Qing Li seemed to know that I was all bark and no bite, remaining silent as always.
With a swish of her arms, she manipulated her long hair to tightly coil around my neck.
The face without any features started to laugh, looking utterly sinister and terrifying to the extreme.
For the first time I truly realized, a person with a blank pale face could still produce such a laugh without any facial features!!
This kind of hair created through dark and negative Art.
Its greatest fear is actually fire.
As long as there's fire, it can burn the hair to ashes.
Unfortunately, I had chosen strips of cloth at the beginning, which might be effective in controlling someone but were absolutely idiotic for burning hair.
I frantically searched in my pocket, fumbling out a bunch of talismans that Yu Longting had given me in the past.
Finally grasping a few fire charms, I saw Qing Li slice open her own wrist, and her fresh blood splashed onto the fire charms.
The fire charms flickered and then the incantation patterns on them instantly vanished.
Their original purpose was lost!!
"Qing Li, you're determined to put me in a life-or-death situation!!" The feeling of suffocation grew stronger, and my belly felt heavier and heavier.
Little Dumpling tried to rush out to save me but was suppressed by a damp and cold force, unable to move.
I saw a triumphant and domineering pleasure on Qing Li's face, as if she was trampling over the lives of both Dumpling and me in the manner of a victor.
But my heart was calm and undisturbed, my fingers lightly touched my stomach which felt as cold as ice, "Yu Longting, if you don't come now, you'll never see me and Dumpling again."
"Hehehe, you still expect Yu Longting to save you; why don't you just ascend to heaven? You sure have the nerve; do you still not understand who Yu Longting belongs to? Even if he came, he would only help me. Face the facts, you little slut."
Qing Li seemed to breathe out a sigh of relief, laughing with smug satisfaction.
She had cut her wrist deeply, and blood kept dripping from the wound, forming a small pool on the ground, but she didn't care.
Suddenly, Qing Li's laughter ceased abruptly, and the hair strangling my neck vanished in an instant, as if something warm and scorching touched my skin where the hair had been intertwined.
I opened my blurry eyes, only to see bright purple heavenly fire burning in the dark, rustic room.
The man standing before me held a self-igniting fire charm between his long fingers, the purple flames casting eerie shadows over his coldly noble and abstinent visage, his thin lips parting slightly, "In my presence, to harm my wife and son and to call her a slut, even the protection of the Lin Family won't save you. Just accept being bald."
The flames of the fire charm were the nemesis to the sinister hair, burning away the strands entwining me and then surging towards Qing Li's scalp with unstoppable force...
"No no no... don't burn my hair, Snake Lord, I'm your legal wife, I'm your woman, how can you bear to see me bald..."
Qing Li broke down, desperately beating her own hair, however, her body was composed of a particular type of Yin energy constitution.
Far from extinguishing the flames on her hair, her hands were scorched and began to emit black smoke.
She could only rely on the constant growth of her long, thick black hair to prevent the fire from reaching her face.
Like a feline animal guarding its food, Yu Longting protectively pulled me into his arms, his fingers tenderly stroking the bleeding strands of hair and tear tracks on my body, "What's wrong with burning your hair? Even if the Lin Family backs you, if you irritate me, I'll still kill you. Just because my Primordial Spirit was injured, do the people of the Lin family and you really think I've become weak, and my temper has improved? Ridiculous."
"Yu Longting, stop it!! Just stop!! Cough cough cough..." Lin Huan's coughing sounds resonated heavily, apparently coming from outside the window.