A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1555

Sometimes, Tang Yun wondered if it was all worth it. Was having the child worth abandoning her principles and her dignity? They were not meant to be, so why had she allowed the fruit of their cursed relationship to be born?

Look at the miserable state that she had landed herself in. She deserved it though.

Yet, every time hate threatened to overwhelm Tang Yun's heart, she would remember the innocent look on her child's face.

She would remember his fair, rosy cheeks, his big and sparkling, starlit eyes and his perfect, guileless smile.

Her heart had melted when her eyes had first landed on that young child.

She had felt that everything that she had done had been worth it.

She supposed that every woman had within herself a strong capacity to love one's own child.

Even the distant and cold sect leader of the Chu Sect was no exception.

The hardship that a woman suffered during the nine months of pregnancy and the agony that she endured during childbirth led to the inevitability of a mother's intense and deep love for her child.

It was an inevitability that even Tang Yun couldn't escape!

But it didn't matter how much she loved her child.

Because of whom she was, she couldn't possibly rear the child herself.

She was the sect leader of the Chu Sect and the most powerful martial artist on the Sky Ranking. She was akin to the empress of the martial arts circle. How could she bear a baby for a man and be a mother to a child?

If news of this were to spread, she would ruin both her reputation and the reputation of Chu Sect.

Chu Sect would become a laughing stock.

She would have to endure the terrible looks from everyone. The elders of Chu Sect probably wouldn't let Tang Yun off. They would hunt down her child and kill him. Then, they would go after her child's father. The most powerful sect in the world couldn't allow such a stain on their reputation!

The only way to salvage their reputation would be to kill everyone involved in the affair!

The child would not stand a chance of surviving if she kept him with her.

After weighing her options, she had secretly made her way to Jiangdong so that she could place the baby in the Ye family's care after she had given birth to him. Having handed the baby to the Ye family, she would then sneak away unnoticed.

She could not have expected the birth of that tiny little creature to cause such a huge commotion and bring so much destruction to Ye Fan's hometown. She had not expected it to drain her completely as well. The creation of a new life was indeed a feat.

Tang Yun might stand at the pinnacle of strength and power, but childbirth had still been a dangerous and almost deadly experience.

She stood outside the mansion and stared in the direction where Jingzhou was.

After a long time, she finally blinked away the beads of glittering tears in her eyes furiously.

The helplessness and weakness that she had shown on her face vanished without a trace.

In their place was the cool and intimidating stare of a powerful martial artist.

"Ye Fan, we're done. I owed you for what I did to you in the rainforest and now I've repaid it in full. I owe you nothing now. Let us never meet each other again. If we do, our blades will cross and one of us shall die."

The harsh wintry winds stirred dust and dirt into the air.

Tang Yun's lovely form stood alone beneath the night sky.

Her eyes were cold and devoid of emotion.

The terrifying and powerful sect leader of Chu Sect had returned.

Honestly, Tang Yun had held onto the last shred of love for Ye Fan before she had met him.

He had been the first and only man whom she had gotten intimate with.

He had been the only person who had risked his life to guard and protect her.

Tang Yun had been alone all her life.

Her hands were stained with the blood of countless dead men and women. Innumerable followers worshipped the ground that she walked on.

But no one had ever risked everything to treat her with such kindness like Ye Fan had.

Sometimes, that was all it took to win a woman's love.

You simply had to truly care for her. That was enough.

It was enough for powerful people like Tang Yun, who stood at the pinnacle of strength and power and had spent her life with nothing but solitude and the cold by her side. The slightest bit of warm would melt their cold hardened hearts.

What Ye Fan had given Tang Yun hadn't been slight or little at all.

Perhaps Tang Yun had recklessly gone ahead with the birth of Ye Fan's child because of the kindness that Ye Fan had shown her and the emotions that he had roused inside her.

But it all ended here.

The final remnants of tenderness that Tang Yun had harbored for Ye Fan had vanished the moment when he had spoken viciously to her and said that he never wanted to see her again, and when he had turned away and left her alone.

But she was fine with that.

Nothing would come out of their relationship anyway.

To leave and to forget the other might be the best way to end things between them.

She threw a final glance in the direction in which the young man had left before turning her eyes away.

She shifted her foot and got ready to leave.

A sudden deafening thunder erupted in the

air.

It was followed by a flurry of punches that descended from the heavens like shooting stars.

They shot straight at Tang Yun!

Despite her severely weakened state, Tang Yun was still an immensely powerful martial artist. Her keen senses immediately told her where the attacks would land.

With a few swift steps, she shifted to the side.

The blows missed and hit the ground with a series of deafening thuds, sending the heavens shaking and the ground cracking.

The impact of the attack sent dust and dirt flying into the air and tore the clouds into tattered ribbons.

A huge crater a few dozen meters deep appeared where Tang Yun had been standing moments ago.

One could almost imagine the power behind the punch that had caused that crater.

Tang Yun frowned. She turned towards the direction from which the punches had come from and stared with her cold eyes.

"They've come sooner than I expected."

Four figures appeared in the distance as soon as she had spoken.

One of them had a huge hammer hanging from his waist and another a sword on his back. The third was a towering giant and the fourth a dashing figure with white robes fluttering in the wind. Despair flickered across Tang Yun's eyes when they fell upon the four men.

You couldn't outrun destiny.

The four supreme grandmasters of War God Castle had gathered.

Tang Yun wouldn't have dared to underestimate them when she had been at the height of her power. She was no in position to do so now.

The four men leaped into the air and became a blur of shadows as they sped a thousand meters to reappear right before Tang Yun a second later.

The four grandmasters stood around Tang Yun in a circle, one in front of her and the other behind, the third to her left and the fourth to her right. She was thoroughly surrounded.

They were akin to four sharp blades pointed directly at her chest, ready to pierce right through her chest should she make a single move.

"I knew it. It was you, Tang Yun, the sect leader of the Chu Sect! You're probably the only woman in the martial arts circle who dare go on a killing spree in China and massacre a hundred thousand men and women!" The voice of the King of Fighters, Mo Gu-Cheng, shattered the short-lived silence and filled the air like thunder.

He had suspected that it was Tang Yun after Tang Hao had shared his brief fight with a female supreme grandmaster.

But Tang Yun had had a veil over her face during that fight, so Tang Hao had not recognized her.

Now, her veil was gone and her face visible to all. Mo Gu-Cheng and the others had recognized her immediately.

"Sect Leader Tang, don't you think that you've gone too far? The Chinese martial arts circle has kept its distance from Chu Sect for many years. Yet, you've trespassed onto Chinese soil and killed our people. You massacred more than a hundred thousand innocent men and women of Jiangdong. You drenched the soil of Jiangdong with the blood of our people and brought calamity upon our nation. Do you expect us, the pillars of the nation, to let you get away with what you've done?" Sword Saint stared at the young woman before him with cold rage burning in his eyes while his sword gleamed dangerously on his back.