Chapter 47: Who Told You We Were Married?

Right!

This was clearly an ice chamber, yet she had neither suffered from hypothermia nor fainted. Even if she had indeed lost consciousness just a moment ago, it was entirely thanks to the monster before her eyes!

Ming Xi cast her gaze downward, staring at her disheveled and untidy garments. The gauze on her arms and chest had been torn to shreds, leaving wide expanses of her snow-white skin exposed to him.

...Asshole.

Looking at Xuan Ye, who was staring intently at her, Ming Xi could not help but curse inwardly.

He was an absolute asshole!!

"Thief fox, what is that look in your eyes?" Xuan Ye furrowed his brows, feeling extremely displeased as he watched this dead girl stare at him with such utter contempt.

"Slutty snake, you already have a wife, why did you still tear my clothes!" Unable to endure it any longer, Ming Xi instinctively pulled her tattered garments tighter around herself.

She admitted that she was indeed a fox with zero remaining moral integrity, but that did not mean she had completely lost her principles and bottom line!

If she had no bottom line and casually let herself be played with by men, why wouldn't she just go to a place like Yihong Courtyard? There were plenty of wealthy patrons in places like that, and earning money there was definitely faster than stealing chickens and dogs!

Therefore, she loathed the enchanting freak before her to the very core!

"Have you finished looking down on me yet?" Seeing Ming Xi's expression, Xuan Ye found it increasingly unbearable.

"...No! As a married man, you should be responsible for your own wife. Do you not even have this basic bottom line?" Ming Xi could not comprehend his behavior. Although seeing such couples inevitably stirred up the pain buried deep within her heart, she detested fickle playboys the most in her life. "Do you have any idea how rare it is for lovers to finally get married and live happily ever after?!"

At this point, a wave of bitterness surged within Ming Xi's heart, which was also a reflection of her own plight...

She and Feng ultimately lacked the affinity to be together for a lifetime; otherwise, they would not have ended up tragically dying on the very eve of their grand wedding!

Yet this fellow in front of her clearly had a wife and yet completely failed to cherish her, speaking to her with cold indifference. Didn't he feel that he was going too far?

"...Which of your eyes saw us as a married couple?!" Xuan Ye massaged his temples, completely defeated by her!

Did he ever say that he and Ji Yan were husband and wife? Yet she kept insisting that he was Ji Yan's husband and that the two of them were publicly showing affection?

Could this fox have suffered a mental breakdown from bereavement, causing her to assume any man and woman standing together must be a married couple?!

And his response utterly terrified Ming Xi!

"You guys aren't husband and wife?!!"

"Nonsense!! When did this king ever say Ji Yan was my wife!" Xuan Ye no longer had any idea how to evaluate her.

"But didn't she keep calling you hubby..."

"...That was entirely her own wishful thinking! This king has absolutely nothing to do with her!"

Upon hearing this, Ming Xi almost bit right through her tongue!

It turned out the two of them weren't a married couple at all?! Then what on earth had she been babbling to him so passionately just now?!

Oh god! So these two didn't have the slightest relationship whatsoever, and were merely roommates sharing a cave dwelling?

"And do you really think this king was assaulting you just now?"

"Otherwise what? Do you think your actions just now were honorable?!" Ming Xi completely blew her top. Not only had this guy thoroughly seen her body and left her clothes in disarray, but now he was actually acting justified?

Without saying much, Xuan Ye fell silent for a moment before slowly speaking up, "The reason I did this is because the very first moment I laid eyes on you, I sensed a deeply repulsive scent coming from your body."

What?! A repulsive scent?

The crucial point was "repulsive"? He said she was repulsive!

...This was clearly provocation, barefaced provocation!!

"Whose mother are you calling repulsive? This vixen just took a bath yesterday, alright! Who did you say is repulsive? Let me tell you, talking to you like this is going to..."

"...Don't waste your breath on me!!" This monster didn't have a small temper either. Before Ming Xi could finish, he grew furious, "This scent... is simply unforgettable to this king! Furthermore, to test whether I was hallucinating, I locked you inside the thousand-year ice chamber, and sure enough..."

Sure enough, what? Staring into his eyes, which seemed almost ready to spit fire, Ming Xi was instantly startled.

"An ordinary mortal would likely have been poisoned to death by the freezing cold within the time it takes to burn half an incense stick. Yet your body possesses a powerful mystical energy protecting you, completely isolating you from the thousand-year chill!"

"..."

"Moreover, this formidable mystical energy doesn't belong to you at all—you, a good-for-nothing who cannot cultivate! It was forcibly infused into you by someone else... and there is only one person capable of performing such a channeling spell... I fear there is only one such person across the entire Mystic Spirit Continent!!"

Xuan Ye's gaze was filled with bone-chilling fury, and Ming Xi was stunned by his words as well!

Could the person he was talking about... be the father of her child?!

Last night, the father of her child had indeed used steam therapy to treat her injuries, and she had clearly felt her bones rapidly recovering after the treatment...

Yet she had never expected that on that night, Shi Zhiyan would silently transmit his mystical energy to her just so she would have a baseline of defensive capability!

And right now, the fact that she had not been invaded by the thousand-year frost poison was the best possible proof!

Only, for some reason, warmth welled up inside Ming Xi's heart... She never imagined that the child's father would be so thoughtful!

And what about herself? She hadn't even said a single word of thanks before slipping away quietly, and right before leaving, she had even pettily complained that he hadn't helped her!

At the thought of this, Ming Xi felt an inexplicable pang of heartache.

"...This likewise proves that you are very close to that person, am I right?" Xuan Ye narrowed his eyes and strode straight into the ice chamber. Before Ming Xi could react, he pushed open the door and stood directly in front of her.

What... what was he planning to do?

"Answer this king honestly... Just who on earth is that person?!"