r18novel Chapter 296 Ye Fox suddenly discovers that the people around him all have different backgrounds.
Chapter 296 Ye Fox suddenly discovers that the people around him all have different backgrounds.
Chapter 296 Ye Fox suddenly realizes that the people around him all have quite impressive backgrounds.
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Ye Nanxiao uncorked the wine jug, took a couple of sips himself, and casually tossed a glass of juice to Shen Ciyuan.
Shen Ciyuan followed Ye Nanxiao's example and took two gulps.
"There are still some loose ends to clean up over there. Do you want to come along or go on your own?" Ye Nanxiao asked.
Upon hearing this, Shen Ciyuan's eyes lit up. He quickly wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said, "Let's go, let's go. Anyway, I'm here to seek refuge. I'll only stay in that small village for two days."
Ye Nanxiao looked back at the small village. The entire village was bathed in a bright firelight, but there was no light emitted by the soul tool, suggesting that it was a relatively backward village.
"You're quite persistent to run this far away from your wife."
Shen Ciyuan chuckled and said, "That's not my wife, and I'm only hiding because I can't beat her."
The two did not rush, but walked and chatted leisurely, as if they were on vacation.
"Even if she can't beat you, given Luo Xinyao's personality, she wouldn't beat you every time she sees you. Once she's done beating you and her anger has subsided, wouldn't you be free?" Ye Nanxiao asked.
Shen Ciyuan took a couple of sips of juice, a hint of melancholy flashing in his eyes. He shook his head and said, "That's different. If I can't beat her, she'll kidnap me. But it's not exactly kidnapping."
"If it's consensual, that's called a private little pleasure," Ye Nanxiao said with a sly smile.
"If she takes me back, then we'll have to get married. Otherwise, why would I run away?" Shen Ciyuan said, shaking his head.
Ye Nanxiao almost choked on his drink. What did the person next to him say?
"Fellow Daoist, you can't do things like Versailles. At best you'll be scolded, at worst you'll be beaten," Ye Nanxiao said, glancing at Shen Ciyuan.
"What Versailles?" Shen Ciyuan asked, puzzled.
"You can think of it as a strange way of showing off. Although Luo Xinyao doesn't have the charm of Qingcheng, she is still a rare beauty in the world. Plus, she is a talented Soul Master with a powerful Martial Soul. A girl like this is pursuing you, and you're not happy about it?" Ye Nanxiao waved his hand, and a large piece of floating ice condensed under his feet, lifting himself and Shen Ciyuan up.
"Hey, your martial soul is pretty useful. Now we don't even need a flying soul tool." Shen Ciyuan sat down on the ground.
"It's not that I don't like her, it's just that she's too good, and it would be such a waste for her to be with me."
Shen Ciyuan finished the juice in one gulp, smacked his lips, and felt it wasn't enough.
Ye Nanxiao handed over the wine pot, saying that some things could only be said with wine.
"My surname is Shen, from the Shen family of Tianhun. Her surname is Luo, from the Luo family of Tianhun." Shen Ciyuan slowly closed his eyes and sighed.
Ye Nanxiao remembered that in the records of the continent he had read before, there were important officials of these two surnames in the court of the Heavenly Soul Empire hundreds of years ago, and Shen Ciyuan used Heavenly Soul as a prefix to explain his background.
"The Shen family, three generations of high-ranking officials?" Ye Nanxiao asked.
Shen Ciyuan nodded.
Ye Nanxiao suddenly realized that the people around him when he entered school were all extraordinary. Bei Bei was a descendant of Elder Mu, his own Ou Dou Dou and Wang Dong were also very important, and even the simple-minded Xu Sanshi was the eldest son of the Xuanming Sect.
Shen Ciyuan took a big gulp of wine and said, "My mother came from a small, impoverished family. At the palace banquet back then, my mother was just a lowly palace maid. I don't know why she was chosen by that man surnamed Shen and married into the family."
"My mother thought she had met her ideal husband and would finally be able to live a good life. Little did she know that the man surnamed Shen was a heartless person. He only married my mother because he was lustful when he saw her that night."
Ye Nanxiao stopped the floating ice, sat down, took out a white jade wine pot, and listened quietly as Shen Ciyuan recounted his life story.
"For some reason, the first wife of the Shen family had no children. My mother had me the year after she married into the family. However, my martial spirit is inherited from my mother's lineage and has nothing to do with the Shen family's martial spirit. On the surface, I am the eldest son of the Shen family, but I do not have the Shen family's martial spirit."
"Living in the Shen family like a transparent person, my mother had no family influence, so she never competed or fought for anything, and never showed herself in front of the Shen family. She always told me to be quiet and be a child who didn't compete or fight for anything, so that I could live a carefree life."
Shen Ciyuan's eyes reddened slightly as he took a big gulp of wine.
Ye Nanxiao remained silent. He knew that Shen Ciyuan didn't need comforting, he just needed someone to confide in.
"The man surnamed Shen was heartless and didn't care about family matters. Although my mother didn't argue, she was still often scolded. Whenever she was wronged, she would quietly hold me and tell me stories she had heard when she was a child. When I was five years old, my mother died in depression. Even at the time of her burial, the man surnamed Shen never came to my mother's and my courtyard once."
Shen Ciyuan spoke calmly, but the hand holding the wine pot trembled slightly.
Ye Nanxiao could sense the immense anger beneath Shen Ciyuan's calm tone; he had seen it in Huo Yuhao before.
With a slight sigh, Ye Nanxiao raised the wine pot and clinked glasses with Shen Ciyuan.
In the world of Douluo Continent, the inheritance of family martial souls is always a cruel matter. If you inherit the family's martial soul, even if some mutations occur, you can still rely on your own cultivation to become stronger and fight for a place. But if you don't inherit it, no matter how strong you are, your name will not be on the family tree. This is a family that inherits martial souls.
From Shen Ciyuan's few descriptions, Ye Nanxiao was able to reconstruct his background and experiences.
"The Luo family and the Shen family are old friends. Xin Yao is also the first child of the Luo family. She is about the same age as me. In fact, Xin Yao is a few days older than me."
A smile appeared on Shen Ciyuan's lips when Luo Xinyao was mentioned.
"Xin Yao has a strong personality, and she has been like this since she was a child. Because she is too strong-willed, she is often scolded by her father, who asks her why she never gives in to her younger brothers. Whenever she is scolded and wronged by her father, Xin Yao will wander around by herself to clear her mind."
Shen Ciyuan lay on the ice floe, his hands behind his head, looking at the sky with a gentle look in his eyes.
"As for me, because I was invisible in the family and didn't need to know anything, after my mother left, I found a secret base in the mountains and stayed there every day at dawn, returning before curfew. The gatekeeper would only glance at me and say nothing. Coincidentally, one day, I discovered that a little crybaby had broken into my secret base."
"And then you offered a few words of comfort, which made Luo Xinyao stick with you?" Ye Nanxiao asked.
He's very familiar with this kind of plot; countless romance novels use this comforting trope.
Shen Ciyuan sighed slightly and said, "No, it's because my only secret base was occupied. I got angry and rolled up my sleeves to make Xinyao leave immediately. Then she beat me up to vent her anger."
Ye Nanxiao's expression was somewhat strange; this plot was rather novel.
"Of course I won't admit defeat. I've suffered so much cold treatment in the manor, why should I be bullied by a little crybaby in my own secret base?"
"After resisting a few times, I was beaten into submission and became Xin Yao's little follower. That was the beginning of our ill-fated relationship." Shen Ciyuan smiled, a pure and heartfelt smile.
The sidekick fell in love with the boss? I think this story is ridiculous!
"So, every time you try to run away, Luo Xinyao manages to bring you back?" Ye Nanxiao asked curiously.
The mainland is so vast; if Shen Ciyuan really wanted to hide, Luo Xinyao shouldn't be able to find him.
Shen Ciyuan suddenly sat up, saying dejectedly, "That's it. I've been wondering why Xinyao always manages to catch up with me the next day whenever I run away? I even tried putting a sedative in her drink before, and while she was asleep, I ran across two states in one go! Two whole states! But when I got to the inn, before I was even fully awake, Xinyao tied me up and dragged me back! Did that girl put some kind of tracking device on me?"
Ye Nanxiao stood up, walked to Shen Ciyuan's side, raised his hand and placed it on Shen Ciyuan's shoulder. He used his mental power to probe Shen Ciyuan, but found no tracking soul guide device or anything like that on him.
"This guy said that Luo Xinyao always manages to catch up with him after he runs away, so does that mean that Luo Xinyao is nearby?" Ye Nanxiao thought to himself.
Turning his head towards the direction of the village he had just visited, Ye Nanxiao held a "round ball" in his hand, and snowflakes drifted out behind him.
Having received Ye Nanxiao's reply, Shen Ciyuan held his head, completely unaware of Ye Nanxiao's actions, and muttered, "There's no tracking soul tool. Could it be that, as Xin Yao said, our fate is a cursed one that can't be severed?"
"What I'm more interested in is, how did you win over this beauty? A girl like Luo Xinyao shouldn't lack suitors, right?" Ye Nanxiao asked curiously.
Shen Ciyuan, apart from his face which can barely rival my charm, has no other redeeming qualities, and he's also a chatterbox.
Is it really true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
Shen Ciyuan nodded with a wry smile. "Xin Yao's suitors could circle around Shrek City, and that doesn't even take into account that Xin Yao is the jewel of the Luo family."
"After becoming Xin Yao's little follower, it was the first time I had received so much attention. I felt like I had found my purpose in life and was willing to be a follower. Once, Xin Yao was scolded by her father and cried. I had never seen Xin Yao cry so sadly. In a moment of anger, I ran to the Luo family and made a scene. Although the Cold Moon Mirror is an auxiliary martial soul, fortunately, a guest elder of the Shen family saw that I was too pitiful and captured a few soul beasts for me to absorb soul rings. And I was lucky. My soul skills gave me a certain combat ability."
"But back then he was just a little kid, how much fighting power could he have?" Shen Ciyuan chuckled self-deprecatingly.
"After only a few encounters, I was captured by the Luo family's guards. After seeing Xin Yao's father, I was beaten up and released. I dragged my injured leg and limped to a candy shop. I used the money I had saved up for a year to buy a super big lollipop and brought it back to Xin Yao."
Shen Ciyuan covered his face with his hands, his voice sounding like he was choking up, "Xinyao was so angry when she saw that I didn't even treat my injuries and used up all my money to buy a lollipop to take back to her. She wanted to hit me, but she couldn't bring herself to do it."
"From that moment on, Xinyao's attitude towards me changed, and that's when our ill-fated relationship began."
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