He Was Trash, but Weren't You Trash Too?

By the time Ning Xuan returned to Heaven Dou City in his carriage after traveling without stopping,

it was already the following evening.

He did not immediately return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but went straight to one of his clan's properties in Heaven Dou City.

A private Rest Room had been set aside for him here.

As soon as he entered, a scantily clad maid came out.

"Young master."

Her voice was soft and sweet, sultry and enticing.

"Heat a tub of water for me. I'll be taking a bath shortly."

Ning Xuan strode toward his Rest Room.

"Understood."

The maid hurried after him.

"Young master, Miss Erlong is also waiting for you in the Rest Room."

Ning Xuan stopped in his tracks.

Liu Erlong!

He drew a sharp, deep breath before finally suppressing the emotions threatening to run wild within him.

"What is she doing here?"

"Miss Erlong didn't say."

The maid shook her head.

"But she's been waiting for you in the Rest Room for almost a day."

"I understand. Go heat the water first. Come get me when it's ready."

Ning Xuan waved a hand as he spoke.

Then he stood outside the Rest Room, suppressed his anger once more, and abruptly shoved the door open.

A sudden bang rang out.

It startled the woman who had been resting with her head down inside the Rest Room.

She hurriedly stood up and tidied her hair a little before giving Ning Xuan a reproachful glare.

"Honestly, don't you know how to knock before coming in? You startled me."

"Do I need to knock to enter my own Rest Room?"

"I think you're just a thief with a guilty conscience!"

Ning Xuan spoke coldly.

He walked in and began taking off his clothes right beside the bed.

"Ah, what are you doing?"

Liu Erlong's pretty face flushed, and she hurriedly asked.

"I'm taking a bath. Aren't you going to leave?"

Ning Xuan no longer showed her any warmth.

"Fine, I'm leaving. As if anyone wanted to look at you."

Liu Erlong grew angry too, stamping her foot as she spoke unhappily.

Ning Xuan had just removed his shirt, revealing sleek muscles and eight-pack abs. At her words, his hands paused, and he could not resist another sneer.

"Of course you've seen it all. A potbellied man in his forties-does that have a special flavor of its own?"

Liu Erlong froze just as she was about to leave.

She abruptly turned, raising her brows, her gaze evasive.

"Ning Xuan, what do you mean?"

There was a trace of anger in her voice.

[Ding-]

Just then, a cool, mechanical voice suddenly sounded in Ning Xuan's mind.

[Intense emotions detected in the host.]

[Intense emotions detected in Liu Erlong.]

[Congratulations to the host on binding the "Emotion Collection" system.]

[This system can collect various emotions to generate corresponding Emotional Value, thereby improving and strengthening the host.]

[Binding system...]

[System binding successful...]

[Ding-]

[System detected hesitation in Liu Erlong. Emotional Value +100]

Ning Xuan was somewhat dazed.

He had already spent so many years in the Douluo Continent after transmigrating here. He had never expected his long-awaited cheat to arrive so very late.

Or did even the cheat think I'd been swallowing too much humiliation?

"Ning Xuan, I'm asking you a question. What's this silence supposed to mean?"

Seeing that Ning Xuan said nothing, Liu Erlong grew a little more assertive and questioned him coldly.

Ning Xuan finally came back to his senses.

Seeing Liu Erlong like this, he might once have been filled with trepidation, but now he felt only disgust.

"Don't you know perfectly well what you've done?"

"What have I done?"

Liu Erlong jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"Tell me, what have I done?"

[System detected panic in Liu Erlong. Emotional Value +100]

The system's voice sounded again.

Only then was Ning Xuan finally certain that his cheat really had arrived.

"Don't think I don't know about those filthy things you two did in Sunset Forest."

Ning Xuan sneered.

He simply left his shirt off and sat down on the bed in the Rest Room.

Moonlight streamed through the window and fell across him, leaving broad patches of shadow that made his eight-pack abs look even more solid and defined.

It also accentuated his long neck, sharply outlined face, and increasingly chiseled, handsome features.

"Well, well, Ning Xuan. I never imagined you were such a hypocrite."

"You said you agreed, but you never really got past it, did you?"

"If that's the case, why did you agree to let me go in the first place?"

"And now you're back, using this as an excuse to go crazy. You're utterly unreasonable."

Liu Erlong's words came in a rapid barrage, like cannon fire.

[System detected flustered emotions in Liu Erlong. Emotional Value +200]

"Heh."

"Yes, I'm a hypocrite. I'm going crazy. I'm unreasonable."

Ning Xuan scoffed.

"I shouldn't have found out about you and that piece of trash. I should have been kept in the dark. I deserved to be a great big cuckold, right?"

He stood up from the bed and looked straight into Liu Erlong's eyes.

"Liu Erlong, I admit that I like you."

"But that isn't a reason for you to trample all over me. And I can tell you now that I just returned from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."

"I went to see your father, Yu Luomian."

"Liu Erlong."

Ning Xuan stared unblinkingly into her eyes, pronouncing each word with deliberate emphasis until the last.

"I."

"Am."

"Breaking."

"Our engagement."

Boom-

Liu Erlong stood rooted like a wooden chicken!!!

[System detected extreme panic in Liu Erlong. Emotional Value +2000]

"Ning Xuan... what... what did you say?"

Liu Erlong's face went pale.

"You... want to break off our engagement?"

"That's right!"

Ning Xuan looked at her with indifferent eyes, as though looking at a complete stranger, and slowly let the cutting words spill from his mouth.

"I'm breaking off our engagement. From now on, whatever you want to do has nothing to do with me."

"You can cross your single-plank bridge, and I'll walk my broad, sunlit road."

"Incest? Never mind that."

"Even if you give that piece of trash a deformed child, it has nothing to do with me."

"I didn't!!"

Liu Erlong shouted in protest.

"What right do you have to say such vile things? What right do you have to slander me!"

[System detected extreme anger in Liu Erlong. Emotional Value +2000]

"Whether I'm slandering you or not-don't you know perfectly well?"

Ning Xuan sneered and turned away from her, but continued speaking.

"Get out!"

"I don't want to see you right now!"

Liu Erlong was overwhelmed with shame and anger!

She pointed at Ning Xuan's back, her eyes red.

"Ning Xuan. Fine, fine, fine."

"You want to break off our engagement? I'll grant your wish, but don't regret it!"

"You keep calling Xiaogang trash."

"But how much better are you? Even after eating that immortal herb, your Martial Soul still couldn't break through. You're even more worthless than he is!"

With that, Liu Erlong stormed out, slamming the door behind her.

[System detected the utmost shame and indignation in Liu Erlong. Emotional Value +2000]

The cool voice of the system sounded in Ning Xuan's mind once again.

Only after the Rest Room door had closed

did Ning Xuan's body begin to tremble slightly, and he could not stop himself from slamming a fist hard into the wall.

That's right!

Wasn't he trash too?

He had been born with a Martial Soul Mutation, breaking through his clan's limits to possess the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Although his cultivation had advanced rapidly in the early stages, and he had even become his clan's pride for a time, for some unknown reason, the restriction still remained.

It was even more terrifying!

After Ning Xuan reached Rank 79 at fifteen, he had been unable to advance even a fraction.

Ten years had passed since then.

Ning Xuan was twenty-five, yet his Soul Power cultivation remained at Rank 79.

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