Lazily Yours.

Xu Ke laughed. "Precisely. And I finally found you. Isn't that good? Fate reunited us." He walked around her, hands behind his back. "And I think… coming in this world wasn't a coincidence, no?"

...

The cold gust of air made Lyca's skin prickle. But she shivered not from the cold but from the creature who started devouring itself. The Cichar was in a tank filled with green liquid. She didn't know what the liquid was, but she guessed this must be one of Xu Ke's attempts to make the creature survive in this world.

"You are the only one that knows poisonous creatures so well. I am sure you can create something— a habitat for them." Xu Ke said before he left her alone to watch the creature. Lyca gulped. Xu Ke said summoning the Cichar needed gold— a lot of them. However, she felt that gold shouldn't be enough to summon this poisonous creature. The creature feeds off blood and ordinary mortals. There's no way that Xu Ke didn't use the blood of people to summon it.

Lyca stood in front of the creature as she wondered how was he able to summon such a thing. She had asked him. But he refused to say anything. He only laughed and told her that some secrets must be kept a secret, even from the people that he loved.

Just the mention of the word love made her want to puke her guts out. Her loathing about the past disappeared but seeing him act as if she was still in love with him was… akin to an insult. She felt insulted. Did he think she would still choose to be with him after everything that happened?

True, she was foolish in the past but did he really thought she would still act that way after everything that happened? After she died in his arms?

"In a few minutes, it will explode." Xu Ke's voice echoed behind her. She turned and stared at him, her face devoid of any expression. The man before him was wearing a white lab coat, a gentle expression was on his eyes as he stared at the creature.

"How did you die?" Lyca asked. After meeting him at his house, Xu Ke invited her to visit the place. Then he left. Because of that, she didn't get the chance to ask him about the previous world.

"Why are you asking such questions now?" he asked, offended. "Aren't you going to ask me about the creature? About this lab?" Of all the interesting questions that Lyca could ask, she chose to ask him about the past.

"I want to know." She had suspicions and right now, Lyca knew that most of her suspicions were correct.

"Why don't you asked me about the Cichar? My plans?"

"I know everything about the creature." She had her own encounter with the creature in the previous world as most people like her would use it to make poisons. "How did you die?"

"I can't tell you."

She snorted. Does this mean her suspicions were confirmed? Xu Ke didn't die but used a different method to come here. She squinted. "When did you arrived here?" In her previous world, there were books about reincarnation and transmigrations. There were stories about people from a different world with robots and flying vehicles that would come into their world and excel at everything.

The books said those people were brilliant and powerful and soon, become gods. Lyca also recalled books about summoning. But she couldn't recall anything about choosing to travel into a different world. Was it possible that magic could actually do it?

"When this body was ten. More than twenty years ago."

She nodded. When she came back years ago, Xu Ke was still there. Meaning, there was something wrong with the time. Unless of course, he could travel back and forth which was impossible. The three years of sleeping while she knew she was only in that world for weeks should be enough proof of the time difference.

"I don't want this," Lyca said. "These creatures are vicious. If you want them to live, you would need blood."

"Blood?" he asked.

She nodded. Of course, she won't tell him that the blood of someone who already cultivated their internal energy is needed.

"Are you certain?"

"I'm not," Lyca said. "However, creatures from Yin Yang Nirvana lake would always find it hard to survive outside of their natural habitat because of the temperature. They thrive on both the lava and the ice. It would be hard for them to adjust outside that place. That's why we feed them blood to make them last at least a few days out of the lake. That would be enough time for us to create our poisons."

"Human blood?"

Again, she nodded. She studied his expression and didn't miss the sinister glint that flashed in his eyes.

"Summoning people would be dangerous." Lyca suddenly said.

"What are you— "

"You talked about ruling this world," Lyca said. "You can only do that if you summoned the people from the previous world. There is no way that— "

"I can do it."

The absence of hesitation in his words made her frowned. "Xu Ke… you are going to destroy this world."

"We don't belong in this world. Why bother?"

"You— Do you understand what you are talking about?"

"I do. I told you… we can rule this world. You and I, we can summon an army and make this world, ours."

"You are insane!" Lyca was about to leave when he suddenly held her arm. "Let me go."

"You are staying here."

"Says who?" she asked.

"Me. I can't trust you to ruin my plans once you leave. So you will have to stay here."

Glaring at him, Lyca balled her hand into a fist. "Only if you can stop me." With that, she suddenly held his arm as she attempted to throw him on the ground. However, Xu Ke wasn't just someone useless. He could see Lyca's intention from afar.

He pushed her hips, a maneuver that could easily stop someone from using one of those judo throws. Then he sidestepped and pushed her away from him. "I am not going to fight against you." He said. "I didn't agree to bring you here to fight. I wanted your help."

She snorted."So you want to imprison me."

"I don't take any risks." Seeing the disbelief in Lyca's eyes made him smile. "I know… your curiosity was the reason why you're here. I promised to bring you to this place. But I didn't promise to take you back."

"You— "

"You and I will rule this world, Lyca. You and I will be its king and queen."

"In your dreams!" Once again, she launched forward, trying to attack him. However, this time, her movement was easily stopped when a syringe-like bullet hit her legs. She turned towards her left and saw Xu Jihan waving at her, a gun was in his hand.

"We made this for you. To restrain you." Xu Ke said. "Sleep… Lyca."

Lyca felt the world spin before she fell in Xu Ke's arms. "F*ck you… Xu Ke." Of course, she didn't forget to curse at him before she closed her eyes.

"The room is ready. You can just take her there." Xu Jihan said. "Are you sure about this? I mean… this woman is pretty dangerous."

"Did you do your job well?" Xu Ke said.

"Of course, I did! The windows and doors were reinforced. She won't be able to escape unless of course, she brought some tanks which is impossible."

Xu Ke snorted. "Leaving on her own accord without telling other people that I invited her was foolish. Now, everyone would think, she left because seeing the house would remind her of her husband." Xu Ke chuckled. The goal of the invitation was just to make Lyca leave on her own. He tried to make it sound as mysterious as possible so she would not tell anyone else about it.

And he succeeded. Everyone thought that Lyca was still mourning. They could try and call her but Xu Ke would make sure she is unreachable and untraceable.

"I don't think she would agree to work for us," Xu Jihan said.

"She already told me the secret about that creature. I am sure she will agree. Especially if I threatened to hurt her family."

"You are evil."

Xu Ke snorted. Even if he says something to Xu Jihan about his feelings for Lyca, he won't understand anything. Xu Ke himself was the only one who understood how much he wanted to own her. In the past and even now, their lives were intertwined by some invisible thread that is bringing them together.

In Xu Ke's mind, this only meant one thing.

Lyca and he were destined. They were destined to be together, forever.

Just the thought of it is making him smile.