Tanya frowned as she heard my simple greeting and I didn't blame her as if I was in her position I would expect indifference at least.
Tanya Zel Laurius, daughter of the sect master of the Immortal Blood Sect and the current fiance of Duan Ru Feng. She is known for her beauty, ruthlessness, and blood artes but she has a personal grudge against my family more specifically, Rizen. I still don't have the full details since Rizen has never told me the full story for whatever reason but apparently, Tanya and Rizen were engaged.
I had no idea that this even happened but the timeline of this happening was probably around those two years when he dipped for the academy. Tanya had a crush on Rizen; this was before people knew that I existed so this was the best time for Rizen to get pussy. I don't know what happened after or why it did but all I know is that things went south, far down south.
I think that Rizen was never engaged and Tanya, being a lovestruck fool at the time decided to claim Rizen as hers. Little did she know that Rizen had graduated from the Kenji Families No Simp University with a PhD in misogyny so that was all doomed for future. Their relationship fell apart and around this time my name began to spread and for whatever reason Tanya beilived that I wanted her and due to that I planted seeds of doubt in my brothers head for him to push her away.
This was purely delusional as that was the second time I was even meeting her with the first being at Duan Ru Feng's engagement party where they announced there engagement. It was there were I felt her ill intent towards me but it didn't really bother me much. When you meet a person for the first time during the first five seconds you see them your brian will automatically make a first impression of them. You don't even have to say anything, it is based on your appearance, demeanor and aura. This is even stronger for cultivators and based on the fact that she already judged me in a bad light before we even met I was doomed from the start.
My guess is that her goal was that she would get engaged to Duan Ru Feng in order to make me jealous, since people were starting to find out that we had a rivalry. I got to this conclusion since throughout the party she was giving me snark and condescending looks that I ignored. In my eyes this was petty and childish and I was still going through my training with the Hei so I treated it as if it was nonexistent.
I heard that the crown prince of the Federation has eyes on Tanya and might be cheating on Duan Ru Feng with him. While I'm sure the crown prince has had feelings for Tanya my guesses that the main reason why he is after her is not because of her but because of what she represents. Tanya Zel Laurius had another title, the princess of the Immortal Blood Sect and that sect basically runs Sin City to the point that even the royals don't do anything about it. While I'm sure the royals only do so since they get a slice of the profits if the sect is anything like me then they probably show the royals what they want to see so they don't have to pay more tax.
Sin City was an untapped market and a huge place of opportunity, if it wasn't for the academy then I'm one hundred percent sure that Sin City would be a warone and that the sect would have to deal with a lot more than just those two mysterious factions that they are dealing with right now. The crown prince probably has very huge ambitions and getting a foothold in Sin City is either a key part of his plan or just a bonus. Poor Duan Ru Feng, not only did his main whore get killed but his fiance is taking in another mans cock. I should feel bad...but I don't. Ok maybe I almost feel bad but that's just as a fellow man.
"What? No response?" I asked as I looked at Tanya who just remained frozen in my presence.
I'm pretty sure she was thinking about her brother Valen. After all he was by far the strongest person on the floor I was on and he was not supposed to be anywhere near there. My guess is that he was there to kill me but probably didn't know what I looked like. Not surprising as disciples of the Immortal Blood Sect are all extremely arrogant since they do run an entire city so they see themselves as gods.
Walking past Tanya, not bothering to deal with her being in her own little world I stopped in front of Lian Taiyang, whose hasn't taken her eyes off me since my arrival. She looked like she was trying to devour me whole with those eyes and I had to say I was turned on. Screw what Azrael said, yeah I could do better and I will get better if those angels and devils could hutty the fuck up. Your boy got a schedule to keep up with.
"You good?" I asked Lian as I knew that attack took a lot out of her. She was putting up a good front but I could still see through it.
Knowing she was seen through she took a deep breath, "I'm fine. I just need to meditate for a few minutes and I should be good."
I nodded my head and was about to ask her what had happened on her end ever since the chaos started but I was cut off the the glacial voice of Tanya.
"Hakari, where is Valen?"