Time flew by like water.
Three days had passed since the wedding in the blink of an eye.
Ye Shu did not let Liu Ruyi have her way. They only drank wine and slept in each other’s arms, their relationship remaining entirely innocent.
After all, marriage did not imply consent.
If Liu Ruyi forced him, it would be a violation of her husband’s will.
Ye Shu made an excuse that he had just been revived and was physically weak. Fortunately, Liu Ruyi was not impatient. She seemed firmly convinced that Ye Shu would choose to fall to demonhood, and besides, he was already firmly bound to the demon path—there was plenty of time ahead...
She actually quite enjoyed the process of slowly conquering a lord of the world. After all, the result was important, but the more arduous the effort, the greater the sense of achievement upon reaping the reward.
For these three days, they managed to coexist peacefully...
Above the clouds, they drifted and rolled.
Dressed in a bright red wedding robe, Ye Shu was held horizontally in Liu Ruyi’s arms as she flew through the air. He looked like a bride kidnapped by a demon cultist to be a wife held hostage.
“Can you not carry me like this?”
Ye Shu felt uncomfortable as he wrapped his arms around Liu Ruyi’s neck. He had always been the one to hold others like this; being carried in a princess hold for the first time felt terribly awkward.
“No.”
Liu Ruyi let out a proud snort, lowered her head, her brows curved like crescents, and smiled. “Who told you can’t fly now? I’m afraid you’ll fall, my dear husband.”
“......”
Ye Shu was speechless.
He now understood: this little demoness enjoyed making him uncomfortable over trivial things, like not giving him any clothes to wear, forcing him to walk around in this bright red wedding robe all the time.
Seeing Liu Ruyi in the same bridal gown, Ye Shu knew she was doing it on purpose—it was sheer malice!
In all his life, he had never been so humiliated.
And she had him completely under her thumb.
As if sensing his unwilling glare, Liu Ruyi curled her lips in a smile. “My dear husband, now that we’re in this kind of relationship, why are you still so reserved?”
Ye Shu pursed his lips tightly and turned his head away, refusing to look at her.
He was sulking...
Seeing this, Liu Ruyi was not angered.
Instead, she suddenly sighed, sounding dispirited. “Ah, it just occurred to me—the once-great righteous sect of the Eastern Wasteland, the Azure Mystery Sect, is now nothing but lush green hills and clear waters without a soul in sight. As the saintess of the demon path, I find it a pity, you know?”
“What did you say?! The Azure Mystery Sect is gone?”
“What about Qingxue and the others?”
“Tell me!”
Ye Shu, who had just been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly snapped them open, staring intently at Liu Ruyi.
“Oh my~”
Liu Ruyi acted as if she had been frightened, patting her ample chest, then pouted with a hurt look. “You mention the Azure Mystery Sect, and immediately you think of your little lover! No more sleepiness, no more aches—you’re full of energy. And me, your newlywed neglected wife, I’m left pitifully playing your errand girl.”
“Ah~ How miserable my fate is~”
“My heart aches so much—I can’t breathe, husband~”
She looped her arm around Ye Shu’s neck and pressed him forcefully against her chest, nearly smothering him against her bosom.
“That’s enough...”
Ye Shu struggled to lift his head from the softness, fully aware she was just toying with him, and gritted his teeth. “What will it take for you to tell me?”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk—why so irritable~”
Liu Ruyi pouted pitifully. “I’m just a little startled, and now I can’t quite remember. Maybe a loving kiss would help jog my memory.”
Almost before the words left her lips—
Smack.
Ye Shu suddenly planted a kiss on her cheek, then looked at her expressionlessly.
“Now talk.”
“?”
Liu Ruyi touched her cheek, stunned for a moment.
This—this wasn’t right? According to the stories, when a demoness teases a righteous disciple, he’s supposed to blush and fluster, at a loss.
How was this guy so smooth?
“Not satisfied?” Ye Shu sneered at her.
Did you really think your Ye brother was some innocent greenhorn?
“I underestimated you.” Liu Ruyi bit her lip, a flash of unwillingness in her eyes before she spoke.
“After you died, the Azure Mystery Sect was deserted.”
“The green hills and clear waters remain, but not a single person is inside.”
“They say everyone was taken away.”
“And then?”
Ye Shu pressed urgently.
“And then that’s it.”
“That’s it? Taken by whom?”
“I don’t know.”
Liu Ruyi looked at him with an innocent face. “That’s all I know.”
“What’s the difference between telling me and not telling me?”
Ye Shu was so angry his teeth itched.
“I never said I knew.” Liu Ruyi’s expression remained innocent. “Five years ago, someone attacked the Mo family but still couldn’t find the Azure Mystery Sect’s people. How would I know?”
“Even attacking the Mo family couldn’t find them?”
Hearing this, Ye Shu felt relieved.
So at least they weren’t in the Mo family’s hands. Maybe they had seen the danger coming and fled. Or perhaps...
An elegant figure suddenly surfaced in his mind.
Zhao Zhixia.
It was also possible Zhao Zhixia had rushed over upon hearing the news and sheltered the Azure Mystery Sect within the Zhao family. Now only the full-strength Zhao family had such ability.
But this was just Ye Shu’s guess.
The truth would have to be verified.
Unfortunately, he was now in the demon path, his cultivation lost, and at someone else’s mercy, unable to even investigate.
While Ye Shu was lost in thought—
A large city, illuminated with lights and spanning dozens of miles, appeared on the distant horizon.
Liu Ruyi glided down gracefully.
Together they landed on the tallest building in the city, their feet on glazed tiles, their bright red wedding robes rustling in the night wind, looking like a couple of celestial lovers.
“Where is this?”
Looking down at the bustling streets, Ye Shu gazed blankly at Liu Ruyi, who held his waist.
He certainly did not think she had brought him here for a stroll.
She wasn’t that idle.
Sure enough, Liu Ruyi pointed with one hand at a golden, magnificent mansion within the city and said, “Don’t you think the view is great from here?”
“I just think we’re very conspicuous here,” Ye Shu replied expressionlessly.
“How unromantic.”
Liu Pry rolled her eyes at him, then vanished.
The two suddenly appeared on the wall of that mansion, hiding among the branches of a crooked tree, where they could peek through the leaves at the scene inside.
“What are we doing?”
Ye Shu looked at her, puzzled.
Liu Ruyi smiled mysteriously at him.
“Do you know... about the Children of Destiny?”
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
