Chapter 218
When Qin Su chose his first small world, he wanted to select a world that he could easily adapt to, so he settled on a cultivation world.
This cultivation world was generated from a popular male-oriented novel about breaking off an engagement. The story is quite cliché. The protagonist is a protagonist with a useless spiritual root, a dragon-like genius. His ancestors included true immortals, and his family was originally a large clan. However, the younger generation was not ambitious, and the clan gradually declined. By the time of the dragon-like genius's generation, they could no longer protect the family's treasures.
Therefore, in order to secure a future for Long Aotian, his parents offered their treasure and sought a marriage alliance with the Su family.
However, the Su family broke their promise and went back on their word. After discovering that their eldest daughter was exceptionally talented, they decided to steal the treasure and break off the engagement, and even publicly humiliated Long Aotian.
In his grief and anger, Long Aotian made a boastful statement in court, only to be kicked out of the house by the Su family. Upon learning of this, his seriously ill parents were overcome with rage and fell into a coma.
Since Long Aotian is the protagonist, he will naturally not remain unknown. His blood activates the ancestral jade pendant, giving him a golden finger that he carries with him. With the help of this golden finger, he reshapes his spiritual root, explores secret realms, bravely ventures into the abyss, and achieves the status of a peerless genius.
He became famous, but the Su family, who had offended him, suffered. Many people rushed to help him vent his anger and suppress the Su family. Su Rou, the eldest daughter of the Su family, was ambushed in a secret realm and died under the claws of a strange beast.
Her soul appealed to the heavens for help, and in return, Qin Su appeared.
Her wish was to preserve the Su family. After Qin Su helped her achieve this, she left this world.
So much time had passed that Qin Su could hardly remember what she had done here.
She opened her eyes and saw Long Aotian standing in the center of the hall, speaking neither humbly nor arrogantly: "...Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, never underestimate a young man's potential. The Su family, with such a prestigious background, has actually done such a despicable thing. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by the world?!"
The guards in the hall burst into laughter, mocking, "Incompetent ants, yet you dare to boast."
"What kind of daydreams is this kid having in broad daylight? Him? Don't underestimate a young man's potential, bah!"
Qin Su: "..."
Now I remember, this is the scene of the annulment of the engagement.
In her opinion, the Su family deserved it.
You can complain that someone is incompetent and want to break off the engagement, then return the token. If you don't return it and don't offer compensation, and instead humiliate and insult them, then you're just putting up with it. The fact that Long Aotian didn't immediately come to their door after becoming stronger is already because he was under moral pressure as the protagonist.
Qin Su picked up the empty teacup in front of her and tapped it on the table.
Two loud thuds followed, and the hall fell silent instantly.
Everyone looked in her direction.
"Lin Ke," Qin Su called out Long Aotian's name.
"Take it."
With a flick of her finger, she took out a square box from her storage bag and tossed it at Lin Ke.
Lin Ke hurriedly caught it, opened it, and saw that inside was the treasure his parents had offered up to secure a marriage alliance with the Su family.
A bright pearl that can nourish the human spirit.
If his parents hadn't been injured and desperately needed such a precious item to treat their illness, he wouldn't have been so insistent on getting the keepsake back.
He had initially thought he wouldn't get it today because of the Su family's domineering attitude, but to his surprise, Miss Su, who hadn't said much, was willing to return it to him.
With mixed feelings, Lin Ke looked at his stunningly beautiful former fiancée sitting above him and cupped his hands in thanks, saying, "Thank you, Fairy Su."
Qin Su said calmly, "It was originally your property."
He then said to the maid beside him, "Go and find him some more medicinal herbs to treat his injuries, so he can take them with him later."
The maidservant quickly agreed.
Lin Ke was taken aback, not knowing why things had suddenly changed. He felt uneasy and was about to step forward to decline when another person in the hall spoke first.
“Young Miss, why do you say this?” The steward in charge of inner affairs of the Su family stood up and said to Qin Su with great disapproval, “This lowly person was once engaged to the Young Miss, which is already a great honor. How could his impoverished family keep the treasure? The Su family is keeping it for him, and he should be grateful.”
It seems he was unwilling to let Qin Su return the things to Lin Ke.
Lin Ke's handsome face instantly contorted with anger: "You..."
"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Qin Su said impatiently.
The steward said in a flustered manner, "I dare not, but..."
Qin Su stood up and interrupted him: "No buts."
"Someone come here!"
Each direct descendant of the Su family is assigned a personal bodyguard. When she called out, several figures appeared in the hall.
The leader, dressed in blue, moved with a nimble and graceful manner. He wore a mask, obscuring his face, and bowed to her, saying, "Young Miss, please give your orders."
“These people…” Qin Su’s finger swept across the guards in the hall, “They should all be relieved of their duties and sent to a class on manners, to learn what rules and etiquette are. Which guard would argue with a guest in front of the host?”
"And him too." Qin Su pointed at the steward. "How did he climb up to the management level? He's full of twisted logic. Take him away and investigate him immediately. What a mess this whole family is in."
Those she pointed at were stunned and immediately knelt down, begging for mercy.
"Young Miss, I'm innocent!"
“Young Miss, this...this...we have always done it this way..."
Qin Su didn't bother listening and waved to the guards to take the person away.
The man in blue seemed a little hesitant.
Qin Su asked, "What's wrong?"
The man in blue: "I wonder what kind of 'moral education' the young lady is talking about?"
"..." Qin Su, "It's about teaching them how to be good people."
The man in blue understood and left, accepting the order.
The hall was instantly nearly empty, with more than half the people gone. Lin Ke, dumbfounded, looked left and right, then at Qin Su, and suddenly, inexplicably, felt a sense of danger.
He said nervously, "Fairy, if there's nothing else, I'll take my leave now."
Qin Su glanced at him, knowing that he would start the blood-drop-to-claim-golden-finger plot when he got home, and waved to him.
Lin Ke ran away quickly.
Qin Su asked another maid to bring over the roster of all the disciples of the Su family's inner and outer sects, and personally looked through it. However, after looking at it twice, she did not see any familiar names.
She thought for a moment, realizing that the person in this world wasn't called Qin Su, and perhaps Ye Yan wasn't called Ye Yan either. So she checked the portrait again, but still found nothing.
Could it be that Ye Yan isn't human this time either?
As Qin Su was pondering whether to check on each of the family's pets and exotic beasts, the maidservant beside her asked considerately, "Miss, are you looking for someone?"
Qin Su paused, turned around and looked at the maid. Suddenly, she realized that although the maid looked young, she was actually quite old. She was an elder of the Su family and knew everything about the family.
Have you ever heard of someone named Ye Yan?
"Ye Yan?" The maid tried hard to recall. "There are no disciples, whether inner or outer, with that name, but I feel like I've heard it before..."
"Hmm?" Qin Su's expression shifted. "Where have you heard of this before?"
The maid said uncertainly, "I think that's the name of your personal bodyguard leader."
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