"Yu Xiaogang, I have come to tell you that Bibi Dong has personally agreed to marry me. You should give up on that pipe dream."
As these icy words left Ye Guyue's lips, they struck deep into Yu Xiaogang's heart, leaving his eyes bloodshot. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Dong'er would never marry you; the one she loves is me."
"You must be lying to me. I, Yu Xiaogang, am no fool."
Yu Xiaogang roared, refusing to believe that Bibi Dong would ever marry the man before him.
Ye Guyue sneered, his crimson eyes fixed on Yu Xiaogang:
"The biological son of Yu Yuanzhen of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Before your awakening, you strutted about the clan, convinced you could lead it to glory. But when the time came, your martial soul mutated, awakening as a pig, with a mere half-level of innate soul power—not even reaching the first rank."
"As for the Ten Core Competitiveness Theories of Martial Souls you proposed, do you dare claim you thought of them yourself? They were nothing more than stolen goods, pilfered from the archives of Martial Soul Hall."
"Do you truly believe you are some self-important Grandmaster?"
Every word from Ye Guyue made cold sweat pour down Yu Xiaogang's back, for every word was the truth, yet he would never admit it.
"A person like you—who could ever love you?"
Ye Guyue sighed:
"A good-for-nothing piece of trash. Who in your clan could ever look up to you? If you weren't the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Master, you would have been swept out the door long ago."
"A toad lusting after swan meat. A piece of trash delusional enough to think he is worthy of the Saintess—it is nothing but a fever dream."
"In this entire world, only that fool Bibi Dong would be willing to believe your ghost stories."
"A good-for-nothing piece of trash?"
The sentence struck like a bolt of lightning, hitting the very core of Yu Xiaogang's being. His adrenaline spiked, and he fought desperately to tear through the cage, wanting nothing more than to land a heavy blow on Ye Guyue.
"I am not trash."
"I am a future prodigy, a Grandmaster destined to teach geniuses."
"You understand nothing."
Yu Xiaogang gripped the bars of his cage, his eyes burning red as if he wanted to tear Ye Guyue limb from limb.
"What are you even supposed to be, to judge me? If Bibi Dong could believe those words, then any other woman could too. I am young, I have potential, I have a future! What do you have? You're just a dullard who knows only how to cultivate—what use is that!"
Yu Xiaogang grew more animated as he spoke, his tone turning contemptuous.
"If you dare lay a hand on me, Bibi Dong will not let you go, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan will not let you go."
"I will also use every means at my disposal to utterly destroy you, to reduce you to a beggar fighting for scraps in the gutter."
Yu Xiaogang laughed wildly:
"My birth and background are far superior to yours. The future leadership of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan will be mine, and Bibi Dong will be mine. You are nothing."
The dim dungeon was filled with Yu Xiaogang's arrogant laughter and roaring, as if he were merely a loser clinging to the past.
To Ye Guyue, this desperate struggle was no different from the antics of a clown.
"Are you finished?"
Ye Guyue chuckled:
"All your so-called glory has come to an end. Do you truly think your father, Yu Yuanzhen, would dare to offend Martial Soul Hall?"
"The Ten Core Competitiveness Theories of Martial Souls—do you really think they are worth anything? Aside from the uneducated, who would ever believe you?"
"If your Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan truly thought you were useful or important, why hasn't your father come? Have you never thought about that?"
"Everything you have said is merely a way to maintain your dignity, which is as fragile as paper and tears at the slightest touch."
Every word from Ye Guyue was like a silver needle, piercing his heart again and again.
Yu Xiaogang collapsed like a kite with a broken string, vomiting a mouthful of blood. His complexion, already pale as paper, became even more ghastly.
He slumped to the ground like a dead dog, motionless.
Ye Guyue did not let up, continuing his assault:
"As for the Bibi Dong you imagine—if she truly loved you, would she not have come to save you? She is the Saintess of Martial Soul Hall; would it be so difficult for her to use her authority to release you from this dungeon alone?"
"Use your brain. If someone truly cared for you, wouldn't they come to save you? She hasn't even come to look at you once. Do you think your 'deep affection' is worth it?"
"Every woman loves the strong. Do you really think Bibi Dong wouldn't change? It is utterly laughable."
Yu Xiaogang sat slumped on the floor, his eyes hollow, muttering to himself.
Finally, he clenched his fists and roared at Ye Guyue:
"You pair of adulterous wretches, may you meet a miserable end! I never expected her to be like this."
"That bitch Bibi Dong... I thought she loved me. I never expected her to betray my sincere heart, and there is also..."
At this point, Yu Xiaogang stopped speaking.
Ye Guyue caught the key point. "And what else? If you tell me, I might just let you go."
Yu Xiaogang remained silent, but in order to escape and take revenge on that pair of wretches, he decided that holding back no longer mattered.
"Speak up. As long as you are clear enough, I can let you leave Martial Soul City right now."
Ye Guyue leaned against the cold prison bars, his tone flat, yet it struck precisely at Yu Xiaogang's most desperate craving.
Yu Xiaogang stared fixedly at Ye Guyue, resentment and unwillingness churning in the depths of his eyes, and gritted his teeth as he poured out the words he had kept hidden for years.
"I never approached her because of some bullshit love!"
"She had Innate Full Soul Power, Twin Martial Souls, and was the Saintess of Martial Soul Hall—who on the entire continent wouldn't be green with envy? I was kicked out of the Blue Lightning family, and everyone called me trash. Only she was stupid enough to treat the few theories I spouted as absolute truth and view me as a peerless genius."
"If I hadn't latched onto her, I would never have been able to hold my head high in this life, forever remaining an outcast of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!"
The more he spoke, the more agitated he became, losing all his previous cowardice and replaced only by the madness of someone with nothing left to lose.
"You think I actually cared for her? She was just a fool raised in a greenhouse by Martial Soul Hall, spun around by a few sweet words, willingly handing over cultivation resources and even daring to secretly copy the core texts of Martial Soul Hall for me."
"She thought I was sincere? Once I perfected my theories using her resources and established a foothold using the reputation of Martial Soul Hall, she would be the first one I kicked to the curb."
"She's just a woman. Once I become the universally recognized Grandmaster of the continent, what kind of woman couldn't I find? That Bibi Dong is nothing more than a stepping stone for me to climb higher."
"Furthermore, I had already planned it out: even if she really ran away with me, I could still manipulate her."
Yu Xiaogang sneered, his face filled with the smugness of a scheme successfully executed.
"Her nature is simple and she values emotions too much. As long as I play the victim and talk about my ambitions, she would sacrifice everything for me."
"Once I have squeezed every bit of value out of her in Martial Soul Hall, she will be worthless to me."
"What bullshit love—in the face of power and status, it's worth nothing! That Bibi Dong is just stupid; she deserves to be deceived by me!"
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