Capítulo 1067: Chapter 848: Endgame

Clothing Store.

Ye Jiuyou looked at the row of women’s ready-made clothes, feeling a bit annoyed.

On an impulse, saying I wanted to buy clothes, what are all these things? Do they have higher protection than my Dark Robe? Can they provide spiritual power enhancement? Can they amplify my skills?

Nothing at all, just looking good, what’s the use… Besides, I don’t think my pitch black appearance is ugly, why should I conform to human aesthetics?

What’s more irritating is this Zhao guy, as soon as he came in his eyes kept glancing at the belly bands, showing a very lewd smile. Did you come into a women’s clothing store just to look at belly bands?

God knows Zhao Changhe just remembered the time he went to steal a belly band for Cui Yuanyang, thinking of the past wild Worldly Society compared to now, it was a different feeling.

That smile was clearly nostalgia, but in Ye Jiuyou’s eyes, it only looked lewd…

“Zhao!” Ye Jiuyou let out a furious roar from her Dantian: “Did you come to pick clothes or to visit a brothel? What are you looking at?”

“Huh?” Zhao Changhe realized, the shop assistants and other women shopping were looking at him with extreme disdain. Zhao Changhe kept a straight face, feigning confusion as he scratched his head and asked: “You never wore these things… and you’re strict about daily matters, I’ve never gone out to mess around, so I’ve never seen these things, just curious… What are these?”

One sentence softened their gazes by seven or eight degrees: “What a world-class good man…”

Ye Jiuyou was so mad she could spit blood: “Don’t believe his nonsense!”

Zhao Changhe innocently said: “Have you worn them?”

“Of course not!”

“Well, there you go.” Zhao Changhe swiftly hugged her shoulder and pushed her towards the clothes: “Darling, don’t be mad, I won’t look anymore, okay? Come, come, let’s look at dresses.”

The surrounding girls all let out a long “Oh~” sound, it seems they really are a couple. This couple is quite conservative, the man hasn’t gone out to play, and the girl hasn’t even worn a belly band… Due to the long-term trade with the Northern Hu and Western Regions, Chang’an is relatively open, such conservative couples are rare…

Ye Jiuyou realized, turned and shouted to everyone: “I’m not his wife…”

Zhao Changhe quickly interrupted: “Indeed, we’re just engaged, which is about the same…”

“Engaged…” Someone suddenly realized: “No wonder that man looks familiar, he seems to be Zhao Changhe!”

Immediately someone reacted: “Yes, yes, see that scar… that demeanor, it must be Zhao Changhe.”

“I’ve heard that Zhao Changhe is engaged to the Li family’s young lady… since he’s shopping in Chang’an with his fiancée, that girl must be the Li family’s lady, no wonder she’s so poised…”

“No wonder King Zhao dares to swagger into Chang’an, feasting with the Li family lady getting closer, he’s here shopping for bride gifts?”

“So the engagement is real, they do look quite loving, seems like they’ve lived together for a while…”

In Chang’an, there’s none of that pre-wedding no-seeing rule like with Cui family, it’s quite normal for engaged couples to buy clothes and jewelry, though pre-wedding cohabitation might draw criticism, but when it’s King Zhao and Miss Li, no one dares to meddle. Instead, it just verifies the rumored engagement, creating an image of a loving couple.

Ye Jiuyou was dumbfounded.

She just realized why this guy brought her to Chang’an, it couldn’t have had this effect in any other city.

Now that her identity spread, either Ye Jiuyou abandons the Li family identity and returns to the Abyss as a Demon God, or if she wants to use the Li family identity to secure Guanglong, this engagement becomes a deadly charm, and Guanglong would indeed become her dowry by consensus, no longer able to disrupt the Divine Continent.

At the time she subconsciously thought this engagement wasn’t useless on the surface, consequences would eventually arise. Sure enough in front of someone like Zhao Changhe who has started manipulating causality, things stirred up.

Standing in front of a row of clothes, Ye Jiuyou looked at them, eyes cold: “So this is the reason you brought me on a shopping trip to Chang’an, is it? Think I can’t break your schemes?”

Zhao Changhe candidly admitted: “Choosing to come to Chang’an does have some of that meaning, but this causality wasn’t my manipulation… before coming here, I thought if recognized, then recognized, if not, then not, leaving it up to fate. I didn’t hint my identity to anyone, on the contrary, you shouted my name at the cotton candy stall, luckily no one noticed then.”

“With such good results, you think I’ll believe you weren’t intentional?”

“Indeed not… if intentional, I wouldn’t choose this timing to reveal.”

“Why not?”

“Because I truly wanted to see you in beautiful clothes… now you probably wouldn’t want to, it’s really a pity.” Zhao Changhe sighed: “Had I known I wouldn’t have joked, who knew one careless joke would expose my identity, seems I underestimated my own national profile.”

Even though being top on the Heavenly List is famous, many people cosplay as Zhao Changhe and Yue Hongling, who knew in this era without photos or internet it’d be recognized so easily, and not bringing my iconic broadsword today…

Ye Jiuyou had a peculiar expression: “You have so many big things to do, why care about trivial matters like changing clothes?” 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

“So you think Guanglong’s situation is the big matter, deserving my focus?”

“Isn’t it?”

Zhao Changhe laughed: “I thought everyone knew, in my eyes, kingdom and beauty can’t be compared. Besides, if we can stall you, Guanglong’s fall is just a snap, it’s not worth scheming over trivial matters like this?”