Taking Yun Yun as His Bride (1 / 2)

"Of course, you can refuse," Chen Yang said bluntly, as though he had seen straight through Yun Yun's thoughts.

After a pause, Chen Yang spoke again. "But you cannot afford the price of refusing me."

"If you don't want the Misty Cloud Sect destroyed, you can refuse as well."

Chen Yang embodied the words "I will not see reason" to perfection!

With his cultivation as a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, the Misty Cloud Sect was nothing more than an ant he could casually crush between his fingers.

A simple squeeze was all it would take to wipe it out.

Yun Yun was a woman who placed her sect above herself. If Chen Yang wanted to bend her to his will, threatening the Misty Cloud Sect directly would work best.

Of course, if she would rather be shattered jade than an intact tile, preferring death to submission, that did not mean Chen Yang was truly out of options.

Among his Thirty-Six Heavenly Stems Treasure Arts was one called the Great Dream of Forgetting. Once cast, it could erase a person's memories.

"What arrogant words! You want to destroy our Misty Cloud Sect?

Then let's see whether you have what it takes!

"Since Sect Master Yun Potian founded our Misty Cloud Sect, its legacy has passed through nine full generations. Its foundations are formidable.

How could a nameless nobody like you destroy it just because you say so?"

The chief grand elder, Yun Leng, whose intelligence was lacking, naturally could not swallow this insult. He immediately barked coldly.

"Yun'er, don't be afraid. I, Gu He, swear to protect you with my life.

With my connections as a Sixth-Rank Alchemist, I may not be able to swagger unchallenged across the entire Northwest Region, but protecting you and the Misty Cloud Sect is more than within my power."

Gu He shielded Yun Yun behind him and declared this with utter conviction.

This was a perfect opportunity to play the hero and rescue the beauty.

"Where did this dog come from? Kneel!" He actually dared covet Chen Yang's woman right in front of him?

In that instant, Chen Yang's pride as a man was challenged, and his expression abruptly turned icy.

He unleashed the pressure of one percent of his Nine-Star Dou Sheng strength, directing it precisely at Gu He and Yun Leng.

In an instant, Yun Leng and Gu He felt an overwhelming weight, as though a mountain had been set upon them.

Their legs lost all strength, and they dropped straight to their knees before Chen Yang, who stood at the exit of the Spatial Bridge.

They knelt heavily, their knees smashing into the earth and gouging a great pit beneath them.

Around the pit, cracks spread through the ground like a spiderweb.

Only at that moment did Gu He and Yun Leng truly realize how terrifying Chen Yang was.

How naive they had been just now!

They had actually believed that the Misty Cloud Sect's foundations and a Sixth-Rank Alchemist's connections could contend with Chen Yang.

Indeed! How could someone capable of constructing such a far-reaching Spatial Bridge from pure spatial power possibly be an opponent they could withstand?

Yun Shan's face had also gone deathly pale with fright.

Although that pressure had not been directed specifically at him, he had felt its sudden surge all too clearly.

Before that pressure, he was like a mayfly trying to shake a towering tree.

The Nine-Star Dou Sheng's pressure had deliberately bypassed Yun Yun, so she did not know just how terrifying Chen Yang's cold command had been.

However, seeing Yun Ling and Gu He utterly powerless before him gave her some idea of how enormous the gulf between them and Chen Yang was.

This man truly was someone who could destroy the Misty Cloud Sect with a casual gesture.

Biting her lower lip, Yun Yun drew a deep breath, reluctance lingering in her beautiful eyes.

But to preserve the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Yun made her decision with a resolute gaze.

She raised her head and met Chen Yang's eyes.

"I am willing to marry you and become your wife, to let you buy out the rest of my life. In this life, you, Chen Yang, will be my only man."

After saying those words, Yun Yun seemed drained of all strength.

For the sake of her sect, she had ultimately sacrificed her own happiness.

"Yun'er!" Blood seeped from Gu He's mouth. His fists clenched, the nails of four fingers digging into his palms. His eyes were bloodshot, his face filled with unwillingness.

He hated himself for being too weak. In the end, he had still failed to protect her.

At the same time, his hatred for Chen Yang reached new heights.

The murder of one's father, the theft of one's wife—such hatred could never share the same sky!

Chen Yang, I, Gu He, swear in my heart that one day, I will take her back!

Unlike Gu He, whose face brimmed with hatred, Yun Shan wore a complicated expression.

He had watched Yun'er grow up. To say he felt nothing for her would certainly be a lie.

He did not know whether marrying such a powerful man would bring her fortune or disaster.

Perhaps more disaster than fortune!

After all, she had no feelings for him, and he had merely taken a fancy to her beauty.

For the Misty Cloud Sect, however, it was a blessing.

Ah, that is enough.

"Hahaha!"

"Yun'er, you truly haven't disappointed your husband!"

Chen Yang laughed heartily. Then, with a flicker, his figure vanished from the Spatial Bridge.

When he appeared again, he was already beside Yun Yun.

He reached out with one large hand and pulled her straight into his embrace, allowing her neither agreement nor refusal.

With that warm, fragrant softness in his arms, Chen Yang's heart rippled with delight.

So this was how wonderful it felt to hold a goddess in his arms!

Yun Yun had not expected Chen Yang to embrace her without so much as a word.

Chen Yang's masculine scent invaded her nostrils without restraint, and she instinctively wanted to struggle.

But when his large hand wrapped around her waist and he leaned close to whisper into her ear, she froze.

His warm breath brushed an intensely sensitive spot beside her ear, making her squirm inwardly.

"Don't move. As your fiancé, I'm legally entitled to hug you," Chen Yang murmured softly into her ear.

His voice carried a devilish allure, making the already uncomfortable Yun Yun's ear tingle.

You shameless rogue! Yun Yun cursed him fiercely in her heart, not daring to let her disgust show on her face.

Seeing Chen Yang openly take liberties with Yun Yun while she offered no resistance, Gu He ground his teeth, his eyes seeming ready to spit fire.

"Let go of her!"

At those words, displeasure appeared on Chen Yang's face.

Why did this damned dog have so much to say?

He should weigh himself and see just how little he amounted to.

Chen Yang fixed his eyes on Gu He, who had shakily straightened his back beneath the pressure, and his gaze turned cold.

"Want to die?!" Chen Yang deliberately drew out those simple words, making them sound as though they had come from the Nine Nether Hells.

Although spilling blood before a wedding was inauspicious, Chen Yang would not mind exterminating Gu He if he truly insisted on courting death.

Whether in his previous life or this one, Chen Yang had never been a good-tempered person. He was extreme beyond measure.

There was nothing he intended to do that he could not accomplish.

Meeting Chen Yang's gaze, which resembled that of a god of slaughter, Gu He felt as though a blade had been laid against his neck. He immediately shut his mouth.

But he truly could not accept handing the girl he had loved for so many years to another man just like this.

If the other man had won her heart through sincerity, he would have accepted it willingly.

But the other man was forcing her into marriage through sheer strength, and that he could not accept.

"Does anyone else object to my marrying your sect master?" Seeing that Gu He had no further objections, Chen Yang called out to the crowd.

"If you object, step forward where I can see you!"

Everyone: "...!"

With that tone, who the hell would dare object?

"Since no one objects, and your sect master herself is willing to marry me,

I will arrive punctually at a quarter to one in the afternoon three days from now to take your sect master home as my bride."

Only after saying this did Chen Yang reluctantly release Yun Yun, telling her to go back and prepare so she could marry him looking her finest in three days.

As for him, he sought out an unused palace within the Misty Cloud Sect and converted it into the bridal chamber where he and Yun Yun would spend their future wedding night.

(One female lead or multiple female leads—you decide!)

(PS: Here's a book recommendation: "Battle Through the Heavens: Choosing to Snatch Up Medusa at the Start!" The female lead is Queen Medusa.)