Chapter 699: Chapter 696: The Furious Ling Shuanghua! (Modified Chapter)
At the moment the emaciated old man self-destructed, Ling Shuanghua felt a tremor as if the earth was shaking and mountains were quaking.
A violent wind raged, lightning flashed, thunder roared, day and night reversed, and torrential rains fell… These terrifying phenomena erupted one after another, as if it were the end of the world, leaving people in awe.
Then, before she could react or understand what had happened, she saw a silhouette rushing straight towards her.
And then, without deviating, it landed right on top of her.
Ling Shuanghua had just made out the figure before her and was about to speak when the defensive barrier was violently struck, knocking her unconscious, her little head landing right on Li Chen’s chest.
The slight collision on his chest allowed Li Chen to regain some consciousness.
However, his True Yuan was exhausted, and he was completely drained, unable to move at all.
Li Chen struggled to look at the woman lying in his arms, seeing her figure hazy and doubled.
Suddenly, he seemed to hear someone calling his name.
“Chen, you finally came to find me!”
Li Chen felt bewildered and hastened to reply, “Hongshang, is that you?”
“Hongshang, Lian Hongshang?”
Ling Shuanghua repeated this unfamiliar name in her mouth, her tone filled with inexplicable jealousy.
Thinking of this, Ling Shuanghua shivered uncontrollably, her body trembling slightly. In a moment, she felt as if she had fallen from heaven into hell, abandoned cruelly by the entire world.
The more she thought, the angrier she became, and crystal tears overflowed from her eyes, pattering down.
She thought of death!
To die together with that bastard!
But when she raised her sword, ready to stab the unconscious and defenseless Li Chen, she couldn’t bring herself to do it.
Thus, she maintained the same posture, ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes… like an immortal statue.
After an unknown amount of time, Ling Shuanghua’s arm holding the sword had gone numb and lost sensation. The sword blade fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.
She looked at Li Chen with a wry smile. Finally, she simply lay directly on Chen’s chest and burst into loud sobs, venting all her grievances in this way.
Ling Shuanghua’s tears dropped on Li Chen’s face and flowed into his mouth, tasting a bit salty and somewhat bitter.
Li Chen slowly opened his eyes, looked at her with some confusion, and asked, “Why are you crying?”
Ling Shuanghua, who was crying bitterly with tears falling like rain, heard Li Chen wake up and simply asked this question. Her teeth clenched in anger, as if resolute, she suddenly lifted her sword again, ready to stab this irresponsible bastard to death.
Li Chen was startled and quickly snatched the sword from Ling Shuanghua’s hand.
Even the usually calm Li Chen felt a bit confused this time. For a moment, he didn’t know how to respond.
His relationship with Ling Shuanghua wasn’t that of intimate lovers, or even friends. Moreover, when they first met three months ago, she had been relentlessly pursuing to kill him.
It was only because of various reasons later on that their fates became entwined, and they experienced life-and-death adversity.
Li Chen looked at Ling Shuanghua, who cried like a tearful pear blossom, and after a long silence finally said, “I will take responsibility for you.”
Ling Shuanghua, filled with grievances and nowhere to vent, heard Li Chen’s words and let out a wry smile, “Responsibility? What will you take responsibility with? Do you know who I am, and yet you say you’ll take responsibility?”
“I don’t know, but now you belong to me!”
Li Chen’s words were not loud, but his tone was exceptionally firm.
Hearing these almost rogue-like words from Li Chen, Ling Shuanghua’s tears streamed down like a burst dam.
With a hysterical outburst, waving her small fists, she started hitting Li Chen’s chest.
Li Chen did not dodge but simply let her vent.
When you do something wrong, you have to admit it; when you get hit, you have to stand firm. This was his principle in dealing with people!
Ling Shuanghua let out her frustrations and seemed to feel tired as she eventually calmed down. She leaned on Li Chen’s shoulder and wept bitterly.
Li Chen did not attempt to comfort her; he understood that in this situation, anything he said would be futile.
Therefore, he just stood upright. After Ling Shuanghua cried herself out, he embraced her tightly.
They held each other for a long time before gradually parting.
Ling Shuanghua shoved him away, leaned against the wall, hugged her knees, bowed her head, heavy-hearted.
Li Chen refrained from disturbing her and merely walked around the area. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ NoveI-Fire.ɴet
He soon realized a more severe problem.
The surrounding mountains had completely collapsed, and all the exits were utterly sealed, with no way out.
However, Ling Shuanghua didn’t seem to care about this problem.
To be exact, she seemed indifferent to everything at this point. She even felt that dying here with Li Chen might not be a bad end.
At least she wouldn’t have to confront so many thorny issues; she only felt sorry to her parents for disappearing without a trace.
As for her fiancé Jian Wuheng, she didn’t have much feeling towards him, not even aware that she had already cuckolded him.
In fact, this was not surprising since they had only met twice in total.
And the engagement was not a willing matter but merely an alliance between their Cloud Sea Sect and Heavenly Sword Mountain.
From the beginning, she was not willing to be the sacrifice in a power transaction. But this was a decision made by her grandfather, and even as the treasure of the Sect Master, she couldn’t change the will of her grandfather, the Supreme Emperor…