This Isn't How the Plot Was Supposed to Develop!

This Isn't How the Plot Was Supposed to Develop!

Early in the morning, the sky had yet to fully brighten.

Shi Yueyi stood before the gates of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, drowsily fighting off sleep.

She could hardly be blamed. Yesterday, she and Qian Renxue had poured their hearts out to each other, and after opening up, the two of them had immediately kept busy all night.

They had neither meditated nor slept.

After Qian Daoliu left and the Titled Douluo bade their farewells, the two of them had continued discussing what to do next.

In the end, they decided that today, Azure Luan, Radiant Feather Douluo, and Stingray Douluo would first plant the Blue Silver Emperor's seed in the vegetable garden where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was located.

Since Chrysanthemum Douluo had yet to arrive, they still needed that fellow from Pope's Palace who played with flowers to accurately identify those herbs. The task of summoning him naturally fell to Qian Daoliu. After all, he had ordered Ghost Douluo not to run around, and Bibi Dong might not listen to anyone else.

Poison Douluo did not go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well whenever he pleased, either. Most of the time, he still remained in Heaven Dou City.

Besides, he had essentially seized that place by force. The Heaven Dou Empire had never issued any official document declaring it belonged to him.

"Having to go to school this early in the morning..." Shi Yueyi rubbed her eyes. "What's even the point?"

Heaven Dou Royal Academy was not within the city. It was on a mountain roughly twenty kilometers outside the city.

Early that morning, Qian Renxue had driven Shi Yueyi out, telling her to take the token and letter of introduction she had been given and go register.

Meanwhile, Qian Renxue had gone to pay her respects to Xue Ye and the Empress.

Shi Yueyi squeezed the token in her palm, forced herself to wake up, and headed up the mountain.

After only a few steps, several Soul Masters who looked to be in their teens blocked Shi Yueyi's path. They all wore pale yellow uniforms, the uniform of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

"Stop. Who are you?" The student in the lead arrogantly stopped Shi Yueyi.

Shi Yueyi shuddered and instantly snapped out of her half-dreaming state.

She looked closely and saw a student who seemed to want to tilt his nostrils straight toward the sky. He appeared to be around sixteen or seventeen.

Behind him followed several students who looked like lackeys. They were about the same age, but the flattery in their eyes was impossible to hide.

Shi Yueyi rubbed her eyes and confirmed it again.

That was right. This person should be the current fourth prince of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, the future emperor from the original timeline, Blood Beng!

No, Xue Beng!

Xue Beng had been rather irritated lately because Prince Xue Xing had lectured him just two days ago.

Wasn't it just that he had hooked up with two more girls? What was there to complain about? Wasn't pretending to be a wastrel something Uncle had told him to do? Besides, he was a prince! What was wrong with playing with two women?

Only that idiot Xue Qinghe seemed to keep himself clean. He refused to believe that the princes of the Star Luo Empire did not fool around!

Talking about "while pretending to be a wastrel, at least pay some attention to cultivation, lest someone kills you and you don't even know why." Wasn't that asking for everything at once? How could anyone be that greedy?

So, after being scolded, Xue Beng had returned to the academy in low spirits. Then, early this morning, he had wanted to find a few dubious friends to skip class with and go have some fun.

Yet just as he was about to step out of the academy, he ran into a graceful white-haired girl.

"Hello." Having recovered from her half-awake state, Shi Yueyi spoke politely.

"Who are you, and why have you trespassed into Heaven Dou Royal Academy?" Xue Beng asked arrogantly.

Heh heh, she's been cowed by this prince's kingly aura, hasn't she?

Shi Yueyi was a little displeased.

Showing off in front of her?

"I'm here to register." Shi Yueyi smiled.

"Register?" Xue Beng frowned. "Heaven Dou Royal Academy has always accepted only the children of nobles. Whose child are you? How come I've never seen you before?"

"I..." Shi Yueyi had just wanted to say that his brother had sent her here when she was interrupted.

"I think you're trying to sneak in under false pretenses. Come, seize her!" The future Emperor Xue Beng held his head high.

"No, dude..." Shi Yueyi was speechless.

The lackeys behind Xue Beng immediately darted forward and reached for Little Shiyue.

They had naturally figured out that, as a prince, Xue Beng had decided that since he had never seen someone like Shi Yueyi before, she must have sneaked into Heaven Dou Royal Academy, a place one could enter only through connections and noble status.

After capturing her, he would probably personally interrogate her.

"First Soul Skill, Heavenly Net Finger!"

"Second Soul Skill, Flame Illusion Flame!"

"..."

"Kneel before Prince Xue Beng!"

The five Soul Masters, each possessing only two Soul Rings, charged at Shi Yueyi. Yet the Beast Martial Soul Soul Master at the very front was directly blasted away by a trace of the aura emanating from her body.

Shi Yueyi was no longer the person whose Martial Soul had not even awakened at the beginning. Back then, relying solely on her physical strength, she had been able to pin down that soul-hunting squad and beat them senseless.

And now, after absorbing her Second Soul Ring, her Body Martial Soul had been strengthened once more.

Just then, pale flames that only Qian Renxue and several Titled Douluo could see flickered across her body.

The flames unleashed by another Soul Master took on a rippling shape, but Shi Yueyi casually caught them in her hand and crushed them to pieces.

"Hmm?" Shi Yueyi murmured softly.

That sound carried the Spiritual Power she had begun seriously cultivating, transforming directly into a soundwave-like attack that interrupted the other three before they could finish charging their soul skills.

"What?!" Xue Beng was utterly shocked.

Five against one, yet in less than five seconds, they had been completely crushed!

And she had not even launched a real attack—she had only been defending!

The other lackeys were equally stunned, staring fearfully at the little girl before them. Who would have thought that the person who had looked half-asleep just moments ago would suddenly turn into a monster casually beating them up?

Wasn't this story supposed to go differently? That reversal had been way too fast, hadn't it?

Shi Yueyi then shot Xue Beng a cold glare and pushed her hand through the air.

"Urgh—"

Blood immediately trickled from the corner of Xue Beng's mouth. His torso arched back involuntarily before he was sent flying.

In that instant, it was as if he had been gazed upon by a goddess of the night. Before that gaze, the blessing of the royal bloodline he had always been most proud of collapsed instantly!

"Bang—"

Xue Beng flew straight to the side of the mountain path and smashed into a muddy pit. Like he had been tossed into a trash bin, he lay sprawled on his back with his limbs sticking up over the edge.

"Call someone! Call someone!" Xue Beng screamed himself hoarse.

One of his lackeys was just about to fire a signal flare—

"Stop!"

Shi Yueyi casually called out, stopping him.

The other lackeys hesitated, wanting to run away.

"I told you to stop. Are you deaf?"

Shi Yueyi extended her hand and opened her palm, displaying the token she had been holding in her left hand all along.

"The Crown Prince's Token!" The expressions of the lackeys who had wanted to flee for reinforcements changed drastically. "To see the Crown Prince's Token is to see His Highness the Crown Prince!"

This thing was that useful? Why hadn't Miss told me? Was she afraid I'd use it to bully people?

Shi Yueyi thought to herself.

Xue Beng's expression changed drastically as he stared fixedly at the token in Shi Yueyi's hand, as though he had seen some kind of demon.

"Rebellion!" Shi Yueyi's eyes shifted as she recalled what one of the lackeys had said earlier. "How dare you glare at His Highness the Crown Prince!"

I'm a little late today. There'll be another chapter in a while.