Chapter 26: The Real Illusion, the Real Yu Xiaogang
A hazy white light surged out from Xiao Yin's palm without any warning, instantly enveloping Liu Erlong who was squatting on the ground!
Liu Erlong only felt a flash before her eyes, and her consciousness seemed to be forcibly pulled out of her body, falling into a bizarre vortex!
When she regained consciousness, she found herself not in the kitchen, but standing in a familiar yet unfamiliar place—
That was fifteen years ago, outside the meeting hall of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family!
She saw her younger self, wearing a simple dress, with a look of stubbornness and reckless determination on her face, tightly holding onto a young man with a timid and struggling face.
It's Yu Xiaogang!
The scene was so real that even the air was filled with the suffocating clan pressure and despair of that year.
"Xiaogang! Come with me! Leave here! Let's go far away! We don't care about family or spirit theory anymore!"
The young Liu Erlong's voice was hoarse, full of desperate love and courage.
The young Yu Xiaogang's body was stiff and his face was as pale as paper.
He avoided looking at Liu Erlong's fiery eyes, and even more so, he didn't dare to look in the direction of the conference room door.
He could feel the cold gazes of the elders inside and his father's disappointed sigh.
At this moment, the perspective of the illusion suddenly switched!
Liu Erlong clearly heard the frantic struggle in Yu Xiaogang's heart at this moment:
[Leave? Where can I go? Without the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family, I, Yu Xiaogang, am nothing! A useless person expelled from the family, a useless person who can't even break through his spirit!]
[Go with her? Although she has a mutant spirit, she is still a side branch and an illegitimate daughter. She can't help me at all! Instead, it will completely confirm my crime of heresy!]
[Although my father was disappointed, at least he still recognized me as his son. If I followed this crazy woman, I would really have no place to stand!]
[My theory... my theory still needs the family's resources and connections to verify! I can't give up!]
[She... she's too impulsive. This relationship will only destroy me...]
Along with this cold inner monologue, Liu Erlong clearly saw that the last trace of struggle in Yu Xiaogang's eyes was replaced by intense fear and utilitarianism.
He exerted force suddenly and shook off the young Liu Erlong's hand!
"Erlong! Wake up!"
Yu Xiaogang's voice was deliberately harsh and hypocritical.
"This is the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family! This is not a place for you to mess around! Our relationship... was a mistake! We... can't be together!"
Those heartless words, coupled with the weighing of pros and cons in his inner monologue, were like the sharpest ice spikes, piercing Liu Erlong's heart!
"No... it's not like that... it's not true..."
Liu Erlong muttered to herself in the illusion, her whole body cold.
She always thought that Yu Xiaogang was forced by his family and had no choice!
She has always beautified this abandonment as a helpless sacrifice!
But the truth... the truth is so unbearable!
He never really loved her!
What he cared about was only his own reputation, status, and the vague future of his theory!
In his estimation, she was just a nuisance that could be discarded at any time, or even become a stain on his face!
The scene changes again.
Twenty years ago, the Golden Triangle was first established.
The high-spirited Flender, the taciturn Yu Xiaogang, and the youthful Liu Erlong.
The illusionary perspective once again penetrated into Yu Xiaogang's heart:
[Flender's business acumen and financial resources are indispensable... Liu Erlong's formidable strength... is an excellent amulet and aid.]
[By utilizing their power, I can gather data more quickly and verify my theory.]
Liu Erlong looked at the younger self in the illusion who was willing to desperately support Yu Xiaogang's research for just one word, and then looked at Yu Xiaogang's cold and calculating monologue in his heart. A surge of anger and disgust instantly overwhelmed her!
"Using... He has always been using me..." She trembled all over, her nails digging deep into her palms, but she felt no pain.
All those little things in the past that she regarded as deep affection and devotion have now become naked irony!
Finally, the illusion froze in the study of Notting Academy one night not long ago.
Yu Xiaogang's face was bruised and swollen, and he was gritting his teeth in front of the mirror, his eyes full of resentment and humiliation.
The inner monologue sounded, full of paranoia and anger:
[That little bastard! He was so cruel! I, Yu Xiaogang, will not be a human being until I avenge him!]
[It's all that crazy woman Liu Erlong's fault! If she hadn't been so persistent, I wouldn't have been wandering around for fifteen years! And how could I have ended up in this situation now?]
"Boom--!!!"
The illusion shattered!
Liu Erlong suddenly woke up from her spiritual recollection and her consciousness returned to reality!
She was still sitting on the kitchen floor, but her whole demeanor had changed dramatically!
Liu Erlong looked at Xiao Yin opposite her with complicated eyes, which showed confusion, doubt, and anger.
Seeing this, Xiao Yin's eyes also showed a hint of doubt.
Huh? You woke up so soon?
Didn't that thing work? Shit, isn't this a loss!
"What happened just now?" Liu Erlong asked hesitantly.
Xiao Yin was silent for a moment and replied:
"Well… Although I don't know what you just experienced, what I know is that it was all real.
This is... a power of mine that allows you to..."
Xiao Yin briefly and reasonably introduced the role of the Real Illusion Fragment: The Sorrow of Choice.
Liu Erlong fell into silence, the tears on her face had not yet dried, but there was no longer any confusion in her phoenix eyes!
What replaced it was the coldness and determination after seeing the truth!
"Yu... Xiao... Gang!"
Liu Erlong squeezed out the name word by word from between her teeth. Her voice was hoarse, but filled with a heart-pounding murderous intent!
The deeper the love, the deeper the hatred!
"Good! What a coward! What a hypocrite! What a... cold-hearted villain!"
She stood up suddenly, and the terrifying aura belonging to the Soul Sage burst out again, but this time, it was no longer chaotic, but a breakthrough!
Level 75 Soul Sage!
Liu Erlong, who had untied the knot in her heart, angrily broke through the level that had been suppressed for a long time!
After a while, Liu Erlong, having restrained her aura, looked at Xiao Yin with a very complicated look in her eyes.
There was gratitude, because he used that miraculous method to make her see the disgusting truth;
She felt ashamed for her stupidity and blindness over the years;
There was also a kind of... indescribable touch.
When she was at her most embarrassed and vulnerable, he was the one who forcibly tore off the veil, even if the means were brutal.
"You..."
Liu Erlong looked at Xiao Yin and wanted to say something, but she felt a thousand thoughts stuck in her throat.
The blush on her face caused by anger had not yet faded, and at this moment, it was inexplicably added with a touch of crimson that was unique to when facing Xiao Yin.
The cold, calculating voice in the illusion just now was still ringing in her ears, and the young man in front of her, although reckless and irritating, was... real, and... seemed to really be thinking about her?
Even if the method is very... unique.
At this moment, Xiao Yin's consciousness was completely immersed in his mind.
[end of the chapter]