Chapter 341 - Rift
Yang Xiu didn’t get truly angry often. Master had come into her life at its lowest point, and since, she’d experienced heights she never could have even dreamed. She deliberately put aside the trauma and tragedy that had led up to their meeting and instead focused on the positives and potential of her future.
Between when she’d met Master and the current day, the only time she’d felt so absolutely livid was when the Golden Core from the Jade Chameleon Sect had killed Ye Zan.
If he had fought against a cultivator of equal status and died, she would have been angry and upset and saddened, but ultimately, she would have accepted that such things happened to cultivators. Challenging the heavens meant risking death.
Instead, his death was caused by juniors being targeted by an existence so far above them that they had no chance. The Jade Chameleon Sect had shown themselves to be honorless curs that day, and she would see the entire sect suffer to the maximum extent possible.
The tournament match she witnessed triggered a visceral fury in her that was in no way second to the day of Ye Zan’s death.
Yang Xiu had been quite tolerant of Kang Lin’s actions. She was, after all, clearly going through something that had her struggling immensely. Not only that, but after what Yang Xiu had experienced at the hands of Fang Wei, she was the last person who would advocate pressuring a young woman to marry anyone not of that young woman’s choosing.
Sure, she thought the girl was being silly. The arrangement was obviously good for both parties. Kang Lin would gain resources that far outstripped anything her sect could provide, ones that surpassed even what she’d get for simply being Master’s disciple and, in doing so, would prove herself filial in her duty to her family by finding a talented match.
Yang Ru needed someone to protect, to be a rock for. She’d provide purpose for his life above and beyond his duty to the sect.
Her humor would balance his stoicism. His solidness would steady her lack of confidence.
A mutually beneficial, balanced relationship. It was what the town elders strove for, and Yang Xiu was positive her parents would have approved.
All that being the case, Kang Lin had absolutely no obligation to marry, or even date, Yang Ru.
Yes, her actions in the past had hurt Yang Ru. He didn’t show it much, but the breakup had been devastating for him, leaving him floundering and unsure of what he did wrong or what he could do to fix matters.