Are you afraid of pain.

Time seems to pass quickly, and then again it seems to take forever.

Xu You is mostly imperceptible, with occasional moments of awareness that come from physical sensations.

Sometimes she felt cold, as if she had stepped into a realm of extreme cold, more often she felt hot, like a bonfire coursing through her veins, melting all the sinews and remodeling new ones.

She also felt the familiar plush in her palms, and someone kept talking in her ear, over and over and over again, relentlessly saying things.

She tried to hear, but it was as if she had been separated by several layers of airtight cover, blurred, and nothing became real.

Xu You could feel herself recovering, as she became conscious for longer and more often.

It was late one night when Xu You's body felt a real sense of the outside world; she felt herself lying in a soft, comfortable bed, felt her wrists being held, and felt several eyes on her.

Her body is sore and heavy, like a machine that hasn't operated for a long time rusting, her eyelids are heavy, Xu You's eyes roll under her eyelids twice, and her wrists are immediately gripped tightly.

After a few moments, Xu You finally opened his eyelids and saw two large men on his left and right.

Xu You slowed down and focused his eyes to see Jue Shen and Jingyan You, one pale, gaunt and thin, the other unkempt and with bloodshot eyes.

Xu You opened his mouth, and before he could say anything, he heard a shocking burst of crying.

"Miss woo woo woo woo woo woo miss! Miss wow miss--" the big girl Zhi Cui, who had all the muscles, strength and speed, cried and fell to the ground, and even the old Jia Guan who was beside her took out the fragrant handkerchief only used by yellow-flowering girls from her sleeve and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"......."

Xu You ：Seeing you guys like this, I thought I was dead.

"I ...... It's okay." Having not spoken for a long time, Xu You's throat was too dry and her voice was hoarse and weak.

Jingyan You stroked her head and got up to pour her water.

Jue Shen helped her sit up and slowly asked her, "Is there anything else that is uncomfortable?" His voice was actually several times hoarser than hers.

"It's all okay."

Xu You dry cough several times, took Jingyan You handed over the water slowly drank two mouthfuls, moistened his throat and said, "This time thanks to elder brother, if not elder brother medical skill, I'm afraid to ......"

She didn't say any more as she noticed Jingyan You squeezing the teacup tightly, eyes slightly drooping, expression changing, she thought maybe the words that followed were inauspicious and not suitable for her who had just escaped from the line of life and death.

"Big fox." Xu You felt that this time it had really scared Jue Shen, whose already white and transparent skin was especially sickly white at this moment.

"Why have you lost so much weight."

"Is it too much to worry about me?"

In the quiet night, orange candlelight flickering, light and shadow, Jue Shen's dark eyes also stained with some light.

He whispered back to her; "Yeah, I'm worried."

--

In the few days of recuperation, Xu You found something not quite right, exactly where not quite right she could not say, there is always a feeling that something is everyone understands, only she does not understand.

The feeling made her feel a little panicky, a little disorganized, uneasy and unsettled.

It did not take long for her to get out of bed and take care of her own life, with a good appetite and good sleep, but also with special energy, which is the opposite of her former sickly body, before she blew a little wind, she could lie in bed for a few days, and that kind of loss of appetite, nausea and boredom, and felt that life could not breathe through the taste, she is still fresh in her mind.

How ...... now alive and well?

Did she change her body or something? Does snake venom have health benefits? No, is that Jingyan You's medicine? No, if Jingyan You had such a medicine, I am afraid that you would have given it to her long ago, which would have made her suffer for so many years.

And why exactly is that?

Xu You thought, while stuffing the freshly heated stove to the sleeping Jue Shen on the soft collapse, Jue Shen is very sleepy lately, basically can sleep from morning to evening, and again from evening to early morning.

And I don't know why, before the body temperature is higher than ordinary people Jue Shen, now both hands are always cold, no matter when she touches, his hands are ice, as if how to not cover the heat.

He hadn't changed back into his fox form, staying in his human form, occasionally changing into a fox tail for her to touch, but Xu You wasn't too brave to jerk it off anymore, the hairs on his big tail kept falling off in big clumps.

The fine white fox silver fur looks like falling snow.

Xu You wasn't sure if fox demons lost their fur, but she remembered that Jue Shen used to not lose it.

Looking at his sleeping face, his features were deep and smooth lines, his eyebrows were delicate and good-looking, only the two red demonic lines under his eyes had faded in color, before it was a blood dark red intense color, now it was as if the pigment had been blended into the water, and the color was so light that it was transparent.

Xu You had a vague suspicion in his mind.

Until two days later, she secretly saw Jue Shen following Jingyan You into the medicine room. Jingyan You's medicine room only allows Xu You and Jia Guan to enter, because this medicine room is full of Jingyan You's collection of the world's rare medicinal herbs and his prescription, which can be said to be the top priority of the entire Medicine Spirit Valley. It can be said to be the top priority of the whole Medicine Spirit Valley.

With Jia Guan guarding the doorway, Xu You didn't go in to interrupt, and squatted alone in the corner for about an hour or so, until Jue Shen left the medicine room, then she went into the medicine room to look for Jingyan You.

Jingyan You was slightly surprised for a moment, but quickly hid his expression, " Xu A is bored, elder brother accompany you to drink tea?"

"I just saw Jue Shen enter the medicine room, what happened to him?" Xu You looked closely at Jingyan You, not missing the slightest change in his expression.

Jingyan You smiled slightly, no more cracks, "He was worried about you, so he asked about the status of your recovery."

"But in contrast, I don't think he's in a very good condition," Xu You said, "If my elder brother hides it from me, I'm afraid I'll be guessing left and right and worrying constantly."

Jingyan You glanced at her, sighed silently, and turned his head sideways.

Xu You mentally thumped, "Elder brother, is he ......"

"I don't want to upset you more than I want you to worry," Jingyan You sighed again, "Paper can't hold fire, and some things won't be able to be hidden eventually."

Jingyan You said, abruptly self-deprecating light snort up: "The world all say I have excellent medical skills, only in saving your life, I realized that I do not deserve those four words."

The implication was that his medical skills could not cure the snake venom, nor could he save her.

Xu You was stunned, half unable to find his voice: "That's him ......"

"Yes," Jingyan You said, "Jue Shen cut his heart out."

On that day, he was searching for Xu You with his men, but he received news from Jia Guan that the Demon King, Jue Shen, had brought Xu You back to Medicine Spirit Valley.

Jingyan You was so anxious, immediately rushed back to Medicine Spirit Valley, only to see Xu You's face blue, blackened index finger, has been planted with poison, he also did not have time to ask the cause and effect, immediately diagnosis, examination and acupuncture.

And then he realized that this poison has not been seen, and the toxicity is fierce, has invaded the lungs and heart veins.

The silver needle fell to the ground, Jingyan You couldn't accept the situation for a moment, Jue Shen knew the result by looking at his face, so he asked: "Can you save my heart?"

"Not necessarily." He had heard that the heart-eating fox's heart could live the dead, flesh and bones, and gain longevity, but in the end it was just a rumor, he hadn't used it, not to mention that the important thing was that Xu You had already been poisoned in a few breaths.

But the man in front of him, apparently without the slightest scruple to weigh, directly tore off his clothes, a knife did not enter the chest, cut a deep and long wound, and then he used two hands to tear the mouth wide.

The sound of ripping muscles makes you clench your hands.

"You ......" Jingyan You couldn't say any more, he was selfish, he selfishly wished to save his sister, even if the possibility wasn't certain, he didn't want to let Xu You lie in a cold coffin and be buried in the ground.

Jue Shen used his right hand to reach into the wound, grabbing the heart and pulling it outward, blood like running water staining his clothes red until it stained his silver and white soft boots, haloing the blood on the ground.

He clenched his teeth, veins protruding from his forehead and neck, his body spasming from the extreme pain.

Jingyan You, who had killed and saved countless people, was shocked by this scene for the first time, and even he couldn't bear to look away, not daring to see it again.

"You ...... You will die if you cut the whole heart, but you can cut a finger or so of flesh ......" Jingyan You finished with difficulty, he felt disgraceful, ashamed, and uneasy.

There was the sound of sinews and veins being ripped out, the heart was ripped out of the chest, with half of the veins still attached, and on Jue Shen's right hand was a bloody mass of heart flesh, he held a dagger in his left hand and cut down.

Jingyan You The bones of your clenched hand rattled, and your eyes closed tightly as if you were sitting on pins and needles.

It was a short tea break, but it seemed so long that there was no end to it.

"Here, go save her."

Hearing the strained and hoarse voice, Jingyan You opened his eyes and turned his head to look, Jue Shen bit his lips and tongue, blood was flowing from the corner of his lips, his stoic body reached its limit, trembling and shivering, on his right hand was a nearly intact heart, bright red blood leaked out from between his fingers, and drop by drop it fell to the ground, quiet and silent.

Jingyan You opened his eyes wide to see the large bloody hole hollowed out in his heart, containing just over a finger of heart flesh.

"You ......" Jingyan You Don't know what to say.

"Go now, the more flesh of the Heart Eating Fox the better for her," Jue Shen finished her sentence through her teeth, "As long as I still have heart flesh, I will not die."

He was going to marry her, so he wouldn't die and he couldn't die.

Jingyan You still vividly recalls the feeling of receiving the warm heart in his hand, and how the temperature penetrated his body like a knife into his heart.

Jingyan You lowered his eyes and continued, "I later learned that he had been hit by the Snake Clan's Devouring Gothic."

That snake's notorious poison magnified the pain of the injury tens of thousands of times, and Jue Shen cut his heart out alive without a single cry from start to finish.

How much it must hurt, Jingyan You can't imagine, and you don't dare to imagine.

Later, he also discovered that the wounds on the fox's body healed very slowly, which caused Jue Shen to live in extreme pain every moment of every day.

Jingyan You developed a variety of drugs to heal wounds, but these drugs have little effect on Jue Shen, he had to change direction and develop a drug to paralyze pain, a few times around the effect is not ideal, Jingyan You can only give the drug to make Jue Shen sleep, such a drug will make Jue Shen extremely drowsy, and he will fall asleep to reduce the ability to perceive, thus reducing the degree of pain torture. This drug will make Jue Shen extremely drowsy, and he will be able to perceive less when he is asleep, thus reducing the level of pain.

......

Xu You doesn't know how he left the pharmacy, his mind went blank and he walked back to his Pear Blossom Garden in a trance.

She saw from a distance a man sleeping on a soft cushion under a pomegranate tree.

The bright warm afternoon sun fell on the tender green branches and leaves, and the bright red pomegranate blossoms were hung on the treetops like a ball of fire.

Xu You couldn't help but hold his breath as he approached and took a seat on a wooden chair to the side, watching him quietly.

As the sun moved on, the shadows of the trees faded and were slowly lengthened.

Jue Shen's eyelashes twitched and he slowly opened his eyes to see the little girl in front of him, hugging her knees and scrunching up in a chair, looking at him without blinking, against the backdrop of the scarlet sky in the evening.

Upon seeing her expression, Jue Shen froze slightly and asked in a low, slow voice, "Why are you unhappy?"

Xu You was stunned and instantly thought of the Min Duan who had risked his life to go out and give her a piece of his mind, forcibly enduring his pathological reaction .

Two faces that were obviously completely different were reunited at this moment.

Their expressions were relaxed, as if they had only done something small, and the only thing they cared about was whether she was happy or not.

Jue Shen transformed her tail and waved it at her.

Xu You lowered his eyes and made no move.

Jue Shen got up and got off the soft cushion and opened his arms to her.

Xu You got out of the wooden chair and hugged him with open arms.

Her face was pressed against his heart.

Twilight is approaching, the sky's flaming clouds are sprinkled with a layer of lead gray, and a light wind blows through the pomegranate blossoms like silent bells, gently swaying.

No one spoke, it was quiet around them, only the sound of swaying branches and leaves could be heard.

After a long time, Jue Shen felt the clothes on his chest getting wet, and the little girl in his arms had her head buried since the beginning.

"What's wrong?" Jue Shen embraced her, his voice revealing an extremely rare patience and gentleness.

After a while, the wind stopped.

Xu You held back his sobs and asked in an urn, "You hurt ...... Are you afraid of pain?"

Jue Shen's chin rubbed the top of her hair in a loving, soothing motion that was palpable.

His long eyelashes drooped slightly, and in a shallow voice he said--

"How can a demon be afraid of pain?"