Master and Disciple Finally Break, Yan Ji Gives Her Heart
Master and Disciple Finally Break, Yan Ji Gives Her Heart
Watching the playful, condescending expression on Gu Changge’s face, as if he were gazing down at a tiny ant.
It made Ye Chen’s head buzz.
Especially Gu Changge’s words—they nearly made his vision go black, and he almost spat out a mouthful of pent-up blood.
Although he had suspected his Shifu harbored ulterior motives toward him, he had still clung to a sliver of hope.
Gu Changge’s words had mercilessly shattered that sliver of hope.
This filled Ye Chen with boundless rage, and he nearly hurled the ring in his hand away.
If it weren’t for some connection with his Shifu, why would Gu Changge speak in such a familiar tone the moment they met?
Had the dagger been revealed now that the map was unrolled, so he no longer bothered to hide it?
Otherwise, how could he explain how Gu Changge had tracked him all the way here—he had barely arrived himself before Gu Changge showed up right behind him?
Ye Chen’s expression was filled with fury as he loudly questioned Yan Ji,
“No wonder you haven’t spoken lately. It’s because you felt guilty, isn’t it? I treated you as my master, yet you colluded with my enemy to harm me?”
He practically roared these words through gritted teeth, in utter agony.
Watching this scene, Gu Changge couldn’t help but silently praise his own cleverness.
Sure enough, with just a little provocation, Ye Chen exploded immediately.
A brain is a wonderful thing—too bad Ye Chen didn’t have one, especially when his eyes were burned red by jealousy.
Inside the ring, Yan Ji, who had seen Gu Changge appear and had originally planned to help neither side,
was now somewhat stunned upon hearing these words. What did Ye Chen mean by this?
Although she knew Ye Chen had been harboring suspicions about her lately, she never imagined his suspicions had reached such a degree.
She had never left the ring—how could she possibly have informed Gu Changge of his whereabouts?
He didn’t reflect on whether the problem lay with himself, nor did he suspect anyone else.
Instead, he directly suspected her?
Heh.
Although Yan Ji’s temperament was usually cold and aloof, that didn’t mean she couldn’t get angry or feel other emotions.
And right now, it wasn’t merely a matter of anger—she was thoroughly, completely furious and heartbroken.
At once, the void blurred, and her figure emerged—a red dress setting off her breathtakingly beautiful face, her form like fire, yet her aura incomparably ice-cold.
“You have disappointed me greatly.”
“I never imagined that in your heart, I would be this kind of person.”
“From this day forth, the bond of master and disciple between you and me is severed.”
She looked at Ye Chen, her eyes like blood-colored glazed glass revealing incomparable coldness and disappointment.
These few sentences were spoken with an almost emotionless indifference.
She felt that all the kindness she had shown over the years had been cast into flowing water.
Even a pet raised for so many years would know gratitude.
Sometimes, a person truly might be inferior to a pet.
Hearing Yan Ji’s words, the fury burned in Ye Chen’s mind as he glared back at her angrily.
“Severed, what a fine ’severed.’ You colluded with Gu Changge against me, and now you’ve finally shown your true colors?”
He sneered, but felt his heart twisting in pain.
Why? Why all of this?
Su Qingge betrayed him, and now even his Shifu betrayed him. Would Ye Liuli end up the same way in the end?
The master and disciple who had accompanied each other for so many years—today, the rift between them finally widened to its final stage, reaching the point of complete rupture.
“Yan Ji qianbei’s elegance is as remarkable as ever. Your complexion looks even better than before.”
Watching all this, Gu Changge acted as if he had no idea the master and disciple were breaking apart, and even smiled at Yan Ji as he spoke.
Back then, he had deliberately sown discord between the two. Though his methods weren’t particularly brilliant, they had been quite lethal for the two of them at the time.
Ye Chen feared death, and Yan Ji’s Remnant Soul state wasn’t in good shape either.
Of course, for someone as jealous as Ye Chen, Gu Changge’s methods were even more deadly.
Gu Changge himself was extremely possessive.
Let alone a Fortuitous One—any woman connected to them, they would want to claim for themselves.
How could their eyes possibly tolerate a single grain of sand?
<*Ding!* Ye Chen has finally broken with his master. Fortuity decreased by two hundred points, reaching the lower limit. Fatums increased by one thousand.>
At this moment, the System’s notification sounded again in Gu Changge’s mind. He didn’t pay it much attention.
After all, everything was within his expectations.
Back then, he had said it—Ye Chen’s beautiful Shifu, he would take her.
Now he was merely applying a few tricks to fulfill those words from back then.
Yan Ji looked at Gu Changge, her expression softening slightly. “Gongzi flatters me. It’s all thanks to the Mind Convergence Pill you gave me back then. Otherwise, relying on Ye Chen, who knows how long it would have taken to rebuild my body. By then, my wisp of a Remnant Soul would probably have long since dissipated...”
Although Gu Changge’s words contained some element of provocation,
she didn’t find them offensive.
After all, with Ye Chen’s behavior right before her eyes, Gu Changge’s words seemed far more upright by comparison.
And Yan Ji said these words right in front of Ye Chen, making Ye Chen’s face alternate between pale and ashen—he was nearly green with anger, his teeth grinding audibly.
Yan Ji’s expression was cold; she didn’t even glance at Ye Chen again.
She was truly heartbroken over this disciple.
The bond between master and disciple was severed.
Ye Chen had even torn off all pretenses with her.
Why should she hold back anymore? Though these words carried some emotion, weren’t they also a true reflection of her heart?
“It seems Ye Chen’s misunderstanding of you runs quite deep...”
Gu Changge put on a slightly surprised expression, not about to pass up this chance to rub salt in the wound.
Yan Ji glanced at him and shook her head. “Misunderstanding or not, none of it matters anymore.”
Hearing this, Gu Changge put on a look of apparent regret, a self-blaming expression. “So it seems my words just now made Ye Chen think you were the one who leaked his whereabouts to me?”
Playing the good guy—he could certainly do that too, and flawlessly at that.
At this moment, Gu Changge certainly wouldn’t reveal the truth.
Otherwise, where would the fun be in that?
He was still waiting to make Yan Ji give her heart to him right in front of Ye Chen.
Yan Ji was slightly stunned, and for some reason, her eyes reddened a little.
Compared to Ye Chen’s lack of understanding, Gu Changge’s words struck right at her grievances.
“Gu Changge, you despicable villain, stop pretending to be a good person now.”
“You conspired with my Shifu against me—don’t think I don’t know. You want me to help you open the doors of this great hall, don’t you?”
Ye Chen had no pleasant expression for Gu Changge either; his face was ice-cold, killing intent pervading the air.
As he spoke, he prepared to activate the compass in his hand.
As the secret key to open this place, it could also control many of the mechanisms and Array Patterns here.
Combined with his current strength, facing a Gu Changge whose cultivation was suppressed to the Mighty-Transcendent Realm, he wasn’t entirely without a chance of victory.
Heh, so he’s not completely stupid after all.
Gu Changge glanced at Ye Chen, unconcerned.
He continued speaking to himself, his expression carrying a hint of pity. “Having such a wonderful beautiful Shifu, you don’t know how to cherish her, and instead keep hurting her heart again and again.”
“Back then, when I tried to win her over, she refused. I thought then—such a remarkable woman of such character is truly rare.”
“In your most difficult times, she never abandoned you. What did she stand to gain from you?”
“Now that you’re about to obtain an inheritance and have backing behind you, you cast her aside.”
“As for your whereabouts—why don’t you think about yourself? I let you go multiple times. Didn’t you find that strange?”
“Ye Chen, oh Ye Chen, tell me—don’t you deserve to die right now?”
As Gu Changge spoke, his smile was full of amusement.
Compared to simply slapping Ye Chen to death, he actually preferred this kind of process.
Killing the body is nothing compared to killing the heart—that’s the principle.
Truth mixed with lies—Ye Chen himself could no longer tell them apart.
“Gu gongzi, please stop...” Yan Ji’s eyes were slightly red. She never expected Gu Changge to say such words, to understand her so well. The heartbreak and sorrow in her chest dissipated considerably, and she was even deeply moved.
If back in that dungeon, she had agreed to Gu gongzi’s offer and followed him,
would she not feel so heartbroken as she did today...?
Perhaps now, it wasn’t too late?
If Gu gongzi didn’t disdain her?
“Gu Changge, stop slandering me! I never had such thoughts—this is all completely fabricated by you!”
Hearing these words, Ye Chen’s face turned somewhat pale, and he couldn’t help roaring, trying to mask his emotions.
Gu Changge’s words sounded simple, but wasn’t there truth in them?
They were like a knife stabbing straight into his heart!
Especially that line about how he now had an inheritance and backing, while his Shifu, a mere Remnant Soul, was indeed somewhat insignificant—
it made his head buzz with a loud hum!
That sentence seemed to be the true thought buried deep in his heart—that keeping his Shifu by his side was purely out of a desire to possess her?
“Gu gongzi, if you don’t disdain me, Yan Ji is willing to follow you from now on...”
At this moment, Yan Ji suddenly spoke, and the first sentence she uttered made Ye Chen’s head buzz once again.
His face turned green.
“Bitch...” He practically spat these two words out.
Puh!
But before his words had fully fallen, Gu Changge’s palm struck out, runes condensing into a golden millstone, making Ye Chen spit out a mouthful of blood with a wah.
Just like back then—utterly powerless to resist!
“So noisy.”
Gu Changge swept a casual glance at him, once again resuming that lofty, overlooking posture.
“Since Yan Ji qianbei is willing to follow me, Gu naturally welcomes you wholeheartedly.”
Turning to Yan Ji, Gu Changge once again wore a warm, spring-breeze-like demeanor as he chuckled softly.
At the same time, the System’s notification sounded in his mind.
<*Ding!* Yan Ji has given her heart. Fortuity increased by four hundred, Fatums increased by two thousand.>
A full four hundred Fortuity points—what a profitable haul.
Gu Changge silently praised how marvelous everything was.
If not for that idiot Ye Chen’s behavior today, making Yan Ji give her heart would probably have required considerably more effort and scheming.
At the end of the day, a rift had already formed between Ye Chen and Yan Ji, which allowed him to exploit the opening and add fuel to the fire.
“If Gu gongzi doesn’t disdain it, you may call me Yan Ji from now on. ’Qianbei’ and such isn’t appropriate.”
Seeing Gu Changge agree so readily, Yan Ji couldn’t help but feel moved.
She had worried that Gu Changge might disdain her for it.
By the reckoning of her clan’s age, compared to Humans, she wasn’t actually that old—being called qianbei sounded strange.
“Alright, then I’ll call you Yan Ji from now on. You said it yourself.” Gu Changge smiled casually, giving off the air of an elegant, graceful young noble.
As he spoke,
he took out a crystal-clear piece of jade flowing with radiant light that he had prepared long ago, astonishing divine intent interweaving across its surface.
When he did things, he naturally made sure they were watertight.
“Soul-Mending Jade?” Yan Ji clearly recognized it, somewhat astonished and also moved. “Gu gongzi is truly thoughtful.”
“A broken ring—how could you keep staying inside it forever?” Gu Changge smiled casually. As a tall, rich, and handsome man from the Beyond, he naturally possessed the trait of vast wealth.
The Soul-Mending Jade—its effects could be heard from its name alone.
As for its value, it could easily be exchanged for several Enlightened Noble Magic Weapons.
“Thank you, gongzi.” Yan Ji’s figure transformed into a phantom, leaving the ring and drilling into the Soul-Mending Jade like a wisp of crimson smoke.
At this moment, her face actually reddened slightly.
Such treatment—following Ye Chen all these years, when had she ever enjoyed anything like it?
Gu Changge’s swift change of allegiance left Ye Chen, lying on the ground coughing blood, feeling incomparably stifled and furious.
Watching this scene, listening to the two converse as if no one else existed, he was nearly mad with hatred, practically driven insane.
“Gu Changge...”
At this moment, Ye Chen’s eyes were red. Throwing all caution to the wind, he prepared to activate the secret key in his hand, ready to fight Gu Changge to the death!