Published: February 26, 2025
"Now you both have come to the Heavenly Pool Sacred Mountain in pairs, who are you trying to impress? By doing this, aren't you just rubbing salt into the wound of my Ninth Junior Sister?"
"Miao Qingqing, that's enough!" Tan Yun's face darkened, "I don't want to talk to you."
"You don’t want to talk to me? I can’t be bothered to pay attention to you!" Miao Qingqing glared at Tan Yun, growing increasingly furious.
"Bingshuan, come out, let me explain." Tan Yun took a step forward and crossed thousands of zhang, appearing outside the tightly closed pavilion.
"Tan Yun, just go, I don't want to see you anymore." From inside the pavilion came Xin Bingshuan's indifferent voice.
"Bingshuan, things aren’t as you think." Tan Yun spoke sincerely.
"Indeed, it's not as I think, but I saw it with my own eyes, in front of everyone, how you spoke to the Western Continent Emperor." Xin Bingshuan's voice came from the pavilion, cold yet filled with anger, "You said you liked the Seventh Princess and would not fear death for her!"
"This is what I saw with my own eyes, what else is there to explain?"
After finishing her words, Xin Bingshuan's voice came again, this time tinged with self-mockery, "If you think about it, you are not at fault."
"After all, liking you has always been my one-sided wish, and you have never expressed anything to me, have you?"
"You can be with anyone you want, who am I to say anything?"
"So Tan Yun, please don’t disturb me anymore, just leave."
At this moment, inside the pavilion, after Xin Bingshuan finished speaking, her beautiful eyes were already filled with tears.
Her heart felt like it was being torn apart!
She was utterly heartbroken!
She had once lowered her pride and was willing to accept that Tan Yun had so many beautiful companions, but she could not accept that after leaving the Heavenly Gate Divine Palace, Tan Yun fell for Yu Yunxi and was willing to take risks to participate in the challenge for marriage for her.
A crystal tear slipped from her eyes as she coldly said, "Tan Yun, from now on, you and I... are forever separated..."
"Bang!"
Before she could finish the word "separated," the pavilion door was kicked open by someone.
"I will not allow you to refuse to listen to my explanation, nor will I allow you to say that word!"
Tan Yun strode into the pavilion, looking at the tearful Xin Bingshuan. He took a deep breath, and his next action left Miao Qingqing and Yu Yunxi outside the pavilion stunned.
Xin Bingshuan's delicate body trembled, her tear-filled eyes blazing with endless anger!
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, Tan Yun stepped forward, his domineering yet determined hands wrapped around Xin Bingshuan's slender waist, fiercely pulling her into his embrace.
"Tan Yun, you..."
Xin Bingshuan just opened her mouth, her beautiful eyes widening in surprise, but Tan Yun lowered his head and kissed her crimson lips through the purple veil.
In that moment, as she was kissed by Tan Yun, Xin Bingshuan's heart raced, her mind went blank, and she forgot to resist.
After a brief three breaths, recovering her senses, Xin Bingshuan pushed Tan Yun away with force.
"You lecher!" Xin Bingshuan was so angry her delicate body shook, raising her jade hand to slap Tan Yun's cheek, but he stepped forward again, opening his arms and dominantly pulling her back into his embrace, speaking earnestly, "The long road of longing for you is my heart for you, am I any different?"
"Bingshuan, the Seventh Princess is my friend. The Grand Marshal of East Town from the Western Continent Ancestral Dynasty is proposing to the Western Continent Emperor, hoping she will marry his eldest son."
"And Yunxi doesn’t want to marry Qi Kong; to her, it would be worse than death, she might even take her own life."
"So to help her, I participated in the challenge for marriage. It’s not as you think, really."
Listening to Tan Yun's words, the jade hand Xin Bingshuan had raised began to tremble. In Tan Yun's embrace, she hesitantly raised her head, teary-eyed, looking at him, "Is... what you said true?"