"Her Holiness the Supreme Pontiff's cultivation hasn't improved much these past few years."
"But your moral kidnapping of your own kin has certainly progressed quite a bit."
With a cold expression, Jin Mian walked over to stand in front of Qian Renxue.
"Jin, this is a matter between us mother and daughter; it has nothing to do with you." Bibi Dong's brows furrowed tightly when she saw that the newcomer was Jin Mian.
Over these years...
Whenever she encountered Jin Mian, no matter what the issue was...
She never managed to gain the slightest advantage.
Jin Mian smiled and put his arm around Qian Renxue. "What do you mean it has nothing to do with me? Xiao Xue is my wife, and you, this vicious old woman, are bullying her here in broad daylight. As her husband, how could I just stand by and watch?"
"You..." Bibi Dong was so angry she was speechless.
She glared at Jin Mian with eyes full of murderous intent.
It was obvious her composure had shattered.
Vicious? And an old woman?
She thought of herself as peerless and elegant, the Supreme Pontiff who was above all but one and below none!
When had those two words ever been associated with her?
She took a deep breath.
After forcibly suppressing the fire of indignation in her heart...
Bibi Dong belatedly registered the other two words in Jin Mian's speech.
Wife? Husband?
She immediately looked at Qian Renxue and questioned, "You're already together with this kid?"
"That's right!"
Qian Renxue answered with a firm, resonant voice.
A look of pride unconsciously surfaced on her face.
Unexpectedly, Bibi Dong mocked coldly, "It seems your taste isn't much either, if you can actually take a liking to this boy."
Hearing this, Jin Mian's fists unconsciously clenched.
What does this old woman mean by that?
Is she asking for a lesson?
Just as he was about to retort...
Qian Renxue stepped forward directly and said defiantly, "What's wrong with Xiao Mian? What right do you have to talk about him?"
Bibi Dong sneered, "Do you know that his relationship with that Ye Lingling is far from ordinary?"
"I know, so what?"
Upon hearing this.
Qian Renxue gave a disdainful smile.
She wondered what it was.
So it was just this?
To say that when she first found out about this matter...
She did care a little.
But ever since they joined forces to fight that bull...
They had become sisters in the same trench.
Seeing that she hadn't achieved the desired effect, Bibi Dong continued, "I just hope you don't waste your life. This kid is no good person."
"Oh for—you..." Jin Mian was just about to start cursing.
Qian Renxue stopped him again.
She looked at Bibi Dong, the corners of her mouth curling slightly. "By the Supreme Pontiff's standards, is a 'good man' someone like your old flame, Yu Xiaogang?"
"How did you..."
As soon as these words were spoken.
Bibi Dong's expression changed drastically.
She hurriedly covered her mouth, swallowing the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
"If I remember correctly."
"Yu Xiaogang."
"A brazen person who claims to be invincible in theory by plagiarizing the Spirit Hall library."
"He himself possesses a trash Martial Soul, a loser who can never break through the rank of a twenty-ninth level Spirit Grandmaster in his entire life."
"Not to mention, he is a scumbag who abandoned you, the Supreme Pontiff, then turned around to marry his own cousin, only to run away halfway through the wedding."
"Oh, right, you probably don't know yet, but Yu Xiaogang officially married Liu Erlong two years ago."
"Consanguineous marriage... tsk tsk tsk."
"What? Did he not notify you, his ex, to attend the wedding?"
"I must say, Lord Supreme Pontiff's taste is truly excellent."
"To have actually been with such a 'good man'."
"However, you should keep such a 'good man' for your own enjoyment, Supreme Pontiff."
"I only need Xiao Mian."
"Xiao Mian, let's go back."
Qian Renxue's words were sharp and insightful, each sentence laced with mockery.
Evidently.
She had long since investigated the sordid details between those two.
Originally, she didn't want to say these things to Bibi Dong's face.
But this woman was truly detestable.
To actually try and drive a wedge between her and Jin Mian's relationship.
In that case.
She wouldn't pretend anymore.
She directly exposed Bibi Dong's sore spots.
As expected.
With every sentence Qian Renxue finished, Bibi Dong's face contorted a bit more.
In truth, as time passed.
Bibi Dong's subconscious had also gradually realized that Yu Xiaogang was a rotten person.
But her heart was unwilling to believe this fact.
She only felt that Yu Xiaogang's breakup with her back then was entirely due to Qian Xunji.
Therefore, she pushed all the blame onto Qian Xunji.
She harbored hatred for the entire Qian family.
In her heart, she remained obsessed with Yu Xiaogang.
Simply because he was her first love, her 'white moonlight'.
She fantasized...
That as long as she could do something for him...
Yu Xiaogang would return to her side.
That was why, after becoming the Supreme Pontiff, she had always kept his position as an Elder.
And she had consistently helped promote his plagiarized theoretical knowledge.
She had even been willing to try and strike at Jin Mian in front of everyone during the competition.
To prevent him from killing Tang San.
Fortunately, she was stopped by Jin E.
In the original story.
She even wanted to use the blood of the entire continent to pave the way for Yu Xiaogang's dignity!
This was the power of a first love and 'white moonlight'.
The moment she heard that Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were married.
She could no longer hold it in.
Her eyes turned blood-red, and her breathing became as heavy as a bull's.
Her voice roared out of control, "Impossible! How could Xiaogang marry that woman!!!"
"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"
"Xiaogang should only belong to me!"
"Ah!!!"
Blood-red spirit power and dark purple resentment...
Exploded from within her body.
In the next second.
The Rakshasa God's spiritual thought echoed in her mind.
"Very good!"
"Just like that, keep it up."
"Vent all of your resentment!"
"Do not be bound by those worthless emotions anymore."
Tempting voices rang out one after another.
Bibi Dong still held on.
She maintained a final sliver of reason in her mind.
"Xiaogang, I cannot abandon Xiaogang..."
Ultimately, she suppressed the resentment in her heart.
She returned to normal.
Her eyes looked in the direction where Qian Renxue and Jin Mian had left.
She couldn't help but feel a sense of loss in her heart.
She never expected...
That those words just now had actually come from her daughter's mouth.
Even more so, she hadn't expected...
That the mother-daughter relationship between them had already turned out like this.
After all.
In her memories.
Qian Renxue had always wanted to receive her motherly love.
To that end.
No matter how cold her attitude or how sharp her words were...
After the girl finished crying, she would still cautiously try to get close to her.
Even to gain her recognition...
Qian Renxue hadn't hesitated to set aside her outstanding talent for cultivation and instead go undercover in the Tiandou Empire.
"Should I... not have treated Xiao Xue like this?"
"After all, the perpetrator of that incident back then was Qian Xunji; Xiao Xue is completely innocent."
"No! That's not right!"
"If that's the case, then Xiaogang would be too pitiful."
"If it weren't for the Qian family, if it weren't for the Seraphim, how could Xiaogang and I have been separated?"
"Since Xiao Xue inherited the Seraphim, then she should also bear a portion of the fault."
"Xiao Xue, I'm sorry. If there's anyone to blame, it's only that you aren't the child of Xiaogang and me."
After a flash of decisiveness appeared in Bibi Dong's eyes.
She also turned around and left the place.
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