"I'm sorry..."
Su Ling gazed at the maiden before him and murmured to himself.
The Silver-haired Maiden stood with her spear in hand. Her peerless beauty, beyond the power of words to describe, was now shrouded in a layer of icy frost.
"Why did you kill me on our wedding night?"
Gu Yuena's icy words brimmed with murderous intent. The Silver Dragon Spear pointed straight at Su Ling's throat, its tip glimmering with a dangerous, dazzling Seven-colored Halo.
She had never imagined that the man who had saved her when she was gravely wounded and on the brink of death, and shared countless happy moments with her, would turn on her and try to kill her on their wedding night.
That night, he had pierced her heart with a single sword thrust.
As she lay in a pool of blood, all she could do was watch helplessly as the man skinned and dismembered her, stealing her Silver Dragon Bloodline.
Unfortunately, he probably hadn't expected that she still had an incarnation in the mortal world, allowing her to live another life.
The seven Elemental Energies of space, darkness, light, water, fire, wind, and earth intertwined around the spear tip, forming a deadly Elemental Vortex.
Su Ling could feel that destructive power. If Gu Yuena so much as exerted a little force, his life would vanish in an instant.
Yet his face remained expressionless. He merely said coldly, "Do it. The winner takes all. I have nothing to say to a heartless beast like you."
"Heh... I have no heart?" Gu Yuena was so furious she almost laughed. A trace of blood red welled in her violet eyes.
"I don't... Then do you?"
"Shengyan, do you know how much it hurt when you stabbed through my heart?"
"And do you know how much it hurt when I could only watch as you cruelly slaughtered Di Tian, Bi Ji, and every last Soul Beast?"
Her voice suddenly rose. Tears glimmered in her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.
"All these years, I kept imagining that you had some reason for what you did. I imagined you would come find me and explain..."
"But all I got was your merciless pursuit. Shengyan! Are you even human? How can your heart be so cruel?"
Gu Yuena stared into Su Ling's deep, dark eyes, searching for even the slightest hint of regret or hesitation.
But his eyes remained as cold as a frozen lake. The other man's sword had even slipped silently from its sheath and was now lunging viciously toward her.
Seeing this, Gu Yuena's heart died completely.
She abruptly closed her eyes and gave up on everything.
The Silver Dragon Spear, carrying the boundless might of a God-King and an Elemental Storm, plunged into his chest...
When Su Ling awoke in the middle of the night, he was drenched in sweat.
The look of despair in Gu Yuena's eyes in his Previous Life had nearly become his Inner Demon.
He jerked upright and panted heavily, his mind replaying Gu Yuena's final, heart-wrenching question: "How can your heart be so cruel?"
"Host, would you like me to suppress your memories of your Previous Life?"
"In your current state, you may find it difficult to complete the upcoming mission."
The System's voice rang in his mind, its mechanical tone tinged with concern.
Su Ling instinctively touched his chest—the spot where there should have been a bloody hole was now perfectly intact.
"No. Leave them." His voice was frighteningly hoarse. "I owe her this."
Rumble! A sharp peal of thunder split the night as torrential rain poured outside.
The memories of Su Ling's current life also began to grow clearer.
Su Ling was a Transmigrator, born into the Su Family, one of the seven great Soul Master clans in the Heaven Dou Empire.
His grandfather was not only a Rank 97 Titled Douluo, but also the King Zhenyuan of the Heaven Dou Empire, commanding a powerful army.
His father had been a peerless prodigy in his youth. According to him, he had once fought the Pope of Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong, to a draw.
His mother, meanwhile, came from the Ye Family, whose members possessed the Nine Star Begonia Spirit.
In this life, he had practically been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Yet fate seemed to enjoy playing tricks on him.
Su Ling slowly opened his palm. A clump of green flame flickered there, casting an uncertain glow across his face.
He hadn't awakened the Deathly Still Flame Spirit passed down through his family for generations.
Instead, a Martial Soul Mutation had left him with a flame that possessed neither the terrifying destructive power of the Deathly Still Flame nor the healing abilities of a Life Element Spirit.
His innate Soul Power of just Rank 3 had all but nailed him to the pillar of shame as a useless failure.
But fortunately, he had bound himself to the Reincarnation Simulation System, gaining the ability to travel to another timeline.
As long as he played his role according to the prescribed fate, he could earn rewards and grow stronger.
In the end, he could even obtain the Godhood of the Time Master and return to the real world.
He just hadn't expected to be cast as a villain in every life, always meeting a gruesome end.
As the villain in each story, he had to feign affection for the heroines early on and help them through their hardships.
Then, at the end, he had to become a stepping-stone and get killed, allowing them to reach the pinnacle of life.
His endings ranged from having his limbs cut off and being turned into a Human Hog to being tortured to death by a thousand cuts.
In his most miserable life, even after he died, they dug him up and ate him piece by piece.
As for who the sicko was, he wouldn't name names.
"By the way, what happened after I died in my Previous Life?" Su Ling suddenly asked.
The System replied, "After your death, Gu Yuena used the Authority of Life Godhood granted to her by the Goddess of Life to resurrect Di Tian, Bi Ji, King of Ten Thousand Demons, and all the other subordinates you killed."
"At the same time, after rescuing the Golden Dragon King, she gave him your Godhood of Destruction. She also reached an agreement with the remaining Three Great God Kings of the Divine Realm, allowing Soul Beasts to return to the Divine Realm."
"After that war, the Soul Beast Clan and humanity both realized the importance of peace and chose to coexist peacefully."
"Heh... Sounds like a nice, happy ending."
Su Ling gave a self-deprecating laugh. When he heard that Di Tian and the other Soul Beasts had been resurrected, a flash of coldness was clear in his eyes.
But it disappeared just as quickly.
"Though I'm not sure if there was a glitch, but while Gu Yuena was resurrecting so many people, she accidentally brought your parents and grandfather back to life too." The System's voice suddenly turned strange.
Su Ling froze. After a long silence, he finally asked, "Tell me how the mission ended and what rewards I got."
"Gu Yuena killed herself..." The System's words exploded in Su Ling's mind like a thunderclap.
He clenched his fist so hard that his nails dug into his palm, yet he didn't feel the pain.
"What did you say?" His voice trembled uncontrollably, as if all the blood in his body had frozen in that instant.
"In the third year after your death, after Gu Yuena had settled the affairs of the Divine Realm and Douluo Continent, she went to the shore of Life Lake, in the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest, where you first met..."
"She buried herself and your remains together at the bottom of the lake, then took her own life. Her Dragon Soul Obsession lingered for tens of thousands of years, refusing to fade away."
The System's mechanical voice sounded especially cold now. "She left behind just one final message: 'Shengyan, I hope we never meet again in our next life...'"
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