The Ex-Girlfriend Lingered Outside the Manor Late at Night? Lin Yuan: Security, Release the Dogs!

Li Xuan'er stood at the very end of the line.

At this moment.

She felt like an outsider who did not belong.

She looked at Ye Xuan, worshipped and revered by countless people.

At his face, somewhat pale from overusing a secret technique, yet filled with madness and stubborn obsession.

Instead of feeling even the slightest joy, an ice-cold chill rose from the depths of her heart.

This...

Was this the man she had chosen, even at the cost of betraying Lin Yuan?

After the match ended.

In the lounge, Ye Xuan did not even speak to any of his teammates.

He merely sat alone, silently wiping the blood from his hands.

There was no joy of victory in those eyes, only the glint of a beast choosing someone to devour.

All his attention seemed focused on a distant direction—

The direction of Lin Family Manor.

Li Xuan'er gathered her courage, stepped forward, and softly said, "Ye Xuan, congratulations. If we... keep this up, we'll win the championship soon!"

Ye Xuan did not even raise his head, merely letting out a cold snort through his nose.

"Championship?"

"A childish game like this deserves to be called a championship?"

"This is only the beginning."

With that, he rose and pushed open the door.

Leaving all his teammates' congratulations and cheers shut behind him.

Li Xuan'er stood there blankly, feeling as though a basin of icy water had been poured over her from head to toe.

A childish game?

This was the honor he had risked his life to win?

Yet in his eyes, it was worth less than nothing?

At that moment, Lin Yuan's lazy-looking face surfaced in her mind once again, beyond her control.

Though that man always seemed uninterested in everything, he had always been gentle and accommodating toward her.

He remembered the desserts she casually mentioned liking, then had the family's top-class chef make them and deliver them before her the next day.

Whenever her cultivation suffered setbacks, he clumsily told bad jokes to cheer her up.

He treated every one of her demands like an imperial decree, fulfilling them without ever asking why.

Back then, she had thought all of it was only natural. She had even found him annoying, like a tagalong she could not shake off.

But now?

Ye Xuan had won the whole world, yet was stingy even with a smile for her.

Lin Yuan had lost her, yet had once given her the whole world.

So...

She was the most laughable fool of all!

She had taken a venomous snake draped in dragon skin, cold and selfish at its core, as a treasure.

Yet she had personally pushed away the true divine dragon who could summon wind and rain, who had been willing to shield her from every storm!

Regret!

Endless regret, like the sharpest blade, carved into her heart slice by slice.

After leaving the lounge.

Li Xuan'er wandered the streets in a daze, like a walking corpse.

Without realizing it, she hailed a taxi.

As if possessed by ghosts, she gave an address that had once been incomparably familiar to her, but now lay beyond reach.

Lin Family Manor.

When that magnificent estate, like the dwelling place of a Divine Being from myth, appeared before her once more, Li Xuan'er's breathing stopped.

Towering walls, heavily guarded sentry posts.

And that heavy Gilded Gate, as though it could divide two worlds.

Everything there silently reminded her of what she had lost.

She had once...

Been able to casually swipe open those gates and walk into that place which countless socialites and wealthy ladies could not enter even after racking their brains.

But now, she could only stand across the street like some pitiful wretch, looking up at it in humble longing.

She watched refrigerated trucks carrying top-grade ingredients drive into the manor.

Any one of those ingredients was a hundred times more precious than the Spirit Plants she exchanged for with Points at the academy.

She watched the manor's servants, dressed in neat uniforms, come and go.

Every face carried pride that came from the heart.

A cold wind swept past, and she instinctively wrapped her coat tighter around herself.

But the chill seemed to rise from the Depth of the Soul, impossible to fend off.

She stood in those shadows for a long, long time.

Like a Waiting Woman Stone, hoping to see that familiar figure, even if only his back.

Inside the manor's master bedroom.

Lin Yuan lay in a temperature-controlled Spiritual Liquid massage bathtub built at enormous expense, so comfortable he was nearly dozing off.

The system notification in his mind had just ended.

[ Ding! Detected that the host has not left home for ten consecutive days, perfectly carrying out the philosophy of "shutting himself away and lying flat." Reward: a trace of the bloodline of the ancient divine beast, "Xuanwu"! ]

Another top-tier bloodline reward!

Lin Yuan felt the power within his body grow several degrees more robust.

Just Then.

The old butler, Uncle Zhong, appeared respectfully at the bathroom entrance.

"Young Master, that young lady from the Li Family has been wandering outside the manor for nearly an hour."

Lin Yuan kept his eyes closed, too lazy to even lift an eyebrow.

"Oh?"

Uncle Zhong paused, then continued his report. "From the look of her, she should want to see you. The temperature outside has already dropped below freezing. She is not wearing much, and if she keeps standing there, I'm afraid..."

Lin Yuan finally opened his eyes. He sat up from the bathtub, wiped the droplets from his body, and spoke as calmly as if discussing today's weather.

"It is cold. Don't let her freeze to death at our doorstep. Bad luck."

Uncle Zhong froze, thinking the Young Master had softened his heart.

However, Lin Yuan's next words made even him shudder.

"Have the security team go out and remind her that littering is prohibited at our doorstep, and so is lingering for extended periods. If she still refuses to leave, open the gates and release the dogs on the grounds that she looks suspicious!"