Chapter 967 Yanran's Choice

The night was falling and the sky was full of stars. However, Ye Tianming's courtyard was filled with an indissoluble sadness.

On the stone table, the wine jars were in disarray, with wine splashing everywhere, just like the turmoil in his heart at the moment.

The imperial decree granting marriage was like a shackle that locked him tightly and made it impossible for him to breathe.

He originally thought that as long as he went far away to the border, he could keep Yanran away from the vortex of suspicion in the palace, but he did not expect that fate would play tricks on her and eventually push her into the abyss.

"Yanran..." Ye Tianming tilted his head back and took a gulp of strong liquor. The spicy liquid flowed down his throat, but it could not extinguish the burning fire in his heart.

He seemed to see Yanran in a red dress, forced to serve him in the Phoenix Treasure Tent. The tenderness that originally belonged to him was now being possessed by another man...

"Ah!" Ye Tianming smashed the wine jar to the ground, and broken porcelain pieces flew everywhere, just like his broken heart at this moment.

"Brother Tianming..."

A soft voice sounded behind him. Ye Tianming turned around abruptly and saw Yanran in white clothes, like a white lotus blooming in the dark night, with a bit of coldness and sadness.

"Yanran?"

Ye Tianming shook his dizzy head, but the figure in front of him was still clear. That familiar eyebrow, that cold temperament, who else could it be but Yanran?

"It seems that I am really drunk!" He blinked hard, wondering if he was hallucinating because of excessive thinking.

How come Yanran is here?

"Yanran, is it really you?"

Ye Tianming stood up suddenly, wanting to reach out and touch her, but stopped in mid-air, as if he was afraid of disturbing her beautiful dream. Even his voice became trembling.

Yanran walked gently to his side, the moonlight pouring down on her like water, giving her a faint halo that seemed unreal and beautiful.

"It's me, Brother Tianming. I came to see you." Yanran's tone was gentle, but with a hint of bitterness.

"Yanran, you...why are you here? You are not..." Ye Tianming's throat seemed to be blocked by something and he couldn't say the rest of the words.

Yanran sighed softly, stretched out her hand to pull him to sit next to the stone bench, and then sat down opposite him. There was a stone table between the two of them, but it felt like there were thousands of mountains and rivers between them.

"Brother Tianming, I know you feel bad, and I also know you are trying to save me so that I won't be criticized or suspected by the Stone Emperor..."

Yanran's voice was very soft and her expression was extremely sad.

Every word she said was like a heavy hammer hitting Ye Tianming's heart.

"Yanran, you don't have to worry about me, as long as you are safe and sound."

Ye Tianming wanted to help her, but was afraid of offending the beauty.

He didn't know how to comfort her either.

It was he who refused to elope with Yanran and wander around the world in order to protect the border.

Everything is his fault!

Yanran gently pushed away his outstretched hand, walked to the stone table, picked up the wine jar, poured herself a glass of wine, and drank it all.

"Brother Tianming, are you sad for me?" Yanran put down the wine glass, and stared at Ye Tianming with her beautiful eyes. There was a hint of irresistible charm in her eyes.

"Yanran, I..." Ye Tianming opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

"You don't have to say it, I know everything." Yanran smiled sadly.

"How could I not know the love between you and me? Do you think you are the only one willing to sacrifice your life and everything for me?"

"No, Yanran, I..." Ye Tianming looked at Yu Yanran with red eyes, and his heart suddenly began to panic.

In those familiar eyes, there was a complex surge of sadness, sorrow, questioning, and love.

His heart suddenly felt like it was being beaten hard by someone.

He was tortured by separation day and night, and the person in front of him seemed to be the same.

In just three short years, that cheerful, simple girl was tortured into this state!

“Hush!” Yanran stretched out her slender jade fingers and pressed against Ye Tianming’s lips, “Brother Tianming, don’t say anything, I know what you mean. I finally waited for you to come back!”

"Tonight, I finally escaped from the palace, and I just want to spend some time with you."

As she spoke, Yanran hooked her jade hand and the cloak on her body fell to the ground.

Then she undressed herself, and one by one, her clothes fell off...

The moonlight gently caresses her jade-like skin, and every inch of it exudes a bright luster, like a finely crafted work of art.

Ye Tianming just felt his mouth dry and his eyes were involuntarily attracted.

Yanran bit her red lips lightly, her eyes moving with a hint of shyness, a hint of expectation, and a hint of indescribable determination.

She slowly moved closer to him, the moonlight outlining her exquisite curves, and her warm breath seemed to be breathing in and out on Ye Tianming's heart, making him flustered.

There was a strange fragrance in the air, it was Yanran's unique body odor, mixed with a hint of intoxicating aroma of wine, which made Ye Tianming feel dizzy.

Ye Tianming's breathing became rapid.

"Yanran, what are you doing?" Ye Tianming's voice trembled a little.

"Brother Tianming, don't you want to have me?" Yanran had taken off her coat, revealing her snow-white shoulders.

She slowly approached Ye Tianming and whispered sweetly in his ear.

"You have made great military achievements and hold military power. If you are willing to help me kill the Stone Emperor, you and I won't have to be suspected by the Stone Emperor everywhere. You can also get me and the world!"

Yanran said this, reaching out to touch Ye Tianming's face, her eyes were blurred, with a hint of temptation and a hint of madness.

Ye Tianming felt a surge of blood rushing to his head. The woman in front of him was the dream lover he had been thinking about day and night but could never get.

Three years ago, the Stone Emperor sent him to the border on the pretext of guarding the border, and took away his beloved.

From then on, his Yanran became his brother's woman.

But now, Yanran still throws herself into his arms and cannot forget the old love.

The emotions that had been suppressed for so long burst through the dam like an out-of-control flood.

Can he really get her like this?

In his mind, he recalled the past when he and Shi Huang were close brothers and drank and chatted happily.

On one side were bright red lips and longing and pleading eyes.

Ye Tianming clenched his hands into fists, his nails digging deep into the flesh.

"Brother Tianming, it was the Stone Emperor who betrayed you and took me away. I have been tortured by him every day. If you don't help me, I really can't survive..."

Yanran felt Ye Tianming's struggle, so she moved closer to him and pressed her soft body against his chest, trying to awaken the suppressed desires deep in his heart.

"Yanran, I...I..." Ye Tianming's voice was intermittent, his eyes were full of struggle and pain, but his body was getting hotter and hotter, and more and more out of control.

"Brother Tianming, don't you like me anymore?" Yanran's voice carried a hint of grievance and a hint of temptation.

She gently leaned close to Ye Tianming's earlobe and attacked him with her most primitive weapon.

Ye Tianming's sanity was collapsing bit by bit.

The beauty in front of him, the fragrance on her body, and the bewitching words in his ears were like fires burning in his body...