"Stop arguing with me. I don't care whether what you said yesterday was true or not. While I'm being merciful now, get out of here right now!"
Ye Chen is a dangerous person, and we cannot leave him here.
"Didn't Miss Ahua say yesterday that she would take me as her second wife? How can you go back on your word?" Ye Chen said innocently.
"You idiot!" I slapped him on the head.
"You must leave today!" If he hadn't brought it up, Ye Ling'er and Zhou Lang wouldn't have been thinking such nonsense.
To everyone's surprise, Ye Chen directly refused, saying, "I can't leave right now!"
"Not leaving?" I glared at him sideways, about to reach out and give him another good beating.
"Young Master Zhou, is Miss Ahua at home?"
"Young Master Zhou?"
Just then, I heard someone calling for me in the courtyard outside. It was someone I knew.
"I'm here!" I replied.
When I wandered into the courtyard, I saw the young man from the Changsheng Pharmacy talking to Zhou Yu, who was lying on a grand chair in the courtyard with a gloomy face.
"Hey, why is Young Master Zhou ignoring everyone? Did you two have a fight?" the waiter asked, puzzled.
"Ignore him, he's getting stubborn again. Aren't pharmacies usually busy right now? Does this young man have something urgent to tell you?" I asked back.
"And you know what? Recently, many poor folks have been coming to our shop seeking secret remedies for girls, crowding our pharmacy every day."
"Isn't it normal that many people come to my shop asking for medicine because I have miraculous herbs?" I said calmly.
But the young man looked worried: "But the illness these people have is too strange. They all have the same symptoms: fever all over their bodies and black lips. It seems like poisoning or plague. Some people even died in agony right in front of our shop. Some people got anxious and said that we have a miracle cure but we're not helping them. They made a scene at the shop! Mr. Yuan doesn't care. What can we do?"
“It is indeed strange that so many people are showing the same symptoms at the same time. If it is poisoning, we should report it to the police and ask them to investigate! My elixir is rare, and it cannot save so many people at once! We are powerless to help.”
Life and death are determined by fate. The life and death of mortals are all determined by their own destiny. Let alone the fact that eating my flesh and draining my blood wouldn't be enough to save a body, even if I could save it, if I were to interfere with the fate of so many people at once, wouldn't the old Yama skin me alive?
"If it's a plague, we can't afford to help. Let's close the pharmacy for now." That was the only option.
The young man sighed and said, "Alright then!"
Before the young man left, I gave him two small bottles of blood medicine to prevent him and Mr. Yuan from being infected with the plague.
Right now, I can only save my own family members first; I have the will but not the ability to help others.
After the young man left, I felt Zhou Lang's burning gaze lingering on me as he lay on the chair, but when I looked at him, he pretended to lower his eyes and close them.
"Tch~" Let's see how long you keep pretending. I proudly raised my head and went back into the house.
After entering the room, Ye Chen freed himself from the ropes and, like an old man, casually put his arms around his chest and propped his feet up on the table.
Hearing me approach, Ye Chen casually said in a pretentious tone, "If I'm not mistaken, these people aren't poisoned. It must be that Ye Ling'er has begun to degenerate and absorb the vital energy of mortals to enhance her own spiritual power."
Hearing him say that, I slammed my hand on the table in anger: "So, do you have a way to stop her from continuing to harm people?"
"Unfortunately, since I was born, I have been nurtured by the old Yama's spiritual jade, and the demonic energy in my body has been almost completely removed. After breaking the seal, I have spent most of my spiritual power to extract the lustful soul. I also helped Ye Ling'er cultivate a female soul body. Now I am no different from an ordinary person. How can I stop it?" Ye Chen said helplessly.
"Oh, so you've lost your magic and are no different from ordinary people? Then how dare you be so arrogant and smug!" I yanked the table and shouted at him.
After I pulled the table away, Ye Chen fell straight off the chair: "You can't even subdue one of your own souls, and you still have the nerve to say that!"
Ye Chen awkwardly got up from the ground, dusted himself off, and straightened his clothes: "Isn't that all your fault for letting you steal half of Wen Heng's spiritual power?"
Bringing up that incident makes me even angrier.
"Get out! Get out right now! If you don't leave, I'll get rough with you!" I grabbed a broom, ready to beat him up.
"The three of us together can keep the spiritual energy of this land strong enough to protect the safety of the people here. But if any one of us leaves, this place might fall soon." Ye Chen quickly put away his smile and explained to me seriously.
I paused, realizing that what he said didn't seem to make no mistake.
"Now, either you and Zhou Lang cultivate spiritually as soon as possible to bring Wen Heng back, or you cultivate spiritually with me to help me cultivate the Soul of Lust. Once my Soul of Lust is cultivated again, then Ye Ling'er herself will disappear from this world," Ye Chen continued earnestly.
“However, I don’t think Zhou Lang is too happy right now, so I don’t mind being your second wife…” Ye Chen smiled wickedly and leaned closer to me.
My body involuntarily retreated, backing up to the wall, where he pinned me in a corner with his arm. I reached out to push him away, but I wasn't strong enough to escape.
He tilted his head and deliberately made a gesture as if he was about to kiss my neck.
But in that instant when he tilted his head, I saw Zhou Lang standing at the door with a gloomy face, glaring at me and Ye Chen with eyes full of hatred.
When he met my gaze, he turned away with a dark expression.
"Go to hell!" I raised my foot and kicked towards Ye Chen's groin, but Ye Chen grabbed my leg halfway there.
I realized that in terms of physical strength and combat prowess, I was utterly useless against Wen Heng, Zhou Lang, and Ye Chen—a complete novice.
I angrily yelled at him, "Let go!"
Seeing my anger, Ye Chen had no choice but to let go of my hand: "Just kidding, Ah Hua, don't be angry!"
"Slap!" I raised my hand and slapped him across the face.
"If you dare to be so insolent again, don't blame me for being impolite!" I said sternly to him.
Ye Chen covered his face, his eyes crinkled, his lips curved upwards, and he looked at me with eyes full of affection.
Seeing his cynical attitude makes me want to vomit!
I shoved him away with a wave of my hand and ran towards the direction Zhou Lang had gone outside.
They all want to take advantage of me and want to have spiritual practices with me.
Wen Heng is gone, and now Ye Chen's lackey has arrived. Have I fallen into a wolf's den?
I'm always being led around by you guys, you bunch of bastards.
I want to be with my Zhou Lang.
I ran out and searched everywhere for Zhou Lang, but Zhou Lang was packing his luggage in the house.
"What are you doing?" I stepped forward and snatched the bundle from his hands.
“My fate with Ahua is over, and Ahua has already chosen another husband. So, Zhou Lang, please leave.” Zhou Lang snatched the bundle back from my hand, slung it over his shoulder, and walked out of the house.
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