The Inner Court Senior Broke Up with Him Just Like That?

Ma Xiaotao felt wronged, too.

She simply disliked Jiang Chen's icy personality. Anyone who didn't know better might think she was throwing herself at him.

When had the mighty Fire Phoenix Saintess ever suffered such indignity?

She had the figure and the looks. Jiang Chen should have counted himself lucky, yet the man hadn't even wanted her. It made her feel terribly wronged.

The more Ma Xiaotao thought about it, the more aggrieved she became. She said bluntly, "Mu En, I just want to decide my own future. What's wrong with not liking Jiang Chen? I'll become a Titled Douluo even without Ultimate Ice. Just wait and see."

"I'll become a Titled Douluo. I know I will."

Mu En clenched his fist and raised his hand, ready to slap some sense into Ma Xiaotao.

"Go ahead and hit me!"

Ma Xiaotao lifted her face. Tears slid silently down her cheeks, but she remained as stubborn as an ox.

She had already said she wanted to break up. There was no taking it back.

Even if Ma Xiaotao were beaten to death, she would never bow her head to Jiang Chen.

"Ah..."

Mu En let out a long sigh. In the end, he couldn't bring himself to hit Ma Xiaotao. He swung his hand around and slapped Yan Shaozhe to the floor instead, roaring:

"Look at the disciple you've spoiled. What has she become?"

"Even if that Huo Yuhao does have Ultimate Ice, there's no guarantee he'll like Xiaotao."

"That slap was to remind you that I'm not dead yet. You can't run wild at Shrek while I'm still here!"

Mu En then left with his back hunched. He couldn't bear to look at master or disciple, and he trembled with anger as he walked.

He had taught them himself. How had they become so shortsighted and narrow-minded? Neither looked like someone who walked the righteous path.

Xian Lin'er, on the other hand, had also been taught by him. She had not only advanced to Super Douluo, but also possessed the vision to recognize the importance of developing Soul Tools.

How could their personalities differ so much?

Had something gone wrong with the ancestral graves?

Ah... I'd better go talk with Jiang Chen and make it up to the boy.

Back then, Mu En had talked himself hoarse before finally persuading Jiang Chen to join Shrek Academy.

Now Yan Shaozhe had ruined it all.

Jiang Chen returned to boys' dormitory room 109.

His breakup with Ma Xiaotao had barely stirred a ripple in him. He had never cared for her in the first place; he had only gone along with it out of respect for Mu En.

Ma Xiaotao was a rotten orange, worse even than the rotten orange from the Sun Moon Empire.

At least the other girl's feelings were sincere. Ma Xiaotao had been flighty from beginning to end. No wonder she would become the Holy Spirit Cult's Fire Phoenix Saintess after the tournament. She had only herself to blame.

Just then, Xie Huanyue and the others, who were close to Jiang Chen, crowded around to ask what had happened.

"Jiang Chen, how did things go with the Inner Court senior? Did you get to kiss her by Sea God Lake? Tell me what kissing feels like. I've never dated anyone."

Xie Huanyue squeezed in beside Jiang Chen, his plump cheeks looking exceedingly cute.

Zhou Sichen and a few other friends crowded around too, sunflower seeds in hand and ready for gossip. An Inner Court senior falling for a freshman was almost unheard of.

Besides, rumor had it that she was the finest of her generation in the Inner Court. Jiang Chen had struck it rich.

With a senior like her backing him, he could command the wind and summon the rain in the Outer Court.

If only such luck would fall into their laps!

They were jealous!

But Jiang Chen replied, "I went to break up with her. It wasn't what you're thinking. That senior and I aren't suited to each other. We were never headed down the same road."

Xie Huanyue and the others were dumbfounded.

Wait, seriously?

You went there to break up?

You let an Inner Court senior go just like that, without even trying to keep her?

Xie Huanyue reached out to feel Jiang Chen's forehead. "You're not running a fever, are you? Maybe she only said she wanted to break up because she was angry. You just agreed? You didn't try to keep her at all? She's an Inner Court senior! People would give anything to date her, and you broke up just like that?"

"Jiang Chen, that joke isn't funny."

Zhou Sichen nodded. "Right. Not funny at all."

Jiang Chen shook his head with a rueful smile. Looking his friends in the eye, he said, "Do I look like someone who jokes about this? When I say we broke up, we broke up."

"Ma Xiaotao is the Inner Court's top genius, the best of her generation. She's destined to marry a Titled Douluo with Ultimate Ice. I only have an Azure Bird Martial Soul, and I'm just a level-twenty-eight Soul Grandmaster. She's far beyond my reach."

"If we kept this going, I'd probably become a laughingstock."

"Better to make a clean break. We can stay out of each other's lives and leave each other alone. It's better for everyone."

Once they were sure they had heard him correctly, Xie Huanyue and the others couldn't help feeling indignant on Jiang Chen's behalf.

So that was what the Inner Court senior was really like.

When she needed you, you were her sweetheart. When she didn't, you were yesterday's news.

A woman could change her face faster than someone could turn a page.

But who was Jiang Chen? He was the only genius in the Outer Court with true phoenix blood. A family with a Titled Douluo stood behind him, and he had the looks of a peerless young gentleman, handsome as jade.

Yet Jiang Chen had been dumped all the same.

Only then did they face a harsh reality: the senior had taken what she wanted and left without a backward glance.

Xie Huanyue patted Jiang Chen's shoulder and comforted him. "Don't be sad, brother. There are plenty of good girls in the world. Senior Ma Xiaotao isn't the only one for you. You'll definitely meet someone better."

"Frankly, Ma Xiaotao is shortsighted. Breaking up with you was the biggest mistake she could've made."

"Oh, right. Did you ask for breakup money?"

Jiang Chen had been a little moved, but the words "breakup money" nearly broke him.

Breakup money, my ass.

Before crossing over, I'd even heard of breakup sex. Apparently, it was real.

Jiang Chen pointed at himself. "Do I look like someone who'd ask for breakup money? You don't think I was after Ma Xiaotao's resources, do you?"

Zhou Sichen immediately flicked Xie Huanyue on the forehead and declared with all the righteousness of a shining beacon, "Of course we believe in your character. We just didn't expect that senior to be so stingy. No breakup sex, fine, but no breakup money either? That's going too far."

"You even helped suppress her Evil Fire. Now that she's done with you, she's thrown you away. That's exactly how certain members of the Dai Family act."

Xie Huanyue immediately chimed in. "Exactly! She strung my brother along. She's worse than some men."

As their talk grew more outrageous and reckless, Jiang Chen promptly raised a hand to stop them.

Keep talking like that and we'll end up in the little black room.

The dormitory isn't outside the law.

Just then, a knock sounded at the dormitory door, followed by a light female voice.

"Is Jiang Chen here?"

"Have you eaten anything tonight? I brought you all a late-night snack. Come get it."

The others turned to Jiang Chen in unison. This kid's luck is something else. Ma Xiaotao just dumped him, and another senior is already here. What a charmed love life.

The owner of that voice was another stunning beauty: Senior Ling Luochеn of the Inner Court, the famed ice queen.

They had no idea what kind of luck Jiang Chen had stumbled into to have two Inner Court seniors interested in him at once.