Even though he had been brutally abused by Ling Yun and slapped across the face by Lu Xueyao, none of it had managed to break her confidence.
She firmly believed that she was destined to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the proud prodigy Chu Tianqi.
But now!
Her dream was shattered.
She had been tossed aside into a pile of garbage like trash by the master who once cherished her.
And Chu Tianqi would never want her now, either!
She had become an absolute, thorough joke.
Every gaze fixed on her was filled with mockery and ridicule, turning her already torn heart into a sieve of a thousand wounds.
Right at that moment, the man whose spirit root was tested alongside hers during the entrance trials—the man who was supposed to be her destiny—was walking step by step toward the Spirit-Testing Stele that was meant to bring glory upon her, Ye Mengyan.
"So... so that day... it really was him who shattered the Spirit-Testing Stele..."
In this exact instant!
Ye Mengyan's heart died.
Meanwhile, Ling Yun reached the Spirit-Testing Stele.
At this moment!
All eyes were upon him!
Every gaze in the crowd shifted to Ling Yun.
Everyone remembered that during the entrance trials, Ling Yun and Ye Mengyan had their spirit roots tested together, and then the Spirit-Testing Stele shattered.
Ye Mengyan had been nurtured as a genius with a Heavenly Grade spirit root, while Ling Yun was left completely ignored.
Yet reality landed a vicious slap right across Zhao Wuji's face.
Ye Mengyan…
Chapter 18