Chapter 2: 1st separation

Ye Chen cast a glance at his mother, noticing the identical ring he had purchased from the Old Man around her neck. He couldn't help but wonder if this was the reason he was reincarnated as he also had the same ring around his neck, but he pushed those ideas aside since his current goals were to become stronger and become immortal while seeking many beauties in his harem. 

"Ye Chen and Han Ling Er, both of you wash your hands while I put the food on the table," shouted Han Laun Er from the kitchen. 

"OK, Mother!"

"OK, Mommy!" 

Ye Chen exclaimed, peering at his adorable sister, who had peculiar white hair and huge blue eyes, staring at his small brother with a mischievous smile and tugging him to wash his hands. 

Though Han Luan'er was raped by Ye Chuang, who was intoxicated, and gave birth to Ye Chen, this seven-year-old girl with white hair was Han Ling Er, the daughter of Han Laun Er before she became a maid in the Ye Clan. Han Laun Er shows her love, treats her two kids equally, and never shows prejudice toward Ye Chen, who was born as a result of Ye Chaun's mistake. 

When the mother and children in the little warm house heard a commotion, Ye Chen's eyes tightened, and he had a restless feeling that something horrible was about to happen. 

So he got up in front of his mother and step-sister and scowled as he looked at the door. 

"Ye Chen, it's okay, let me see what's going on outside," Han Laun Er remarked, pleasant and reassuringly smiling at Ye Chen, who was vigilant and understood how protective he was of his sister and mother. 

When Han Laun Er opened the door and clutched the token that Ye Chaun gave her, she remembered the promise that Ye Chaun had made to keep them safe from the harassment of Ye Clan members who didn't appreciate the privilege that Ye Clan's leader had granted her family. 

"Greetings, Madam I am a maid in Ye Clan called Han Luan Er, Can I acquire the reason for your visit to this lowly house" Han Laun Er inquired respectfully, as she usually did while working as a maid, and glanced at the black-dressed woman who was disguising her face behind a white mask, her chilly blue eyes peering down at Han Laun Er. 

"She's gorgeous!, Don't think about that right now," Ye Chen had a lewd thought as he observed the woman standing at the door, folding her hands beneath those huge melons. Even though he couldn't see the face of this mysterious woman, he could guess her beautiful face. 

"I came here on the order of Clan Mistress, that you be appointed as a maid to the respectable guest who will visit the Ye Clan, and the remaining details will be revealed to you once you have shifted to the place where the guest will stay," said the white mask woman, shifting her gaze to Han Ling Er, who was trembling behind Ye Chen. 

When she spotted Han Ling Er, a slight grin appeared beneath the white mask, and she couldn't wait to take her away with her, but first she had to notify the Ancestor. 

"This..." Han Laun Er's body quivered with anxiety as her power faded, and a man materialized out of thin air alongside the white-masked lady just as she was about to utilize the token provided to her by Ye Chuang. 

"By the Ancestor's order, the children of Han Laun Er will be in the care of Ye Clan's current head, Ye Chuang," yelled the guy after bowing to the white-masked woman and leaving the place in a hurry because he didn't want to face one of the famous Ancestor guards who had now been assigned to work under the Clan Mistress Chu Lingshu. 

"Tsk!" the white-masked lady, annoyed. She wanted to watch how Han Laun Er would react to the Ye Clan's command scroll, but she had no idea Ye Chuang had already established a haven for Han Laun Er and her family. 

Feeling bored, she stared at the Han Ling Er with her deep blue eyes before heading to meet Ancestor to tell him about the Han Ling Er. 

"Why.." Han Laun Er dropped to her knees and clenched her hands, saddened by the fact that she would no longer be able to care for her children. 

"Mother, are you alright?" Ye Chen said, his expression filled with concern, and Han Ling Er burst into tears when she saw her distressed mother. 

"I am sorry, Ye Chen, that your mother was unable to be with you...I....I" Tears flowed from her eyes, staining her gentle cheeks; Ye Chen couldn't stand to see his mother cry in front of him. 

"Mother...don't cry...Hic" Han Ling Er approached her mother and used her little hands to dab at the tears on her cheeks. Han Laun Er couldn't help but hug her two kids and burst into tears, worried that her kids would be discriminated against by the Clan members after she departed to take care of maid responsibilities.

"It's okay, Mother; I'll look after my sister and grow strong enough to protect you both," Ye Chen stated with resolve, caressing his mother back with reassurance. 

"I know my son will protect me, but now you are my little child, and I need to take care of your responsibility," Han Laun Er replied after hearing her son's determined words. She stood up and told them to eat the meal before it cooled. 

After a distressed day, it was Midnight, Ye Chen awoke from his slumber and looked down at his mother and sister, who were asleep and holding each other.

"I need to become strong to protect my family," Ye Chen stated sternly, getting out of bed and going to a room with numerous books on Qi cultivation and the history of the Great Yan Dynasty that his father had given him as a present. 

"Now I know that Clan Mistress Chu Lingshu is targeting us, I won't let you go away from this" murmured Ye Chen angrily, glancing at the book about the Qi cultivation.

To escape this discrimination, he must go through Qi Cultivation to achieve immortality; if he demonstrated his talent to his cheap father, he could gain assistance from the Ye Clan to assist his mother and sister. 

At the same moment, a woman sat on a chair in an opulent bedroom in the Clan Mistress's quarters of the Main palace, gazing out of the window at the two brightly sparkling moons. She tasted the crimson wine gracefully and pondered deeply about her life as Ye Chuang's wife. 

"What's that sad face Lingshu?" inquired the woman wearing all black with a white face mask. She stared at the captivating woman with the translucent red lingerie concealing her voluptuous body curves and pink underwear. 

"Seems like you want to ask something, Mu Lanyi or the former saintess of the Ice Cloud Palace," Chu Lingshu stated uninterestedly while not glancing at her close friend. 

Mu Lanyi gave a small sigh, knowing that her friend was upset with her husband, but she felt compelled to point out that Ye Chuang was foolish to abandon Chu Lingshu, his wife, in favour of a lowly maid. 

When she took off her white mask, the seductive face of a fairy appeared. Her previously hidden black hair abruptly became white, signifying the special meaning that all females from the Ice Cloud Palace will have white hair. 

"I don't understand his behaviour, Lanyi; with my talent, I could break through the Gloden Core realm and reach the Nascent Soul Realm, but I stopped myself for my husband, and in exchange for my sacrifice, he's having an affair with a lowly maid," Chu Lingshu said with a silly smile for her nativeness and innocent love for her husband. 

"You are aware that he was intoxicated during that moment, Lingshu," said Mu Lingyi, who was visibly distressed for her close friend. 

"I know, Lingyi, but if he had tried to apologize to me, I might have considered it with my foolish love brain for my husband, but instead he showed love to that lowly maid in front of me," said Chu Lingshu, shattering the wine glass on the floor, her face detained with grief from her heart. 

Mu Lingyi went silent and did not say anything to persuade her companion since Ye Chuang was the one who did wrong, and she could not support someone like him. 

Chu Lingshu swallowed her rage and asked, "Anyway, the reason you came here?" 

"When I visited that maid's house, I noticed her daughter's body was suitable for Ice element techniques, and I believe that child is suitable to join Ice Cloud Palace," Mu Lingyi remarked with a sorrowful heart, feeling sorry for her friend because her close friend was assisting the maid's daughter. 

"Oh, that's great, feel free to take that child; I have no problems, Mu Lingyi and if your Ice Cloud Palace will have a gifted disciple, it is a good thing," Chu Lingshu remarked, filling Mu Lingyi with remorse. Mu Lingyi could sense Chu Lingshi's sincere happiness for her as a closest friend. 

Mu Lingyi stood up abruptly as her heart couldn't take it anymore and went out of the bedroom to cool her uneasiness leaving Chu Lingshu with a confused face. 

Two days went by, 

Ye Chen was now depressed since the white-masked woman had taken her beloved sister away and said that Han Ling Er was a talented cultivator, causing his mother to be distressed. 

"Mother, you should eat some food," Ye Chen remarked sadly, staring at his mother's sorrowful grin at him, his emotions inflamed with fury at his powerless strength. 

"It's alright Ye Chen, Han Ling Er was taken to Ice Cloud Palace as a disciple and you don't need to worry that place is only for females but I couldn't bear to leave my child alone HIC~..." said Han Laun Er, tears welling up in her eyes, who knew that her daughter was an innocent little girl to stand against the strict rules of Ice Cloud Palace. 

"Mother I will become strong and protect my sister," said Ye Chen with a determined face, He wanted to start the cultivation immediately, knowing her sister was in Ice Could Palace but one thing he didn't understand was how his mother knew her sister's whereabouts as Mu Lingyi never told anything at that time.