No, I can’t let this Heart Demon continue causing trouble!
Lu Qiancha decided to initiate Heart Demon Possession herself!
She focused her mind and regained control over her body.
The pink-haired ball of fluff in her Sea of Consciousness blinked her pink eyes in surprise, tilting her head slightly, but soon relaxed — had eaten what needed eating, hugged what needed hugging, even had intimate contact with the mother she most longed to see… this “outing” was more than worth it.
In reality, Lu Qiancha opened her eyes again. The icy blue light in her gaze flashed and vanished.
Her body stirred, agile like a lively fish, suddenly breaking free from Xun Xue’s warm yet suffocating embrace.
“Gantang, you go back first. I… have some things to discuss alone with Mother.”
Her voice carried a faint stiffness from the recent switch, striving to maintain her usual calm.
“Oh… alright, Senior Brother!”
Gantang, keenly sensing the change in atmosphere, obediently responded, a hint of curiosity and reluctance in her tone as she left.
Back inside her own little room, the door closed softly.
Lu Qiancha turned around, her clear yet serious gaze fixed directly on Xun Xue. “Mother, can the Bloodline Link just now be released?”
“Of course it can…”
Xun Xue nodded, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the lingering warmth of her daughter’s presence in her palm.
A trace of understanding flickered in her icy blue eyes — that little daughter of hers, who brought both joy and worry, was truly just a fleeting moment.
“However, after remove, there will still remain some subtle ‘Imprints’,” Xun Xue emphasized.
“Then please remove it for me… this feeling of being bound is really unbearable…”
Lu Qiancha’s tone was firm, with a barely perceptible hint of earnest pleading.
“Hmm… but, Xiaoqiancha, don’t you want to explain… that ‘you’ from just now, what was that about?”
Xun Xue nodded, not refusing. Her beautiful eyes shifted slightly, knuckles lightly tapping the table, gaze sharp as ever.
Lu Qiancha closed her eyes helplessly, conflicted within.
Unable to resist Xun Xue’s stare, she revealed everything — the birth of the Heart Demon, lending out her body leading to that ‘social death’ scene, and the entire Bloodline Link caused by the Heart Demon.
“You mean…” Xun Xue listened intently, her eyes shimmering with insight as she thoughtfully summarized, “That little one was essentially your… Heart Demon?”
“Yes, at least that’s how she referred to herself.”
Lu Qiancha nodded solemnly.
“Interesting…” Xun Xue tapped the table lightly with her fingertips, lost in memories. “In my travels across the four seas long ago, I once heard of theories about Heart Demons…”
She looked at Lu Qiancha, voice carrying the weight of worldly wisdom:
“So-called ‘Heart Demons’ aren’t necessarily karmic evil toxins. They might more likely be another ‘possibility’ — a path erased or unchosen among endless forks of destiny for cultivators.”
She paused, voice growing heavier, “And ‘falling into demonhood’ isn’t degeneration. It’s actually another form of ‘attainment’! It means fully accepting that utterly different possibility, stepping onto a radically divergent… ‘Daotu’!”
Lu Qiancha’s pupils constricted slightly as she grasped it instantly.
A Heart Demon could be considered another self from a parallel universe.
That pink, soft, innocent, clingy Cha Bao… was actually a real “possibility” that once existed?!
Except… that possibility was far too different from herself! Lu Qiancha’s inner self facepalmed madly.
After speaking, Xun Xue reined in her spirit, delicate fingers lightly plucking the soft paw Lu Qiancha had placed on the table.
A frost-white fairy blade condensed to perfection silently extended from her fingertip!
“Endure it a bit.”
“Ching—!”
A faint, elusive clear chime sounded, like a broken string.
Lu Qiancha felt the invisible yet heavy shackles inside her snap in response. The suffocating feeling that had haunted her like a tide quickly receded.
Finally… free.
The tightly coiled tail behind her instinctively wagged a few comfortable times.
Relaxed, Lu Qiancha immediately recalled Xun Xue’s earlier warning and asked, “Mother, you mentioned… the remaining ‘slight Imprints’?”
She had always felt those two words “slight Imprints” carried… a heavy weight.
“Well…”
Xun Xue slyly blinked, a mischievous smile with a hint of devilish charm curling on her lips. “Allow me to… tease you a little first.”
Her gaze swept over Lu Qiancha’s alert wolf ears. “Let’s talk about… a more important matter.”
Leaning forward slightly, icy blue eyes brewing a scrutinizing glint, she said, “For example—why did you willingly lower your mental defenses, letting an unknown ‘Heart Demon’… control your body?”
“Um… well…”
Lu Qiancha’s eyes darted nervously everywhere except meeting Xun Xue’s gaze. Her fluffy tail swayed erratically behind her.
She simply couldn’t think of a proper reason. She certainly couldn’t say that she’d been deceived by the other’s appearance and had softened her heart to agree…
“…Silly daughter.”
Xun Xue looked at that “I’m doomed, I’ve been seen through” expression, sighing helplessly yet tenderly.
Suddenly, she reached out with a hand filled with both frustration and affection, cupping Lu Qiancha’s soft, plump cheeks like kneading dough.
“Promise Mother,” she said gravely and solemnly, “never again take such dangerous risks! Understand?”
“Mm mm… the pig fell over! Stop squishing!”
Lu Qiancha fiercely used her paws to protect her face, muffledly protesting.
“All right, I believe you.”
Xun Xue retreated, her expression turning serious again. “Then… how do you plan to deal with this ‘Heart Demon’?”
“Deal with it?”
Lu Qiancha finally relaxed, rubbing her reddened cheeks, lost in thought.
The simplest, most brutal method would be to slay the Heart Demon… but she probably couldn’t defeat it. Plus, annihilating a Heart Demon might destabilize her mind and cloud her future.
The second method would be to eliminate the root cause — simply put, killing or forgetting all people or things related to the Heart Demon so it naturally ceases to exist.
Lu Qiancha rejected this outright. To exterminate a Heart Demon by treating lives lightly was worse than letting the Heart Demon replace her.
After much contemplation, Lu Qiancha said, “For now… I’ll put it aside. It can’t threaten me currently.”
“Wise choice.”
Xun Xue nodded in agreement.
The topic paused. The mischievous smile returned to Xun Xue’s lips. She lightly rose and paced to Lu Qiancha’s side, leaning in slightly.
“Oh~ right,” her voice dripped with sweet triumph, “about that… little ‘side effect’ remaining after removal.”
“?”
Lu Qiancha tilted her face in confusion, guard lowering slightly. Was Xun Xue finally going to clarify?
“Want to know?”
Xun Xue’s fingertips gently curled a strand of Lu Qiancha’s soft hair. “Now… I can tell you.”
Her smile was like a wolf eyeing its prey.
Lu Qiancha felt an inexplicable chill run down her spine watching that smile. Before she could even process the warning—
Whoosh.
A large hand, carrying a cool scent, suddenly pressed on her head.
Not a stroke, but a precise grasp on her left blue pointed ear, trembling slightly from nervousness.
Buzz—!
Like pressing a secret switch deep in her soul.
Lu Qiancha’s mind went blank. An indescribable… ultimate peace and comfort, like a hot spring under a winter sun, gently and irresistibly enveloped her whole body.
Every cell greedily drank in this sudden calm.
“Good~ good~”
Xun Xue whispered with a knowing smile, her other hand’s fingertips effortlessly lifting and gently scratching under Lu Qiancha’s chin—like soothing a beloved cat.
“Ugh—!”
An unprecedented tingling merged with the comforting satisfaction surged through her skull like electricity.
A soft, sticky moan escaped Lu Qiancha’s throat uncontrollably.
“How’s that~”
Xun Xue’s voice seemed to come from distant clouds, carrying a beguiling smile, “This ‘side effect’… quite memorable, isn’t it?”
Satisfied watching her little daughter soften completely into a “ball of blue fluff” in her arms, Xun Xue’s eyes flashed with sharp light, then stopped just there.
Her fingertips silently withdrew the fairy energy, even thoughtfully stepping back to give space, then… quietly turned and left.
Light as the wind, she floated out of the room.
The person gone, the room empty, the comfortable glow receded like a tide…
The infinite warmth she had been indulged in suddenly vanished…
A feeling of loss, like a cub abandoned on the snowfield, gripped the newly awakened Lu Qiancha fiercely.
She froze in place, blue eyes blankly staring at the empty room, the extreme dependence from moments ago and this sudden emptiness forming a huge contrast.
“I see this little one of mine has been thoroughly manipulated by that Wolf King. The next step is to become that Wolf King’s obedient baby…”
Canxin mocked with a gloating sneer upon seeing Lu Qiancha’s reaction.
“I’m not!”
Lu Qiancha immediately denied, her heart jolting wildly.
“Heh.”
Canxin laughed lightly and said no more.
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