19 Dragon and Phoenix 8 (1/2)

The next few days were chaotic as the Jade Emperor sent people to retrieve the treasure from the empty city and proceeded to reward the people involved in its discovery handsomely. Of course, he did split of equal portions of the discovered treasure for the clans, though the majority of the treasure was taken for the national treasury. No one mentioned the treasures that the group had already taken for themselves, which they kept without a word. Even if the Jade Emperor suspected anything, he would just take it as their reward for the discovery.

As for the man inside the ice, he had also woken up. When he did so, he almost tore down the entire phoenix clan's palace, but good thing that he realized something was wrong before doing so. He really was from the golden age, and had been the youngest son of the mayor of the city they found him in. Because he had a special illness, he had been sealed in the ice to prevent the illness from spreading throughout his body until they found the ingredients for the cure. Yin Mei guessed that the devil had invaded before then, so his family had placed him in the treasury, which was in a isolated dimension, to protect him.

”Are you still sulking around?” Yin Mei said, as she entered the room of the man. His name was Yang. He didn't mention a surname, or perhaps the name he gave was his surname. Yin Mei didn't concern herself with it, just thinking it was a little strange way of naming.

The man didn't say anything, huddled in the corner of the bed. A giant man like that sulking like a baby really was a weird sight. He was really tall, but his back was constantly hunched over. He had a pair of beautiful green eyes, but his messy black hair was constantly blocking them from sight. Yin Mei thought that he reminded her of the Gui siblings, with his gloomy aura, but compared to the passionate Gui siblings who seemed like mad scientists, this guy was just plain depressing.

”... t... a...” Yang mumbled something, but Yin Mei didn't hear what he said.

”What?” She said, as she was about to pour a cup of tea (for herself, of course).

”You don't understand,” Yang repeated, louder. He had on an expression of anger and despair, as if the whole world had ended. ”Waking up and everyone you knew before is gone... you wouldn't understand! What's the point of me even living anymore?” For such a big guy, who was definitely older than any one in the upper realm by thousands of years, he sure sounded even more immature than Gui Heng (granted he was asleep for who knows how long).

But, that was the wrong thing to say to Yin Mei. ”I don't understand? I. don't. understand?” This hit a string in her, and she immediately felt a burning rage. ”Don't you dare say that to me.” She was in front of him in a second, her hand lashing out and gripping his neck, slamming him onto the wall as she leaned in. ”You complain about your circumstances one more time, and I will...” She paused, thinking for a moment as she let him go and he landed on the bed with a small thud.

Her expression returned to normal as she leaned back, standing straight up again. ”I'm not sure what I'll do, but I will make sure that you'll feel enough pain to think that the despair you are feeling right now is a cake walk compared to it.” She then smiled sweetly. ”You aren't the only one who has lost things, so don't you dare act like you are. Now get your a** off the bed and have some tea with me.”

Yang looked at Yin Mei with a stunned expression, seemingly unable to keep up with her quick changes in mood and her sudden use of coarse language that didn't match her beautiful appearance at all. He obediently walked over and sat down at the table with her, as if he had been scared into obedience.

Actually, as long as he could heal his illness and regain his former strength, he would definitely have a strength on par with, if not more than, that of the Jade Emperor. It was just that he was too weak now to fight back, and he had been scared silly to the point that he forgot he would be stronger than Yin Mei if he had a few years.

The reason why Yin Mei was so upset about Yang's words was simply because it could be said that she was in a similar situation. One day, everything had been going fine and dandy. Then she was involved in a mass shooting, and died, like out of the blue, at the young age of 23. Then, as if that wasn't enough, she was shoved into this world where the strong was the law, and killing was as common as picking up vegetables at your local grocery store. All her friends and family were left behind, and she had to brave this world on her own... No, she then remembered. That was right, because she had the trusty, beautiful, stunning, super rich and powerful big thigh known as the demon king, she could still get handle it.

Mm, having a thigh to hang onto during hard times was important.

After that day, for some reason, Yang would continue to follow Yin Mei around. He even followed her into the bath once, so she had to kick him out. Yin Mei was completely confused what he was doing. Was he a masochist? Or looking for a chance for revenge?? Not even Yang knew the answer to this question. He just thought that he would figure out something if he stuck by Yin Mei. What he would figure out, he was unsure. But anyways, he just decided to first follow her and then ask questions later.

Of course, Yin Mei was exceedingly frustrated by this, but when she saw this giant boy with his hunched back looking at her with puppy dog eyes, she could only swallow all the grievances she had in her throat and reluctantly allow him to continue (as long as he didn't follow her into the bath again).

Because of their contributions to the emperor with their donations of the treasures that they had found, the impressions of Yin Mei and her family naturally rose in the head of the emperor. Because of that, he grew more dissatisfied with Long Aotian and they way that he had handled the engagement between the two and their clan. As a result, the amount of duties that he entrusted to Long Aotian increased. For Long Aotian, this was like thunder in a clear sky. He had been working hard to regain favor in these last two days, and everything had seemed to be going well. But now, all that effort was rendered useless with Yin Mei's one move.

Long Aotian even began to wonder, was everyone right and he was truly wrong in his decision? Although he still thought that he love Yao Ling, he couldn't help but think that perhaps he should have thought things through when he decided to bring her back with him and break the engagement between him and Yin Mei. That's right, Long Aotian was regretting. But, it was too bad, but there was no medicine for regret.

In the blink of an eye, several years passed. As Yang cured his illness and healed himself, growing more and more powerful and contributing more and more in his efforts for the nation, the emperor proceeded to favor the Feng clan even more, along with the other clans of those involved in finding Yang, this elder from the golden age.