The sight of the Imperial Power in Ye Yu's hand froze Xu Yunxi's face in an instant.
Only Ye Chengjun suddenly burst into wild laughter. "Hahaha... Hahahahaha... The Heaven's Mandate Holder and the Fate Defier are destined for one of them to die! Haha! Hahaha!"
Only then did Xu Yunxi understand why the Cauldron Spirit had looked like that at the time.
Everything had changed. Everything!
Xiaoyu had gained the Emperor's recognition and become a Heaven's Mandate Holder!
Originally, Xu Yunxi had planned to pay any price today—even her life—to kill Ye Chengjun, the Heaven's Mandate Holder, thereby confirming Ye Yu's identity as a Fate Defier, allowing him to obtain all the Fate Defier's fortune and receive the Void Sky Cauldron's wholehearted assistance.
So that Ye Yu's days ahead would be carefree and unhindered.
But now... everything had changed!
Everything was already too late!
Xu Yunxi could accept going peacefully to her death, but she could not let herself die by Xiaoyu's hand. That would be far too cruel for Xiaoyu.
"I want to become an Emperor. I want to walk the Imperial Path, and I can only walk the Imperial Path. My path cannot go on. I don't want to see the person I once was again. I don't want to forgive the person I once was. Mother... do you understand?" Ye Yu stared blankly at Xu Yunxi before him and spoke numbly.
Upon hearing Ye Yu's words, Qin Ruoxian had no idea what had happened.
But Xu Yunxi was already streaming with tears. She had used the Void Sky Cauldron to construct this scheme, so she naturally understood what Ye Yu meant. She also knew what Ye Yu had gone through.
Though everything that happened later in his previous life had not happened in this life.
The miserable