Chapter 1839 Arrogance

Chapter 1839 Arrogance

1839 Arrogance

Ryu could never mistake the voice. And even if he did, he would never forget the feeling it could give him. There was just one person who was capable of this. It was the second woman he had ever loved in this life and the woman the Heavens had decided was his perfect match. His Life Partner, the love of his life.

Ailsa Tatsuya.

The shudder that went through Ryu's soul made him snap awake. In fact, even his Dao Heart stopped its complete rampage and looked into the skies, clearly pulled by the same matters.

His Dao Heart was more pulled by the influence of the Heavens than even he was. There was simply no escaping this... its feelings for Ailsa were even more primal and real than Ryu's own. In fact, had it been in control of his body back when he first met Ailsa, they would have never gotten off to that slow start at all.

However, after hearing the voice once, Ryu felt that it had to be a trick of the mind. There were too many things that didn't make any sense.

If Ailsa could sense him enough to find him here, how could he not sense her? This matter didn't have anything to do with cultivation. She was his wife, how could he not find her location based on their souls alone?

"Ryu!"

The voice echoed again, and this time, it clapped like thunder. He could sense that his wife was actually very angry right now, even exasperated. If she could really sense him, she could likely see through all his thoughts right now.

How could she be happy?

His current pathetic state wasn't the man she had fallen in love with. He had always had his flaws, but it seemed that maybe part of his charm was ignoring them.

Unfortunately, he simply couldn't ignore them now. It felt like the weight of the world was suffocating him, and there was nothing that he could do about it.

At that moment, he felt like an image was seared into his very soul. It was the glaring crimson eyes of a very pissed-off Faerie.

Even without her saying anything more than his name and showing him this pair of eyes, he could imagine what she was thinking. She was basically his other half, and maybe had he been a woman, he would have precisely been a copy and paste of her.

She didn't seem arrogant, but that was only because her sharpness was blunted by being by Ryu's side. However, until now, she had been away from him for trillions of years. That sharpness had long since returned.

If not for her arrogance, how could she leave her family and choose to slumber for nine cycles of a hundred million years just to wait for him? No normal living being could possibly do this. It was something that most couldn't fathom having the Dao Heart to do.

In fact, when he first rejected her, any normal woman would have been heartbroken and shattered into a million pieces.

She had waited for him for almost a billion years, yet his first instinct was to be cold toward her and reject her. How could any fragile mind take such a thing?

And yet, instead of reacting with tears or heartbreak, the first thing Ailsa had done back then was scold him. In fact, had he not been so arrogant back then, her words would have been a true dressing down. Her tongue was no less sharp than his own as well.

She had been loyally by his side for so long, she had sacrificed more than he even knew. If he couldn't hold up a small bargain on his end, she was right... what right did he have to call her his wife?

If the world knew that a little True Sky God was calling a Dao God wife, wouldn't he be making his Ailsa a laughing stock? If this same world knew that this True Sky God couldn't even control his own body, and maintain the state of his own mind, wouldn't it be all the worse?

Neither Ryu nor Ailsa had ever cared about the opinions of others, though... and that was precisely what made Ryu freeze.

Because this was Ailsa's method of telling him that it wasn't because of the world that she wouldn't want him, but because of her own pride.

If her husband was a True Sky God... fine. That wasn't his fault, and their circumstances were to blame. She was more than willing to give him all the time he needed to catch up.

But if her husband was pathetic and weak, that was something that was unacceptable to her.

In fact, even before she became a Dao God, she would have felt the same way.

Much the same way Ryu loved arrogant women the most... she too loved arrogant men the most.

Ryu's first impression had been "bad" by a normal woman's standards, but what Ryu didn't know was that Ailsa very much liked how he had acted back then. If he could so easily give up on his first wife, she would have looked down on him. In the end, his feats had subdued her completely.

But this version of Ryu was entirely unacceptable to her, and she made that clear.

All of these thoughts streamed into Ryu's mind in a single bound. He saw through them clearly, feeling each one as though they were individual strands being woven together.

This feeling...

Ryu closed his eyes. He felt hollow inside, and he felt that a decision had to be made.

Ailsa's fury was like a searing brand on his soul. But it felt like the road ahead was still the same difficulty.

Should he care about his wife's fury? Wasn't she just one of many reincarnations as well? Wasn't she even real?

The thought made a spike of pain rip through his chest. He found it difficult to breathe, and he felt like even his Dao was about to collapse.

Even with his eyes closed, he still saw those eyes. Their fury haunted him, and no matter where he looked, it wouldn't vanish. Its emotion was practically tangible, carrying the suffocating presence of a Dao God. Compared to the Temperament he had seen from others, Ailsa was on a level all her own...

Ryu's heart shuddered, a realization hitting him.

The tears he had been holding back subconsciously fell like the rain. The skies above began a downpour that seemed like it would flood the world.