You Are My Villain

--- Chapter 14 ---

At the hill, Sun Yi, Lu Xia, Feng Yumeng, and two demonic beasts landed after using escape talismans. They watched over the burning city and showed a wide range of emotions. 

"Young Master Yi, you..." Feng Yumeng stared at Sun Yi with horror. 

Sun Yi glanced at Feng Yumeng and answered calmly, "I have no other choices." 

"The Thunder God Cult's chief is a peak Spiritual Realm Expert." 

"And the Lightning Calamity Serpent is a half-step Wicked Beast." 

"If we stayed in that city any longer, we would get caught in the fight and killed like trapped ants..." 

"B-But..." Feng Yumeng saw the burning city with a pained expression.

"There are still innocent people in the city." 

Sun Yi put on a pensive look, "I know." 

"However, I'm not strong enough to save them all." 

"Y-You also tricked Zhao Kai." Feng Yumeng's eyes become red. 

Sun Yi stared at Feng Yumeng and sighed, "I'm a coward." 

"I don't have enough bravery to execute the plan." 

"You murderer..." Feng Yumeng cried. She couldn't handle the bottled emotion anymore.

Sun Yi walked to Feng Yumeng and hugged her tightly, letting her cry on his chest. "If I had to be a murderer to save the people I cared for, then I'm willing." 

"You can hate me, Young Lady Feng." 

"No, the world can hate me, but I will always live this way." 

"Uuh!" Feng Yumeng sobbed continuously, drowning in sorrow and Sun Yi's warm embrace.

Sun Yi rubbed Feng Yumeng's back and saw Lu Xia staring at him with a stunned expression. 

"I have no excuse..." He flashed a weak smile, and Lu Xia smiled back at him.

"Don't worry, Sun Yi. I understand." Lu Xia spoke while shaking her head gently. For Sun Yi to take such a drastic measure by using the one and only Heaven Killing Formation, he must have thought it through. 

Many people would hate Sun Yi for this, but Lu Xia won't hate him. Even if the world turned back on Sun Yi, Lu Xia will always be on his side.

Sun Yi gazed at the burning city and shook his head because something like this happened when he escaped from the imperial palace. 

To think, he escaped a hole and fell to another.

Zzt! 

Flash!

Sun Yi noticed a white light burst out of the fire pillar. 

His Illusion-breaking Eyes activated, and all he could see was the dying Lightning Calamity Serpent charging at full speed toward him. 

'Ah, wait. It might be karma biting me back.' Sun Yi looked down on the weeping Feng Yumeng in his embrace and pushed her to Lu Xia. 

"Fweh?" Feng Yumeng was dazed. 

She couldn't understand what Sun Yi did to her.

Why did he suddenly push her away?

Lu Xia's eyes widened, "Sun Yi!" 

KABOOM!

A bolt of pure white lightning struck Sun Yi in the chest, sending him flying like a broken kite a hundred meters away. 

Blood sprayed, and flesh flew everywhere. 

"Yi?" Feng Yumeng couldn't react to what happened.

Everything happened too fast.

Before she knew it, Feng Yumeng saw a hundred-meter-long groove and Sun Yi lying on the end of it with a charred body. 

Lu Xia already run away and checked Sun Yi's condition. 

Feng Yumeng watched this in a daze, "Yi... Did he sacrifice himself for me?" 

Then, Sun Yi's words earlier echoed in Feng Yumeng's mind.

'If I had to be a murderer to save the people I cared for, then I'm willing.' 

At this very moment, an unknown feeling appears inside Feng Yumeng's maiden heart. She was confused by it.

She should have detested Sun Yi, but she can't.

...

Two days later. 

Sun Yi opened his eyes with difficulty. 

He was lying on a bed in an unfamiliar bedroom and groaned because every part of his body felt like it had gotten slammed by a truck. 

"What happened? After the thunderbolt hit me, I can't remember anything else." He lifted his right arm and saw a bandage wrapped all over it. The same goes for his upper body.

"You're awake?" A familiar voice greeted Sun Yi.

Sun Yi glanced to the left and spotted Feng Yumeng in her dashing blue dress. Her long black hair cascaded to her C-cup breast and framed her lithe figure. Her obsidian eyes glimmered upon seeing Sun Yi awake.

There is a sign of exhaustion in those eyes, though.

"Young Lady Feng? Where are we?" Sun Yi looked around.

Feng Yumeng sighed and explained, "After we escaped the Earth Hunting City, the vengeful spirit survived the Hell Killing Talisman and chased us outside." 

"However..." Her obsidian eyes become dim.

"You pushed me away before the vengeful spirit arrived, accepting its resentment." 

"It was both a blessing and curse. Your body burned beyond recognition, but your bloodline possessed a regenerative power to help you with that problem. We hired a physician two days ago, and she said you'd recover in four to five days." 

"She also discovered that your energy core has mutated. The Lightning Calamity Serpent has injected ferocious lightning power into your energy core, making it easier for you to cultivate in the future." 

"You even acquired half-step Wicked Beast's core with a lightning element that strengthened your foundation further." 

"However, the Lightning Calamity Serpent also injected your body with Yang Extremity Venom. Unless you find the Extreme Yin Flower, you could only live for fifteen more years..." 

"Maybe less than that because your regenerative power is fighting against the Yang Extremity Venom like water to oil." 

Feng Yumeng clenched her hand hard because Sun Yi became like this because he wanted to protect her. If not, she could have died two days ago. 

Sun Yi was stunned before chuckling, "Haha, I see..." 

"This is not time for laughter!" Feng Yumeng glared at Sun Yi. "Young Master Yi, you're going to die..." 

Sun Yi smiled at Feng Yumeng and replied, "Well, I have to enjoy my life more then." 

"Y-You..." Feng Yumeng lowered her head and bit her cherry lips. 

"Why are you dumb?" 

"I don't know how I get dragged along by a man like you..." 

"Did you regret it?" Sun Yi lays on the soft pillow. "You know that you can leave me anytime you want." 

"No, you can even kill me for committing such an atrocity toward the Earth Hunting City." 

Sun Yi closed his eyes and teasingly added, "Come on, grab a knife and stab me. I won't fight back." 

"Well, it's not like I can fight back." 

"You're right. I can kill you and end everything here." Fierce wind fluttered in the room as Feng Yumeng grabbed the peeling knife for the fruit. 

She dashed toward Sun Yi and jumped on his bed, making a stabbing motion to his neck. 

Coldness made Sun Yi numb, but he was calm and collected.

Drip! Drip!

Droplets of tears fell on Sun Yi's face. 

Sun Yi opened his eyes and saw Feng Yumeng crying with a complicated expression. She sat on Sun Yi's chest, pressing his collarbone with her right hand and a peeling knife nearing his neck.

"I can't!" She threw the knife away, causing it to stab the wall. 

"I can't kill you..." 

"I don't have the conviction."

"You're a murderer, but I can't..."

Feng Yumeng looked down, "I can't imagine watching you die. It makes my chest hurt." 

"Why?" 

"What have you done to me?" 

Sun Yi calmly stared at Feng Yumeng's eyes, "Young Lady Feng, I think I know why you couldn't kill me." 

"You might have developed feelings for me." 

"In other words, you have fallen in love with me." 

"Me? Fallen in love...?" Feng Yumeng's eyes widened in realization. 

They say love always develops in unexpected situations. 

Feng Yumeng doesn't believe such a saying, but the event two days ago proved it right. She should have despised Sun Yi with all her fiber but couldn't hate him for some reason.

Deep inside Feng Yumeng's maiden heart, she has longed for a romantic partner, and Sun Yi helped her twice to awaken a desire.

Even though the method was wrong, she couldn't argue his action stirred her lonely heart. She's a rebellious girl who runs from her strict family, and Sun Yi fills that gap.

Sun Yi laughed, "You shouldn't take my words for granted. I can speak nonsense, you know?" 

"No." Feng Yumeng mumbled. "You're right." 

"Eh?" Sun Yi was shocked this time.

"I'm falling in love with you, Young Master Yi." Feng Yumeng continued with newfound resolve. "You're a cowardly, funny, mysterious, and evil guy, but those qualities make me curious about you." 

After saying that, Feng Yumeng suddenly lunged at Sun Yi and kissed his lips. 

Sun Yi was alarmed, feeling Feng Yumeng's ravenous passion by the way she was kissing him. God, she tastes fantastic. They are making out in the bed, and Sun Yi feels his body becoming hotter. 

"Haa, Haa..." Feng Yumeng gasped, getting flushed by what she did to the bedridden Sun Yi. 

Sun Yi felt the wetness on his chest and said, "Young Lady Feng, you..." 

"Mengmeng!" Feng Yumeng demanded. "Everyone close to me calls me Mengmeng." 

"God, I'm going to regret this foolish decision of mine in the future."

"But I don't care..."

"Even if you're evil, at the very least, you're my villain!"