The Security Guard's Roar Made His Ex-Girlfriend Tremble!

Uncle Zhong stood at the bathroom door. After hearing the Young Master's calm words, his whole body stiffened for a moment.

Open the gate... release the dogs?

After following Lin Yuan for so many years, this was the first time he had heard the Young Master treat someone in such an unsparing—even humiliating—manner.

Especially Li Xuan'er, whom he had once cherished at the tip of his heart.

It seemed the Young Master had truly let go completely.

No, it should be said that he had never truly taken her up in the first place.

The worry and faint trace of pity in his heart vanished like smoke, replaced by heartfelt delight and relief.

"Yes, Young Master, I understand." Uncle Zhong bowed respectfully. Then he turned around, his face returning to the meticulous butler's expression, though a cold glint flashed deep in his eyes.

Anyone who dared make the Young Master unhappy had better be prepared to pay the price.

Outside the manor, the cold wind howled bleakly.

Li Xuan'er stood alone beneath the shadow of a streetlamp. Her delicate body trembled slightly in the frigid wind, and her face was as pale as paper.

Just Then, the heavy and magnificent Gilded Gate slowly opened a crack.

Li Xuan'er's heart jolted, and a flicker of hope instantly lit up in her eyes.

Was it him? Had he finally been unable to bear it and come out to see me?

Yet the person who emerged from the gate was not the figure she had been waiting for, but a squad of broad-built Security Guards in black uniforms, radiating an iron-blooded aura.

The Security Guard Captain at their head had eyes like lightning.

He walked straight up to her, stood at attention, and said in a completely emotionless, businesslike tone, "Good evening, ma'am. According to Article 7, Clause 3 of the Dragon Summer Country Manor Management Regulations, as well as Article 19 of the Yan Jing City Appearance Management Law, prolonged lingering, wandering about, and dumping large garbage are prohibited within one hundred meters of private residences."

The Security Guard Captain's voice was not loud, but in the silent winter night, it was like a series of resounding slaps, heavily striking Li Xuan'er's face.

Prolonged lingering... dumping large garbage...

Her face went pale in an instant, every trace of color draining away!

She knew.

The "large garbage" he referred to was her!

An endless sense of humiliation engulfed her in an instant like floodwaters bursting through a broken dam.

"I... I was only..."

Her lips trembled. She wanted to explain herself, but it was as though a wad of cotton had been stuffed down her throat, and she could not utter a single word.

The Security Guard Captain seemed not to see her utterly humiliated expression. He continued in that icy tone, "Furthermore, according to this manor's internal security regulations, we have the right to deal with anyone behaving suspiciously outside the manor and refusing to heed warnings..."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over Li Xuan'er's deathly pale face, and said word by word, "Open the gate. Release the dogs."

Boom—!

Those four words were a hundred times crueler than all the humiliation before them combined!

Like a red-hot iron hammer, they heavily smashed apart the last shred of fantasy and dignity in Li Xuan'er's heart.

So, in his eyes...

She was not even as good as a suspicious passerby.

He could not even be bothered to come out and humiliate her himself. He had merely sent the Security Guards to deal with her as if he were brushing away a fly.

No, she was not even as good as a fly.

At least swatting a fly required doing it personally.

But to deal with her, all he needed to do was...

Release the dogs.

"Pfft—"

Li Xuan'er could no longer withstand such a devastating blow. She suddenly spurted out a mouthful of heart's blood, her body swaying as though she might collapse at any moment.

The Security Guard Captain merely watched her coldly, as though he were looking at an object utterly unrelated to him.

Li Xuan'er staggered back several steps.

Looking at the gate that was so close at hand yet as distant as the ends of the earth, she revealed a smile uglier than tears.

At last, she understood.

The gap between her and Lin Yuan had never been about family background, talent, or effort.

It was an insurmountable chasm born from the very level of life itself.

She had thought she had chosen a shortcut to the summit, only to discover that she had been racing down a dead road of self-destruction.

She had thought Ye Xuan's rise was the most successful investment she had ever made.

But now, it seemed that it had merely been a ridiculous farce performed by a clown at the cost of burning away his life.

And she had been the most foolish spectator—the one who handed the clown his knife while believing she could share in his glory.

She staggered away, dragging along a heart already riddled with holes, and vanished into the dense night.

Meanwhile.

Inside the contestants' hotel for the national University League.

Ye Xuan sat cross-legged on the bed.

He forcibly suppressed the waves of weakness spreading through his body due to the Secret Technique Backlash.

The Burning Blood Dragon Transformation Technique had granted him formidable power, but its side effects were just as apparent.

He could feel his life essence slowly but irreversibly draining away.

But he did not care!

As long as he could defeat Lin Yuan, any price was worth paying!

He opened his computer.

He looked at the overwhelming flood of news praising him online, at the forum posts hailing him as "the future of Dragon Summer Martial Arts," and a powerful sense of satisfaction filled his heart.

He had succeeded!

He had finally completely suppressed that man's radiance!

Now!

Who in all of Dragon Summer Country did not know the name Ye Xuan?

And Lin Yuan?

He was nothing more than a coward hiding inside his manor, without even the courage to compete!

"Lin Yuan, do you see it?"

"This is the glory I should have!"

Ye Xuan's gaze became incomparably feverish as he stared fixedly toward the Lin Family Manor beyond the window.

"Once I win the championship, I'll personally come to your door!"

"Then, I'll let you know who the true protagonist of this era is!"