“Yun’er, Shangguan Yun, the Miss Shangguan of the Shangguan Family—when our family was still somewhat prominent, their family approached your father to arrange a marriage.”
“At that time, all your brothers and sisters were already married, so it was you and Yun’er who got engaged.” Mother looked at Mu Yanxi in surprise. How could she have forgotten even something like this?
“Ah! Right, that did happen. I’ve just been cultivating, and my mind got a little muddled.” Mu Yanxi laughed dryly, explaining.
She’d just been too shocked earlier and had let it slip—how could the original host possibly forget about having a fiancée?
Now the problem was, she actually had an extra fiancée, and that was a huge headache. Mu Yanxi only wanted to focus on cultivation—she had no intention to bother with matters of romance.
Wait, that wasn’t right. She wasn’t even a man now, so where would romance even come in? Wasn’t this all just nonsense?
How could she have ever thought about getting surgery to enter the women’s sect when she already had a fiancée?
“It’s fine, there’s no point in overthinking it now. After all, our family declined rapidly after your father’s death, and the Shangguan Family has already called off the engagement. Xi’er was forced to break off the betrothal—you’ve suffered for it.” Mother sighed as she spoke.
Mu Yanxi couldn’t help but think of many things. In her past life, there were plenty of cases where a man’s family fell into ruin, or the woman became successful and then broke off the engagement. Such things were an enormous humiliation for the man’s side.
Of course, there were also situations where the man divorced his wife in order to marry a female cultivator from a more influential background, which was just as humiliating for the woman.
Mu Yanxi didn’t think too much of it. In her view, the cultivation world respected strength above all else, and background and potential were just another form of strength.
Marriage was merely a step in cultivation—one of the “Wealth, Partner, Method, Land, and Treasure”—so naturally, one would choose the best partner available.
Surely cultivators didn’t truly fall in love before marriage, right?
So after hearing about the broken engagement, Mu Yanxi felt no emotional fluctuation. First, she had no feelings for that Shangguan Yun, and they didn’t even know each other.
It wasn’t even her who had experienced the broken engagement firsthand.
Secondly, Mu Yanxi didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. People strive upwards, and water flows downwards.
Since their identities were no longer compatible, and their families no longer matched, dissolving the engagement was the proper thing to do. Otherwise, if they became Dao partners, it would only lead to quarrels and possibly even turning into enemies.
That was why, after learning the engagement was already broken off, Mu Yanxi actually felt relieved. One less thing to worry about—although that Miss Shangguan was also at Spiritual Moon High Sect, so running into her might be troublesome.
“It’s alright. Yun’er may be a little cold in temperament, but she’s easy enough to talk to. She’s already promised me that she’ll look after you.”
“Still, our family isn’t what it used to be, so you must be polite to her at Spiritual Moon High Sect. Besides, she’s quite familiar with the sect, so you should listen to her when you get there.” Mother nagged on with her instructions.
A former fiancée, still the eldest daughter of her clan, with a cold temperament—just hearing these things made Mu Yanxi’s head ache.
Young ladies like that were always the hardest to deal with. It would have been better if they could just pretend not to know each other.
And why was Shangguan Yun so familiar with Spiritual Moon High Sect, anyway?
To begin with, a young lady from such a prominent clan shouldn’t even be in a sect like Spiritual Moon High Sect, which was known for training dual-cultivation female disciples, should she?
But Mu Yanxi still answered dutifully, “Alright, Mother, don’t worry. I’ll get along with her.”
At worst, after greeting each other, they could just treat one another as invisible.
Mu Yanxi believed that young lady probably didn’t have any good feelings towards a betrothed from a marriage alliance, either, and was just going through the motions to appease her mother.
Three more days passed, and finally, the day of the opening ceremony arrived.
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