Ye Xuan lowered his hand and looked at the Azure Emperor without answering.
The Azure Emperor was trembling all over, her voice growing louder and louder. “You knew she fell by herself. You knew she had placed those rocks there herself. You knew I hadn’t done anything!”
“And yet you still hit me! You still cursed me! You still humiliated me in front of everyone!”
“Why?”
Her tears finally burst forth, pouring down like a flood. She pointed at Ye Xuan, her finger shaking violently. “Why did you do this?”
Ye Xuan looked at her, the corners of his lips slowly curling into a cold smile.
“You ask why?” His voice was as calm as still water, yet it carried a chill that sent shivers down the spine.
“Because it was fun.”
The Azure Emperor froze.
“Because… it was fun?”
She repeated the words blankly, her eyes filled with disbelief.
“Yes.” Ye Xuan’s tone was indifferent. “Watching you beg me humbly for mercy, watching you be wrongfully accused and unable to defend yourself, watching you suffer, despair, and fall apart… It was truly entertaining.”
His gaze was like two sharp swords, stabbing straight into the Azure Emperor’s heart. “Weren’t you the same way toward me back then? You knew I was innocent, yet you still chose to believe Lu Yanchen. You knew that digging out my kidney would make me wish I were dead, yet you still did it without the slightest hesitation.”
“Back then, did you think it was fun too?”
The Azure Emperor’s face was as pale as paper, her lips trembling violently.
“I… I didn’t…” She tried to explain, but found that she could not even form a complete sentence.
Ye Xuan shook his head, the disgust in his eyes completely undisguised. “Azure Emperor, you keep saying that you love me, but every single thing you’ve done has harmed me. Is that what you call love? How laughable.”
The Azure Emperor’s entire body shook as though she had been struck by lightning.
She opened her mouth, wanting to refute him, wanting to say, “That’s not how it was,” but the words remained caught in her throat, unable to come out.
Because she knew Ye Xuan was right.
Everything she had done to Ye Xuan back then had hurt him.
She had thought that she loved him, but all her love had brought him was pain.
“No… That’s not how it was…” She finally forced out the words, her voice hoarse beyond recognition. “Back then… I was only deceived… I was only trying to repay a debt of gratitude… There was nothing improper between Lu Yanchen and me. Nothing ever happened between us…”
Ye Xuan let out a cold laugh. “Repaying a debt of gratitude? Does repaying a debt give you the right to hurt me? To dig out my kidney? Azure Emperor, why was I the one who had to pay the price for your gratitude?”
Tears streamed endlessly down the Azure Emperor’s face as she shook her head desperately. “Ye Xuan, I know I was wrong… I truly know I was wrong… I’m willing to spend the rest of my life making it up to you… I only ask that you forgive me…”
“I won’t forgive you.”
Ye Xuan said it without the slightest hesitation, his tone decisive and absolute.
The Azure Emperor’s pupils contracted violently.
“Why not?”
Her voice suddenly rose, sharp enough to pierce the eardrums. “Ye Xuan, what gives you the right not to forgive me? Is it because I hurt you back then? What about you? What you’re doing now is ten thousand times worse than what I did!”
She pointed at Ying’er, her voice full of fury and resentment. “How many times have you slept with this servant girl? When you were in bed with her, did you ever think about how I felt?”
“And Ye Jiuhuang—you say she’s your wife, so what does that make me? What am I to you?”
Ye Xuan’s expression remained as calm as still water.
“In my eyes, you’re nothing.” His voice was indifferent. “You’re merely a dispensable concubine.”
The Azure Emperor staggered back two steps as though struck by lightning.
“You… What did you say?”
“I said that in my eyes, you’re nothing.”
Ye Xuan repeated himself, not a trace of emotion in his voice. “I once treated you with genuine sincerity, only to receive your betrayal and trampling in return. Now I’m merely repaying you in kind. What right do you have to complain?”
The Azure Emperor bit down hard on her lip, and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.
“This isn’t fair…” Her voice trembled. “This isn’t fair… You have so many women by your side. You’ve slept with so many women, while I… I never did anything wrong. I was only deceived once, and now you’re treating me like this…”
“Fair?” Ye Xuan let out a cold laugh, his eyes filled with mockery. “There has never been anything fair about love. Didn’t I treat you sincerely back then, only to have that sincerity trampled beneath your feet?”
He paused, and his voice grew even colder. “If you think it’s unfair, you can leave. Did I place some restriction on you? If you want to go, then go now.”
The Azure Emperor was stunned.
Ye Xuan truly had not placed any restriction on her.
She could leave at any time.
Yet her feet seemed rooted to the ground, unable to take even a single step.
Because she loved him.
She loved him madly, humbly—so much that she was willing to cast aside even her dignity.
Love itself was the greatest restriction in this world.
With tears streaming down her face, the Azure Emperor choked out, “Ye Xuan… You have so many women. You’ve slept with so many women… As for me, when I sided with Lu Yanchen back then, it was only to repay a debt of gratitude… He was my brother-in-law. I never had any improper thoughts about him…”
“Now, I hope you can forgive me…”
Ye Xuan looked at her, his gaze still cold.
“Do you really think that’s possible?”
The Azure Emperor’s body began to tremble violently. A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from her.
The aura of someone at the pinnacle of the Mahayana realm swept across the entire garden like a raging storm. Gale winds howled, sending dust and stones flying. The roof of the pavilion was blown away, rocks from the artificial mountain rolled across the ground, and the water in the pond surged several yards into the air.
Her eyes turned blood-red, her long hair whipping wildly in the wind. She looked like an enraged goddess of war.
“Ye Xuan!” she roared, her voice filled with hysterical fury. “Why must you trample me like this? Why are you so utterly fearless?”
Ye Xuan stood where he was, his robes snapping loudly in the violent wind, yet his expression remained as calm as still water.
He did not even furrow his brow.
The Azure Emperor screamed, her voice filled with agony. “Ye Xuan! It’s because I can’t leave you! Because I can’t go on living without you!”
“So you think that gives you the right to trample me however you please? Aren’t you afraid that one day I’ll come to hate you?”
Ye Xuan looked at her, a hint of mockery flashing through his eyes.
He slowly closed his eyes, then opened them again.
In that instant, he activated the power of Questioning Love.
An invisible ripple spread from his body, sweeping across the Azure Emperor.
Within his field of vision, a crimson radiance burned around the Azure Emperor. It was love that would endure until death, so intense that it seemed almost ready to spill over.
Red as blood, blazing as fire.
Ye Xuan lowered his head and looked at himself.
There was not even a trace of red light.
He was completely clean—utterly empty.
He did not love the Azure Emperor.
Not in the slightest.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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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…
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
