Looking at this scene, Tai Lingxuan felt the unwillingness in her heart grow even stronger.
And along with that unwillingness, a feeling called jealousy also began to sprout.
Why…
Why is it Lingxi…
Why are you two already tangled together, while I can only…
Meanwhile, Chen Yuyang’s scalp was tingling from Lingxi’s words and her seemingly bottomless, persistent entanglement.
However, Chen Yuyang also immediately realized that this time the dream’s plot hadn’t just skipped ahead like before.
This delighted him.
Great, this way I can find a chance to run!
Chen Yuyang suddenly used force, shaking off Lingxi’s hand that was still groping him.
Without waiting for her to react, Chen Yuyang tossed out a line, “I’m going to the bathroom,” and quickly rushed out of the room.
But just as he reached the courtyard, Chen Yuyang’s perception immediately detected a hidden aura nearby.
And that familiar aura made Chen Yuyang’s heart leap with shock.
Tai Lingxuan!
Chen Yuyang jerked his head up, looking towards where she was.
Seeing she had been discovered, Tai Lingxuan was surprised but stopped hiding.
With a flicker of movement, she appeared before Chen Yuyang, standing with her hands behind her back, her expression gloomy.
Her frost-covered beautiful eyes were now glaring fiercely at Chen Yuyang, her tone as cold as a blade: “At this point, do you still have anything to say!”
Oh dear…
Looking at Bu Lingxuan’s expression, and then thinking about everything that had just happened in Lingxi’s room, Chen Yuyang found himself unable to explain, caught in a dilemma.
What kind of situation is this!
How did a cheating scandal plotline appear?
What is Master thinking about all day?
“I… I have nothing to say.”
Chen Yuyang bit his lip, thought for a long time but couldn’t find a reason, and finally let out a long sigh, steeling himself to say, “I know you won’t believe my explanation, but I still have to say it, my feelings for you… are sincere.”
Anyway, I have to stay calm now, otherwise, I might not make it out of here tonight!
“Liar!”
Tai Lingxuan instantly bristled, shouting in anger: “As expected, all men are as shameless as you! Saying ‘sincere feelings’ with your mouth, but secretly flirting with other women!”
Just then, Lingxi also chased out of the room.
Seeing Tai Lingxuan there, Lingxi was first startled, then her face changed dramatically as she hurried forward to bow: “Master? W-why are you here?”
Tai Lingxuan’s face was cold, her gaze sweeping over Lingxi.
The icy look made Lingxi shiver involuntarily.
She had never seen her Master look at her like that.
“Lingxi, you have some nerve!”
Tai Lingxuan’s voice wasn’t loud, but it held undisguised anger: “Do you know the strict rules of our Hehuan Sect? Disciples are forbidden from in private interacting with men, yet here you are, having illicit relations with this outsider. What kind of behavior is this!”
Lingxi was so frightened her pretty face turned pale.
She immediately knelt on the ground, her small body trembling uncontrollably: “Master, this disciple… this disciple has done wrong. Please punish this disciple!”
Tai Lingxuan’s expression remained severe, her tone showing no sign of softening: “Hmph, done wrong? Do you know what you did wrong? According to our sect’s precepts, anyone secretly involved with a man should have their cultivation to disable and be expelled from the sect.”
She paused, her gaze sharp as a sword as it turned to Chen Yuyang, she said harshly: “Furthermore, this brat should be castrated and thrown out, left a useless a useless person forever!”
“Cast… castrated?!!”
Chen Yuyang couldn’t help but shudder slightly upon hearing this.
Damn, Tai Lingxuan, you’re pretty ruthless.
Also, since when did the Hehuan Sect have such a rule?
But looking at Tai Lingxuan’s eyes right now, Chen Yuyang’s heart sank.
This woman, is she serious?
“Master! No!”
Hearing this, Lingxi also panicked, lifting her head abruptly, tears streaming from her eyes: “Master, please spare him. It was me who seduced him, forced him. He had nothing to do with it! If you must punish someone, punish me alone. Please don’t hurt him!”
Lingxi spoke while desperately kowtowing to Tai Lingxuan.
However, seeing Lingxi so desperately defending Chen Yuyang, Tai Lingxuan only felt the anger in her heart burn even brighter.
Chen Yuyang raised an eyebrow, watching the scene, remaining silent for now, waiting to see how things would develop.
“Forced? Hmph! Lingxi, I don’t remember teaching you this! Belittling yourself for an outsider, pleading for him like this – you are a disgrace to the Hehuan Sect!”
Facing Tai Lingxuan’s extremely harsh scolding, Ling Sha did not refute at all, just lowering her head and kowtowing continuously.
And seeing her valued disciple, for the sake of a strange man, acting so humbly, not even daring to to refute , just silently enduring everything.
The anger in Tai Lingxuan’s heart actually subsided a little.
In the end, her heart softened.
“Ah.”
Tai Lingxuan sighed, softening her tone slightly: “However, considering it’s your first offense and you’re usually well-behaved and clever, if Lingxi you are willing to truly reform from now on, cut off all contact with this brat, and cultivate diligently, your Master… will let you off this time.”
“No, Master!”
Lingxi suddenly looked up, her tear-streaked face now showing a hint of determination: “These feelings… come from the heart… This disciple cannot deceive her own heart.”
“If I must cut off contact with him, it would be better to just kill me!”
Saying this, Lingxi took a deep breath, her gaze firm as she looked at Tai Lingxuan: “If… if only by being expelled from the sect can I be with him… then this disciple… is willing!”
“I only beg Master not to blame him, and not to hurt him in the slightest.”
Tai Lingxuan was stunned by Lingxi’s words, frozen in place.
She opened her mouth, but for a moment, nothing came out.
Feelings from the heart…
Even willing to leave the sect.
Tai Lingxuan never imagined that her usually gentle, obedient, and likable disciple would actually say such rebellious words for a man she’d known for such a short time.
Damn it!
What kind of love potion did this brat feed Lingxi?
To make her abandon even the sect!
“Lingxi, you…”
Tai Lingxuan felt a tightness in her chest, wanting to scold, wanting to wake up this disciple blinded by love.
But, in the end, she couldn’t say anything more.
Taking a deep breath, Tai Lingxuan abruptly turned around, glaring at Chen Yuyang who had been silent all along, demanding harshly: “You brat! At this point, do you have nothing to say!”
Chen Yuyang was rendered speechless by the question.
What to say?
Say I’m innocent?
Say it’s all your disciple’s wishful thinking?
Are you kidding?
This entire situation is ultimately your dream, Master.
Lingxi is just wearing this shell, but essentially, she’s a part of your subconscious, Master.
In other words, this is all just an internal conflict within your own heart, Master.
What more can I say?
You are both my wings?
“Hmph, speechless because you know you’re guilty?”
Tai Lingxuan’s cold brows shot up, her voice turning even icier: “You must have used some despicable means to seduce my disciple, making her so devoted to you!”
Chen Yuyang felt his scalp tingle intensely.
He opened his mouth to speak but didn’t know how to explain.
After a long pause, Chen Yuyang could only force out: “As God is my witness, I swear by the Heavenly Dao, if I did anything improper towards Shimei Lingxi, may I die a horrible death.”
“Hmph, even your oath is useless!”
Tai Lingxuan remained relentless, but her gaze at Chen Yuyang held a complex light: “I don’t care whether you did anything or not. In any case, you are not allowed near Lingxi again.”
“Otherwise, don’t blame me for being rude!”
Hearing Tai Lingxuan speak like this, Chen Yuyang felt helpless inside.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Yuyang then bowed slightly to Tai Lingxuan and spoke sincerely: “Since everything started because of me… then, I will leave the Hehuan Sect.”
“From now on, Lingxi and I will have nothing to do with each other, and I will never set foot in the Hehuan Sect again.”
As soon as he said this, Tai Lingxuan’s pupils contracted slightly.
Although she had told him not to approach Lingxi, she hadn’t told him to leave.
At this moment, Tai Lingxuan felt as if something was squeezing her heart tightly.
Then a wave of inexplicable panic swept through her.
Leave?
If he leaves… Tai Lingxuan clenched her fists.
And when Lingxi heard Chen Yuyang wanted to leave, tears welled up instantly, large drops rolling down her cheeks.
Lingxi quickly stepped forward, grabbing Chen Yuyang’s arm, and sobbed: “Yuyang, I… I want to go with you!”
Saying this, Lingxi turned around and knelt again before Tai Lingxuan, kowtowing heavily: “This disciple is unfilial, and can no longer serve by Master’s side!”
“I beg Master to allow it!”
Tai Lingxuan watched Ling Sha like this, biting her lip harder.
An even stronger sense of unwillingness surged in her heart.
Her beloved disciple, for the sake of this brat, easily gave up years of master-disciple bond and the Hehuan Sect…
And him!
This brat!
Confessed to me, slept with my disciple, and now wants to just brush off his hands and leave?
What does this guy think the Hehuan Sect is?
And what does he take me, Tai Lingxuan, for?
No! I cannot allow this to happen!
‘No! You… neither of you can leave!’
Tai Lingxuan suddenly raised her voice, her eyes blazing with anger.
Tai Lingxuan pointed at Lingxi, fuming: “You, Lingxi, do you not know how your Master has treated you all these years? And now you want to leave just like that? How could it be so easy!”
“And you brat!”
Then, Tai Lingxuan abruptly pointed at Chen Yuyang again: “You defiled my Hehuan Sect disciple, ruined her purity, and now want to just walk away? Since when are things so simple in this world!”
Master… but we truly love each other…
Lingxi, upon hearing this, looked up and said, her eyes brimming with tears.
Tai Lingxuan, however, turned her back, refusing to even look at Lingxi.
At the same time, a powerful spiritual pressure burst forth, pressing heavily down on Lingxi.
Lingxi immediately knelt, unable even to lift her head, let alone speak.
“Silence!”
Tai Lingxuan’s voice was cold and stern: “Lingxi, you have committed such a grave error, show no remorse, and dare to argue further!”
“Your Master now orders you to face the wall and reflect on your mistakes at Juexiang Cliff. Without my command, you are not to take a single step out!”
Having said this, Tai Lingxuan paid no more attention to the kneeling Lingxi on the ground, instead fixing her gaze on Chen Yuyang, speaking word by word: “As for you brat… Hmph, I will personally mete out your punishment!”