Infinite Realms: From Resident Evil and Beyond

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　　But what she didn't know was that Shen Ye was not angry, and those words just now were just to tease her. What Shen Ye didn't expect was that her reaction would be so big.

　　Looking at the empress who looked so pitiful and acted like a daughter, Shen Ye didn't dare to continue talking. He thought that if he said a few more words, she would probably cry in front of him.

　　"Okay, okay, I'm not angry. Don't show that expression. Be careful not to be seen by your subordinates, which will weaken your dignity." Shen Ye comforted the empress by gently pinching her palm.

　　"Hmm!" The empress nodded and then frowned. But when she saw Shen Ye was still looking at her, she softened after a while. She knew that when she frowned, her look of keeping strangers away was very scary. Every time her subordinates saw her with a frown, they didn't even dare to breathe. She didn't want to scare her lover, even if he was not afraid at all.

　　Trying to soften her expression, the empress said softly, "Shen Lang, since you must go to Zhongnan Mountain, I will go with you. Zhongnan Mountain is very close to Fengxiang. I have been there several times and I am very familiar with the roads there."

　　"Need not."

　　This time, Shen Ye still refused the empress. Anyway, this trip to the Cangbing Valley was only a part of Yuan Tiangang's plan. He could not reach it at all and had to return to Jianlu in Yuzhou.

　　But the empress didn't know that when she saw Shen Ye refused to even go with her, she began to think that he was still angry. A mist immediately appeared in her beautiful eyes, and she said weakly: "Do you hate me?"

　　Shen Ye was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized that the girl was probably overthinking it, so he explained helplessly: "How could I hate you."

　　The empress's voice was very aggrieved: "Then why didn't you come back to Fengxiang with me, and why didn't you allow me to go with you?"

　　"Uh..." Shen Ye scratched his head, suddenly not knowing what to say, but seeing the empress's aggrieved look, he had no choice but to say it straight away.

　　"Because this trip to Cangbing Valley is just a part of someone's plan. In the end, we still have to go back to Yuzhou. Maybe it will only take one or two days. Besides, you have been traveling thousands of miles from Fengxiang these days, and I hope you can take a good rest for a while and take good care of your body, instead of wasting your energy and traveling a long way with me."

　　"It's okay. I'm not tired of riding in the car."

　　The empress definitely forgot what she said to Shen Ye when she got up in the morning, and shook her head indifferently.

　　Then she asked curiously, "Shen Lang, you just said that this trip to Cangbing Valley was part of someone's plan? Who is that someone?"

　　Shen Ye sighed: "Who else could it be? You just mentioned him, the old immortal you mentioned."

　　The empress immediately exclaimed in a low voice: "Buliangshuai?"

　　"It's him." Shen Ye nodded.

　　"But why is he doing this? What is his plan?" the empress asked puzzledly. She felt that Shen Ye should know the reason.

　　But this time Shen Ye did not say it directly, but said lightly: "He wants Li Xingyun to do something that is almost impossible to accomplish."

　　"It's almost impossible to accomplish? Is there anything in the world that the Buliangshuai can't do?"

　　The empress was surprised. As the saying goes, a man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree. Although she called the Buliangshuai, the Immortal behind his back, she still admired such a person who could dominate the world.

　　However, the empress was naturally a smart woman, having been able to rule the State of Qi for more than ten years and manage it well. She immediately thought of a possibility.

　　"He wants this descendant of Li Tang to restore his country?" she asked, trying to lower her voice.

　　"Smart." Shen Ye nodded approvingly.

　　"No wonder you said it was an almost impossible task. Although he is a direct descendant of the Li Tang Dynasty, he has neither soldiers nor territory. How can he restore his country? Just thinking about it, you will know how difficult this road is."

　　The empress said, and glanced at Li Xingyun again, with sympathy in her eyes, as if she recalled her helplessness when she took over Qi State. Then she sighed: "He is a pitiful man."

　　"Yes, he is a poor man." Shen Ye also sighed.

　　However, although she felt very sympathetic about Li Xingyun's life experience, the empress only sighed slightly, then retracted her gaze and fell on Shen Ye again.

　　"Shen Ye, I have a question..." she said hesitantly.

　　"Why would I know these things?"

　　Shen Ye knew she would ask this, and looked at her with a smile.

　　"Yeah." The empress nodded repeatedly.

　　"Then do you want to know?" Shen Ye asked back.

　　"Of course."

　　The empress continued to nod, her eyes full of curiosity, but Shen Ye's next words made her unable to help but pinch the palm of his hand with her fingertips.

　　"No comment, it's a secret."

　　"You can't even tell me?" The empress looked dissatisfied.

　　"The main reason is that I can't tell you now." Shen Ye was also helpless, and then added: "And you will know the reason later."

　　"I don't want to wait until later, I want to know now!" Women are more curious than cats. Even women like the empress are no exception. In order to know the reason, even her tone is a little bit cute.

　　But Shen Ye's next sentence made her dare not ask any more questions.

　　"Do you think we have no future?" Shen Ye snorted.

　　"No, no...ah, no, yes, yes." The empress pinched his palm and said flatteringly, "I won't ask anymore in the future."

　　"Good girl!" Shen Ye nodded with satisfaction, thinking to himself that he was getting better and better at handling things... or rather, handling women.

　　Then he thought sadly, as expected, people change. I used to be such an honest person, but now...

　　Just as he was thinking this, a sudden noise interrupted his train of thought.

　　He looked in the direction of the noise with some dissatisfaction, and was stunned for a moment, because the noise actually came from Li Xingyun's table.

　　After taking a closer look, he was stunned again, then the corner of his mouth twitched and he muttered: "When did this guy jump out?"

　　In his sight, in addition to Lu Linxuan, Ji Ruxue and Zhang Zifan, there was another seductively dressed "man" at Li Xingyun's table. At this time, this "man" was pestering Li Xingyun and kept sticking to him.

　　This person is none other than Shangguan Yunque, one of the thirty-six captains of the Buliangren.

　　The empress naturally noticed the movement over there, looked over curiously, and then narrowed her eyes: "What are they...doing?"

　　In this era, there are no fujoshi who support gay couples. When she sees a seductively dressed man sticking to another man, she just finds it offensive.

　　"So, Li Xingyun is a poor man, otherwise he wouldn't have encountered such a thing." Shen Ye sighed, but had no intention of going over to help Old Li out. After all, this was also a unique experience in Old Li's life growth.

　　"Let him worry about his own headache." He added, with a sly smile on his face.

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　　After finishing breakfast with the empress, Shen Ye got up and returned to Li Xingyun's table. As soon as he left, the empress ordered her men to pack up and prepare to set off.

　　Although Shen Ye repeatedly told her that she didn't need to go with him, she still insisted on following him, and in the end Shen Ye had no choice but to go along with her.

　　The seats in the inn were long benches. Perhaps because Ji Ruxue and Lu Linxuan didn't get along, or perhaps it was a special seat reserved for him, anyway, the middle was empty. As soon as he returned to Li Xingyun's table, Shen Ye sat directly between the two women, not caring about the eyes of others. He hugged one of them with one hand, then looked at Li Xingyun who looked helpless, and asked with a smile: "Brother Li, this... uh, is this brother your friend? Would you like to introduce him to me?"

　　Shangguan Yunque has a man's body but a woman's heart, it's really hard to describe him.

　　Seeing Ji Ruxue and Lu Linxuan being hugged by Shen Ye and leaning against his arms, Li Xingyun was extremely envious. He then pushed away Shangguan Yunque who insisted on sticking to him and said with a sad face, "Brother Shen, he is not my friend. I don't know him."

　　Shangguan Yunque said dissatisfiedly: "I told you my name when I arrived, how can you say you don't know me? Hello, my name is Shangguan Yunque, and we are not friends, but lovers. I fell in love with him at first sight."

　　Shangguan Yunque said the following words to Shen Ye in a delicate tone.

　　Although he was mentally prepared, Shen Ye couldn't help but shiver when he heard these words and saw Shangguan Yunque's shy expression. He quickly looked to both sides, using Ji Ruxue and Lu Linxuan's beautiful faces to drive away the discomfort in his heart.

　　After looking at the two of them for a few times, Shen Ye felt much better. He then joked to Li Xingyun, "Lover? Brother Li is so lucky. Someone throws themselves into his arms when you have breakfast."

　　"I'm going to give you this blessing, do you want it?" Li Xingyun glanced at him unhappily, and seeing Ji Ruxue and his junior sister nestled in his arms, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that God is so unfair, the same people have different destinies!

　　Just as he was sighing, Shangguan Yunque came up to him again, grabbed his hand and put it on his waist, as if he wanted to imitate the posture of Shen Ye with Ji Ruxue and Lu Linxuan.

　　"Damn it, you damn shemale, I've tolerated you for so long." Li Xingyun's scalp numbed by his action. He stood up and knocked him to the ground with a punch, and then punched and kicked him.

　　But what no one expected was that Shangguan Yunque, who was beaten up, was not angry at all. Instead, he lay on the ground and said to Li Xingyun with a happy face: "You are so violent. I like it."

　　So, Li Xingyun couldn't help but kick him a few times, and seemed to feel unsatisfied, so he shouted to Lu Linxuan: "Junior sister, where is your sword? Give it to me, I can't bear it if I don't stab him a few times."

　　"Isn't that bad?"

　　Although she said so, as a junior sister, she still sided with her senior brother. Lu Linxuan picked up the sword beside her and was about to hand it to Li Xingyun.

　　However, just as Li Xingyun took the sword and hesitated whether to really hit Shangguan Yunque a few times, Miaocheng Tian came over. She first looked at Shangguan Yunque lying on the ground curiously, with a strange look in her eyes, and then said to everyone: "The Empress sent me to tell you that the carriage is ready. Shall we set off?"

　　In fact, she said this to Shen Ye, but because she couldn't call him son-in-law in front of everyone, she just said it to everyone.

　　"You mean... the Empress wants to travel with us?" Zhang Zifan was the first to react when he heard Miao Chengtian's words.

　　Miaocheng Tian ignored him and just looked at Shen Ye, waiting for him to speak.

　　"Let her wait a moment, we'll leave right away." Shen Ye waved his hand casually.

　　At this moment, Shangguan Yunque, who was lying on the ground, suddenly jumped up and shouted at Miaocheng Tian in surprise, "Empress? Are you from Huanyinfang?"

　　When he entered the inn, he had already noticed that there were surprisingly many women in the courtyard, but he only had Li Xingyun in his eyes at the time and did not think much about it. Now that he heard that even the empress was there, you can imagine how shocked he was.

　　Immediately, he thought of a possibility and shouted again: "You came here from Huanyinfang, do you have any ideas about my Xingyun?"

　　But just as he finished speaking, a cold female voice sounded from behind him: "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in him."

　　Shangguan Yunque immediately turned around and saw a beautiful woman in palace dress who appeared behind him. It was the empress who took the time to change back into women's clothes.

　　However, perhaps because time was tight, the empress did not wear a headdress. Her long black hair was tied up with only a hairpin. Although simple, it made her look a little more cold and a little less noble.

　　Even though he was a girl and didn't like women, Shangguan Yunque was distracted for a moment when he saw the empress dressed like this. But he came to his senses immediately and said to the empress with disdain, "Since you said you are not interested, why did you make such a fuss to follow my Xingyun? Humph, you are a hypocritical woman."

　　However, just as he said the three words "stinky woman", his eyes suddenly blurred and Shen Ye appeared in front of him.

　　Shangguan Yunque was startled when he saw Shen Ye appear in front of him, and said in surprise: "You..."

　　But before he could finish his words, Shen Ye slapped him in the face.

　　Although Shangguan Yunque was a master of the Intermediate Heaven level and also a leader among the Intermediate Heaven, he was like a child in front of Shen Ye and had no time to react.

　　Then, there was a snap.

　　Shangguan Yunque flew out like a spinning top, smashing a table, and was unable to get up for a long time.

　　"You're such a bad mouth!" Shen Ye shook his arms. Although he knew that Shangguan Yunque was not a bad person and was an important supporting role with more scenes in the later part, he couldn't stand hearing him calling the empress a stinky woman.

　　The empress standing by felt a warm feeling in her heart when she saw this. She knew why he made his move. If there weren't so many outsiders around, she would have thrown herself into his arms.

　　However, when Shen Ye made this move, Li Xingyun and others seemed to realize something, especially Lu Linxuan. She glanced at the empress intentionally or unintentionally, and seeing that there was a bit of strangeness in her eyes when she looked at Shen Ye, she immediately became alert.

　　"Could it be that she also..."

　　She couldn't help biting her lips hard, and then she thought that the entire Huanyinfang seemed to be full of women. Suddenly, she felt a sense of crisis in her heart.