The s.p.a.cious white room turned less noisy with the absence of the leaders on the long table. Dong Lan stayed behind and even instructed his personal guards and servants to not bother him. He then stared at the patterns on the table as he sunk into deep contemplation.Earlier, he clearly saw Mohan and remembered that most of the latest predictions revolved around this person. However, right now, this son of fate was not what was on his mind.
A minute later, he willed for a deck of cards to materialize before him, and then he picked up one. A bright gleam flashed through his eyes when he finally remembered what he had forgotten to tell Jiang Li.
"That kid Mohan is with him. Should I just make him relay the message?"
Once again, he was lost in his thoughts.
However, in the end, he laughingly shook his head and berated himself from overly being concerned about his frenemy"s imminent return to his original world.
"Forget it. I would only waste time being nice to someone insane and ungrateful." Afterward, he parted from the high-back chair and walked towards the vast office connected to the meeting room by a short corridor.
"I wish to relay something to Marquis Wa." Upon entering his private s.p.a.ce, a priest-servant approached and bowed. He waved his hand at him.
The priest also serving as his secretary raised his head. "Your Holiness, are you perhaps referring to the n.o.ble clan claiming themselves as descendants of Nuwa, or the newly enn.o.bled landless Marquis from Hill Tribe?"
"The Nuwa descendants. There are people clamoring for the rescue of the captured the high n.o.bles, right? I want the only daughter of the Marquis to form an elite squad and go after Mohan. Please, tell them, that n.o.ble youth is in my most recent prediction. He will be very important for the whole race in the future."
If Jiang Li had heard what the Pontiff just said, he would have laughed madly, finding Dong Lan more annoying to the eyes. This person actually thought of sending the female lead after him. A few minutes ago, why didn"t this Pontiff just think of asking for Mohan to be returned to them?
"I understand. It would be the Marquis" honor to receive Your Holiness" high regard." The attending priest said, for he interpreted it as the favor of the Holy Temple"s leader.
"Go now. It would be more believable if you go to explain it to them in my stead. After all, our n.o.bles are still a prideful bunch."
Time pa.s.sed. Dong Lan was left on his own again. He sat down to look through the paperworks.
One time, he got tempted again to message Jiang Li through Mohan but then a couple of moments later, he laughed to himself and said,
"Alright. I should really not meddle anymore. Anyway, after several lifetimes, it"s impossible that he hasn"t realized yet that the world he called his original world should not be his real place of origin."
As he watched the setting sun through the window on his west, the Pontiff softly murmured, "I really want to know why my cards said he should be old as that old hag."
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In the original story, Mohan was captured by humans and then separated from his fellow fae because of a traitor who was actually working for the leader of another squad. The villainess was one of the soldiers who happened to patrol and confront the fae. And it was through the a.s.sistance of a high-ranking commander that they managed to capture the male lead.
However, from the moment w.a.n.g Yu Yan saw the face of the fae squad leader, she had fallen for him. Even she had no idea why her heart suddenly beats for someone, worse, an enemy. Still, despite her head perfectly working, she could not stop herself from wanting to get close to Mohan.
w.a.n.g Yu Yan volunteered to watch the prisoner. It was because of her that Mohan was given accommodations and food that were much better than what war prisoners usually received. She also frequently stayed in the prison, acting like the warden there despite her actual status. It was all to accompany the male lead and talk to him from time to time to ease his boredom.
Unfortunately, the other did not appreciate the small efforts of the villainess. Mohan might be mild-tempered compared to the other proud n.o.bles of his race, but in the end, he was still cut from the same clothe as them. He looked down on humans in his heart and thought that w.a.n.g Yu Yan"s treatment was a given. Because he was from a higher race.
Days pa.s.sed that the relations.h.i.+p between these two continued. If things were to proceed in favor of the girl who was supposed to the heroine, the male fae would have slowly opened up his heart to the beautiful human strategist. Then like what Jiang Li had guessed, their love story would be akin to Rome and Juliet, like star-crossed lovers from opposing races.
Unfortunately, the "plot" was fickle and deemed it better for a female fae to be the true female protagonist. w.a.n.g Yu Yan was not fated to be with Mohan.
On the fae"s side, a team consisting of elites was formed and a fae woman called Nuwa was made the leader of them. Right. That was the name of the girl. She came from the Wa Marquis clan which claimed to be the true descendants of Nuwa, the Empress G.o.ddess of the East who had created humanity, according to "Chinese mythology". However, the female lead was not the G.o.ddess Nuwa"s reincarnation or something. There had just been a time when baby female faes were named by their parents after the G.o.ddess and the Wa Marquisate got angry, so they followed the trend while banning everyone else from using the name.
In any case, Nuwa was one of the people sent to rescue Mohan. The male lead, after all, became important in the eyes of the leaders because he got mentioned in the Pontiff"s prophecy as somebody who would help the whole fae race evade a great calamity soon.
It did not take long for the two leads to meet. Nuwa was the one who found Mohan by making use of her earth ability. Don"t ask how exactly she bested the rescue experts from her team. When Nuwa was about to make her presence known to Mohan, the latter sensed her and signaled her not to make a move since he was still engaged in a philosophical debate with w.a.n.g Yu Yan.
Later, when the female lead freed Mohan, he told her in a grim tone the nefarious plots that humanity came up with to wipe out the fae. The information naturally came from w.a.n.g Yu Yan who got agitated once and had spoken to a colleague some hints about the operation in the presence of Mohan.
Fast-forward to some days later, through the cooperation with Nuwa, Mohan managed to steal a dozen vials of virus that would have ended the fae race.
w.a.n.g Yu Yan"s neglectful sharing of hints of important information to a fae was found out by the higher-ups. To atone for her crime, she volunteered to be sent to the front lines. Yet the soldiers and generals there still got wiped out by the true elites of the fae race despite her efforts to save anyone there. The male lead purposely did not kill her to make her a witness of how her home and fellow humans were destroyed and killed.
In the original storyline, while she did get crazy and died like that, it was more of regret than resentment. Or if she was hating on the fae and Mohan, the resentment against herself was much greater.
If one would a.n.a.lyze her life in detail, it would be seen that while she had harbored affections for the otherworldly good-looking male lead, she did not really do anything else that would have gotten into the way of the female lead.
When Jiang Li first read about her story, he thought, w.a.n.g Yu Yan, at least did not deserve her ending.
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At the same time that the Pontiff ordered for the deployment of an elite team with the female lead as the leader...
The two people who were supposed to have already escaped from the Holy Temple behind a huge fake mountain in the garden belonging to the temple"s leader.
It would be a lie if Jiang Li ever said that he was not put into a bad mood by the news that Zhan Rong was still not born in this world. Yet he was not so unreasonable as to dwell into it despite the looming crises.
"We"re going back to the human territory." He declared.
Mohan was the weaker party and was technically a captive, so he could only maintain his silence. However, his expression fully showed his unwillingness.
Even now, the male lead couldn"t understand what happened. Why was this perv uncle not purified by the Pontiff? Or reduced into a mess of flesh, blood, and bones by the experts on the Pontiff"s side? Was there nothing else he could do but follow this human?
"That superior of mine did not lie, the leaders have all gathered at the Temple. But why did His Holiness stop them from attacking him?" Doubt emerged on his handsome face.
When the fae youth regained his senses, he realized they were not heading towards the location where the jet airplane had been hidden. They were going the opposite way… and the man was leading him to sneak into the private plane of another city mayor.
"… I thought the destination was the human-owned city." The male lead quietly asked himself.
But even though Mohan said it in an almost inaudible voice, Jiang Li was able to hear it clearly.
"Well, I changed my mind. I think it would be fun to tour your territory, first." Hearty laughter then rang, which only died when they officially got into the carrier that would fly them to another fae-owned domed city.
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