Chapter 2117: I Will Always Be by Your Side

Little Taotie took the chocolate and put it in her mouth, stunned, she asked in surprise, "Isn’t this Evil Spirit Chocolate?"

Hua Jinyan smiled gently, "Evil Spirit Chocolate does aid in cultivation, but it’s not real chocolate."

Little Taotie looked at him confused.

"You’re feeling down, only real chocolate can ease your mood."

Little Taotie took a sip, the chocolate melted in her mouth, the sweetness spreading across her palate, indeed easing her mood somewhat.

She let out a breath, the rich aroma of chocolate wafting from her mouth.

Smelling the chocolate, Little Taotie smiled gently, her eyes, somewhat dim, gradually twinkled with brilliant starlight.

"What’s so funny?" Hua Jinyan asked.

"She didn’t get plastic surgery."

"Just because of that... you’re happy?"

Little Taotie gave him a sideways glance, "The friendship of girls, a straight guy like you would never understand."

Little Taotie looked out the window and suddenly said, "Huahua, all these years you’ve always been around me, never having your own friends, don’t you find it boring?"

"Boring?" Hua Jinyan shook his head with a laugh, "Being away from you is what’s truly boring."

His gaze deepened.

Those memories seemed to be his, yet not his.

During that war, after Little Taotie’s sacrifice, he went from madness to silence to utter despair, during that period, the Emperor told him that only waiting, waiting for her to pass the trials of ten lifetimes and gather her Three Souls and Seven Spirits.

Waiting for a long time... a day felt like a millennium.

The torment was enough to drive him to the brink of death.

He was so lonely, living in loneliness was like dying.

Later, he split a part of his soul.

In truth, Hua Jinyan never told Little Taotie, he was never truly the War God, nor the Demon God, he was merely a split soul, just like the Heavenly Emperor split out two souls, Tao Shen and Tao Bin, he was far from being the War God, nor the Demon God.

The War God split off a divine spirit back then, refining an avatar in the form of a split soul, becoming the Demon God, and the Demon God himself cultivated, broke through the tribulation of the Inner Demon, endured trials within the Life Token, and ultimately achieved the Divine Position.

And what was he, Hua Jinyan, just a useless split soul.

No wonder she looked down on him, compared to the War God, compared to the Demon God, he always fell short.

"What are you thinking?" Little Taotie moved closer to him, this time it was Little Taotie’s turn to hand him something to eat.

Little Taotie always had coffee candy on her.

Hua Jinyan took it, put it in his mouth, the bitterness and sweetness mixed in his mouth, hardly delicious, but because she liked it, he did not mind it.

He thought, the only thing he could win over the War God and the Demon God, perhaps was companionship, he could always be with her, always and forever...

"Huahua, having you is enough for me." Little Taotie’s head gently leaned on his shoulder, she whispered, "Just like when Xiao Lingzhi left back then, I never felt lonely, because I knew you would always be by my side, and that’s enough."

"I’ll always be here, forever by your side."

"Even if I don’t marry you, you’ll always be by my side?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure?" Little Taotie suspiciously stared at him.

Hua Jinyan stared back at her with a calm gaze, "As long as you need me, I will always be by your side, even if you fall for someone else, wish to marry another, I will still be your male confidant, always by your side."

"Uh... you really are bold." Little Taotie covered her mouth with a laugh, "Aren’t you afraid of being beaten to death by my future husband? Male confidants are thorns in the eye and flesh."