Luo Pengtian answered the phone with a strange expression. He nodded, turned on the speakerphone, and placed it on the table.
Meanwhile, Luo Xinghe was still striking poses like some reincarnation of the Flame Emperor.
Suddenly, a voice came through the phone:
“I heard the Liu family broke off the engagement?”
“Well, our Wan family of Fengcheng absolutely will not!”
“We’ll come by another day to set a specific date.”
Luo Xinghe stared at everyone in utter disbelief.
This can’t be happening… No way.
I’ve fallen this far, and these families are still not giving up?! Are they all stupid?!
Luo Xinghe. The man who single-handedly destroyed the Luo family in just three years.
Drinking, gambling, whoring, doing every vice imaginable—and on top of that, domestic abuse.
Are these rich families insane?
Aren’t they afraid their daughters will get beat up every day if they marry me?
That they’ll have to eat scraps and work their butts off just to support me?
And even Liu Ruyan’s reaction wasn’t normal.
Where’s your arrogance? You’re the Liu family’s daughter.
Facing a ruined Luo family, facing me and my father, you’re supposed to be full of contempt, prideful and dismissive.
How could you say “sorry”?
How could you feel guilty?
And Song Yuwei and Qiu Mengxia? They were even more outrageous.
They didn’t break off the engagement either??
How are you going to face your families like that?
Do you really want to marry a lowly delivery guy like me?
Your brains must be rusted through.
And now the freaking Wan family too…
You all…
You’re trying to kill me!
You’re trying to destroy the entire Luo family!
Luo Xinghe’s mind started racing.
This won’t do…
According to the timeline, this novel is just about to begin.
He had only read the outline and the first hundred or so chapters—just up to the part where the hidden clans started appearing.
The Luo family gets completely wiped out in a little over 50 chapters.
Based on the story’s timeline, Zhou Shuai would be arriving in Fengcheng in a few months.
He had to resolve all the engagements before Zhou Shuai showed up.
But for some reason, all these women had gone completely nuts and were clinging to the marriage agreements.
At this rate, Liu Ruyan was actually starting to seem like the most sane one.
But dammit—even the most normal one isn’t acting normal!
What do I do now?!
Luo Xinghe glanced around at everyone, deep in thought.
Meanwhile, Qiu Mengxia bowed slightly toward Luo Pengtian and said,
“Uncle Luo, I came to ask for a one-year postponement of the wedding.”
“There’s something going on in the military, so I’ll have to come back a year later.”
Luo Pengtian nodded calmly and replied,
“That kind of small matter could’ve been handled with just a phone call. No need for you to come all the way here in person.”
“You’ve seen the situation—Luo family has nothing left. The fact that you’re still willing to maintain the engagement is a great honor for us.”
Qiu Mengxia lifted her head and gave a disdainful glance at the two others.
“If you want to call it off, hurry up and do it. Honestly, the more breakups, the better.”
Song Yuwei giggled and said,
“I’m not breaking it off—it’s Liu Ruyan who wanted to.”
Liu Ruyan was in complete disbelief.
Why do all these rich girls insist on jumping into a pit of fire?
She didn’t get it… she really didn’t.
And now, even the prestigious Wan family of Fengcheng didn’t want to cancel.
Could it be that I thought I was the sane one, but I’m actually the crazy one for wanting to break off the engagement?
That can’t be right… can it?
For reasons she couldn’t explain, Liu Ruyan suddenly blurted out,
“Uncle Luo, then I won’t break it off either.”
“I’ll be going now…”
And she ran off like she was escaping something. Luo Xinghe was still lost in his thoughts about what to do next and didn’t even notice.
Only Luo Pengtian sat calmly on the couch, nodding like a pine tree unmoved by the wind.
Just then, Qiu Mengxia’s phone rang. Her expression tensed, and she immediately left the Luo house.
At that moment, only Song Yuwei was left in the Luo household.
She stood there in thought for a while, then quickly said,
“Uncle Luo, I’ve got something to do too. I’ll take my leave.”
Just then, Luo Xinghe’s mother, Du Wei, came out of the kitchen and looked at the father and son strangely.
“What’s going on? Weren’t they all here to cancel the engagements? Why did none of them go through with it?”
Luo Pengtian snorted coldly,
“Who knows? Either way, none of them want to back out now.”
Du Wei was puzzled too.
With the Luo family in this kind of ruin, logic says they should be breaking off engagements.
But now, one by one, none of them are willing to do it.
What the heck is going on?
Du Wei was just as confused.
But the one feeling the most distressed was Luo Xinghe.
If these engagements aren’t canceled, what happens when Zhou Shuai arrives in Fengcheng?
The top few women in Fengcheng are all tied to me through marriage contracts—this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Could it be the Luo family is really doomed to total destruction?
But I already liquidated and transferred all the Luo family’s assets abroad—there’s no way anyone could know about that.
Not even my own parents know.
So… what exactly went wrong?
At this moment, Song Yuwei followed Qiu Mengxia as they left, trailing closely behind her.
Why didn’t she cancel the engagement?
Well, that was something Song Yuwei would never explain to anyone.
In fact, when she first heard that Luo Xinghe was a total loser, she had been very eager to break off the engagement too.
But one night, during a thunderstorm, Song Yuwei suddenly awakened a system.
The system gave her a mission: take down the twisted protagonist of the original story, the Crooked-Mouth Dragon King, and suppress his rise to power.
The more progress she made toward that goal, the more combat power and martial cultivation permissions she would gain.
As a bonus, the system gave her a newbie gift package.
Inside it was a damaged copy of the original novel “Dragon King Takes the City.”
Of course, the incomplete version only contained the general main storyline and basic info about the key male and female leads—many of the details were missing or unclear.
It took Song Yuwei a few days to finally come to terms with her new identity:
Heaven’s Chosen Woman!
Then she noticed something strange—Qiu Mengxia had a mysterious “old grandpa” she carried around with her. (A classic trope for cultivation cheat mentors.)
And when Song Yuwei’s memories finally synced with the original story, she realized something even weirder:
In the original plot, the Luo family never went bankrupt.
But now? The Luo family had been completely dragged down by Luo Xinghe.
Also, the original Luo Xinghe wasn’t nearly as pathetic as the one in front of her now.
Following the system’s guidance, Song Yuwei just so happened to witness Liu Ruyan trying to break off her engagement.
But… that scene didn’t exist in the original storyline.
In other words—Song Yuwei had already altered the plot.
That made her extremely curious.
Curious about how and why Luo Xinghe and the others had changed.
According to the system-gifted copy of the original story, Luo Xinghe and Liu Ruyan were locked in fierce competition.
Due to some business maneuvers early on, the Liu family and Luo family were at each other’s throats.
The two top business prodigies of Fengcheng clashed in the corporate world and the stock market, fighting tooth and nail.
To defeat Liu Ruyan, Luo Xinghe even exploited their childhood friendship and emotional bond.
That betrayal by her childhood sweetheart—the boy-next-door who was once her “white moonlight”—crushed Liu Ruyan completely.
This opened the door for the Dragon King, Zhou Shuai, to swoop in.
At the engagement party, he publicly humiliated Luo Xinghe and won Liu Ruyan’s heart.
But now, Song Yuwei didn’t see that storyline playing out at all.
When she asked the system, it finally gave a response:
[This world has an automatic correction mechanism. The absence of scenes from the original novel means that someone has diverged from their original path. Please observe carefully, Host.]
That’s why Song Yuwei had arrived at the Luo household early—
Because it was the Luo family whose situation had changed dramatically compared to the original story.
And then she discovered another shocker:
Even Qiu Mengxia didn’t want to cancel the engagement…
Logically speaking, with Luo Xinghe being such a failure in this timeline, all these elite ladies from powerful families should’ve been scrambling to break off their engagements.
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Thanks for the chapter!