Liamu didn't want to lie about his identity.

He answered truthfully, "My adoptive father's surname is Li, and I am originally a descendant of the Chu family."

Shen Fangting nodded and continued to ask, "What kind of person is that Star Moon to you?"

"She's my mother's daughter, the contemporary head of the Shen family, sort of my sister!"

"Does she look like me?"

Li Mu laughed, "It's practically identical, if you see her, you'll definitely be surprised, the two of you are as if you were twin sisters."

"How old is she?"

"Almost 26."

Shen Fangting suddenly became emotional and said with great meaning, "She's so lucky to have escaped that calamity, alas!"

"What kind of calamity?" Li Mu asked curiously.

"Since your mother is the head of the family, would you not know about the main vein calamity?"

After thinking for a while, Li Mu snapped out of it and asked uncertainly, "You mean, an early death at 25?"

Shen Fangting nodded her head a bit and said with a sad expression, "It seems that you do know, yes, this is the calamity of the main lineage of the Shen family, in every generation of the main lineage, there will be a woman who will die prematurely, and her life span will only be up to the age of twenty-five."

"Star Moon didn't escape, she met this calamity too!"

Shen Fangting sighed in pity, "In that case, her days are numbered!"

"The girl is wrong, she has already broken the spell!"

Shen Fangting froze, not understanding what Li Mu was saying at all, that was the fate that the Shen family couldn't hide from, who would be so capable of cracking it.

"Is the Prince not joking?"

Li Mu shook his head and said seriously, "I wouldn't joke about such a thing, the Shen Clan has indeed cracked the calamity!"

"How did they do it?"

Li Mu calmly said, "Increase your life span against the heavens!"

Shen Fangting rose up in indignation and said loudly, "This bunch of bastards, how can they use evil magic to increase their life span, can they stand up to their ancestors if they do this?"

Li Mu was beginning to regret it, and he himself was mouthy, what was the point of talking to her about it.

Seeing Shen Fangting's anger, he hurriedly explained, "Don't be angry, they were also forced to do nothing for fear of apologizing to the ancestors, and had no choice but to come up with that solution."

"What happened?"

"The main lineage of the Shen Family is not prosperous, and in Xing Yue's generation, she is the only one left, and if she is allowed to pass away, the Shen Family's bloodline inheritance will come to an end here."

"This is not a reason!" Shen Fangting said angrily, "Where under the heavens is there a long-lasting family, the Shen family's demise at this moment is also the will of heaven, how can we force a reversal."

Li Mu is not good to say anything more, can only persuade: "Things have happened, the girl does not have to hold on to it, Shen family good, in addition to this matter, there is no other fault, in my opinion, or forget it!"

"Goodness, using someone else's life to add to your own is called goodness?"

"Miss Fang Ting, you're misunderstanding Xing Yue, she knew nothing about it beforehand, it was the clan that did it behind her back, and it was the clan that voluntarily offered their lives, it wasn't a trick."

"Hmph, a clan member's life is not a life anymore, don't explain anything for her, I will never agree with this matter."

Li Mu didn't dare to chat further for fear that this ancestor, in his anger, would refuse to hand over the key to them, his unworthy descendants.

He deliberately digressed and asked Shen Fangting, "Miss Fangting, did your father seal you here to avoid the calamity?"

Shen Fangting sighed, then smiled bitterly, "Yes, my father couldn't think of any other way and couldn't bear to see me die, so he sealed me here."

"Why doesn't your father seal a few more people, so you can be companions to each other when you're together, and by doing so, you won't be alone and lonely."

Shen Fangting looked at him in surprise, obviously not expecting that he would say such words.

"How can this be, what are you babbling about again, it's my hijacking alone, why should I involve others in it, it's unethical to do so."

"If it's forced, it's really immoral, if it's willing, maybe it's happiness."

"Imprisoning a man's soul here, you think that's happiness?"

Reimu nodded seriously.

"If that person is your lover, he will think that this is paradise and that your companionship with each other is bliss!"

Shen Fangting shook her head, "My father wouldn't do that, in his old man's eyes, it would be cruel to do that."

"It's not cruel to do that when you're left alone to keep it?"

"You don't understand, I have my mission, and I'm staying here voluntarily because, well, I'm going to watch over the gold for you white wolves."

After saying that, he grunted and twisted his head, no longer looking at Li Mu.

Little Reeko felt embarrassed.

It turned out that the ancestral grandmother was Lei Feng, in order to guard the treasure for the descendants, not hesitate to be alone for hundreds of years, compared with others, their own awareness is really far from it.

Shen Fangting seemed to be a bit angry and got up, "Do you want to sleep inside, or do you want to sleep outside?"

"I'll just sleep outside and not bother you inside."

"Whatever!" Shen Fangting said, getting up and leaving.

Li Mu grinned, Grandma Ancestor's temper was not small, it seems that in the future, he needs to be more careful in his speech, so as not to offend Grandma Ancestor.

Just when she wanted to turn around and leave, Shen Fangting suddenly rushed over, grabbed the teapot on the table with one hand, grabbed Li Mu's neck collar with one hand, and poured it in mouth to mouth.

With Li Mu's skill, he could totally slap her away.

But he didn't dare, this ancestor was now the God of Wealth, the key to the treasure was still in her hands, he would never dare to easily offend.

An entire pot of herbal tea was poured into Li Mu's stomach by Shen Fangting, who asked with a mushy face, "Are you satisfied?"

"Better, you guessed it, the water is poisoned!"

Reimu wiped his mouth, waved his hand at her, and left without looking back.

Shen Fangting looked at his back, her eyes smiling into a crescent moon.

Li Mu returned to the lake shore alone, built a simple grass hut, and found some hay to lay on the ground, considered to have settled here.

They hadn't seen each other again since the disagreement with Shen Fangting.

Shen Fangting didn't come to him, and he didn't want to mess with that ancestor, and between each other, nothing happened.

Hope was running to him every day, and it didn't take long for them to get together, playing and playing all day long, and the bond between one person and one beast grew deeper and deeper.

In the beginning, Hope came early and stayed late.

Then, going back later and later, and in the end, simply sleeping in the hayloft, sticking with him day and night.

The sun rises and sets, the moon waxes and wanes, time passes day by day, and there is no sign of that ancestor, let alone, giving him the treasure key.

Li Mu finally couldn't sit still, ready to pay a visit to Shen Fangting, and in the meantime, probe her, her so-called good time, how many days still need to wait?

Before he left, Li Mu asked Hope to go back and take a look, and if it was convenient for its owner, he would pay a visit.

After waiting for a while, Shen Fangting took the initiative to come to him.

The two people chatted for a while, Li Mu tried to bring the topic to business several times, but the other party was talking left and right, just not answering his questions positively.

Since then, Li Mu also often visited Shen Fangting.

Whenever they met, Shen Fangting met him outside and did not invite him into the cave, and never saw Xiaoyuan accompanying her.

And when Shen Fangting was away, Hope was always the first to, well, show up at his side.

Hope and Li Mu are getting better and better and love to stick with him, and Li Mu loves it from the bottom of his heart and refuses to let go of it every day when he holds it in his arms.

Finally, one day, he felt something was wrong.

Since Xiao Yuan was Shen Fangting's spirit pet, why didn't it guard its master's side.

Even if you can't be with them all the time, at the very least, you should have the opportunity to show up together.

And in fact, it was either Hope or Shen Fangting, and he never saw them together.

Little Reeko couldn't help but float away.

Finally, he decided that he had to find out what was hidden in this matter, no matter what he said.

The next day he chased and played with Hope as usual, and in the evening Hope was ready to burrow into the hayloft and go to bed.

"Hope, wait!" Li Mu called out to it from behind, and Hope looked at him curiously as she was unsure.

Liamu walked over and took it in his arms.

"It's been a while since I've seen your master, I'd like to pay her a visit, so don't rush off to bed and accompany me."

Hope, who was in his arms, trembled slightly, and Li Mu couldn't help but thump in his heart when he caught this reaction.

Outside the cave, Li Mu's complexion became complicated as he kept knocking on the door but never got an answer.

Sighing, he set Hope down on the ground.

"You go home, I should go home too."

Turned around and tried to leave the place.

"Gongzi!" Shen Fangting's voice came from behind him, Li Mu slowly turned around, there was no longer Xiao Yuan in front of him, what was there, was only the beautiful Shen Fangting.

"Your Excellency has already guessed?"

Liamu nodded silently.

Shen Fangting shed tears and said, "I know, I shouldn't always go looking for Gongzi, but I just can't help it, it's all my fault, I always want to see you, I want to be with you."

Large drops of tears fell.

Li Mu said softly, "Fang Ting, you are a good girl, I am really happy when I am with you, can I be your brother? Although I haven't lived as long as you, I want to be your brother, I want to protect you for the rest of my life."

Shen Fangting choked, "I don't want it, I don't want my brother, I like you, is Gongzi disliking me?"

"I'm sorry!" From Li Mu's mouth, these three words were squeezed out.

Shen Fangting laughed miserably, "I knew it would be like this, I hate my identity so much, not human, not a ghost, not a demon, I don't deserve you, I'm a monster!"

He said, crying out in pain, and ran into the cave.

Li Mu stood silently outside the cave, and a long time passed before he let out a long sigh and turned to leave.

The night was silent, and early the next morning, Hope came outside the hayloft, and Li Mu subconsciously stood up, thought about it, and sat back down.

The hayloft was so simple that it didn't even have doors or windows.

One person and one beast, one sitting in the house and one sitting outside the house, as if there was an invisible portal that separated them completely.

Li Mu chooses to avoid it, and Hope sits out there motionless until sundown, which is when she hangs her head and leaves the hayloft alone.