The bone knife wasn't very long in length, nor was it very wide, like it was made from some kind of animal's ribcage.

On top of the blade, there was a floral pattern carved on it, which looked, well, exquisite and chic.

Li Mu picked up the bone knife and asked curiously, "What is this?"

Shen Fangting glanced at it, "This is my parting gift to Gongzi, a bone knife made from one of my ribs."

Li Mu hurriedly placed the bone knife back on the tabletop and smiled awkwardly, "Miss Fang Ting's gift is quite chic."

Shen Fangting smiled, "Don't underestimate this bone knife, it is the key to the treasure."

Reimu picked up the bone knife again and held it in his hand to scrutinize it repeatedly.

"After you leave here, underneath the stone platform, a hole will appear, and you can open the entrance to the treasure by inserting the bone knife into it."

"And are there any more organs in there?" Li Mu asked.

"The organs are definitely gone, but there are a few small thieves!"

Reimu rubbed up and looked at her in surprise.

The latter smiled sweetly and gestured for him to sit down.

"Don't get excited, everything that happens here is destiny, there are so many treasures there that they can't move them all."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Tell you, is it useful, even I can't stop them, what can you do to stop them, let's forget about this matter, I advise you not to pursue this matter and not to tell anyone."

"Why is that?"

"Because human nature is paranoid, and when you tell them, they will think that the two Lin Shen families are cheating from it, so why would you bother yourself."

"Can you tell me who they are?"

"I don't know, they went in through the cul-de-sac, I'm not sure where that cul-de-sac is or how they found it?"

Liamu didn't say anything else.

The two sat for a while longer, and Shen Fangting suddenly said, "Gongzi, if I do something to wrong you, will you be willing to forgive me?"

Li Mu looked at her in confusion, "What does the girl mean by these words?"

"Can you answer my question?"

"Depends on what it is, some things are forgivable and some things are not!"

Shen Fangting didn't ask anything else and lowered her head to drink tea silently.

After a moment, she said softly, "Last night, I went out."

Liamu was taken aback.

Shen Fangting laughed, "Scared you?"

Li Mu laughed bitterly, "I forgot, you can possess stone beasts, you saw them?"

"I've seen it, I've seen that Shen Xingyue, she really does look like me, but I don't like her, there's a deathly aura about her."

"Dead air, you mean to say that Star Moon is not alive?"

"It's a living person, but not a normal living person, she's just using her own body to continue the lives of others, her own life force is long gone."

Li Mu frowned and asked, "Can you change that, I mean, get rid of the death aura in her!"

"Yes, let me be your woman and I can help you, I know she likes you, and, she is a very important woman in your life, I can get rid of the death aura in her, and also in you, as long as you agree to my request."

"There's death in me too?"

"Yes, you switched dead man's bones to make yourself strong, but you're tainted with a deathly aura, and if you don't remove it early, you won't live past 40."

"Is the dead air you're talking about a fury?"

"No. Fury is the aura of death, which you can understand as the aura of killing, and death is the aura of death, which is not auspicious to touch."

"I won't live to be 40?"

Shen Fangting nodded seriously, "You're simply fooling around, the hand is the knife that kills, the arm is the place where the death qi is the heaviest, you even replaced a pair of arm bones, if I don't save you you definitely won't live past the age of 40."

Liamu was silent for a long time.

Shaking his head, he said, "Although I am afraid of death, I already have a wife, and I love her so much that I will never leave her for the rest of my life, so it is impossible for me to take you as my wife."

Shen Fangting said anxiously, "I can, I can..."

Li Mu waved his hand and said seriously, "Fang Ting, it's now three hundred years later, times have changed, the kind of situation you mentioned could have existed three hundred years ago, no one can accept it now."

Despair was revealed in Shen Fangting's gaze.

Li Mu couldn't bear to watch and couldn't help but say, "Fang Ting, I want to tell you that I like you too, I'm not perfunctory, I really like you very much, but, I can't accept you."

Shen Fangting's tears hung down.

"I'm glad you're willing to show me your feelings, I know you're having a hard time and I don't blame you."

Li Mu sighed and the two returned to silence once again, gradually, Shen Fangting's expression became hesitant.

She seemed to be making up her mind, and after another while, she asked softly to Li Mu, "My lord, I want to be selfish for once, can you forgive me?"

Reimu stared at her in a daze, not sure what she was trying to say.

Shen Fangting suddenly blurted out, "I won't let you go, I love Gongzi, and Gongzi loves me, we shouldn't have been separated in the first place!"

Li Mu frowned and said, "Fang Ting, you won't get anywhere with this, is the word acceptance that important, come with me, we can be the best of friends, we can be the closest of family, we can live happily together!"

"A happy life, hmmm, tell me first what kind of life that is and how I can be happy?"

"Just live like we used to, we were always happy, don't you like that life?"

Shen Fangting firmly said, "I don't like it, I want to be your wife, don't want to be your favored beast, if you refuse to promise me, I won't go with you, if I don't go, you're not allowed to go either."

Li Mu was a bit annoyed and patiently advised, "It's fruitless to be so stubborn, I can't give you the life you want, you'd better let me leave!"

"Why did you leave, didn't you say, you like me, if you like me, why did you leave?" Shen Fangting questioned.

Li Mu patiently explained, "Fang Ting, I do like you, but liking is not love, you will always be Xiaoyuan in my mind, my love for you is fondness, not affection, these are two completely different concepts!"

Shen Fangting choked, "You've finally told the truth, in your eyes, I've always been that little beast, even, I'm inferior to it."

"Fantine, it's not like that, it's just hard for me to separate you out, whenever I see you, it's like I see it, I want to protect you, I want to love you, so why are you clinging to that relationship?"

"Why can't I be persistent, I've been alone for three hundred years, it's not easy to see someone, or a man I like, why won't you accept me!"

Li Mu got annoyed and felt that Shen Fangting had drilled into the bull's eye again, and she couldn't listen to what the reasoning said.

So, getting up, he said, "It's getting late, and since you've reneged on your promise and won't let me go, that's it, I'm going back, goodbye!"

Shen Fangting didn't block the way and sneered, "My father once admonished me that I must use the simplest way to deal with the most complicated problems, and I'm going to use the simple way to deal with the problems between us now."

Li Mu developed a bad feeling and asked loudly, "Shen Fangting, what are you trying to say?"

Shen Fangting said indifferently, "I know that there are two reasons why you refuse to accept me, the first reason is my identity, the second reason is your family, the former is a chasm, the latter is a stumbling block."

"What do you want?" Li Mu questioned.

Shen Fangting let out a cold smile and suddenly disappeared into thin air, her icy voice coming from the air.

"The chasm can be paved slowly, the stumbling blocks must be moved, and I'm going to get rid of those stumbling blocks so that you'll be completely unattached."

Li Mu shouted, "I'm warning you, no hitting on my family, if you dare to touch a single hair on them, I swear I'll kill you!"

The surrounding area was deathly silent, Li Mu looked around for Shen Fangting, but there was no sign of her.

Fear assailed his entire body, and all sorts of bad thoughts filled his mind; he didn't dare to imagine what crazy things a stubborn soul could do.

He could only hope now that Shen Fangting was only driving them away from this place and would not cause any harm to their personal safety.

He shouted out to Shen Fangting, but never got a response from her.

About an incense stick later, just at the moment when he was about to collapse, Shen Fangting returned.

After showing up, she smiled at him and said, "Your Excellency, there is no longer any bond between us, so your Excellency can try to accept me."

"What did you do with them?"

"I'm sorry, I had to kill them so that you could stay here without a care in the world, for your sake, I could only do this." Shen Fangting bowed her head and said.

Li Mu stormed into a rage, grabbing the bone knife on the table and pointing it at Shen Fangting.

"Bitch, I'll kill you!"

Shen Fangting looked at him sadly, her body lunged over, Li Mu was caught off guard, and the bone knife went through her chest and out of her body.

Blood began to flow from the corners of her mouth, and her eyes gazed at Reimu in a daze as her body lolled towards the ground.

As if he understood something, Li Mu hurriedly loosened his grip on the knife, supported the falling her, and shouted, "Fang Ting, what are you doing?"

"I didn't hurt them, it was the best I could think of, go on, take the treasure and leave, I can't be with you in life, let, let my death be with you for the rest of your life!"

Shen Fangting's vigor began to lax, wanting to reach out to touch his face, his hand to halfway, powerless drooped, his eyes are still looking at him in a daze.

Li Mu's eyes went black, as if his heart had stopped beating, and he stared at her in a daze, with only black and white left inside his eyes.

Suddenly, he howled!

"Fantine, why did you do that, why!"

Li Mu cried out, but the beautiful person in his arms had stopped responding.

In a flash, pain, remorse, and regret haunted him, causing him to ache so much that even every breath was so difficult.

"Fantine, why, why ah, Fantine, I love you..."

The surroundings began to distort, and when everything returned to normal, Li Mu stood on a stone platform, with the stone beast lying at his side, the bone knife stuck in his body.

Li Mu dropped to both knees and grabbed her hair with both hands, unable to hold back her sobs.