"What does marrying you have to do with anyone else? I couldn't care less about what society thinks!" Jiang Mulu declared loudly.
"Well, I won't do it." Lin Tang shook his head repeatedly.
Jiang Mulu's face turned pale, her eyes welling with tears. "Brother Lin, do you dislike that much? Don't I even have the right to marry your avatar? I was prepared to make sacrifices to help you, and all I want is to marry you. Is that so difficult?"
"It's not that I dislike you, but I'm already married and can't marry again. Not even my avatar! I'm a man who is loyal to one person."
"Pah! Loyal to one person? Then what is she?" Jiang Mulu pointed at Wei Zichu. "And there's that Lee Encai, you think I don't know? That big-breasted woman, Zhu Yingning, and that doctor, Ning Yuexi..."
"They never said they wanted to marry !" Lin Tang replied with an innocent look.
Jiang Mulu was left speechless. What a scummy thing to say! I can't believe Lin the Charlatan has the nerve to say that!
"So, if I don't go through the marriage ceremony and just stay with you without any formal title, you'll agree?" Jiang Mulu bit her lip, her resolve crumbling with each word. "Fine, I'll compromise one more step. No marriage, just the consummation..."
"I disagree!" Lin Tang raised his hand.
PFFT— Wei Zichu almost burst out laughing.
Jiang Mulu was stunned for a few seconds before lowering her head again as tears stread down her face. "I've humbled myself this much, and you still refuse? It turns out I was being delusional; you've never liked at all. I'm so pathetic... despised even when I throw myself at you. Heh, heh..."
Lin Tang looked at her and opened his mouth, but he swallowed the words he was about to say.
"You should go back. Stop causing a scene," he said sullenly as he went to open the door.
With red, swollen eyes, Jiang Mulu quickly left. Seeing this, the female bodyguards were all startled. My heavens! The Princess is crying her heart out. What did State Preceptor Long just do to her?
After walking a fair distance, Jiang Mulu turned her head back to gaze at Lin Tang. "Are you really not going to ask to stay?"
Lin Tang didn't turn around, simply making a dismissive farewell gesture with his hand.
"I hate you!" Jiang Mulu wailed, covering her face as she ran away in tears.
This scene elicited no reaction from Xiao Xuanye, who was rely a puppet, but his subordinates' jaws dropped. The other mbers of the Heavenly chanism Martial Alliance also began to whisper among themselves, giving Lin Tang strange looks. Even Wei Zichu, who had disliked Jiang Mulu from the start, felt a pang of sympathy for the girl.
"Uncle Long, that princess is quite beautiful, just a tiny bit less than , right? Why won't you have her?"
Lin Tang's mouth twitched. "Are you sure she's less beautiful than you?"
"What? In your eyes, she's even prettier than ?" Wei Zichu protested, unconvinced.
"You each have your own rits," Lin Tang said vaguely.
To be honest, just based on facial features, there wasn't much difference. But Jiang Mulu's status as a princess ca with an innate noble aura cultivated from childhood, sothing an ordinary person couldn't compare to. Her figure was perhaps a little lacking; otherwise, she could have definitely given Shatana a run for her money. She was a princess too, every bit as regal as a foreign one! Besides, to each their own. Petite had its own unique charm.
"Hmph... since you speak so highly of her, do you really not like her? You're not planning to take her in?"
"The world is full of beautiful won. Am I supposed to collect every single one I see? I'm not so stud," Lin Tang said, his expression darkening with displeasure.
"Hey, I was just asking! Don't be mad at , please?" Wei Zichu quickly wheedled.
Lin Tang flicked her on the forehead and sighed. "That girl, Mulu, suffers from a strange illness. If I hadn't repeatedly extended her life, she would have died young. Such a pitiable girl shouldn't be coerced by politics into marrying . More importantly, she shouldn't sacrifice her life to stimulate the national destiny... It is precisely because I care for her and pity her that I will never agree to her doing sothing so foolish!"
Wei Zichu was stunned by his words, then said with emotion, "Uncle Long, so you're a warm-hearted guy after all!"
"Have I not been warm to you before?" Lin Tang gave her a sidelong glance.
"You've only ever been fierce with ! Very, very fierce, from the very first mont we t! You were just being fierce with again!" Wei Zichu muttered. She then looked toward Jiang Mulu, who had already boarded the helicopter.
"Is it more aningful to live alone forever, or to marry soone you don't like and just keep living?" she said softly. "Or is it more aningful to be with the one you love, even if it's only for a short ti? Everyone has different views and choices. Uncle Long, why don't you ask her what she wants?"
"I only act based on my own decisions. I won't consider what she thinks," Lin Tang refused without hesitation.
As the helicopter ascended, a crying Jiang Mulu was oblivious even to the discomfort caused by the deafening noise. She looked down at the Heavenly chanism Martial Alliance's compound, hoping to see if Lin Tang was coming after her. But even as the helicopter climbed higher and higher, there was no sign of him.
Brother Lin, you already have several won; you're so fickle and unfaithful. Why are you so heartless only to ?
Her heart ached. She wished she had so wine to drown her sorrows.
「A mont later.」
As the helicopter was passing a tall mountain, a voice suddenly pierced through the aircraft, its clarity unaffected by the roar of the rotors, reaching the ears of everyone on board.
"The Central Earth Princess, is it? I've heard you plan to pin the national destiny on a man nad Long Tianji and even marry him yourself? How utterly absurd. As a descendant of the forr dynasty, I cannot allow this! I think you had better obediently marry instead!"
As soon as the voice faded, a gigantic hand that seed to be ford from clouds and mist descended from the sky, scooping the large helicopter into its palm.
CRACK!
The helicopter halted abruptly as it was crushed. Several people inside the cabin instantly spurted blood.
Jiang Mulu looked up, her face as pale as death. "A remnant of the fallen dynasty? You want to marry ? In your dreams! I'd rather die than let you succeed!"
"Is that so? You don't get a say in this!"
A gaunt man with a sallow, corpse-like complexion stepped out of the void and into the cabin. A cold smile spread across his face as he reached for Jiang Mulu.
An exquisitely small revolver appeared in Jiang Mulu's hand, and without hesitation, she prepared to take her own life. But the man easily snatched the weapon from her, crushing it into dust.
"The little girl's got spirit. In that case, I'll take you right here and now! Hehehehe—"
The man cackled obscenely and began to strip off his clothes.
The helicopter remained suspended in mid-air, neither flying onward nor falling. Everyone else in the cabin was either dead or unconscious, leaving no one to intervene.
As the lecherous hand reached for her again, Jiang Mulu fell into utter despair.
Brother Lin...
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