Since he didn’t love Ye Jiuhuang, why was he marrying her? It had to be a political marriage!
It had to be because the Sword God Palace and Ye Jiuhuang had coerced him with threats and temptations!
At that moment, Xiao Honglian’s imagination ran wild.
The eyes that had been washed by tears suddenly lit up again.
She lunged forward, clutching Ye Xuan’s robe with both hands. She raised her stunning, tear-streaked face, her voice filled with a sickening mixture of ecstasy and desperation.
“Since you don’t love her… then… then what about us…?”
She wanted to say, Then let’s start over.
Since you don’t love her, there must still be a place for me in your heart.
I love you more than she does. I can spend the rest of my life making it up to you.
However.
Before she could finish, Ye Xuan interrupted her mercilessly, his voice cold to the extreme.
“But…”
Ye Xuan slowly lowered his head and looked into those eyes that had just rekindled with hope. The corner of his mouth curled into a cruel smile.
He was like the cruelest executioner in existence. He had personally given his prey a sliver of hope, only to use the dullest blade to sever and crush that hope bit by bit.
“I don’t love you either.”
“Besides, you’re not even worthy of being compared with Ye Jiuhuang.”
Ye Xuan deliberately drew out his words. The disdain and contempt in his eyes sent a bone-chilling shiver through Xiao Honglian.
“Ye Jiuhuang is pure and unsullied, untouched by the mortal world. From the moment she was born, she had remained completely clean. Her body and her heart have been touched by no one but me.”
“So, although I don’t love her enough yet, I will gradually come to love her. Because I like her purity. I like her coldness, as pristine as snow.”
As he spoke, Ye Xuan suddenly bent down and seized Xiao Honglian by the chin, forcing her to look directly into his mocking eyes.
“And what about you, Junior Sister?”
“For a few pills and a few sweet words, you willingly stripped off your clothes, married another man, and writhed beneath Xiao Huo, becoming that man’s plaything for hundreds of years.”
Every word Ye Xuan uttered was like a resounding slap, lashing across Xiao Honglian’s face and smashing the sliver of hope that had just risen within her to pieces.
“If you were me, and you had to choose between a pure and chaste goddess who was utterly devoted to you, and a secondhand woman who had once abandoned you—a woman already used by another man…”
Ye Xuan suddenly released her and shoved Xiao Honglian away as if she were garbage, his voice cold as ice.
“Which one would you choose?”
If his words before had merely tormented her spirit, then this blatant humiliation—ripping open the wound she least wanted to face—drove Xiao Honglian nearly insane.
Pure and chaste!
Married to another man!
A used-up woman!
Those words were like several towering, impassable mountains crashing down upon Xiao Honglian’s spine.
This time, she was completely stunned.
Her mouth hung open as she stared blankly at Ye Xuan. A rasping “guh-guh” sound came from her throat, yet she could not utter a single word in rebuttal.
She tried to speak, but stopped herself. Her lips trembled violently.
She wanted to say, Yes, my body once belonged to Xiao Huo, but for all these thousands of years, I have remained faithful to you!
Do you know how much I sacrificed to kill him? My heart has belonged to you alone for a long time!
But now, those explanations seemed so pale and powerless, so laughable.
Yes. If any normal man were faced with a pure and chaste goddess on one side, and on the other, a secondhand woman who had once abandoned him for another man, who would choose the latter?
What did she have with which to compete against Ye Jiuhuang? She wasn’t even qualified to compete!
Ye Xuan watched her look as though her parents had died, her entire mental world collapsing around her. His eyes remained utterly unmoved.
He clasped his hands behind his back and turned around, presenting his back to Xiao Honglian. In a calm voice that sounded like a final verdict, he said:
“So put away those ridiculous fantasies of yours. In my eyes, you have no past and no future. You are nothing more than my junior sister.”
“Other than this faint bond as fellow disciples, there is nothing left between us.”
Silence.
A deathly silence.
Within the void, the only sounds were the roaring churn of the sea of clouds and Xiao Honglian’s heavy, despairing breaths.
After several dozen breaths had passed in utter stillness—
“Ah!”
A scream of unimaginable anguish suddenly burst from Xiao Honglian’s throat, as though she were trying to vomit out her very soul.
Her entire body trembled violently. Like a beggar who had gone completely mad, she crawled toward Ye Xuan without caring about anything else and wrapped both arms around his legs from behind.
She pressed her face tightly against his leg. Tears and mucus mingled with blood, staining Ye Xuan’s spotless white robes.
She had broken down!
She could no longer maintain even the slightest shred of the Flame Emperor’s dignity. The love, regret, and unbearable agony that had been buried within her for thousands of years poured out like a breached flood.
“I was wrong… Senior Brother… I truly know that I was wrong…”
Xiao Honglian wailed at the top of her voice. Her voice had gone completely hoarse, every word carrying tears of blood.
“I was blind back then! I thought Xiao Huo could lead me to the supreme path. I thought he was the man destined for me… But it wasn’t until the moment you died that I realized the person I loved most had always been you!”
“For these thousands of years, there hasn’t been a single day when I didn’t regret it! Every night when I close my eyes, I see the scene of Xiao Huo smashing your heavenly crown!”
“I cultivated like a madwoman. I slaughtered Xiao Huo’s entire clan!”
She clung desperately to Ye Xuan, as if he would vanish from her world forever the moment she let go.
“I established the Flame Emperor’s legacy and traveled throughout the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, all so I could find even a trace of your remnant soul! In all these thousands of years, I never let another man touch even a finger of me—not a single one!”
“Senior Brother, I truly love you! I love you more than Ye Jiuhuang ever could! Ye Jiuhuang doesn’t understand what it means to lose someone. She doesn’t understand this kind of love that pierces straight through the bones! Please, for the sake of all the suffering I’ve endured for you over these years, look at me again, won’t you? Please don’t abandon me…”
She wept until her heart and lungs seemed to tear apart, spewing out one passionate and desperate confession after another like a rapid-fire barrage.
She tried to use the suffering she had endured over thousands of years to prove the depth of her devotion. She tried to awaken even the slightest trace of their old feelings in Ye Xuan’s heart.
However.
As Ye Xuan stood with his back to her, the so-called declarations of devotion stirred nothing in the depths of his eyes but endless coldness and contempt.
Affection that comes too late is cheaper than grass.
Ye Xuan sneered coldly to himself.
So now you know you were wrong? Now you know that you love me?
When I followed behind you like a dog, placing the best cultivation resources before you and even risking my life for you, where were your tears? When did you ever show the slightest gratitude or emotion?
You’re moved now. You regret it now. But that’s only because you realized I was a man of immense potential, and that you had missed out on the greatest opportunity of your life.
You’re merely paying the price for your own stupidity. Why should I be the one to bear your ridiculous “compensation”?
Though his heart was filled with contempt, Ye Xuan knew that now was not yet the time to crush her completely.
This proud phoenix had already been stripped of her feathers and had her pride broken. Now, it was time to place shackles on her and squeeze out every last bit of her remaining value.
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