Chapter 291: The Yandere Demon Lord 45

After hearing Su Muyan’s words, Shuiyue Shangxian finally raised his eyes to look at her directly.

Yet his expression remained almost completely emotionless.

“Why must you humiliate yourself like this?” he asked calmly.

“Humiliate myself?” Su Muyan suddenly laughed madly. “I’m only retaliating against your cruelty and heartlessness!”

Although those words had been spoken in anger…

Part of her had still been testing him.

Testing whether he still cared.

Whether he would stop her.

Whether he would finally show even the slightest trace of emotion.

But his response had completely shattered her final hope.

At this moment, hatred flooded Su Muyan’s heart.

She hated Shuiyue Shangxian’s coldness.

Hated his mercilessness.

Hated the Changyun Sect’s oppressive rules.

What had she done wrong?

Why was she the one suffering like this?

…

Seeing her like this, Shuiyue Shangxian looked at her deeply.

“You are about to fall into demonic deviation.”

“Demonic deviation?” Su Muyan burst into laughter again.

“If I truly become a demon, then it’ll be because all of you forced me into it!”

“Shuiyue!”

“You and the Changyun Sect humiliated me like this—I, Su Muyan, will never forget it for the rest of my life!”

“One day, I’ll personally crush this hypocritical sect beneath my feet and reclaim justice for myself!”

As soon as the words fell, she grabbed a strand of her hair and sliced it off with her sword.

“From today onward,” she said coldly, “the ties between you and me are severed completely!”

“But this hatred…”

“It will never end.”

The next moment, she suddenly raised the sword Shuiyue Shangxian had once gifted her.

Then—

Clang!

She snapped the sword in half with both hands.

The broken blade let out a mournful cry before falling heavily onto the floor of the hall.

Afterward, Su Muyan slowly picked up her clothes and put them back on.

Then, carrying endless despair and hatred, she turned and walked away.

…

Watching her departing figure, Shuiyue Shangxian suddenly felt a faint stab of pain in his heart.

But only for a brief moment.

Soon, even that sensation disappeared completely.

So in the end, he merely watched silently as Su Muyan left.

Without saying another word.

…

After that night, Su Muyan disappeared entirely.

No one knew where she had gone.

When Tang Wan learned about everything through Little Cutie, she couldn’t help sighing sympathetically.

“Falling in love with someone like Shuiyue Shangxian is basically asking for suffering.”

Look at Su Muyan.

She’d practically been forced into becoming darkened by the male lead himself.

Tang Wan honestly had no idea how the story would develop from here.

Then she suddenly asked:

“Little Cutie, do you know where the heroine is now?”

Little Cutie immediately replied:

“I do. The heroine has gone to search for the Mirage Ruins.”

The Mirage Ruins were said to be the remnants left behind by an ascended immortal.

Many people had heard rumors about them.

Some even claimed to have seen traces of the ruins.

Yet no one had ever successfully found the true entrance.

But of course—

The heroine was different.

Not only had she once seen a secret map related to the Mirage Ruins in Shuiyue Shangxian’s possession, but she also had the protagonist halo on her side.

Naturally, she was capable of finding them.

In the original plot, Su Muyan emerged from the Mirage Ruins as a powerful Integration-stage cultivator in one leap, shocking the entire cultivation world and silencing everyone who once mocked her for not being worthy of Shuiyue Shangxian.

But now…

With the heroine already darkened, Tang Wan genuinely had no clue what Su Muyan would do after coming out.

Still—

Just imagining a blackened Su Muyan falling into a tragic love-hate relationship with Shuiyue Shangxian somehow felt strangely exciting.

Classic xianxia angst material.

Unfortunately…

For these two, a happy ending was probably impossible now.

…

Just as Tang Wan was thinking about the future of the male and female leads, Little Cutie suddenly spoke again.

“Host, don’t you think you should worry more about yourself first?”

“Three years!”

“Three entire years!”

“I’ve already been forcefully blocked over eight hundred times, yet Lin Tongyin’s final favorability point still hasn’t moved at all!”

“If this keeps going, you might fail the mission entirely!”

Hearing this, Tang Wan also felt somewhat depressed.

Over the past three years, her relationship with Lin Tongyin had been extremely stable.

But that final point simply refused to increase no matter what.

Maybe…

Lin Tongyin still didn’t completely trust her deep down.

“I know already,” Tang Wan huffed.

“You don’t need to remind me every single day.”

“If lying down could increase the favorability meter, then I would’ve cleared the mission ages ago.”