Butler Zhong stood at the bathroom door. After hearing the young master’s calm words, his whole body stiffened for a moment.
Open the door… release the dogs?
He had followed Lin Yuan for so many years, yet this was the first time he had heard the young master treat someone with such ruthless coldness—so merciless it could even be called humiliating.
Especially when that person was Li Xuan’er, the woman he once treasured in his heart.
It seemed the young master had truly let go.
No—more accurately, he had never truly picked her up in the first place.
The worry and faint pity in Butler Zhong’s heart vanished instantly, replaced by a deep sense of satisfaction and relief.
“Yes, Young Master. I understand,” Butler Zhong said respectfully as he bowed. He then turned around, his face returning to that meticulous butler expression, but deep in his eyes, a sharp chill flashed.
Anyone who dared to make the young master unhappy had to be prepared to pay the price.
…
Outside the Lin Family Estate, the cold wind howled.
Li Xuan’er stood alone beneath the shadow of a streetlamp, her delicate body trembling slightly in the freezing air, her face pale as paper.
At that moment, the thick and magnificent gilded gate slowly opened a narrow gap.
Her heart jolted, and a spark of hope instantly lit up in her eyes.
Was it him? Had he finally softened and come out to see her?
However, the person who stepped out was not the figure she longed for.
Instead, it was a team of security guards in black uniforms, tall and powerfully built, their bodies radiating an iron-blooded aura.
The security captain at the front had eyes sharp as lightning.
He walked straight up to her, stood at attention, and said in a cold, official tone, “Good evening, ma’am.”
“According to Article 7, Clause 3 of the Celestial Dragon Nation Estate Management Regulations, as well as Article 19 of the Yanjing City Appearance Management Law, long-term lingering, wandering, and dumping large trash are prohibited within 100 meters of private residences.”
His voice was not loud, but in the silent winter night, it sounded like repeated sharp slaps landing hard on Li Xuan’er’s face.
Long-term lingering…
Dumping large trash…
Her face instantly drained of all color.
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The “large trash” he was referring to… was her.
An overwhelming wave of humiliation crashed over her like a burst dam, drowning her completely.
“I… I just…”
Her lips trembled as she tried to explain herself, but it felt as if her throat were stuffed with cotton. Not a single word could come out.
The security captain seemed not to notice her extreme humiliation and continued in that icy tone, “Additionally, according to this estate’s internal security regulations, for anyone behaving suspiciously outside the perimeter and refusing to leave after warnings, we have the right to…”
He paused, his gaze sweeping across Li Xuan’er’s ghostly pale face, and said word by word, “Open the door. Release the dogs.”
Boom!
Those four words were a hundred times more cruel than all the humiliation before them combined.
They were like a red-hot hammer, smashing apart the last shred of fantasy and dignity in Li Xuan’er’s heart.
So this was how he saw her.
She wasn’t even worth as much as a “suspicious passerby.”
He could not even be bothered to come out and humiliate her himself. Instead, he treated her like a fly and let the security guards handle it.
No—she was even less than a fly.
At least swatting a fly still required doing it personally.
But dealing with her only required…
Releasing the dogs.
“Pfft—”
Li Xuan’er could no longer bear the blow. She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, her body swaying unsteadily.
The security captain merely looked at her coldly, as if she were an unrelated object.
Li Xuan’er staggered backward a few steps.
She stared at that gate that was so close, yet felt infinitely far away, and forced a smile uglier than crying.
She finally understood.
The gap between her and Lin Yuan had never been about family background, talent, or effort.
It was an insurmountable chasm born from entirely different levels of existence.
She thought she had chosen a shortcut to the peak, but in reality, she had been sprinting down a path of self-destruction.
She believed Ye Xuan’s rise was her most successful investment. New chapters come out on g.com first.
But now it seemed that it was nothing more than a clown burning his life to put on a ridiculous performance.
And she was the stupidest audience member—the one who handed the clown the knife and still thought she could share in the glory.
She staggered as she turned around, dragging along a heart riddled with holes, and disappeared into the thick darkness of the night.
…
At the same time.
Inside the contestant hotel for the National University Tournament.
Ye Xuan sat cross-legged on the bed.
He forcibly suppressed the waves of weakness surging through his body from the backlash of the secret technique.
The power granted by the Burning Blood Dragon Transformation Art was immense, but its side effects were just as obvious.
He could clearly feel his life essence draining away at a slow but irreversible pace.
But he did not care!
As long as he could defeat Lin Yuan, any price was worth paying!
He opened his laptop.
He looked at the overwhelming flood of online news praising him.
He read the forum posts calling him “the future of Celestial Dragon Nation martial arts,” and a powerful sense of satisfaction filled his heart.
He had succeeded!
He had finally crushed that man’s brilliance completely!
Now!
Who in the entire Celestial Dragon Nation did not know the name Ye Xuan?
And Lin Yuan?
Just a coward hiding inside an estate, lacking even the courage to compete!
“Lin Yuan, do you see this? This is the glory that should have been mine!”
Ye Xuan’s eyes burned with fanatic light as he stared fiercely in the direction of the Lin Family Estate outside the window.
“When I win the championship, I will personally come to your door! By then, I will make you understand who is truly the protagonist of this era!”