Chapter 15: If You Want to Search, Then Go Ahead

“Miaoran, are you alright?”
Ye Junlin hurriedly helped Ye Miaoran to her feet, his voice filled with concern.
“Brother Junlin, you? How did you get out?”
“I’m fine, really, I’m alright.”
Ye Miaoran’s delicate brows were tightly furrowed as she spoke, enduring the pain on her cheek with visible effort.
Ye Junlin watched her wince with every word, her face contorted in pain. His gaze instantly shifted to Ye Muchen and Ye Jingyue.
“Ye Muchen, Ye Jingyue, what are you doing here?”
“What is the meaning of this?”
Ye Junlin’s face was dark with anger as he barked at them.
“Heh, Ye Junlin, you useless wretch, what do you mean? There’s nothing much to it.”
“Where’s Haoyu? My brother Ye Haoyu clearly came to see you. What have you done with him?”
Ye Muchen looked at Ye Junlin with venom in his eyes.
At those words, Ye Junlin’s eyes narrowed.
“Ye Muchen, you have the nerve to mention Ye Haoyu to me? Your brother Ye Haoyu left my brother Ye Chuan in such a state, and I haven’t even come to settle the score with you yet.”
“And now you dare to ask me about Ye Haoyu?”
“Ye Haoyu’s legs are his own, not mine. How would I know where he’s gone?”
“Do you think I, Ye Junlin, ate him or something?”
Suppressing his anger, Ye Junlin let out a cold snort in Ye Muchen’s direction, his gaze fixed coldly on both Ye Muchen and Ye Jingyue as he spoke.
“Hmph, Ye Junlin, your words are empty. How do we know you, this coward, didn’t use some vile scheme to harm Ye Haoyu?”
“We’ve already searched your entire courtyard, only your room remains.”
“Perhaps Ye Haoyu is hidden there.”
This time, it was Ye Jingyue who spoke, her words laced with scorn and sarcasm.
“Heh, Ye Jingyue, what right do you have to judge me?”

“I, Ye Junlin, have lived my life with integrity, walking a righteous path. If you wish to search, go ahead.”
Recalling the injuries Ye Jingyue had inflicted upon him, Ye Junlin’s face grew colder, his tone ever more grim.
Hearing this, Ye Muchen and Ye Jingyue immediately rushed into Ye Junlin’s room.
After a bout of frantic searching—
“Nothing? How could there be nothing?”
“What is Haoyu doing? Didn’t he agree to come with us to the Danbao Pavilion after dealing with Ye Chuan?”
“That guy actually snuck off without telling us?”
Failing to find him, both Ye Muchen and Ye Jingyue looked sour-faced as they emerged from Ye Junlin’s room.
“Well, Ye Muchen, Ye Jingyue, did you find him?”
Seeing their expressions, Ye Junlin let out a cold laugh.
“Heh, Ye Junlin, don’t get cocky. You’re too pathetic to kill Ye Haoyu anyway.”
“Ye Junlin, enjoy your last days. At the family competition in just over twenty days—”
“I, Ye Jingyue, will make sure to take your head.”
Coming to stand beside Ye Junlin, Ye Jingyue slapped him hard on the cheek, her tone venomous.
“Ye Jingyue, rest assured, at the family competition, the one to lose their head will not be me, but you.”
“Oh? Ye Junlin, at a time like this, do you really believe you can surpass me in just over twenty days?”
“Isn’t that wishful thinking?”
“To tell you the truth, the Danbao Pavilion just acquired a Dragon Scale Herb today.”
“With this Dragon Scale Herb, I, Ye Jingyue, am certain to become a Spirit Gathering realm expert.”
“Ye Junlin, have you ever heard the saying: ‘Beneath the Spirit Gathering realm, all are ants.’”
“So Ye Junlin, no matter how you struggle, you’re nothing but an ant.”
Her voice, full of mockery and disdain, echoed in Ye Junlin’s ears.
With that, Ye Jingyue and Ye Muchen swaggered out of Ye Junlin’s little courtyard.

“Crack crack crack—”
Ye Junlin watched their retreating figures disappear from view, his fists clenched so tightly his knuckles cracked.
“Hmph, Ye Jingyue, what do you have to be so proud of?”
“At the family competition in just over twenty days, I will defeat you.”
Ye Junlin snorted coldly, then strode out of the small courtyard.
“Brother, where are you going?”
Seeing him about to leave, Ye Xiaoya called out anxiously.
“Xiaoya, I’m planning to visit the Danbao Pavilion.”
“Brother Junlin, the Danbao Pavilion? Didn’t Ye Jingyue say she’s heading there too? Why are you going?”
Ye Chuan’s sister, Ye Miaoran, asked curiously.
“Brother, I want to go too. Miaoran and I haven’t gone out to play in a long time.”
“I want to go out with you.”
Ye Xiaoya clung to Ye Junlin’s arm, her voice sweet and pleading.
“Yes, Brother Junlin, I want to go out too,” Miaoran chimed in, shaking his other arm.
“Sigh, alright, but listen—”
“If you come with me, you must behave and not cause any trouble, understood?”
Faced with the hopeful eyes of these two adorable girls, Ye Junlin could only sigh helplessly and gently remind them.
“Yay, hooray!”
“Let’s go, time for an outing!”