When Yan heard this, he nearly choked on his own rage! It wasn't that Xu Mochen's origins in the Sun Moon Empire had hit him particularly hard. No, what really got to him was that he'd actually believed the nonsense someone had fed him!
They'd told him Hu Liena liked listening to fairy tales about heroes! He'd actually taken them at their word, and even made up a whole pile of terribly clumsy stories. Then he'd gone and knocked on Hu Liena's dormitory door just to tell them to her!
Like the tale of a hero named "Yan Huo," who answered the king's call, slew an Evil Dragon, rescued the beautiful Princess Nana, and won her hand in the end!
Hu Liena had watched Yan tell his outlandish tale with a rapturous expression, forcing herself to listen while also struggling to hold back the fury rising inside her!
In the end, she couldn't take it anymore! She simply roared at Yan, "Are you ever going to stop? If you want to write nonsensical stories, entertain yourself with them! Don't come here and bother me! I don't want to hear any fairy tales! And I definitely don't want to hear any of the nauseating, mushy junk you write!"
Then she slammed the door shut with a bang, leaving Yan standing there, utterly dumbfounded. At the time, though, he'd naively assumed his storytelling was just so poor that he hadn't managed to move Hu Liena! He'd even wasted a great deal of cultivation time racking his brains and trying his hardest to construct a wonderful fairy tale!
It wasn't until Yan learned about Xu Mochen's background that he suddenly remembered hearing about the stories Xu Mochen had told Hu Liena! That was when the truth dawned on him: what Xu Mochen had