Chapter 95: The City Lord's Helplessness

Ye Ziyun silently walked Nie Li to the entrance of the small courtyard. After a moment of silence, she lowered her head and said softly, "Nie Li, in the future, you'd better stop coming to see me!"

"Why?" Nie Li asked, looking at Ye Ziyun with a slight frown.

Ye Ziyun raised her head to look at Nie Li. In her clear pupils was written a deep sorrow. "Aren't you afraid of dying? Aren't you afraid that my father will kill you?"

"Kill me? If your father wanted to kill me, he would have done so long ago!" Nie Li's gaze was deep and profound. "Or at the very least, he would have expelled me from the City Lord's Mansion. Once I'm thrown out of the City Lord's Mansion, I'm as good as dead — the Dark Guild would never let me go. But he didn't do that."

"Then why didn't he?" A hint of bewilderment flickered in Ye Ziyun's eyes.

Nie Li glanced in the direction Ye Zong had left. That broad, towering silhouette stood like an iron fortress, yet under the setting sun, it appeared so lonely and desolate. In that instant, Nie Li suddenly understood a great deal. "It's a matter between men. Just listen to me from now on, and everything will be fine!"

Only now did Nie Li realize that it wasn't that Ye Zong didn't care about Ye Ziyun — it was that far too much weight rested upon Ye Zong's shoulders.

"Hey, Nie Li, why should I listen to you!" Ye Ziyun immediately pouted in dissatisfaction. She had been far too wronged today. Although her relationship with Ye Zong had never been especially close — there was little for father and daughter to talk about — this cold, stern punishment from her father was a first. A dull ache throbbed faintly in Ye Ziyun's heart.

Ye Ziyun with her cheeks puffed in anger was particularly captivating.

"Cough, cough!" Nie Li coughed up a few more mouthfuls of fresh blood and said with a bitter smile, "You're really going to send me back like this?"

"How are you?" Seeing Nie Li's condition, Ye Ziyun immediately said with concern, hurrying to support him.

"I can't — my injuries are too severe. I'll probably need to recover here at your place for a couple of days!" Nie Li said, clutching his chest.

Ye Ziyun stared at Nie Li, her gaze going blank. Could there possibly be anyone more shameless than this man? What on earth was going on inside his head? He had just been injured by her father, and now he wanted to stay here for two days? Was Nie Li's brain made entirely of mush? Was he not afraid that her father, in a fit of rage, would actually kill him?

Meanwhile, in a remote corner of the City Lord's Mansion, two figures stood tall and proud.

One of them was Ye Zong, who had just left Ye Ziyun's courtyard. The other was Gu Yan, president of the Alchemist Association.

"My Lord, you injured him too heavily! If the master behind him grows angry, it won't bode well for the City of Radiance," Gu Yan said with a helpless smile, looking at Ye Zong.

"Too heavily?" A fierce, killing intent still lingered between Ye Zong's brows. "Not killing him is already showing him more mercy than he deserves! This brat actually dared to harass my daughter inside my own City Lord's Mansion, to ruin her innocence!"

Gu Yan could only feel helpless. Nie Li's actions had truly gone too far. To harass the City Lord's own daughter within the City Lord's Mansion — only Nie Li could pull off something like that. The City Lord not having killed Nie Li was, in truth, remarkably merciful.

"Then why didn't my Lord expel him from the City Lord's Mansion?"

"Expel him? What good would that do? This brat has fused with some kind of Demon Spirit — he actually possesses a Phase-shift combat skill. Within the City Lord's Mansion, aside from a handful of Black Gold Spirit Masters who could detect his presence, this place is as good as empty to him! Besides, that girl Ziyun — heaven knows what's gotten into her; she's completely under his control! It makes my blood boil! Am I really supposed to lock my own daughter away in some hidden room?" Ye Zong let out a cold snort. "The kid is barely into his teens and already a Gold-rank Spirit Master. On top of that, he's contributed several pill formulas — a tremendous service to the City of Radiance. The future safety of the City of Radiance may very well depend on him. Even for the city's sake alone, I have no choice but to swallow this indignation!"

Hearing Ye Zong's words, Gu Yan couldn't help but find the situation somewhat amusing. The great City Lord himself, utterly helpless against a thirteen-year-old boy.

"Thirteen years old, and he's already sneaking into the City Lord's Mansion to chase after girls — how does this kid's brain even work? In my opinion, if Ziyun ends up with him, she'll only suffer. I've heard that this brat hasn't just caught the attention of one girl. There's that little girl from the Thunder Wind Family, and the girl from the Hu Yan Family — he's definitely not going to have just one wife in the future!" Ye Zong fumed with indignation.