Dai Mubai: Zhu Zhuqing, Get on Your Knees and I'll Give You a Chance to Be Forgiven

Xiao Wu slowly turned her head, her bright eyes already filled with tears.

"Senior, to him, are Soul Beasts and women really nothing more than tools?"

"Then what did everything we went through before amount to? What did all the things he said amount to?"

The misty haze in her eyes was full of confusion. This question seemed less like one directed at Lin Mian and more like one she was asking Tang San and herself.

"I can't answer that question for you. You can only ask him. Only he himself knows the answer."

"But will he really give me an honest answer? Won't he lie to me?"

"What do you think?"

Xiao Wu lowered her head. Of course she knew that if she went out recklessly, the answer she received would definitely be a lie.

Lin Mian took in her expression and found it somewhat amusing.

"Since you don't want to answer yet, then wait a little longer. See what he says afterward, then make your decision."

"Wait?"

"Yes, wait. Other than that, what else can you do?"

"Should I drag him here and threaten his life to make him tell me the answer?"

"Leaving aside whether you'd be willing, could you be sure such an answer would be true?"

Xiao Wu still had some feelings and hopes for Tang San after all. Deep down, she still did not want Tang San to be hurt.

"Let's wait a little longer."

Xiao Wu lowered her head and softly uttered those words, so quietly they were almost imperceptible.

After a while, she raised her head again and asked Lin Mian.

"Senior, do you think what he said was right or wrong?"

Her eyes were filled with inquiry. This was not agreement, but confirmation.

Lin Mian was in a good mood and did not mind answering her question.

"As far as I'm concerned, some of what he said was right, and some was wrong."

"What was right, and what was wrong?" Xiao Wu pressed urgently.

"What was right was naturally his description of strength."

"When your strength is great enough that no one can resist you, then no matter what anyone does, they cannot truly harm your life."

"At that point, no matter what she wants to do, you won't need to fear it."

"Was I able to establish the Judgment Hall because Spirit Hall and the Two Empires suddenly grew a conscience and truly wanted to protect ordinary people?"

"Of course not."

"The reason was that I possessed great strength, strength so great that they could not stop me from doing anything, even if what I did harmed their interests."

"Those Soul Masters relied on their strength to bully ordinary people. Naturally, I could also rely on my strength to make them accept the rules I set."

"If your strength had always surpassed Tang San's, then no matter what he did, he could not truly hurt you, and you would not need to be so heartbroken."

"In this world, strength is just that important."

Xiao Wu fell into a long silence.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, the environment was actually even more ruthless than the human world, where the weak were prey to the strong.

But she had been protected too well, growing up carefree into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

When she became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, her mother being captured was the only setback she had ever suffered.

But at that time, she was already a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and two other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had been by her side to protect her.

The law of the jungle had still been far away from her.

After coming to the human world, it was her first time truly encountering the idea that the weak were prey to the strong, and it felt unfamiliar instead.

"Then what was wrong?"

After a long while, she raised her head and asked again.

"What was wrong was naturally what he said about women."

"Women are not Soul Beasts, much less tools. They are independent individuals with thoughts of their own. They should not be forced or deceived. They have the freedom to choose."

"Of course, the same goes for men."

"This world has no shortage of women who deceive men or men who deceive women. Those are nothing but despicable methods."

Xiao Wu looked at the handsome man.

Though he usually acted frivolous and cynical, he actually understood everything, like a wise man.

Then she asked another question.

"Why are you willing to tell me all this and let me stay here? I feel that you don't expect nothing in return."

Lin Mian chuckled.

"You're right. I naturally want something in return for telling you this, but what I want isn't particularly urgent. Everything depends on fate."

"What exactly is it?"

"I told you these things because I want to take you as my disciple, just like Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong. Everything else you possess is unimportant."

"Take me as your disciple?"

Xiao Wu had considered that he wanted her Spirit Ring and Soul Bone. She had considered that he wanted her body. But she had never considered that he wanted to take her as his disciple.

For such a powerful man to take her as his disciple should have been an honor for her.

"Then why didn't you make that clear from the beginning?"

"At the beginning, did you really want to leave Tang San?" Lin Mian asked in return.

Xiao Wu fell silent. Back then, it seemed she truly had never considered leaving Tang San.

She wanted to say something else, but Lin Mian stopped her.

"Don't answer yet. Wait until Zhu Qing returns and see what Tang San says, then answer."

With that, Lin Mian turned and left, leaving Xiao Wu alone there.

Xiao Wu looked at Tang San's figure outside the courtyard. Rather than leaving, she found a corner and waited.

Dai Mubai waited outside with complete confidence, as though he could already see Zhu Zhuqing lowering her head.

The wait was long. The scorching sunlight beat down on them, and even as Soul Masters, they still felt overheated.

Their expressions gradually grew impatient. Their ugly natures were fully exposed, and the things they said were unbearable to hear, all revolving around women.

Even Tang San completely cast aside his pure and noble facade and joined their discussion.

Not far away, Xiao Wu silently listened to their conversation, growing more disappointed by the moment.

Gradually, as the sun was about to set completely, the Soul Tool Car and Ning Rongrong appeared in the distance.

Upon seeing the Soul Tool Car, Dai Mubai and the others all rose to their feet and blocked its path.

The dejected expression on Dai Mubai's face vanished, replaced by arrogant insolence.

Or rather, this was who he had been all along.

"Get the hell out here! What did you mean by what you said earlier? If you apologize to me, I can give you a chance to be forgiven."

Dai Mubai looked at her haughtily. That gaze was not how one looked at a fiancée, but more like how he looked at a servant in his household.

Zhu Zhuqing's already cold gaze turned even colder, and words like shards of ice came from her lips.

"Looks like you already know what you did, yet you still refuse to repent. It seems my decision was indeed correct."

"Let me tell you this: no matter what you say, the two of us will have nothing to do with each other from now on."

"And I really want to say this: a parasite like you who relies on his family is truly like a piece of trash. You disgust me. I want to kick you to the side of the road."

"What did you say? Where did you get the nerve to say something like that? Is it because of that so-called master of yours?"

Dai Mubai shouted and raged like a clown whose toes had been stepped on.