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"Xiaofeng, someone really interesting came to the city. His name is Yu Xiaogang. He's a direct descendant of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but he's already twenty and only has level 29 Soul Power."

"Xiaofeng, Yu Xiaogang is so inspiring! His Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, underwent a malignant mutation, and his Innate Soul Power was only half a level. But he never gave up. He told me there are no useless Martial Souls, only Soul Masters who don't know how to cultivate. He wants to study in Spirit Hall's library, so I've decided to take him there."

"Lin Feng, Xiaogang is wisdom personified. He's mature, clever, and unyielding. There's so much about him to admire."

"Lin Feng, let's break off our engagement. You're too childish. You can't compare to Xiaogang at all. Tell our teacher you don't like me, and we'll end the engagement in front of him. It'll be better for both of us."

Spirit Hall, Lin Family Courtyard.

The hazy moonlight draped the land like a thin veil.

Bibi Dong was sixteen, radiant with youth. She had an oval face, cherry lips, and exquisitely delicate features. Her skin was smooth as warm jade, without a pore in sight.

A purple court dress clung to her shapely figure. Her chest was full above a slender waist, while her rounded hips were wider than her shoulders, like a ripe peach.

Now her lovely face was expressionless as she parted her red lips and asked the young man before her to end their engagement.

The young man was handsome, his expression forlorn.

With black hair, dark eyes, and refined features, he rivaled Bibi Dong in beauty. Though slightly slender, he stood straight as a spear.

He wore a simple indigo outfit with a jade belt. Just standing there, he was impossible to look away from.

At last, he spoke. His voice was clear and unworldly, like a breeze crossing an empty valley.

"Senior sister, when I awakened my Martial Soul and became our teacher's disciple, you pinched my cheek. You felt sorry that I had no parents and said you'd take care of me for life."

"You were the one who asked our teacher to arrange this engagement."

"And now you've forgotten your promise. You even want me to ask our teacher to end the engagement. Doesn't your heart hurt at all?"

When a woman's heart had changed, she would think you were sleeping if you fainted and swinging if you hanged yourself.

Bibi Dong's indifferent expression did not shift at Lin Feng's accusation. Her narrow, beautiful violet eyes rested calmly on him.

"Lin Feng, the past is the past. I was eleven, and you were six. Neither of us was mature. That engagement couldn't possibly count."

"If I ask to end it, our teacher will scold me. Help me with this, and I'll owe you a favor. Once he ends the engagement, I can do you a small favor someday, as long as it doesn't go against my principles."

Lin Feng's mouth twitched. She had neatly washed her hands of everything.

"Heh. Senior sister, we spent six whole years together, day and night. How did we become such strangers?"

"Is it because of Yu Xiaogang? That good-for-nothing who'll never get past level 29 Soul Power? How long have you even known him? Yet you're ready to break off our engagement for his sake?"

"Don't call Xiaogang that!" For the first time, emotion broke through Bibi Dong's indifference.

Anger darkened her pretty face. The eyes that had once looked at him so tenderly were now cold and unfamiliar, their gaze cutting into Lin Feng like a knife.

"Xiaogang's Martial Soul suffered a malignant mutation, and that hurt his talent. But he didn't give up on himself. Through his own efforts, he cultivated from half a level of Innate Soul Power to level 29."

"With that perseverance and courage, how dare you call him useless!"

"Lin Feng, do you have any idea how insufferable you are right now? You look down on Xiaogang just because you're talented. You're arrogant and self-righteous. Don't you think that's childish?"

"True wisdom and courage mean never giving up, no matter how hopeless, difficult, or dangerous things become."

"Just look at Xiaogang. He filled himself with knowledge. He's learned, and his wisdom runs as deep as the sea. He may never become a master of Martial Souls, but he's become a master of theory."

"As for you, you're twelve with level 52 Soul Power. Don't you know how you got that far? If I hadn't cultivated with you, you wouldn't even be level 25. You'd be worse than Xiaogang."

Lin Feng had nothing left to say.

The Bibi Dong he had known was clever, gentle, and kind. Now she had become utterly unreasonable.

He had thought he could change her fate.

But when it mattered, nothing had changed.

Lin Feng turned, his sharp gaze falling on the smug figure standing outside the courtyard.

Yu Xiaogang.

He had a short buzz cut, an unremarkable face with a stiff expression, and a modest build beneath a black-and-gray robe.

In a crowd, no one would have noticed him.

That man? With those shifty eyes and pinched features? How does he look learned or wise as the sea?

"Senior sister, this is the last time I'll call you that. Bibi Dong, if you want to throw your life away, I won't stop you."

"But if you want to end the engagement, tell our teacher yourself. I don't want your favor, and I won't take the blame for you."

Bibi Dong clenched her teeth and glared at Lin Feng.

"You still dare insult Xiaogang?"

"Lin Feng, I know why you won't end the engagement. You still love me. You want me. You think refusing will make me change my mind."

"I'm telling you now: keep dreaming."

"The moment you looked down on Xiaogang and called him useless, any chance for us was gone."

"If you won't end the engagement because you want to make me the villain, just wait and see."

"Don't regret it."

Bibi Dong turned and walked away, her figure swaying.

Lin Feng pressed his lips into a thin line and clenched his fists.

A long while later, he finally let out a slow breath.

With a thought, he called up the system.

[Name: Lin Feng]

[Martial Soul: Peacock]

[Soul Power: Level 52]

[Soul Rings: Yellow (Touch of Green Wood) Yellow (Crimson Fire Scorches the Heavens) Purple (Platinum Army Breaker) Purple (Profound Water Abyss) Black (Yellow Earth Undying)]

[Marriage Partner: Bibi Dong (Affection: 40) (Change of Heart: 60)]

He had a system called the Marriage System.

Once affection reached 60, a couple met the system's requirements for a marriage it would recognize.

Both partners gained tremendous benefits: their cultivation speed increased greatly, and they could achieve Martial Soul Fusion.

With the Marriage System's support over the past six years, Lin Feng had reached level 52 Soul Power at twelve, while Bibi Dong had reached level 92 at seventeen.

To outsiders, they were a golden couple, made for each other.

Who would have thought Bibi Dong would be so eager to end their engagement because of Yu Xiaogang?

A bitch was a bitch.

In the original story, Bibi Dong had been willing to betray Spirit Hall for Yu Xiaogang.

Now she was willing to betray Lin Feng for him too.

Lin Feng stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the bright moon. He forced down the fierce anger her betrayal had stirred in him.

Change of Heart is only 60. That's not enough. If we end the engagement now, I can only take sixty percent of Bibi Dong's Soul Power. She betrayed me. I should take all of it and leave her with nothing.