Chapter 688 — The Final Request

"What! Yang Ce has been captured!" When Fang Tian heard that Yang Ce had been taken, his expression turned abruptly ugly. He sprang to his feet, murderous intent blazing in his eyes. "Was it you who leaked the information?

Did you go and inform on him?"

"Me? How could it be me?" Dong Jun started in fright and said hurriedly, "Master, don't get worked up yet. Let me explain it to you slowly! Let me lay it all out for you!"

"What is there left to say? Yang Ce has been captured—isn't that exactly the outcome you wanted?" Fang Tian gave a cold snort. "Your goal has finally been achieved. Now you have become my only disciple! And then, with no other choice, I can only pass my martial arts on to you and make you the new King of Assassins. Isn't that how it is?"

"Master, I did indeed think that way before, but now, I no longer think so..." Dong Jun said with a bitter smile. "I won't deny that everything I did before was for that purpose, but people always change. Now, I truly do not wish for anything to happen to Yang Ce."

"Oh? Yang Ce has already been captured, and only now do you say this? Are you trying to humor me?"

Fang Tian looked at Dong Jun coldly. "I can tell you plainly: give up that hope. Even if something happens to Yang Ce, I will raise Yanyan to be the King of Assassins. Perhaps you don't know this yet—Yanyan is already pregnant. She carries Yang Ce's flesh and blood in her belly. Once the child is born, I will train him to be the King of Assassins of the new generation!" "Huh?" Wang Yanqiu was in the inner room at that moment, straining her ears to catch the sounds outside the door. When she suddenly heard Fang Tian say that she was pregnant with Yang Ce's child, she was struck dumb with astonishment! She was pregnant? How was it that she herself had no idea?

Wang Ruoshui looked at Wang Yanqiu with something rather strange in her eyes, and could not resist asking in a low voice, "Yanyan, you're with child? Why did you tell only your uncle and not your aunt?" "I... I don't think I am?" Wang Yanqiu felt her flat little belly and looked rather odd.

"You're not? Then your uncle...?" Wang Ruoshui was also taken aback by Wang Yanqiu's words.

"I don't know either... Maybe he's trying to deceive Dong Jun? Let's keep listening and see?"

Wang Yanqiu, thoroughly baffled, pointed toward the doorway.

"Then let's listen a while longer." Wang Ruoshui nodded, and she too began to suspect that Fang Tian was simply lying.

In fact, Fang Tian was indeed lying. This was nothing but something he had made up on the spur of the moment, for the sole purpose of making Dong Jun give up hope and despair! To make him feel that even if Yang Ce died, he would never pass on his mantle or make him the new King of Assassins!

And from this, Dong Jun's true intentions could also be discerned. In truth, after Dong Jun had voiced Yang Ce's meaning, Fang Tian had already lost any desire to kill him. Yang Ce had grown up and matured, and as his master, Fang Tian would naturally support his decisions!

Since Yang Ce had not done anything to Dong Jun even before leaving Songjiang City, that in itself showed Yang Ce's attitude. Yang Ce truly did not want such fratricide to occur between fellow disciples. And Fang Tian understood Yang Ce's temperament very well, so he decided to wait until Yang Ce returned before discussing the matter further.

But now, Fang Tian had to ascertain Dong Jun's true intentions. Had this fellow genuinely repented, or was he feigning sincerity to deceive him? So Fang Tian dealt Dong Jun an enormous blow, cutting off his hope of ever becoming the King of Assassins, and then watched to see how he would react!

"Pregnant? Then congratulations..." Dong Jun was briefly startled, but his expression showed nothing particular. "If Yang Ce knew this news, it would put his mind at ease, and he would try even harder to find a way to deal with the Right Elder. Unfortunately, the news cannot get through to him..." "Don't you think that's a pity?" Although Fang Tian had seen Dong Jun's expression, Dong Jun was by nature a man skilled at disguise, so his expressions were not to be trusted.

"A pity? What pity?" Dong Jun was taken aback, then immediately understood Fang Tian's meaning and could not help but smile bitterly. "Master, why won't you believe me? This time, I truly wish to repent before you! I was wrong. What I did before was utterly and completely wrong. I came this time to seek your forgiveness, to ask you and Yan to help me..." "Do you think I will believe you?" Fang Tian countered.

Hearing Fang Tian's words, Dong Jun could not help but give a miserable smile. "Alas! I know as well that the things I have done were utterly monstrous."

"Framing your own master, plotting to assassinate your own junior fellow disciple—you truly were capable of doing such things. You are a disciple of truly heaven-defying audacity!" Fang Tian said. "How do you wish to die?"

"Very well, since it has come to this, I will say no more." Dong Jun sighed in something close to despair. "But sooner or later I must die, so I may as well have my release. Still, I beg of you, Master... before I die, do me one favor!"

"What favor?" Fang Tian asked, betraying nothing in his expression.

"I have a younger sister named Alice. I hope you will take her in and help her escape from the forces behind her. If she could be married to Yang Ce, I would die with a smile on my face." Dong Jun had always suspected that his sister Alice harbored feelings for Yang Ce. Though Alice had never admitted it, Dong Jun and Alice had grown up together since childhood—how could Dong Jun not understand Alice?

So to see Alice safely settled was Dong Jun's greatest wish before death!

Whether Alice liked Yang Ce or not, one thing was certain: she definitely did not dislike him. And once she became Yang Ce's woman, given Yang Ce's fiercely protective nature, whoever dared to touch his woman—Yang Ce would never let that pass lightly!

"Alice? Which Alice?" The name struck Fang Tian as somewhat familiar. It seemed that back at Butterfly Castle, he had also heard of a woman named Alice.

"The very Alice you have heard of," Dong Jun said with a bitter smile. "The mysterious Alice, who commands great power and wealth..."

"She is your sister?" Fang Tian frowned at once. "She needs me to look after her? And what forces are behind her?"

Fang Tian realized that he had still underestimated Dong Jun's background. Behind him, perhaps, lay a great secret that would astonish him! All along, Fang Tian had suspected that Dong Jun had been sent by some faction, but his investigations had yielded nothing.

Over time, Fang Tian had come to assume that Dong Jun was simply overambitious, that he wanted to inherit the mantle, and that these schemes were the result of that ambition. But now it appeared that this was not the case at all!

"She... on the surface she seems incomparably glorious, but in truth, she and I both belong to a very formidable force. This force is called the Center!" Dong Jun was already resigned to death and no longer cared about the Center's secrets, so he spoke to Fang Tian without any reservation. (To be continued!)