Phoniex Requiem
Chapter 79: I'm Not Ready!

Chapter 79: I'm Not Ready!

Li Xiu knew that Yun Ruoyan was a more passive person in their relationship, but her harsh response to the engagement statement was still beyond her expectations.

"No, I refuse!" yun Ruoyan shouted. With an explosive power born from his shock, he had actually managed to escape Li Mo's grasp.

"I'm against this gift, Your Majesty," he emphasized, jumping off Li Mo's lap.

Li Qianxiao was sipping a cup of wine. When Li Xiu announced his intention to betroth Yun Ruoyan to Li Mo, he started to choke, and when Yun Ruoyan rejected his father's offer, he almost spewed wine in his mouth.

She refused the engagement?!

Everyone looked on in shock. This ugly girl actually rejected the Slaughter King herself?

On what basis?!!!

“How could he refuse such an engagement? If anything, it was Uncle who should have strongly opposed this!” third princess Li Yu'er muttered in disbelief.

“That's right, isn't this girl crazy? Legendary figure like the Slaughterer King.” added fifth prince Li Qianhui.

A silent whisper broke from around them. Everyone was shocked, except for the couple themselves. Li Mo looked at the girl in front of him, who always carried surprises wherever he went.

The first time they met, she fell into her yard with severe injuries. Instead of panicking or calling her maid, or letting her die, she dragged her into her room and took care of her while hiding the facts from everyone.

When he approached her, she was attracted to the faint fragrance emanating from her body. In her delirium, weakened by blood loss, she is unable to control herself and kisses her on instinct. What he was puzzling over was why there seemed to be rotten signs in the middle of the fragrance.

When Li Mo woke up and saw Yun Ruoyan's birthmark, he too late realized that the foul smell was because the girl had been poisoned.

It is a very unusual poison. Li Mo had studied herbs and poisons of all kinds since his youth, but even he was unable to identify these poisons with a single glance. This attracted his interest, and he promised Yun Ruoyan to heal him as he left.

After recovering from his wound, Li Mo began to research the poison in earnest. Finally, in one of the ancient tome of the palace collection, he found a poison described in terms that were very similar to Yun Ruoyan's experience.

The thick book traced the origin of the poison to the ancient shamanic tribe in the Yue kingdom. After traveling to the Yue kingdom and conducting an investigation there, he discovered that the tribe had long since died, as was the hope of following any further clues.

The second time they met was at Minghuang Mountain, at a royal hunting ground forbidden to outsiders. At that moment, Li Mo rushed back from the Yue kingdom for an annual effort, which always failed.

This year, just like the previous years, he failed again. Worse, the old coder actually hit him with a crushing blow. With other severe injuries, Li Mo hid in the crown of one of the trees in the forest area.

At that moment, spiritual energy leaked out from his entire body. He could not fight with anyone, and if he did not get treatment quickly, he would even lose four-fifths of his cultivation temporarily.

As if destined, Li Mo found Yun Ruoyan once again. When she jumped down from the crown of the tree and covered the two of them with her robe, she was enchanted by her seductive fragrance and kissed him once more.

But this time, the signs of decay in his body had disappeared. Initially, he thought that this was because of the life essence pill he had sent Li Qianhan.

Then, Li Mo hid in a tree and watched Yun Ruoyan fight against twenty or so imperial guards, every move mature and trained, as well, it was more the action of an experienced swordsman than a thirteen year old young girl.

When he saw Yun Ruoyan unleash the Feilai Sword, he was sure that the young girl had an accidental encounter.

That night, Li Mo sneaked into his residence and found the qilin who was the previous Beast King's companion in the pocket dimension. Not only that, he even discovered that Yun Ruoyan was actually a human furnace from the legend story!

From then on, she knew that this second princess Yun would become a relatively important tool for her in the near future. Yeah, just tools. Just like a cultivation guide that would make him stronger, or a secret recipe to increase his cultivation.

But, tonight, the girl who seemed to be just an object in Li Mo's heart had lured and lured him once more.

Li Mo looked at the clear alcohol in his cup. Slowly, the image of Yun Ruoyan's transcendent beauty seemed to surface. It was this beauty that, at the time of her rare passion, overwhelmed her and left her adrift in the pool.

Yun Ruoyan, what other surprises have you prepared for me?

Li Mo smiled as he finished his cup once more. Yun Ruoyan had given him too many surprises, so much so that he was almost used to them. This was why he was not surprised that Yun Ruoyan would refuse the engagement. However, he was still upset.

Reluctant? How dare he look down on her! Li Mo smiled like a Cheshire cat.

“You don't want to get engaged to Li Mo? Why not?" The emperor asked a question that everyone wanted to know the answer to. "Have you thought of anyone?"

"No, Your Majesty."

"No, Your Majesty."

Li Xiu blinked and stroked his beard. “How strange. As far as I am concerned, your relatives are all in good health, and you are not forbidden from being betrothed due to recent deaths. Why did you refuse?”

Wh why? Yun Ruoyan hesitated. For everyone, this engagement must have benefited him. Both in status and appearance, the Slaying King was far above Yun Ruoyan himself.

What reason would others be convinced of? Yun Ruoyan's head was sick.

“Ah, I'm still underage. I can only get married next year, Your Majesty, ” he replied after finally thinking of a suitable reason.

"There's no problem. Marriage can wait until you're old enough."

“Then, oh, alright!” Yun Ruoyan took a deep breath before replying seriously, “Actually, the reason is..”.

"What's that?" Li Xiu stuck his neck forward, just like everyone else at the party did.

"I don't deserve it!" Yun Ruoyan exclaimed loudly.

Oh, that's why! Everyone immediately relaxed.

"No wonder, even he knew he wasn't good enough for the Slaughterer King!" One of the young misses giggled.

"Right, not because he didn't want to, but he didn't dare to be willing."

“It's not like that? Can you imagine such a shocking face next to the Slaughter King himself!”

"At least I can't accept it, that's for sure."

The crowd nodded in agreement, but Li Mo could not help but scorn. Her face would be better than any woman here at the banquet, yet she insisted on pretending to be ugly. Is this something that a self-deprecating girl would do?

But it made him a little curious as to why.

Yun Ruoyan turned around when she heard the mocking laughter, but when she saw Li Mo's almost glowing eyes fixed on the alcohol in her cup, she relaxed.

Rethinking her two kisses that came out of nowhere, and how she forced him to sit on her lap, she said, the only explanation Yun Ruoyan had was that this Slaying King actually only had a twisted and rebellious sense of taste.

Li Xiu had been inspecting Li Mo from afar, ever since the announcement. Although Li Mo did not say anything or react very loudly, Li Xiu for years observing him told him that he secretly agreed with the proposal.

"Miss Yun," Li Xiu advised, "If you miss such an opportunity for being self-deprecating, you will regret it for a lifetime." Yun Ruoyan's brain spun as she tried to think of an adequate response. He had not expected that Yun Ruoyao would be the one to save him.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid Sister Ruoyan may not be a match for the Slaughterer King." Yun Ruoyao stood up from her chair and bowed.

"Oh? You are the eldest daughter of the Yun family, I guess. What do you mean by those words?” Yun Ruoyao had been closely observing Yun Ruoyan and Li Mo throughout the party, and she caught all their interactions.

It should have been the first time the two of them had met, and he really did not understand why they looked so close.

It was said that the Slaying King was reclusive and eccentric. Did he just make fun of that ugly girl? And the emperor, how could he suggest such an engagement just like that?!

Yun Ruoyan had already not thought too much about it, if she became the Empress consort of the Slaying King, then Yun Ruoyao would forever be under her. Anxious and frustrated, Yun Ruoyao began to sweat. At least the ugly girl knew that she was humbling herself!

“Descendingly Sister Ruoyan is only natural. Three years ago, for some reason, Ruoyan suddenly lost her talent in cultivating. Not only that, the birthmark on his face began to grow. In the past three years, Dad has recruited the services of talented doctors from all over the continent in hopes of finding a cure. Only recently has there been an increase, and Ruoyan regained some of that talent once again.”

Yun Ruoyao sighed as she continued. “But despite his talent returning, the birthmark on his face grew even bigger. Recently, during an expedition in the imperial territory, pus did not stop leaking. Only after Yun spent a large amount of medicinal and spiritual herbs on her did her face recover to its current state."

He shook his head sadly, always being an enterprising playwright. “Linking the Yun family with the Slaughterer King through marriage is a great honor, Your Majesty, but my conscience will not allow me to allow this without speaking. If my sister's condition worsens, and if Her Majesty and the Slaughterer King find out about this only after marriage, then my pitiful sister will be the one to suffer the most.” Yun Ruoyao raised her head and looked towards Li Xiu solemnly. "Your Majesty, please reconsider!"

His words were so logical and reasonable that the crowd was firmly aligned behind him.