Time Stopped for a Thousand Years! The Female Leads Have Darkened! - Chapter 67:

Chapter 67: Nalan Hongjie!

“Young Master Ye, are you heading out?”

“Why do I suddenly feel like… once you leave, we won’t be neighbors anymore?”

Guan Qiuyue sensed something and asked.

Ye Wuhen glanced at her casually. This girl, born with double pupils, was frighteningly perceptive. Her ability to predict things was almost scary. Thankfully, she wasn’t one of the female leads he had pursued before—otherwise, if he tried to do something mischievous, she’d probably see right through it at a glance.

“Yeah… I’m planning to go to Thousand Names Peak. You two focus on cultivating, don’t worry about me.”

Ye Wuhen waved his hand and flew off.

The two sisters looked at each other.

“Thousand Names Peak… Cousin, did I hear that right? Did he really say Thousand Names Peak?”

Li Xiner looked confused and uncertain as she turned to confirm with her cousin.

Guan Qiuyue nodded slightly beneath her light veil. She stared in the direction Ye Wuhen had gone, her brows furrowed in deep puzzlement.

“My god, what’s he trying to do?”

“He’s only been here one day… and he’s already stirring up trouble? No, he already stirred things up yesterday!!!”

“Cousin, let’s go see too!”

“I can’t concentrate on cultivation anyway…”

As Li Xiner said this, she grabbed Guan Qiuyue’s hand and the two of them chased after Ye Wuhen in the direction he had flown.

…

Qingyun City, back mountain of the Nalan Residence.

The morning glow bathed the area in beautiful, vibrant colors.

The stone door of the cultivation chamber opened.

An elder with graying hair, dressed in a tight purple robe, walked out with a very displeased look.

This man was the patriarch of the Nalan family—Nalan Hongjie.

Core members like Nalan Xiu were already waiting outside, heads lowered.

“Why did you interrupt my seclusion! Didn’t I say I would be in seclusion for a month?”

“The engagement issue with Yanran has already been settled, hasn’t it?”

The moment Nalan Hongjie stepped out, he scolded them angrily.

In truth…

Nalan Hongjie had gone into seclusion on purpose, precisely because of Nalan Yanran’s engagement withdrawal. After all, back then, it was he who shamelessly begged and pleaded with Ye Hongfeng, the patriarch of the Ye family, to arrange the engagement.

Now that their side wanted to turn their back and break the agreement… if Ye Hongfeng came knocking to question it face to face, Nalan Hongjie’s old face wouldn’t know where to hide.

So he used seclusion as an excuse to avoid it all.

Who would’ve thought…

Just two days into his seclusion, he’d be disturbed!

“Father… about that… this matter…”

Nalan Xiu stammered, unsure how to begin.

“What? The Ye family refused to break the engagement?”

“Didn’t Elder Xu from the Cloud Sect come to support us?”

“Even if Ye Hongfeng had guts, he wouldn’t dare disrespect the Cloud Sect!”

Nalan Hongjie spoke coldly.

“No… it’s not that…”

“The engagement was indeed broken! But… it was… it was them who broke off the engagement!”

“It’s a long story…”

Trembling with fear, Nalan Xiu recounted everything that had happened.

When he spoke of how Ye Wuhen kicked Nalan Yanran three times in a row and sent her flying, Nalan Hongjie’s expression changed.

Then, when he mentioned that the Azure Profound Holy Land’s Holy Maiden Han Qingxue had appeared in Qingyun City and declared that Ye Wuhen was her man…

Nalan Hongjie’s face darkened to the extreme.

And it still wasn’t over…

When he heard that Ye Wuhen had stormed into the City Lord’s Mansion alone and exposed all the Nalan family’s old scandals…

Nalan Hongjie felt his vision go black. It was like being struck by lightning. He stumbled back several steps and nearly collapsed to the ground.

The glorious morning light, brilliant and colorful, appeared pitch-black and heavy in Nalan Hongjie’s eyes.

“You… you unfilial child!”

“Do you want me to die faster??”

“Since all that already happened, why not let me finish my one month of seclusion in peace??”

After a long while, Nalan Hongjie finally steadied himself and roared in fury.

Because of that incident, the Nalan family’s reputation was ruined, and his own dignity had been completely wiped out.

Why couldn’t they just let him quietly stay in seclusion and avoid all this shame?

Why did they have to drag him out and humiliate him together?

“It’s not that…”

“Father, the situation… isn’t over yet!”

Nalan Xiu was trembling like a leaf, his head nearly touching his chest, but he still had to go on.

“Still not over???”

Nalan Hongjie felt like his entire being was about to fall apart!

It was already that disastrous—how could it still not be over?!

Hadn’t that prodigy Ye Wuhen already left with the Azure Profound Holy Maiden?