As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life

Chapter 1108: Chapter 323 Lord Dog’s Wrath: One Paw Destroys the Temple, Let My Daughter Live Without Pleading [Requesting Monthly Tickets]

The snow danced in the air, sealing the world in ice.

The entire world seemed quiet, like crystal, with the night as clear as ever.

The restaurant emitted a dim yellow light, reflecting on the white snow and tinting it with an orange hue, as if coated in breadcrumbs and fried in oil.

The owner held a quietly burning cigarette, its smoke rising straight up, like a thread of agarwood, with slight tremors causing the soft ash to fall away.

It shattered into pieces, misty and restless.

Clearly, at this moment, the owner’s heart was not at peace, at least not as calm as it appeared.

He sensed a familiar aura in Li Che.

His expression became complicated.

The Big Black Dog was restless with excitement, its constantly wagging tail suddenly stopped, as if drained of strength, drooping completely.

The dog’s eyes, as dark as black dates, stared at Li Che for a long time, its nose twitching constantly, clearly trying to sniff out that particular scent.

Indeed, it was that familiar scent, as if the woman stepped forth from the darkness.

Like a black lotus blooming in endless dark, aflame, cutting off all who approach with its fiery presence.

Yet, unfortunately, it was not her after all.

The Big Black Dog sighed in a human-like manner, languidly drooping again, lying on the ground of the restaurant illuminated by the orange light of a street lamp, like in a late-night park.

Li Che’s black garment fluttered in the wind, his jet-black vigorous hair dancing wildly.

He walked from the dark depths of Thunder Alley, step by step, into the light.

He had just completed the activation of the Prototype of Divine Powers [Dream Butterfly], and under its trigger, he seemed to see images of Xi Xi, whether in another time-space or the future.

Let’s call her Da Xixi, Xi Xi when she has grown up.

Even though it was just through a dreamlike method of wandering through time, Li Che could clearly feel the blood-related connection with Xi Xi.

Li Che was certain that the grown-up, extremely cold, with a strong urge to kill, Xi Xi who slaughtered an entire ancient Buddhist Sect seemed like a being from another world… was definitely his daughter.

Even in the future, she was still his daughter, as the bond through blood cannot be faked.

Li Che’s heart was full of pity.

He did not know what Xi Xi had been through.

Because he didn’t need to know, Xi Xi becoming that way was definitely related to him, at least, he failed to do what a father should do.

He didn’t properly protect Xi Xi, didn’t let her grow up carefree, instead, she went through many grievances.

Otherwise…

How could she say, “You plead with me, but who do I plead with?”

The bewilderment, grievance, sorrow, despair, and disappointment in those words caused Li Che’s entire heart to tremble, as if an invisible force gripped it tightly.

“Have you come?”

The owner sat in the chair, his indifferent eyes somewhat lost, lightly saying.

He extinguished the spent cigarette in his hand, exhaling a warm breath into the world of snow and ice.

He then took out cigarette paper, a dry incense bag, using bamboo tweezers, he picked out the tobacco, wrapping it in the cigarette paper and slowly rolling it into a thin long cigarette.

He didn’t smoke it himself but tapped it on the back of his hand, and handed it to Li Che, who came slowly from the darkness, covered in falling snow.

The owner seemed to see lingering images in Li Che’s eyes, witnessing a graceful figure constructing a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood atop an ancient temple.

“Fancy one?”

The owner asked plainly.

Li Che picked up the cigarette, accepting it, every gesture conveying understood silence.

Li Che sat in the chair in front of the restaurant.

After lighting the cigarette, the two men, one black, one white, sat in the chairs smoking silently, the fire crackling the paper, a barely audible sound like thunder in the infinite silence.

“This cigarette… she taught me.”

The owner watched the snowflakes falling abundantly from the sky, crystalline and transparent, creating a world of glass, saying.

Li Che tilted his head to glance at him: “She?”

“An old acquaintance,” the owner answered faintly.

Li Che had a feeling, the owner’s old acquaintance… might very well be Da Xixi.

Because Li Che had seen in the owner’s dream.

However, Li Che did not reveal this.

Li Che stood up, the black garment embroidered with golden lotus patterns flying in the snowy night.

“Boss, may I borrow Lord Dog?”

Li Che extinguished the last bit of the cigarette, exhaling two streams of smoke, smooth and descending like incense.

The owner’s eyebrows lifted, a strange expression crossing his clear face.

He didn’t expect that Li Che came tonight without intending to eat anything, he even thought about packing something for Xi Xi.

Xi Xi had just broken through to the status of a Divine Minister, having experienced such thrilling events…

Although Xi Xi was asleep throughout it, surely she had been a bit frightened, hadn’t she?

If she was startled, eating something delicious to calm down isn’t bad, right?

Lying in front of the restaurant, the Big Black Dog’s shiny black fur reflected the dim street lamp’s glow, the whole dog looked utterly dejected.

“Xi Xi broke through to the status of a Divine Minister today, had an ordeal, being manipulated against…”

“Though not targeted specifically at her, she was caught up and affected.”