“Eh…”
Qing'er’s small face was full of confusion. Her mom wasn’t here, and what did “bond” even mean?
The innocent Qing'er had never cursed anyone, nor had she been cursed by others.
From a young age, she had been raised in a honey pot, completely unable to understand vulgar words.
Or rather, Qing'er simply didn't believe anyone would insult her.
“Qing'er, I suggest you reset your life as soon as possible too.”
“Before, I worked so hard, helping you with everything.
When you had a fever, I got up in the middle of the night to bring you medicine; when you had a stomachache, I made you brown sugar water.
But in the end, there wasn’t even a fleeting word of thanks, as if everything was taken for granted.
One time you said you liked handmade cake, so I went to learn how to make it, but as soon as I learned, you said you liked baked cookies.
I went to learn again, but in the end, you said you wouldn’t eat things made by boys.”
“How could you be so cheap?”
“Look at my eye! Answer me! From childhood to adulthood, what problem did you encounter that I didn't help you solve?
In elementary school, you said you wanted to raise little sparrows, so I ran to the countryside to catch them for you.
Then you said, ‘Oh, the teacher said to protect small animals, how can you casually catch cute little sparrows? Jiang Yu, I hate you.’
Go to your mom, how can you be so selfish! Bah!”
The previously silent atmosphere was reignited.
Almost everyone’s gaze refocused on Jiang Yu, and students who heard clearly all widened their eyes.
“Oh my goodness! Jiang Yu actually cursed Qing'er? Old Liu, pinch me, oh my goodness!”
“Listening to Jiang Yu, it feels like Qing'er is really… that, if I had such a handsome childhood friend who cared about me so much, I’d hug him and kiss him every day, okay?”
“Qing'er is so hypocritical. She only cares about her own wishes in everything she does, completely disregarding others' feelings. Everyone didn't notice before because Qing'er was pretty, right?”
Qing'er stared blankly at Jiang Yu’s handsome face, full of disdain, and for a moment, the whole world felt blurry.
Actually, when Jiang Yu said “How could you be so cheap,” her soul had already left her body.
She didn't hear a single word of the students’ discussions.
This is also playing hard to get… right?
Haha, it must be, right?
“You… you’re joking with me, right? You weren’t like this before, Jiang Yu, this joke isn't funny.”
Qing'er’s eyes were filled with horror.
She was afraid that everything Jiang Yu said was true.
She was still foolishly thinking that Jiang Yu was playing hard to get.
What if Jiang Yu really didn't want her anymore?
She couldn't understand because she had never thought that Jiang Yu would leave her.
Since birth, Jiang Yu had always been like a knight, silently guarding her.
If one day the knight left, where would the princess go?
“Joking? How could that be? Everything I said is true.”
Jiang Yu’s face showed three parts pity and three parts disappointment, and he sighed:
“Qing'er, this is the last time I’ll call you Qing'er.”
“I won’t pamper you like a little princess anymore… From now on, you and I are strangers. Between us… there is only the friendship of classmates.”
“Oh, by the way, since you don't want to sit with me, then fine, I’m leaving! (Ghana~)
Boom—
Like a thunderclap, Qing'er was stunned, standing Silly on the spot. She never dreamed that her ultimate emotional move would be used by Jiang Yu.
Two lines of clear tears slid down the corners of her eyes, drip, drip…
Jiang Yu didn't hesitate at all. He immediately swapped seats with a girl behind him and sat next to Youqing.
At this moment, Youqing was dumbfounded, her small face flushed with anger.
No, you scoundrel Jiang Yu!
Don’t you dare drag me into this!
She jumped up like a little rabbit with its butt on fire, ran over, grabbed Qing'er’s hand, and anxiously said:
“Qing'er Sister, Qing'er Sister, pull yourself together, don’t cry, don’t cry.”
Qing'er’s tears gushed out like a broken dam, and she hugged Youqing, crying loudly.
“You scoundrel Jiang Yu, look at the mess you’ve made!” Youqing gritted her teeth, “Apologize to Qing'er Sister right now!”
Jiang Yu shrugged: “What, if she cries, it’s my fault?”
“Then why don’t I cry too? How about we see who cries more miserably?”
The surrounding classmates remained silent, with the vast majority supporting Jiang Yu.
Only a few of Qing'er’s sycophants, unable to stand the sight of a beautiful woman crying, were about to rush over and point fingers at Jiang Yu, but they were all glared back by Jiang Yu’s gaze.
Lin Qifan, who had been full of anger, saw this scene and couldn’t be happier, his mouth twisted into a smile.
“Hahaha, the Goddess of Fortune is indeed on my side. Jiang Yu, oh Jiang Yu, I originally thought you were a useless rich young master, but I didn’t expect you to be somewhat useful.”
“To so easily push the Xuan Yin Body to me, what a divine assist, tsk tsk tsk. If I achieve immortality in the future, when I kill your whole family, I will definitely leave you a complete corpse.”
Lin Qifan ran a hand through his hair, stood up with an evil smile, and mockingly said coldly:
“I will never forgive someone who makes a woman cry. I promised Director Shen that I would never let his daughter shed a single tear, and I, Lin Qifan, always keep my word!”
“Qing'er, since this guy doesn’t want you, I want you!”
“Be my deskmate!”
Qing'er, whose mood had gradually stabilized after being comforted by Youqing, suddenly became agitated again. Her delicate fingertips pointed at Lin Qifan, and she cried and cursed hysterically:
“You scoundrel! I shouldn’t have used you to provoke Jiang Yu. Now Jiang Yu has been angered away by me, boo hoo hoo, I’m going to tell Dad to fire you, you scoundrel, boo hoo hoo…”
Lin Qifan: (Clown expression)
…
After school, back home.
“Ding, you have obtained the cultivation method: Great Mastery Celestial Art. Automatically comprehended the first layer of the first volume.”
“Cultivation Realm after learning: Qi Refining Stage First Layer.”
“Note: No cultivation techniques have been learned yet! Cannot use spells/physical techniques.”
“As expected of a ‘Legendary’ Son of Destiny, the items dropped are amazing!”
Jiang Yu chuckled, immediately imprinting the Great Mastery Celestial Art into his mind. After just one cycle of cultivation, he immediately broke through.
“I didn’t expect to reach the Qi Refining Stage so quickly. Is this what cultivation feels like?”
Jiang Yu gasped in surprise, sinking his Qi into his dantian.
A major characteristic of the Qi Refining Stage is the ability to open one's own dantian for absorbing and refining spiritual energy.
The higher the level of the cultivation method, the larger the dantian opened.
Just by its name, the Great Mastery Celestial Art is clearly not an ordinary cultivation method, and the size of his dantian confirmed this.
A dantian opened by an ordinary person at the first layer of the Qi Refining Stage is only about the size of a thumb.
However, Jiang Yu’s dantian at this moment was as large as a basketball, with a capacity comparable to that of an ordinary Qi Refining Stage eighth or ninth layer cultivator!
This meant that as long as it entered a prolonged battle, he, at the first layer of the Qi Refining Stage, could even exhaust a powerful cultivator at the eighth or ninth layer of the Qi Refining Stage to death.
Of course, this was only theoretical. His current combat power could at most rival a Qi Refining Stage fourth or fifth layer cultivator.
He was still a bit short of Lin Qifan’s Qi Refining Stage ninth layer.
Now was the time to show off his wealth!
Jiang Yu swallowed ten spirit stones without hesitation and instantly refined them by circulating the Great Mastery Celestial Art.
The vast spiritual energy was originally going to dissipate into the surrounding spiritual energy-scarce air.
However, his cultivation method and spiritual root had extremely high absorption efficiency and speed, so not a single wisp of such massive spiritual energy was leaked outside. It was all converted into sharp, metal-attribute spiritual energy.
“Ding, the host has advanced the Great Mastery Celestial Art to the fifth layer of the first volume.”
After all, with such a huge dantian, even after absorbing all the spirit stones, his realm only reached the fifth layer of the Qi Refining Stage.
But even at just the fifth layer, against Lin Qifan, who had cultivated painstakingly for a long time to reach the ninth layer of the Qi Refining Stage, the current Jiang Yu could already achieve a 30-70 split.
Jiang Yu let out a long breath, a mischievous smile flashing across his face.
When it came to drop rates, it had to be the Son of Destiny. Cold School Beauties and cunning lolis could step aside.
Just as Jiang Yu was circulating his Qi and pondering how to more efficiently extract value from Lin Qifan.
“Thump, thump, thump…”
The door was knocked. Jiang Yu immediately stopped circulating his Qi and lay down on the bed.
Li Qingrou walked in cautiously, and seeing Jiang Yu lying on the bed as if nothing had happened, she breathed a sigh of relief.
And Jiang Tianlong, who had half a shoulder peeking from behind the doorframe, immediately turned around, returned to the sofa, and continued drinking tea and reading the newspaper.
“My dear son, are you alright today? I heard you seemed to have severely scolded that one from the Shen Family?”
Jiang Yu nodded: “She was too overbearing. I had no choice.”
Li Qingrou nodded in agreement: “With women like that, the more you indulge them, the more they take advantage. If you ignore them instead, they’ll become more reasonable.”
Cultivation matters could not be revealed to his family for now, so Jiang Yu said helplessly:
“Mom, if there’s nothing else, I’m going to sleep. Please close the door.”
“Eh, there is something.” Li Qingrou suddenly said with a smile:
“This weekend, go with your aunt to meet your great benefactor, that old traditional Chinese medicine doctor who saved your life with a few needles. He’s returning from overseas.”
“Will you go with your aunt to the welcoming banquet this weekend, okay?”
“Got it, got it,” Jiang Yu nodded helplessly.
At the same time, at the Shen Family mansion.
In Qing'er’s room.
“Dad, that’s how it is. Jiang Yu doesn’t want me anymore. He said he never wants to talk to me again, boo hoo hoo…”
Father Shen sat by the bed, listening to his daughter’s account, his face filled with rage:
“Good, good, good, what a Jiang Yu! I used to think he was quite good, able to treat girls kindly, but I never expected him to be such a character!”
“Dad, I forbid you to speak of Jiang Yu like that!”
Qing'er’s eyes turned red again, and she said choked up:
“It’s all my fault, I was too willful. I never knew how good Jiang Yu was to me before, but now I know, but…”
Shen Wuwei got a headache listening to her. In the business world, he was a formidable force, a business dragon no less than Jiang Tianlong, harvesting stocks like cutting wheat.
But in front of his beloved daughter, he was at a loss.
“How about Dad fires that bodyguard to appease you?”
Qing'er silently shook her head.
Ever since Jiang Yu’s scolding, she had a sudden realization, understanding how hypocritical, how cheap, and how disgusting she had been before.
She couldn’t continue being willful!
“Dad, you arranged for him to protect me for my safety. I’m sorry, I was too willful before. Please keep him, so you can work with peace of mind.”
Shen Wuwei subconsciously reached into his pocket, preparing to pull out a cigarette, but thinking of his daughter, he pulled his hand back.
He sighed:
“Your mother left early. You are the only thought she left me, so Dad is really worried something might happen to you. But, Dad is very relieved that you can think this way.”
“Since you two are having a conflict, I’ll find a time and bring the ‘marriage contract’ to the Jiang Family to annul the engagement.”
Qing'er was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then immediately pressed:
“Marriage contract? What marriage contract? Jiang Yu and I have a marriage contract!?”