While listening to Ye Tianxuan talk, Yin Xiu reached out and touched Li Mo's hand out of boredom, and probably understood.
"If you want to uproot the high priest's heart and destroy the hope that represents the people's hearts, you can completely change this city."
"Hmm." Ye Tianxuan nodded. "I think the High Priestess must have been quite frustrated these past two days. She was helpless in dealing with the situation in the city and couldn't do anything about me. Her spirits were probably on the verge of collapse, just like the other citizens of Changsheng City."
"At this point, a little push is needed to make her completely lose hope in God's return in order to change her."
Yin Xiu hooked his finger around Li Mo's, seemingly lost in thought.
What comes out of Ye Tianxuan's mouth is never a small ripple; it is bound to cause a huge upheaval throughout the entire city.
"Just tell me, what do you want me to do?"
Ye Tianxuan shook his finger, pointing at Li Mo, "It's you two. Go together and give that high priestess who lives in a fantasy a performance of harsh reality to wake her up."
"You mean..." Yin Xiu pondered, "to tell her that God is dead?"
"No, no, no, she won't believe that." Ye Tianxuan smiled and whispered something in Yin Xiu's ear.
Li Mo was also curious about what the two were whispering about, so he quietly stretched out his little tentacles to eavesdrop.
After Ye Tianxuan finished explaining his plans, Yin Xiu fell silent. "You're making quite a fuss about this. You'll probably make sure the whole city knows about it, won't you?"
Ye Tianxuan nodded, "The grander the better."
"I can help, but I have a question now."
"What's the problem?"
Yin Xiu grabbed the little tentacle that was eavesdropping next to him and said seriously, "When Li Mo and I came here, some people saw us. Some people have seen Li Mo and my tentacles, which may expose us."
"I see..." Ye Tianxuan lowered his head and pondered, "Then let's take advantage of the fact that the news is not yet circulating and arrest everyone on that street."
Yin Xiu: ...
Sometimes this person can be quite decisive when faced with obstacles that are detrimental to their plans.
"Okay, give me an address, I'm going to arrest him now." Ye Tianxuan smiled and rubbed his hands together as he prepared to leave. Before leaving, he added mysteriously, "Keep a low profile these next few days, and work hard. There's another reason why I'm keeping the High Priest around. I'll tell you this little surprise once everything is stable."
He smiled like a cunning fox, wagged his tail, and excitedly went out while plotting his plans, leaving Yin Xiu and Li Mo alone in the house.
"I didn't expect to be forced into hard labor as soon as I arrived." Yin Xiu sighed helplessly. "Oh well, I have to ask the High Priest about the gods anyway, so I might as well spare him."
"Boyfriend." Li Mo tilted her head, leaned closer to Yin Xiu, and stared at him intently. "So, it turns out that when humans lose something important, they really do go crazy immediately."
"That high priestess went mad because her most important god was gone. Her life had no support but that one. When he was gone, her whole world collapsed immediately, just like her ex-boyfriend."
Li Moke still remembers the first time she met Yin Xiu. After that small hope that supported him disappeared, he looked like the sky had fallen. He became extreme and persistent, stubbornly believing that his sister was still alive.
Just as he had read in books, people are sometimes strong, capable of shouldering everything, and sometimes weak, easily collapsing.
In an attempt to understand his boyfriend's emotions, he read and studied a great deal, but human beings are inherently complex, and in the end, he only gained a superficial understanding, only grasping the aspects related to Yin Xiu.
"I will never abandon my boyfriend. Whenever he calls me, I will be by his side. I will be an unbreakable tower in his heart."
Li Mo's actions that made Yin Xiu feel at ease were not only by constantly radiating love and gazing at him, but also by continuously affirming and promising, piling on everything that could make one feel at ease.
Yin Xiu reached out and rubbed Li Mo's cold face. "I know."
"But compared to me... you have a pretty good mentality. When you finally came to me as a human and found out I had forgotten about you, you didn't go crazy."
At that time, Li Mo lived in the endless darkness of the sealed world, and his world consisted only of Yin Xiu. He was always striving to reunite with them.
When they met again, he found that the person he had been looking forward to seeing had forgotten him, but he calmly followed behind Yin Xiu without giving up.
Li Mo reached out and grasped her boyfriend's hand that was cupping his face. Yin Xiu's image was reflected in her dark pupils. "It's just not the right time yet. When I saw my boyfriend again, I felt mostly happy, and nervous too..."
"If my boyfriend never thinks of me, and I can't make him think of me no matter what I do, I'll definitely go crazy if I see him drifting further and further away from me."
"Fortunately, I am very patient with my boyfriend, and he remembered me."
He happily rubbed against Yin Xiu's palm, his eyes showing no trace of unhappiness, even if he had been, he had already forgotten it.
Looking back now, Yin Xiu realized that when he first knocked on the door, Li Mo was indeed very excited, extremely flamboyant and unrestrained, to the point that he felt inexplicably nervous towards him.
Moreover, on the very first night after entering the house, he squatted down by Yin Xiu's bedside and stared at him, just like he always did. If it were him back then, when he was completely clueless and found a strange man staring at him while he was sleeping, his vigilance would immediately be on full display.
But when Yin Xiu recalls it now, he only finds it funny.
Because of those bizarre and terrifying actions, all of them were caused by little monsters staying by his side according to their usual habits.
Whether it was constantly watching him or the first deal was to drag him to sleep in a coffin in an attempt to awaken his memory, he was simply using a newly acquired human body, with a strange stiffness and an inhuman aura, to review their past, step by step following in Yin Xiu's footsteps.
Beneath that enigmatic exterior lay a heart brimming with love for him, a fact that Yin Xiu remained oblivious to at the time, only sensing danger.
Now...
He could feel the intense love emanating from the person beside him every moment, so passionate that it was hard to ignore.
I really don't know how I didn't realize it at all before; I was like a wooden stake.
"I will never forget you again." Yin Xiu nodded firmly, "But if there really comes a day when I forget you and can't bring you back..."
He lowered his head and kissed Li Mo's cold, pale fingers, his pupils burning with emotions that flickered like flames. "You can lock me up, lock me up in a place where I can't go anywhere but stay with you. That's my permission."
The emotions in Yin Xiu's eyes seemed to have been ignited by Li Mo. He was at a loss and stammered, his heart melting as if it had become a soft, tender place.
Sometimes, his boyfriend says something surprising that leaves him unsure how to respond. And there's no book that says whether or not he should agree to such a request from his boyfriend.
But... I love this kind of boyfriend!