2: Underneath A Thousand Skies

275 This Psychopathic Demon Is Psychic (27)

A familiar voice flitted in and out of Song Jia's ears, like a radio with bad signal.

"Jia'er, you want me to be a good monarch, but you don't want me to see you in the next life."

"You've turned into dust. Jia'er, you don't want to come back to me?"

"I have killed your maids, do you know? Jia'er, I knew you were fond of them. Do you hate me now?"

"If you won't come back to me because you love me, then I'll make you come back as a vengeful spirit. Hate me, hate me, hate me to the bone. So that's why...return here, haunt me, and kill me."

"I'll destroy everything. Come back to me, Jia'er."

The girl's eyelashes flattered, trembling like butterfly wings. Song Jia abruptly opened her eyes and gasped heavily for air.

She weakly clutched her chest, feeling as if she had just broken out from the surface of the water, on the verge of drowning. Her slender eyebrows furrowed.

"Zhao Cheng...?"

She couldn't remember much of her dream, but she felt as if she had seen him.

But why would she dream of someone from her first transmigration mission?

"It must be all of those lotus flowers..." Song Jia massaged her aching temples.

"You're finally awake."

A soft voice interrupted Song Jia's thoughts, and she looked up only to see the face of the vengeful reincarnator. She was twirling the strange object expertly in her hand, looking down at her.

"You've slept for so long. I just teleported you, and you easily passed out. I didn't know such a weak demon could be fancied by the Great Demon King."

Song Jia tried to stand up, but heard a clanging sound. She looked around, and saw that her ankle was tied with a thick manacle chained to the wall.

The vengeful reincarnator followed her gaze. "Fitting, isn't it? The Great Demon King had once chained me like this, so now I'm using the same method to his bride."

"I'm not his bride, that was just a scheme he put on to fool everyone," Song Jia said with a sneer.

The manacle was magical, so she couldn't easily escape from here. First thing's first, she should lower her importance as a hostage. She didn't want to be a pawn to blackmail the Great Demon King.

Song Jia looked around the room, trying to notice all of the details to figure out where she was.

The room she found herself in was small. All around her were walls made of concrete, and there was no sign of a door. Just above the vengeful reincarnator's head was a trapdoor.

'An oubliette?' Song Jia thought in horror.

An oubliette was a specific type of dungeon which has only one escape route — through a trap door in its ceiling. Since the only entrance and exit was in the ceiling far above from the prisoner, it made escape pretty much impossible.

"Of course I know that him marrying you was a scheme."

The vengeful reincarnator snorted at Song Jia's words. For an angel, her eyes were filled with too much poison.

"Xu Jinhai has been ruthless for several millennia, so why would he develop a heart now? But for him to use you, there must still be something special about you that caught his attention."

Song Jia looked at her cautiously.

"Don't tell me...you're in love with the Great Demon King?"

This wasn't a random assumption she just made. It seems like the male god always had so many peach blossoms around him, truly troublesome.

"Who would fall in love with that demon?!" The vengeful reincarnator was almost rendered speechless.

Although it was true that the Great Demon King had outstandingly handsome looks, inside that beautiful shell was pure evil, a sharp blade that didn't feel any emotions except to harm and kill.

This poisonous flower, except for that lust demon Piencheng, no one had the guts to even gaze at! Falling in love with him was just voluntarily throwing oneself into a fire pit.

If the vengeful reincarnator had known that the 'weak demon' before her could make the fearsome Great Demon King retreat from war just to make her happy, who knows how shocked she would have been.

As expected, knowing one's enemy was essential to winning a war. Such a priceless hostage was there, but the opponent was oblivious.

Of course...this mistake also couldn't be blamed on the vengeful reincarnator. The Great Demon King had several millennia to build his reputation as evil incarnate, rotten to the core, a monster wearing demon skin. Not even the demon lords who saw how much he pampered Song Jia believed that he was sincere.

"Then why are you so focused on the Great Demon King?" Song Jia asked.

The vengeful reincarnator's eyes flashed cold. "You didn't know, but in my past life, I've been tortured and hunted down by a high level demon..."

"A past life? That can actually happen?" Song Jia faked being surprised. "But a high level demon...it couldn't be the Great Demon King, could it?"

She had already known the vengeful reincarnator's backstory, so Song Jia didn't listen and instead planned her way out. She had only asked the vengeful reincarnator to keep her talking and distracted.

"He wasn't the one who hunted me down...but he might as well be. To be honest, I'm actually grateful to the demon who tortured me. Because I was so bent on getting revenge on him, I got reincarnated and finally learned the truth."

The vengeful reincarnator clenched her fist. "I will never let Xu Jinhai wipe out and twist my memories again."

Song Jia, who had been thinking quickly on how to escape, was startled. "Wipe out and twist your memories?"

The vengeful reincarnator twisted her lips. Before she spread her wings and left through the trapdoor, she threw Song Jia a scornful look.

"Never mind, you wouldn't understand. You're actually pitiful too, treating this world as reality. Someday, you will all thank me."

With a quick shā shā sound, the vengeful reincarnator flew off and slammed the trapdoor shut behind her.

Song Jia felt as if a missing puzzle had finally clicked into place in her mind. She had always felt that something about this world didn't feel right in the beginning, as all of her missions had a linear timeline.

"This world isn't real..." Her eyes opened wide. "Don't tell me, that strange object in her hand is actually a memory jogger?!"