To scheme against them?
Yes, he did scheme against them.
He thought so at least a minute ago.
But now...
Yu Chengyun's gaze swept over his former subordinates from Jiuyuntang, then over the girl who was hiding behind a container in the factory, with only a small part of her clothes showing. His eyes gradually darkened.
He looked up at the leader of the group standing outside, his voice deep and stern: "Geng Yan! Do you know what you're doing?!"
Geng Yan withdrew his gaze from Pei Ling's position, turned to Yu Chengyun, and bowed to him.
His voice was respectful, yet resolute, as he said, "Of course I know, I'm helping you, boss, remove the biggest obstacle in your way!"
He pointed in Pei Ling's direction and continued, "That woman is your obstacle!"
Yu Chengyun's thin lips tightened suddenly, and his eyes gradually turned fierce: "You're asking for death!"
he said angrily.
After saying that, he picked up his weapon and fired a shot.
The bronze-brown metal object streaked through the air, swirling forward before grazing Geng Yan's toes and striking the ground right in front of him.
Although it didn't land on anyone, it made Geng Yan's heart skip a beat, and he suddenly looked up at Yu Chengyun.
Both heartbroken and incredulous: "Boss!!"
Yu Chengyun composed himself and said quietly, "Don't call me boss."
“I said this a month ago when I announced my departure: this action is the last thing I will do for Jiuyuntang before I leave.”
"This will fulfill our brotherhood of so many years."
Yu Chengyun said, his gaze sweeping over the people opposite him who were standing at attention, and continued, "I have done what I promised. From now on, I am just Yu Chengyun!"
Geng Yan's face gradually darkened, and deep resentment surfaced in his eyes. He said, "Just because of a woman! Just because of one sentence from her, you're going to abandon the power you've painstakingly built up over more than ten years, and all the brothers and subordinates who have risked their lives for you?!"
"You're the leader of the Nine Clouds Hall. You have money, power, status, women—you can have anything you want. Why would you give up everything you've worked so hard for for a woman who might not even like you or care about you?!"
"She's the person you love and care about most, so what about us? What are we, your brothers who've been with you all this way?!"
Yu Chengyun continued to look at him quietly, his voice as still as a stagnant pool, and said, "I thought I had already made these questions very clear when I first proposed leaving and when we devised this bait plan."
"If you didn't hear me clearly or forgot, I can say it again."
Yu Chengyun stared at the other person and said, word by word, "I, Yu Chengyun, left Jiuyun Hall not for anyone else, but for myself."
Having nowhere to go at the age of fourteen, he joined the Jiuyun Hall, which was then called Jiufang Hall, by chance. He overcame all obstacles and rose from the most ordinary and lowest-ranking member to the position of the head of Jiuyun Hall.
Now he is twenty-seven years old, a full thirteen years have passed.
Day after day, year after year, he went back and forth between hunting and being hunted, and sometimes he couldn't understand why he was living.
Money, power, and status are not unimportant, but he always felt that these should not be the greatest pursuits in life.
Compared to these things, he wanted a home more.
A home with his beloved wife, a home with their shared child, a home with its occasional squabbles and worries about the mundane details of life.
Perhaps it was ordinary, perhaps it was commonplace, but it also contained a warmth and...love that he had never experienced in his life.
He loved Pei Ling, but it was more than just love.
Years of attention.
He watched her being abandoned by her parents in that remote village, watched her recover from her illness, watched her being sent abroad to live alone, and then watched her being called back to China, becoming a tool in her parents' hands to threaten Qin Sheng.
I've also watched her transform from an innocent, lively, and adorable child into the quiet and reserved girl she is today.
Sometimes I have this illusion that she is another version of him in this world.
Perhaps not exactly the same, but through his years of attention, he gradually placed her in his heart, and to this day, she remains deeply rooted in his heart.
He wanted to give her a loving and affectionate home.
And this is what his heart desires.
The turbulent emotions in Yu Chengyun's eyes gradually calmed down. He stopped looking at Geng Yan and instead looked into the eyes of the girl who had appeared out from behind the container at some point. He said very seriously, "I just want to be an ordinary person, nothing more."
The man's gaze was so earnest, as if he were making a promise with all his heart, that everyone present was startled.
For a fleeting moment, a feeling of understanding and even empathy arose in my mind, but it was quickly replaced by an even stronger anger.
What does "for oneself" mean? What does "just want to be an ordinary person" mean?
He didn't believe any of it!
In the end, it's all for that woman!
Otherwise, why had he never mentioned leaving Jiuyun Hall before, but suddenly made up his mind after seeing that woman looking distraught for a few days?
Geng Yan didn't know there was such a thing as an opportunity, nor could he understand it.
Therefore, he felt that his respected and beloved leader had abandoned and betrayed them for a woman.
Driven by intense anger and resentment, he made the wrong choice.
He pushed aside the crowd behind him and strode out.
Since he couldn't change Yu Chengyun's decision, he would kill that woman!
He wanted to see if he would still say he wanted to live a normal life after that woman died!
Yu Chengyun realized his intention and, without caring about anything else, grabbed his weapon and charged forward.
Great opportunity!
The Tianhongmen members, trapped in the siege, quickly exchanged glances and simultaneously raised their guns to charge.
One after another, the sounds of "bang" rang out, and the area where the two groups of people were located instantly descended into chaos.
Yu Chengyun braved the flying bullets, rolling, dodging, and counterattacking as he rushed to Pei Ling's location, but Geng Yan arrived there first due to his advantage in distance and position.
He was pointing his gun at Pei Ling at that moment.
His eyes caught sight of Yu Chengyun coming around from the other side of the container. His heart tightened, and he decisively pulled the trigger five times in a row!
The head, the heart, the left and right sides, and the bottom—unless she flies into the sky, Pei Ling has no way to avoid it from her current position!
As Yu Chengyun watched Geng Yan's actions, his heart almost stopped beating!
Before he could even react, he lunged at Pei Ling, using his back to shield her from the incoming bullet as he spun around!
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