A Certain Kitten's Shattered State of Mind

Watching Dai Mubai's "menacing" retreating figure, Lu Yuan waited a little longer in the hotel before pushing open its doors.

With a casual sweep of his gaze, Lu Yuan's eyes naturally fell upon the shadows.

"Disappointed?"

He lifted his chin toward the direction Dai Mubai had left in.

The girl stepped out of the shadows.

The aura around her had grown even colder.

Her lips moved slightly, but she seemed to remember that Lu Yuan was also from the Agility Attack System. In the end, she did not ask that foolish question.

Instead, she said,

"Are you mocking me?"

"How could I?"

Lu Yuan sidled up to her with a playful grin. "You're the second Miss of the Zhu Family in the Star Luo Empire. If I can cling to a thigh as thick as yours, a commoner like me won't have to worry about food or drink for the rest of my life."

"See? Am I right?"

The girl shot Lu Yuan a cold glance.

She knew it. This guy had never said anything decent.

Even without such formidable strength, she had never heard of any Soul Master who could not afford to eat or drink.

She tried hard to put on a fierce expression to conceal the pain in her heart.

Unfortunately, the slightly red and swollen corners of her eyes made it impossible for Zhu Zhuqing to look fierce.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Zhuqing said solemnly,

"I understand what you mean, but I really do have a Marriage Contract. You saw what happened today. I didn't lie to you."

"Marriage Contracts can be changed. Besides, having a Marriage Contract doesn't mean you have to get married, and getting married doesn't mean you necessarily have to—"

"Stop!"

"You don't need to say any more!"

Zhu Zhuqing felt a headache coming on and hurriedly cut Lu Yuan off.

She knew she should not have opened that door.

Once it was opened, Lu Yuan's bizarre reasoning would come flooding back.

The two fell silent for a moment. In the end, Lu Yuan was the first to break the deadlock.

"Are you really willing to accept this?"

"What does it matter whether I am willing or not?"

The girl's voice was full of confusion.

Lu Yuan turned back to look at the slightly vacant look in her eyes and sighed inwardly.

Honestly, this was perfectly normal.

Zhu Zhuqing was not like him. She could not use the life experience of her previous life and her foreknowledge in this one to pave a stone road in advance.

Zhu Zhuqing could only rely on her own judgment, struggling forward step by step along a muddy dirt road in the darkness.

Such uneven dirt roads often made travelers feel as though each step was either too deep or too shallow, because no one knew whether the next step would land in a pit.

"Yes."

Lu Yuan sounded somewhat emotional, but then his tone shifted.

"Whether you were willing or unwilling, the moment you secretly ran away from the Zhu Family, you had already made your answer clear."

"Is that so?"

Zhu Zhuqing murmured to herself, and a trace of resolve flashed through her eyes.

Then she asked, "How did you guess that I had run away?"

If she remembered correctly, she had not revealed a single word about her past to Lu Yuan.

The faintly emotional expression on Lu Yuan's face stiffened. He could not help but grumble inwardly, Big sis, can you please follow the script?

That question had caught him so off guard that he did not even know how to answer it.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Yuan struggled to steer the conversation back.

"How I guessed isn't the important part."

"The important part is that the Zhu Family's rules have one very obvious loophole."

"I wonder if you've noticed it."

A loophole?

Zhu Zhuqing thought to herself. There should not be any loopholes.

After all, it had been this way for so many generations. If there were a loophole, it should have been discovered long ago!

Unable to find an answer, Zhu Zhuqing could only look at Lu Yuan. "Go on?"

"As long as you become a Titled Douluo, your strength will be enough to ignore this Marriage Contract entirely. Even the Star Luo Imperial Family will be unable to do anything to you."

Zhu Zhuqing nearly laughed in anger and instinctively retorted,

"Do you think becoming a Titled Douluo is that easy?"

This could be called a loophole, but it could also be said not to be one.

The hope of becoming a Titled Douluo was simply too slim.

Not to mention a Soul Master like her with Innate Soul Power of level seven, even someone with Innate Full Soul Power might not become a Titled Douluo.

A powerful Martial Soul and exceptionally high Innate Soul Power were merely the basic requirements for becoming a Titled Douluo.

Whether one could truly become a Titled Douluo mainly depended on one's opportunity.

When the opportunity came, one could smoothly break through the bottleneck between rank eighty-nine and rank ninety!

But opportunities were exceedingly precious.

Everyone's opportunity was different.

Some geniuses cultivated for their entire lives, only to remain stuck at the threshold of rank eighty-nine, unable to break through no matter what!

If resources alone could produce Titled Douluo, the Zhu Family would not have gone so many years without a single Titled Douluo.

The occasional suppression from the Star Luo Imperial Family could only be considered an external factor.

The main reason was that very few heads of the Zhu Family throughout the generations had managed to cultivate to rank eighty-nine. Even those who did would fall into a bottleneck.

The Hell Spirit Cat was decent in quality, but only decent.

Breaking through to become a Titled Douluo based solely on the exceptionally high quality of one's Martial Soul—

Such examples were rare, but they did exist.

However, the Hell Spirit Cat's quality clearly did not meet that standard.

One had to know that there were only a little over forty, fewer than fifty, Titled Douluo across the entire continent!

To become one of them.

The girl could not help mocking her own fanciful thoughts.

Without answering Zhu Zhuqing's doubts, Lu Yuan calmly asked a baffling question.

"Do you know about Immortal Herbs?"

"Xiao Ao! Xiao Ao!"

The wooden door was suddenly flung open.

It slammed against the wall with a tremendous bang.

Oscar, who had just dozed off for a short while, was so startled that he fell straight out of bed.

"What the hell, Fatty? What happened?"

Clutching the bruise on his forehead, Oscar glared at the hateful bedside table, his face full of confusion.

As a Support-type Soul Master, especially a food-type Support-type Soul Master, Shrek Academy's motto of "those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre" had nothing to do with him.

After all, if a Support-type Soul Master like him went out looking for trouble, he would only be asking for a beating.

Therefore, trouble generally never came knocking on his door.

"Boss Dai got beaten up!"

"So he got beaten up. It's not like it hasn't happened before. Why are you making such a fuss?"

Oscar could not help complaining about Ma Hongjun.

To be honest, Oscar had long grown used to Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun getting beaten up.

Fighting over women was one thing.

After all, with the strength those two possessed, ordinary Soul Masters really could not beat them.

The real problem was when the Dean or Boss Zhao made a move.

The sight was utterly unbearable. Oscar had not wanted to see it a second time after witnessing it once.

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun got beaten far too badly!

Just looking at them made Oscar feel uneasy.

After all, as a Support-type Soul Master, he did not have the durability of two Battle Soul Masters.

"Wait, where are you going?"

Ma Hongjun hurriedly stopped Oscar, who was heading for the door.

"Don't they need treatment?"

Oscar was clearly baffled by Ma Hongjun's actions and asked with a puzzled expression.

Ma Hongjun speechlessly pushed Oscar back into a chair.

"They don't need treatment at all. It's just a few scratches."

"Then why the hell were you so worked up?"

Oscar rolled his eyes in exasperation.

This damn fatty was simply wasting his time!

"The main thing is that the process and result of this fight were way too unexpected!"

Ma Hongjun's small eyes darted around. Seeing no one nearby, he lowered his voice and said to Oscar,

"From what I heard, Boss Dai was not only subdued in one move by someone around our age, but Boss Dai's fiancée also seems to like that person."

"Huh?"

Oscar nearly thought he had misheard.

How had he not known that Boss Dai had a fiancée?

Getting subdued in one move was one thing, but his fiancée had been stolen too? This plot was that exciting?

"Does the Dean know about this?"

"He should... maybe, probably know... right?"

Ma Hongjun and Oscar stared wide-eyed at each other, both able to see the speechlessness and faint curiosity in the other's eyes.

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P.S. Following readers' suggestions, I tried finding an account to post comments with. Otherwise, it really does affect the reading experience. I reread it, and what they said does make sense.