Chapter 154
Yu Liuyun watched Nan Yan calmly pull out her hand, and instantly he felt his heart tremble slightly, and his fingers suddenly trembled uncontrollably.
His body was stiff for a long time before he finally regained some consciousness. Then he slowly reached out and took off the Kunlun slave mask on his face.
With a slightly pale face, he looked at Nan Yan in front of him, his lips moved slightly, and he asked her in a hoarse voice, "You... recognized me?"
But Nan Yan in front of him suddenly smiled at him calmly. The smile seemed a little dull, with a sense of alienation and courtesy. "I don't know if you still remember that your little finger was injured, and later a small scar was left at the wound. Although the mark is very shallow, it is still felt when you touch it. When you held me, I felt it, and it was the same as before, so I knew it was you."
"Master, what brings you to Qingzhou?"
After saying that, Nan Yan raised her head again and looked at him quietly, with no expression on her face. Seeing his pale face, thin lips and some dark circles under his eyes, she knew that this person must not have had a good time during this period of time. Well, knowing that he was not having a good time, she felt relieved.
So she frowned slightly, her voice became calmer and calmer, and asked again, "The mask in your hand is Senior Brother Zhao's mask. What did you do to Senior Brother Zhao?"
Yu Liuyun looked at his wife, with whom he once had the closest relationship, but now she called him "Master" in a distant tone, as if she was not familiar with him at all, and openly cared about the situation of another man in front of him.
Yu Liuyun didn't know how to deal with the shock brought about by this situation. For a moment, he only felt a gust of icy cold wind suddenly blowing from somewhere, directly chilling his entire body. The biting cold penetrated deep into his heart, making him feel colder and colder. He felt so cold that his whole body seemed to be stiff, and his fingers were trembling slightly.
But he was still somewhat unwilling, and stared at her stubbornly and suppressedly, trying to see or find any trace of her concern and dependence on him in her face.
But no, not even a trace of emotion was left. The way she looked at him was like the way she used to look at strangers. There was no trace of warmth in her eyes anymore, and it might never appear again. Thinking of this, Yu Liuyun felt an unignorable sadness and bitterness in his chest.
The bitterness and dryness kept rising from his chest, blocking his throat and making his mouth feel a little tight and dry. He twitched his lips for a long time before finally finding his voice again. Then he said hoarsely,
"I didn't hurt him..."
After hearing this, Nan Yan said "hmm" softly, as if she didn't want to say anything more, and turned around to leave.
However, Yu Liuyun subconsciously grabbed his wrist. He opened his mouth but couldn't say anything for a long time. He knew how messed up his past actions were and how much he had gone too far. That's why he was so panicked and timid when facing her now. He hurt her all over.
His fingers were becoming stiffer and stiffer. He didn't want to let go, nor did he want to just watch her leave.
The sadness and regret in his heart could no longer be described in words. At this moment, no matter how much he refused to admit it or how much he tried to deceive himself, he realized that Yanyan had completely given up on him.
Thinking of this, Yu Liuyun felt as if he couldn't bear it anymore and his heart was in great pain, but he couldn't bear to let go. He held Nan Yan's wrist tighter. He grabbed her tightly, like a drowning man grabbed his last life-saving straw, and refused to let go.
Yu Liuyun finally spoke, his voice was dry and hoarse, as if there was a handful of rough sand in his throat, and he said slowly, "Yanyan, I'm here... to take you home."
"I...I'm sorry...I shouldn't have treated you like that."
Yu Liuyun's voice was trembling, cautious, and with a thick nasal tone, "I know I did something wrong, extremely wrong, and I have never... regretted it so much."
"I regretted so much that I wanted to kill my former self with my own hands. I regretted that I had ruined everything and pushed away the only person who loved me in this world."
"I really...know I was wrong. Everything in the past was all my fault. I was stupid. I didn't realize until now how much I cared about you. Yanyan, come home with me. I will take you home, back to our own home...okay?"
After saying this, Yu Liuyun's tears fell uncontrollably from his eyes.
Nan Yan turned her head and looked at the pain and regret in his eyes. She could now clearly feel his sincerity at the moment, but it was too late.
What's the point of belated affection? The damage has already been done. Can a single mistake erase everything that has happened? But since he's already so regretful, what's the point of letting him suffer a little more?
Nan Yan turned her head and calmly pulled her hand out slowly. In almost an instant, her face turned pale and her hair was a little messy due to the night wind. The dark hair made her face look even more pale and sad.
She looked up into his eyes and said weakly,
"But it's too late. My innocence is gone. I can no longer be your wife, and I can no longer go back with you. Between us... we can never go back to the way we were before."
Almost instantly after she finished speaking, she saw Yu Liuyun's body tremble violently, his fingers trembled and curled up, his eyes were red and bloodshot.
When he heard her say those words calmly, Yu Liuyun felt as if his heart was stung by a poisonous bee several times. He was suffocated by the intense pain and his whole body began to tremble with pain.
He knew that it was his fault. He was the one who lost her and let her be bullied and insulted. He should have known earlier... knew what a woman like her would encounter... once she was stranded outside... It was not her fault. How could a weak woman like her, who was powerless, survive?
I'm sorry...I'm sorry...
It was my fault that I failed to protect you. It was because of me, as a scumbag husband, that you suffered such humiliation and pain. In fact, most of the pain you suffered was caused by me.
Yanyan... Yanyan...
Yu Liuyun's lips were trembled slightly, and tears seemed to flow out of his eyes uncontrollably. He tried hard to restrain the emotions deep in his heart, then walked up to her and hugged her tightly and carefully in his arms. The force was so tight that it hurt, as if he was afraid that if he let go, the person in front of him would disappear.
He held her in his arms and soothed her in a hoarse voice, "Don't be afraid. No one will dare to bully you anymore. I'll kill him for you. I won't let anyone who bullies you go. Yanyan, I'll take you home. Let's go home, okay?"
Nan Yan couldn't help but laugh softly when she heard this. The corners of her eyes turned slightly red, and then she called him softly, "Husband."
The word "husband" seemed to bring him back to the past. Yu Liuyun's eyes suddenly felt sore and tears fell uncontrollably. Only at this moment did he realize that he could give up everything, not force anything, and not mind anything, but the only thing he couldn't do was the woman in front of him. She was his wife, and they were husband and wife.
When Yu Liuyun heard her calling him "husband", he thought for a moment that she agreed, but the person in his arms suddenly reached out, and took advantage of the moment when he was stunned to push him away.
Nan Yan raised her eyes and looked straight into his eyes, her smile became more beautiful and sad, as if her eyes were filled with a pool of spring water. As she smiled, tears suddenly fell.
There was a hint of red at the corners of her eyes. She was smiling, but her eyes were cold, with resentment and pain in them. She smiled and said to her, "Does my husband know? It turns out that men will react to me when I take off all my clothes."
"It's ridiculous that you, as a husband, have no reaction to me at all, but other men are not like this."
The color on Yu Liuyun's face disappeared in an instant.
He clenched his fingers tightly, veins popped out on the back of his hands, his lips trembled slightly, but his eyes were looking at her with extreme sorrow.
Nan Yan smiled at him tenderly, tears welling up in her eyes, and her voice suddenly carried a hint of sadness, "Husband, do you want to know what happened that night?"
Yu Liuyun pursed his lips, unable to utter a word. He just felt as if his heart was being stabbed back and forth by a sharp dagger, making him bleed profusely and tremble all over, but his eyes would not leave her for even a moment.
Seeing his expression like this, Nan Yan still felt it was not enough. Her expression suddenly changed. She stared at him coldly, her eyes suddenly filled with resentment and pain, tears falling one by one, "My husband, do you know how I was forced that night? Do you know how he tore my dress apart, and how he pinned me down so that I couldn't struggle and endure the humiliation?"
Thinking of that scene, Yu Liuyun felt a sharp pain in his chest, and blood surged in his throat. He almost collapsed. He could even feel the faint smell of rust coming from his mouth, which made him extremely painful.
"Yan Yan, don't..."
Don't talk about it, don't think about such painful things.
He stared at his wife in despair. He wanted to reach out and hug her, to comfort her, but she pushed him away.
Nan Yan gently stroked her hair that was messed up by the wind. The corners of her eyes were red from crying, and her pale face gave her a pitiful look. Her whole body was filled with a feeling of despair, sorrow and pain.
"I was clearly begging him. I cried and begged him to let me go. I said I was married and had a husband. I cried so hard that my eyes hurt, but he still wouldn't let me go?"
"He said my husband would not come to save me, no one would come to save me, and he was right, indeed no one would come to save me."
She turned to look at the man in front of her, her eyes full of resentment and hatred, like a sharp dagger, wanting to execute him prematurely and let him never have peace.
"Husband, why didn't you come and save me? You are obviously my husband, and you should protect me for my whole life. We have worshipped heaven and earth together, and we are a legitimate couple. I kept calling you, begging you to come and save me, and I begged until my voice was hoarse, but why, why didn't you come and save me?"
"Why did you let me suffer such humiliation? Why didn't anyone come to save me? What did I do wrong? Why did you treat me like this?"
Nan Yan looked at him with red eyes, her eyes full of hatred and despair. She seemed to be thinking of that night again, and her emotions became more and more broken.
Tears kept falling as if the string had broken.
What happened was indeed true, but she was not that miserable. After all, she did feel good at the time, and she was not the one who was kidnapped. But in this kind of thing, he could not pursue it so carefully. After all, she was just a victim.
She just wanted to describe the whole process in a way that was extremely tragic so that he would never forget it for the rest of his life.
Let him, every time he thinks of her in the future, remember that it was his fault that caused his wife to suffer the greatest humiliation and pain in her life, and made it difficult for him to have peace for the rest of his life.
A lifetime of guilt until death.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Yu Liuyun's chest heaved violently. At that moment, it seemed as if his internal organs were churning in unbearable pain, and finally he could not bear it any longer.
He coughed and spat out a mouthful of blood.
His eyes were red, and his whole body began to tremble as he listened to what he said. He seemed to think of that night that had caused her unbearable pain and despair.
He closed his eyes, a look of hopelessness and pain suddenly appeared on his face, and he thought of that scene painfully in his mind.
She cried and called his name, she begged and struggled, using up almost all her strength...
But he was not by her side. What was he doing? He was angry. He blamed her for deceiving him and for teaming up with others to betray him. He was not aware of his own deception. He had no idea of the pain she had suffered. As a husband, he had not fulfilled his responsibilities.
He didn't protect her. It was his fault. It was his fault from beginning to end. It was because of him, because he sent her away, that this happened... that she...
At that moment, endless regret and guilt were like an icy tide that almost drowned him and tortured him to the point of not being able to find peace.
Thinking of this, Yu Liuyun felt a sharp pain in his chest again. Even breathing was an unbearable torture. As soon as he opened his mouth, blood spit out uncontrollably.
He clenched his fingers so tightly that they became stiff, twisted and painful, and his palms were bleeding, but the pain was not even a bit compared to the pain in his chest. He regretted so much. Why, why didn't he stay by her side to protect her when she was most desperate?
To let her suffer such pain and blow.
Yu Liuyun couldn't bear it any longer, his breathing was heavy and he couldn't control his emotions at all. The only thought left in his mind was to hug her.
He moved forward stiffly and with great difficulty hugged his wife, who was already emotionally broken and trembling, into his arms. When he touched the slender, slightly protruding shoulder blades on her back, he suddenly couldn't hold back his tears and fell.
He hugged her tightly, his eyes were brimming with scarlet light and a ferocious look.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, all the emotions in his eyes were suppressed. He asked her in a hoarse and difficult voice.
"Who is it?"
"If anyone bullies you, I will definitely... help you kill him! Anyone who hurts you, I will never let him go, no matter how hard I try."
Nan Yan stopped crying, she reached out and ruthlessly pushed away his embrace, looking at him with a slightly desperate look.
"What's the point of you saying all this now? It has already happened. Can I just kill that person and pretend that nothing has happened? Can I regain my innocence by killing that person? Or can we go back to the way we were before by killing that person?"
Her voice became colder and colder, and finally she stared at him with resentment and anger, saying without leaving any trace, "Besides, aren't you the one who should be blamed the most?"
She was extremely sad and angry, and every word she spoke was heartbreaking. "As my husband, he clearly said that he would protect me and love me all my life, but he ruthlessly abandoned me and trampled on me. If the person who destroyed my innocence deserves death! What about you, my husband? As the culprit who threw me on that road of no return, shouldn't you also be killed by thousands of cuts?"
At the end of her speech, she seemed to be unable to stand steadily. She staggered back a step, weakly but stubbornly holding on to the tree trunk beside her, refusing to fall.
The truth hidden between the two was torn open without hesitation, revealing the bloody truth underneath.
When Yu Liuyun looked at her like this, he felt as if his heart was being abused and the pain was unbearable. The numb feeling spread from his chest to his limbs and finally to his entire body.
In the end, he was numb from the pain and seemed to have lost consciousness. He was terrified, yet stared into her eyes stubbornly, refusing to move away an inch.
He knew that he deserved to die and that he was the culprit. If... if he hadn't been stupid, she wouldn't have suffered such humiliation, let alone such trampling.
Hearing what she said, he seemed to have returned to the painful scene in the past when his martial arts were completely wasted and his veins were broken. The internal energy in his body was running wild, he coughed violently, and he felt like he was dying.
No...it was more despairing than that pain. His chest was tortured by endless pain and he was really about to lose control.
But looking at Yanyan in front of him, he didn't dare, he didn't dare to show such emotions in front of her, so he stretched out his hand tremblingly, but didn't dare to touch her.
In the end, he just carefully grabbed her sleeve, clinging to her humbly and pitifully, refusing to let go.
Nan Yan resolutely pulled the sleeve out of his palm, paused, then looked up at him, "Husband, this is over between us. Even if I love you, I can't be with you anymore. From now on, we...don't meet again."
Yu Liuyun was completely stunned.
The mist condensed in his eyes quickly spread.
When she said the last sentence, her face turned pale and almost transparent, and there was resentment and former attachment in her eyes, but in the end it all dissipated and disappeared one by one.
There was a look of despair in his eyes, and the pain in his chest came again, making him entangle her fingertips reluctantly, "No, I really know I was wrong, I will change, please give me a chance, please... don't leave me, okay?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, he became incoherent, with an extremely miserable look on his face.
"Yan Yan, please don't go, please don't leave me. In this world... in this world, there is only you, and you are the person I care about most in my life. I really know that I was wrong, please don't leave me..."
But Yanyan paused for a moment, and finally reached out to push away his fingers, turned around and left without hesitation.
Yu Liuyun watched the thin sleeve being pulled away from his hand, and felt as if his heart was being pulled away along with it. He was trembling with fear and tears welled up in his eyes.
He really...knew he was wrong.
I'm sorry, Yanyan...he is the one who deserves to die the most.
Watching the figure walking further and further away, Yu Liuyun felt that he could no longer hold on. His knees went weak and his body fell backwards. He fell heavily to the ground, turned his head, and uncontrollably spit out blood.
His face was pale, and he looked at the figure with longing and infatuated eyes. He felt that his life was hopeless, as if he had lost everything and his heart was dead.
sorry……
He hurt the person he cared about most in his life.
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Very good, after torturing the male protagonist who came to her door, Nan Yan suddenly felt refreshed, and even her mood became much better, and she felt much more energetic.
After she walked for a distance and was completely out of the hero's sight, the sad expression on her face finally disappeared completely, and she walked back towards the villa in a very good mood.
I don't know what happened to her senior brother? Oh, he probably wasn't beaten to death by the hero, but it doesn't matter if he got hurt, as long as he didn't die.
Compared to her calmness, Zhao Xiuyan's situation was not so good. He was surrounded by dozens of strange believers. They kept dragging him and besieged him for the whole night, not letting him leave. Zhao Xiuyan was so anxious that he had no patience at all. He had never been so anxious in his life.
When Zhao Xiuyan finally got rid of the group of nagging Xuancang sect followers and searched the entire street of Qingzhou City but couldn't find Nan Yan, he felt extremely panicked for a moment, and his first reaction was that she was taken away by Yu Liuyun again.
Why on earth, is Yu Liuyun crazy?
When he doesn't want someone anymore, he abandons them. When he wants someone again, he madly snatches them away from him. He snatched Pianpian away before, and now he wants to snatch Yanyan away too?
No, absolutely not!
Holding on to the last glimmer of possibility, Zhao Xiuyan returned to the courtyard. He held on to the last glimmer of possibility in his heart, hoping that Yanyan had just played for too long and would come back on her own because she was tired. However, he also knew that this possibility was very slim.
If Yu Liuyun really wanted to take her away, he would definitely snatch her away regardless of her wishes, not to mention that they are husband and wife.
This is what he is most worried about.
Zhao Xiuyan's emotions were in a state of confusion at the moment. He didn't know what to do. If Yu Liuyun took her away, what could he do? If Yanyan was really willing to leave him, what qualifications did he have to compete with him?
He can win over his junior fellow apprentice and make him retreat, but can he also make Yu Liuyun let go?
After all, he was her husband, the husband she once loved and always depended on and thought about. Could this shameless man who forcibly destroyed her innocence really win over him?
The turbulent emotions made him uneasy.
When Zhao Xiuyan finally came back in a hurry from outside, what he saw was a soft and slender figure reflected on the paper on the window.
She was leaning slightly, fiddling with the wick on the candlestick with a pair of small scissors in her hand. The candle shadow swayed back and forth with her movements, and the flames reflected her soft, fair face, making her look even more peaceful and gentle.
At that moment, Zhao Xiuyan thought he was having an illusion, and his eyes even felt a little sore for a moment.
I don't know why, but the moment I saw her, all the anxiety, irritability and panic in my heart were quickly soothed by the person in front of me.
He rushed over almost subconsciously, hugged her in his arms, and called her name in a slightly hoarse voice, "Yanyan, Yanyan, you are still here, still by my side..."
The feeling of satisfaction of still being able to hold her in his arms made Zhao Xiuyan's heart beat fast.
This time, he was really worried to death. He thought she was taken away by Yu Liuyun, but unexpectedly, she was still there. He was really grateful to God for letting her stay by his side.
"I'm sorry. It's my fault. I didn't protect you well."
Zhao Xiuyan hugged her very tightly, probably because they had been entangled and chasing each other all the way, his breathing was a little unstable and his heartbeat was very fast.
Nan Yan was hugged by the other party before she could react. She was more than a head shorter than him, and being hugged like this, her head rubbed against his chin, and he pressed her firmly against his chest. She could almost hear the sound of his heart beating.
It seems that the senior brother was also quite scared this time.
It's no wonder. The relationship between the two was so fragile that they only slept together for one night. She was still Yu Liuyun's legitimate wife. Even if she really went with him, the man in front of him had no qualifications or reasons to snatch her away.
So she is giving him some qualifications and reasons.
Nan Yan reached out and gently patted his back, signaling him to relax a little, and waited until his body finally relaxed.
Nan Yan stepped away from his arms, then rolled up her sleeves and gently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. When she saw a trace of blood on his body, some worry appeared in her eyes.
"Senior Brother Zhao, you are injured..."
At this moment, Zhao Xiuyan's emotions finally calmed down. He kissed her fingers and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking of how flustered he was just now, he was afraid that the person in front of him would be worried, so his face returned to its usual gentle expression.
Zhao Xiuyan unconsciously held the soft and delicate hand, then rubbed it against his cheek gently, saying in a soothing tone, "I'm fine, I'm sorry for making you worry."
His fingers gently stroked her eyebrows, and the thin silk in his palm rubbed the skin of her cheeks very gently, "Yanyan, are you okay? Did he... bully you?"
He asked the latter sentence with some hesitation. In fact, every time he faced this question, he always felt endless uneasiness and anxiety in his heart.
Because that person's existence always reminded him that he was just a despicable thief, and everything he had now was stolen from others. As long as she had even the slightest disgust and rejection towards him in her heart, he would have no way to force her against her will.
When Nan Yan heard this, her expression seemed to pause slightly.
"You know I met with him tonight."
Perhaps she was thinking about what happened tonight, she slowly turned her face away, the corners of her eyes were a little red and wet, obvious signs of crying.
Zhao Xiuyan held her fingers even tighter.
Her voice was a little hoarse. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to control you. I'm just a little worried that he might hurt..."
Before she finished her words, she shook her head and said softly, "I'm fine. I just explained everything to him. Senior Brother Zhao, will you protect me for the rest of my life? Will you always be by my side?"
She turned her head again as she said this.
She looked at him hesitantly, with some unknown tenderness in her eyes, "You know what? My husband once said that he would protect me for the rest of my life, but he broke his promise."
Nan Yan lowered her eyes slightly, with a slightly sad expression on her face, "It turns out that he never liked me from the beginning to the end, so he refused to sleep with me even after we got married. I always thought that husband and wife should treat each other with respect, but it was not until he sent me away without hesitation that I realized that he had never had any true feelings for me from the beginning to the end."
She pursed her lips, her lips were a little red, "I... I'm not a fool, I can tell who is good to me and who is not. Even on the night when Senior Brother Zhao was poisoned, he always restrained himself from hurting me. If it weren't for the coincidence, such a thing would never have happened between us."
At this point, Nan Yan looked a little uncomfortable. She raised her eyes and looked at him, "But now that it has happened, there is no point in regretting it. Besides... I didn't hold out until the end that night. Maybe it's just like what Senior Brother Zhao said, I actually... don't dislike you in my heart."
Zhao Xiuyan's expression was a little dazed for a moment.
He lowered his head and looked at the person in front of him in a daze.
Nan Yan continued, "I just haven't experienced this kind of thing before, and I'm scared, but I've never blamed you, because if you and your junior brother hadn't protected me all the way, I would have been living a life worse than death the day I left the mountain."
Nan Yan slowly approached, she looked at the man in a daze in front of her, suddenly leaned over and lightly kissed the corner of his lips, like a dragonfly touching the water, with a little moisture.
Zhao Xiuyan's body suddenly became a little stiff, and his breathing became slower and slower.
This was the first time Yanyan took the initiative to get close to him since that night. He knew that she was gentle and reserved, and was always shy about love. Even when they were in the bed last time, he knelt between her legs, kissed her again and again, and humbly hoped that she could give him some response, but she refused. But this time, she took the initiative to kiss him.
Then she buried her head in the crook of his neck and gently wrapped her arms around his waist, an attitude of attachment.
How could he not know that from the beginning she had agreed to give him a chance, but it was just a helpless act after her innocence was ruined, and she had never been moved by him in her heart.
She was not even as comfortable facing him as she was facing her junior fellow apprentice. She used to quarrel with him and make him so angry that he would jump up and down, but she was always gentle and polite to him.
He was not unaware of the difference in closeness and distance.
If it weren't for that night, he might never have had the chance to touch her in his life.
He had fantasized many times in his mind that one day she would depend on him like this and love him as much as she once loved her husband. He had always thought that this was impossible, but now, she seemed to really like him a little.
Zhao Xiuyan's hands around Nan Yan tightened slightly, because of the great joy and a hint of disbelief, his heart began to tremble slightly.
This kind of scene that could only happen in a midnight dream is now really happening in front of him. She will love him, they will love each other in the future, and she will never leave him again.
Zhao Xiuyan felt an intense joy in his heart. He couldn't help but hug her tighter, rubbing his cheek gently against the top of her head, and then whispering her name over and over again.
"Yan Yan..."
"From now on, I will always protect you."
Since that day, the relationship between the two has become much closer than before.
Yanyan would sometimes shy away from his kisses, but when he kept pestering her, she would also respond awkwardly. He later discovered that Yanyan seemed to particularly like seeing him being teased to the point of losing control but having to endure and restrain himself, and liked to see him look embarrassed and awkward, as if she was deliberately teasing him.
Zhao Xiuyan was also very happy about his sweetheart's evil intentions, and their relationship became much warmer.
After he had settled all his matters, he quickly told his parents about what happened between them. However, although Zhao Xiuyan had hoped it would be a good thing, the marriage between them was still unanimously opposed by the elders in the family.
First of all, the issue of breaking off the engagement made Zhao Xiuyan suffer heavy criticism. His family refused to let him break off the engagement because they didn't want him to be such an ungrateful person.
Lin Pianran saved my mother's life, but now she has been captured by the evil leader of Xuan Cang Cult. My mother blamed him, "You bastard! When your fiancée was in trouble, you not only didn't think of saving her, but you also wanted to cancel the engagement. This is such a heartless and ungrateful act. How can I be worthy of the Lin family? How can the entire Zhao family gain a foothold in this world in the future!"
"You said you destroyed a woman's innocence, but that woman was a married woman. How could she be innocent? Moreover, her husband was not dead yet, and she herself was a woman of the Demon Cult. You idiot, you abandoned your fiancée for a woman of the Demon Cult. You were hanging out with such an unclear woman. How dare you say such shameless words?"
The more Zhao's mother spoke, the angrier she became. Her face turned pale and her whole body was shaking with anger. Finally, she was so angry that she hit him on the shoulder with a teacup, and the tea soaked his clothes.
"Zhao Xiuyan, have you forgotten the teachings of the elders in your clan? Have you forgotten your own identity and the ancestral teaching that good and evil cannot coexist? How can you be worthy of the predecessors who died because of the evil cult by doing this?"
The atmosphere in the house was terribly tense.
Finally, Zhao's mother trembled and slammed the table hard, "You rebellious son, you have completely ruined the good reputation of our Zhao family. Don't even think about it. We will not agree to this marriage, and you can't even think about marrying that woman."
Zhao Xiuyan's eyebrows and eyes were calm. He raised his hand to brush away his wet clothes, his eyes calm and expressionless, as if the person who had just been hit was not him.
In fact, he had anticipated this situation a long time ago.
But perhaps all children in the world would think of telling their parents after they have a sweetheart, hoping to get their support and love.
I just didn't expect them to be so opposed.
But if you think about it carefully, this is normal. A martial arts family like theirs has a high status and is well-known in the martial arts world, so they pay more attention to their reputation than ordinary people.
Zhao Xiuyan exhaled lightly, raised his eyes and looked at his parents and elders, and replied calmly, "Mother, I am not an ungrateful person. If I don't marry Yanyan, I will be truly ungrateful and heartless. After Pianpian was captured, I have been looking for an opportunity to rescue her."
"If Yanyan hadn't helped us, how could my junior brother and I have had the chance to rescue Pianpian?"
He said this with a calm expression and a more rational voice, "I didn't know about the past between Pian Pian and Yu Liuyun before. After knowing this, I never gave up on her. I wanted to break off the engagement and didn't want to marry her, not because of the past between her and Yu Liuyun, but because I really loved another woman."
When Zhao's mother heard this, her face turned pale with anger again.
What true love? It's just that he was blinded by the beauty of the evil cult girl and seduced for a moment. There are countless such things in the world.
Zhao Xiuyan's face was expressionless, and he only softened a little when he mentioned his sweetheart. "Now, Yanyan has been abandoned and discarded by her husband because of me, and I have also ruined her innocence. If I can't take care of her, I will be the most heartless and ungrateful person in the world."
At this point, Zhao Xiuyan suddenly raised his eyes and looked directly at the elders sitting in the main seat, "Besides, I really love her, what's wrong with that? She is indeed a demon cult girl, but she has never set foot in the martial arts world. Her hands are cleaner than those of anyone present. Even my mother has killed disobedient maids, but Yanyan has not. She has never hurt anyone, but has helped us a lot. In this world, I don't need to be worthy of others, I only need to be worthy of her and that's enough."
"I know that what I did was very selfish. It destroyed the Zhao family's century-old reputation and was unworthy of the teachings of my parents and elders. So I decided to take Yanyan away. After I have settled all the matters after my death, I will take Yanyan with me to live in seclusion in the mountains. From now on, I will no longer ask about the mundane affairs of the martial arts world."
When he said this, Zhao Xiuyan's voice became much softer, and in his calmness there was a kind of decisiveness that could not be ignored.
This is his personality. Before making a decision, he might hesitate and be patient, but once he is sure of what he wants, he will do it regardless of the consequences.
But now, because his parents did not agree, he had no choice but to give up Yanyan. He did not feel much struggle or hardship in his heart. In fact, he had already expected this result.
If he left his parents, they might resent him, be sad and disappointed, but if he left Yanyan, she would have no other way to survive except death.
He also longed for support and recognition from his parents and elders. He wanted to bring his sweetheart back to see his parents and, like all other children, happily tell them about his good vision in bringing them such a lovely daughter-in-law.
But they disagreed. They were bothered by her identity. If the two sides could not reconcile, then he would have to become the unfilial son.
I'm sorry, but he really can't give up Yanyan.
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