Break Off Engagement

Lu Shui was indeed a little surprised. If it concerned the Mu Family and required him to handle it personally, there was only one matter: marriage.

But the wedding was still very far away.

So what else, besides marriage, needed him to deal with it?

Did the clan no longer care about its dignity if they dared let him handle matters?

Surely they were not making him marry early for some reason?

Although Lu Shui found it strange, he did not show much of it.

He wanted to hear what exactly it was.

The Third Elder looked at Lu Shui and said,

"Mu Family Mu Xue. Do you remember her?"

How could he not remember?

She blasted my secret chamber, attacked me, and cannot give birth.

I asked her to go to the hospital with me, but she got angry and fought me for three months.

In the end, she went into secluded cultivation outright.

Oh, he had also heard that the entire Lu Family territory had lived in deep water and hot fire during those three months.

He had not looked into it at the time. After the fight, he had gone into seclusion as well.

After ending his recollection, Lu Shui said calmly,

"The name on the marriage contract?"

The Third Elder nodded.

"That's right. The name on the marriage contract. Under normal circumstances, she would be your fiancée."

Lu Shui caught one phrase: under normal circumstances.

Then Lu Shui asked,

"So something abnormal happened?"

The Third Elder looked at Lu Shui, a little surprised.

"You've gotten smarter. Yes, something abnormal happened, so you need to make a trip to the Mu Family."

Lu Shui was surprised. Nothing abnormal had happened in his previous life.

However, he did not ask. He merely waited for the Third Elder to continue.

The Third Elder continued,

"We received news that Mu Family Mu Xue suddenly lost all her cultivation not long ago and was completely reduced to a commoner.

The Mu Family has concealed this matter."

Lu Shui frowned. Mu Xue had lost all her cultivation?

Why had this happened? It had not happened before.

Lu Shui did not understand. He had been reborn for no apparent reason, so he could not be sure whether some mutation had occurred.

"What does the Third Elder plan to do?" Lu Shui asked. If they did not plan to do anything, there would have been no need to tell him.

"Our Lu Family is to marry a prodigy. As a commoner, she is not qualified to marry into the Lu Family.

Take your marriage contract and go to the Mu Family in three days to tear up the engagement and break it off." The Third Elder looked at Lu Shui as he spoke.

At that moment, the Third Elder stood up and said,

"Use these three days to heal your injuries. Zhen Wu and Zhen Ling will walk with you. Remember, you must break off the engagement."

After saying that, the Third Elder left.

He had not discussed it with Lu Shui. He had simply issued an order.

But Lu Shui did not mind. He smiled faintly and muttered to himself inwardly,

"Break off the engagement? Interesting."

If not for the injury at his waist, he would have wanted to set out immediately.

No wonder the Third Elder had sent him. Breaking a contract like this was terribly humiliating, and he was the most suitable person for it.

After all, he had no face to lose.

Still, sending him really showed how little they thought of the Mu Family.

After leaving the main hall, Lu Shui went to the spirit medicine garden. After picking some spirit medicines, he returned.

He needed to tend to the injury on his waist. Otherwise, it would hurt him to death and might easily leave lasting effects.

Once his injuries healed, it would be time to deal with his cultivation. In truth, his cultivation talent was quite ordinary. Otherwise, he would not have been treated as a tool for carrying on the family line.

However, after getting married, he had been fairly diligent and read more books. One morning, he suddenly gained an insight and understood a book that no one in the clan had been able to comprehend.

Although that book was incomplete, the later him had completed it.

So this time, he would cultivate that book as well.

It was called Heaven and Earth Array Patterns.

After making his decision, Lu Shui ground the medicine. He looked around, and after confirming that no one was in the courtyard, he lifted his clothes and applied the medicine to his waist.

"Hiss, that hurts."

As he rubbed in the medicine, Lu Shui felt his wound improve considerably.

At least it did not hurt as much.

At that moment, someone suddenly entered Lu Shui's courtyard.

Helplessly, Lu Shui could only lower his clothes first.

When Lu Shui turned to look, he found a very young and beautiful woman smiling brightly at him.

A maid followed by her side.

It was Qi Xi from earlier.

Very quickly, the Leading Woman arrived before Lu Shui. She looked at the spirit medicines in the pavilion, then said to Qi Xi,

"Go stand guard outside."

"Yes." After responding, Qi Xi withdrew.

Then the woman said to Lu Shui,

"Applying medicine? Come, Mother will help you."

Lu Shui's birth mother, Dongfang Liyin, had also married into the Lu Family through a marriage alliance.

It was said that the betrothal gifts back then had been the Great Elder personally guiding some experts of the Dongfang Family, allowing them to enter a new realm.

It could be said that Dongfang Liyin had been someone the Lu Family spent a great price to marry. Unfortunately, she had given birth to such an unpresentable son as Lu Shui.

Lu Shui looked at his mother but did not feel much. In his previous life, his mother had been alive and well too.

She loved him well enough, though she was sometimes unreliable.

"No, Mother. I'm already grown up. I can handle this kind of thing myself," Lu Shui said.

He was used to being alone. He was not accustomed to having someone help him.

Would Mu Xue help him?

She would, but they often argued, so Lu Shui still handled things alone.

A maid?

He did not need such a thing at all.

Dongfang Liyin stared blankly at Lu Shui, a trace of loneliness in her eyes.

"Grown up?"

Then Dongfang Liyin sat down dejectedly to one side and murmured,

"Grown up."

Then she fell silent.

Lu Shui: "..."

Ignoring his mother's state, Lu Shui asked,

"Mother, did you suddenly come here because something happened?"

Dongfang Liyin immediately came back to her senses. Her earlier dejection had long vanished as she looked at Lu Shui and said,

"Yes. I heard that my son got rid of that demon, so I came to celebrate.

But then I heard another matter, and I no longer felt like celebrating."

Lu Shui continued fiddling with his spirit medicines and said,

"The matter of breaking off the engagement?"

Dongfang Liyin nodded.

"Mother is worried that you'll foolishly go to the Mu Family, throw your weight around, and then break off the engagement in a high-profile manner."

Lu Shui: "..."

Fine. The old him really could have done something like that.

The current him might still do it.

"When the time comes, keep a low profile if you can. Just say you are acting under orders. Even if you refuse to listen to Mother, do not say anything unpleasant at the Mu Family.

If you speak to them properly, they will speak to you properly too," Dongfang Liyin instructed.

Her son was not particularly clever. It did not matter much within the Lu Family territory; no matter how injured or foolish he was, his life would not be in danger. But the Mu Family was also a major power.

If he offended them too deeply, there would certainly be no benefit.

Especially on their territory.

After hearing this, Lu Shui also felt that his former self had been immature and caused his mother quite a lot of trouble. But just as he wanted to say something comforting, the final shred of guilt in his heart was extinguished.

Because Dongfang Liyin added one more sentence.

"If anything happens to you, Mother will have to give birth to another son. Who knows how many pregnancies it will take."

Lu Shui pointed at the courtyard gate and said, "Mother, please leave."

"No, listen to Mother—"

Before his mother could finish, Lu Shui said directly,

"I won't see you out."

Dongfang Liyin: "..."

How heartbreaking. Her son was still in his rebellious phase.

After Dongfang Liyin left, Lu Shui continued applying medicine to himself.

As for how he would speak when he went to the Mu Family, naturally, he would deal with it once he got there.

What was there to think about now? After all, breaking off an engagement was a very interesting thing.

Especially when he was the one breaking it off.