Yu Xiaogang Spills His Heart, Bibi Dong Is a Fool

"Yu Xiaogang, I came to tell you that Bibi Dong has personally agreed to marry me. Give up on her."

Ye Guyue's icy words rang out.

They struck Yu Xiaogang hard. His eyes reddened. "Impossible. Absolutely impossible. Dong'er would never marry you. I'm the one she loves."

"You must be lying to me. I, Yu Xiaogang, am no fool."

Yu Xiaogang roared, refusing to believe that Bibi Dong would marry the man before him.

Ye Guyue sneered, his scarlet eyes fixed on Yu Xiaogang.

"You're the biological son of Yu Yuanzhen, head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Before your awakening, you strutted around the family, thinking you could lead the clan to glory. But when you awakened your Martial Soul, it mutated into a pig. You even had only half a level of Innate Soul Power—not even a full level."

"You came up with the Ten Core Competitiveness Theories of Martial Souls? Would you dare claim you thought them up yourself? You only stole them from books in Spirit Hall."

"You really think you're the self-proclaimed Grandmaster?"

Every word from Ye Guyue made Yu Xiaogang break out in a cold sweat. Everything he said was true, but Yu Xiaogang would never admit it.

"Who could ever like someone like you?"

Ye Guyue sighed.

"You're a good-for-nothing. Who in your family could respect you? If you weren't the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's head, you'd have been kicked out long ago."

"A toad lusting after a swan's flesh—a good-for-nothing dreaming of being worthy of the Holy Maiden. It's pure delusion."

"Of all the women in this world, only that fool Bibi Dong would believe your lies."

"A good-for-nothing?"

Those words struck Yu Xiaogang like a bolt from the blue, hitting his deepest nerve. Adrenaline surged through him as he desperately tried to tear open the cage around him and punch Ye Guyue square in the face.

"I'm not a good-for-nothing!"

"I'm a future prodigy, a future Grandmaster who'll teach geniuses!"

"You don't understand a thing."

Yu Xiaogang clutched the bars confining him, his eyes bloodshot, as if he wanted to tear Ye Guyue limb from limb.

"What are you, to judge me? Bibi Dong believes those words, and so would other women. I'm young. I have potential. I have a future. What do you have? You're an idiot who does nothing but cultivate. What good is that?"

The more Yu Xiaogang spoke, the more fired up he became, his tone dripping with contempt.

"If you dare lay a hand on me, Bibi Dong won't let you get away with it. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan won't let you get away with it, either."

"I'll do whatever it takes to destroy you, too—to reduce you to a beggar at the bottom of society, fighting over scraps of food."

Yu Xiaogang burst out laughing.

"My birth and connections are far better than yours. The position of head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan will be mine. Bibi Dong will be mine, too. You're nothing."

Yu Xiaogang's arrogant laughter and roars filled the dim dungeon, making him sound like a failed man still living in the past.

He was merely clinging to life. To Ye Guyue, he was no different from a buffoon.

"Are you done?"

Ye Guyue chuckled.

"All the glory you claim as yours is over. Do you think your father, Yu Yuanzhen, would dare offend Spirit Hall?"

"The Ten Core Competitiveness Theories of Martial Souls—do you really think they're worth anything? Only ignorant people would believe you. Who else would?"

"If the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan thought you were useful or important, why hasn't your father come? Have you never wondered?"

"Everything you've said is just a way to prop up your dignity, as fragile as a sheet of paper—one poke, and it tears."

Every word from Ye Guyue was like a silver needle, stabbing straight into Yu Xiaogang's heart again and again.

Yu Xiaogang crumpled like a kite with its strings cut and vomited blood. His face, already pale as paper, looked more lifeless than ever.

He fell to the ground like a dead dog, motionless.

Ye Guyue didn't press his attack further. Instead, he continued.

"You think you know Bibi Dong. If you really believe she loves you, why hasn't she come to save you? She's Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden. Would it really be so hard for her to use her authority to have you released from the dungeon?"

"Have you even stopped to think? If someone truly cared about you, wouldn't she come save you? She hasn't even come to see you. Do you think you deserve her devotion?"

"Every woman loves a strong man. Do you think Bibi Dong won't change? How ridiculous."

Yu Xiaogang slumped on the ground, his eyes vacant as he muttered to himself.

At last, he clenched his fists and roared at Ye Guyue.

"You pair of dogs, you'll die horribly! I never thought she'd turn out to be like this."

"That slut Bibi Dong—I thought she loved me. I never expected her to betray my sincere feelings. And..."

He fell silent.

Ye Guyue caught the key phrase. "And what? If you tell me, I might let you go."

Yu Xiaogang said nothing. But if it meant getting out and taking revenge on the pair of them, there was no point keeping his secrets anymore.

"Go ahead and tell me. As long as you explain it clearly, I can let you leave Spirit City right now."

Ye Guyue leaned against the cold bars, his tone calm, but his words struck right at Yu Xiaogang's most desperate desire.

Yu Xiaogang stared at Ye Guyue, resentment and unwillingness roiling in his eyes. Gritting his teeth, he spilled the heartfelt truth he'd kept hidden for years.

"I got close to her for no damn love!"

"She had Innate Full Soul Power, Twin Martial Souls, and was Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden. Who on the whole continent wouldn't envy her? The Blue Lightning Clan drove me out, and everyone called me a good-for-nothing. Only she was foolish enough to treat a few theories I tossed out as gospel and believe I was a genius born once in a generation."

"If I didn't seize my chance with her, I'd never hold my head up again. I'd be a castoff of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan forever!"

The more he spoke, the more worked up he became. His earlier timidity vanished, replaced by the reckless madness of a man with nothing left to lose.

"You think I really liked her? She was just a fool raised in a hothouse by Spirit Hall. A few sweet words were enough to wrap her around my finger. She happily gave me her cultivation resources and even dared secretly copy Spirit Hall's core texts for me."

"She thought I truly cared for her? Once I used her resources to perfect my theories and the name of Spirit Hall to establish myself, she'd be the first I dumped."

"She was just a woman. Once I became a Grandmaster recognized across the continent, I could find any woman I wanted. Bibi Dong was nothing but a stepping-stone for me to climb higher."

"And I'd already thought it through. Even if she really did leave with me, I could still keep her under my thumb."

Yu Xiaogang scoffed, his face full of smug satisfaction at his own cunning.

"She's innocent and sentimental. All I have to do is act pitiful and talk about my ambitions, and she'll do anything for me.

Once I've drained every bit of value she has in Spirit Hall, she'll be worthless to me."

"What kind of nonsense is love? In the face of strength and status, it's worthless! Bibi Dong was just stupid. She deserved to be deceived by me!"