[First Cute Bunny: Wow! Big Brother Group Owner's analysis is so spot-on! This Yu Xiaogang really isn't a good guy!]
Xiao Wu was already on her way to Shrek. She'd originally thought Xiao San's teacher, Yu Xiaogang, seemed like a pretty nice person. Now that she knew all these secrets, all she could say was, "Heh."
[I Am Not Yanzi: Amazing, amazing! This analysis feels so accurate!]
[No Petting Cats: Hit the nail on the head.]
[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Shut up! What do you know?! Xiao Gang... the pain he suffered back then isn't something you could understand! Flender, he's my best big brother! Our relationship isn't something a cold-blooded person like you can judge...]
Liu Erlong finally came to her senses and spoke furiously, but as she went on, her voice unconsciously weakened.
[Fire-Breathing Dragon: ...I waited because I wanted to. It had nothing to do with anyone else...]
[Most Beautiful Pope: The Group Owner's analysis is pretty good.]
Bibi Dong ignored Liu Erlong's rebuttal and spoke with a sneer.
[Most Beautiful Pope: I've seen through Yu Xiaogang's true nature, too. At heart, he's all calculation and cowardice. As for you, Liu Erlong, you're just making excuses for your stubbornness and your refusal to face reality. The three of you—one too cowardly to take responsibility, one lost in a dream, and one eager to play the saint—really are... a perfect match.]
[Most Beautiful Pope: This little drama is more entertaining than the storybooks in the Spirit Hall library.]
(300 Emotion Points from Fire-Breathing Dragon for overwhelming humiliation)
Bibi Dong's mockery was like a poison-coated dagger, stabbing Liu Erlong straight through the heart.
[6G Sky Wing: Heh, what a show. A coward who wouldn't even face his own feelings and abandoned a woman the moment trouble arose, and yet people called him a grandmaster of theory? Liu Erlong, that's the kind of man you've been waiting for? No wonder.]
[6G Sky Wing: As for Flender, he seems detached, but really, he feeds on other people's pain and guilt to nourish his moral superiority. Hypocritical and calculating. You three are perfect for each other. Stay together, and don't go ruining anyone else's life.]
[Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox: ...If all this analysis is true... can feelings really be calculated like this? Can "waiting" become a weapon? This is too...]
Hu Liena thought of her teacher, and a chill ran through her.
[Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox: Perhaps cutting off a wrong relationship in time is how you take responsibility for yourself? Maybe the decision my teacher is making now is the right one?]
[First Cute Bunny: Wait a minute... After hearing all this, why do I feel... so awful?]
[First Cute Bunny: If you wait twenty years for someone, only for him to turn out to be so calculating and to run away whenever trouble comes... wouldn't those twenty years have been wasted?]
[First Cute Bunny: Aunt Erlong, you're amazing, and you're so devoted. But if the person you're waiting for really is like the Group Owner said, and his first instinct is to "run away"... is that wait truly worth it? Shouldn't real love mean facing hardships together? No matter how hard things get, you should bear them together, not have one person run away while the other foolishly waits, right?]
(200 Emotion Points from Fire-Breathing Dragon for a heart-wrenching blow)
Xiao Wu's pure, direct questions hurt more than any mockery could.
[No Petting Cats: Disgusting. Whether it's abandoning someone in the face of danger, emotional blackmail disguised as "waiting," or "protection" that feeds on another person's guilt, all of it betrays the loyalty a relationship should have. This isn't devotion. If I were Liu Erlong, I wouldn't wait. I'd leave for good.]
Zhu Zhuqing, who rarely spoke, couldn't keep her thoughts to herself this time.
There was a reason: someone like Yu Xiaogang was in her life, too. That person was Dai Mubai.
[Pagoda Suppresses River Demon: Wow, this really is complicated. But when you strip it down, isn't it just three people who think too highly of themselves, torturing one another over a knot they can't untie? Yu Xiaogang is like someone who lost his treasure and has no eye for value; Senior Liu is like someone who wasted money and can't bear to walk away, way too melodramatic; and Flender is like a speculator, a real old fox...]
(400 Emotion Points from Fire-Breathing Dragon for a second heart-wrenching blow)
[I Am Not Yanzi: This is hilarious. Yu Xiaogang? My grandpa said his theories were no good, and as for how he acted... seems he's no better there, either. Heh. Running away when things get tough—what kind of man does that? And you, Liu Erlong. Are there no other men in the world? You had to wait for him? That's not devotion. It's stupid, and you're just making yourself suffer! And that Flender—why pretend to be such a good guy? I think he's the one having the best time watching the show from the sidelines! The three of you: one poisonous, one lovesick, one putting on an act. What a trio.]
(600 Emotion Points from Fire-Breathing Dragon for a third heart-wrenching blow)
Dugu Yan's mockery was merciless.
[I Am Not Swallow: Twenty years... just to wait for someone who left you behind? Wouldn't it have been better to use that time to cultivate and make yourself stronger? I don't really understand matters of the heart, but if something has made you suffer for so many years and there's no end in sight, why not take another path? What Senior Flender did... though it sounds a bit questionable, at least he didn't trap himself. Wouldn't it be better to live a little more freely?]
[Begonia Blossoms: Symptoms: chronic emotional-loop dependency disorder, accompanied by self-congratulatory delusions and complications of moral blackmail. Pathogens: Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, Flender. Recommendations: emotional separation and cognitive restructuring. Otherwise, the prognosis is poor, and recovery will be difficult for life.]
[Pagoda Suppresses River Demon: Whoa, that's so professional!]
Everyone's words in the group were like knives, carving Liu Erlong's heart to pieces.
The devotion she'd been so proud of, the obsession she'd clung to for twenty years, was stripped bare in that moment and turned into a complete joke.
"Pfft!"
Liu Erlong felt a sweetness in her throat and spat out a mouthful of blood. Her vision went black, and she collapsed to the ground.
Just as Ye Qiong had said, she really was suffering badly.
(800 Emotion Points from Fire-Breathing Dragon for emotional collapse!)
(300 Emotion Points from Most Beautiful Pope for satisfaction!)
(150 Emotion Points from 6G Sky Wing for disdain!)
"Nice! Another few thousand Emotion Points in the bank."
Inside Aedes Elysiae, Ye Qiong watched the system backend flood with a long string after long string of Emotion Points, and couldn't stop grinning.
What? You're asking where my morals are after doing this?
What a joke. Back in his previous life, when he was a Trailblazer, he was a great hero of the galaxy.
You want proof? He had a whole backpack full of "Praise of High Morality."
[ Ding! Chat group experience has been distributed. Upgrade now? ]
The sudden system notification startled Ye Qiong.
The group chat could be upgraded?
Then it absolutely had to be upgraded. There'd definitely be new features afterward.
"Upgrade!"
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