Chapter 604 From love to hate
At night, when Luo Tianjin returned to the room, he found Ling Xiaoxiao and Yan Bugui drinking together.

The dishes on the table had already gone cold, but no one had touched them.

At this moment, Ling Xiaoxiao's face was flushed and her eyes were blurry from drinking. Yan Bugui, on the other hand, had a worried look on his face and stood silently by her side, not knowing what he was thinking.

Luo Tianjin was stunned, as if he had not expected Yan Bugui to be here.

"I was in a bad mood, so I asked Yan Bugui to have a few drinks with me." Before Yan Bugui could speak, Ling Xiaoxiao took the lead in explaining, "Brother Jin, you won't blame me, right?"

Tonight, when Yan Bugui saw Luo Tianjin, he did not greet him respectfully as usual. Instead, he ignored him and just sat aside, not even looking at Luo Tianjin.

Since Luo Tianjin was fully focused on Ling Xiaoxiao, he didn't pay attention to these details.

"Say it!"

Luo Tianjin chose a seat a little further away from Ling Xiaoxiao and sat down. Looking at Ling Xiaoxiao, who had disheveled hair and a haggard face, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes. He said coldly, "Why did you call me here?"

"It's okay, actually." Ling Xiaoxiao changed her usual flattery towards Luo Tianjin and smiled like crazy, "I just want to ask, how are you preparing for my daughter's wedding?"

"Everything is going according to plan. You don't have to worry about it."

"How many wedding invitations have been sent out?" Ling Xiaoxiao seemed not to understand Luo Tianjin's answer, and asked in rapid succession, "Have you approved the wine and food for the wedding banquet? How are the hairpins and wedding dresses prepared? Yu'er likes lively occasions, have you arranged for relatives and friends? And..."

"Are you done yet?" Luo Tianjin asked impatiently, "These have been prepared by someone, why do you and I need to worry about them?"

"She is your daughter. This is the most important day of her life. How can a father ignore her?" Ling Xiaoxiao complained, "I see you are busy with social events these days and have never cared about Yu'er's marriage... Do you still have a daughter in your heart?"

"enough!"

"boom!"

Luo Tianjin was furious. He slammed his palm on the table, causing all the dishes on the table to fall to pieces. He angrily said, "Ling Xiaoxiao, I'm meeting you tonight. I don't want to hear your complaints, and I don't want to argue with you about these nonsense. Do you have any business? Don't waste my time."

"Haha..." Ling Xiaoxiao laughed at herself and complained to Yan Bugui, "Did you hear that? Zhao Yuan, Shen Dongshan and the others come to disturb us day after day, and Brother Jin never gets tired of it. I just said a few words, but he was already very impatient. It seems that in Brother Jin's heart, the status of my mother and I is far inferior to those outsiders."

Hearing this, a hint of coldness suddenly flashed across Yan Bugui's eyes, but before she could respond, Ling Xiaoxiao had already reached out and held her arm, signaling her not to be impulsive, and then said, "Forget it! Since Brother Jin doesn't want to listen to my nagging, I won't nag anymore."

"Nonsense!" Luo Tianjin said angrily, "You called me here just to say this?"

"My daughter is getting married, as a mother... what kind of dowry should I give her?" Ling Xiaoxiao ignored Luo Tianjin's contemptuous look and muttered to herself, "This girl has been spoiled since she was a child, with fine clothes and delicious food. I'm afraid ordinary dowries will not be of any use to her. Brother Jin, what do you think I should give her?"

"This marriage is not about marrying off Yu'er, but about inviting Liu Xunyi to live with us." Luo Tianjin said impatiently, "So there is no need to prepare a dowry for Yu'er. The Xianwang Mansion is her biggest dowry."

"Having said that, she has to get married after all. I am also a wife, and I know the hardships of serving a husband." Ling Xiaoxiao's words were full of hidden meaning, which made Luo Tianjin feel very uncomfortable.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm leaving now."

"Don't worry! I have prepared some food and wine for you. It won't be too late to leave after you have a full stomach..."

"No need!"

After that, Luo Tianjin no longer gave Ling Xiaoxiao a chance to stay. He stood up suddenly, walked quickly towards the door, and casually ordered: "Yan Bugui, take good care of the lady and don't let her drink too much."

"understood."

"Brother Jin!"

Suddenly, Ling Xiaoxiao stopped Luo Tianjin who was about to leave the room and said in a complicated tone: "These days, I often see young and beautiful women coming in and out of the mansion, but I don't know them and have never seen them. I wonder... Is it related to you?"

Hearing this, Luo Tianjin paused slightly, hesitated for a moment, and finally walked out of the room quickly without saying a word.

Seeing this, Ling Xiaoxiao could no longer suppress the pain in her heart, and threw the wine glass in her hand out the door, and then lay on the table and burst into tears. Yan Bugui saw it with her eyes and felt pain in her heart. She wanted to comfort her with kind words, but seeing Ling Xiaoxiao crying and unable to extricate herself, she didn't know how to start for a while, so she could only gently stroke Ling Xiaoxiao's back with her hand to comfort her.

"Have you ever seen such a despicable, shameless, and heartless person?" Ling Xiaoxiao cried with tears in her eyes. I felt pity for her. She stared at Yan Bugui, who had a tangled expression, and cried, "He is so heartless, selfish, and cold-blooded. I might as well have married a dog!"

"Xiaoxiao, please don't do this." Yan Bugui choked up and said, "It makes me sad to see this."

"All men in the world are ungrateful bastards!" Ling Xiaoxiao cried and cursed, "If it weren't for me, Ling Xiaoxiao, how could Luo Tianjin be where he is today? If I hadn't forced my father to use all the strength of Wudang to help him again and again, how could the Xianwang Mansion be what it is today? Without me, who in the world would know him? Without me, he would still be an unknown disciple of Wudang Sect. Now that he has achieved success and fame, he has forgotten his name? He has forgotten who supported him all the way to where he is today? How could there be such a heartless bastard in the world?"

"Xiaoxiao, it's not worth it for a man like this."

"Not worth it?" Ling Xiaoxiao burst into tears. "From the day I married him, I gave him everything I had without reservation. Youth, beauty, fame, wealth, honor and dignity, I gave him everything! For more than 20 years, I have been obedient to him, never disobeyed him, and served and cared for him wholeheartedly. For him, I even did not hesitate to haggle with my father, and made my father regret giving birth to me countless times. For him, I not only gave up everything I had, but also gave up everything my father had and even the face of the entire Wudang. I let the world criticize me, let countless people slander me, but I have no regrets, and even enjoy it. Now that Xuan'er is half dead and Yu'er is about to get married, I have nothing, but you tell me it's not worth it? Haha, then tell me, why have I been ashamed and humiliated for more than 20 years? What is it for?"

The more Ling Xiaoxiao thought about it, the more she felt wronged and the more painful it became. She wished she could clench her fists and chew her teeth until they pierced her gums. She angrily asked, "Why? He used to eat from me, use my things, and take my things, but now he shamelessly wants to draw a line between us?"

"Xiaoxiao..."

"At least half of the achievements of the Xianwang Mansion today belong to me!" Ling Xiaoxiao's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Why? I gave everything I had and worked so hard to get it, but he wiped it all out with just one sentence? Now he wants to get whatever he wants, but he kicked me away and married that bitch Xiao Zhirou, letting her have everything that should belong to me. Why? Why should the previous generation plant trees and the next generation enjoy the shade? I don't accept it! I would rather die than accept it! What belongs to me, no one can take it away!"

"Xiaoxiao, stop talking!"

Seeing Ling Xiaoxiao almost going crazy, Yan Bugui made up his mind and said word by word: "I will go kill Luo Tianjin now to vent your anger!"

After saying that, Yan Bugui picked up his sword, stood up and walked out of the room.

"No!"

Seeing Yan Bugui trying to fight Luo Tianjin, Ling Xiaoxiao's face changed immediately. She stood up in a hurry, chased after Yan Bugui in two steps, grabbed her arm tightly, and said urgently: "You can't go! If you go, you will die in vain!"

"What's the joy of living, and what's the fear of death?" Yan Bugui said stubbornly, "Seeing you suffer so much injustice and unable to do anything, I would rather die than live."

"No! Absolutely not!" Ling Xiaoxiao said resolutely, "Now, he wishes I would die sooner, so as to avoid being branded as ungrateful and abandoning his wife. I just won't let him have his way. I have to endure it, and I must endure it."

"Luo Tianjin has already broken off all feelings for you. Even if you keep enduring, he won't change his mind." Yan Bugui advised, "Why bother to endure it? Why don't we just run away and find a place where no one knows us and start a new life?"

"No!" Ling Xiaoxiao refused, "If I just leave, won't that couple get away with it for nothing?"

"then you……"

"Since Luo Tianjin is unkind to me, don't blame me for being unjust to him!" At this moment, Ling Xiaoxiao's eyes were full of ferocity, and a murderous intent as ruthless as a snake and scorpion emerged between her brows. "What I can't get, no one else can get. What does Luo Tianjin care about most? I will make him lose it! I want him to taste the taste of being abandoned by his friends and relatives, and losing all his fame. I want him to experience the pain of 'a thousand years of cultivation lost in a day'!"

"what do you mean……"

"Hmph! What great plans for the martial arts world, what eternal hegemony, I will make all of Luo Tianjin's dreams come to nothing." Ling Xiaoxiao turned from love to hate, her mind became more vicious, and her eyes became more crazy.

"What do you mean?" Yan Bugui frowned and asked curiously, "What exactly do you want to do?"

"Do you know that the imperial court has sent an imperial envoy named Zhao Yuan to recruit people?" Ling Xiaoxiao said, "This person wants to recruit Luo Tianjin and let him lead all the martial arts sects to serve the imperial court. I think it's just a foolish dream."

"So what?" Yan Bugui looked puzzled.

"You have no idea of ​​Luo Tianjin's true ambition, let alone his secret dealings with Xunzhen and Yeluqin." Ling Xiaoxiao grinned, "But I know everything!"

"what do you mean……"

"Luo Tianjin forced me to do all this! He has brought all this upon himself! I'll write a letter, and you can give it to Zhao Yuan when you have the chance." Ling Xiaoxiao said sinisterly, "I want to expose Luo Tianjin's shocking conspiracy. He wants to get rid of me and enjoy wealth and glory with Xiao Zhirou, but I want to drag him down with me. I want to perish together with Luo Tianjin, and we will perish together!"

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(End of this chapter)