Chapter 370: Chapter 369: Senseless Harassment
Thinking of the Mo Sect, Ye Fan’s voice grew cold as he asked, "Is he the Sect Master of the Mo Sect now?"
"Yes. The two great Sect Masters of the Mo Sect were killed by the King of Heaven, so Mo Yichen, who was cultivating the Absolute Poison Gang, has emerged from seclusion. He’s preparing to seek revenge on the King of Heaven!" Liu Ruyan immediately replied.
Ye Fan was speechless. The Absolute Poison Gang... That means a person whose entire body is a vessel for poison. If someone like that married Liu Ruyan, she definitely wouldn’t survive more than three years. The Liu Family is certainly willing to make a sacrifice.
He asked Liu Ruyan, "Do you even know what the Absolute Poison Gang is?"
"No, but my father told me that once it’s successfully cultivated, its user becomes invincible!" That was all Liu Ruyan knew.
"The Absolute Poison Gang is not as simple as you think," Ye Fan said.
"What?" Liu Ruyan looked at him, perplexed.
Ye Fan explained, "The Absolute Poison Gang is forged by tempering the body with countless rare and deadly poisons. Even if he can control his own poison with ease, if you marry him, you definitely won’t live past three years!"
Hearing this bombshell, Liu Ruyan was stunned. Her family had never mentioned this to her. Of course, she had no intention of marrying him anyway.
She asked Ye Fan in astonishment, "How do you know so much?"
"Because I am the King of Heaven," Ye Fan replied.
Upon hearing he was the King of Heaven, Liu Ruyan was floored. She never would have guessed that the man before her was the one who had slain the two Mo Sect Masters.
Appearances really are deceiving. I assumed Ye Fan was just an ordinary martial cultivator, but his background is so extraordinary. Of course, in my eyes, he’s still an out-and-out rogue.
"You’re the King of Heaven?" Liu Ruyan couldn’t help but exclaim.
"I don’t look the part?" Ye Fan retorted.
Though she said nothing, her shaking head gave him his answer.
Ye Fan was speechless. He considered himself handsome and dashing, a man who clearly stood out from the ordinary, yet this woman was doubting his identity. However, he was in no mood to explain. His encounter with Liu Ruyan was just a chance meeting, and besides, he didn’t want to face her. Facing her reminded him of Gongsun Linglong, a memory full of bitter tears.
Watching the heavy rain pour outside, he said, "Let’s part ways here and never meet again. If you truly want to escape, you should leave now! Don’t get caught! Go back and tell your father that in two months at most, the Mo Sect will cease to exist!"
Ye Fan stood up to leave, but he was suddenly grabbed by Liu Ruyan.
"What are you doing?" he asked. A woman shouldn’t be acting like a rogue, but she was being one right now.
"I want to go with you! Take me to your home!" she declared.
"Go with me? Take you home?"
"Yes!"
"Are you kidding me?" Ye Fan shot back. "We’re going our separate ways. I barely know you. Why on earth would I take you home?"
He refused her outright. Was he the kind of man to be swayed by lust? Well, sometimes he was, but only toward the women he truly loved. He would never act that way toward a stranger.
But Liu Ruyan pressed on, "Because I am your woman!"
"Seriously?!" Ye Fan realized he was being blackmailed. This kind of "lucky" encounter was the stuff of most men’s dreams.
He immediately said, "You can’t just say things like that. Young lady, don’t try to trap me. Have some self-respect!"
"Hmph! You touched my butt earlier, so you have to take responsibility for me!" Liu Ruyan retorted, persisting unreasonably.
Ye Fan felt an immense headache coming on. What was this nonsense? What era were they in? Forget a little touch; even sleeping together was perfectly normal for modern men and women. Responsibility? What responsibility was there to take?
"That was an accident, an unintentional mistake. Don’t take it seriously!" Ye Fan said immediately.
"But you pinned me down just now!" Liu Ruyan added.
"That was just to intimidate you! Don’t take that seriously either! You’ve been in the secular world. In this day and age, that kind of thing is considered conservative!" Ye Fan argued.
But Liu Ruyan burst into tears, squatting on the ground and sobbing her heart out. Ye Fan ignored her, thinking that a man needed to have a harder heart. However, after he had walked nearly a hundred meters, she was still in the same spot, crying. Ye Fan’s head was throbbing. Don’t be fooled by her looks, he told himself. You must not get involved! Yet with every step he took, he felt a pang in his heart.
Finally, he gave in. He walked back to Liu Ruyan and said, "You win."
He had no choice. A woman’s tears were his greatest weakness, a tactic that worked on him almost every time. It seemed he couldn’t be as hard-hearted as a stone after all.
Liu Ruyan immediately stopped crying, her sorrow replaced by elation.
The two walked along the muddy road, Ye Fan moving quickly. Liu Ruyan, however, couldn’t keep up with his pace and kept falling behind. She pouted, "You don’t know how to cherish a woman. What a ruthless man!"
Ye Fan had to keep stopping to wait for her, and he was getting desperate. His pace was being completely dragged down by her. "Can’t you walk any faster? You’re acting like such a girl!" he snapped. The moment the words left his mouth, he knew he’d made a mistake.
"I *am* a girl! And you won’t even wait for me!" Liu Ruyan said indignantly. "Hmph!"
Ye Fan was too lazy to argue and just kept walking ahead. At a loss for what to do about him, Liu Ruyan suddenly had a brilliant idea.
"Ouch!"
"Now what?" Ye Fan asked, exasperated.
"I twisted my ankle!" Liu Ruyan cried.
"It’s fine, I can fix it for you!" Ye Fan said, about to step forward.
But Liu Ruyan declared, "Men and women must maintain their distance!"
"Then what do you want me to do?" Ye Fan was on the verge of a breakdown from this woman’s relentless pestering. But in the next moment, he compromised yet again.
Liu Ruyan was on his back.
With her on his back, feeling her soft body pressed against him, Ye Fan felt like he’d been tricked. So much for ’men and women must maintain their distance.’ This is about as intimate as it gets! Meanwhile, Liu Ruyan was triumphant, having finally gotten the better of him.
The entire journey was excruciating for Ye Fan. This has to be heaven’s punishment, he thought, retribution for how much he owed Gongsun Linglong. And now, a Liu Ruyan has appeared to torment me. It’s pure misery.
「Back in Jiangning.」
Ye Fan said, "The Jiangning underworld belongs to my Heavenly King Hall. You can rest easy now, right? Let’s go our separate ways. If you don’t have money, I can lend you some." He was relieved, thinking he could finally escape this Bitter Sea and endure no more grief.
But Liu Ruyan said, "You men are all the same! You use a woman and then toss her aside! You needed me when you were lonely, but now that you’re tired of me, you’re just going to abandon me!"
She started crying again, her sobs tragically heartbreaking. They were in the city now, and plenty of people were walking by. Seeing such a beautiful woman crying so sorrowfully, a crowd of onlookers quickly gathered.
Ye Fan was defeated, completely and utterly this time. He hurriedly said, "Alright, fine! I’ll take you home! I give up, alright?"
Hearing this, Liu Ruyan finally flashed a victorious smile.
