Qian'erbei: Don't Kiss Me

She'd been eating so happily—how had she suddenly ended up with her head on his shoulder?

Qian'erbei: I'm too old for this...

As she watched Luo Yan take advantage of Bibi Dong, a little jealousy stirred in her heart. She really wanted Luo Yan to lay all his cards on the table.

But he didn't just have a whole backstory ready to tell. He'd somehow even managed to put his hands on her, and gone so far as to make a marriage pact with her. Had he actually become her fiancé?

What the hell was that supposed to mean?!

In her mind, Qian'erbei was supposed to be a model student, all prim and proper, with a stern look on her face and a stiff, old-fashioned way of speaking.

She hadn't wanted to let someone she'd barely met become her fiancé.

To figure out whether Luo Yan was telling the truth, Qian'erbei began sorting out the details in her mind.

[At first, whether I was Qian'erbei or the so-called fiancée he mentioned, I was firmly against it.]

[As far as I was concerned, I didn't want some random stranger I knew nothing about becoming my fiancé.]

[Qian'erbei felt the same way. She was much younger than me, and she absolutely rejected the idea of a so-called fiancé. She even went toe-to-toe with Qian Daoliu, determined to make him abandon the idea of marrying her off.]

[Unfortunately, when she argued with Qian Daoliu, she didn't manage to cancel the engagement. Instead, Qian Daoliu successfully persuaded her. Even though they'd spoken openly about it, they'd still reluctantly agreed to end the engagement.]

[Don't get me wrong, especially when it comes to Bibi Dong. After understanding how deeply Qian'erbei was involved with her, I wanted even less to make Bibi Dong my fiancée. I'd be asking for trouble if I did.]

[As the true heir of Spirit Hall, I only wanted to prove myself to my elders. That was why I'd spent ten years acting like a good-for-nothing, hiding the fact that I'd been born with twenty levels of innate spirit power.]

[Everyone who knew the truth understood that Qian'erbei would eventually have to marry one of the elders. She was supposed to work hard at cultivation and take back Spirit Hall's authority, but instead she'd chosen to become a good-for-nothing. That was quite a surprise.]

What?!

When she heard Luo Yan say that she was useless, Qian'erbei, with her face flushed red, slapped the table.

"Bastard! You're the one calling me useless?"

"I even had the patience to end our engagement, and you still had the nerve to say I'm useless?"

Yueyan was speechless.

What shocked Qian'erbei most wasn't that Luo Yan had called her useless. It was that he'd openly admitted he wanted to end their engagement, even though he'd already stopped resisting.

No, you were the one who wanted to end it!

Women could be so unreasonable. I could accept you wanting to end the engagement, but if you said you thought I was useless, that meant you were looking down on me.

Even if she'd failed miserably at pretending to be useless, Luo Yan still couldn't lose face by calling her useless to her face.

According to Qian'erbei's guess, there had to be someone else behind the diary, too. Maybe Bibi Dong was one of them.

If Bibi Dong heard Luo Yan say that she was useless, there was no way she wouldn't want to slap herself for laughing.

Qian'erbei: Don't kiss me.

[When I first met Qian'erbei, we didn't like each other at all. But after spending more time together and interacting face-to-face, both of us gradually changed our minds and slowly accepted each other.]

[In my past life, I'd been terribly jealous. After all, Bibi Dong and Qian'erbei were mother and daughter. Calling them sworn enemies was putting it mildly. The older one was always beating Qian'erbei, while Qian'erbei just wanted to kill her. I honestly didn't know how they'd ever reconcile.]

When she thought of that, Bibi Dong and Qian'erbei came up with the same idea at the same time.

"Obviously, I'm the one who married you. I'm your wife!"

One was at Spirit Hall, the other in the Heavenly Emperor's Family. Even though they were mother and daughter, a diary had somehow driven a wedge between them.

[Who knew if that was a blessing or a curse? Before the conflict between the mother and daughter could fully explode, Spirit Hall was already wiped out by Han San and his allies.]

[When Spirit Hall fell, the major forces all looked on in shock. Their good days were over. Little did they know that this was the beginning of their nightmare.]

[Han San wanted to turn the Clear Sky Clan into his own backyard, so he naturally couldn't allow those Spirit Master families to remain. Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, which had helped him when he was weak, couldn't escape its fate.]

[Whether it was the major forces or the other Spirit Master families, even the Sea God Temple fell victim to Han San's schemes.]

[After Spirit Hall fell, ordinary people no longer had a place to turn for protection. Even the Spirit Masters had no one left to rely on. Under Han San's smear campaign, Spirit Hall became the villain responsible for countless crimes, while he became the savior who gathered the trust of the people across the continent.]

[Those who had helped him would eventually be silenced without mercy. Like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, they'd given Han San so much help, only to be poisoned and wiped out by him. After that, there was no longer any independent force on the continent.]

[Even Yu Xiaogang, the man who'd once been known as the Grandmaster, was treated like dirt by Han San.]

[All that could be said was that Han San truly deserved his title as the Devil Beyond the Heavens.]

"Han San, the Devil Beyond the Heavens? He really is ruthless!"

Qian'erbei narrowed her eyes. Han San could be considered a tower of cruelty.

Even if she never met him, if Luo Yan's description was accurate, then even his own wife had been treated like dirt. His enemies' families had ended up in ruins, too. That kind of man couldn't possibly have been a good person.

Qian'erbei had to admit that Luo Yan was right.

Setting aside whatever he'd written in the diary, the fact that Luo Yan knew he'd been pretending to be useless in the Heavenly Emperor's Family—and knew about the relationship between him and Bibi Dong—was already enough to earn Qian'erbei's trust.

"Luo Yan never would've guessed that Han San's dark past was being laid bare in the diary. I wonder what effect it'll have on the Devil Beyond the Heavens."

"If the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan and the other great clans had someone who knew the truth about Han San's schemes, then his future wouldn't have been so smooth. He wouldn't have been able to get away with nearly so much."

Thinking about the fate Han San was about to face, Qian'erbei couldn't help smiling. There was a trace of amusement in her expression.

Since she'd already confirmed that Han San was one of her and Luo Yan's future enemies, seeing his misfortunes was naturally a pleasure.

The only regret was that, even though she knew Han San would become a great threat, she couldn't do anything to help him. The Sea God's attention prevented her from taking action against him.

That being said, Qian'erbei found it hard to believe that her future fiancé would have so many women around him...