Zhao Tianya looked at Ye Fan, and her tone softened again. Finally, she had to admit in her heart that the feeling of time moving slowly before was immensely oppressive. If she lived in such an environment for tens of thousands of years, her emotions would surely collapse.

Actually, Ye Fan didn’t say one point: what Zhao Tianya saw was just a special environment. In reality, within the slow space Zhao Tianya was in, she couldn’t see the situation outside. In other words, the true psychological pressure she experienced was not the suffocation brought about by observing the external delay, nor the discomfort of everything moving in slow motion, but the long-term loneliness and the unbearable marks of time.

"Tianya, if you can understand my plight now, would you please come back with me? Let’s find that feeling we once had, instead of continuing to argue like this. I know you have a lot of thoughts inside, but we can understand each other, you know this, many things we haven’t actually gone through, and the feeling between us will never change. You love me, I love you, isn’t that enough? Why worry about what I keep hidden in my heart for you? No matter what I do, it’s all to protect you, you should understand this!"

Ye Fan spoke very gently, like sweet words coming from a lover’s eyes, making Zhao Tianya not resist him internally, but she knew one thing, she still had reservations about Ye Fan, and love alone couldn’t dissolve everything.

"Turn your back, you’re being extremely disrespectful to me right now, please leave, I want to get dressed, we can talk later, but you are invading me right now. As for your proposal to increase my cultivation level, I don’t accept it for now, you should go raise someone else’s!" Zhao Tianya still carried some coldness towards Ye Fan, but most of the iceberg inside her began to melt, and she no longer held such stubbornness towards Ye Fan.

Ye Fan turned his back as instructed, even closing his eyes, and said: "A cultivator should be able to dress themselves without my help, it can be done quickly. After you’re done, let’s go meet Aunt Rong. I have many things to discuss with both of you, and I want to help both of you improve at once. If you don’t accept, I won’t leave!"

"Say whatever you want, if you dare to force me, I will commit suicide to show you, do you believe it?" Zhao Tianya found that nothing else could threaten Ye Fan, seeming to only use the most direct method — threatening with her own life — to make him slightly restrained.

Ye Fan said: "Threatening me with those words is meaningless, actually it’s very difficult to commit suicide now, because I will monitor your every move at all times. If you continue with this threat, I will increase the monitoring on you, and I know this isn’t the outcome you wish to see?"

"Ye Fan, why do you seem like a demon now, monitoring everything I do? You don’t have to be like this, and I won’t let you, don’t you think your control is too strong? I have no freedom, every move of mine is under your watch, is it really fair to me? I feel like I’m in prison, and even prisoners have a sentence, but I have no sentence in this cage facing a demon, endlessly." Zhao Tianya’s expression showed she was very weary, wanting to say something but feeling saying anything was futile.

Ye Fan said: "Tianya, you really don’t need to resent me. I’m protecting you now, not monitoring you. You must understand that before the heavenly tribulation occurs, everything is uncontrollable. After I’ve dealt with everything, I’ll help you once more."

"What are you helping me with? I don’t want you to help me with anything, life is fine now, Ye Fan, I want to tell you, I hope you don’t disturb my life. Maybe you think this is protection for me, but I think encountering danger is better than being controlled by you. The greatest respect you can give me is to let me return to Earth. I would be endlessly grateful, otherwise, we can’t even have the fundamental friendship!" Zhao Tianya still wouldn’t explain further to Ye Fan.

Meanwhile, she had also dressed, and in front of Ye Fan, her casual attire appeared quite enticing, prompting Ye Fan to daydream about her a bit.

The right places were plump, the right places were slim, and Ye Fan was well aware of the tactile sensation, but no matter how much he liked the owner of this body, he had no alternative, unless he intended to act rashly, which would be a greater disrespect to the girl.

He had not reached the point of losing reason over a woman.

"Let’s go!" Ye Fan simply said, and instantly took Zhao Tianya away from the spot, arriving at the bamboo residence where Tantai Wanrong lived.

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Tantai Wanrong didn’t expect Ye Fan and Zhao Tianya to come over. When she saw them in front of her, she couldn’t help but show some surprise and said: "Is it you guys? Ye Fan, what are you and Tianya here for? Anyone unaware would be scared to death by you!"

Ye Fan said: "Aunt Rong, I wanted to come over and discuss some matters with you!"

"No discussion needed!" Zhao Tianya said angrily, "Ye Fan is becoming increasingly domineering, earlier while I was resting, he directly intruded beside me, he’s... simply taking things lightly, Ye Fan is acting more and more without restraint!"

Tantai Wanrong looked at Ye Fan, her expression carrying a bit of reproach, and said: "Ye Fan, sometimes you need to understand Tianya more, she still has resentment towards you. Even if you can suppress her with enough power, you shouldn’t do this. You’re a man, you need to yield to her, you can’t always be so forceful, not giving us any private space!"

As someone also "imprisoned" by Ye Fan in the second secret realm, Tantai Wanrong could very much understand Zhao Tianya’s position, her tone towards Ye Fan was full of blame, not entirely siding with him, which made Zhao Tianya feel somewhat relieved. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Aunt Rong, I’m accommodating her in many ways, but is she accommodating me?" Ye Fan said angrily, "Do you mean I should accommodate her in everything, let her return to Earth and risk herself?"

"This is wrong of you, Tianya!" Tantai Wanrong seemed to favor the reason rather than the relationship, directly blaming Zhao Tianya, "Ye Fan keeping you here might seem disrespectful, but it’s actually for your benefit, after all, it’s protecting your safety. Compared to your life safety, anything else isn’t very important, is it? You should understand Ye Fan more!"