20 Dragon and Phoenix 9 (1/2)

When Yin Mei saw the demon king in person for the first time in over ten years, a complex emotion washed over her. There was happiness, of course. But also something else, that she couldn't put into words. Tears naturally began falling down her eyes. She had been working so hard, she didn't even know how stressed she had gotten. Seeing the person whose sake she was doing it all for made her feel like it was all alright again. Now that her big thigh was back, she would certainly be able to pound those a**es into oblivion. Of course, she didn't think about the fact that she was actually now stronger than the demon king, who had only just ascended and was thus currently one of the weakest people in the upper realm...

Yin Mei couldn't contain herself anymore, and her sobs became noticeable. Yang, who was next to her, was on the verge of a panic attack. It couldn't be helped. This was the first time he had seen Yin Mei cry since he had met her, and he had no idea what to do.

”Your Majesty!” Yin Mei finally called out, running up to hug the demon king, who looked at her with a slight change in his normal expression. ”I-I-I missed you,” she could barely speak because she was crying too hard.

This really couldn't be helped. In the years that she had been here, she had actually not cried once. She had kept it all in. Not even when she had first killed, or when she had been killed. None of it. But, a person could only handle so much before they reached their breaking point. For Yin Mei, she had already endured more than she could handle, but she continued going despite all that for the sake of her mission, to survive, to be able to obtain the reward of any wish.

But, even Yin Mei herself didn't know why seeing the demon king again had sent her straight over her tipping point. Was it because it was for the demon king's sake that she was doing all this? Or maybe she had simply imprinted with the demon king like a baby chick would with their mother. Yin Mei really couldn't say. She just knew that she couldn't stop the tears, and she wanted to hear those words from him again.

”... Little rabbit?” The demon king said, his face one of slight shock as he looked at the girl in front of him. He had prepared himself for what to expect when he ascended with the information that was in the ring he possessed. But, when he opened his eyes, he didn't expect to see a crying girl wearing clothes the color of fire, seemingly oddly familiar, but at the same time, he was confident he had never seen her before. And the first words out of her mouth sounded so much like the way that the little rabbit would call him, that those words just slipped out of his mouth. Even he didn't know why he thought that she was similar to the little rabbit, when she looked so different. Not only that, but the little rabbit was already dead. He had buried her himself. Although, there were certainly techniques that would allow cultivators to reincarnate...

”H-h-how,” Yin Mei was so shocked that even her tears stopped as she froze in place, looking at the demon king dumbfounded. What the f*ck, just one phrase of your majesty let him see through her identity? What was this godly perception?

The two stared at each other, both shocked. One because the person he thought was dead was alive in another body, the other because her identity had been seen through so easily even after all her worrying these years.

After a while, Yin Mei realized what a mess she must look like so she quickly wiped her face and cleaned herself up a little before clearing her throat and asking, ”how did you know it was me?” She was really curious.

”Instinct,” the demon king replied curtly, but was also really surprised that the little rabbit was really this girl in front of him. ”How are you still alive? And in the upper realm?” His voice grew slightly cold, for some reason, and Yin Mei couldn't help straighten her spine up a little, feeling as if she was once again back in the lower realms in those days when she was still serving the demon king in the palace (that experience only lasted about week though...).

”Um... something like a special technique? Because I was about to die, I used it to transfer my soul to a body in the upper realm.” Yin Mei replied. She had technically told the truth, so the demon king couldn't see through anything and just nodded.

”Oh, Yang, you can't tell this to anyone okay? My family doesn't know that I reincarnated from the lower realm,” Yin Mei said, remember the existence of the large boy behind her.

Yang nodded, feeling sad that she had clearly forgotten about his existence until now. So she was from the lower realm and had been waiting this entire time for this man here? He gazed warily at the man. It really was an appearance that could seduce all manners of people.

Actually, now that he had ascended and gone through another round of purification, the demon king was somehow even more beautiful than before, if that was even possible. It was like he transcended the bounds of mortal comprehension, his appearance so dazzling that if a human looked at him, they would definitely end up fainting.

Because Yin Mei was so preoccupied, she had yet to notice though. ”Your Majesty, here I'm a member of the phoenix clan! Although you're now a dragon, you can still come to my clan as a guest elder. I can bring you to meet the Jade Emperor as well.” Yin Mei said. She could sense that others were quickly coming from the capital city, and so quickly wanted to take the demon king back home so that he wouldn't go following around or seducing some random people. It would be the absolute worst if he got kidnapped by some stranger! She especially couldn't let that dragon clan get their hands on him.

The demon king nodded, leaving everything to Yin Mei. After all, he was already used to this back in the lower realm, so he just naturally slipped back into his old habits. Although he was a little angry that he had mourned for nothing, but there was more relief that she wasn't truly dead and here safe and sound... He was also glad. That mysterious feeling that plagued him, after seeing her, had also disappeared.

Yin Mei hurriedly rushed the other two back into the capital city and to the phoenix clan's palace. Of course, she brought the demon king to meet her parents and her brothers. The family stared at Yin Mei who was introducing the demon king. They stared at her, and her reddened eyes from freshly crying, flushing pink cheeks, and sly glances toward an unbelievably beautiful man.

In unison, all four of them thought: What in the world happened while we were gone??