A Family of Hopeless Romantics, Except for the Evil Little Junior Brother

Liu Qiushui looked at Li Xuanxiao, who had entered the Mountain God Temple alone, and let out a barely audible sigh.

The key to this restriction lay in the Mountain God Temple. Li Xuanxiao was indeed clever.

Unfortunately, he only guessed half of it right.

I’ll remember you.

The little guy who once saved me—but that’s all it will be.

You can only blame fate for this tribulation.

For Liu Qiushui to reach her current position, she naturally understood the art of sacrifice.

She glanced once more at the figure of the youth within the restriction, then turned and left.

“You few stay here and await Elder Sikong’s awakening.”

The restriction’s power was now sufficient—it would likely be one or two more days.

By then, Elder Sikong would awaken, and everyone within the restriction would die.

Liu Qiushui couldn’t bear to see that young man die an untimely death.

Forget it, let it be.

“..........”

Luoshui Town.

Li Xuanxiao stood within the Mountain God Temple, completely unfazed by the coiled azure dragon.

“Hurry, hurry!!”

Black-clothed constables rushed to the temple entrance.

“Whoever’s inside, come out now!”

According to Luoshui Town’s rules, you had to obey constables. But now, Li Xuanxiao was a constable too.

He looked down at the black clothes he was wearing.

Just as the constables outside were shouting, Zhang Tianxin suddenly appeared.

With a single palm strike, he crushed a constable’s throat.

Though his cultivation was sealed, his physical strength remained.

“Stop right now!”

A constable shouted.

Zhang Tianxin didn’t stop. Punches, kicks—

Wearing black, under the night sky, he seemed to melt into the darkness. Within seconds, he had taken out all the constables outside the Mountain God Temple.

Seeing this, Li Xuanxiao began to consider his next move.

He took off the black clothing, shedding his constable status.

Revealing a red garment underneath.

Look closely—that wasn’t actually red.

It was originally a white undershirt, now dyed crimson from blood soaking through.

【Rule Three: Red clothing is not allowed in Luoshui Town】

There was no red clothing in Luoshui Town.

【Rule Seven: The Mountain God Temple is safe】

Li Xuanxiao pointed his sword at the Mountain God statue.

The moment he put on red, a new rule appeared before his eyes.

【Rule Thirteen: Destroy the Mountain God to leave Luoshui Town】

Rule Thirteen.

The shrine awakened and materialized before Li Xuanxiao.

He was radiating killing intent, fully prepared for battle.

A middle-aged man stood there, exuding scholarly elegance, his demeanor refined and calm, even carrying an aura of righteousness.

He looked like a Confucian cultivator.

What the h*ll?

“This young Daoist, may I say a few words?” the man quickly asked.

Stalling for time?

Li Xuanxiao sank into a battle stance, knees bending—ready to strike at any second.

The man raised a single finger.

A flood of memories that didn’t belong to Li Xuanxiao poured into his mind.

“.........”

Zhang Haoran. The Haoran Sword.

He was somewhat well-known, once holding up an entire sect on his own.

But his sword had a flaw. To compensate for it, he secretly joined Tian Sha Hall.

During a breakthrough, he lost control and accidentally slaughtered all his disciples.

Zhang Haoran lost all purpose in living and sought only death.

While attempting suicide, he met a little demon who had transformed from a mayfly.

The mayfly-turned-girl said, if you’re going to die, why not spend just one day with me?

That one day felt like a lifetime.

The girl gave him a reason to live.

But mayflies are born in the morning and die by dusk.

She encountered spiritual energy and gained human form—one day to live a whole life.

Even that was already a great blessing.

Zhang Haoran said, “We did many things. We bowed to Heaven and Earth. She became my wife.

But even then, I couldn’t save her. I’d never seen a mayfly before—by the time I realized, she was already gone.

That was her life.

I couldn’t save her. Not even as a Body Fusion Stage powerhouse could I bring the dead back to life.

But... if I die, I can make it happen.

Using this restriction, I can pour all of my power into letting her live again.

Like a normal person, to live the life she dreamed of.”

Zhang Haoran looked at Li Xuanxiao with teary eyes, voice choking:

“So, my fellow Daoist, I’m not doing this for myself. I’ve long since been a man who should’ve died. I just want to fulfill her dream.

Please, she’s innocent.

It’s almost done—just a bit more.

Can you wait a little longer? This restriction will vanish soon.

She... she’s never seen the ocean. She’s never seen the bustling capital. She’s never ridden in a carriage. She’s never eaten sugar figures... she deserves all of it...”

As he spoke, the shrine—this Body Fusion Stage powerhouse’s manifestation—knelt before Li Xuanxiao.

“I can give you anything you want. After I die, I’ll repay your kindness. I just ask you to give her a chance.

If it means going to the eighteenth level of hell, let me be the one to go.”

“I just want... your life!!”

Li Xuanxiao drove his sword straight through the shrine’s head.

“Ah....”

Zhang Haoran stared at Li Xuanxiao in shock and fury.

“Why... why?”

Li Xuanxiao didn’t explain. With one strike, he chopped off the shrine’s head.

Firmly following the principle: kill first, talk later.

“She gave you a chance. If being born in the morning and dying by dusk is her fate, then why force it?

She lived a whole life with you, saved a despairing man ready to die, and you stayed with her till the end.

But you were too obsessed. You just had to force it.

How many innocent lives have been lost because of you?

You only remember that your girl never saw the bustling capital, never rode in a carriage, never tasted sugar figures.

But the innocent people you killed—who will answer for the wonderful lives they were robbed of?”

Zhang Haoran, I understand why your sword technique had a flaw, and why you lost control during cultivation—it was your choices that led to who you are now.”

“Ahhhhh!!!”

“I won’t accept this! I won’t!!”

The restriction over Luoshui Town was gradually fading, and Zhang Haoran’s voice echoed through the entire town.

“Even as a ghost, I won’t let you go! I won’t let you go!”

“I’ll watch you forever! I’ll drag you into the deepest hell!!”

“..........”

Facing Zhang Haoran’s curses, Li Xuanxiao remained calm and indifferent.

“Zhang Haoran, everything that happened is what you deserve.”

“I’m going to kill you!!!”

Li Xuanxiao didn’t even listen.

Luoshui Town completely vanished.

And with it, countless bones of those who had mistakenly entered Luoshui Town were buried as well.