However, she once stepped on the weaknesses of countless men to rise to the top. If she is still doing this now, then compared with her now, wouldn't she have made little progress at all?

Only the weak will crave attachment to the strong.

Only vines can cling to trees.

She has been a vine for nine lives, but all ended in failure. In this life, she will never make the same mistake again.

Ji Ranyue took half a step back, and her tone of refusal was a firm one that could not be changed after careful consideration, "Xie Heng, I will not accept this sword."

In the past, she was bound by others and could not control her life or death.

Now, she will never trap others, even if she has the ability and confidence to do so.

"You don't want to tie me to life or death, but -" Xie Heng put his palm on the edge of the sword, and blood fell drop by drop along the sword. "You have long bound my soul with the snare of love...Jin Huan,

That's not fair."

She was obviously the one who provoked him first.

And the first one to abandon him was still her.

"What do you think of me, Xie Heng?"

An object that can be discarded at any time?”

His voice was trembling, but his teeth were clenched tightly, and his straight jaw seemed to be preserving the last bit of restrained dignity for himself.

But the red eyes still revealed his momentary vulnerability.

"It was my paranoia that made me misunderstand you. But Xie Heng, I don't want to lie to you anymore." All the softness on the surface in the girl's eyes dissipated, revealing the cold core, every word is as cold as a blade.

"All I can give you is guilt, but no affection."

This sentence was equivalent to tearing apart everything in the past, and the beauty built up with lies was like a knife, gouging out his heart, leaving a big bloody hole.

"You——" The man took back the blood-stained sword and took a deep breath.

She thought that he would not be able to bear the humiliation, so she became angry and raised her sword to chop her to death.

But he said: "You can keep the sword, but you promised me that you would be my queen."

"Now, although I am no longer the King of Chu, if you are ambitious in the world, I can control the Chu army of 300,000-" Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Ji Ranyue's voice.

"How could three hundred thousand Chu troops surrender to a woman so easily?"

The state of Chu has been in Zuo for more than a hundred years. Even if Huaijing falls and the army of Chu is strong, how can it be easy to betray Chu and turn to another side?

"So, isn't it enough for Huan'er to marry me?"

With marriage as an alliance, in the name of killing the King of Qi and restoring Huai Jing, he can naturally get 300,000 King of Chu to work for him.

"Since ancient times, men have discussed marriage and women have discussed marriage. How can I marry you? Doesn't this trip go against etiquette and law and against yin and yang?" Ji Ranyue frowned.

She didn't love him and didn't want to bully him anymore, so how could she accept this marriage proposal again? She simply used secular etiquette as an excuse and declined politely.

"Etiquette? Yin and Yang? There are thousands of rules in the world, but they are nothing more than heaven and man. Why should Huan'er bind himself to the so-called rules?" Xie Heng has only been Gu Mingyi for three years, but he has been an immortal king for a thousand years, so

His thoughts are still the trend of thought in the world of cultivation.

He sneered at the moral code of this world.

"You should jump out." When Xie Heng said this, his eyes were clear and clear, and there was no trace of love and desire anymore, as if he had returned to the past, when he was the master, teaching her knowledge and solving her doubts.

He seemed to want to remind her something.

"There are thousands of ways in the world, all of which are feasible, but to put it bluntly, doesn't it mean that the strong make the rules, the wise follow the rules, and the weak follow the rules?"

"If Huan'er wants to be a strong person, he should break out of the so-called framework."

Jumping out of the frame... Ji Ranyue was stunned, and faintly heard a click, like the invisible cover in her mind being forcibly torn open by him.

The scenery outside the gap was where she wanted to live forever, but she couldn't see it clearly.

"You want freedom, but you are controlled by the law of heaven. For thousands of years, you have worked hard to be alone, but you can't break free. Have you never thought about the reason for your failure?"

Reason for failure.

The scenes of the ninth life flashed through her mind.

Time and time again, she complained about the plot line and how powerful the halo of the male and female protagonists was, using this as an excuse for her failure.

But in essence, touting their strength just reflects their own weakness.

That's why she wasn't willing to give in.

As if she had been enlightened, she raised her eyes and looked directly at him, no longer escaping or dodging at all, "Because I'm not strong enough."

But after admitting her weakness, Ji Ranyue fell into a new confusion.

It was like one of her feet stepped out of the gap, but outside the gap, it was still foggy and there was no way forward.

"Then what is truly powerful?"

Does being strong just mean having absolute power?

Power can be taken away.

But strength cannot be deprived, otherwise why would it be called strong?

Ji Ranyue instinctively felt that being powerful was not the same as absolute power, but when she was asked to define the so-called powerful, her brain seemed to be blocked by something, and she could only capture a blurry shadow.

"I might have been able to reply to you without hesitation in the past, but now that I have shaken my own way, how can I continue to teach you and resolve your doubts?"

Xie Heng cultivated immortality and gained the power to fight against heaven and earth.

Upgrade step by step, control greater power, and become the one that all the immortals look up to, and everyone who sees it will bow their heads.

He had once so crudely thought that this was strength, and this was the path he wanted to pursue.

But Jin Huan's appearance was a slap in the face from reality.

Rather, it was her who tempted him and fell into his own ways.

Rather, it was her existence that made Xie Heng realize that his so-called strength and so-called Tao were actually so shallow that they could be broken at the first glance.

The first person in the Immortal Sect, the first person in the six realms.

A person who has controlled such a powerful power is in great pain in the face of love, but he is powerless against the cycle of life and death.

When he couldn't let go of love, he was a complete weakling in front of her.

When he faced the thunder but could not save her who died for him, he was still a weakling who was vulnerable to the way of heaven.

From this, he believes that strength is not absolute, but relative.

And if all things in the world want to pursue strength, what should they pursue?

Is it the absolute in relative terms?

Xie Heng didn't know.

He is still bound by love and doesn't want to break free.

It can be seen that he has no fate with the Dao.

Since there is no fate, why ask for it again?

He just wants to seize the moment.

"Huan'er, although I don't know, you may be able to understand it one day. Before that, break out of the so-called rules."

Start by marrying him.

In this life, Xie Heng learned a word called temptation.

A lure needs food.

The bait he set for her is called - becoming stronger.

He was fishing by the stream, waiting for her, approaching him 1

"Xie Heng, I...I can't promise you anything right away. Please let me think about it again."

It doesn't matter, take your time, he is not short of time.

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1Adapted from "Fuyao" "I'm fishing at the mouth of the well, waiting for you, come closer to me."

Many people use the label of a strong woman to say that my book is a pseudo-strong woman. The heroine has been relying on men to help her. So I really want to ask, what is a strong woman?

In other words, what is strength?

I've thought about it for a long time, but I don't have a clear answer.
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