“That… should we think about it again! We have not met your parents yet. Maybe your parents will not refuse. After all, I am still quite charming and excellent. They should agree to us being together. We do not need to resort to eloping, do we?” Ye Chu looked weakly at Tan Miaotong, hardly believing that the delicate Tan Miaotong could say such a sentence.
“Ah…” Tan Miaotong’s absolutely beautiful face instantly turned crimson, waving her hands repeatedly, “I did not mean that. I just want you to take me away. It is not eloping…”
“Not eloping?” Ye Chu felt like a bucket of ice water had fallen on his head. He was even more about to faint. If it was not eloping, had he not gotten excited for nothing?
“I just do not want to go home, that is all. I hope you take me to a good place where my father and the others cannot find me.” Tan Miaotong’s pair of eyes looked at Ye Chu with burning intensity, full of hope. Her beautiful eyes, with flowing watery light, gazed at Ye Chu, making him unable to bear refusing.
Ye Chu patted his forehead, looked at Tan Miaotong and said, “What? You really want to break free from the evil force! But you are making it too difficult for me. The evil force of your family is a holy land. If I take you away, they can destroy me in minutes.”
“Ye Chu!” Tan Miaotong blinked her pair of watery eyes, innocently staring at Ye Chu, delicate and charming, pitiful to behold.
Once this posture came out, Ye Chu felt he had no resistance at all, waving his hands repeatedly, “Alright, alright. Tell me, why do you want to escape from that evil force of your family? Only when I know the reason can I help you properly.”
Tan Miaotong immediately broke into a smile. The previously pitiful and touching demeanour vanished completely. She answered clearly, “The holy land wants me to get married. They have selected a candidate for me and want me to meet him. But I do not want to go on a blind date at all. So I secretly ran out. I have nowhere else to go, and I do not know other places. Plus Yaocheng is remote, so I ran here.”
“A blind date? That is a good thing! Whether you like him or not does not matter. The most important thing is to get along with him first. Every day you must give him a gift. If it is not expensive, do not give it. Then collect a hundred or eighty pieces. Then tell him our personalities do not suit, let us break up.” Ye Chu instructed Tan Miaotong. A blind date was a good thing. In his previous life, if Ye Chu had not been born male, he would have wanted to go on blind dates every day.
“Ye Chu!” Tan Miaotong bit her pearly teeth, her face flushed red and extremely charming. She was too embarrassed to keep listening. She thought to herself, how could there be such a bad person, cheating feelings and cheating money too.
“Alright, alright! Such a method of getting rich does not suit you.” Ye Chu sighed, then looked at Tan Miaotong and said, “Then how long do you want to avoid your family?”
“The longer the better, of course!” Tan Miaotong looked at Ye Chu somewhat embarrassedly, “I will go back after they have given up.”
Speaking of this, Tan Miaotong reached out and grabbed Ye Chu’s arm, shaking it with a bit of pleading, her voice delicate and gentle, “Ye Chu, you must help me!”
Ye Chu had his arm held by Tan Miaotong. The soft flesh of her chest occasionally rubbed against his arm. Ye Chu felt his heart and soul were about to jump out. He glanced at the refreshing beauty before him, finding it amusing in his heart. He thought to himself, for the sake of escaping the Tan family, she was really willing to lower herself.
Looking at Tan Miaotong’s face, currently as rosy as a peach, one could tell how much courage it took for Tan Miaotong to make such an intimate gesture.
“I will definitely help you!” Ye Chu smiled and said to Tan Miaotong. Naturally he would not make things difficult for this woman. In his heart he also pondered where to take Tan Miaotong. If he took Tan Miaotong to Wuxin Peak, with Old Madman keeping watch, no one could easily take her away.
However, Old Madman might not necessarily stand up for Tan Miaotong. Still, taking Tan Miaotong to Wuxin Peak, in the short term the Tan family would not be able to find her. But it was not a long-term solution either.
Wuxin Peak was still quite a conspicuous target. The Tan family was a holy land. If Tan Miaotong appeared on Wuxin Peak for too long, the other peaks would naturally spread the news.
Seeing Ye Chu standing silently in place, Tan Miaotong asked worriedly again, “What is wrong? Qing Wenting told me you would definitely have a way to let me hide for a while!”
“You have been in touch with Qing Wenting?” Ye Chu asked Tan Miaotong curiously. He had not seen Qing Wenting for a long time. He did not know where this holy maiden had gone.
“We have corresponded a few times by letter. Wenting is no longer in the Qing Domain.” Tan Miaotong answered, her beautiful eyes looking at Ye Chu with burning intensity, afraid Ye Chu would refuse her. One could imagine how much she resisted the man her family had arranged for her.
“There is indeed a place where you can stay for a while, but you cannot stay long.” Ye Chu had his arm held by Tan Miaotong, his mind wandering.
“If I can hide for a while first, then I will hide for a while.” Tan Miaotong showed a happy expression.
Seeing Tan Miaotong like this, Ye Chu’s heart was also infected, and he could not help but become happy. “I thought you were going to elope with me. I did not expect there is only work but no benefits. Sigh…”
Ye Chu sighed, as if he had suffered infinite grievance.
Hearing Ye Chu say this, Tan Miaotong’s face showed a bit of crimson. Looking at Ye Chu’s dim expression, Tan Miaotong suddenly stood on tiptoe, her red lips lightly touching Ye Chu’s face like a dragonfly skimming water.
The warm feeling touched and vanished in an instant. Before Ye Chu could react, Tan Miaotong fled into the ship body with a burning red face.
Ye Chu touched his face in a daze, not expecting that Tan Miaotong would have such a reaction. Ye Chu stood frozen on the bow of the ship. The warm feeling still remained on his face.
Watching Tan Miaotong flee into the ship body, Ye Chu finally reacted. He felt as if his heart was touched at this moment, really having a kind of electric shock feeling.
Ye Chu was about to enter the ship body too, but before he could make any move, Ye Chu’s face suddenly changed, his gaze looking into the distance.
Staring straight ahead, Ye Chu’s body tensed up, his expression extremely cold.
From the distance, a terrifying aura surged forth. This aura shook the clouds, and as it swept over, heaven and earth were covered by a suppressive atmosphere. The originally clear sky was smeared with a layer of gloom.
Ye Chu shot out from the boat, standing in mid-air. He stared straight at the figure shooting towards him. His own aura also surged out. With a sweep of his arm, water waves surged, rolling towards Tan Miaotong’s boat and sending it to the lakeshore.
Tan Miaotong was shy inside the ship body. Suddenly feeling the ship rapidly shooting forward, she looked outside in confusion, only to see Ye Chu’s cold expression staring outside.
The terrifying aura gradually approached from the distance. Everyone sensed this aura. The King and Ye Tian and others’ faces changed drastically. Many people in Yaocheng trembled.
“It is the Emperor. It is the Emperor that Wang Xinshui and the others spoke of, coming.” Ye Tian exclaimed. One sentence made everyone lose all colour in their faces. One by one their expressions turned pale, looking in terror at the figure shooting towards them from the distance.