She rushed in angrily and shouted at the top of her voice, "Mu Yijie, you've gone too far! Even if you didn't want me to come in when I knocked on the door, you should at least say something! Keeping silent. What does that mean?"
"Ling'er, is this how your family has taught you?" A cold and detached voice suddenly came from behind.
Yong Shanling froze on the spot like a deflated balloon. After a careful look around the room, she found it was empty. Mu Yijie wasn't there at all.
With a stiff face, she turned around and saw Mu Yijie standing at the door. There were two middle - aged people behind him. They looked somewhat similar to him. She suddenly remembered what he had told her before: his parents were coming to see him.
Like a wind - up robot, her eyes slowly shifted to the fallen door on the ground. She gave an awkward smile. "I... I was just worried something had happened to you since you didn't respond for so long. So I just—"
She let out a dry laugh and quickly changed the subject. "These must be Uncle and Aunt. I'm Yong Shanling, Yijie's girlfriend. How do you do?"
Mu Yunhao and Du Leyi exchanged a look. Du Leyi narrowed her eyes slightly and sized Yong Shanling up and down. With a kind smile, she said, "Hello, hello. I've heard Yijie talk about you. You're a very outstanding child. Your Uncle and I just got back. We'll have a good chat when we get the chance."
"Go back to your room first. I have something to do." Mu Yijie said in a tone that brooked no argument. Then he turned around and led Mu Yunhao and Du Leyi away.
Yong Shanling stood there stiffly, her face alternating between red and white. She had been happy that Mu Yijie hadn't exposed her lies, but the next second, his cold words slapped her hard in the face.
Her eyes instantly turned red. Gnashing her teeth, she said, "Mu Yijie, you're really something!"
Then she stormed back to her room in a huff.
In the back seat, Du Leyi and Mu Yunhao exchanged a worried look, then glanced at their son with a cold expression. As his biological parents, they knew that although he seemed calm on the surface, he was actually not feeling well.
Du Leyi gave Mu Yunhao a look, signaling him to ask their son what was going on.
Mu Yunhao widened his eyes. This was obviously a relationship issue. How could he, as a father, ask about it? If anyone was going to ask, it should be her.
Du Leyi understood his meaning. She glared at him, then looked at Mu Yijie and asked softly, "Son, was that girl your girlfriend just now?"
Mu Yijie's hand on the steering wheel paused for a moment. He replied straightforwardly, "No. We've broken up."
Hearing Mu Yijie's answer, Du Leyi felt relieved. To be honest, it wasn't that Yong Shanling was a bad girl, but they were just not suitable for each other in many ways. Firstly, there was a difference of more than ten years in their ages. Although people's concepts had become more open these days, even relationships between people with a huge age gap like a grandfather - granddaughter relationship existed, in the upper - class society, especially in a traditional family like the Mu family, such a big age difference was hard for them to accept.
Secondly, Yong Shanling was an orphan. It wasn't that they looked down on orphans, but if there was a big gap in family background, social status, and growth experience, their relationship couldn't last long. A son of one of her old friends was a living example. Back then, he had been so determined to marry a common girl. But after they got married, they became a pair of resentful lovers because of their different concepts and were always talking about getting a divorce.
"By the way, we met your Uncle Han abroad this time. His daughter decided to come and have a visit in the country, so she came back with us. In a couple of days, you take her around Huai City and show her a good time." Du Leyi didn't mention Yong Shanling anymore and instead brought up another girl. Although her words were like this, they all understood what she meant.
Mu Yijie didn't say a word. He drove in silence, looking at the passing vehicles in front of him. The words his master and Yong Shanling had said kept flashing through his mind. After a long while, he finally managed to say a single word, "Okay."
Maybe sensing his low mood, Du Leyi said in a gentle voice, "Mom isn't forcing you to get engaged to another girl. I just hope you can get to know more girls and see if you can find someone you like. As for that girl, let it go. It's better for you to part on good terms."
He didn't really listen to her rambling words. All he could think about was Yong Shanling's red eyes and accusing look before he left, which made his heart ache.
He didn't want to hurt her, but now their relationship was not only in crisis because of their own feelings but also because of various external factors.
"I know everything. Don't worry about me. I'll handle it properly." Mu Yijie frowned more and more tightly. Although he still looked the same as usual on the surface, those sitting around him could feel his inner rage and pain.
Du Leyi saw her son's increasingly cold face and decided not to talk about it anymore. She felt even more heart - broken for her son and at the same time, she disliked Yong Shanling even more.
After dropping Du Leyi and Mu Yunhao off at the Mu family's old house, Mu Yijie chatted with them for a while and then drove away.
He drove around the city aimlessly and unconsciously returned to the Mu family's villa again.
He parked the car not far from the gate and sat quietly in the driver's seat, looking at the lit room with pain in his eyes.
"Why wasn't your feelings for me pure at first, but you still agreed to be with me?" Mu Yijie pounded the steering wheel hard.
Yong Shanling was extremely talented. Even he, who hadn't known her for a long time, could feel it.
He couldn't imagine what he would do if one day he was old and haggard while Yong Shanling was still young and full of vigor.
Although he was also quite talented, he wasn't sure if he could break through to the Out - of - Body stage. The Fusion stage was a threshold from middle - level cultivators to high - level cultivators. Many cultivators had spent ten, twenty, or even a hundred years but still couldn't cross this threshold and died there.
If he couldn't break through to the Fusion stage, he would only have 700 years of lifespan, while Yong Shanling would have at least 1000 years. A cultivator would gradually age like a normal person in the last 100 years of their lifespan.
He couldn't accept such a future. He closed his eyes tightly.
That's it.
He would let her go!
Mu Yijie walked into the living room. Before he could turn on the light, it suddenly came on with a snap. He looked up and saw Yong Shanling standing coldly against the wall, glaring at him angrily.
He didn't say a word. He just changed his shoes and tried to bypass her to go to his room.
Seeing that Mu Yijie really ignored her, Yong Shanling got extremely angry. "Stop! What do you mean today? Do you really want to break up with me?"