Chapter 458: Retire and Return Home to Get Married...
'Ye Liyou, Blood Shadow Rose… you killed so many of my brothers. This time, I'm going to make you die.'
As Ye Liyou boarded the plane, her cold and beautiful face was full of yearning and anticipation. She was about to reunite with her Senior and Junior Sisters, especially the Senior she had been thinking about, whose location was in Magic City.
But she didn't notice the man in a gray hoodie, whose eyes, looking at her back, held a deeply hidden madness and ferocity.
On Shen Anyu's side, life continued its leisurely, decadent rhythm.
His days dissolved into a blur of carefully arranged pleasures. One evening was spent soaking in the ethereal mists of a private hot spring with Xu Ruoxue and Xu Ruoshui, their laughter echoing off the warm stones. The next morning began with fragrant, steaming morning tea with Qin Ningbing, the delicate porcelain cool against his fingertips. Lunch was a sun-drenched affair with Lin Keqing at a private table overlooking the city, followed by a romantic candlelight dinner with Wen Feifei, the flickering light dancing in her eyes.
Another day, another city. He'd appear in Jinling to spend a sun-drenched morning with Luo Yuhe, their conversation easy and familiar. By nightfall, he'd be in the Imperial Capital, comforting Susan, easing the loneliness that sometimes crept into her fierce heart.
Such was the simple, unadorned, and boring daily life of Young Master Shen.
Thank heavens for his [Supernatural Skill: Love Infinite Teleportation]. Without it, he'd spend more time traveling than actually enjoying the fruits of his labor. And thank heavens for his [God-level Steel Body]. Otherwise, all the goji berries in the world wouldn't be enough to sustain him.
"Ye Liyou is preparing to return? She's on a plane heading to Magic City?"
After finishing his whirlwind schedule and preparing to teleport back to his River View Manor in Magic City, Shen Anyu read the text message Ye Liyou had sent just before boarding. A wry smile touched his lips.
Blood Shadow Rose, Ye Liyou. In the international Dark World, her name was a legend, whispered with a mixture of fear and awe. She was one of the top gold-medal female assassins, infamous for her ruthlessness and lethally efficient methods.
Of course, Shen Anyu wasn't afraid of her. He was, however, getting a headache just thinking about the absolute storm that was about to break. A love triangle, chaotic, beautiful, and utterly predictable, was about to erupt.
If Ye Liyou—the cold, deadly assassin who had secretly fallen for him—discovered that the "Senior" she'd been dreaming of was not only Second Senior Sister Liu Ruyan's boyfriend but also intimately entangled with Fifth Junior Sister Zhong Lingyin and Seventh Sister Yang Luoluo…
Tsk, tsk.
The thought alone was intoxicating. It promised a cataclysm, a glorious mess of flashing blades, clashing swords, and shattered pride. He could almost picture it now.
"Good thing I was smart and had my mother take Susan to the Imperial Capital," he mused, a flicker of genuine caution in his amusement. "If Susan's yandere switch got flipped in the middle of all that… now that would be a problem."
For a rare moment, Young Master Shen felt a sliver of the worries that plagued lesser men. His life was almost too perfect, a delicate balancing act of pleasure and power. But with too many small boats in the water, a capsize was always a possibility.
"Don't panic," he chuckled to himself, his confidence returning in a wave. "Our family has a solution for everything." Shen Anyu's eyes shifted, a cunning plan already forming in the depths of his mind.
At that moment, he checked the live feed from the nanometer monitoring robot he'd discreetly attached to Ye Liyou's luggage. His expression tightened slightly as the data streamed in.
"Playing this big?" he murmured, his amusement sharpening into a cold, predatory focus.
…
On the other side of the world, suspended thirty thousand feet above the Pacific.
On the plane from San Francisco to Magic City, Ye Liyou was an island of ice in the bustling cabin. Clad in a cold and alluring red dress that clung to her exquisite figure, she was an obvious focal point. Her face was a masterpiece of delicate beauty, but her aura was a wall of frost that kept everyone at a distance. Several businessmen, emboldened by a few drinks, had considered approaching her, but one look into her indifferent, almost predatory eyes sent them scurrying back to their seats.
Ye Liyou ignored them all. Her gaze was fixed on the endless sea of clouds flowing past the window, a brilliant white canvas against the deep blue sky. In the shifting patterns, she saw a face—handsome, elegant, like jade sculpted by the gods.
Senior… after we parted ways in Sakura Country, it's been so long. Do you still remember me?
Her normally cold eyes, which had stared down death countless times, softened with a warmth that would have shocked anyone who knew her.
It had been almost a month since that night, yet it was burned into her memory, replaying itself every time she closed her eyes. The news had been dire: Fifth Junior Sister Zhong Lingyin was holding a concert in Sakura Country, but a staggering one-billion-dollar bounty had been placed on her head. Anxious and furious, Ye Liyou had immediately flown in to provide support.
She had been a whirlwind of death, her blades reaping a bloody harvest among the mercenaries and assassins who had come to claim the prize. But in her haste, she'd been careless. A hidden needle, laced with a paralytic neurotoxin. She'd managed to eliminate the attacker, but the poison was already working its way through her system, turning her limbs to lead and her vision to a swimming blur. It was then, at her absolute weakest, that he appeared. The Vulture. An old enemy, a sadistic monster whose organization she had crippled years ago.
She could still feel the chilling despair of that moment. Cornered, weakened, facing a man who wanted nothing more than to see her suffer. She had prepared to perish, to detonate the micro-explosive in her heel and take him and his men with her to hell.
And then, he arrived.
Ye Liyou would never, ever forget that night. Under the impossibly bright moon, the handsome man descended as if from the heavens themselves. He didn't stride or run; he simply appeared, his movements were serenely, otherworldly graceful. The scum of the Vulture organization, men who had inspired terror across continents, were annihilated before they could even scream. It wasn't a fight; it was a slaughter. He moved through them with the calm indifference of an immortal swatting flies, his white clothes remaining pristine amidst the carnage.
Then came the healing. Her body was failing, the poison reaching her heart. Without a moment's hesitation, he had told her there was only one way. To save her, her Senior had no choice but to use the Zen achievement of the Esoteric Sect's Dingguang Huanxi Temple.
Thinking of it now, a blush crept up her neck, a stark contrast to her icy demeanor. There was no regret. No trepidation. Only a profound, dizzying sweetness that filled her chest. It was her first time, the most precious thing a woman possessed. But for the Blood Shadow Rose, an assassin who danced with death daily, what did such things matter? As long as it was the right person, there was nothing to regret. It wasn't a violation; it was a consecration. It had shattered the killer and awakened the woman.
I just wonder… is Senior married? Does he have a girlfriend? If he doesn't, that would be wonderful.
The moment she learned he was in Magic City, an irresistible pull had taken hold of her. This time, she had finally made her decision. She'd issued the final order, disbanded the Rose Society—the elite assassin organization she had built from scratch with her own blood and blades—and was returning to Yanxia. Returning to find him.
The road ahead was a terrifying fog, vague and uncertain for a woman who had always been in absolute control.
But Ye Liyou's beautiful eyes were clear, their coldness replaced by a sharp, unwavering resolve, ready to cut through any thorns in her path.
'As long as Senior isn't married, I'll fight for him.'
'If I can be with Senior, then I won't be an assassin anymore; I'll go back to my hometown, retire, and get married...'
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