“I don’t want to marry you!”
“The person I truly love is her!”
“Lian, I like you!”
With that, Yuli pulled out a girl with shoulder-length golden short hair.
The girl had a beauty that rivaled Yuli’s, but her physique was slightly smaller and more delicate.
She was clearly a sweet and demure type of girl.
Lauren naturally recognized the girl before him—this was the game’s designated second female lead, the Frost Flower Saintess, Lian Camilla.
Yuli looked affectionately at the golden-haired girl Lian, who was holding her hand.
But suddenly being dragged into the center of the conflict and becoming the third party in someone else’s engagement, Lian was actually not happy.
She was puzzled.
Where had things gone wrong?
Why had events deviated from the expected course?
She hadn’t prepared herself, and now she was meeting Lauren so abruptly.
‘If I stand before him in this manner, will he come to hate me? Will he never approach me like last time again!’
‘So this time, do I have to choose between the two of them?’
‘Damn it! I want both!’
‘My best girlfriend and my best boyfriend—why can’t I have both at the same time?’
‘Let this original couple both revolve around me, build a loving and harmonious family, and live together well. My wish is but this small desire.’
‘Goddess, why must you toy with me like this?’
Thinking this, Lian couldn’t help but feel a bit of resentment toward Yuli’s reckless and impulsive actions.
‘Little Yuli, if you want to break the engagement, don’t drag me into it!’
‘In the previous life, without me by your side, you bravely went to Lauren to break the engagement anyway.’
‘Why, in this life, must you hold my hand?’
In a moment of overthinking, when Yuli confessed to her, Lian instinctively took a step back.
Feeling embarrassed, she shyly turned her face away.
But soon, Lian realized that her instinctive action was a mistake—it was a betrayal of Yuli, who had mustered her courage at this moment.
She still took a deep breath, forcing herself to stand by Yuli’s side to bolster her confidence, but she kept her head down, her face flushed red.
‘Are you serious about taking that half-step back?’
Yuli’s eyes widened, the shock evident.
She held Lian’s hand, but her grip unconsciously loosened, as if the courage she had barely mustered leaked away.
Although Lian quickly snapped back and stood by her side again, Yuli was not foolish.
Unconsciously, a slight rift grew in her heart toward Lian, barely perceptible.
Yuli was infected with an emotion called grievance.
‘With a rush of passion, I barely summoned the courage to stand up for you, yet you were unwilling to stand with me and face everything?’
‘So the weight I hold in your heart is not even half of what you hold in mine?’
Putting aside the emotional issues in her mind for now, the words were already out.
Now Yuli had to come back to her senses and deal with the current situation.
Yuli’s voice was loud, and the information clearly reached everyone present.
Everyone present reacted differently.
Seeing this good show, Anne curled her lips and secretly rejoiced in her heart:
“Well said, hurry up and break the engagement! I’ve been waiting to see this scene, meow!”
“Hehe, and Lian, you white lotus bitch, after this incident, you’ll have no chance with the boss at all, meow!”
Lian, on the other hand, desperately tried to hide behind Yuli, lowering her head and using her hair to cover most of her face, not wanting to attract attention.
But she still secretly revealed one golden eye to watch Lauren.
‘Break the engagement if you must, but can you not drag me into it? This is so awkward!’
Lauren looked at the two young girls with flushed faces standing hand in hand before him, looking as if they had suffered some great injustice.
In the eyes of those who didn’t know the situation, he probably seemed like a villainous outsider bullying innocent girls.
To be honest, Lauren didn’t feel much. His mood was as calm as water, with no major change in expression.
He merely silently agreed in his heart:
‘Good, I think the same way.’
The one who reacted most violently was Yuli’s father, Kaer. On hearing this, he directly erupted in fury:
“You unfilial daughter! What nonsense are you saying!”
“Do you think you can cancel the engagement just because you want to? Have you considered your status? All these years, you’ve enjoyed so many benefits from the young master’s family, and now you want to break the engagement just like that?”
“You, a knight’s daughter, being able to marry a great noble like Young Master Lauren is your blessing!”
Hearing this, Yuli, who already felt wronged, added the accumulated grievances from years of dissatisfaction with the engagement, and today it all burst out.
After all, she was still an immature girl, not the cold, proud, and powerful Flower Brave Hero from the game who would proclaim to players, “All the world’s flowers shall be protected by me alone!”
Tears instantly gushed from her eyes, wetting her face.
She began to wail and sob, pouring out the bitterness of her many years.
“Boo hoo… You’re all bullying me!”
“No one asked for my opinion when the engagement was made back then! I never liked him, I didn’t want to be engaged to him!”
“Where did I take so many benefits from the Scotmart family? At most, I grew up in their family and learned a bit of swordsmanship using their grounds!”
“His reputation is so bad! Do you know how much it hurts me when people mock me every day for being his fiancée?”
Kaer, on the other hand, retorted angrily without mercy.
“What do you mean by ‘learned a bit of swordsmanship’!”
“Do you think swordsmanship is something cheap? In our Thornflower Empire, which is famous for swordsmanship, swordsmanship is the most precious thing of every family!”
“The young master’s family passed down their legendary family swordsmanship to you as an engagement gift back then!”
At this, Lauren, who was standing by, also remembered.
Back then, the Scotmart family was on the verge of extinction, for the survival of an unworthy descendant like himself.
The former patriarch, Lauren’s father, had hoped to find a suitable wife’s family for Lauren, so that even if he couldn’t become successful in the future, at least he would be guaranteed a worry-free life.
That was the reason for approaching the Kefen family back then.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned, and the former patriarch saw that the matter with the Kefen family couldn’t be settled.
He then turned his attention to little Yuli, who had just shown talent in swordsmanship.
It was an investment, also a gift.
He almost immediately hit it off with Kaer, and the engagement was thus decided.
After all, the family was almost without heirs, so it didn’t matter whether they kept the family swordsmanship or not.
It was better to trade it away to ensure Lauren’s safety.
Anyway, Lauren couldn’t learn it.
At least this way, the family’s legendary swordsmanship could be passed down to future generations and not be lost.
Kaer on the other side grew more and more agitated.
“The young master even brought out the family heirloom holy sword Lake Light, and you’re still not satisfied!”
“Even if it’s a holy sword, I don’t care!”
“Anyway, I won’t marry him!”
Yuli cried out, almost losing control of her emotions.
“Damn you… Lauren Scotmart, the one who ruined my life!”