Marriage Agreement
The newcomer was a young girl with a cold and aloof appearance. She wore a moon-white dress, and her exquisite figure was curvaceous. Green jade pendants hung from her delicate earlobes, which made a clear and crisp sound when they swayed slightly, suddenly revealing a touch of nobility. Her beautiful and charming face already possessed the potential to topple kingdoms.
Additionally, three gold stars are painted on the girl's chest.
This means that the girl is a Three-Star Fighter), Three-Star Fighter at this age is considered very good, even in the Jia Nan Academy, which is full of geniuses.
However, the girl, with a sorrowful expression, called out to the woman, "Teacher!"
Seeing a hint of sorrow on the girl's face, the woman asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Yanran, what's wrong? What happened?"
Upon hearing this, Nalan Yanran couldn't help but recall returning home to greet her father. Before she could even say that she wanted to annul the engagement, both her father and grandfather instructed her to go with her grandfather to the Xiao Clan to set a wedding date.
The thought of marrying a complete stranger, a useless person whose Dou Qi had vanished, filled Nalan Yanran with sadness. To be honest, she didn't like Xiao Yan at that moment.
She even disliked Xiao Yan to some extent. This dislike had nothing to do with Xiao Yan's strength or talent. Although she knew that the person she was going to marry couldn't be particularly useless, her dislike for Xiao Yan stemmed from when she was a child. Her grandfather wanted her to not be ashamed after marrying into the Xiao Clan, so he made her cultivate with a wooden stick.
However, she hasn't fallen in love with anyone else; she simply wants to annul the engagement and no longer be bound by it.
As for her later falling in love with Xiao Yan, it was simply due to admiration for strength, a hero saving a damsel in distress, and Xiao Yan's indifferent attitude towards her.
Of course, Nalan Yanran is still the girl who wants to break off the engagement. However, she doesn't intend to destroy the Xiao Clan or use the power of the Misty Cloud Sect and the Nalan Family to force the Xiao Clan to agree. Instead, she wants to give Xiao Yan some compensation and then end the engagement.
Then she made Three-Year Agreement with Xiao Yan.
If they really wanted to exert pressure, it wouldn't be just a Da Dou Shi coming to their door, but at least Dou Ling.
Perhaps Nalan Yanran was wrong, and she didn't handle things well. She also lacked maturity and methods, and she was somewhat arrogant. But she was still quite good. Her situation was equivalent to Xiao Yan repeating the third grade of elementary school, while she compensated Xiao Yan with enough money to live on for a lifetime, introduced him to a job, and guaranteed him admission to the empire's top university. All she wanted was to annul the engagement.
In some worlds, this might mean wiping out the Xiao Clan completely, or taking half of Yao Chen's soul, one-sixteenth of the Emperor Jade, a spot in the Heavenly Tomb, and so on.
Nalan Yanran thought for a moment, and finally said it:
"Teacher, you must have heard about my engagement, right?"
My teacher has always been very kind to me, and after becoming his disciple, I'm now considered a member of the Misty Cloud Sect.
And considering the teacher's past behavior, I think she would probably agree to let me annul the engagement.
"Hmm! Yanran, this marriage is related to the Xiao Clan of Wutan City, isn't it?" Yun Yun frowned slightly upon hearing this.
She had heard about her disciple's engagement; it seemed the other party was Xiao Yan, the third young master of the Xiao Clan in Wutan City.
His apprentice seemed quite resistant to the marriage arrangement, and rarely even mentioned it.
"That's right, it's the Xiao Clan in Wutan City. Grandpa is going to take me to the Xiao Clan to discuss my marriage in a while." Nalan Yanran said sadly.
Upon hearing this, Yun Yun fell silent.
Following Nalan Jie and Nalan Su's approach was indeed correct. If the Misty Cloud Sect were to show such goodwill to the Xiao Clan, well, now it's the Misty Cloud Sect that needs the Xiao Clan, not the Xiao Clan.
"Yanran, why don't you go to the Xiao Clan with your grandfather?" Yun Yun sighed.
She had considered helping her disciple annul the engagement before, but given the current situation of the Misty Cloud Sect, they do not support their disciples in doing so.
If it were an ordinary family of Da Dou Shi or Dou Wang, regardless of the situation or balance, offending them would be acceptable, and they might even have to apologize with a smile.
However, the Misty Cloud Sect cannot afford to offend the Xiao Clan now, and they must try their best to win them over.
Although she manages the Misty Cloud Sect and the Great Elder and others obey orders but not summons, it doesn't mean she's oblivious to the situation. On the contrary, she's quite intelligent, just a bit stubborn at times.
Moreover, her master had told her that the Xiao Clan was backed not only by the Mittel Family and Hai Bodong, but also by two Dou Wang families and an unknown powerhouse.
Facing a family with one Dou Emperor and one Dou Wang, and two Dou Wang families.
They, the Misty Cloud Sect, could not afford to offend them. It wasn't that they dared not, but they feared that the Misty Cloud Sect would fall into the arms of the Imperial Family. If that happened, the hard-won balance would be broken, and the Yunlan Sect would be at a disadvantage again.
There was also that unknown powerful figure; she hadn't known who he was before.
Yun Yun didn't receive the news until Lin Qing swaggered back to the Xiao Clan with a group of Dou Zong Dou Emperor across the border.
Only then did she realize that the powerful figure was none other than Lin Qing, or rather, the person behind Lin Qing.
Faced with such a powerful figure, the Misty Cloud Sect could only try to appease him, not offend him.
Therefore, she had no way to deal with her apprentice's arranged marriage.
Xiao Clan: Why aren't you smiling? Are you just naturally averse to smiling?
In fact, when Lin Qing first revealed his talent, the Misty Cloud Sect sent people to confirm it, wanting to recruit him into the Misty Cloud Sect, but at that time Lin Qing had already left Wutan City and his whereabouts were unknown.
Now he has reappeared, but it's too late.
Lin Qing is now invincible in the Jia Ma Empire, and can even be considered a strongman in the entire Northwest Continent.
In this world, the bonds between people and forces are mostly formed through blood ties, master-disciple relationships, and marriage. Fortunately, the Misty Cloud Sect was also able to establish some contact with Lin Qing through Nalan Yanran.
Hearing that Yun Yun also wanted to matchmake her with Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran felt a mix of emotions, but she quickly and firmly replied, "Teacher! Actually, I don't want to marry Xiao Yan. I want to annul the engagement! Even if Xiao Yan isn't a cripple now, even if his cousin is Dou Zong expert and a high-level Alchemist, even if countless people in the Jia Ma Empire want to get involved with the Xiao Clan, I still want to annul the engagement. I don't want to marry a man I don't know, and I don't want my marriage to be used as a bargaining chip for my family's power."
Seeing the girl's tearful eyes, her tightly clenched lips, and her stubborn expression, Yun Yun sighed softly, stepped forward, gently embraced the girl, and patted her back, comforting her, "Yanran, we women enjoy the rights brought by our families and sects, and when it's time to repay them, we don't have much power to refuse, unless our strength is enough to control the situation."
Hearing Yun Yun's words of comfort, Nalan Yanran sobbed softly in Yun Yun's arms, her tears gradually soaking her brocade robe.
Gently releasing the weeping girl from her arms, Yun Yun saw her disciple's bloodshot eyes, stroked the strands of hair on Nalan Yanran's forehead, and said softly, "Go! Yanran, try to get along well. If you really can't accept it, then strive to become stronger, strong enough to refuse, and then say it."