The Shen Family was the foremost family in Cloud Heaven City.
They had been on good terms with the city lord's Wang Family for generations, and the two families were quite close.
As it happened, Wang Feng, the second young master of the city lord's Wang Family, and Shen Mengli, the eldest young lady of the Shen Family, were born on the same day.
After a brief discussion, the two families arranged a betrothal between the infants, and each kept a marriage contract.
The two were childhood sweethearts who grew up together.
They had always been close, too.
Wang Feng doted on Shen Mengli especially, treating her as practically everything in his life.
But after Shen Mengli became the personal disciple of Shuiyue, the peak master of Heavenly Water Peak, her senior brothers and sisters talked her up until it all went to her head.
As the saying went, once someone had seen the clouds at the summit, who would care about the wild grass beneath the trees at the foot of the mountain?
Wang Feng had only a three-element mixed Spiritual Root and would struggle to reach Qi Condensation in a hundred years.
Shen Mengli, on the other hand, reached Qi Condensation one month after joining the sect, Qi Refining Perfection in three months, and Foundation Establishment in half a year. She was a proud daughter of heaven, with limitless future prospects.
With her master doting on her and her many senior and junior brothers looking after her, it was hard for her not to get carried away.
As for Wang Feng, he only reached Qi Condensation after a year thanks to a chance encounter, barely making it into the First Layer of Qi Refining and joining the outer sect.
In Shen Mengli's eyes, she and Wang Feng were