《Forbidden Desire》2《Living by Desire》
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Plot Within a Plot
1、【Desperate Laughter】
The walls of the Shen residence’s secret chamber shook violently, fine dust raining down from the ceiling, unable to muffle Shen Yanzhi’s near-mad laughter. Gripping the blood jade marrow swirling with purple-black evil energy, the tip of his ritual blade already pressed against the core of the marrow—the lifeline projected by the Sun’s soul.
“Sun! Look! This is your pathetic maternal love!” Shen Yanzhi roared. His modern body was covered in fine blood traces from overexpending spiritual power. “For the sake of seeing that dead little bastard one last time, you actually withdrew all your spiritual power? Now, shatter together with this stone!”
Lu Yuan knelt beside the altar. The earlier palm strike had shattered his ribs. He gasped heavily, yet his eyes remained fixed on Shen Yanzhi. He did not move, nor did he show the slightest panic. Only his dark-purple eyes revealed a cold detachment that saw through life and death.
“Shen Yanzhi, did you really think… Sister would fall into the same pit you once did?” Lu Yuan wiped the blood from his lips, his tone mocking.
Shen Yanzhi’s smile froze instantly.
He looked down at the blood jade marrow in his hand. The faint glow representing the Sun’s soul suddenly transformed into a ferocious black serpent, tightly coiling around his wrist.
“What… what is this!”
2、【Blackened Motherhood】
“This is what you owe that child, Shen Yanzhi.”
The Sun’s icy, emotionless voice echoed in the void.
Having half-stepped into the illusion, the Sun slowly raised her head. Her sclera had been replaced by dense ink-black, and the aura she emitted was no longer holy spiritual light, but the purest, most accumulated malice of a century.
She had never intended to “save” the child. She knew clearly that the moment Shen Yanzhi crushed the child hundreds of years ago, it had become the strongest curse within this fateful cycle.
“Did you think I would beg you just to see him once?” The Sun stepped out of the illusion. With each step, the stone slabs beneath her feet turned to dust. “I entered to personally draw out his resentment and pour it into your soul.”
The Sun reached out and grasped the air. The blood jade marrow exploded violently!
Countless sharp fragments, trailing dark-red streams of light, pierced deeply into Shen Yanzhi’s chest and limbs. Shen Yanzhi let out a scream that did not sound human. His ancient body began to rot and blacken rapidly, and the “wealth and fortune” that once belonged to him was being frantically drained away.
“Ah—! No! My immortality! My Shen residence!”
The Sun watched coldly as he slowly rotted, wailing in agony, and said to him, “Shen Yanzhi, your body will rot away bit by bit, and then you will descend to hell to suffer endless punishment!”
3、【Spiritual Power Extraction】
To completely sever Shen Yanzhi’s final connection to the ancient timeline, the Sun had to drain his remaining life essence in reality. The moment consciousness returned to the present, the collapsing secret chamber in ancient times seemed to pause in time, all destruction hanging in suspense.
The Sun flipped over and pinned Lu Yuan onto the apartment bed, her eyes burning with frenzied desire.
“Lu Yuan… once more. Help me… offer him up completely!”
Before getting to the main act, the Sun warmed up for the ritual. Her soft body slid downward, black hair cascading like a waterfall between Lu Yuan’s legs. Her slender fingers grasped the already throbbing, iron-hard shaft, and her tongue, carrying a hint of coolness, slowly licked across the sensitive tip.