The world instantly returned to tranquility. Shu Yao tidied his clothes and stumbled towards Shu Yue.
Although the snake demon had disappeared, he found that the killing aura on Shu Yue still hadn't dissipated. There were still faint black mists swirling around him.
His long and narrow eyes were both charming and bone-chillingly cold, and there was still that intimidating crimson within.
"Shu Yue, what's wrong with you?" He tried to shake Shu Yue, but for a moment, he didn't dare to touch this man full of killing aura casually.
But when he did touch him, he felt that Shu Yue's whole body was stiff. The black veins on his neck made his pale face look even more terrifying.
Shu Yue just slowly turned his head and stared at Shu Yao expressionlessly for a while. The tenderness in his eyes was gone, and instead, it was so cold as ice.
Suddenly, his charming red lips slightly parted. The coldness in his eyes was so strange to Shu Yao that he faintly uttered three words: "Who are you?"
These three so unfamiliar words made Shu Yao's head buzz instantly. He grabbed Shu Yue's broad shoulders, his voice trembling slightly, but still thinking it was a dream: "I'm Shu Yao. I'm, I'm your father. Don't you remember me?"
In full of confusion, he only saw Shu Yue shaking his head. In those cold eyes, there was no longer the dependence and warmth towards him.
His heart felt as if it was hanging in the air. He kept shaking Shu Yue, trying to wake him up: "Shu Yue, look at me. I'm Shu Yao, your father."
Staring intently at this peerlessly handsome face, Shu Yue's blood-red eyes suddenly returned to their original jet-blackness.
The killing aura faded away, and he seemed to have returned to his former gentle and jade-like self, only lacking a bit of high-spiritedness.
Their eyes met. Finally, in the coldness of those eyes, Shu Yao saw a familiar softness.
"Dad, Dad?" Shu Yue hesitated and uttered two words, looking a bit innocent and a bit confused.
The worry in his heart instantly dissipated. Shu Yao smiled and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, it's me. I'm your father."
Shu Yue looked around blankly, looking as innocent as a child, with a vacant and helpless look in his eyes: "I, what's wrong with me? Why am I here?"
Noticing that Shu Yue had forgotten everything that had just happened, Shu Yao suppressed his doubts and just tried his best to comfort him: "It's okay. Don't think so much. Let's go home."
"Okay, sure." Shu Yue was extremely obedient, losing his usual amorous and playful look. His calm and submissive manner instead made Shu Yao even more uneasy.
What on earth was going on? Why did he suddenly become like this after the evil qi was released?
It wasn't like this in the past...
Shu Yao took Shu Yue to the tree house. He was glad that they were at home. Otherwise, if this had happened in the Kunshan School and Shu Yue was in this state, he really didn't know what to do.
"Shu Yue, you have a good rest first. I'll go and get you something to eat." After helping Shu Yue onto the couch, he was about to leave with a flick of his sleeve.
Suddenly, his long sleeve was grabbed. He turned around and just saw Shu Yue's innocent and pure gaze.
"Dad, don't leave. Stay with me..." Such a dependent and aggrieved look made Shu Yao seem to see the child-like Shu Yue.
He doted on him with a smile, reached out and stroked Shu Yue's hair, and said softly: "Don't worry. I won't leave. I won't leave you."
"Are you really not leaving?"
"Of course. I'm just going to get you something to eat. You just stay here at ease. I'll be back soon."
After trying his best to comfort Shu Yue, Shu Yao looked back step by step. Although he was worried, he still went to get something to eat for Shu Yue.
After closing the door, he let out a deep sigh. In his heart, there was nothing but heaviness and helpless worry.
"What's wrong with Shu Yue?" A very cold voice came from behind, like a plucked string piercing through Shu Yao's heart.
Shu Yao was so startled that his body trembled violently. He turned around and saw a beautiful woman in a snow-white dress, like a celestial being descending to the mortal world.
Her peerless beauty and graceful figure were truly like a jade-like posture, a slender waist, and a heavenly beauty. She swayed with lotus steps and seemed to be a fairy who had fallen to the mortal world.
Her face was like a peach blossom, and her beauty was like a lotus emerging from the water. Her elegant eyebrows always showed an unchanging stubbornness and pride.
"What are you doing here?" Shu Yao had never had a good attitude towards this fox demon. His tone and eyes were full of hostility towards Liuli.
Liuli was as calm as water. When she lowered her eyes and smiled faintly, she was still extremely cold and indifferent, as if nothing in the world was worth her showing a happy face: "Shu Yao, you don't have to be so hostile to me. I'm just worried about Shu Yue and want to come and see him."
"He doesn't need you to see him. You can leave."
"Shu Yao, on what grounds do you drive me away?" Liuli's attitude suddenly turned cold. Her extremely beautiful face was not only cold to the bone but also had a cold and gloomy look in her eyes.
Shu Yao smiled casually, a smile that could make all the flowers pale in comparison: "This is my home. Do you think I have the right to drive you away?"
"I just want to come and see Shu Yue. Why do you have to be so aggressive?"
"Because I don't want Shu Yue to be hurt by anyone."
Although his tone was calm, it was firm and powerful, making Liuli unable to ignore the firmness and pride in his eyes.
Liuli stared at him for a moment, then curled her lips, with an indescribable sarcasm and coldness: "Shu Yao, I just want to visit him, but you keep blocking me so desperately. Could it be that,"
Her eyes flashed with a bit of insidiousness and cold charm. Her two crescent eyebrows were slightly raised, with a touch of contempt: "You've fallen in love with him, so you don't allow any woman to get close to him?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Shu Yue is my child. How could I..."
"Nobody can say for sure about feelings. Not to mention that we are demons, even mortals can be trapped by love," she stared deeply at Shu Yao. Noticing the panic that flashed across his face, she smiled slightly: "Moreover, he is your child and the only person you can rely on in this mortal world. As a tree demon who has been cultivating for many years and is lonely, how could you just pass through this mortal world so calmly?"
These casual words seemed extremely absurd, but they just hit Shu Yao's most fatal weakness.
That night, they were lingering and forgetting all the troubles in the world, just wanting to be one with each other.
He still clearly remembered the rough and domineering actions of the owner of that hot body, as well as those charming "I'm sorry"s lingering in his ears.
There was no denying that his memory was full of Shu Yue!
"Judging from your appearance, did I hit the nail on the head?" Liuli let out a charming laugh, and the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were raised towards Shu Yao with a bit of cold sarcasm: "But even so, you two can't be together. Not to mention that you are a demon, you are both men. If you are together, you will surely be struck by lightning from the sky and despised by the world!"
Every word of hers was like a poisonous needle piercing through Shu Yao's heart. The piercing pain made him unable to speak.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the undisguised viciousness and venom in those alluring eyes!
He proudly raised his head, not showing any weakness to the powerful Liuli. His eyes were indifferent, but his voice was firm and powerful, proud and disdainful: "Even so, it's not your place to judge. You have no right to comment on how Shu Yue and I are."