After beating up Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai still felt weighed down.
He knew he had failed a girl, leaving her to face the combined pressure of her family and the imperial family alone,
while he had run away, come here, and made himself the boss. Everything had seemed so wonderful.
He had never expected Zhu Zhuqing to come to Suotuo City.
Had she come specifically to find me?
And had she married someone else?
Their engagement had not even been broken off, yet she had married someone else and called him her husband?
Dai Mubai could never tolerate that.
His woman had dared to marry another man. Even if he had failed her and abandoned her,
the Zhu Family was merely a subordinate family of the Dai. The Dai held the Zhu Family's survival and prosperity in their hands.
No one else had the right to touch his fiancée.
Whoever that man was, Dai Mubai would make him pay, then drive him away from Zhu Zhuqing.
At the tiger's roar, people nearby turned toward the blond youth. Thinking he was showing off or going mad again, they backed away.
He moved through the crowd, searching for Zhu Zhuqing.
He soon found the stunning, full-figured young woman.
She stood out at a glance:
cool and aloof, with a full bust and long legs. In her black leather outfit, she was both beautiful and fierce—the most eye-catching person in the crowd.
But a handsome young man stood beside her, his arm wrapped around her slender waist.
Dai Mubai flew into a rage.
That damned bastard dared to hold his fiancée by the waist. Dai Mubai had never even done that. He had never so much as held her hand—
How dare you...
You fucking...
Dai Mubai ground his teeth, radiating menace and savage fury. Like a beast whose mate had been stolen, he fixed his eyes on Fang Fan.
The young man pulled Zhu Zhuqing even closer, as if taunting him. With a faint smile, he gave her cheek a smacking kiss.
Zhu Zhuqing blushed and struggled lightly, looking a little shy.
The sight made Dai Mubai even more jealous. His eyes widened, and his face flushed with anger.
"Zhu Zhuqing, you shameless woman! You haven't even broken off our engagement, and you're already with someone else?"
Dai Mubai demanded furiously. Soul rings rose slowly beneath his feet, and the phantom of his White Tiger Martial Soul appeared behind him with a roar.
"Who's that kid? He's already a Soul Elder at his age!"
"Looks like those two adulterers are in trouble. They dared sneak around behind that blond kid's back!"
Hearing the commotion, people gathered to watch.
"Dai Mubai, have you no shame?
Who ran away from the Star Luo Empire because he couldn't beat his brother and abandoned me,
leaving me alone with the Zhu Family in Star Luo Empire to face the clan members and imperial family who had sided with Dai Weisi?
If my husband hadn't saved me, I wouldn't be standing here today."
Seeing Dai Mubai act as though she had done something wrong and he was in the right, Zhu Zhuqing found him laughable.
He was a coward.
Meeting Fang Fan felt like the greatest stroke of luck in her life. Now, the sight of Dai Mubai made her sick.
"There's such a huge gap between Dai Weisi and me. Was I supposed to stay and die when I couldn't beat him?
Of course I had to run!
You're so damn stubborn. You were that weak and still wanted to fight them!
I told you to run with me, but you refused. How is that my fault?"
Dai Mubai gave a helpless laugh.
"Come with me! A fiancée of the Dai Family cannot be with another man. You've disgraced my family, and I won't allow it!
That pretty boy beside you is probably level thirty-one to thirty-three, right?
I'm a level thirty-seven Soul Elder. Tell him to get lost. I'd rather not hurt someone weaker than me.
You're coming with me!"
"Arrogant fool. You're this weak and still talk so big? You have so little backing and still think so highly of yourself?
My husband is stronger than you, has more powerful backing, and is better-looking. He outclasses you in every way.
Why would I go with you?"
Every word Zhu Zhuqing spoke struck a nerve,
and Dai Mubai frowned.
That guy looked even younger than him. How could he possibly be stronger?
And as for his backing—
Dai Mubai was a prince of the Star Luo Empire. Only a prince of the Heaven Dou Empire could have comparable standing, and this man did not look like one.
The pope of Spirit Hall had no son, so there was no Saint Son either.
What sort of backing could this bastard possibly have that surpassed his?
"Zhuqing, are you dreaming, or has he fooled you? How could he have more powerful backing than me? How could he be stronger than me?"
Dai Mubai nearly laughed at Zhu Zhuqing's words.
Then he turned his furious gaze on Fang Fan, his eyes cold as a beast stalking prey.
"You useless trash, why haven't you gotten lost? Or do you want me to break your legs?
And you broke two of my classmate Oscar's fingers. I'm going to settle that score too!"
He advanced step by step.
"What's wrong? Scared? Planning to hide behind a woman?"
"Darling, this guy really knows how to put on an act. He abandoned you, and now he has the nerve to show up. How shameless.
Since he's asking for a beating, I'll oblige him."
Fang Fan shrugged as he spoke to Zhu Zhuqing, paying Dai Mubai no mind at all.
The guy actually thought he could take Zhu Zhuqing away. Had being the boss at Shrek convinced him he was invincible among their generation?
"Good. Knock him down a peg and show him he's not the strongest person out there."
Zhu Zhuqing was furious with Dai Mubai's arrogance too. The fact that he could say those things showed he had no shame at all.
"Roar!"
Dai Mubai activated Martial Soul Possession. He grew nearly half again as tall, his muscles swelling and his shoulders broadening as power surged through his body.
His eyes became slitted pupils, one deep blue and the other silver-white. His sharp gaze held the savage gleam of a beast.
Short, stiff silver-white tiger fur grew along his neck, forearms, and calves. His fingertips became three-inch claws gleaming coldly, and a powerful aura rolled off him.
"See that? Our Dai Family's White Tiger Martial Soul is among the finest beast martial souls. Only by relying on the Dai can the Zhu Family develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and gain a place on the Douluo Continent!"
Dai Mubai spoke with absolute confidence.
Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong squeezed through the crowd. Both girls looked surprised to see Dai Mubai using Martial Soul Possession.
"Boss Dai even activated Martial Soul Possession!"
Ning Rongrong looked curiously at the young man and woman facing Dai Mubai and pointed at them.
"Are they the ones who drove Boss Dai mad?
Are they also the ones who broke Oscar's fingers and crippled the part Ma Hongjun uses to relieve himself?
That boy really is handsome, about as handsome as Third Brother.
And that girl has an incredible figure, though she looks so cold."
"Yeah. Boss Dai looks at that busty girl differently from everyone else. There must be something between them.
Could that handsome boy have stolen her from Boss Dai? Is that why he went mad?"
Xiao Wu wondered aloud.
Suddenly, she saw the handsome young man look her way. His gaze seemed to see through everything about her, rendering all her attempts to hide herself useless.
She shuddered and stumbled back two steps.
"Xiao Wu, what's wrong?" Ning Rongrong caught her at once.
"That handsome boy's gaze is terrifying." Xiao Wu hid behind Ning Rongrong.
"Is it?" Ning Rongrong saw nothing frightening about it.
Dai Mubai was already preparing to attack.
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