413: I don't believe you have empty eyes

After everyone else had left, Tang Xueqin stared directly at Lin Ye. The fear in her eyes had vanished, replaced by endless determination.

"Lin Ye, I only want to ask one question that I've wanted to ask for a long time!"

"Ask quickly. I have things to do after you're finished."

Seeing Lin Ye's attitude, Tang Xueqin grew anxious, but she took a deep breath and suppressed her anger.

She walked up to Lin Ye in a few strides and spoke slowly, "We were childhood sweethearts, always together since we were young. Whenever others bullied me, it was always you who protected me."

"But I discovered when I was young that your eyes never truly saw me!"

"That look in your eyes was as if you were pitying a small animal! Lin Ye, what right did you have to treat me like that!!!"

"I thought you would change when we grew up. Every day I held onto hope, wishing to grow up quickly because then I could marry you. I was anxious every day, terrified that I would grow up ugly and that you wouldn't like me!"

"But at a gathering after we grew up, your gaze still hadn't changed! You still didn't see me!"

"At that time, I guessed that perhaps it was because your talent was so extraordinary that you felt we weren't from the same world, and that I was holding you back!"

"To be worthy of you as your future Dao Companion, do you know how hard I worked! I strove to become stronger so that no one would dare ignore me."

"Until you became a so-called piece of trash and lost all your talent. At that moment, I felt I could finally stand before you and tell you that, from now on, let me protect you!"

"And what was the result!"

"You still never had any intention of asking me for help. When we met again, you still had that arrogant expression. Lin Ye, you had already lost your cultivation at the time! What right did you have to be so detached!"

"I went to my father and made him agree to break off our engagement, all just to make you look at me properly! Even if it meant being despised or hated by you! That would still be better than you ignoring me!"

"But the result… Heh… In the end, your eyes still didn't hold my existence. You didn't even look at me before shattering my Qi Sea!"

"Lin Ye, I want to ask you, from beginning to end, did you treat me like a fool! Or perhaps like a stone on the side of the road? A blade of grass to be trampled on!"

"Is there nothing I can do to catch your eye!!! Say it! Say it!!!"

Tang Xueqin said all this in one breath, even becoming hoarse and emotionally broken by the end. But even though her delicate body was trembling slightly, she continued to stare directly at Lin Ye, wanting an answer.

She wanted an answer that she had been pursuing for so many years.

Lin Ye was completely stunned. He hadn't expected Tang Xueqin to be able to say so much in one breath.

And at that time…

Lin Ye frowned slightly, seemingly recalling what his mindset had been back then.

Facing a little brat, how could he possibly have any interest? At that time, he had always believed himself to be the Son of Destiny.

As the Son of Destiny, wasn't it normal to have a childhood sweetheart as a fiancée? Until his cultivation began to regress, he was not alarmed but happy, because he knew his Golden Finger was about to undergo Awakening.

As for Tang Xueqin.

He had only treated her as an NPC with an 'engagement-breaking' buff.

How could he possibly take an NPC to heart?

But he had forgotten that this world was not a game, and Tang Xueqin was a living, breathing person.

Thinking of this, Lin Ye paused: "That's all in the past, there's nothing to dwell on. As for you… have you forgotten why things developed that way?!"

Lin Ye had originally felt some guilt, and his tone had softened, but before he finished speaking, his tone immediately shifted.

This sudden change in demeanor left Tang Xueqin stunned.

Lin Ye spoke indifferently: "Everything you said, isn't that all from your own perspective? Let me ask you, when you were bullied as a child, wasn't it me who saved you?"

"And talking about small animals—if I saved a small animal, it would at least wag its tail at me. What about you? You ran away as soon as I saved you!"

"Besides, you were just a little brat back then. What did you want me to look at? Your big head? Your short little legs?"

"And after growing up, you were the one who proposed breaking the engagement, and you were the one who brought that evil servant. I remember my father saying he tore up the marriage contract and told you to leave, but you insisted on showing off your thick skin in front of me!"

"Since you insisted on showing off, how could I not take action?!"

Tang Xueqin just stared blankly at Lin Ye as he roasted her, occasionally sniffing, looking somewhat adorably dazed.

After Lin Ye finished, Tang Xueqin reached out to wipe her nose and continued: "You… you're talking nonsense!!! When I ran away after you saved me, wasn't it because I was shy! And that evil servant wasn't brought by me, my father sent him."

"You were sitting on a rock looking at the grass back then, you didn't even glance at me. Even when breaking off the engagement, you ignored me. And you think you're in the right?!"

"We had already broken off the engagement, why would you want me to look at you?"

Upon hearing this, Tang Xueqin's face flushed red, and she said loudly: "I want you to look at me! Even if we broke off the engagement, I still want you to look at me! So what?"

"Alright, alright!"

Lin Ye sighed and said in a helpless tone: "Is this all you wanted to say? Then I understand. Now I have looked at you, so our business is settled. Also, tell that cousin of yours that even though we are settled, if she provokes me again, I won't hold back."

"As for you, aren't you doing quite well now? You have a powerful Family, you've joined the Academy, and you even have suitors… Ah, I cut off your suitor's hand. Sorry about that, go back and have him reattached; it might still be usable."

"That's all…"

Having said that, Lin Ye turned and walked away without the slightest sign of reluctance.

"Stop!"

Tang Xueqin quickly walked to Lin Ye's side and reached out to wrap her arms around his waist: "What just happened doesn't count! Turn around and look at me properly now. I don't believe your eyes are empty!"

Hearing this, Lin Ye did not speak.

The next moment.

Bang!!!

Brilliant Dao Rhyme erupted from Lin Ye's body, directly knocking Tang Xueqin flying, causing her to crash into the edge of the arena.

Tang Xueqin sat slumped on the ground, looking at Lin Ye in disbelief.

Are you seriously doing this again?!

Lin Ye turned his head and said helplessly: "I don't really like people hugging me from behind. Besides, I'm not the Holy Monk; you've even brought out lines from the Queen of the Women's Kingdom. Everything from before is in the past. I said it before, we are settled."

After saying this, Lin Ye's figure vanished directly from Lun Dao Hall.

Meanwhile, two lines of crystalline tears flowed from Tang Xueqin's beautiful eyes as she murmured softly: "I will make you look at me! I definitely will!"