Faced with this so-called "deeply affectionate vow,"
Zhu Zhuqing showed no shyness whatsoever. There was only chilling coldness and an unprecedented resolve on her face.
"Shut up!"
Her sharp shout drowned out all the jeering.
Zhu Zhuqing stepped forward, and the icy glint in her eyes instantly shut Ma Hongjun and Oscar up.
She looked at Dai Mubai as though she were looking at a pile of non-recyclable trash.
"Fiancée?"
"Dai Mubai, do you have no shame?"
"That was nothing more than the so-called 'family marriage alliance' forced upon us by the Star Luo Empire! It was a political contract, not love!"
"And besides..."
Zhu Zhuqing raised her voice, every word piercing his heart.
"Even if that engagement existed, years ago, when you abandoned your family and your responsibilities like a coward and fled here alone to indulge yourself in pleasure..."
"You already gave up the right to claim it!"
"Since you chose to run away, chose to become a useless waste waiting to die, what right do you have to stand up now and use that identity you abandoned long ago to restrain me?"
Her words struck Dai Mubai across the face like a series of resounding slaps.
Dai Mubai's face instantly turned deathly pale, and his body swayed as though he might collapse.
He had been exposed.
The past he least wanted to face, his most cowardly side, had been stripped bare before everyone.
But Zhu Zhuqing did not stop.
She remembered all the suffering she had endured over the years. She remembered Ye Liuyun's words from last night: "If you want to live, it's very simple." The last trace of illusion she held toward the man before her shattered completely.
"Dai Mubai."
"Look carefully."
"I, Zhu Zhuqing, am a living, breathing person. I am a Spirit Master