Chapter 464: Meal Time

Xu Ke sighed. "I understand that you are angry. I made a mistake. I know threatening you wasn't such a very good idea. However… you must consider. I am hopeless without your help."

"I am not angry." She looked at him. "I am hungry."

Xu Ke sighed. "It seems that coming into this world thoroughly changed your priorities."

However, Lyca's attention was no longer with him. It was on the batches of food that two people were carrying towards the table by her bed.

"Eat it. It's not poisoned."

"I would eat it even if it was," she fired back, rendering him speechless.

"I am here because I want to ask you something about this…" he held a stone in his hand. "Right now, I can only summon stones as small as this and creatures."

"Black stars ore?" Lyca uttered. Then the realization hit her. She had seen the same stones on the Chu Family and on the people that she killed in Kong City. She had studied it and confirmed it was in that the Black stars ore from her previous world. "It's useless."

"I know. It's useless in our world. But I think it could change this world."

Lyca snorted. "How? Magic?"

"Exactly!"

She lifted an eyebrow. "You think people who wear them could use it? Impossible. The stone doesn't do anything. It doesn't attract anything."

"But electricity."

"Electricity. Yey!" Sarcasm was rich in her tone.

"I want to know if there is any other way to use it."

"Why are you asking me this question? Did you forget that I am inside a room with nothing but a bed and table?"

"This is why I am letting you leave the room. But you have to promise me. Do not try something or else your family will suffer. After all, Tang Ruyi is here… working with Jihan for a secret project."

Lyca immediately frowned. She lifted her gaze off the food and stared at him. "You dragged here her?"

"To be fair, she volunteered. She wanted an experience. I met her last night over dinner. I think she is a very lovely woman. Kinda like you. But… I believe she doesn't have any interest in men."

"You— "

"Hey… don't look at me like that. I already told you. She volunteered to come here. Kinda like how you came here on your own accord."

"I will help you."

"I knew you would say that."

"Promise me… you won't hurt her." She knew his promise was useless. She Xu Ke. At the end of the day, he would only say that he promised her but his men didn't. His men could kill Tang Ruyi anytime and this shameless Xu Ke would never say that it was him who killed her.

Ruthless.

Cunning.

But stupid.

Lyca sneered inwardly.

"Of course I won't hurt her. She is my cousin too… by the marriage of course."

"Who would want to marry you?"

"You— After all, you are already a widow. Isn't it right that you move on and find another man to marry?"

Lyca stared at his smug face. She almost couldn't believe her ears. How come Xu Ke is doing everything that she thought he would do? From the imprisonment to threatening the Tang Family to Tang Ruyi and now marriage?

Lyca was certain that she wasn't the Lyca that he used to know. But why was he acting like he was still the previous Xu Ke? He was using the same old tricks over and over, it was comical.

"No need to worry. I am not going to force you into anything. You will marry me because you want to."

She shook her head inwardly and focused on her food instead.

"Anyway, I will provide you with a lab. You will study the stone and you will be monitored twenty-four seven. I already removed all the weapons in your, the bracelet, the necklace, and that god-awful engagement ring. Why would Shen Qui gave you something so cheap?"

"Give me the ring."

"Of course… but only if you provide me with something important first."

"What information do you want?"

"Internal energy. How many are you able to cultivate?"

"All of it."

"All of it?" he asked, he wanted to confirm if he read the whole thing. "How is that possible? You are only a soul. This is not your original body."

Lyca was speechless. What could it mean? She and Shen Qui was able to cultivate their meridians and were able to complete all energy points.

"I don't know. I just cultivated it." She wasn't planning to tell Shen Qui that she had been cultivating naked, or at least most of the time.

"Then… how did you come back? Ye Bai… you possessed her, right? This face is Ye Bai's too. How did you come back?"

"I don't know what you are talking about!"

"You knew what I was talking about! You came back using this body to haunt me! To kill my family! You made me feel what you felt when I killed yours!" Xu Ke's face turned ugly, his sharp gaze bored into her. "How!"

"I don't know! You can investigate it! I just fell asleep and became comatose for three years!" Of course, she isn't going to tell him about the necklace. Nope… not even if she died.

"I don't believe you."

"Xu Ke… you can think about it. When I came here I don't have any other intention but to live a good life and for a moment, I succeeded. But those people— your people bothered me. So I ran away. After that, I just fell asleep. I don't know what happened and I have no idea how it happened. One day, I was in my bed, the next time, I was in the previous world."

"Then… how'd you come back here?"

"I don't know…"

"You— "

"I honestly don't! I just decided to— "

"To what?"

"To let go of you."

His face turned sour. "I don't believe you."

Lyca just stared at him in response, hoping that he would just leave her alone so she could enjoy her mealtime.