How Much Do You Admire Me
Lily Bai couldn’t shake the feeling that once he finished getting dressed, he’d kill her in the most brutal way possible.
This feeling... was pure torture!
Lily bit her lip and decided to just ask directly: “Damian! Let’s be real—what exactly are you planning to do with me? Roast me? Boil me? Or something even worse?”
“How do you want to die?” Damian asked coolly.
At least his voice hadn’t been ruined by the lightning—it still sounded just as dangerously seductive as ever.
Lily: “I... I don’t want to die...”
Damian stared at her in silence for a long moment, then said, “Give me a reason.”
A reason...
All of Lily Bai’s Heaven-Bestowed Demon Slayer honors had been earned at the cost of countless demon beasts’ lives.
She’d nearly gotten Damian killed, too.
It’s like she didn’t even have a reason to keep living...
But even if she didn’t, she’d have to come up with one!
Quick-thinking Lily Bai blinked her eyes and suddenly blurted out, “Demon Emperor, let me tell you a secret!”
“Go on.”
“I have a Koi-Blessed Fate,” Lily said. “Do you know what that means?”
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“A Koi-Blessed Fate means I boost my birth family, my married family, my sect—whoever I’m with, their luck skyrockets!”
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Take my dad, for example—he has a Yellow-Grade Spirit Root, the lowest of the four grades: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow! He never had any hope of inheriting the throne. But after I was born, his luck just kept getting better and better, and he actually became Emperor!
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My mom couldn’t have sons, but I got her a fertility talisman, and then she had my little brother Bobby Bai. And get this—my brother has a Phoenix Heart!
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And my grandma—she was about to pass away, but I fed her a bowl of porridge and somehow she got better! Isn’t that wild?
Damian: “……”
I even brought luck to my aunt. She was abandoned by her husband and tried to drown herself in a lake, but she happened to be wearing the life-saving talisman I gave her. The Lord River Drake rescued her, took her to Dragon Abyss, she had a little dragon, and became his secondary consort. Hahaha!
Damian: “So what?”
Lily flashed him a grin. “How about you don’t kill me and just take me in instead?”
“Take you in?”
“Yeah! If you take me on as your Koi-Blessed Fate subordinate, you’ll crush your enemies, win every battle, and unify the Three Realms!”
Damian replied, “You say you brought luck to your dad. But after he became Emperor, your two most gifted uncles—one died, one left. Neither of them met a good end.”
You say you brought luck to your mom and grandma, but after your brother was born, your grandma doted on you two and all the other imperial grandchildren of Eastlore ended up neglected and full of resentment.
And your aunt—sure, she rose to glory, but your original uncle, when he found out she’d become Lord River Drake’s secondary consort, was so shocked he fell into the moat and died.
Damian stepped right up to her and asked softly, “Is that right?”
Lily froze.
Damian knew everything about her family—down to the last detail!
“So, Lily Bai, whether you’re taken in or not depends on you, not me.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“You’re only a Koi-Blessed Fate to the ones you truly stand with. Otherwise, you’re a walking Death Catalyst Rune.” Damian said. “Is your heart on my side?”
Lily: "Hehe... Your peerless charm and divine martial prowess—I really do sincerely ad...mire... you."
But as she spoke, her words just trailed off.
Because the Demon Emperor suddenly braced his hand against the wall behind her, trapping her between him and the cold stone. He asked, “Admire me? Just how much do you admire me?”