"No matter how much you care about her, you have absolutely no chance in this world."
Mu Chen!
Hearing that name, one he had never heard before, yet which both girls had inexplicably spoken with such weight.
Oscar staggered back two steps. His confidence in being "the greatest hero who had saved the beauty" was shattered in that instant.
Reluctance, humiliation, and the resentment of being so brutally crushed tangled wildly in his heart.
He clenched his teeth, his eyes reddening, and looked at Luo Li again, asking hoarsely, word by word:
"Luo Li, what if... what if it were about strength?"
"Since everyone in this Great Thousand World only respects the prestige of a Heavenly Sovereign, what if I really break through someday and become a Heavenly Sovereign at the very pinnacle of the Great Thousand World!"
"When that time comes... could you forget that Mu Chen and give me a chance to start over?!"
His questioning held one last trace of pleading and unwillingness to accept defeat.
Yet Luo Li stood before the stone steps without hesitating even half a breath longer to look at him.
"Even if you became a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, it would have nothing to do with me."
"Mu Chen is the only person in my heart."
"Your liking me is your own business. Please do not bring it up again from now on, lest you embarrass us both."
She left him not so much as a word of so-called comfort or room to maneuver.
Boom!
Those last words struck Oscar squarely in the chest like the most direct blow of a heavy hammer.
Looking at the expressionless Luo Li before him, and Xiao Xiao beside her, who merely watched him with amusement.
Oscar felt that his desperate efforts to fetch reinforcements over