Chapter 315: Chapter 315

I delivered four kills in a rage! A blade in hand on a rainy night, no umbrella!

Inside the bridal chamber, red candles flickered, the room adorned with festive joy.

Lin Xiao carefully sat on the edge of the bed. Looking at the girl beside him, her head covered by a red bridal veil, he gently took her hand.

His action made the girl's body tremble, and a soft gasp involuntarily escaped her lips.

"Are you very nervous?"

After all, she was the junior sister he had watched grow up. A wave of tenderness washed over Lin Xiao, and he said gently, "Don't be afraid. Your Eldest Senior Brother is no stranger."

"Yourong is not afraid of Eldest Senior Brother…" Her voice was hoarse, laced with a distinct sob. "Yourong just feels that this moment… seems so unreal. Yourong feels she doesn't deserve to be married to such a perfect Eldest Senior Brother…"

"What are you talking about!"

Hearing her words, Lin Xiao's heart ached for her even more. He pressed the girl's delicate, soft hands to his own face. "Yourong, tell Eldest Senior Brother the truth. Before our wedding, where exactly did you go, and what did you see? Can you tell me?"

Indeed, Second Junior Sister's mood had been off since the very beginning of today's wedding feast!

Given her outgoing, straightforward, and mature personality, even if she were nervous about something as important as her marriage, she definitely wouldn't be as desolate as she was now!

"Eldest Senior Brother, that's enough." Guo Yourong slowly rested her head on the shoulder of the man she loved. "To be able to marry the only man I've loved in this lifetime, to receive everyone's blessings… Yourong feels she is already far too fortunate…"

"As for the rest… I dare not ask for even a shred more."

"Eldest Senior Brother, most of the guests have dispersed by now. You… you can leave too." As she finished speaking, tears streamed down, falling onto Lin Xiao's shoulder.

"Leave!?" Lin Xiao frowned. "Yourong! If something is weighing on your mind, you can confide in Eldest Senior Brother just like when you were little! Don't let your imagination run wild! Eldest Senior Brother still… still likes you very much!"

"Is… is that so?" However, upon hearing his confession, the girl gave a bitter smile. "Eldest Senior Brother, did you know? Ever since you emerged from your seclusion in the Phantom Spirit Cave House, Yourong has been… secretly following you."

"What?!" Lin Xiao's expression changed instantly.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Eldest Senior Brother… I originally didn't want to…" Guo Yourong shook her head. "These past few days, aside from when you went to see Youwei and Yingying, you spent all your remaining time heading to Phoenix Caw Peak. You even… stayed overnight there."

"I suppose… Senior Sister Zhu must be truly beautiful and elegant, making her unforgettable for Eldest Senior Brother…"

At this, she began to sob. "B-but… Eldest Senior Brother is my fiancé! On the eve of our grand wedding, why would he go to see another woman instead of preparing for our marriage rites…?"

"Later, I think I figured it out…" ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel-fire.net

"Eldest Senior Brother never liked Yourong from the very beginning. I'm not as gentle and virtuous as Second Junior Sister, not as vivacious and agile as Yingying, and I certainly don't have Senior Sister Zhu's charm. At the celebration banquet on Bright Moon Cliff that day, the reason Eldest Senior Brother announced that the one he liked was me… it must have been because he pitied Yourong's foolish devotion. Alas."

"Actually, Yourong should have known her own fate long ago…"

"Although I pride myself on my figure and appearance being second to none, in this Cultivation World where strength reigns supreme, Youwei has the Zither Heart and Sword Spirit, and Yingying possesses the Beast Taming Spirit Body. Both of them are cultivation prodigies, talents rarely seen in millennia. Yet Yourong only has mediocre aptitude. I am destined not to be worthy of walking beside a peerless genius of the ages like Eldest Senior Brother!"

"But…" As she said this, the girl's emotions completely broke. She reached a hand under her bridal veil and began to wail, "Yourong refuses to accept this! Yourong is not resigned!"

"Ever since we were young, to achieve better results than Youwei and Yingying, to make Eldest Senior Brother spare me an extra glance, Yourong put in ten, even a hundred times more effort than they did! Only then was I finally able to stand on the same level as them, even faintly surpassing them, and win the first Martial Champion title for Divine Phoenix Peak in the Five Branches Martial Competition!"

"That night, Yourong was so, so happy. But what made me happy wasn't the honor, nor the praise from Master and my junior sisters. It was…"

"Eldest Senior Brother hugged me for the first time! He even kept his promise and took Yourong to Bright Moon Cliff to fly a kite! He spent the entire night telling me stories, just for me!"

"Yourong still remembers… the moon that night. It was so, so beautiful, more beautiful than any sight in the mortal world!"

"It was also at that moment that Yourong finally felt that all her efforts had not been in vain! Even someone as lowly as me could win Eldest Senior Brother's favor over my two junior sisters!"

At this, the girl's crying abruptly stopped, as if lost in the beautiful memories of the past.

Lin Xiao listened quietly the entire time. For a moment, his heart ached immensely for her, and he wished he could pull the girl before him into his arms and cherish her dearly!

This had nothing to do with any lecherous thoughts!

He truly, deeply felt for this girl!

He knew better than anyone how much effort his Junior Sister Yourong had poured into her cultivation journey to reach this point, surpassing countless prodigies of her generation, and what sacrifices she had made!

If Chu Youwei and Lu Yingying, these heroines, were geniuses envied by the world, then… Yourong was a talent forged through diligence, truly worthy of admiration!

What's more, the driving force behind all her hard work… was entirely for him!

Lin Xiao's heart was deeply moved. Just as he was about to speak words of comfort, he heard the girl sigh softly and say,

"Looking at it now, it was all just a fool's dream in the end. Eldest Senior Brother, you are a chosen son of Heaven, the successor favored by True Monarch Taiwu. Naturally, your heart leans towards those women who are inherently extraordinary…"