Chapter 2084 - 2080: Farewell and Safe Travels

Zhao Tianya seemed like she no longer wanted to help Ye Fan, and didn’t want to help Li Zhaojun either. Tantai Wanrong wanted to persuade her, but found that whatever she said would be useless.

"Make your own choice, no one is forcing you, but please remember, Ye Fan is, after all, the man you once loved. And what he’s doing right now is actually good for you. If you choose to treat him like an enemy, then just pretend nothing ever happened. If you’re still willing to become Ye Fan’s woman, I believe he would still accept you..." When Tantai Wanrong said this, she felt she no longer wanted to try persuading Zhao Tianya about anything.

She realized that Zhao Tianya now was even more stubborn than she herself used to be. She had gone through that kind of stubbornness too, so she felt she didn’t really have the right to try and talk Zhao Tianya into anything.

Zhao Tianya said, "Big Sis, will you still treat me as a close sister in the future?"

"Maybe not anymore." Tantai Wanrong looked very helpless as she said, "You should understand how exalted Ye Fan’s status can become in the future. If he overcomes the heavenly tribulation and can even defeat those ancient gods, then I and Zhao Jun and the others won’t be living on Earth like we do now. We’ll definitely be living in a place relatively cut off from the mundane world. At that time, how do you expect me to keep in touch with you? By then we’ll each have our own lives, and all these past things should just dissipate like smoke."

"Big Sis, I really don’t understand your thinking anymore. You feel you’ve made the right choices, but why don’t you consider how to become someone who can stand independently in the future, instead of thinking about staying with Ye Fan, becoming his accessory? As girls, do we really have to end up clinging to men in the end?" Zhao Tianya said earnestly.

Tantai Wanrong snapped, "Right now I’m relying on Ye Fan, but it’s not pure reliance. I don’t need him to give me anything; what I need is a stable life. Just like in the future, you won’t even look at ordinary human men—you yourself already have a life that’s close to infinite. Do you really want to spend a brief married life with a human man, unable to support each other until old age, and then someday still have to tell your own children... ’I’m a god, I’m different from you’? If I’m with Ye Fan, then it’ll be different. At the very least, our children can also step onto the path of cultivation, and can even obtain infinite life. I don’t have to hide or cover up anything in front of Ye Fan. Isn’t that good?"

"You think that’s good? Why do I feel like your current thinking is totally ridiculous?" Zhao Tianya said.

"That’s just your own opinion. At the very least, the women around Ye Fan are all very happy right now; you can’t deny that. Ye Fan has given the women around him a stable life. I even kind of envy Yaoyao and Xiaoxiao now—they’re actually the most free and unrestrained ones. From the very beginning they knew exactly what they wanted, unlike you and me, always thrashing around in front of love, when in fact the only ones we’re tormenting are ourselves." Tantai Wanrong was already somewhat tired as she said this.

"Big Sis, I won’t say anything more to you." Zhao Tianya said, "Previously, when Zhao Jun came to me, I was embarrassed to turn her down, so I agreed. If you have to say I’m going back on my word now, then I’ll accept that. I think helping Zhao Jun with those things is basically meaningless. So... I hope to just be an ordinary woman in the future. As for Zhao Jun’s previous proposal, I refuse. Go and tell Zhao Jun for me. I think that’s the best outcome!"

"The best outcome? Hah. Why don’t you tell her yourself? It’s like you changed your mind because of me, and you want me to be unable to raise my head in front of Zhao Jun, is that it?" Tantai Wanrong questioned.

Zhao Tianya said, "That’s not what I mean. I actually really want to help Zhao Jun, but when I think about who Zhao Jun is now—she’s Ye Fan’s woman, Ye Fan’s legitimate wife—I just can’t accept it. Are we supposed to be like those imperial consorts of ancient kings, all competing for favor together, while she gets to act like some empress, treating us as her concubines... When I think about that, I get chills. Right now she can act all generous and magnanimous, as if she can understand everything, but in the future she may not be so fair and just. Because with Ye Fan’s future status, countless women will flock to him. We’ll just be women from a certain phase of Ye Fan’s life, that’s all. Once Ye Fan has supreme power, he’ll also start to neglect the women around him. Will Li Zhaojun still be as calm and peaceful in her mindset as she is now?"

"Maybe you’re right, but I won’t accept it." Tantai Wanrong said, closing her eyes.

"I know Big Sis has already been poisoned by Ye Fan. Saying anything to you is useless. You also feel Zhao Jun is acting out of goodwill, so let me put it this way... Zhao Jun’s biggest problem is that her relationship with Ye Fan hasn’t actually been settled yet. Do you know? Even now, Zhao Jun still hasn’t become Ye Fan’s woman... That should be the same as you, right, Big Sis?" Zhao Tianya said.

Tantai Wanrong looked at Zhao Tianya and said, "Where did you find out about all this? Don’t you feel that knowing these things is basically intruding on other people’s privacy?"

"Whose privacy am I intruding on... Ugh, Big Sis, it’s not like I wanted to know your situation. It’s just that this kind of thing can’t really be hidden in the first place. You yourself mentioned it before, so why are you acting like you can pin it on me now?" Zhao Tianya looked very wronged as she spoke.

Tantai Wanrong was somewhat angry as she said, "Why are you meddling in other people’s affairs? Why don’t you think about your own relationship with Ye Fan? Have you never considered that Ye Fan still has a certain tolerance for you right now precisely because he has already had you? You have a past, you have Xiaoyue—has Ye Fan ever minded that? Among all these women, you’re actually a bit of an odd one out, and you still want Ye Fan to fully accept you. You’re basically making trouble for yourself... Don’t you understand even this much?"

"Say whatever you like!" Zhao Tianya said. "Maybe it really is like you said, Big Sis, that I’m not qualified to talk terms with Ye Fan at all. But there’s one thing I do understand, and that’s that I have things that others may not. Ye Fan used to be very attached to me too, because... Forget it, I won’t say it."

Tantai Wanrong rolled her eyes at Zhao Tianya and didn’t want to say anything more.

The two of them just sat there in tense silence. After a long time, Tantai Wanrong finally stood up and said, "I’ll pass on what you want me to tell Zhao Jun. It’s getting late, and I don’t want to discuss anything further with you. You can leave now. Take care—I won’t see you off."

"Big Sis, you’re really just sending me away like this?" Zhao Tianya stood up, looking at Tantai Wanrong’s back as she spoke.