For everyone asking about the lovers bug
Chp. 48 excerpt:
[Xiang Liu sat down next to the raft and stared at the sleeping Xiao Yao before softly saying,
"The tree grows old on land together, the mandarin ducks die together in the water - the Lover's Bug connects heart to heart and our lives, and it truly has no way to break the bug.
Years ago I was only able to remove the bug from Zhuan Xu because he didn't know it was you so he didn't willingly accept the bug. So you never successfully planted the bug on him in the first place.
But I…..I was heart and soul willing, so the bug successfully planted in me. You asked me to remove the bug and I kept telling you I can't do it, but you didn't believe me. But I truly didn't lie to you, I cannot remove the bug.”
Xiang Liu picked up Xiao Yao's hand and used his finger as a knife to slice into the flesh of her palm and his palm back and forth until he drew a blood spell "I cannot remove the bug, but I can kill the bug!"
Xiang Liu smiled before joining his bloody palm to Xiao Yao's bloody palm, so tightly that the blood flowing wasn't clear whether it was his or hers.
"Don't blame me for not telling you this before, blame yourself for being useless!"
Xiang Liu started to chant the spell and with it countless glowing blue dots appeared and flew around both of them.
The blue dots lit up the night sky until it was an ethereal beauty of lights in the air and reflected in the lake surface.
Xiang Liu's hand suddenly grabbed a real dagger made from ice and he stabbed it directly into his own heart. ]