Chapter 257 - The Scum Is Cruel

Youxiwang Sect, Xiwang. 

"Ah, Luo Shi, Luo Shi…" Ming Ye muttered as he looked at Luo Shi's motionless corpse on his bed. 

"Sire…" a voice called from outside. "Elder Luo's disciple is being stubborn eating his meals. This is the fourteenth day." He reported. 

"Leave him if he won't eat. He won't die from that." Ming Ye said as he held Luo Shi's cold and stiff hands and lovingly caressed it. He had changed Luo Shi's clothes to casual clothes, and so his eyes caught sight of Luo Shi's bandaged chest. 

That day after Chen Jing and Wu Fan left, he and Luo Shi were left. He was reluctant to leave and return to his quarters, since he wanted to spend more time with Luo Shi alone. However, he has to leave. 

But, Luo Shi suddenly spoke. "How did you know about Wuran that no one in this age knows unless purposely searched in the records?" he asked. "Unless… you are from there." he added. His second sentence isn't a question, but a statement. He said it with conviction and stared at Ming Ye's eyes. 

Ming Ye subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but Ming Ye was caught with Luo Shi's firm gaze. "What are you talking about?" he asked as he still wanted to avoid. However, he knew. He was already caught. 

"I don't know how it happened." Luo Shi said as he shook his head while some shadows started to come out of their hiding. 

Ming Ye's eyes glanced at the shadows and his heart skipped a beat. He wanted for Luo Shi to stop talking, but Luo Shi continued. "Stop – " he said, his voice hoarse as he walked towards Luo Shi and reached him. 

"But – " Luo Shi continued. " – I am certain you are not Ming Ye." He said and smiled as shadows finally fully came out and lunged at Luo Shi! 

"STOP!" Ming Ye yelled, both to Luo Shi and the shadows. 

"My Lord!" the leader of the shadows called and knelt. The shadows behind him followed. "He knows your identity! We must kill him!" they said. 

"NO!" Ming Ye said and glared at the shadow while holding Luo Shi's arm he grabbed tight. His whole body is trembling while he nervously looked at Luo Shi who continued to smile coldly. "He is still of use to us. We can use him to bait the current sect leader of the Youxiwang Sect." he said and pulled Luo Shi away. 

"My Lord?!" the leader of the demonic cultivators called. "Where are you – " 

"I knew where to lock him myself!" Ming Ye said and turned to coldly look at the demonic cultivator. "Or, are you questioning my intentions?" he asked. 

"No! This subordinate wouldn't dare!" the demonic cultivator bowed. 

Ming Ye didn't bother himself with him and immediately pulled the silent Luo Shi away. "What are you playing at?!" he snapped as soon as they reached his room and set up a Sound-Cancelling Barrier around his room. 

"Using myself to make Chen Jing and Wu Fan safely leave, and force you out after I assure they'll be safe." Luo Shi answered. 

Ming Ye fell silent. He didn't order the demonic cultivators to follow Chen Jing and Wu Fan. "You alone is enough." He said as he held Luo Shi's hand. 

Luo Shi pulled his hand from Ming Ye's grasp, misunderstanding what Ming Ye said. "Of course. I am Wu Yuan's shifu. Although Wu Fan is his father, but Wu Yuan wouldn't disobey Wu Fan if Wu Fan sacrifices himself, because Wu Yuan knows Wu Fan is always serious with his orders." He said as he walked away from Ming Ye. "Whereas I, his second father, Wu Yuan felt greatly indebted and would definitely want to save myself, unlike Wu Fan who would selflessly sacrifice himself for the great cause." He laughed. 

"But you didn't!" Ming Ye said as he gnashed his teeth. His fingers curled after Luo Shi's warmth left his hand. "You aren't selfish unlike they thought!" he told him. And he is frustrated because of it. If only Luo Shi selfishly left with Chen Jing and Wu Fan earlier, instead of leaving himself to be captured by them, this wouldn't have happened. 

"I am the great choice as the hostage. Wu Fan left for Wuran with Chen Jing, and no one knows where it is. Meanwhile, I am here. Wu Yuan would definitely save me first while hoping for Wu Fan's safety in the second. Thus, Wu Yuan would definitely fall in your hands." Luo Shi said. 

"Luo Shi." He called. 

"I have only one question." Luo Shi said as he stopped and turned to Ming Ye. "Who are you?" he asked. 

Ming Ye's lips moved, before an answer came out of his mouth. "Wu Ran." He said. "The King of Wuran." He told him. 

Luo Shi slowly closed his eyes as he bitterly smiled. "You're really cruel." He said. 

Ming Ye didn't answer and just pulled him. 

"Luo Shi…" he called as he carefully touched the wound on Luo Shi's chest. 

"SHIFU!" Wu Yuan called as he was subdued by the demonic cultivators. "Ming-shishu, how could you reduce my shifu to this?! He doesn't deserve this treatment! How can you defile him?! How can you humiliate him like this?!" he asked, enraged. For the first time, the ever-respectful Wu Yuan disrespectfully glared at Ming Ye. 

"Shut your mouth!" the demonic cultivator kicked Wu Yuan and punched him. 

Luo Shi's eyes moved as his hand also moved. The demonic cultivators saw him and immediately acted, wanted to kill him. However, suddenly, they saw a sword stabbed Luo Shi's chest! 

"SHIFUUUU!!!" Wu Yuan screamed in anguish when he saw blood splattered in the air and stained the floor after Ming Ye stabbed Luo Shi. 

Luo Shi was blocking Ming Ye from everyone's sight, and so they didn't see the shocked look on Ming Ye's face. "Ming Ye…" he called. "I've known you're not him, since the original Ming Ye is vile." He coughed as he bumped his forehead against Ming Ye's forehead, enduring to still stand to continue to block Ming Ye from their sight, even though his lips were stained with blood, and his chest hurt so much. "We are both orphans. He always steals my food, since I am weaker than him. One time, he beat me up and left me out cold in the snow. I was buried in the snow, and loathed him. However, when I woke up, I saw you. I wanted to kill you, but I was very weak from fever. I watched you if you'll poison me, but you didn't. instead, you nursed me to back to health. I was suspicious of you, wanting to see what you're up to. However – " he violently coughed and more blood stained Ming Ye's clothes. 

Wu Yuan's cries echoed in the background, but it's as if the two of them are in a different world. 

" – I didn't notice, I fell in love with you in the process. You're very different from him. I knew you're a ghost that possessed him. But, I am glad you possessed him. You gave me a partner to spend the rest of my life with. Yet – " he bitterly laughed as his tears fell. " – fate is really cruel. All this while, I think you're just an ordinary ghost that possessed him. I wanted to trade for your life, in whichever master you have. I can give up the whole Youxiwang Sect, the world, just for your life. But, what I didn't know that you really want the world, and I can't trade for your life, since I can't have it." He said and hugged Ming Ye whose eyes are red from holding back his tears. "Ming Ye… ah, Ming Ye… this life of mine I owed you, now you can take it back." He told him and his hand holding Ming Ye's hand he forced to stab him earlier, he moved to make the sword plunge deeper in his chest. "I only have one request left… I hope you can grant me." He told him. 

"Don't – " Ming Ye spoke. 

"The Youxiwang Sect… this whole world I wanted to give up earlier… since I can't have your life for mine alone… can you leave it be?" Luo Shi asked. "I know it's very absurd. But, I really wish for it to happen. Don't torment everyone. Ever… again…" he said as he closed his eyes and laid limp on Ming Ye's shoulder. 

"My Lord!" Ming Ye finally heard his subordinates' calls after he felt his ears became deaf from the ringing in his head after Luo Shi grabbed his hand and stabbed him earlier. "My Lord…?" they called when they saw Ming Ye's out of it. "My Lord – " 

"SHUT UP!" Ming Ye finally shouted. Even Wu Yuan who was screaming stopped. They all watched as Ming Ye fell on his knees and hugged Luo Shi's corpse that has gone cold. "*sob…" 

Everyone watched, dazed, as Ming Ye sobbed, before his cries became louder and echoed in the silent halls of the Youxiwang Sect.