His ex-girlfriend was loitering outside the manor late at night? Lin Yuan: Security, unleash the dogs!

Li Xuan'er stood at the end of the line.

At this very moment.

She felt like an out-of-place outsider.

She looked at Ye Xuan, who was worshiped and admired by countless people.

She looked at his face, which appeared somewhat pale due to the excessive use of secret techniques, yet was filled with madness and stubbornness.

Instead of feeling even a shred of joy, a bone-chilling cold welled up in her heart.

Is this... the man she chose, even at the cost of betraying Lin Yuan?

After the match ended.

In the locker room, Ye Xuan didn't even communicate with any of his teammates.

He just silently wiped the blood from his hands alone.

In those eyes, there was no joy of victory, only a beast-like, predatory glint.

All of his attention seemed to be focused on a distant direction—

The direction where the Lin Family Manor was located.

Li Xuan'er summoned her courage, stepped forward, and said softly, "Ye Xuan, congratulations. If we... keep this up, we'll be able to win the championship soon!"

Ye Xuan didn't even look up, merely letting out a cold snort from his nose.

"Championship?"

"A game that's like children playing house deserves to be called a championship?"

"This is just the beginning."

After saying that, he stood up abruptly and pushed open the door.

He shut out all the celebrations and cheers of his teammates behind him.

Li Xuan'er stood rooted to the spot, feeling as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over her from head to toe.

Children playing house?

This was the honor he had risked his life for?

In his eyes, it was actually worthless?

At this moment, Lin Yuan's lazy face uncontrollably surfaced in her mind once again.

Although that man always seemed uninterested in everything, he had always been gentle and indulgent toward her.

He would remember a dessert she mentioned in passing that she liked, and the next day, he would have the family's top chef prepare it and deliver it to her.

When she was frustrated with her Cultivation, he would clumsily tell cold jokes to make her happy.

He would treat all her requests like imperial edicts to be fulfilled, never asking why.

Back then, she felt all of this was only natural, and even found him annoying, like a tag-along she couldn't shake off.

But what about now?

Ye Xuan had won the world, yet he was stingy about giving her even a single smile.

Lin Yuan had lost her, but he had once given her the entire world.

It turns out... I was the most ridiculous fool!

She had treated a venomous snake draped in dragon skin, cold and selfish at its core, as a treasure.

Yet she had personally pushed away the true Divine Dragon who could summon the wind and rain, and was willing to shield her from it all!

Regret!

Endless regret, like the sharpest of knives, sliced through her heart piece by piece... She left the locker room.

Li Xuan'er wandered the streets in a daze, like a walking corpse.

Unknowingly, she hailed a taxi.

As if possessed, she gave an address she was once incredibly familiar with, but which was now out of reach.

Lin Family Manor.

When that magnificent manor, resembling the residence of a god from mythology, appeared before her eyes again, Li Xuan'er's breath hitched.

The towering walls, the heavily guarded sentry posts.

And that heavy, gilded gate that seemed to separate two different worlds.

All of this was silently reminding her of what she had lost.

She used to be able to swipe into this gate at will, entering a place that countless socialites and noblewomen fought tooth and nail to get into.

But now, she could only stand across the street like a pathetic wretch, looking up humbly.

She saw cold-chain trucks transporting top-tier ingredients entering the manor.

Any one of those ingredients was a hundred times more precious than the spirit plants she exchanged for with points at the academy.

She saw the manor's servants in clean uniforms, coming and going.

Every one of them had a look of heartfelt pride on their face.

A cold wind blew, and she subconsciously wrapped her coat tighter around her.

But that chill seemed to emanate from the depths of her Soul, impossible to ward off.

She stood there in the shadows for a long, long time.

Like a 'Husband-watching Stone,' she hoped to see that familiar figure, even if it was just a glimpse of his back... Inside the manor, in the master bedroom.

Lin Yuan was lying in a constant-temperature spirit liquid massage bathtub built at a huge cost, comfortably drowsy.

In his mind, the System's notification sound had just ended.

[Ding! Detected that the host has not left the house for ten consecutive days, perfectly implementing the 'Socially-withdrawn Lying Flat' philosophy. Reward: A trace of the Ancient Divine Beast 'Black Tortoise' Bloodline!]

Another top-tier Bloodline reward!

Lin Yuan felt the power within his body grow a bit more profound.

Just then.

The old butler Uncle Zhong's figure appeared respectfully at the bathroom door.

"Young Master, that Young Miss from the Li family has been wandering outside the manor for nearly an hour."

Lin Yuan kept his eyes closed, not even bothering to lift an eyebrow.

"Oh?"

Uncle Zhong paused and continued his report: "Looking at her, she probably wants to see you. The temperature outside has dropped below zero, and she isn't wearing much. If she keeps standing there, I'm afraid..."

Lin Yuan finally opened his eyes. He sat up from the bathtub and wiped away the water droplets, his tone as flat as if he were discussing the day's weather.

"The weather is cold. Don't let her freeze to death at our doorstep; it's bad luck."

Uncle Zhong was startled, thinking the Young Master had softened his heart.

However, Lin Yuan's next words made even him unable to suppress a shiver.

"Have the security team go out and remind her that littering is prohibited at our doorstep, and so is staying for a long time. If she still doesn't leave, then on the grounds of suspicious behavior, directly open the gates and release the dogs!"