After making his decision, Edward Morgan swung open the grand doors. Standing guard at the entrance, James Walker saw his lord emerge from seclusion, placed his longsword on the ground, knelt on one knee, and quietly awaited his command.

Edward Morgan looked at his most trusted Left Protector, recalling that James Walker also existed in the plot, and began, “Protector Yin, your thoughts on love and affection... never mind.”

He had only spoken a few words before remembering the chilling deeds of James Walker in the story, and decided not to ask further.

James Walker probably didn’t understand love either.

Author’s note:

CP James Walker

Chapter 2: The Demoness of Xuanyuan

James Walker could hear the unfinished question in Edward Morgan’s words and understood that his lord wanted to ask his views on love. To be honest, James Walker didn’t understand it either.

As a child, he had been picked up from a mass grave by his lord and brought back to Xuanyuan Sect. He had always taken his lord’s orders as his own will, never expressing a personal opinion. Even though Edward Morgan hadn’t finished his question, he still lowered his head and said, “Whatever pleases my lord is my faith.”

If his lord liked storybooks, James Walker would collect every storybook in the world; if his lord liked women or men, James Walker would bring him anyone he desired; his lord’s wishes were James Walker’s command.

Edward Morgan gazed at James Walker, who was kneeling on one knee before him, recalling the plot that had filled his mind these past few days.

According to the book, James Walker truly lived up to what he was saying now.

James Walker, the fourth male lead in “Tortured Love: You Are My Only Constant,” was the right-hand man of the second male lead, Edward Morgan. He was silent and reserved, utterly obedient to Lily Harris, and fiercely loyal. Whenever Edward Morgan liked Lily Harris but couldn’t look after her himself, he would send James Walker to protect her. James Walker had been beaten, poisoned, injured, and nearly lost his life for Lily Harris, never uttering a word of complaint. He had never even confessed to Lily Harris; the most revealing thing he ever said was during a crisis, when Lily Harris told him to escape first, and he replied hoarsely, “If I live, you live; if I die, you live.”

What girl could resist such a loyal, handsome man who expressed his love through his actions? In the early part of the novel, James Walker’s popularity even surpassed Edward Morgan’s. Even Lily Harris, who was hopelessly devoted to William Carter, once tearfully said that she could never repay what she owed James Walker in this lifetime.

All the readers, including Edward Morgan himself, believed that James Walker was deeply in love with Lily Harris. But later, after Edward Morgan died for Lily Harris, James Walker...

Recalling the plot he had read four or five times, Edward Morgan asked, “While I am here, you are loyal and devoted. But what if, one day, I am gone?”

Hearing this, James Walker’s body trembled, his arm bracing against the ground quivered slightly, as if the mere thought of Edward Morgan’s death was unbearable. James Walker didn’t want to imagine any possibility of Edward Morgan’s demise, but since Edward Morgan had asked, he forced himself to consider it. Before long, cold sweat broke out across James Walker’s forehead, showing he had pushed himself to the limit.

After a long while, he squeezed out a reply through clenched teeth: “I would die before my lord.”

Edward Morgan flicked his sleeve, and almost unconsciously wiped the cold sweat from James Walker’s forehead. The gesture was gentle, but his words were merciless: “If I have unfinished business, I forbid you to die.”

James Walker’s pupils shook. He shifted from one knee to both knees, pressed his palms to the ground, and bowed his head deeply. “I do not know.”

He didn’t know, but Edward Morgan did.

In the book, before dying, Edward Morgan ordered James Walker to protect Lily Harris. The Edward Morgan in the story believed that James Walker also loved Lily Harris, and would surely protect her well in his stead. James Walker did just that, never leaving Lily Harris’s side.

But at the same time, a mysterious masked man appeared in the plot. He seemed to be everywhere, using every method to torment Lily Harris. After Lily Harris was injured, he sprinkled bone-melting powder on her wounds; when she was unconscious, he threw her into a pit of ten thousand snakes; when she was alone, he set up a cauldron of oil to refine her into oil. With each appearance, the masked man’s depravity escalated.

Readers kept guessing which vicious female supporting character was disguising herself as the masked man. Although the book described him as male, in the world of cultivation, a man in women’s clothing was hardly unusual.

But one time, when Lily Harris and James Walker were being chased by the masked man and hid in a cave, Lily Harris softly said, “Big Brother Yin, it’s all thanks to you being by my side.”

“Is that so?” James Walker replied.

Exhausted, Lily Harris leaned against his back, about to drift into sleep, when she noticed a corner of the bundle James Walker always carried sticking out. Looking closely, she saw it was the very ghost mask that had haunted her nightmares countless times!

After Edward Morgan’s death, James Walker finally did something against his lord’s orders: he wanted Lily Harris to suffer and die in agony, to have her buried with Edward Morgan, and to refine her into an eternal soul lamp, lighting the way for Edward Morgan’s journey beyond.

All his previous care was never out of affection for Lily Harris; it was only because Edward Morgan had ordered him to do so that he cared for her safety. Since Edward Morgan died because of Lily Harris, he would now make this woman suffer a thousand cuts.