"Stop this right now, and come back!" Leng Yaozhu shouted at Leng Yulai in front of her as she fended off her attacks.
Hearing this, Leng Yulai's face filled with resentment. Her attacks grew fiercer, and she cried out in a tearful voice, "You don't need to put on that hypocritical act and say these things to me..."
For Leng Yulai, learning that Yun Ming was still alive was like being handed a death sentence of sorts. What she had done to Yun Ming's Remnant Soul back then made her understand that, now that Yun Ming had returned, she had no chance of winning him.
Leng Yulai found this outcome impossible to accept. Moreover, after seeing Ha Luosa killed by Huo Yuhao, she truly feared that Huo Yuhao would simply kill her afterward. The fear in her heart kept swelling.
Yet faced with Leng Yaozhu's persuasion now, Leng Yulai remembered everything that had happened back then. She had repeatedly claimed she had no such feelings, only to turn around and seek out Yun Ming, even embracing him. That resentment in her heart made Leng Yulai unwilling to accept Leng Yaozhu's persuasion.
But her fear of death was real, too, which was why Leng Yulai was behaving in such a contradictory manner.
If Leng Yaozhu had known what Leng Yulai was thinking, she would certainly have wanted to beat her to death. What had happened back then was nothing like what Leng Yulai imagined.
Back then, Leng Yaozhu had sought out Yun Ming precisely because she knew what Leng Yulai was thinking and understood her temperament. That was why she had gone to him, hoping to find a tactful way to explain the situation to Leng Yulai.
As for that embrace, it had merely marked the end of Leng Yaozhu's one-sided