Nalan Yanran glared at Yan Xiao, who knelt on one knee on the ground.
At that moment, she finally realized that her memories of her previous life, with all their foreknowledge, were utterly useless in this one.
Everything had changed!
The "Xiao Yan" who should have saved her grandfather had actually killed him.
"There was something wrong with your grandfather. He suddenly lashed out at me."
Yan Xiao took an antidote pill from his Storage Ring and swallowed it, his expression grim as he spoke.
"My grandfather had been unconscious for days. How could he suddenly attack you?"
"Xiao Yan, I know you look down on me, Nalan Yanran. You don't want to honor our engagement. But no matter how much you hate me, there was no need to take it out on my grandfather!"
Nalan Yanran clenched her teeth, tears gushing like a spring.
She admitted that after being reborn, she had wanted to make up for the regrets of her previous life. She had not wanted to miss her chance with Xiao Yan again.
Even when Xiao Yan had humiliated her with a divorce letter at the Xiao Clan, she had not been angry. After all, her actions in her previous life had been excessive too.
But she could not understand why he had taken his anger out on her grandfather, even if he hated her.
"I look down on you? I don't want to honor our engagement?"
Her words left Yan Xiao utterly bewildered.
Hadn't Nalan Yanran been the one who went to break off the engagement?
Why did she make it sound as though he had seduced her and then abandoned her?
While the two spoke, the real Xiao Yan had silently approached Nalan Jie's corpse and collected the Otherworlder, Brand Poison.
"Alas, there's no saving