Chapter 50

Chapter 50

With the Evil Essence spent, Ye Piaoling collapsed onto the couch, limp and wanting to cry but finding no tears.

The Demon Emperor asked, “Do you feel any better?”

“…”

Ye Piaoling’s heart was a whirlpool of mixed emotions. She had a thousand words to say, yet she didn’t know where to start.

She lay there, staring blankly as if life had lost all meaning. After a long silence, she finally muttered, “I want a hand-ground coffee…”

The Demon Emperor was taken aback. “…?”

He nodded and said, “Fine. As long as you recover, you can drink whatever you wish.”

Ye Piaoling’s nose twitched with emotion.

She had never seen the Big Demon King act so tenderly!

And it wasn’t that sarcastic, perverse tenderness from before-it was genuine gentleness!

Seeing that she still looked drained of blood and qi, the Demon Emperor helped her up again. He continued to cast his technique, unhesitatingly transferring his own spiritual power into her.

Ye Piaoling was utterly shocked.

What was he doing? Had he lost his mind?

The Demon Emperor continued the transfer for nearly fifteen minutes until she was completely restored.

Ye Piaoling slumped into the man’s arms, her eyes dazed. “You’re crazy… You cultivated with me until the end, and not only did you gain nothing, you even ended up at a loss…”

The Demon Emperor said in a low voice, “As long as you are here, this Venerable One will eventually regain my Evil Essence through cultivation.”

Hearing this, the daze in Ye Piaoling’s eyes instantly vanished.

She had almost forgotten that this was all a dream. A dream!

When would this grand dream finally end?

Ye Piaoling remained silent for a long time before saying, “Big Demon King, I have a ridiculous question that I haven’t been able to figure out the answer to.”

“What question?”

“How can one make a dream overlap with reality?”

The Demon Emperor listened and thought seriously for a long while.

Then he said, “If the same people are in the same scene doing the same thing, then the images should overlap.”

Ye Piaoling froze for a moment, then it suddenly clicked.

In reality, they were in Chonghua Palace. The Regent King was sitting in the clear pool with his eyes closed, and she was beside him, kissing him!

Twelve days had passed in the dream, and she didn’t know how much time had passed in reality… but during this time, she must have been maintaining the action of kissing him. Her lips were probably numb by now!

So, if she wanted the dream to overlap with reality, she just needed to…

Ye Piaoling understood instantly.

She gave a knowing smile. “I’m covered in blood. I remember there’s a hot spring behind the courtyard. Come with me to take a bath!”

“Alright,” the Demon Emperor nodded dotingly.

“Oh, and you have to change into a bathrobe!”

In reality, Di Xiulan was wearing a bathrobe-the very bathrobe she thought about day and night.

…

The water in the hot spring pool was crystal clear.

Ye Piaoling pressed the Big Demon King down into the water to sit. Then, one by one, she removed the Demon Emperor hair ornaments from his head, letting his ink-like black hair fall loose.

The man simply assumed she was being playful. He lazily closed his eyes and let her fuss over him.

Ye Piaoling looked at the bathrobe on him and thought secretly: *If only Di Xiulan were as obedient as the Big Demon King!*

That way, after she went back, he would give her whatever she wanted, whether it was a bathrobe or anything else.

After dressing the Big Demon King to look like Di Xiulan, Ye Piaoling jumped into the water. Her lips slowly approached the side of his face.

Before her were the man’s thin, crimson lips. As long as she kissed them, the dream would overlap with reality.

Why did she suddenly feel a bit reluctant?

She had finally managed to win this man over, but once the dream ended, it would all be over…

Ye Piaoling shook her head vigorously.

No, she couldn’t stay addicted to a fake dream!

Thinking of her precarious life and her unspent money, Ye Piaoling steeled her heart within the pool.

Closing her eyes, she kissed the man’s lips…

The same scene, the same people, the same action, the same image.

For a moment, it was impossible to tell which was reality and which was the dream.

In an instant, reality and dream overlapped. Ye Piaoling felt the sound of wind rushing past her ears, howling as it blew through the chaos of time and space.

Her vision went pitch black again as a vortex surged around her-

She remained motionless, pinning the man’s body against the wall, quietly kissing him.

She ignored how the phantasms surged around her or how time twisted.

The Soul-Departing Spring Dream quietly shattered.

Love, desire, and delusions-all returned to nothingness!

After a roller-coaster-like bout of dizziness, the sensation of falling vanished.

Silence fell over the world.

Ye Piaoling opened her eyes.

Her field of vision was almost entirely occupied by the man’s devastatingly beautiful face, but she could see some plants and trees from the corners of her eyes.

Those were the plants and trees of Chonghua Palace.

She had really returned to reality!!!

Ye Piaoling was overjoyed. She quickly pulled her lips away and looked around at this familiar world.

Because she had been kissing him for too long, her lips were stiff.

Numb, they were so numb…

Beside her, the man also slowly opened his deep, captivating eyes.

He raised a hand to his lips and wiped them, looking as if he hadn’t had enough.

Ye Piaoling turned to look at him. “Your Highness, you’re awake too!”

She couldn’t help but ask, “Um, you were in a dream while you were unconscious. Do you remember what you dreamed about?”