Chapter 140

Chapter 140: Yu Jiao Jiao’s Fear

Zhang Tian Shun found it unbelievable: [Am I not handsome enough? Or not powerful enough? Sure, I do not hold real power yet, but my father is Duke Yong, a veteran who has served three emperors. Chancellor Du may be influential, but compared to my father he still falls far short.]

He snapped: “Hey!”

A playboy like Zhang Tian Shun could not accept losing face with a woman. If Yu Zhi Yi were a lady from a great clan or a daughter of the Imperial House, he might have swallowed it. But she was a notorious fake daughter. Even if she was now the daughter-in-law of Chancellor’s Manor and had been personally appointed by Your Majesty as a fifth-rank official, in Zhang Tian Shun’s eyes she still did not measure up.

Seeing that Yu Zhi Yi meant to ignore him, he grew bold with malice and said with a dirty smile: “Official Yu, you don’t really think that with Chancellor’s Manor and Du Zi Heng backing you, you can look down on everyone, do you? The famous Master of the Mystic Sect, the Divine Maiden who can foretell things, could she be this naive?”

He leaned in and mocked: “If you are a master, can’t you tell that Du Zi Heng has been out flirting this whole time? He and his sweetheart never cut it off. The first thing he does after work every day is go see her. He stays at least an hour. In an hour, you can do anything.”

Yu Zhi Yi felt as if countless flies were buzzing at her ear, driving her mad, and she said coldly: “What are you trying to say?”

Zhang Tian Shun bared his teeth in a grin and drawled: “Du Zi Heng has been cheating on you. Do you want to get even and make him taste the same? This young master would be delighted to help.”

Yu Zhi Yi was speechless: [I thought in my past life I had already seen every shameless trick this man could pull, but I still missed one.] [Where did his shame go? And where does he find the confidence to think I would ever want him?]

She said, flat and calm: “Confidence is good, but blind confidence makes you look foolish.” She swept her gaze up and down him, then smiled a little: “Here is my advice. Stop messing around with women. Otherwise, before long, you will surely die.”

As for the cause of death, she did not say it. The reminder was not for Zhang Tian Shun himself so much as for the girls he might hurt in the future. If he listened and stopped harming innocent girls, he could avoid the deadly disaster fated for him. But if he stayed stubborn, not even the Grand Supreme Golden Immortal could save him.

As for those girls who might be hurt one day, each person has her own fate. She could not rush up without cause and say: you will be harmed by Zhang Tian Shun in the future, stay away from him. If she interfered with things that had not yet happened, the Way of Heaven might change their path or even speed them up. So even she could not act lightly.

Still, she was not helpless. As she turned away, she traced a sigil in the air. The Golden Talisman shot into Zhang Tian Shun’s body in a flash. If, in the future, he acted on lust and tried to harm an innocent girl, the talisman would activate. Of course, if two people truly agreed and wanted the same thing, the talisman would not interfere.

The two of them had no fate in this life, and she could not be bothered with his mess. But he insisted on provoking her first.

Yu Zhi Yi had just turned to leave when a familiar shriek rang out: “What are you doing?!”

Yu Jiao Jiao ran in from the mouth of the alley, her cute face full of dread and anxiety, and glared at Yu Zhi Yi: “How can you be so shameless? It was not enough that you got my father demoted and dragged our name through the mud, now you want to steal my husband too!”

No one knew how terrified she was when she saw Yu Zhi Yi and Zhang Tian Shun standing together. Her happiness in this life had been stolen; all of it should have belonged to Yu Zhi Yi.

In the last life, after quarreling with Duke Yong, Zhang Tian Shun went out to cool off and happened to meet Yu Zhi Yi. In his foul mood, he twisted his ankle as he got off his horse. Yu Zhi Yi happened to pass by, saw he could not walk well, found a carriage for him, and sent him to a clinic. Afterward, Zhang Tian Shun remembered the graceful, otherworldly beauty. Asking around, he learned she was the fake daughter of Minister’s Manor. Madam Meng and Duke Yong strongly opposed it, but the wild, spoiled Zhang Tian Shun would not give in. In the end, Madam Meng had to send a matchmaker to propose.

When Yu Jiao Jiao was reborn, Yu Zhi Yi and Zhang Tian Shun had not met yet. So she used the advantage of knowing the future to “accidentally” run into Zhang Tian Shun, copied what Yu Zhi Yi had done, and sent him to a clinic. To raise the chance of success, she even wore the same style of clothes and hair as Yu Zhi Yi. Zhang Tian Shun was indeed moved by her supposed kindness and beauty. Everything went just like before.

The only difference was that the heroine of the story had become her, Yu Jiao Jiao.

She felt no guilt about stealing her former brother-in-law; if she had to name any feeling, it was fear-fear that Zhang Tian Shun might fall for Yu Zhi Yi at first sight again. Luckily, in their recent meetings, Zhang Tian Shun had not shown much interest in Yu Zhi Yi. She was just starting to relax when she bumped into the two of them meeting in private. How could she endure that?

After cursing her out, she still was not satisfied and reached to push Yu Zhi Yi. But how could she be Yu Zhi Yi’s match? Yu Zhi Yi did not even need to use the Defensive Magical Artifact on her; she simply shifted her body, and Yu Jiao Jiao lunged at empty air.

Because she had not expected to miss, Yu Jiao Jiao went down hard, face-first. It hurt badly. The skin on her palms was scraped and bleeding. Her knees burned as if the bones had shattered.

Yu Jiao Jiao did not want to lose face in front of Yu Zhi Yi, but after trying for a long time she still could not get up and had to raise her head in humiliation.

Looking down at her from above, Yu Zhi Yi said evenly: “If you like eating garbage, don’t assume everyone else does too. I am not as hungry as you.”

Yu Jiao Jiao froze: [Shame and rage burned through me.] What she had dreamed of stealing turned out to be what the other treated like trash. The feeling was awful.

Then she thought, no, wait. Yu Zhi Yi knew nothing. If she knew what Zhang Tian Shun would achieve one day, and that such a dazzling man should have been hers but had been stolen away by me, she would break down.

Using all her strength to stand, Yu Jiao Jiao stared at Yu Zhi Yi with malice and glee and said: “You have no idea what you missed!”

Yu Zhi Yi saw through her at a glance and found it funny, but she did not plan to pop that “sweet dream.” Let her see clearly what kind of trash she had stolen: “Sure, you know what I don’t. How amazing you are.”

Many times, breaking a person’s spirit hurts more than killing them.

Yu Jiao Jiao went silent, feeling even more stifled than before.