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    Chapter 20: Green Tea Movie Star x Reserved President 20

    Gu Family Estate.

    Gu Changli helped Xie Chi back to the wedding room, which had been specially decorated recently. After settling him on the bed, he instructed the downstairs nanny to bring up some hangover soup.

    He fed the soup to the tipsy Xie Chi.

    The cat-like System 143, watching the drunken groom sprawled messily on the wedding bed, couldn’t help but worry about whether its host’s secret technique would succeed.

    [Host, why don’t you pick another time?]

    Just look at how drunk Xie Chi is. There’s no way he can smoothly undergo soul binding with you. Forcing it will likely result in failure.

    This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

    We must think thrice before acting, and consider everything carefully!

    Gu Changli set down the hangover soup and lowered his eyes to look at Xie Chi, whose face was flushed and breath hot.

    “Other times won’t be as suitable.”

    Today, Xie Chi is genuinely happy, which will make it easier for him to open his mind, allowing Gu Changli to imprint his soul and complete the crucial soul binding.

    System 143: [Okay, I’m logging off.]

    Not wanting to disturb its beautiful host, the cat-like system obediently went offline and stayed in its system space.

    It happily dug out the game console its friend had given it.

    Left alone in the bridal chamber, Gu Changli sat on the edge of the bed, smoothing Xie Chi’s slightly furrowed brow.

    “Follow the Way of nature, act according to your heart.”

    “That’s what you told me before. You said not all the gods above are right; as long as they are living beings, they will have their own selfish desires and distractions.”

    “We are seekers of the Way, so we should simply follow our hearts.”

    After saying this, he was silent for a moment, complex and obscure emotions flowing in his dark pupils. His jade-like fingers poked Xie Chi’s brow.

    “I want to tell you, I did it. The later me became a top powerhouse that the world could only look up to. No one dared to shout and kill me again.”

    “But you broke your promise. I waited for you for a long time.”

    For nearly half of his more than ninety thousand years of life, he had been waiting and searching for the other party.

    Fortunately, he finally found the reincarnation of the Golden Lion Demon Lord.

    Even if Xie Chi was just an ordinary mortal, Xie Chi’s soul was that of the Golden Lion Demon Lord, the beloved he had hidden in the depths of his memory for more than eighty thousand years.

    “I will bring you home from the Greater Thousand Worlds.”

    An invisible barrier slowly rose, protecting the red-filled bridal chamber.

    Gu Changli bent down and picked up Xie Chi, pressing his forehead against Xie Chi’s. Invisible, blood-red light wrapped around them.

    That was the special power carried by Changli’s soul.

    As the blood-red light gradually deepened, Changli’s soul suddenly crashed into Xie Chi’s sea of consciousness.

    The shattered sea of consciousness was riddled with cracks.

    These were the wounds left by the Golden Lion Demon Lord’s soul scattering in the past. Even now, after being restored to a soul body, it still carried severe scars from being pieced together and repaired.

    Standing in that sea of consciousness, Changli’s soul gently smoothed out those old wounds, slowly imprinting his own soul mark on them.

    In the empty, dark sea of consciousness, no one could witness Changli’s true appearance, including the sleeping Xie Chi and the offline System 143.

    The real Changli had an even more weary and cold beauty.

    That face was perfect in every way; adding more would be too much, subtracting would be too little. His eyebrows were like kingfisher feathers, his teeth like pearls. It was a perfect masterpiece of the Creator.

    The beauty chosen by the heavily appearance-obsessed System 143 possessed both the solemnity and coldness of someone in a high position, the noble aloofness of a god, and the ferocity of a beast.

    His beauty was extremely complex and aggressive.

    That appearance, sufficient to charm all living beings, was so beautiful that it almost blurred the boundaries of gender. Or rather, he was the embodiment of beauty and the best synonym for it.

    But his eyes never held anyone extra.

    Some young people even thought Changli was a heartless, loveless, and desireless true god.

    Little did they know that Changli had once fallen to become a ferocious beast.

    Changli was somewhat of a madman at heart, but he usually kept it hidden so well that few could detect his true nature.

    Perhaps only his disciples and some old friends could see his true nature.

    Changli was neither a true god nor a ferocious beast.

    This guy’s nature was extremely strange and tricky; it would be more accurate to say he was both good and evil.

    As long as he was willing, he could be a compassionate, benevolent, and salvation-seeking immortal, or a murderous, tyrannical demon.

    It could even be said that he was moody.

    No one knew when he would get angry, nor did anyone understand why he would stop and admire withered grass. There was something wrong with his brain.

    Moreover, he liked prosperity but didn’t like joining the crowd, and even preferred to be quiet and alone.

    Few people visited where he lived, mostly small paper figures.

    Changli didn’t love beauty, nor did he covet power; it seemed that nothing in the world caught his eye.

    Actually, a demon had long entered his eyes.

    This demon was the early-dead Golden Lion Demon Lord, a nine-headed lion who was abandoned at birth.

    The death of the Golden Lion Demon Lord was an incentive for Changli’s drastic change in temperament, but in the final analysis, it was Changli’s disappointment in the world at that time and those who were manipulated by prophecies that led to the tragic case that affected all ethnic groups.

    However, karma is cyclical, and the principles of heaven are clear.

    Whatever cause you once planted, you will naturally bear the corresponding fruit in the end.

    Life or death, god or demon, is just a matter of thought.

    Slowly ending the soul imprinting, Changli’s soul looked up at the soul body in the depths of the sea of consciousness and walked over, his enchanting face particularly bewitching.

    The two souls gradually intertwined.

    A permanent mark that could never be erased was quickly left on the fragmented golden soul body by the red soul.

    A Nine Phoenix mark appeared on the center of that soul body’s brow.

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    System space.

    System 143, which was in an offline state, suddenly received a message from the main system.

    Main System: [143, your host has successfully bound Xie Chi’s soul. From the next mission onward, they will definitely be thrown into the same world.]

    System 143 was stunned. [So fast?]

    Awesome, my host! Your efficiency is something I can’t catch up with even if I die!

    Main System: [The level of danger your host poses is high in some ways, but low in others. Anyway, be careful yourself and try not to make him angry.]

    System 143: [I’d have to be stupid to make a beauty angry!]

    Main System: […Stop being a simp! You’ve really bound yourself to a big trouble this time.]

    System 143 was confused. [What do you mean?]

    Main System: [According to Changli’s identity, he shouldn’t have left the Canglan World. After all, the Favored Children of the Greater Thousand Worlds are the darlings of the Heavenly Dao. Us snatching someone from the Heavenly Dao is just causing trouble for the Quick Transmigration Bureau.]

    System 143 retorted, waist held high: [I didn’t snatch him; I only bound him after getting the host’s permission. Besides, the Heavenly Dao of the Canglan World didn’t stop me.]

    Main System: [You think I don’t know that the Heavenly Dao of the Canglan World is injured and still in a coma? How could it stop you? Moreover, it’s only in a coma, not dead. When it wakes up and finds out that Changli has been kidnapped by you, it will definitely cause trouble, and then there will definitely be great trouble.]

    System 143 guiltily poked its cat paws.

    Main System: [Fortunately, it won’t wake up so soon, otherwise I’d have to clean up the mess for you. You’re really the most worrying system I’ve ever taught.]

    System 143, whose academic performance was at the bottom all year round, was unable to refute this, and could only honestly listen to the main system’s endless scolding.

    Main System: [You don’t have to worry about the Heavenly Dao for the time being, but you need to be careful about Changli’s side.]

    Main System: [The Quick Transmigration Bureau has never bound a Favored Child of the Greater Thousand Worlds as a mission taker before. You can be said to have opened a precedent in the system world.]

    Main System: [You only know how to look at faces, and you don’t even know how to use your database beforehand.]

    System 143: Stop scolding, stop scolding…

    After a round of output, the main system paused for a while and said, full of disappointment: [How dare you run to the Canglan World to snatch someone! You’re not even enough for Changli to burn to ashes!]

    System 143 whispered: [The host hugged me when he bound with me. He’s not that brutal, and he will also eliminate harm for the people.]

    Main System: [Your filter for Changli is too thick. He hugged you only to show that your skin is nice to touch. Rather than eliminating harm for the people, it’s more like cleaning up garbage. There’s no morality in his head.]

    You’re talking about morality to Changli? Are you kidding me?!

    The Quick Transmigration Bureau has a record of the few Greater Thousand Worlds among the three thousand worlds, because their job is to maintain the operation of the three thousand worlds.

    As the leader of the Greater Thousand Worlds, the Canglan World is the focus of the Quick Transmigration Bureau.

    And Changli, as the Child of Destiny of the Canglan World, has long been recorded by them, otherwise, where would System 143 get Changli’s identity?

    It knows Changli better than System 143 does.

    In fact, Changli originally didn’t have to encounter the tragic fate of nine deaths and nine lives. He should have grown into an outstanding Child of Destiny, but an accident caused an irreversible tragedy.

    The main system can only say what a pity.

    Even though Changli’s fate has deviated, he has still grown into the Child of Destiny, growing into the master who supports the future of the Canglan World.

    Timing and fate!

    System 143 was both sad and wanted to refute, but in the end, it didn’t say anything.

    Main System: [Forget it, take care of yourself and never step on Changli’s bottom line.]

    System 143 blinked. [I know.]

    The main system quickly closed the chat page and stared worriedly at the Canglan World, which had no abnormalities for the time being. It sincerely hoped that there would be no accidents.

    Favored Children like Changli, who are strong and backed by the Heavenly Dao, are hot potatoes for the Quick Transmigration Bureau. They hope that he can do more good deeds, and they also hope that he can stay in the Greater Thousand Worlds peacefully.

    Well, Changli has already come, so he can’t come for nothing!

    It must make reasonable use of it and not waste the ability of this Favored Child.

    System 143 is a member of the Heart’s Desire Faction…

    It remembers that the Heart’s Desire Faction seems to have a lot of difficult and tricky tasks piled up, and even some tasks have caused many excellent mission takers to fail.

    This time, it’s a good opportunity for Changli to help solve them.

    They helped Changli and the Golden Lion Demon Lord continue their relationship, so Changli will just take it as doing business during their love affair. Anyway, these tasks are all trivial matters for him.

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