The Witch's Taste

Chapter 165 Zi Li's Mother's Request

Go through the preconscious level and then into the subconscious level.

Chen Ziang found himself in an elegantly furnished living room, sitting on a cushioned armchair.

The entire wall of the room is a bookshelf, on which are placed books of all sizes, and the gilt fonts on the spine of the books reflect a heavy light under the light.

The mature lady is standing on the carpet.She was wearing a gorgeous and complicated elven court dress, her brilliant blond hair fell to her waist like a waterfall, and she was holding a thick book in her hand.

"You are finally here." The lady closed the book in her hand, "Chen Ziang, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Chen Ziang was silent for a moment, and immediately realized that the person in front of him was the "mother that only I can see" that Xia Zili mentioned earlier, which was also the "split spirituality" that Hoifeng Rixu said.

"Who are you?" He asked cautiously.

"Didn't Zili mention me to you?" The noble lady spread her fan with her left hand, covering her elegant smile.

"You are hers..." Chen Ziang asked slowly, "Mother?"

"Chen Ziang, I have one thing to ask you." The lady did not answer, but said slowly, "First of all, what do you think of Zili?"

"Very good." Chen Ziang considered his words carefully, "She is very kind."

"Kindness?" The lady raised her eyebrows, "Indeed. The flowers grown in the greenhouse always think that the whole world has kindness towards her, so they are not hesitant to share their kindness with others."

"But is it really good to do that?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Ziang narrowed his eyes, and he felt a secret malice from the lady's tone.

"Chen Ziang, although you may not understand my words, I still have to say..." The lady gently shook the fan that half covered her face, "Simple kindness cannot go far in this universe."

"How many beautiful expectations she has for this world now, and how much pain she will suffer because her dreams are shattered in the future, and I can't bear her to suffer like this... So I tried to kill her, but unfortunately , My method was cracked by you who entered the dream."

"It's you?!" Chen Ziang's expression changed suddenly.

The first time I saw Xia Zili was because she was plagued by nightmares.At that time, I used the ability to walk in dreams to sneak into Xia Zili's subconscious layer, and soon found that there were mysterious tentacles wrapped around her neck, trying to slowly strangle her consciousness.

In other words, those mysterious tentacles were cast by the "Xia Zili's mother" in front of him.

"It's me." The lady admitted frankly.

"But..." Chen Ziang just felt baffled, "Why did you do this? Isn't she your daughter? Or, you don't love her at all..."

"No." The lady flatly denied, "I love her more than anyone else, but Chen Ziang... death is not the greatest pain in this world."

"There are many times when living is more cruel than dying, and her character in this life is too kind. If she can't end her life in time, then sooner or later she will..."

"...life would be worse than death."

The noble lady folded her fan, showing love for her daughter in her expression, but more of an indifference to see through the world. It is hard to imagine that there are two diametrically opposed emotions in a person's eyes.

"Chen Ziang, I would like to ask you one thing."

"Please tell me." Chen Ziang said in a daze, not fully digesting this absurd fact.

"Do me a favor." The lady showed a faint smile, but there was a hidden sadness in the smile, "...try to love Zili."

"...or kill her."

Chen Ziang: ……………

"What do you mean?" His expression turned cold.

"Literally." The lady smiled and said, "It may sound like a moral kidnapping, but I don't want to use your moral values ​​to coerce you into doing something, I'm just simply explaining such a fact."

"If she loses you...whether it's your person or your heart...she will fall into a tragic situation where life would be worse than death, so it's better to kill her and let her escape as soon as possible."

"Zili's mother." Chen Ziang said coldly, "You seem to have misunderstood Zili. First of all, she may not like me that much..."

"Oh?" The lady smiled teasingly, "Are you really not feeling it, or are you just pretending to be stupid?"

Chen Ziang: ……………

"I know she has a crush on me." Chen Ziang said frankly, "But I don't think it has reached the level you said—that is, you can either stay with me or die."

"Is that true?" The lady spread her fan again, "Chen Ziang, Yuegong Suzuna also likes you, right?"

"……Maybe."

"So you must choose one of the two." The lady shook her fan lightly, "But no matter which one you choose, you will deeply hurt the other, so you subconsciously resist my statement, in fact I am afraid that if I choose Yue Gong Suzuna, I will really cause irreparable psychological trauma to Xia Zili."

"I'll emphasize it again." Chen Ziang said seriously, "I don't think Xia Zili likes me to that extreme. Don't forget, she is a big star sought after by thousands of people, and there is no shortage of high-quality people in her social circle. Men, there are plenty of people with better conditions than me."

"Yue Gong Suzuna is not missing either." The lady said leisurely, "Why does she always stare at you?"

"There is no necessary connection between Suzuna and Zili." Chen Ziang replied, "The occurrence of a small probability event does not mean that it will happen twice."

"Oh, look at my brain." The lady closed her fan and knocked her own head, "Why don't we put it another way, it should be easier for you to believe."

"Xia Zili is a witch."

Chen Ziang:! ! !

"Of course, she hasn't realized this yet." The lady continued, "The way to verify it is very simple. You just need to report her to the official agency and check her body."

"Of course, after confirming that she is a witch, the official organization will definitely deal with her as soon as possible. This can be regarded as fulfilling my wish, so I very much hope that you will do so."

Chen Ziang remained silent.

"The pain of witches is the anchor that fixes them in this world." The lady finally concluded, "Chen Ziang, no matter how much you refuse to believe, you are her only anchor and will soon become her deepest obsession."

"As long as you are still unwilling to love her, she will become more and more transformed into a witch. In the end, she will fall into endless pain and start trying to destroy the world or herself."

"In either case, in the end, she died in a tragic torment. In comparison, killing her now, wouldn't it be a relatively more merciful choice?"

Chen Ziang was speechless.In fact, just the thought of that possibility gave him a creeping, chilling dread.

However, Xia Zili's mother not only spoke convincingly, but even offered to ask the official agency to conduct an inspection. Could it be that Xia Zili...

Really are……

He looked at the lady again in horror, only to see that two lines of blood and tears had flowed down her face at some point, and she said in an ethereal and hollow voice:

"So, even if I beg you..."

"Even if it's to show kindness..."

"Go love her..."

"Or kill her..."

(End of this chapter)