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When Su Yan saw Wang Dong and the others talking in the group chat, a thought immediately came to his mind. He looked at their words and realized their current situation was exactly like the story he was about to tell. It was truly a funny coincidence that made him want to laugh out loud.
Su Yan typed into the chat interface with a smirk. He told them that it would actually be better if those two people just perished together. He said they would understand why once they saw how the story ended.
Su Yan explained that a year after their initial meeting, Mu En and Long Xiaoyao were supposed to meet for a duel. These two men were like brothers, but neither of them showed up for the appointment.
They both felt that a winner could not be decided without someone getting hurt or killed. Because they valued their brotherhood, they both decided that women were like clothes while brothers were like limbs. As a result, neither of them went to meet Ye Xishui, which made the poor woman feel like a total clown.
Hu Liena responded quickly, saying she was going to die from laughing so hard at the absurdity of it. The Big Cat in the Shadow wondered out loud what would happen if people like Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen were in that spot. He asked if they would fight until their heads were bleeding.
Bai Chenxiang added her thoughts, saying Tang Chen might fight stubbornly because of his pride. However, she felt that Qian Daoliu's character would not let things go that far.
Suddenly, Bo Saixi spoke up in the chat. She told everyone to shut up and called them bastards. She was truly angry because the conversation was hitting too close to home. She couldn't believe the nonsense she was hearing about Ye Xishui. In her mind, Ye Xishui must be seriously ill to come up with a duel as a way to resolve a romance.
Su Yan didn't stop there. He teased the group by saying that if this happened to certain people currently in the chat, the story would be even more exciting. This caused a wave of question marks to flood the screen. Everyone was curious about who he was talking about. Yanzi is not a Swallow started asking for the gossip immediately.
I Am an Orphan asked if this meant there were two people in the group who had actually fought until they bled over a single man. The Nine Treasures Little Princess and Liu Erlong were shocked, while Wang Dong and others found the idea very interesting.
Ma Xiaotao was also confused, while Bai Chenxiang joked that those who were usually the targets of gossip finally felt lucky for once. Over at Shrek Academy on the Douluo Continent, Ma Xiaotao had been focusing her attention on Tang Ya and Zhang Lexuan. She thought they might fight over Beibei in the future.
But after reading Bai Chenxiang's words, she realized something was wrong. Tang Ya had already been the subject of gossip before. If there was a big fight coming in her future, Su Yan would have exposed it a long time ago. She began to wonder who these two mysterious rivals could be.
Su Yan then continued his story to clarify the different versions of the past. He explained that in the version told by Mu En and Xuan Zi, Ye Xishui suffered a Qi Deviation during her cultivation because of her dark spirit transformation. During this crisis, a man known as Old Ghost Zhongli saved her. However, he then took advantage of her and forced her to become a member of the Evil Soul Master organization.
Su Yan narrated that about ten years later, both Long Xiaoyao and Mu En had started their own families. By then, all three of them had reached the level of Titled Douluo. Ye Xishui eventually returned to challenge Mu En. During the fight, she was injured by Mu En's teacher. That teacher then fought Old Ghost Zhongli, and they both ended up hurting each other badly.
Mu En blamed Long Xiaoyao for everything that had happened to Ye Xishui. He went to find Long Xiaoyao to fight him. After their battle, they finally talked and realized that neither of them had gone to meet Ye Xishui years ago. Feeling guilty, they went to find her together. When they arrived, they found that Ye Xishui had inherited the power of the dying Old Ghost Zhongli. She had already become a powerful Super Douluo.
Even when Long Xiaoyao and Mu En teamed up, they could not defeat her. Ye Xishui chose not to kill them but instead yelled at them, asking why they had humiliated her so badly in the past.
Even though the two men tried to explain, Ye Xishui had already lost her mind to anger. She forced them to swear they would never be brothers again. She demanded they have a life-or-death duel at a specific place ten years later.
She told them they must decide who was better and who would die, or she would kill their entire families. In that duel ten years later, Long Xiaoyao sought help from the Body Sect, which led to Mu En receiving permanent injuries. That was the summary of Mu En's version of the story.
The members of the group chat fell silent as they thought about the story. Yanzi is not a Swallow felt that something seemed wrong with the logic. The Cat in the Shadows questioned the coincidence of Ye Xishui running into an evil master right when she had a cultivation accident. Liu Erlong expressed her belief that Mu En was lying. She noted that there were other versions of the story and that the title "One Phoenix Plays with Two Dragons" suggested a very different reality.
Bibi Dong agreed, noting that Ye Xishui's relationships were clearly very complicated. She pointed out that Mu En was likely trying to make Ye Xishui look like an innocent victim to protect her reputation. Most of the group members agreed with her. Ma Xiaotao wondered if this meant Mu En still had feelings for Ye Xishui after all those years.
Su Yan replied that while Mu En is often portrayed as an honest person with a dull personality, his romantic history was actually very wild when he was young. He said Mu En was just as bad as Dai Mubai.
Then, Su Yan began Long Xiaoyao's version of the story. In this version, after a Soul Master Tournament, both men confessed their love to Ye Xishui. She chose Mu En, and they became a famous couple.
A year later, a jealous Long Xiaoyao found them. He hoped to feel better by defeating Mu En in a fight, but he lost again. He felt like a total failure in both love and battle. Su Yan gave a funny warning that younger readers should be careful with what came next.
He described how Mu En and Long Xiaoyao got very drunk together that night. When Long Xiaoyao woke up, he was alone with Mu En in a room. He found a note from Ye Xishui telling him to wash up before coming to her room.
Long Xiaoyao was confused but entered her room anyway. He claimed he only wanted to look at her and then leave. However, as he walked toward the bed, Ye Xishui spoke from the shadows. She asked why he was so late and revealed she had been waiting for him. She laughed and told him that the sweet smell in the room was a special aphrodisiac poison she had planted called Spring Wind Dew Fragrance.
The group chat exploded with reactions. Liu Erlong couldn't believe it. She had suspected the men of using drugs on the woman, but it turned out the woman had drugged the man. Bibi Dong called the whole thing too melodramatic, while Bo Saixi was left speechless.
Inside a carriage, Su Yan and his companions looked at Ling Yuan with strange expressions. Ling Yuan had made a comment that caught them off guard.
She laughed and covered her mouth, telling them she was just kidding and they shouldn't take her so seriously.
In the chat, Ma Xiaotao joked that Su Yan was probably curious about that special fragrance and promised to let him smell it one day. This led to more jokes and warnings from the others about how dangerous that would be.