However, six months later, Ying Miao's elder brother died unexpectedly in battle, and she suddenly became his successor.
Ying Miao strongly resisted.
That means she and Qin Shaoji will live with the centuries-old grudges and hatred between their families, and they will never be able to be together again.
Ying Miao disagreed, but the clan elder, in order to force her to agree, scattered her brother's ashes, which led to her mother slitting her throat and committing suicide in front of her, and her father also setting himself on fire in a suicide pact.
The clan elder told her, "Ying Miao, only when you control power and influence yourself can you control your own destiny."
From that moment on, the innocence and naivety of the past twenty years vanished without a trace, leaving only a puppet burdened with heavy responsibilities and expectations, and filled with a desire for power.
Ying Miao severed all contact with Qin Shaoji, turned away Qin Shaoji who had finally broken through to the eighth level to tell her about it, and told him that the two of them would no longer have any contact from now on.
Even in her dreams, she could still clearly remember Qin Shaoji's distraught appearance.
At the age of thirty, Ying Miao married the head of the Si family, who was then at the ninth level of the martial arts realm.
Qin Shaoji attended her wedding, but Ying Miao didn't say a word to him. She never expected that Qin Shaoji would leave a letter saying he would wait for her, and then resolutely abandon his family to wander away.
Ying Miao tore the letter to shreds and focused all her energy on climbing the ladder.
At the age of forty, Ying Miao broke through to the ninth level.
That year, she met Qin Shaoji, whom she hadn't seen for ten years. Qin Shaoji had been unmarried and childless, wandering away from his family for ten years, trying to prove his unwavering love to her. But when he returned, he found Ying Miao, who had a son and a daughter and wielded immense power.
Facing Qin Shaoji, Ying Miao belittled him to nothing in terms of power, status, and cultivation, and arrogantly and contemptuously said to him:
"Qin Shaoji, don't be so childish. Those are all childish tricks from the past. We're all adults now, who would hold onto things from the past?"
That day, Ying Miao saw Qin Shaoji at his most disheveled.
From that day on, they went their separate ways.
When they finally sat down peacefully again in their twilight years, looking back on the past century, even though they were side by side, their hearts were already thousands of miles apart.
The innocent and pure boy has vanished; he has entered the abyss and become a dragon.
The innocent and carefree girl is long gone; only the scheming ambitious man remains.
They went their separate ways during the best years of their lives, and can never go back to the way things were.
Until the wind blows over the decaying bones, all love and hate are crushed in time.
Whether reincarnation exists is a question that cannot be answered.
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On April 8, the region officially passed a meeting to formally implement the new plan, led by the Longpai faction, and to conduct research on the "New Three Roads".
On April 9, at the meeting where the new plan was announced to be under study, the new representative of the Dragon Faction—Fu Jiu, the new leader of the Dragon Faction—attended the meeting.
On April 10, Chang Le received news from Zi Gui Ti, confirming that the experiment being conducted in the laboratory under the Goose Returns to the Tower was a fake fusion drug and mutant experiment, which corroborated Ying Miao's answer.
The implementation of the new plan was carried out simultaneously with the research and search for mutants.
In the eerily calm atmosphere of the old ruins, where the mutants seemed to have vanished, Middle-earth began a precious decade-long period of peace.
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-- Volume 5: Pale - Soaring to the Nine Heavens --
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