"Wait!" Li Mingke shoved the person next to him aside. "I don't want to, and I'm unwilling to do this!"
She jumped to the ground. "Demon Lord, we've only met a handful of times. The idea of cultivating feelings is utter nonsense!"
Luan Hua sat watching her, his eyes following her movements. "Didn't you regain your memories? You know how my wife and I got along back then, right?"
He was unusually gentle, saying, "I believe I did what a man should do for his wife. I was too young then and had many shortcomings, but after experiencing so much, I believe I will do better after we get married."
Li Mingke clutched her head in anguish, "That's not what I meant, Demon Lord!" She was on the verge of collapse, "Do whatever you want, it has nothing to do with me!"
She couldn't help but yell at him, "In short, I will never marry you! I don't want anything to do with you!"
She used almost all her strength to shout, and then she looked at him, panting.
"You resist me so much?" He turned cold, transforming back into the fearsome Demon Lord.
Despite feeling his piercing gaze, which was like an icicle, Li Mingke still stubbornly insisted, "That's right!"
"Why?" His voice was hoarse, his hands clenched into fists at his sides.
"Why?" Li Mingke couldn't help but sneer. "Do you think you're some kind of hot commodity? That I have to like you?"
“Yes, you are a supreme being in the eyes of the world. Everyone respects you and fears you, but what does it matter how the world judges you or how I see you?” Her throat bobbed. “Lin Banjian’s decision to marry you is her own. Must I follow the path she has chosen and continue down it?”
She gritted her teeth, "It's not so much that I'm indifferent to you, but rather that I hate and resent you!"
Luan Hua was completely stunned, her face filled with disbelief.
"What did you say?"
Hatred?
resentment?
Why……
Li Mingke glared angrily at the man in front of her who seemed to know nothing and looked completely bewildered, and rubbed her eyes hard.
Do you really think your tactics, which you call love, are touching?
She tried hard to suppress her hysteria, "If you hadn't insisted on finding Lin Banjian's reincarnation and forcibly merged one of your soul fragments into hers, I wouldn't be like this now!"
"If it weren't for you, I could have cultivated from a young age. I clearly have great talent! My mother wouldn't have worried about me every day! My father wouldn't have lost half of his cultivation! My sister could have lived a carefree life instead of having to shoulder responsibilities that don't belong to her to help her useless older sister!"
She became more and more agitated as she spoke, and her gaze toward him grew increasingly hateful.
On what grounds?
Why should his family have to endure so much for his selfish desires?
If she had a different start from the beginning, she could have had a completely different life!
It's all because of this man in front of me!
How could she not hate it!
The man's breathing became noticeably rapid, and he was visibly at a loss.
"That's not how it is, Mingke... I don't know..." He tried to step forward and put his arm around her.
"Of course you don't know!"
The broken jade pieces stood between the two, blocking his path and preventing him from taking another step forward.
"Because your heart is full of love and romance!" She almost bit her tongue until it bled. "Why should someone like that be favored by heaven? Why should they attain enlightenment and ascend to heaven?!"
Her eyes were bloodshot. "Kill your wife? Heh, Lin Banjian is finally rid of you!"
"Mingke!" he exclaimed, "Don't say that!" Then his voice fell, "Don't say that..."
Why did Lin Banjian marry him?
Countless times in the dead of night, he asked himself, did Lin Banjian truly love him? If it weren't for the scheme orchestrated by Immortal Venerable Jiliang, would she have been willing to marry him?
He didn't know.
He hypnotized himself in the dead of night: if Lin Banjian didn't love him, he could simply refuse, so...
She loved him too, didn't she?
But now, Li Mingke is tearing open the wounds in his heart that he has patched up countless times.
What the reincarnated person said in person terrified him.
“That wasn’t my intention…” The agonizing pain suffocated him. “But if your family hadn’t hidden it from me in the first place, I could have found you immediately. Maybe we would have been married long ago, and things wouldn’t have turned out like this…”
"Stop!" Li Mingke snapped, "What kind of talk is that?"
The shattered jade carved a long trench in the ground.
"Is my existence solely for the purpose of becoming your wife?!"
"Can't I have my own life?!"
Luan Hua's words stuck in her throat.
The two men faced each other, each on their own, their tension palpable.
Why are you so arrogant?
She took several deep breaths.
“You think that being separated is a regret that will make you die with your eyes open, and you always think that if you meet again, everything will be the same as before, and you can love her a thousand times over again… But you never ask her if she is willing!” Her words were filled with anger and sobs. “Even if it wasn’t me, but Lin Banjian who came back to life and stood in front of you, I’m afraid she still wouldn’t be able to say ‘I do’ again.”
"Lin Banjian is too lonely. Lonely people are always eager to reach out to those they meet."
"And you are just like her."
"You've mistaken that for love..."
Li Mingke's words pierced Luan Hua's heart like a sharp blade.
"Luan Hua, you should be glad that the flowers died on the branches that year. Otherwise, what right would a withered leaf like you have to enjoy an entire autumn?"
Luan Hua trembled like a broken surface of water, without ceasing.
“We are in love…our love moved the heavens.” Luan Hua murmured, “Otherwise, why couldn’t my master ascend? I can ascend, it must be because we are in love…”
"Haha." Li Mingke laughed mockingly. "Love? It's nothing but deceiving the heavens to gain their sympathy! Killing your wife will grant you ascension! What makes you think you can? Is it based on the ridiculous mentality of 'Look, I've killed the people I love most, I've given everything, so let me ascend!' If you can ascend like that, then there's no need to follow the will of heaven!"
He hurriedly explained, "No! I never intended to kill her, and I truly love her! I searched through ancient books for her, I searched mountains and seas for elixirs for her, I did everything for her..."
"Tsk, what does that have to do with me?" Li Mingke said coldly, arms crossed. "You're just using your past to gain my sympathy."
Luan Hua looked up and stared at her blankly.
Li Mingke felt irritated looking at the person in front of him.
“We have nothing more to say.” She picked up Suiyu and walked towards the door.
"Where are you going!" Luan Hua stopped her.
"Go where I'm supposed to go."
"No, I can't let you go!"
"Why?" Clutching the jade tightly, Li Mingke demanded again angrily, "Why! Why?!"
Luan Hua didn't speak, but stubbornly stood in front of her.
"Ha, not going to say anything? Fine." Her index finger gently traced the blade. "Then I don't need to ask anymore!"
"I must leave today!"
Li Mingke was surrounded by a dazzling starlight.
"The Great Way—Nonsense!!!"
Pfft—
The metal pierced through flesh, producing a sticky, muffled sound.
The air was thick with the smell of blood, and the man finally lowered his head.
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