Ning Rongrong was calculating things very carefully in her mind.
Among the Shrek Seven Devils, Ma Hongjun was fat, ugly, and lived the most dissolute life. Dai Mubai had a gilded exterior with a rotten core. Only Tang San and Oscar were relatively clean in comparison.
Tang San possessed the most outstanding abilities and was a powerful battle Spirit Master, which happened to be the perfect match for her as a support-type Spirit Master. He was the target Ning Rongrong had set her sights on from the very beginning.
Pity that he came with Xiao Wu, a childhood sweetheart.
The two of them shared a deep bond, and for her to wedge herself between them would be harder than ascending to the heavens.
Oscar was good-looking and possessed great talent, but unfortunately, he was a support-type Spirit Master. His abilities fell far short of Tang San's, and he still carried a slight air of a loser.
His advantage was that he seemed very interested in her.
Besides, losers were the easiest to manipulate. Ning Rongrong only needed to make the slightest gesture to make Oscar lose his mind and willingly brave blades and fire for her sake.
Ning Rongrong intended to choose her future partner from either Tang San or Oscar.
If she could wedge herself between Tang San and Xiao Wu, she would definitely choose Tang San. If she could not, Oscar would be the best backup choice.
Everyone in the Shrek Seven Devils was uniquely gifted.
Ning Rongrong felt that only someone out of their mind would give up these high-quality stocks just to fulfill that foolish engagement.
A disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan outside came to report.
"Eldest Miss, that person has already been led in and will be here right away."
Ning Rongrong waved her hand, signaling the disciple to withdraw.
She turned her head to look at the Shrek Seven Devils, her gaze finally resting on Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, and said with a pitiful expression:
"Xiao Wu, Zhuqing, you are both girls, you should be able to understand me, right? I really don't want to marry someone I don't even know. A person's marriage should be in their own hands."
Xiao Wu was very supportive of Ning Rongrong.
She clenched her pink fists, filled with righteous indignation.
"Rongrong is right! If it's not true love, even if people are together, they will definitely never be happy!"
"If that guy pesters us relentlessly, we'll just throw him out!"
Only Zhu Zhuqing felt somewhat lost.
Was Ning Rongrong right? Yet, Ning Rongrong had the right to choose her own marriage and future.
While she, Zhu Zhuqing, was like a puppet on strings.
She couldn't help asking herself: *Do I really like Dai Mubai? He is promiscuous and selfish. To escape his own responsibilities, he abandoned her behind and came to Shrek alone, philandering and living the high life every single day.*
*Aside from that pair of twins she saw last time, how many other lovers did he have? According to what Ma Hongjun said in private, he seemed to be a VIP regular at the brothels, and goodness knows how many women he had toyed with, sleeping with at least two at a time, something he often took pride in.*
According to Ning Rongrong's line of thinking.
Zhu Zhuqing shouldn't give Dai Mubai even a single chance.
However, during this period, Dai Mubai had been pestering her relentlessly, his thick skin seemingly making him completely forget all those filthy things he had once done—did he think she had amnesia? Yet……
Zhu Zhuqing's gaze swept over the Shrek Seven Devils. They could show righteous indignation and be filled with disdain and contempt in their words simply because of the fiance Ning Rongrong mentioned.
Why, when it came to her own situation, could they not show any empathy? Why didn't they condemn Dai Mubai?
Was it because Dai Mubai hadn't done anything wrong?
Or was it because they were simply hypocritical and held double standards?
Zhu Zhuqing hesitated for a moment, then slowly replied: "Rongrong, what you want to do is your own right, we can only respect your thoughts..."
Ning Rongrong wrinkled her nose. Why did Zhu Zhuqing's words sound somewhat like a fence-sitter? She should be helping her condemn that Ye Xuan, and then wholeheartedly supporting her in tearing up the engagement and boldly pursuing her own happiness! Ning Rongrong felt somewhat displeased, and she turned her hopeful gaze toward Tang San and the others instead.
"Dai Laoda, San Ge…… What about you guys? What do you think in your hearts?"
Dai Mubai sneered, took a step forward, and assumed a very manly posture.
"Rongrong, don't worry. With me here, if that damned fiance of yours shows even a hint of being unappreciative, I'll teach him a lesson!"
Ning Rongrong's eyes lit up. "Thank you, Dai Laoda!"
Oscar followed closely behind and said:
"Rongrong, I completely support you too! I feel that you and that guy named whatever Ye Xuan definitely aren't a match. Besides, he must be twenty years old by now, right? He probably isn't even a Spirit Ancestor! He's simply not worthy of you, Rongrong!"
Ning Rongrong said softly, "Thank you too, Oscar."
A lewd smile appeared on Ma Hongjun's face. "Rongrong, don't worry. We're a team, after all; you're as close to me as my own younger sister, and I, Ma Hongjun, will definitely protect you well!"
Ning Rongrong felt a slight internal discomfort, forced back her nausea, and said, "Thank you, Ma Hongjun."
Right now, only Tang San had yet to state his position.
Ning Rongrong gazed at Tang San with a hint of spoiled coyness in her tone: "San Ge~ You will definitely support me too, right?"
Xiao Wu cast a strange glance at Ning Rongrong, feeling that something was a bit off.
*Rongrong seems to be acting deliberately close to Xiao San?*
Tang San pondered for a moment and said:
"Rongrong, don't worry."
"As long as it's something you don't want to do, no one can force you."
A look of pleasant surprise surfaced in Ning Rongrong's eyes. "Really? Thank you, San Ge! I just knew you were the best, San Ge!"
At that moment.
An announcement suddenly came from outside the door.
"You must be Ye Xuan? Go on in, the Eldest Miss is waiting for you inside."
Following a steady sound of footsteps.
Under the watchful eyes of the Shrek Seven Devils, an imposing and handsome young man walked in.
After walking in and seeing a whole group of people standing inside the room, Ye Xuan was slightly taken aback.
His gaze swept over the seven people.
He roughly figured it out in his mind; these must be the Shrek Seven Devils.
With a warm smile on his face, Ye Xuan spoke to the woman wearing a sky-blue silk long dress who had the most delicate figure:
"You must be Rongrong, right? I am Ye Xuan. Our families arranged an engagement for us when we were children."
"I've been traveling outside all these years and only returned to Tiandou City this year, hoping to fulfill the engagement from back then."
This guy is so handsome!
The Shrek Seven Devils were all stunned by Ye Xuan's appearance.
Oscar couldn't help feeling a sense of inferiority welling up inside him.
Especially regarding his unrequited crush on Ning Rongrong, it made him instinctively compare himself to Ye Xuan, feeling as though he were a rat hiding in a sewer.
Dai Mubai frowned; he didn't like the feeling of having all the attention stolen by someone else.
Ma Hongjun was burning with jealousy in his heart.
Why should this brat be so handsome and yet be Ning Rongrong's fiance, while he could only be born ugly, with the women he played with limited to country wives and damaged goods?
A flash of surprise crossed Ning Rongrong's eyes.
Yet she still held no favorable impression of him. Being someone who admired strength, she valued power and talent far more than looks.
Take Tang San, for example—at only thirteen years old, he was already a Spirit Elder.
And when it came to combat capability, he could even defeat Spirit Ancestor powerhouses! How could this Ye Xuan, who merely looked a bit handsome, compare to San Ge in any way! Ning Rongrong said coldly:
"Ye Xuan? I know who you are."
"What you want to achieve by coming to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan is crystal clear to me."
"Today, in front of my friends, I am going to make things perfectly clear!"
"I could never like you, nor will I ever fulfill this engagement!"
"You can give up on that idea once and for all!"
Ye Xuan: "???"
Wait, did he hear that right?
As a dignified Title Douluo, was he... being dumped by his fiancee?
The problem was, the path he was walking clearly wasn't the trope of a trash protagonist!