This Isn't a Broken-Engagement Plot, Did She Remember Something Wrong?
This Isn’t a Broken-Engagement Plot, Did She Remember Something Wrong?
Gu Changge rose to his feet and walked toward the outside of the hall.
At the same time, he recalled the relevant memories in his mind.
Yue Mingkong, the Fourth Princess of the Unrivaled Celestial Dynasty.
Betrothed to him since childhood, whether in talent, appearance, or background, she matched him perfectly. However, according to his previous memories, he had neither fondness nor malice toward her—he had purely regarded her as a tool.
Some time ago, the System mentioned the appearance of a new Daughter of Fortuity, but afterward there had been no further news.
Gu Changge had thought about it a great deal, considering everyone around him.
He even investigated quite a few of his female cousins within the clan, but found nothing amiss.
Their Fortuity Points weren’t very high either—at least compared to Lin Qiuhan, Su Qingge, and the others, they were considerably lower.
So in the end, Gu Changge kept a watchful eye on this fiancée of his.
Though this was only speculation—without actually seeing her, Gu Changge couldn’t be sure.
After all, he hadn’t done anything like breaking off the engagement, so logically it shouldn’t be that melodramatic.
Could it be that she was purely coming to deliver warmth and deliver herself as a wife?
Presumably it wouldn’t be that normal.
Most importantly, Gu Changge had sent people to gather information about this fiancée of his.
What he learned was that Yue Mingkong had kept her methods hidden for many years, lying low and biding her time.
Only recently had she, with iron-blooded and ruthless methods, defeated all her siblings in one fell swoop and seized the position of Crown Heir.
She sounded like a person of considerable means.
Gu Changge’s face remained impassive, while all sorts of thoughts churned in his heart.
When he met this fiancée of his in a moment, one look at her Fortuity Points would tell him everything.
However, as a princess of the Unrivaled Celestial Dynasty, and having never offended a Daughter of Fortuity the way he had, her Fortuity Points should be quite high.
Thinking of this, Gu Changge stopped worrying. Given the power and influence of the Longevity Gu Family and the Unrivaled Celestial Dynasty in the Beyond, this Marriage Agreement shouldn’t pose any problems.
In other words, today he was going to meet his future wife?
But if she really was a Daughter of Fortuity, which trope would she follow?
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Within a grand and ancient hall, where divine light faintly shimmered.
Gu Lintian, the current head of the Gu Family, wore a smile as he conversed with the heroic man in imperial robes before him.
Imperial might flowed around the heroic man in imperial robes, his aura vast and boundless. Standing there, he was like a profound universe, evolving countless terrifying phenomena.
This was none other than Emperor Yue, the current ruler of the Unrivaled Celestial Dynasty.
However, what had come to the Gu Family this time was merely one of his dharma bodies—his true body needed to hold down the Celestial City and could not leave.
Emperor Yue and Gu Lintian had been good friends in their youth, and the betrothal of their descendants also stemmed from this relationship.
Now, Yue Mingkong had even been designated Crown Heir, her authority utterly terrifying throughout the entire Unrivaled Celestial Dynasty.
Wielding great power at such a young age, so much so that in the Beyond, many figures of the older generation could hardly ignore her.
Her bearing as an Empress spread across the heavens, causing quite a sensation.
Not to mention her own talent was exceedingly high—at her current age, she had already broken through to the Honoured Lord Realm, at least as far as what she revealed on the surface.
At this moment in the great hall, quite a few clan elders and young people were secretly sizing up the breathtakingly beautiful woman at the front.
An immortal countenance like a painting, dark coiled hair, beauty that struck the heart.
Her brows were like slender willow leaves, and her pair of phoenix eyes were calm yet profound.
A delicate jade nose, cherry lips like blooming flower buds, a face like a lotus, carrying both grace and nobility.
Her skin was white and tender like fine porcelain, her figure tall and slender.
She wore no loose imperial robes, but rather a grey gauze dress, radiance flowing over it, her temperament otherworldly like an immortal’s, yet tinged with a heart-palpitating majesty.
This woman stood there, her expression calm, yet she possessed a dignity that made her peers unconsciously feel awe.
The bearing of an Emperor, newly emerged!
Quite a few clan elders sighed thus in their hearts. Such a woman uniting with the Gu Family in marriage would likely provoke wariness from many forces and Dao Lineages.
The Crown Heir of the Unrivaled Celestial Dynasty, the Young Master of the Longevity Gu Family.
No matter which one, both were figures destined to wield terrifying power in the future, fated to stand at the very peak of the Beyond.
In that case, wouldn’t it mean the Unrivaled Celestial Dynasty and the Longevity Gu Family were joining together? To the outside world, this was not a good signal.
Since ancient times, the various Supreme Dao Lineages and Cults of Immortality had often intermarried, but there had never been one like today’s—a marriage between future successors.
The sensation this caused was simply too astonishing.
However, many forces couldn’t say anything about it. After all, when Gu Changge and Yue Mingkong were betrothed, neither of them had yet been designated as successors.
Moreover, they had fought for these positions themselves... it wasn’t some conspiracy.
At this point, they couldn’t very well pressure the two powers into canceling the engagement, could they?
They didn’t dare, nor did they have the ability.
In the great hall, everyone harbored different thoughts as they pondered what results this marriage alliance would bring.
And Yue Mingkong, at this moment, her thoughts were drifting slightly.
Her expression appeared calm, but her heart was otherwise.
This familiar great hall before her—she had been here many times.
These familiar Gu Family faces—she could still name quite a few of them.
In her previous life, her birth father had been harsh and severe toward her; instead, it was from Uncle Gu Lintian that she had received much affection.
So whenever she had free time, she loved to come running to the Gu Family.
Gu Changge had treated her with cold indifference, but his parents had treated her very well, as if she were their own daughter.
This had moved Yue Mingkong deeply. Unfortunately, in the end, they too had their hearts thoroughly broken by Gu Changge, and none of them met a good end.
When Gu Lintian was breaking through in his cultivation, he unfortunately suffered a backlash from his inner demons. His Dao Fruit shattered, his cultivation completely dissipated, and he barely preserved his crippled life.
He believed he had wronged no one in his life, yet he felt guilty toward the clansmen of that other branch, guilty toward that little girl from back then.
This inner demon had never dissipated; instead, it grew ever stronger as his cultivation deepened.
Even Gu Changge’s mother was the same—in the end, she fell into melancholy and illness, beyond the cure of any medicine.
Thinking of this, waves of pain and self-blame rose in Yue Mingkong’s heart. In her last life she had failed to prevent these things, but in this life, she definitely could.
That unfilial son Gu Changge!
Not only had he hurt her so deeply, he had hurt his own parents and family just as much.
Yue Mingkong quickly pulled herself out of her memories.
And at that moment, a servant’s announcement came from outside the hall.
“The Young Master has arrived～.”
Hearing the voice, a complex look flashed through Yue Mingkong’s eyes, quickly vanishing again.
The person she least wanted to see, yet most wanted to see—he had finally come.
She slowly turned around.
Her gaze also went blank for an instant.
The man walking in from outside the hall wore simple, clean white robes, handsome and elegant, gentle as jade, each strand of his hair crystalline like black jade, immortal bone and Daoist charm, his whole being naturally perfect.
“Father, Uncle.”
Gu Changge first paid his respects to the two men in the hall, and only then looked toward this fiancée of his.
Although he had seen her many times in his memories, seeing her up close for the first time, he found she was indeed astonishingly beautiful.
What was called a flawless immortal countenance, a beauty that could topple cities and kingdoms—the face before him was exactly that.
Any word used to describe a woman’s beauty could be applied to her without the slightest problem.
And most important was her bearing.
That lofty imperial majesty, inadvertently revealed.
This was not a presence ordinary people could possess.
At the same time, he used the System to check Yue Mingkong’s Fortuity Points.
One look, and Gu Changge was somewhat stunned.
“Changge, Mingkong, you’re both young people—have a good chat. Mingkong rarely comes to the Gu Family, so take her around the area. Our Gu Family has so many beautiful and magnificent places—go walk around and see them all...”
At this moment, Gu Lintian said to Gu Changge, feeling this was a good opportunity to bring the two of them closer together.
Emperor Yue also nodded and said, “Mingkong, your Uncle Gu and I have matters to discuss. Go walk around with your worthy nephew Changge. Weren’t you always quite happy every time you came before? What’s the matter today?”
Hearing these words, Yue Mingkong also came back to her senses from her daze and said,
“Father Emperor, Mingkong understands.”
Her expression was still somewhat dazed.
Why was this somewhat different from what she had seen in her previous life?
She remembered that when Gu Changge entered back then, he had worn black robes, with an expression cold to the bone, and hadn’t even glanced at her once.
Today’s appearance, though still that familiar face, was completely like a different person.
Yue Mingkong felt like she must have remembered something wrong.
“Mingkong, shall we go out and talk?”
At this moment, Gu Changge also spoke, his voice natural, though there was a trace of something odd in his expression.
“Mm.”
Yue Mingkong nodded and followed behind him out of the great hall.
Her mind was in chaos right now.
Something felt off somewhere. Why did he call her Mingkong like that? In her previous life, she had hardly ever heard him say it that way.
And this natural demeanor didn’t seem deliberately faked either.
Yue Mingkong felt that things were somewhat beyond her expectations.
Since her rebirth, no matter what it was, everything had been under her control, never a single error. Relying on her foreknowledge, she had executed every step flawlessly.
So why did things fall apart the moment she saw Gu Changge?
Or was he like her—also reborn—and this current appearance was merely an attempt to deceive her?
Or perhaps because of her rebirth, some slight accident had occurred with him?
Yue Mingkong didn’t know what she was feeling right now either.
However, her feelings toward Gu Changge hadn’t changed.
He was still that same him—whether in aura or that utterly indifferent attitude.
That couldn’t change.
What had changed was only the cold attitude he had shown her just now.
Soon, the whole way passed in silence.
The two of them, like a perfect pair of jade, walked side by side to a mountain peak, where immortal mist curled and the scenery was beautiful and magnificently grand.
Yue Mingkong looked at Gu Changge right beside her, not knowing what to say.
In her previous life, the two of them had rarely walked side by side like this. Even when they had, it was merely putting on a show before outsiders.
Even if Gu Changge’s attitude toward her had improved somewhat now, it couldn’t change all the pain he had brought her in her previous life.
Yue Mingkong told herself this in her heart.
Her expression quickly calmed down as well, her face serene and profound as she stared at the many Godly Islands and immortal mountains below, the many immortal birds and auspicious beasts.
She didn’t speak, clearly heavy with thoughts.
“Just now, I almost thought you had come to break off the engagement.”
At this moment, Gu Changge spoke, laughing casually, breaking the silence between them.
Purple Fortuity.
Among red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple, what did that represent? Nobility beyond words, beyond description.
Moreover, her Fortuity Points numbered as high as eight thousand—as for the remainder after that, Gu Changge hadn’t looked closely.
Such an enormous amount of Fortuity Points was also the reason Gu Changge had been stunned just now.
This was simply a walking ATM.
Hearing Gu Changge’s words, Yue Mingkong was somewhat stunned, and then her pupils shrank slightly.
She had never considered such a thing, because it wasn’t realistic.
But why would Gu Changge say that?
Was he hinting to her that he actually knew she had been reborn?