21 – The Ex-Husband Recognizes the Demon Lord and Seeks an Audience with the Demon Lord
Yuan Ning Wang inwardly belittled Lingyao God before looking up at Yun Sangsang.
He said leisurely, “Since this guy looks like your old acquaintance, it means there’s fate between you. People bound by fate are sure to meet again in the future.
I just want to ask you, celestial maiden, if you encounter him again in the future and he runs into trouble once more, won’t you keep feeling pity for him?”
Yun Sangsang raised an eyebrow at him. “How could that be? He only looks like my old acquaintance; he’s not my real old acquaintance. My compassion isn’t that overflowing. For the sake of that face, saving him once or twice is fine. But if he keeps running into trouble and begging me to save him, then I’d have to suspect whether this person has ulterior motives and is deliberately trying to get close to me…”
After a pause, she added with a smile, “Or perhaps he’s simply destined to die, which is why he keeps getting into danger. I won’t save someone whose life the King of Hell keeps demanding.”
Hearing Yun Sangsang say this, Yuan Ning Wang immediately felt relieved.
If this Broom Star kept saving that Xie Sanghua and stirred up trouble for him as well, heh, she might as well go and let Xie Sanghua worship her. He, the dignified Demon Lord, wouldn’t keep her company.
Yuan Ning Wang snorted lightly at Yun Sangsang. “That’s good. I hate trouble the most; I prefer peaceful and quiet days.”
Yun Sangsang gently patted his little head and smiled. “Who doesn’t hate trouble? Sister celestial maiden hates trouble too. So, Little Yuanning, don’t worry. I won’t go looking for trouble.”
After saying this, Yun Sangsang lowered her head and continued folding his other sleeve.
Once everything was tidied up, Yun Sangsang urged him to go to sleep.
She pointed to a large bluestone nearby and said, “The cave is destroyed, so let’s just make do on this big rock for the night.”
“Uh…” Yuan Ning Wang looked down at the rock big enough to fit three of him, feeling exasperated.
Sleep here??
With this Broom Star, he was really getting more and more down-and-out…
Sigh.
Yun Sangsang sat down on the big rock first, patted her leg, and said to Yuan Ning Wang with a smile, “Come, tonight you can sleep with your head on my leg. I’ll hold you so you won’t feel cold.”
Yuan Ning Wang silently glanced at her leg, then silently looked up into her eyes.
Were these beautiful eyes completely useless?
When would she finally see his true identity?
First bathing him, now holding him to sleep—was she determined to let him take advantage of her to the fullest?
Tsk, if it were someone less upright than him, she’d probably be devoured without a trace.
“Hurry up, aren’t you sleepy?”
Seeing Yuan Ning Wang standing there motionless, Yun Sangsang thought he was shy and urged him with a smile. “Are you embarrassed? Come on, just think of me as your mother. Tonight, Mother will hold her dear son to sleep. Look, what a warm and touching scene this is.”
“Uh…” Yuan Ning Wang felt a vein throbbing at his temple.
To hell with your mother!
Who’s your dear son? When I was born, you were probably just a speck of dust in this world!
Mother? You could be my son’s mother at best!Yuan Ning Wang stood there with a look of resistance. Seeing him unmoving, Yun Sangsang smiled and came over to tug at his arm.
Just as Yun Sangsang was playfully wrestling with the little brat in her eyes, a cold, clear voice suddenly echoed in the child Yuan Ning Wang’s mind—
[Lingyao, the Celestial God of Law Enforcement from the Ninth Heaven, pays respects to the Demon Lord Yuan Ning Wang of the demon realm. I humbly request your presence for a meeting.]
Yuan Ning Wang narrowed his eyes slightly.
Ling Yao?
Heh. So that Xie Sanghua who appeared earlier wasn’t just a coincidence—someone who happened to resemble Yun Sangsang’s old acquaintance. Instead, it was an incarnation conjured by this Divine Lord Ling Yao, who had pursued her down to the mortal realm…
Interesting.
According to the legends of the Celestial Realm and the demon realm, it was Broom Star Yun Sangsang who was madly in love with Divine Lord Ling Yao, while Ling Yao looked down on her. So why did all the signs he was witnessing now seem to suggest otherwise?
Why did it instead seem like this Divine Lord Ling Yao was the one hopelessly infatuated with Yun Sangsang? Had he chased her down to the mortal realm, meticulously plotting ways to get close to Broom Star Yun Sangsang?
Yuan Ning Wang glanced up at Yun Sangsang, who was still tugging at him, and couldn’t help but curl his lips into a faint smile.
It seemed that after leaving earlier, this Divine Lord Ling Yao had been hiding in the shadows, secretly watching Yun Sangsang, hadn’t he?
So now, seeing Yun Sangsang about to drag a grown man like him to sleep together, he couldn’t hold back anymore and used mind transmission to request an audience.
Thinking this, Yuan Ning Wang smiled.
Fine. Since he was being invited, he might as well grant him the favor. What harm was there in meeting him?
Yuan Ning Wang looked up at Yun Sangsang and calmly lied, “My stomach’s a bit upset. I need to go relieve myself in the bushes over there.”
Yuan Sang was taken aback. “How did that happen all of a sudden?”
She felt a twinge of guilt.
Oh no, could it be that her Misfortune had affected the little guy?
Or maybe her rabbit meat wasn’t cooked properly?
Was the rabbit meat so awful earlier because it was undercooked?
Unaware of her guilt, Yuan Ning Wang said matter-of-factly, “Celestial maiden, you truly are an otherworldly celestial maiden. I’m an orphan who hasn’t eaten meat in a long time. Suddenly having so much rabbit meat—it’s only natural my stomach can’t handle it…”
He pressed a hand to his stomach, furrowed his brows, and pretended to be in discomfort as he turned to run. “No time to explain. My stomach hurts. I’ll be right back.”
Watching his retreating figure, Yun Sangsang instantly felt relieved.
As long as it wasn’t because her rabbit meat was undercooked or that she had caused it, a little diarrhea was no big deal.
Let him have at it.
She even called out cheerfully after Yuan Ning Wang, “Make sure you go far enough! Otherwise, your stinky business might offend this celestial maiden’s senses.”
“Ugh…” Yuan Ning Wang abruptly stopped in his tracks and turned back to stare at Yun Sangsang in disbelief.
Was that any way for a person to talk? Was she even human?
Glaring fiercely at Yun Sangsang, Yuan Ning Wang gritted his teeth and continued running forward.
He soon disappeared deep into the thicket.
Turning back, he could no longer see Yun Sangsang.
Only when he was sure she was out of sight did Yuan Ning Wang stop. He elegantly walked over to a large rock, sat down, and leaned the child’s body against it.
Then, Yuan Ning Wang slowly separated from the child’s shell and revealed his true form as the Demon Lord.
His dark robes were soaked through with blood, and a black flame coiled with dark energy flickered between his brows.
Tall and poised, with a face as refined as jade, his aura was cold and aloof. He resembled not a bloodthirsty Demon Lord, but rather the purest and most noble supreme deity of the Celestial Realm.If Yun Sangsang could see Yuan Ning Wang’s divine countenance here, even she would have to admit that he was indeed several degrees more handsome than her beloved Sang Hua.
His handsomeness carried not a trace of weakness or femininity—it was the kind of striking, piercingly handsome that demanded attention.
There exists a type of person in this world whose very appearance exudes an aura of dominance that compels submission.
Such was Demon Lord Yuanying.