[Douluo II Period] [----In reality, he was an extremely promiscuous man who couldn't even keep his hands off himself!]
After a brief silence, the crowd erupted!
"Good heavens! Is this talking about Dean Yan? The refined, elegant Dean Yan?"
Countless students who idolized Yan Shaozhe, especially the girls who admired him, felt their faith come crashing down in that moment.
They were all ashen-faced, unable to accept this cruel reality.
At the Sea God Pavilion, in the lounge.
"No—no, that's not true!"
Yan Shaozhe murmured to himself instinctively, his face as pale as paper.
Qian Duoduo looked at him, utterly lost, and opened his mouth as if to offer some words of comfort. In the end, all that came out was a complicated sigh.
Others might not know, but how could he not know about the ridiculous things Yan Shaozhe had done when he was young?
"Promiscuous? Couldn't keep his hands to himself?!"
It was all thanks to Mu En helping him cover things up.
That guy had relied on his looks and his status as Mu En's disciple to incur who knew how many romantic debts.
If Mu En hadn't kept cleaning up after him back then, his reputation would have been in ruins long ago.
He just hadn't expected the Sky Screen to expose it all so directly.
Well, there went a lifetime of good reputation, ruined in an instant.
At the thought, Qian Duoduo couldn't help showing a trace of schadenfreude.
That's what you get for stealing her back then!
However, lost in his gloating, he failed to notice—
Beside him, Xian Lin'er's delicate body trembled, and the color drained from her once spirited face.
Amid the shock and uproar across the continent,
golden words appeared once more on the Sky Screen.
They clearly listed Yan Shaozhe's offenses, one by one.
[Reasons for making the list!]
[First: Promiscuous and unfaithful, a womanizer by nature.]
[Second: Secretly pursuing others, utterly shameless.]
[Third: Suppressing rivals and indulging his descendants.]
[Douluo II Period]
In the lounge,
Qian Duoduo stared at the three reasons, frozen in place. The schadenfreude in his eyes gave way to confusion.
He knew his old friend's character well. The first accusation was beyond dispute.
But the second and third—
Secretly pursuing others?
What did that mean?
As people in both eras debated these shocking accusations, the Sky Screen's voice rang out again.
[Next, we will explain the first reason:]
[Promiscuous and unfaithful, a womanizer by nature.]
The images on the Sky Screen began to change rapidly.
A handsome little boy dressed in white, looking no older than seven or eight, appeared onscreen. He was as delicate as a painted doll.
He was Yan Shaozhe as a child.
[Yan Shaozhe was the direct disciple of Mu En, the master of the Sea God Pavilion. Though they were not related by blood, they were as close as father and son.]
[Thanks to this connection, along with his top-tier Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul, he held an extraordinary position in Shrek Academy and had been showered with affection from a young age.]
[But few knew that the source of his Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul was the Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul of Ma Hongjun, one of the Shrek Seven Devils from ten thousand years ago.]
[Though ten thousand years of inheritance and mutation had freed it from the agony of being consumed by evil fire, the primal desires buried deep in his bloodline were extremely difficult to root out.]
[Mu En had warned him time and again to guard against arrogance and impatience, and to keep himself in check.]
Onscreen, Mu En earnestly admonished Yan Shaozhe:
["Shaozhe, remember this: you must never indulge yourself. Otherwise, you'll bring about a terrible mistake and harm both yourself and others."]
Little Yan Shaozhe lowered his head, looking obedient and attentive.
But the moment Mu En turned away, the obedient look vanished from his face, replaced by a trace of impatience and slyness.
[However, Yan Shaozhe simply treated his master's teachings as words to be ignored.]
[From the age of ten, he relied on his good looks and status to flirt with girls wherever he went.]
[One could only say, he was truly a descendant of the Evil Fire Phoenix!]
Scenes began to flash rapidly across the Sky Screen.
One day, little Yan Shaozhe gave flowers to one girl; the next, he showered another with attention.
He wore an innocent smile, but spoke lines so saccharine even adults would find them embarrassing, making girl after girl blush.
Similar scenes played one after another over the next few seconds, each with a different girl.
[Douluo II Period]
At this point, some of the girls in the square began murmuring among themselves.
"He's handsome and popular with girls. That's...that's normal, isn't it?"
"Exactly. They were just kids fooling around without knowing any better."
"Does that really count as a grave offense?"
To them, it was just children playing at romance. Maybe he was a little precocious, but it wasn't a serious offense.
Some students, however, felt uneasy.
Flirting with girls at the age of ten?
Could that really be excused as childish ignorance?
But the next scene on the Sky Screen silenced every voice.
The image changed again. Yan Shaozhe had grown into a handsome youth of sixteen or seventeen.
[In their youth, Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, Xian Lin'er, and Cai Mei'er had all met upon enrolling at Shrek Academy.]
At Shrek Academy's opening ceremony, four spirited young people stood shoulder to shoulder.
Yan Shaozhe, handsome and dashing; Qian Duoduo, honest and dependable; Xian Lin'er, spirited and valiant; and Cai Mei'er, gentle and serene.
[Gentle Cai Mei'er fell in love with the dazzling Yan Shaozhe.]
[Meanwhile, both Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe fell for the fiery-tempered Xian Lin'er.]
[In the end, Xian Lin'er chose Yan Shaozhe, who shared more of her interests and was also more handsome and charming, and the two got together.]
Onscreen, Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er walked side by side along a tree-lined path at Shrek. They made a perfect match, drawing countless envious glances.
Qian Duoduo and Cai Mei'er followed behind them, both unable to hide the pain in their eyes.
But the warm scene was soon shattered.
[But old habits die hard.]
[Even while dating Xian Lin'er, Yan Shaozhe did not rein himself in. Instead, he only grew worse.]
[While enjoying Xian Lin'er's affection, he also maintained ambiguous relationships with other female students who were interested in him.]
The Sky Screen rapidly played a string of scenes.
On the training field,
Yan Shaozhe coached Xian Lin'er in her cultivation;
at the same time, he exchanged flirtatious glances with another curvaceous female student nearby.
In the library,
he claimed to be looking up materials for Xian Lin'er;
yet, on the sly, he slipped a note full of sweet nothings into a junior student's hand.
At night, beneath the dormitory building,
he had just escorted Xian Lin'er home;
the moment she was gone, he turned and embraced another female student waiting in a corner.
On the Sky Screen, Xian Lin'er's expression shifted from sweet happiness, to suspicion, to sorrow during their arguments, and at last to endless disappointment and numbness.
[At last, the final straw broke a relationship that had long been riddled with cracks.]
It happened after a celebratory banquet, following the Shrek Inspection Group's successful suppression of Evil Soul Masters.
Xian Lin'er carried a bowl of hangover soup to Yan Shaozhe's room, pushing open his door with joyful anticipation, hoping to surprise him.
But what greeted her was Yan Shaozhe, tangled up in a disheveled state with another female student. The sight was indecent.
"Clatter."
The bowl slipped from her hands and shattered on the floor.
Xian Lin'er turned and walked away, her back resolute and forlorn.
[That relationship ended there.]
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