C1 Immortal Emperor's Return!

Ye Lin stood up slowly and looked at the familiar city. This city, this sight, and this nostalgic feeling... He didn't have the words to express them.

After all, he was really back to the familiar, yet the strange planet everyone called Earth.

"I am back…?"

Ye Lin mumbled as a gentle breeze blew past him. Looking at the scene in front of him, he felt as if he lived a lifetime every time he blinked.

He walked alone on a brightly lit street. Many others were walking down the street just like him, yet not one paid attention to him.

"3,000 years. 36,000 months. Over a million days. I spent all that time in the Immortal Realm, yet a mere three years have passed on Earth." Ye Lin looked at an electronic billboard that had the date and time on its bottom right.

He lowered his head to look at his clothes. They were the same as the one he was wearing when he was teleported to the Immortal Realm.

"It's been three years... How are you?"

Ye Lin muttered. His voice was bitter and filled with nostalgia. In his mind, a beautiful figure appeared.

Unknowingly, he had walked to a villa area in Tianhai City. Looking at the familiar place from afar, he realized that it was the same small villa.

When he looked at the villa, Ye Lin's felt a stinging feeling in his nose.

The villa was his home...

No. It was once his home.

Three years ago on Earth, he divorced his wife and left her to fend for herself. He failed her at her weakest, feeling all that righteous at that time. Back then, he felt their relationship and love were just a sham.

The story of their love was a funny, cliche story. Ye Lin met the love of his life four years ago, in the university.

Sadly for him, though—she was the "school beauty" in the university. Many pursued her; unexpectedly, she opened her heart for him. She accepted his love, and they become inseparable.

As soon as the duo graduated from college, they married.

In the early days of their marriage, Ye Lin felt like the king of the world. He was sure that if anyone were to look for the happiest couple in the world, it would be them.

Sadly, no one could remain happy for eternity. Everyone had their share of sadness. Their sadness stemmed from his wife's priggish family. They just couldn't accept that their daughter had married an orphan.

To be with his wife, he was even willing to be a son-in-law, whereas he couldn't get her family's approval. He failed miserably in that endeavor, though.

Instead of accepting him as their own, they now thought he was a good-for-nothing.

Under the endless ridicule from them and even the outsiders, he suffered all sorts of humiliation. However, he still clenched his teeth and endured it. Why? He loved his wife. He wanted to spend every conscious moment of his life with her.

A simple wish, right?

However, everyone just took him for a toad desiring a swan.

And they went to extreme lengths to make him realize that.

Thinking about the past, Ye Lin felt downcast. On a cold winter's day, an infant Ye Lin was wrapped in a bag and thrown into the river.

That day, he went from infant Ye Lin to orphan Ye Lin.

Thankfully, the dean of the orphanage, the place he called home for the entirety of his childhood, accidentally picked him up. If not for the dean, he would've died that day.

That day, not only did he become an orphan, but a stubborn illness also took root in his body.

After he married his wife, she took care of his weak body. Although he was a doctor, laughably, he couldn't even diagnose his illness, let alone cure it.

He was physically weak, and was disgusted in-laws, what's more, a public object for ridicule. If not for his wife, who always stood by his side, he would've thought that the heavens wanted him dead. Every time she said, "Everything will be okay," with a smile, something warm, something joyful would flood his heart.

Initially, Ye Lin had thought he could continue living like this forever. Sadly, disgusted in-laws were just a part of his problem.

His wife spent most of her time on business trips, so the two of them rarely spent time together.

Back then, he had no idea why his wife was working so hard. After all, her family was wealthy and had an established company in the city.

However, he soon found the answer. One day, his wife's family and a young man barged into his home.

That young man was the heir of some powerful clan in Tianhai City. As long as his wife married him, her family could rise to unattainable heights.

When his wife found out about this, she firmly rejected the young man.

It had been 3,000 years since then, yet Ye Lin remembered every detail clearly. He still remembered what the young man said to him before leaving. "You are just a piece of trash. How dare you lay your hands on something I want? I will give you the true taste of despair."

Following the young man's proclamation, the hospital suddenly fired him. A simple proclamation like that sent his medical career tumbling down. He sent his resume to every medical facility in the city, but not one accepted him.

After he lost his job, his wife's family further humiliated and pressured him to divorce his wife.

Being an orphan, there weren't many things that lit up his bleak and despondent world. However, he could proudly say that his wife was like the sun. It burned down the dark, bleak world and left a bright world behind. He was never going to give up that world and that sun.

Just when he foolishly thought that running away with his wife would solve it all, he discovered why his wife had to slave away. It was because of him. All this time, he thought he was suffering alone. However, it was actually his wife who was silently enduring it all. His wife's family was pressuring him, they were actually crushing her with a burden.

In her personal life, her family would pressure her to divorce him. In her business life, that "young master" attacked her business in every way possible. Despite all that, she would come back home with a smile and assure him.

If he was fighting the world, she was fighting the world and her own family.

After discovering the truth, he came to a decision. He wouldn't become a source of trouble, pain, and misery for his wife. That day, he divorced her.

Funnily enough, a day after the divorce, some gangsters jumped him out of nowhere and beat him to a pulp. He escaped with all his might; sadly, he was hit by a large truck at the crossroads.

Thinking about it now, he was sure that it wasn't all a coincidence. It was most likely arranged by his "love rival."

Fortunately, he was rebon and sent to the Immortal Realm. There, he coincidentally received a might, fallen Immortal Emperor's inheritance.

Relying on the inheritance, Ye Lin became the strongest in the Immortal Realm. In 3,000 years, he became the youngest Supreme Immortal Emperor and stood at the peak of the Immortal Realm.

In those 3,000 years, he saw countless enchanting fairies and bewitching devils. Many beauties blazoned their love and adoration for him, but his heart didn't throb in the slightest. After all, that beautiful figure from Earth owned his heart.

After becoming the Supreme Immortal Emperor, he finally possessed the power to open space-time tunnels. Finally possessing the power to protect that smile, he decided to return to Earth. He resolutely abandoned the position where millions worshiped him all to see the woman who sat in his heart.

This time, he was going to snatch back everything that was his and make them all pay.

Ye Lin walked alone, as if he was a lonely boat in the ocean, drifting aimlessly.

He clenched his clothes as he felt an indescribable coldness emanated from his heart.

Unknowingly, Ye Lin had walked toward the spot of his accident, and his nerves tightened.

Ye Lin gritted his teeth with an ashen face.

Just as Ye Lin was about to leave, a crowd formed from not too far away.

"Ah!"

A little girl had fallen on the road, and a large truck was speeding toward her.

"Get away!"

The passersby on the side had no time to save the little girl. They could only helplessly watch as the truck rushed toward her.

'I can save her!'

Ye Lin shouted in his heart. Suddenly, a whirlwind formed under his feet; instantly, he appeared in front of the little girl. It was as if he teleported there. He turned around and threw the little girl toward a safe place.

Seeing that the little girl was safe and sound, a smile appeared on Ye Lin's pale face.

He was a doctor himself, so how could he watch as an innocent life was lost to the hands of a drunk driver?

Honk! Honk!

When he heard the earsplitting honks, Ye Lin's expression changed.

"Young man, hurry up and leave that place!" The surrounding people constantly called out to him.

Ye Lin turned around abruptly, but all he saw was the truck's wide bumper.

The glare from the headlights made Ye Lin close his eyes. He no longer had the time to react… Bang!

Swish!

Ye Lin was sent flying more than ten meters away, rolling on the ground and creating some bloody splatter. His entire body was covered in blood, and he could only feel pain from head to toe.

After returning to Earth, he lost almost all of his strength.

'Sigh... To think that I was so weak. Damn, this hurts!'

His vision gradually blurred. Finally, Ye Lin lost consciousness and fell into darkness.