Chapter 3

His heart was no longer merely dripping blood. It was bleeding rivers.

He awkwardly took off the string of pearls and reluctantly stuffed it into Ye Zhenzhen's hands. Then he watched helplessly as Little Glutinous Rice Ball clutched his treasure tight, gnawed it with her gums, and drooled all over the floor.

This trip had cost him his wife and his soldiers. He had failed to swindle the Seven-Colored Heaven-Mending Stone out of them and had lost a Superior Beast-Binding Rope, 100,000 Superior Spirit Stones, and a string of Heaven-and-Earth Pearls worth another 180,000 Superior Spirit Stones.

Why had he chosen this of all times to come to the Cloudsky Sect?

He shot Ye Rufeng a vicious glare. This is all your fault. You told me Ye Ruheng was done for and urged me to hurry over and seize the Seven-Colored Heaven-Mending Stone.

Ye Rufeng turned his head away, avoiding his gaze. "Do I know you?"

Ye Zhenzhen: You're exactly the one I'm robbing! Hahahaha! Nothing beats plucking feathers from a miser like Immortal Venerable Shen.

Chapter 3

After the banquet, Immortal Venerable Shen wanted to leave this place of heartbreak as quickly as possible, but his son Shen Xingyan stopped him.

Shen Xingyan glanced at Ye Qingyao's retreating figure as she carried Ye Zhenzhen away and said respectfully, "Father, I still have an important matter to attend to. Could you wait a moment before we leave?"

"Very well." Immortal Venerable Shen nodded, hinting that he should get on with it. Their losses today had been enormous, but if his son won over Ye Qingyao, the trip would not have been in vain.

Ye Qingyao was Ye Ruheng's second Personal Disciple and the Mary Sue heroine of the original novel, Peerless Furnace Cauldron. She was extraordinarily beautiful, as fresh and refined as a lotus rising from the water, with a pair of clear, captivating almond-shaped eyes.

She had originally been a Spirit Herb growing beside the Seven-Colored Heaven-Mending Stone. After absorbing its spiritual energy for years, she had taken human form, and Ye Ruheng had accepted her as his Personal Disciple.

Ye Ruheng had never told anyone her true identity. But as an Innate Spirit Herb with a Supreme Wood Spiritual Root, miraculous healing abilities, and a purely yin constitution, Ye Qingyao was an ideal furnace cauldron. After she healed several inner disciples gravely wounded by demons over the past few years, people in the sect gradually discovered her special constitution. Word even reached Immortal Venerable Shen and His Son.

As the male lead of the original novel, Shen Xingyan had long heard of her. He fell for her at first sight and was determined to have her.

After winning Ye Qingyao's heart, Shen Xingyan coaxed her into becoming his furnace cauldron, tormented her body and soul, and staged the tragedy of "Do you love me? Then I'll wipe out your entire sect." He infiltrated the Cloudsky Sect, stole the method for breaking the Mountain-Guarding Formation, and brought about the destruction of the entire sect, leaving Cloudsky Mountain ground to dust.

If Immortal Venerable Shen was the mastermind behind the sect's destruction, Shen Xingyan was his strongest accomplice.

Spotting a white-clad figure glimmering with gold following behind them, Ye Zhenzhen recalled the original plot. Oh no. Today is when the male and female leads first meet—the beginning of their ill-fated romance.

If it's an ill-fated romance, it needs to be strangled in the cradle!

In the original novel, the leads' first encounter was a trite classic straight out of an old-school Mary Sue story. The heroine was fourteen, at the age when love first stirred, and the hero was seventeen.

A Xingxing suddenly appeared from the mountain wilderness and snatched a shoe from the baby girl in the heroine's arms. Then it climbed the tallest tree on Cloudsky Mountain and mischievously hung the shoe in its crown, a hundred meters above the ground.

The heroine set the baby down and rode her sword up the tree. After retrieving the shoe, she was shoved by the Xingxing hiding behind her. She lost her balance and fell.

The hero flew forward to save the beauty, caught Ye Qingyao in a princess carry, spun around with her romantically, and finally landed safely on the ground.

A princess carry while spinning around?

When Ye Zhenzhen had first read that passage, she had mocked it for ages. Was the male lead a peacock spreading his tail? What was with all the spinning?

Uh-huh.

Someone dressed in white isn't necessarily a prince on a white horse. He could also be... a white peacock...

It was this encounter that made the heroine develop feelings for the hero and accept his Communication Jade Talisman, sowing the seeds of their

tormented romance.

To prevent the tragedy that followed, Ye Zhenzhen had to derail the original plot.

Senior Sister, watch out for the white peacock following us. Oh, no—I mean Shen Xingyan.

"Who's talking?" Startled, Ye Qingyao looked around warily.

It's me, Zhenzhen—your Junior Sister, Ye Zhenzhen! Little Glutinous Rice Ball in her arms waved her tiny fists with all her might and blew bubbles from her mouth, trying to catch her senior sister's attention.

"Oh my goodness, Junior Sister! I can hear you talking!" Still an inexperienced young girl, Ye Qingyao looked at Ye Zhenzhen with curiosity and far more delight than fear.

Senior Sister, you're hearing my thoughts. I have superpowers, hehe. Little Glutinous Rice Ball winked at her.

Listen to me. The one following us is Immortal Venerable Shen's son, Shen Xingyan. He's a scoundrel—a really, really awful one. In a moment, he'll come over and chat you up, trick you into falling in love with him, make you his furnace cauldron, torment your body and soul, and use you to destroy our entire sect.

A furnace cauldron? Torment her body and soul? Destroy the sect?

Those horrifying words frightened the girl stiff, filling her limpid almond-shaped eyes with fear. But then she remembered the auspicious sign that had descended from heaven when her Junior Sister was born, and the fact that she could send her thoughts to others. She was surely no ordinary baby. "Then let's run! If I never meet him, none of that will happen."

Don't be afraid, Senior Sister. Some people cling to you like flies and vermin no matter how you try to avoid them. Just do what I tell you in a moment, and he won't lure you aboard his pirate ship.

Ye Qingyao saw the determined look in the baby's little eyes and agreed without hesitation.

Ye Zhenzhen was hard at work thinking through her next move when a Xingxing appeared out of nowhere and snatched the adorable bunny shoe from her right foot. It chattered smugly as it sped through the mountain Lin.

Ah! My bunny shoe!

The plot's moving way too fast! It didn't even give me time to react.

Watching the Xingxing race away like it had wings on its feet, she suddenly sensed something was off. Wasn't that thing native to Mount Zhaoyao? When did it start visiting Cloudsky Mountain?

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