Chapter 518 - 256: Lan Yufei, You Bitch

Chapter 518: Chapter 256: Lan Yufei, You Bitch

In the guest room.

Candlelight flickered, casting the wavering shadows of two figures nestled together against the wall.

A faint blush graced Sun Yuzhi’s cheeks as she leaned into Chen Sheng’s embrace. Her fingertips traced slow, unconscious circles over the front of his robes.

The recent moment of tenderness had finally begun to soothe the gloom and chill that had settled in her heart after hearing Lady Lan’s conditions.

Ever since their arrival in Nanzhao, they had been swamped with troubles. This was the first chance they’d had for any intimacy.

For his part, Chen Sheng’s actions were largely meant to appease the fierce-tempered beauty in his arms.

However, such tender moments were always so easily broken.

Just as Chen Sheng’s fingertips brushed the sash at Sun Yuzhi’s waist, ready to take things a step further...

A sudden noise came from the corridor outside—faint, but not so faint as to escape the keen hearing of a Tongxuan Cultivator.

Sun Yuzhi’s expression instantly turned cold. The warmth in her eyes vanished, replaced by a sharp glint.

She quickly sat up, pulling away from Chen Sheng’s embrace to straighten her slightly disheveled hair, and stared coldly toward the door.

Sure enough, only a few breaths passed before a woman’s voice drifted from outside the door. It was deliberately low, yet still melodious and captivating:

"Lord Chen? Have you retired for the evening? I... might I have a word with you?"

Chen Sheng stroked his chin, about to make an excuse to refuse, but Sun Yuzhi had already beaten him to it.

With a flick of her finger, a bolt of Gang Qi precisely shattered the Restriction on the door. The door swung inward with a CREAK, fully revealing her pretty, frost-covered face to the visitor outside.

Outside, Lady Lan, dressed in a pale blue palace gown and just about to knock again, clearly hadn’t expected such a scene—and certainly hadn’t expected Sun Yuzhi to be there.

She froze for a moment. Her gaze swept rapidly around the room, flickered past Chen Sheng, and finally settled on Sun Yuzhi’s openly hostile face.

Surprise flickered in Lady Lan’s eyes, and then her lips curled into a wry smile.

"It seems... I’ve come at an inopportune time."

’The Restriction on the guest room could block some spiritual probes, but her mind had been wandering, so she hadn’t bothered to carefully sense the exact situation inside.’

"No, you’ve come at the perfect time!"

Sun Yuzhi’s voice dripped with sarcasm. "You bitch!"

She enunciated that last word with absolute clarity, her voice filled with undisguised contempt and fury.

Lady Lan’s pupils contracted. The composed smile she had painstakingly maintained froze on her face, replaced by a dark, gloomy expression. A cold light glinted in her eyes.

"Sun Zhenfu Envoy, what... did you just say? I didn’t quite hear you. Perhaps you’d care to repeat yourself?"

Her voice remained steady, but the chill it contained seemed to make the temperature in the room plummet.

"I said, you shameless bitch, you’ve come at the perfect time!"

Sun Yuzhi shot to her feet, crossing her arms. Her eyes, sharp as lightning, raked over Lady Lan from head to toe.

"’Nanzhao’s most beautiful woman?’ In my opinion, you’re clearly Nanzhao’s most shameless bitch! Lan Yufei, I really underestimated how thick your skin is!"

’She had been bottling up a bellyful of rage, which Chen Sheng had earlier persuaded her to suppress.’

’Now that her rival had delivered herself right to her doorstep, how could she possibly hold back?’

"How dare you!"

’Rage flared in Lady Lan’s chest. As the Master of Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, when had anyone ever dared to insult her so brazenly to her face?’

’Especially by a woman whose relationship with Chen Sheng was, in her opinion, completely illegitimate!’

"You ill-mannered creature! No wonder you earned the nickname ’Female Demon’ back in Ning’an Prefecture. Seeing you today, I finally understand. The rumors don’t do you justice—you’re utterly vulgar!"

"Hmph! Being vulgar is still better than showing up late at night to seduce another woman’s man!"

Sun Yuzhi shot back, not giving an inch.

Lady Lan’s delicate frame trembled with anger, her elegant fingers clenched into tight fists.

’She didn’t consider herself an aggressive person, but Sun Yuzhi’s insults were a direct attack on her character. If she backed down now, what would become of her dignity?’

With a cold snort, she strode directly into the room. With a wave of her hand, a current of Gang Qi swept out, slamming the door shut with a BANG.

Planting her feet, Lady Lan met Sun Yuzhi’s defiant gaze without flinching.

"I have no need to explain my actions to you. But you, Sun Yuzhi... The great Governor of a Jingwu Bureau prefecture, carrying on an illicit affair with your own subordinate. Did you really think no one knew about your sordid little secrets?"

Her words were laced with contempt, striking directly at the sensitive nature of Sun Yuzhi’s relationship with Chen Sheng.

While their relationship was something of an open secret in Ning’an, almost no one dared mention it so brazenly.

"It’s still better than what you do!"

But Sun Yuzhi was not one to be trifled with. She immediately fired back, her words even more venomous:

"The great Master of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect. The ’grieving widow’ of the Ouyang Family. You carry the title of the late Sect Leader’s wife, yet you secretly meet with men late at night with dishonorable intentions!

"Hmph. If your dead husband knew what you were up to, he’d be rolling in his grave! He’d probably be angry enough to die a second time, unable to find peace."

The words were calculated to wound, striking at the very heart of Lady Lan’s identity—the one thing she cared about most and could not easily defend.

"Sun Yuzhi! You’re courting death!"

Lady Lan’s face went deathly pale, then livid with rage. She could no longer suppress her aura—it erupted from her with a ROAR.

The immense pressure of a late-stage Tongxuan Cultivator, thick with icy killing intent, bore down on Sun Yuzhi as if it were a physical weight. The candlelight in the room flickered wildly, and the tables, chairs, and utensils began to hum and vibrate.

"Today, I will teach you a lesson on behalf of your elders, you foul-mouthed shrew!"

"And my sword is just as sharp!"

Showing no fear, Sun Yuzhi also took a step forward. A crimson radiance erupted from her palm, coalescing into a longsword of roiling flames, its tip aimed straight at Lady Lan’s throat.

Her scorching True Essence clashed violently with the other woman’s frigid aura, creating an audible SIZZLE.

The air crackled with tension, a battle ready to erupt at the slightest touch!

"Enough!"

Chen Sheng finally spoke. He rapped his knuckles on the tabletop—not too hard, not too soft. The dull thud broke the suffocating standoff.