At that moment, Xiao Yan's gaze swept across the enormous square, showing neither joy nor sorrow, before finally resting on the beautiful woman on the stone platform, whose bright eyes were likewise turned toward him.
The young man raised his head, gazed at the woman, and spoke calmly. "Xiao Yan of the Xiao Clan!"
His simple, unruffled words drifted slowly across the enormous square. Countless Misty Cloud Sect disciples looked toward the black-robed young man at the stone steps, their gazes filled with different emotions.
There was disdain, disgust, curiosity, and, of course, admiration!
Alone, he had walked out of a small clan led by a Da Dou Shi and actually dared to confront the Misty Cloud Sect, an overlord of the Jia Ma Empire!
That was not something just anyone could do!
"Nalan Yanran of the Nalan Family!" Nalan Yanran looked with a complicated expression at the young man before her-her "fiancé"!
She had grown considerably over these past few years. Looking back now, her actions back then had indeed been somewhat rash, but if she had to do it again, she would still make the same choice.
She, Nalan Yanran, would never be bound by a marriage contract!
Before meeting Jiang Yun, her goal had been to become a female Dou Emperor like her teacher, Yun Yun. But after meeting Jiang Yun, she had witnessed a genius from the continent and learned how vast the world outside was.
Her heart had already begun to find the Jia Ma Empire insufficient!
The world was so vast; she wanted to go out and see it!
Nalan Yanran stood straight and proud like an unyielding snow lotus, her bright eyes fixed on Xiao Yan. Gradually, the complicated expression disappeared, and her voice became as calm as his.
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