Lucian was lying on the bed. It had been a long time since Vader made any move. Vader just supported himself on the bed with one hand, remaining silent but not paying any attention.
For no reason, she felt a little dissatisfied and wanted him to deal with her. This little dissatisfied feeling was very slight, like the cool night breeze blowing through the fluffy fur of a cat. If she had a tail at this time, it would have been wrapped around Wade's arm.
— without him being aware of his emotions.
"So what do you want to do?" Lucian asked timidly, "Do you want to continue?"
Wade withdrew from him. After a long time, Lucian heard a cold voice: "No."
"No... Why? Am I not attractive enough for you?" Lucian asked.
Vader ignored it.
Lucian looked at the back of Wade sitting on the bed and fixing his clothes. He clearly saw Wade's reaction... At that moment, his bad taste of not knowing when to stop came back.
"I understand." Lucian said deliberately, "You are afraid that when you are halfway through..."
"Has your soul taken control of your body again?"
If there is such a scene, it would be extremely "wonderful".
Lucian clearly felt that Wade's temperament suddenly became dangerous. He turned his back to him, but his expression was cold and fierce. Wade sneered and said, "Lucian, don't always say things that make me want to strangle you to death."
“Oh…” Lucian shrank his neck insincerely. Then, he asked, “So you have become Esther now?”
"It's not Esther. Esther is just an alias. This guy's real identity is Elvis." Wade's cold face showed a slightly painful look, as if someone was fighting for his body. "Elvis' identity is indeed the way I came to this dream, and I also showed his appearance. But Elvis is also the only real consciousness in this dream. He realized that there were outsiders coming, and was surprised that there were two people, so he ran to snatch the body from me - I can't guarantee that it will always be me, not Elvis, who owns this body."
“Oh…” Lucian nodded, pretending to understand, and then asked, “Then what should we do to leave this dream?”
"Fulfill the dream master's obsession, unlock the dream, or kill the dream master." Wade said coldly, "Of course, it's useless to ask me to commit suicide - I am just presenting myself in a different appearance. This body is still my body. Killing it means killing myself."
Lucian: …
He couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth, and before Wade noticed, he said, "What are you doing now?"
"Being suppressed by me and taunting me from time to time," Vader said.
Lucian: …
I wanted to laugh even more because I knew that in the original novel, after Vid entered the dream and was sent to Esther's mansion in a carriage, he judged that he was the demon and the lord of dreams, and killed him in a bloody battle.
"So we need to find a way to get rid of his obsession, right?" Lucian asked, "What should we do? Discover his obsession first?"
Lucian has done something similar. The protagonist of a dream is often entangled by the wrong choice he made at a certain moment, and cannot be freed until death. In order to get rid of the obsession, we need to let the plot go all the way to the moment when the mistake happened, and as the protagonist of the dream (or the protagonist's friend), make the protagonist of the dream make another choice and cause the ending at that moment to turn to the one you want.
Vader also knew this.
"Let's continue along our path." Wade said, "We don't know yet how the situation developed to the final result, and at what moment..."
It became Elvis' obsession.
"Oh..." Lucian said.
As night fell, I was really tired. The incense and warm breeze in the bedroom made Lucian a little drowsy. I said, "Then let's go to bed next."
I watched Wade stand up, put on his clothes, and then I watched him push open the door.
Lucian: ?
"Master Wade, you..."
Lucian didn't understand his intention, so he said to Wade: "Master Wade, if the plot in the dream changes, and the subsequent changes are too drastic... the dream will collapse."
Wade looked back and said, "Huh?"
"The butler and the servants are outside the suite. If you find that you left here in anger after I came in to 'serve' you." Lucian tilted his head and looked at them, "then you will think that I, your 'lover', have angered you and have been rejected by you..."
"Have you ever thought about the consequences?"
Lucian sat on the bed and looked at her. She still had black hair and green eyes. What was surprising was that perhaps due to genetics, Lucian and Xi Ruier did have some similarities in their eyebrows and eyes.
And his current appearance with black hair and green eyes looks very much like the arrogant and spoiled young master before he turned into a cunning succubus.
… If the person sitting on the bed now is indeed the young master, Wade doesn't mind letting those people in the dreams outside the door listen to the sounds Lucian will make that night to show how harmonious their relationship is.
… No, it still won’t work. Vader thought grimly, and just thinking about it made him want to kill those who heard Lucian’s voice.
"I live in the outer room," said Wade.
Lucian didn’t understand: “You’re sleeping on the sofa?”
Wade said nothing. He just closed the door and went out.
Lucian: …
He sat cross-legged on the bed, hugging his pillow, in a daze.
What does Wade want to do
Only one thing was clear, no matter what Wade wanted to do, at this moment, he didn't want to spend the night in the same room with him.
What made him feel even more outrageous was that Wade had just walked from the bedside to the door without even looking back.
Lucian buried himself in the bed, thinking about Wade's excessive resistance just now, which almost made him feel inexplicably irritated. Finally, he finally thought of a possible reason.
"Did I overact and make him think I was too scared?"
Lucian pondered for a long time, feeling a little unhappy and anxious. Finally, he lay on the bed alone, and fell asleep with his head down, hugging a pillow.
"Is it that serious?" Before going to sleep, I thought vaguely, "I don't care about me..."
…
Vader leaned back on the sofa in the reception room.
Esther's voice rang in his ears. The ghost from three hundred years ago teased him, "What, you finally found a way to block my vision?"
Vader closed his eyes and said nothing.
"Are you really that stingy? I remember your name is... Vader? Is that beautiful woman named Lucian your spouse or your lover?" Esther said, "Because you can't block my vision, in order to prevent me from seeing... you yourself don't even want to take a look at her? Vader, I have to remind you."
There was no trace of anger in his tone, just a sense of amusement: "The appearance you are using now... is mine. What's wrong with me taking a look? Aren't you also using my appearance temporarily?"
"Your person." Vader simply repeated these three words, "Your lover."
The ghost had no shape, just a slightly cool breath, but Wade knew it and raised an eyebrow. Wade narrowed his eyes and said, "I know you can still find a way to control this body now. This is the dream you dominate, and it is also your identity."
"I also hope that there will be peace between us, without having to fight all the time." The ghost shrugged and said, "Of course, you have to believe me, I won't cause trouble for no reason - just now, it was an accident. I wanted to see who entered my barrier and entered the role of my Xi Ruier..."
The word "my" obviously angered Wade again. The ghost then said, "Of course, I also want to see what kind of interesting relationship there is between you. It seems that you think I am very afraid of you and treat you as a little pitiful? My friend, I really didn't expect you to do such a stupid thing. Your lover is very cute, but he seems to be much more cunning than my Shiril. He is a little bad guy - I guess he is your lover."
Wade didn't say anything. The ghost smiled and said, "A beautiful, bad-tempered and difficult to please lover. What is the difference between a lover and a spouse? They are completely different. Between lovers, there is passion and possession. Between spouses, there is responsibility, dedication, and..."
He didn't say anything else, but just said: "Your little lover is really not someone who can be easily dealt with. My Xi Rui'er is much more obedient and simple than you. It's a pity that in the end, alas."
"You have a lot of problems." Wade said coldly, "It seems that you are willing to be a life mentor."
The ghost sighed exaggeratedly: "If mocking me makes you happy. Everyone knows that I was killed by my Shiril. That dagger is covered with my blood. Didn't your lover enter the barrier with that dagger?"
This ghost seemed to be talkative, but Vader knew that he was not as gentle, friendly and active as he appeared.
Whenever he wanted to find out what his obsession was, the ghost would always use seemingly interesting but meaningless words to evade his inquiries. In the end, the only information Wade got was the information that he was willing to reveal and the information that existed in the legend. Cyril became Esther's lover. In the process of pretending to be nice to him just to get information, she fell in love with him, was deceived by him, and finally discovered Esther's true identity - she did deceive him. Esther was Ivis, the lord of the City of Pride. In the end, Cyril killed him.
"I admit that I started playing with him because it was exciting enough. I was indeed attracted to him, and I sent people to inquire about him. Xi Ruier is very good at disguise, but I have a friend who is very good at getting information—"
Vader thought of the Rift-level demon who opened the Casino of Life and Death in the City of Greed.
Presumably, the friend he was talking about was this one. Wade's mission also included finding the letter that Ivis left for him before his death in the illusion.
"I found out Shirelle's identity when we had been together for two months. Let me think about it, it was just these few days. Shirelle has been hiding it all the time, and she is very smart, but smart people always make small mistakes. You are a child in his twenties, and I have lived for hundreds of years. You are too young, and every time you show a little flaw and pretend to be calm, I want to fuck you hard." The ghost said, "But this news has not changed anything. I am very satisfied with this lover, and the experience of having sex with you is also good enough. In addition, don't you think it is particularly exciting for you to sleep with your destined enemy who has killed you? This has increased your attraction to me."
Vader: …
Obviously, demons have no sense of chastity. The human nobles a hundred years ago were no less ethical than those who shared lovers. As a demon pretending to be a human noble, Ives obviously combined the excellent traits of both and was a high-quality polyploid hybrid.
"It's a pity that he later discovered my identity as a demon. I said that Xi Ruier is a little smart, this is not surprising." The ghost said, "He wanted to send me back to the demon realm and use a spell to prevent me from entering the human land again. Xi Ruier is really cruel and kind-hearted. The human church wanted to kill me - of course, they can't deal with me. He also has a cousin who was harmed by me, so he is really kind-hearted."
"You said he was cruel." Wade said coldly.
"You are so cruel. You will not go to the Demon Realm. In other words, the relationship between us is cut off. So I say, you are so cruel. You are a lover that suits my taste." The ghost said, "So I tried to take you to the Demon Realm. I prefer to choose willingly, so you killed me."
"I'll kill you."
"You destroyed my disguise and years of management in the human race. The fun in the Demon Realm is not as much as in the human race. So I asked him to go back to the Demon Realm with me, at least there he can provide me with some fun. But he didn't want to. Do you have... a so-called 'bond' with the human race?" The ghost said slowly, "Of course, I don't want to threaten you with violence. I hope you can make this choice willingly, so..."
"I destroyed all his ties with the human race. So he killed me at the place where we agreed to leave Fog City together. It's that simple." The ghost said, "I don't hate Xi Ruier. I pushed him into a corner."
Vader: …
"What is your obsession?" Wade asked.
"It's hard to say." The ghost was still smiling, "But don't worry, I will follow you until you complete the task. Of course, I won't give you any hints. Before that, please act according to my memories, so that it will be of reference value, right?"
Vader closed his eyes again, thinking that what he said was as good as nothing.
The next day arrived.