren’t for saving us, you wouldn’t have gone, and he wouldn’t have fallen in."

"Don’t say that. Saving you all was imperative. Even without you, if it were just Ah Wun, I would still go to save like that."

"What kind of mystery lies within that Nila Lake that people can’t come out once they fall in?"

"Four hundred thousand years ago, the Demon World’s progenitor, Rong Ye, was sealed and suppressed at the bottom of the lake by the Heavenly World’s progenitor, Jun Hao. Nila Lake is a place no one dares to approach. People from both the Demon World and Heavenly World dare not go near it. There were once people who, out of curiosity, wanted to see the situation between Jun Hao and Rong Ye. But those who went in never came out alive. Even though none lived to come out, the names of those people still glow in the Book of Life and Death. It’s said they died, but their names in the Book of Life and Death still glow. They’re said to be alive, yet they never emerge."

Gu Xichen was astonished, "A place like that exists?"

"Normally, no one goes there. Actually, I dreamed of Beibei falling in before, but we never thought we’d go there. It was just a dream without cause or consequence, no clue at all. Realizing I needed to save you all by the side of Nila Lake, I warned him multiple times not to go. It seems this is fate. When Heaven wants you to escape, you can change it; when it doesn’t, no matter how you try, you can’t."