"Lord Pang Luo, go!"
"Defeat that ugly half-elf!"
"That lowly creature actually dares covet Altani's beauty! He even had the nerve to challenge him to a duel!"
"Make him lose his life!"
"..."
Nearly every cheer was for the half-elf's opponent—the elf named Pang Luo.
Chen Rui walked over to Lola at the uppermost stands. The Fairy Dragon lady noticed his arrival, smiled faintly, and took his hand of her own accord. This gesture caused quite a few male elves drawn to Lola's beauty to reveal disappointed expressions.
From Lola, Chen Rui learned that his new half-elf follower had vanished after entering the Silvermoon Fairy Capital. When he reappeared, he had somehow become the central figure in a major incident.
The course of events was much like a scene from countless novels: the male and female leads were a pair of lovers deeply in love, forced apart due to the woman's family's fierce opposition. The heroine was compelled to marry a man she did not love, and at last the hero arrived just in time at the wedding. Such stories usually ended happily; comedies were always easier to accept than tragedies. But reality was cruel. After the half-elf found his beloved Altani, before he could even exchange more than a few words with her, Pang Luo—who had been secretly following Altani all along—discovered them. Pang Luo was Altani's fiancé. Seeing that his future wife was still "unrepentant," still together with that lowly, ugly half-elf, his fury surged sky-high, and he longed to hack his rival into ten thousand pieces.
Pang Luo did not act directly. Instead, he summoned the elf guards responsible for maintaining order, along with a great many elves attending the New Moon Festival. In an instant, the half-elf who had secretly infiltrated and "defiled" the New Moon