The expression of the young man standing in front of the gates to the courtyard occupied by the Yin Yang Unity Palace slowly began turning from a mocking smile into a grimace of annoyance as he saw the eyes of the disciple while Hua Ziyan seemed to not lose interest in him, as if his presence there no longer registered in her eyes.

Though even her line of sight was no longer pointed into his direction as she turned to the side with a happy glint lighting up in her eyes.

“Huh? What is that look for?”

“It’s a look of sympathy, how ungrateful…”

A voice resounded from the side, as Hua Ziyan’s eyes reflected a figure lightly stepping on the roof of a wall, as if descending from a flight as the white robes of the disciple of the Yin Yang Unity Palace flapped, settling after being risen by the oncoming wind.

The Prime Disciple of the other sect who were inviting the occupants of this courtyard to compare notes turned to the sound of the voice.

“And you are supposed to be?”

“Not only ungrateful but blind as well. Sect members are wearing robes not just for being fancy you know.

You should go and apologize to that disciple from the Cloud Piercing Sect for being blind with working eyes”

“You scum! How about you come down from there and see if you can tell the same line into my face?”

The disciple’s initial annoyance turned into outright anger and hostility as he fully turned to Wu Long. But as he did, he realized that Wu Long was already standing before him while he was looking at the empty spot.

“This face?”

A question resounded in his ears while his face was moving back down to look at the man now standing in front of him, and before he could catch up to what was happening his vision blurred as his body flew toward his sect members, sending the whole group tumbling further into the distance from the force of the impact, turning into a messy pile of bodies.

A resounding sound of a slap followed after him, as Wu Long’s hand finished it’s move and was put back down amidst the painful groans and cursing.

“Haa~, really, how annoying”

He sighed with lament and annoyance, turning to his sect’s disciples, or rather to a beauty standing among them, and then a smile appeared on his face, any negative feelings washed away by the mere sight of the look in her eyes.

He stepped forward, taking out a disposable cloth which was usually used to wipe a sword off, and wiping his hand instead as he approached her while the messy pile behind him slowly turned back into a group of humans, though with much worse postures and facial expressions.

They raised their unconscious Prime Disciple up and proceeded to waddle away as quickly as they could while shouting something from a distance that he did not bother listening to. 𝘪𝘦.𝘤𝑜

“Sorry for taking so long, the conversation proceeded much more smoothly than I expected so I expanded its scope”

He said as the beauty shook her head with a smile while the other disciples tactfully started disappearing back inside, though the moment the two locked eyes all the others stopped existing.

“Haha, don’t worry. Thank you for your hard work”

As she said these words, her hands instinctively went up to fix the slightly cramped corner of his robe’s collar. He smiled, raising his hand in turn to gently caress her cheek that instantly revealed a healthy rosy color with the back of his two fingers.

The cold air caused their breaths to become misty white clouds.

“Did you manage to bring up the offer?”

She then asked, and he gently nodded.

“Did it go well?”

“Hard to say, though it looks promising. But ultimately it depends on the individual choices of the members”

“Hmm, then this may be a good opportunity to show them why it’s a good choice for them”

“You seem determined to make it succeed, does it bother you at all?”

He chuckled and then looked straight into her brown eyes as he asked, her pupils lightly contracting in response, and then easing back.

“Not at all”

She revealed a smile in which he did not find any pretense. Her body moved forward as she turned her head to the side, placing her ear to his chest as his hands wrapped around her.

“It is something you need. And it is something you are doing for our sake as well.

And even if you were simply doing it for your desires, I would not mind. It is not like you suddenly don’t care about us.

I cannot speak for others, only for myself, even though I think that most of us feel the same.

I know that this heart I hear beating, has a place for me no matter how many women you have. And that these eyes will reflect my image”

She turned her head in his embrace to look up into his eyes from below. Hers filled with devotion and absolute trust.

“And if that is someday no longer true…”

A painful light flashed in her eyes for a moment as she struggled to say her sentence in one go. But her expression begged him to let her finish.

“…I know that it would be my fault in not being worthy anymore…”

As she spoke to this point her lips were unable to speak any further as they were covered by his.

At this moment, Hua Ziyan felt a slightly rougher than usual, aggressive and undeniably possessive kiss along with tight, incredibly firm, even to the point of making her slightly uncomfortable, hold of his arms around her.

These sensations took her breath away and brought happiness that she could not describe nor contain. The slightly painful tightness of his embrace turned into a heavenly bliss that made her mind blank, and the rough kiss threw out even that blankness away.

With every minute action and with his entire being, he expressed one single thought:

‘You are mine, and there is no way back from that’

This simple truth was so crystal clear and utterly undeniable, so sufferingly heartfelt, that any shadow of a doubt about worthiness or any other nonsense were completely swept away in it.

There was no need for lengthy words or tirades about how precious she was, no serenades or long hours of persuasion.

She was his, to the last drop of tears that glinted in the corner of her eyes. ‘Ah… so this is what it truly feels like to be loved…’ was the only thought that managed to flash through her head.

Her petite, delicate and soft body pressed even further into him with all her strength, as if wanting to completely melt into him, giving her all to him.

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