Liu Erlong's Ambition Begins!

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: These past few days, I've shut myself away and thought about it many times. Your words from before were like needles, popping the balloon of pressure I'd been carrying in my heart... It actually makes me feel a bit lighter.]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: I waited for him for twenty years, longing for him, resenting him... Perhaps I stopped caring about what kind of person he is a long time ago. What I care about is, why did I deserve to be treated this way? What did these twenty years of my life actually amount to?]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: I was just struggling against myself, using waiting to punish myself, and fantasizing about using my devotion to hold him hostage...]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Looking back now, it's truly meaningless. Hate him? I feel like that would be a waste of emotion. If I'm going to hate anyone, I should hate myself for being blind, wasting the best years of my life on a man like that.]

Looking at this message, Ye Qiong couldn't help but hold Liu Erlong in higher regard.

Although she was also a "love-brain," Liu Erlong possessed a straightforward nature of daring to love and hate. Once she awakened, that decisiveness—a determination to never look back—was something far beyond the reach of ordinary women.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: Being able to see it through is better than anything else. Let the past rot in the past.]

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: Who are you? You are Fire-Breathing Dragon Liu Erlong! Your life should be a raging fire, free and unrestrained. You shouldn't be torturing yourself while trapped in a dry well called "the past." Spending even a shred of effort on someone like him is a losing business.]

Ye Qiong took the opportunity to offer a perfectly timed compliment.

There was a silence on the other end of the screen; she seemed to be at a loss for how to react to this sudden flattery.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Heh... Your foul mouth is usually so sharp you'd curse someone's ancestors until their graves smoked. I didn't expect you to be capable of saying a few decent things.]

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: Hey! You've got a huge misunderstanding there! I am a certified good guy of the Galaxy, quality guaranteed! You know the Galaxy, right? It's a place countless times larger than the sky above our heads! The standard for "good guys" there is based entirely on me!]

A backpack full of Praise of High Morality was enough to prove the gold content of his status as a Galaxy good guy.

Liu Erlong seemed to be choked up by these blunt words, and she let out a low chuckle.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: "Galaxy"? What kind of nonsense is that... Fine, I suppose you still have a bit of a conscience, kid.]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: But, according to what you said, this "dream" of yours... it only showed you these pathetic things? Nothing else? As for me later on... I surely wasn't that unlucky forever, was I?]

Here it comes.

Ye Qiong's heart stirred. He confirmed that, just like Bibi Dong, once she saw the past clearly, she became desperate to know her own future.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: You want to know what happened later? Then I'll continue. In the later parts of the "dream," your days became much more "exciting."]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Don't keep me in suspense, speak!]

Liu Erlong's tone became noticeably urgent.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: First, your Blue Tyrant Academy will become Shrek. You will meet a group of interesting, vibrant young people.]

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: There is a girl among them who is fated to be with you. Her Spirit is a rabbit, and her name is Xiao Wu. You will take a liking to her at first sight, adopt her as your goddaughter, and cherish her as if she were your own, pouring all that unused affection into her.]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Become Shrek? That doesn't matter... Xiao Wu? A rabbit Spirit? Sounds quite well-behaved. If I meet her, I'll take her as a goddaughter. What else?]

Liu Erlong didn't care about the academy's name; instead, she felt a spark of curiosity about the girl named Xiao Wu.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: Further on... in the future of the "dream," the continent becomes very chaotic. Spirit Hall will launch a "Soul Hunting Operation" that affects the entire Spirit Master world. The Upper Three Sects will bear the brunt of it. Your origin, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family... will be completely wiped out in this turmoil.]

There was a long silence on the other end of the screen.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: ...Oh. Is that so.]

Liu Erlong's tone was very calm—unnaturally calm.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: That place, those people. To be honest, I stopped considering myself one of them a long time ago. Hearing this, I feel a bit empty, but I can't say I'm sad. Forget it, let's not talk about that. And then?]

Ye Qiong could feel that she truly held no deep affection for the family that had viewed her as a disgrace.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: After this incident, the final awkwardness between you and him—born of bloodline and family—will completely dissipate in the face of a shared impact. You will fight side by side against Spirit Hall. Once the great war ends and everything settles down...]

Ye Qiong paused intentionally. He knew the next part was the key.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Wait. After the war ends, do I go back to the old path? Am I tied up with Flender and him again, the three of us continuing this so-called "Golden Iron Triangle"?]

Liu Erlong interrupted him sharply, her tone filled with vigilance.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: In the "dream"... yes. You, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang pour the efforts of your latter lives into Shrek Academy.]

Ye Qiong gave a definitive answer.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Ha... I knew it.]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: In this dream of yours, I still didn't jump out of that circle. Thanks, but I don't want a "later" like that. What Golden Iron Triangle, what Shrek—at the end of the day, isn't it just spinning around the same old people and things from the past?]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: I, Liu Erlong, waited for twenty years. It was hard enough to finally spit out the bitterness in my heart today and see things clearly. Why should I let the rest of my life be shackled by the "past"?]

A sense of relief surged in Liu Erlong's heart, as if the boulder that had pressed down on her for twenty years had finally fallen.

Seeing this message, Ye Qiong smiled.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: You mean...]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: I mean, this strange dream of yours gave me a chance to "know in advance." Why wouldn't I choose a different path?]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: If the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family is gone, then it's gone. I had no relationship with them long ago. As for the old debts with Yu Xiaogang, I'll just consider the twenty years I waited for him as feeding a dog. From now on, we owe each other nothing. I am going to walk a path that belongs only to me.]

She said these words with absolute finality.

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: You... you are absolutely right.]

Ye Qiong gave a direct thumbs-up.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: I spent the first half of my life tied down by a man, an old flame, and a family. For the second half, I should live for myself.]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Perhaps I'll go to the Extreme North to see the snow, go overseas to explore, or find a place I like to open an academy that only accepts female disciples. I'll teach the people I want to teach and fight the battles I want to fight. Yu Xiaogang, Shrek—they should all stay in the "past." That is the path I should walk.]

[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: Completely severing the past and walking fully toward a future that belongs to you... Dean Liu, your perspective has truly expanded!]

[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Enough, you've helped me see a scumbag for what he is, and helped me see myself clearly too. As for the road ahead, it's up to this lady to decide! I'm logging off; I need to properly plan out my "aftermath"!]

[Ding! "Fire-Breathing Dragon" status changed to offline.]

Watching the avatar turn gray, Ye Qiong let out a long sigh of relief.

He had merely exposed a few facts, yet it was enough to wake up a love-struck fool. Could it be that he possessed the same talent for being an "inspirational mentor" as Lu Xiaobu?

I just don't know if Bibi Dong will be able to move on as easily.

Ye Qiong rubbed his chin, falling into deep thought.

Liu Erlong's situation was relatively simple; she was only facing emotional deception and cowardice.

Bibi Dong, however, carried the inheritance of the Rakshasa God; that evil divine consciousness was not something one could shake off through willpower alone.

Just then, Ye Qiong's gaze swept across the group chat interface, and in a corner he hadn't noticed before, an icon labeled "Leveling Rules Manual" appeared.

He clicked on it out of curiosity.

"This is..."

As Ye Qiong saw the information displayed within, his eyes suddenly lit up.

If this new feature were unlocked, not only would Bibi Dong have a chance to resolve her own affairs, but others would also be able to accomplish things they might not have been able to otherwise—and he himself would have the opportunity to earn even more Emotion Points!

"It looks like I need to step it up and reach LV3 as soon as possible!"