Yu Xiaogang and His Pride

After saying that, the corner of Bibi Dong's mouth suddenly curled up.

They were about to mention that matter, weren't they? How delightful.

[Strongest: However, just as Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were about to get married, Liu Erlong's father, Yu Luomian, suddenly burst in and announced that Liu Erlong was Yu Xiaogang's biological cousin.

Yu Xiaogang couldn't accept it at all. Without a word to Liu Erlong, he just ran off. That's right, everyone, you heard correctly—he ran away from it again.

Yu Xiaogang didn't flee after explaining everything. He took off the moment the wedding was about to begin. Just imagine how desperate Liu Erlong must have been back then.

Not only did she have to deal with her father, endure the judgmental looks from everyone around her, and grieve over Gangzi, that piece of trash, suddenly running away. It was obvious just how beastly Yu Xiaogang's actions were.]

Yang Xiu truly did not know what to say after thinking about it.

At the very least, explain yourself! What was the point of just running away like that?

[Motherless Since Childhood: Indeed, that was utterly beastly. No matter what, he should have made things clear, then faced those judgmental looks together with Liu Erlong. In the end, they could have broken up peacefully. Wasn't that the simplest thing to do?

@Liu Erlong, this was the Yu Xiaogang you had been longing for. The moment trouble came, he abandoned you all alone. What, did it feel good to be mocked back then? Did you really enjoy that much?]

Qian Renxue was genuinely impressed by Yu Xiaogang.

Of course, she was even more impressed by Liu Erlong. Even after all that, Liu Erlong still defended Yu Xiaogang at every turn.

If I were Liu Erlong, I'd beat Yu Xiaogang half to death the moment I found him, Qian Renxue thought.

Then she felt a little speechless. Why were the women in the group always getting tangled up in love and romance?

Wouldn't it be better to build their careers properly, like her?

[Bibi Dong: Hahahaha, Yu Erlong, so you had a day like this too! Hahaha!]

Bibi Dong was practically laughing herself to death.

She had known before that the two were cousins, but she had not known the specifics.

"Wonderful. This is simply too wonderful."

[Not Little Witch: ???]

[Not Little Witch: Holy shit! They'd been dating for so long, only to turn out to be cousins? That's completely insane, isn't it?]

Ning Rongrong was stunned numb by those words, suddenly feeling as if everything had become clear.

No wonder the group owner said Yu Xiaogang had ruined two people's lives. He had gotten involved with his own cousin—how could that not count as ruining her life?

"But this is way too much of a coincidence, isn't it? There are so many people in the world, yet he somehow ended up dating his own cousin."

Ning Rongrong felt there was something strange about it, but she could not put her finger on it for the moment.

[World's Greatest Poison: This is bad. Big Kitty really guessed right. Liu Erlong really is from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and she's Yu Xiaogang's cousin.]

[Shadow Cat: Hahaha, as expected, I'm synonymous with intelligence.]

[A Healer Cannot Heal Themself: Cousin or not, why did Yu Xiaogang run away?]

[Xiao Wu: He loves saving face. Yu Xiaogang is famously obsessed with his pride. If anyone at the academy dared to embarrass him even a little, he'd summon that little piglet and blast them with a thunderous big fart.]

[Not Little Witch: Hahaha, I'm dying! Little Rabbit, why is it so funny when you say it? Thunderous big fart, hahaha.]

Ning Rongrong cackled in the carriage at those words.

She was currently on her way to Heaven Dou City to find the group owner she had been longing to meet.

[Liu Erlong: This... sigh.]

[Motherless Since Childhood: Yu Erlong, don't tell me you're still going to defend Yu Xiaogang. If you are, then I truly think you have no self-respect or self-love at all. Every part of you belongs to Yu Xiaogang, and you don't have a soul of your own.]

Qian Renxue had assumed that Liu Erlong was going to continue making excuses for Yu Xiaogang.

So she directly called her by her real name, Yu Erlong.

[Liu Erlong: No, that's not it. I truly resented him deeply back then. Even now, I still want to ask him why he left without saying goodbye.]

Liu Erlong wore an expression of pain. Just as the group owner had said, she had endured extreme suffering back then.

Not only had she suffered her father's scolding, but she had also had to bear the cold looks of the people around her.

More importantly, Yu Xiaogang, a grown man, had simply run away!

That made her feel even worse.

With all those emotions piling up, she had nearly taken her own life back then.

[Motherless Since Childhood: That's good. It means there's still some hope for you.]

[Strongest: Liu Erlong was pretty ruthless too. To vent her emotions, she directly massacred all the soul beasts in an entire forest and nearly lost control. Fortunately, Flender, that bootlicker, came to comfort her in time and helped her pull through.]

[Motherless Since Childhood: Yu Erlong, are you sick? You slaughtered soul beasts just to vent your emotions?]

Qian Renxue was utterly speechless, and at the same time, a little angry.

How many soul rings had been wasted in that massacre?

Besides eliminating evil soul masters, Spirit Hall's mission was to protect soul beasts from wanton slaughter.

They could not fish a pond dry. What would they do in the future if all the soul beasts were killed now?

And yet Yu Erlong, this lunatic, had slaughtered every soul beast in an entire forest.

"Why didn't that old woman Bibi Dong send someone to arrest her?"

[Liu Erlong: Ahahaha, I really was too angry back then. What I did was a bit excessive.]

Liu Erlong obviously knew the unspoken rule, established throughout the soul master world, that high-level soul masters could not casually slaughter weak soul beasts.

But there had truly been no other way at the time. If she had not found something to vent her emotions on, she might really have killed herself.

[A Healer Cannot Heal Themself: I have a question. Flender came to comfort Liu Erlong, so Liu Erlong, did you never consider getting together with him?]

[Liu Erlong: No. I always regarded him as an older brother.]

[Strongest: Heh, Flender was a real coward too. He kept saying he would bring Yu Xiaogang back soon. Just look at how spineless he was—how could Liu Erlong possibly get together with him?

Oh, and by the way, according to the original timeline, Flender really did get the two of them back together. Then he moved himself to tears, thinking that they had both found happiness, before hiding in a corner late at night and crying secretly.]

Yang Xiu did not even know how to mock Flender anymore.

He clearly liked Liu Erlong too, yet he kept pushing her into Yu Xiaogang's arms.

Later on, not only did he fail to pursue her while they were separated, he kept trying to get them back together.

Calling him a coward was no longer enough. He was a super invincible coward.

Someone like that only deserved to hide under the bed and cheer them on.

[Not Little Witch: Hahaha, is Flender really that ridiculous?]

[World's Greatest Poison: Aren't they cousins? How could they get back together?]

Dugu Yan was a little confused at that moment.

Could such a thing be allowed twenty years later?

That should be impossible, shouldn't it? Wasn't this the kind of thing society had never tolerated, from ancient times until now?