Dou Wang Nalan Yanran

Time always slipped quietly through one's fingers.

You could clearly feel the speed at which it flowed.

Yet no matter what, you could never grasp the passing years.

Three years could be long, or short.

No one knew how many people had forgotten that agreement from three years ago, nor how many could still recall it now.

The only ones who could be certain were the parties involved.

Neither Nalan Yanran nor Xiao Yan had forgotten.

As the parties involved, they would never forget.

As for everyone else...

That could only be left to fate...

Fortunately, many people forgetting this matter did not mean that those who should not forget it had also forgotten. As long as those people still remembered, there would never be a shortage of witnesses.

Or, perhaps, spectators.

The Yun Lan Sect had long since made preparations—not only for the Three-Year Agreement, whose appointed date was not far away, but also to celebrate their Young Sect Leader, Nalan Yanran, successfully breaking through and advancing to Dou Wang.

If one looked across the entire Northwest Continent,

a Dou Wang truly amounted to nothing.

But if the map were narrowed down to the entire Gama Empire, the emergence of a new Dou Wang would be a major event not to be ignored.

And if that Dou Wang happened to be only eighteen years old,

it would be an even more impossible event to overlook.

Youth represented nearly limitless possibilities for the future. It also meant immense potential, with a ceiling far beyond this.

The student surpasses the master.

Those words circulated not only throughout the Gama Imperial Capital, but across the entire Gama Empire.

Everyone knew that Lionheart Marshal Nalan Jie's granddaughter had become a Dou Wang and the new pillar of the Nalan Family. If the Nalan