ntioning the past still brought too much pain.
After much thought, Hua Zhuo sighed, "It’s a long story, and it’s not convenient to discuss these things over the phone. You should co back to the Jimo Family, and I’ll tell you all about it."
Wen Jiang hung up the phone. Going ho to listen to gossip.
Zero Egg: ...You always show great enthusiasm for things I don’t understand.
When leaving the house, she bumped into Tang Qian. Seeing Wen Jiang ready to go out, although Tang Qian didn’t intend to intervene, she still asked with concern, "Where to?"
"Going back ho for a bit. Lady Hua needs for sothing."
Tang Qian was silent, watching Wen Jiang leave with a serious expression.
Perhaps it was because Wen Jiang had never lived among the nobility, but she truly was the first person Tang Qian had ever seen whose deanor was completely different from those nobles.
In fact, Tang Qian had also t people from the Xie Family. At that ti, she represented Jimo Xiao while supervising Mount Flower. To this day, Tang Qian couldn’t forget Xie Lingyan’s haughty deanor or the obsequiousness of the association leaders who accompanied him.
They were rely ordinary families who had married into the nobility.
In everyday life, she also encountered other nobles, like the twins living upstairs who were from the Song Family.
Though they didn’t exude an overwhelming presence, that distinct aura of theirs always seed to block everything else out.
During training at the association, they couldn’t behave as extravagantly as they would among the nobility, where they were surrounded by servants. Still, those two young masters never spoke a word to anyone they deed irrelevant.
Tang Qian would occasionally encounter them and would know with just one glance that they were definitely not from her world.
Therefore, she found a unique individual like Wen Jiang quite extraordinary.
Although Wen Jiang often appeared reticent, she was actually quite extroverted and would even make jokes.
Shaking her head, Tang Qian pulled herself out of her thoughts and continued to work on the next strategic arrangent.
Wen Jiang soon returned to the Jimo Family and sat across from Hua Zhuo, looking prepared. "You speak, I’m listening."
Hua Zhuo gave a wry smile. "What do you want to know?"
"Everything. That woman’s appearance, her history with... us. I’m soone who enjoys hearing gossip," Wen Jiang admitted her guilty pleasure without hesitation.
Zero Egg chid in, I also like to watch the drama unfold.
Sotis, faced with Wen Jiang’s overly direct manner, Hua Zhuo didn’t quite know what to say. After a mont of thought, she started with a key figure. "You should know Song Ji, right? Song..."
Wen Jiang indifferently replied, "I know. That idiot Song Yingchen’s father."
"..."
Hua Zhuo lowered her eyes, her gaze fixed on the ground. After a long silence, she began to recount a story from the past in a calm tone. "Song Ji and I were childhood sweethearts. Although my family couldn’t compare to his, I was hailed as one of the most talented Spirit Card Masters of the last century. I even had hopes of advancing to UR. So, to outsiders, Song Ji and I seed like a match made in heaven."
Wen Jiang raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
It seed the older generation also had its own web of grievances and resentnts. She could almost guess what kind of stumbling block the Destined Host had been in their story.
"That woman’s appearance was an accident. Her na was Yu Jian." When she said this, the shadows of the past seed to linger, and a hint of pain laced Hua Zhuo’s voice as she continued, "Initially, Yu Jian was just an ordinary person—soone who, by all logic, would never have crossed paths with us in her lifeti."
What she said was the truth.
If Yu Jian hadn’t received the System, forget about knowing soone like Hua Zhuo; she wouldn’t have even gotten near their doorstep.
"Later, she joined the Guiqing Association and beca a sowhat famous R-Rank Card Maker. The strength of her cards also ranked highly among her peers, and with her versatile style, it wasn’t difficult for her to stand out in the Guiqing Association. At first, no one saw a problem with this."
"There was another bizarre thing," Hua Zhuo continued, a trace of puzzlent in her eyes. "To this day, I still don’t know if it was her imnse charm or so strange Spirit Card that allowed her to so easily win people’s favor, especially from the majority of n. It wasn’t long before they were crazy about her. At its peak, nearly half the n in the Guiqing Association were fawning over her."
"Relying on these n, she easily obtained better resources and connections. She quickly rose to B-Level, and her power grew stronger..."
Hua Zhuo pursed her lips. "She was imnsely talented. I must admit, her talent even exceeded mine."
The rest of the story was predictable.
Wen Jiang made a wild guess. "So, by leveraging those connections, she later t Song Ji and won his heart?"
"..." Hua Zhuo smiled wryly. "If you want to put it that way, fine. At that ti, Song Ji and I were very close. We had no troubles between us. I don’t know if the monotony of our life made Song Ji feel unfulfilled, so I wasn’t surprised when he later fell for Yu Jian. However, Song Ji later told sothing shocking. He said that when he was around Yu Jian, he couldn’t control himself. His rationale told him he shouldn’t like such a woman, yet he found himself completely unable to resist."
"I don’t believe she could have tempted him if he hadn’t truly been interested," Hua Zhuo stated.
However, the extent of his infatuation was baffling. He went so far as to do sothing irreversible to , creating an irreparable rift between us. This incident also made a sobered Song Ji and realize later on that there was indeed sothing profoundly wrong with that woman.
In Wen Jiang’s mind: TSK, TSK, TSK, TSK, TSK. See? I told you! None of you systems are any good. Look at this so-called Heaven’s Mandate System. What can its host do besides seducing n?
Zero Egg coughed. Maybe its host can seduce won too.
Wen Jiang: ...Your perspective is quite unique.
Zero Egg continued its internal monologue: But its rosy view of the Heaven’s Mandate System was quickly shattering—PAH! It was the Masochistic Card Drawing System, specializing in won’s jealousy. This Heaven’s Mandate System assigned tasks to its host that relied on seducing n—so déclassé! All systems were fundantally the sa; that one rely had the advantage of an earlier release. It wasn’t that Zero Egg was lucky; it had simply found a good host to mooch off. In that aspect alone, it far surpassed the Heaven’s Mandate System!
Hua Zhuo was unaware of Wen Jiang and Zero Egg’s discussion as she continued, "During the ti Song Ji and I broke up, I was in a lot of pain. He was the only man I had loved in all those years. I couldn’t accept that he had left through betrayal; it felt like a desecration of my love. To make matters worse, during that ti, I discovered I was pregnant."
Wen Jiang was speechless. What kind of damn lodramatic, heart-wrenching soap opera is this?
However, Hua Zhuo was, after all, a gifted Spirit Card Master. She quickly recovered from the brief agony of her lost love, deciding to terminate the pregnancy and prepare for the upcoming World Championship.
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