Shalan's Secret (3)

"No way! Then find somewhere to lock me up. I don't want to stay by your side," Ye Lang said.

"No place is safe enough to lock you up. Keeping you by my side is safest," Zhao Yarou said, shaking her head. How could she not know that if Ye Lang wanted to escape, there were few places that could hold him?

"Keeping me by your side—aren't you afraid I'll kill you and then escape?" Ye Lang asked.

"Try it!" Zhao Yarou stared at Ye Lang and replied blandly.

"Forget it. You're too unfathomable, woman," Ye Lang said.

"Get lost! You're the unfathomable one!" Zhao Yarou snapped. She had thought of something—something Ye Lang seemed to have said before.

"What? I was complimenting you!" Ye Lang said.

"I don't need your compliments! Besides, if you behave yourself and promise me you won't leave Soaring Sky Empire or leave my side, I'll let you move about freely," Zhao Yarou said.

"Why don't you just kill me? Wouldn't that be cleaner and more decisive?" Ye Lang found it strange. Zhao Yarou was fully capable of killing him now.

Why go through so much trouble and still allow him to move about freely?

"If I killed you, who would I show the result to? Ye Lang, everything I'm doing is for you to see," Zhao Yarou said as she looked at him, a trace of resentment in her voice.

"What did you say?" Ye Lang was somewhat confused.

"Forget it! It's fine if you don't understand. Once I win the whole world, you'll know," Zhao Yarou said with a smile, apparently unwilling to continue on the subject.

"Are you really going to strike at the entire continent?" Ye Lang looked at Zhao Yarou and asked in confusion. The price of becoming the continent's