A Face of Despair

The carriage sped down the road under the coachman's control.

Bored, Liu Erlong opened the "Goddess Diary Instance" to see whether the diary had been updated.

It would have been fine if she had not looked, but the moment she did, her fiery temper erupted.

It turned out that the mysterious diary writer had been among the crowd watching her earlier.

That was why he had been shocked by her change in attitude toward Yu Xiaogang.

"Damn it, I actually let you get away! Hmph! I refuse to believe I won't find you someday.

When that day comes, if I don't beat you so badly that even your own mother won't recognize you, my surname won't be Liu!"

Yu Xiaogang looked at Liu Erlong with a strange expression. She was actually talking to thin air.

There was definitely something wrong with this woman's mind. She was probably a genuine lunatic.

Feeling Yu Xiaogang's gaze, Liu Erlong's brows furrowed as she roared at him irritably.

"What are you looking at? Do you think you're worthy of looking at me? Keep staring, and believe it or not, I'll kill you, dig a hole, and bury you right there!

People like you waste food alive, waste land dead, and waste Gold Soul Coins half-dead. Useless trash!"

Yu Xiaogang wanted to curse Liu Erlong out, but her handkerchief was stuffed in his mouth. How could he speak?

Faced with this violent madwoman, he still did not dare meet her eyes and turned his head aside.

The carriage raced onward, taking more than ten hours to return to the Heaven Dou Imperial Capital before stopping outside Liu Erlong's home.

Having gone hungry all day, Yu Xiaogang was carried into the house by Liu Erlong like a dead dog.

Yu Xiaogang only knew that he had been brought back to the Heaven Dou Imperial Capital, but this woman's home was completely unfamiliar to him. He had never been here before.

Why had this woman brought him to her home? He was utterly confused.

Soon, the woman carried him to a room, knocked on the door, and asked.

"Father, are you in there?"

A voice Yu Xiaogang found extremely familiar came from within the room.

He knew the owner of that voice to his very bones, and Yu Xiaogang's face instantly turned deathly pale.

"Daughter, weren't you out clearing your head? Why have you come back already?"

The owner of the voice opened the door. Light shone from the room onto Yu Xiaogang, and upon seeing him, the man asked in surprise.

"Xiaogang? Why are you here? Daughter, release him at once.

He is your cousin, Yu Xiaogang. Why did you capture him?"

Although Yu Luomian did not think much of this younger nephew and believed his existence disgraced the family,

he and Yu Xiaogang's father were still blood-related brothers.

His daughter had actually brought his younger nephew home and beaten him until he was covered in wounds.

If word got back to the clan, would that not make the two brothers fall out?

"Hmph, if I hadn't known he was my cousin, I wouldn't have dragged this disgraceful thing back!"

Liu Erlong glared at Yu Xiaogang angrily.

She crouched down, reached out, pulled the saliva-soaked handkerchief from Yu Xiaogang's mouth, and tossed it aside in disgust.

"Ask him yourself! Ask him what he did in Suotuo City. Now everyone in Suotuo City knows about his vile reputation.

Hmph, before long, he'll probably ruin the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's reputation too!"

Yu Xiaogang looked up at his second uncle, then at Liu Erlong, his face full of shock.

This madwoman was actually his second uncle's daughter—his cousin!

No wonder she had beaten him over what he had done in Suotuo City and said he had disgraced the clan.

As his cousin, she truly had the right to rebuke him like this.

He suddenly felt too ashamed to face either his cousin or his second uncle.

Hearing his daughter's indignant words, Yu Luomian frowned tightly. Looking down at his nephew, he demanded sternly.

"Xiaogang! What exactly did you do in Suotuo City? Tell me the truth at once.

My daughter may have a violent temper, but she would never falsely accuse an innocent person."

Yu Xiaogang was frightened by his own uncle's interrogation. He lowered his head, not daring to answer.

Although he believed he had been wronged, before the eyes of hundreds, perhaps thousands of onlookers,

he truly had done something that disgraced the family. That was a fact.

Whether he had fallen under an Illusion Technique or some evil curse was merely his own claim. No one would believe him.

"Speak! What exactly happened? You don't even have the courage to say it? You had the nerve to do it but not the nerve to admit it? Hmph!"

Liu Erlong's expression was filled with mockery and disdain.

Back in Suotuo City, he had called her a madwoman again and again.

Yet now he stood there with his head hanging low. Where had all his arrogance gone?

"Daughter, what exactly happened to him in Suotuo City? If he won't say it, you tell me!"

Yu Luomian had always been fiercely protective of the clan's reputation.

Now that he had heard his nephew had done something to disgrace the family, his fury immediately flared.

Liu Erlong then recounted, point by point, the "heroic deeds" she had heard Yu Xiaogang committed in Suotuo City.

Naturally, some parts were versions exaggerated by the public.

In any case, Yu Xiaogang's "heroic deeds" completely shattered Yu Luomian's worldview, making his beard tremble with rage.

"You, you, you... you disgraceful wretch!

I said long ago that useless trash like you didn't deserve to remain in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!

If Elder Brother had not kept protecting you, the three elders and I would have thrown you out long ago! You bastard!"

Yu Luomian trembled all over with rage as he continuously berated Yu Xiaogang, even wanting to raise his hand and slap him to death.

Such a disgraceful scum of the family was simply the greatest shame of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!

"Er Long! Come on, we're taking him back to the clan. I want to see how the clan leader will deal with this useless trash after he caused such a massive disaster!"

Yu Luomian furiously seized Yu Xiaogang on the spot and headed for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Xiaogang was utterly ashen-faced. How could he dare act as arrogantly as he had when cursing Liu Erlong?

Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Council Hall.

Yu Yuanzhen sat upright in the seat of honor, while Yu Luomian and the three elders sat on either side.

At the center of the council hall, Yu Xiaogang knelt on the ground with a face full of shame, not daring to make a sound.

Liu Erlong stood beside him and laid out everything she had heard in Suotuo City.

Yu Xiaogang did not dare lift his head to meet his father's eyes.

His father had always been tolerant of him. No matter how useless he was, his father had always treated him kindly.

But this time, he had utterly disgraced the clan, and his own cousin had caught him in the act.

He knew that no matter how much he tried to explain, no one would believe he had been wronged.

Before tens of thousands of eyes, he had indeed crazily kissed strange women, even male guards. That was an undeniable fact.

His mind was completely blank now. He only knew that he was finished.

Even his father, the clan leader, could not protect him.

"Xiaogang, do you have anything else to say?"

Yu Yuanzhen forcefully suppressed the sorrow in his heart, wanting to hear a different answer from his son.

Yu Xiaogang sobbed bitterly and repeatedly slammed his head against the floor. "I'm sorry, Father... I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."