"So this is what the so-called Boss Dai used to be like."
Someone in the crowd muttered something under their breath.
The sound wasn't loud.
But it was like a thunderclap, exploding in Dai Mubai's ears.
puff--!
Overwhelmed by anger, Dai Mubai suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, his body swaying precariously.
...
White world.
Inside the main hall.
Laughter erupted.
Hahahaha!
"I'm dying of laughter! Is this the young master Dai from the underworld?"
"That's too much! They don't even dare to wipe it off when someone spits on them?"
"Should I say 'Take care, big brother'?"
A group of Soul Masters from the White World looked at the sky and laughed so hard they almost fell over.
For them, this was simply the best comedy of the year.
Despite sharing the same face, no one would associate that good-for-nothing from the underworld with their own domineering White Emperor.
The difference is huge.
It's so big that it feels like two completely different species.
Zhu Zhuqing looked at the screen, her disgust deepening.
"fortunately."
She murmured to herself.
"Luckily, it was you I met."
She turned to look at Dai Mubai beside her, her eyes filled with relief.
If she were a nobody in that underworld, she probably would have committed suicide in despair long ago.
Dai Mubai toyed with the jade cup in his hand, looking at the "himself" lying on the ground drinking in the sky, his eyes calm and unwavering.
"That's the choice."
Dai Mubai spoke calmly.
"When a person chooses to kneel down, he/she forever loses the right to stand up."
Even after he stood up, the mud on his knees could never be washed off.
The transitions between the celestial backdrops were seamless.
Just as everyone in the underworld was still reeling from the shock of Dai Mubai begging for mercy on the ground and being spat on and humiliated, a new scene emerged.
Golden ancient seal characters slowly solidified on the light screen.
[At twelve years old, we met for the first time.]
The day of their engagement was also the day of their escape.
These two lines of text were like a sharp knife, piercing Zhu Zhuqing's heart in the dark world once again.
She remembers that day.
I remember it very clearly.
That was the beginning of her nightmare, and the source of her complete disillusionment with this man.
The image gradually became clear.
It was still the Star Luo Imperial Palace, but this time, it was in a corner of the Imperial Garden.
Artificial hills and flowing water, ancient trees reaching for the sky.
A girl in a little black dress stood there quietly.
That was Zhu Zhuqing as a child.
Although she was only a few years old and still had baby fat on her face, this cool and aloof temperament was already beginning to take shape.
She stood very straight.
He clasped his hands together in front of him, his eyes fixed on the entrance to the garden.
She is waiting.
Waiting for her fiancé, who is said to possess the Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul and is exceptionally talented.
Her elders told her that the struggles within the royal family were incredibly cruel, a matter of life or death.
She had no other choice.
Only by joining forces with this prince can we have a sliver of hope.
So, she came.
Not long after.
A series of hurried footsteps approached.
At this moment, Dai Mubai of the Underworld had changed into slightly cleaner clothes, but the decadence and panic that emanated from his very bones could not be concealed.
He walked along, glancing back at the same time.
His eyes darted around, as if he were on guard against some monstrous flood.
When he turned past the artificial hill and saw Zhu Zhuqing standing there, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
I was startled.
He even shrank back a little.
"Who are you?"
Dai Mubai's voice was strained, and his brows were tightly furrowed.
Zhu Zhuqing looked at the boy in front of her who was a head taller than her.
She still politely bowed.
"The Zhu family, Zhu Zhuqing."
"Greetings, Your Highness the Third Prince."
The voice was young, yet it carried a firm conviction.
Upon hearing the words "Zhu family," Dai Mubai's expression instantly changed.
It wasn't a surprise.
Instead, it was fear.
It was as if I had heard some kind of death-bringing incantation.
"The Zhu family...fiancée..."
Dai Mubai muttered these words to himself, his eyes darting around rapidly.
He looked Zhu Zhuqing up and down.
There was no appreciation in his eyes, only deep disdain and apprehension.
For him at this moment, Zhu Zhuqing was not an asset, but a burden.
It is a huge, moving live target.
As long as I get involved with this woman, that madman Davis will definitely come knocking on my door again.
At that point, it won't be as simple as spitting.
I might really die.
Thinking of this, Dai Mubai felt a chill run down his spine.
What brings you here?
Dai Mubai lowered his voice, his tone very impatient.
"Who sent you?"
Zhu Zhuqing was taken aback.
She never expected that their first meeting would begin with such a question.
"It was His Majesty who bestowed this marriage upon us..."
"I don't care who arranged this marriage!"
Dai Mubai rudely interrupted her.
He took a step forward, staring fiercely at Zhu Zhuqing.
"Do you know you're a problem?"
"Davis is just looking for an excuse to kill me, and now you're swaggering over here, trying to kill me?"
Zhu Zhuqing's face turned deathly pale instantly.
She looked at Dai Mubai in disbelief.
Is this really something that the man with the White Tiger Martial Soul said?
"Your Highness..."
Zhu Zhuqing took a deep breath and tried to reason with him.
"We are already engaged."
"Since we can't change it, why can't we join forces?"
"As long as we cultivate diligently, perhaps..."
"Shut up!"
Dai Mubai reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly bristling with anger.
He suddenly swung his hand, almost hitting Zhu Zhuqing in the face.
"Join forces? With what can we join forces on?"
"Davis is so much older than me, and his soul power is so much higher than mine, how can I fight him?"
"If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!"
Dai Mubai was very agitated.
Although his voice was very low, you could still smell the hysteria through the screen.
He was already planning his escape.
The route has been planned.
In the next few days, he will leave this godforsaken place and go to the Heavenly Dou Empire, to that place where all you do is eat, drink, and have fun.
But now, suddenly a fiancée appears.
What if she leaks the news?
What if she keeps bothering me?
The escape plan must not be exposed!
Dai Mubai became more and more frightened the more he thought about it.
His gaze towards Zhu Zhuqing was filled with hostility.
"Listen to me."
Dai Mubai stretched out his finger and pointed at Zhu Zhuqing's nose.
"From now on, don't follow me."
"And don't tell outsiders that you've met me."
"I don't want to see you, and I don't want to have anything to do with you."
After saying these few words.
Dai Mubai didn't dare to look Zhu Zhuqing in the eye.
He felt guilty.
He was afraid of seeing his own ugly and cowardly reflection in the little girl's clear eyes.
then.
He chose the move he was best at.
escape.
Dai Mubai suddenly turned around and ran wildly along the path he had come from, as if avoiding a plague god.
It runs very fast.
In his panic, he even stumbled and almost fell flat on his face.
But he didn't even dare to turn his head.
Only the young Zhu Zhuqing was left, standing alone in the Imperial Garden.
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