Coming out of his father, Ning Fengzhi's residence, Xie Yue headed to meet his sister.
Now that he had already laid out the plan for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, what he had to do now was prepare for some unexpected situations.
Xie Yue was sure about Ning Fengzhi's ability to complete the task of inviting Dugu Bo for dinner. But Xie Yue was a little worried about Hu Liena's attitude.
What if this girl created a scene when she learned about his engagement that day?
So, informing her beforehand and testing her attitude was very important to Xie Yue. He couldn't let her have an emotional outburst at the event. If she were to overreact in front of others and they noticed something amiss about her feelings toward him, it would be hard to handle.
'Not that she will make a scene... I am sure she understands her situation and position very well. I raised her only to serve me well, not to be a burden to me.'
Xie Yue believed that his upbringing wouldn't go to waste.
While Hu Liena loved him and was obsessed with him, she also understood her position very well.
'Though she will understand, informing her beforehand is a must...'
'And by chance, if she were to throw a tantrum toward me... Hehe. I know how to shut her mouth very well,' Xie Yue thought as he went to have a conversation with Hu Liena.
He knew how to handle her very well. He just had to stuff something in her mouth to shut her up. As for what to stuff? Haha~
.....
As expected.
When Xie Yue told her about his possible engagement, Hu Liena's emotions started to fluctuate greatly.
As a woman in love, she felt pain hearing Xie Yue say that he was going to have an engagement with another woman.
Although she was very obedient and had never disappointed Xie Yue's upbringing until now, she too had her own feelings. For a woman, this matter was very sensitive.
So, tears started to overflow from her beautiful face uncontrollably. But even so, she didn't throw a tantrum at Xie Yue. She was an intelligent girl; she knew sooner or later this day would come.
While she loved Xie Yue wholeheartedly, she also knew his personality; he too loved her, but it wasn't possible to restrict him only to her. Although she was his lovely sister, other than this identity, she was also his carnal pet. Nothing more, nothing less.
Didn't she also like it when her brother treated her like a toy for his pleasure, without caring about her feelings?
So, she soon accepted this fact and nodded at him, smiling, but not without a mist of tears in her eyes. "Mmm~ I got it, brother~"
Seeing her actions and responses, Xie Yue was also very satisfied. So, he promised to reward her tonight with a lot of his dragon milk.
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Who wants to have a woman as a burden? Even if others wanted one, Xie Yue didn't.
Although he would tolerate and accept burdens to a specific level if they had great value to him, that too had its limit.
If Hu Liena had shown any rebellious thoughts today, Xie Yue would surely have sentenced her to death or taught her an unforgettable lesson.
Dugu Yan's matter was very important to Xie Yue. Currently, Dugu Yan's value outweighed the benefits Hu Liena could bring to him. The Martial Soul Fusion skill was indeed a divine skill, but its value to Xie Yue was still lower than Immortal Grass.
If Hu Liena had shown any signs of foiling his engagement plan, he would have had no other choice but to throw her away; her beauty and benefit wouldn't matter to him at that time.
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Leaving the residence of his sister, Xie Yue took slow strides as he enjoyed the evening breeze.
He was currently in a very good mood. "It seems I will soon get my hands on those Immortal Grasses," Xie Yue muttered in a low voice, full of joy.
Although Xie Yue had traveled to this world and wished to achieve immortality, living in this world was never easy for him.
There was a fundamental reason for this.
People born in this world wouldn't feel that their world was very scary or different. To them, it would feel the same as how people on Earth felt toward their home planet; it would feel as if everything was familiar to them.
But that was not the case with Xie Yue. He knew the difference between Earth and Douluo Planet. He, who had lived in a relatively peaceful world like Earth in his first life, felt suffocated when he first learned that he had really traveled to this world as he had wished.
It wasn't like Xie Yue had never killed in his first life or hadn't faced any dangerous situations. He had faced almost everything Earth had to offer him in his short 60 years of life. But Earth's danger level and Douluo's danger level were vastly different.
On Earth, although there were hot weapons for protection, that didn't matter when it came to killing people. Even if it was a big country's president, he could be killed by a single person's strength. But here in Douluo Dalu, without strength, one could never kill another person if the latter had a higher soul power level than the former. That was even more so for ordinary people without soul power.
Even though Xie Yue had 60 years of life experience and had even faced relatively dangerous situations compared to fellow people on Earth when he lived there, it was not easy for him to live in this world without dying when he didn't have strength.
If anyone said in front of Xie Yue that they could indeed become a god in the Douluo World if they knew the plot, without a doubt, Xie Yue would spit saliva on their face and curse loudly.
Why don't you shitheads come and try living here?
You say I was 60 years old in my past life, so I was able to achieve what I have today?
Oh... if that's the case, would your own grandmother or grandfather be able to become stronger here just because they know the plot?
Nah... dreaming and reality are vastly different. They would die without knowing how they died.
Only Xie Yue knew how hard it was to live in this world.
Hadn't he also killed many innocent families in this world? What about their story?
They lived their peaceful lives without bothering anyone. But an unreasonable boy named Xie Yue came and killed them just to keep his secret. They died without rhyme or reason. Did they ask for this danger to befall them? Or did they deserve this ill-fated ending?
Similar to what happened to them, the same could happen to Xie Yue. What could he have done if some unreasonable or evil soul master had come to massacre the orphanage he had lived in when he was a child? There was no shortage of unreasonable and evil people in this world.
Xie Yue's life may have seemed relatively peaceful until now. But only he knew how hard it was for him to survive and achieve what he had today; it was not easy.
He had to plan and act carefully every time. Starting from the orphanage, being adopted by Bai Wu, moving to Heaven Dou City, becoming family with Ning Fengzhi, and so on... He had been careful in every step.
At some point in time, he had even put a needle in his mouth just so he wouldn't talk about anything important in his sleep.
Even after getting a so-called powerful backer, Xie Yue never let down his guard. Consuming Whale Glue secretly alone had been putting so much pressure on Xie Yue's mind, let alone other things.
What would happen if others noticed his past actions? Huh, forget it, don't think about it. Killing so many people couldn't be justified...
In his early years in this world, when Xie Yue lived in fear of the unknown, he even thought about what would happen if he didn't have his past life memories.
He was sure he would have enjoyed his life relatively peacefully in that case. After all, without knowing the dangers of this world, every child would spend their life in peace.
As the saying goes: ignorance is bliss.