“Yun’er ah, Shangguan Yun, Miss Shangguan of the Shangguan family. Back when our family was still somewhat prominent, they came to my father to arrange a marriage.”
“At the time, all my other children were already married, so we betrothed you to Yun’er.” Mother looked at Mu Yanxi in surprise. How could she forget something like this?
“Ah! Right, there is such a thing. I’ve been cultivating too hard and got a bit confused.” Mu Yanxi explained with a dry laugh.
She had been so shocked earlier that she let it slip. Of course the original host would remember her fiancée.
‘The problem now is that I actually have a fiancée. That’s a huge trouble. I just want to focus on cultivation. How could I have any interest in romantic entanglements?’
‘Wait, that’s not right? I’m not even a man now, so how could there be romantic entanglements? Isn’t that completely pointless? Why would I, while having a fiancée, want to undergo surgery to join a women’s sect?’
“It’s okay. It’s useless to think about it now. After all, our family declined rapidly after your father’s death. The Shangguan family also broke off the engagement. Xi’er was forced to dissolve the marriage contract. You’ve been wronged.” Mother sighed.
Mu Yanxi suddenly thought of many things. In her previous life, there were many precedents of the man’s family declining or the woman rising up like a phoenix and then breaking off the engagement. Such things were a great shame for the man.
Of course, there were also the opposite cases where the man divorced his wife to marry a female cultivator with a higher background. That was also a great shame for the woman. Mu Yanxi took a relatively indifferent view on this.
In her opinion, in the cultivation realm, strength was paramount. Background and potential were also forms of strength.
Marriage was just a part of immortality cultivation—the second element among wealth, partners, methods, land, and treasures.
Of course, one would choose the better option. Would any cultivator really talk about feelings before marriage?
So upon hearing about the broken engagement, Mu Yanxi felt no emotional turmoil. First, she had no feelings for that Shangguan Yun; she didn’t even know her, and it wasn’t her personal experience of the broken engagement.
Second, Mu Yanxi didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. Water flows downward, people strive upward.
Since the two parties no longer matched in status and family background, it was right to dissolve the engagement. Otherwise, after becoming dao companions, they would inevitably fight and even become enemies.
So upon hearing that the engagement had already been dissolved, Mu Yanxi felt relieved instead. One less troublesome matter.
However, that Miss Shangguan was also in the Spiritual Moon Sect, so meeting her might cause some trouble.
“Fortunately, although Yun’er has a cold personality, she is still reasonable. She has agreed to look after you a bit. But our family is no longer what it was.”
“At the Spiritual Moon Sect, you must be polite to her. Also, she is quite familiar with the Spiritual Moon Sect. Once you enter the sect, listen to her.” Mother nagged with instructions.
‘A former fiancée, a young miss from a great family, with a cold personality. Hearing these elements, I already feel a headache coming on. This kind of young miss is the hardest to deal with. It would be better to pretend not to know each other.’
‘And why is that Shangguan Yun so familiar with the Spiritual Moon Sect? After all, shouldn’t a young miss from such a big family not be in a sect like the Spiritual Moon Sect that trains female cultivators for double cultivation?’
But verbally, Mu Yanxi obediently replied, “Okay, Mother, please rest assured. I will definitely get along well with her. At most, after greeting each other, we can just pretend the other doesn’t exist.”
Mu Yanxi believed that the young miss probably didn’t have a good impression of her as a marriage-betrothed partner either. Agreeing to Mother was probably just a superficial gesture.
Three more days passed, and finally, the School Opening Day arrived.
The translation is off. Mu Yanxi’s mother actually said that because her own siblings were already married, so Shangguan Yun ended up being betrothed to Mu Yanxi. And then after Mu Yanxi’s mother’s father (aka her maternal grandfather) passed away, the engagement was broken by the Shangguan Family.
fixed