02. Trouble comes

"Demon-hearted woman! You must regret doing this to me."

The woman's words made Long Chen furious, and he hated her to her bones. Long Chen never expected the gentlewoman in his eyes to have such a nature. The beautiful woman didn't care about Long Chen's screams. She just turned around and left, leaving Long Chen full of satisfaction.

"I brought this thing." The woman suddenly stopped and picked up a hand-sized crystal ball from the grass not far from the kneeling Long Chen.

Seeing the object that the beautiful woman had taken, Long Chen clenched his hand so tightly that his fingernails pierced the skin of his hand.

After the woman left, the injured Long Chen stood up easily without the slightest sign of being impaled by a sword. He stared at the woman who had disappeared with sadness in his eyes.

"I always thought that you were the only one I could trust in this world besides my uncle, but now I know that women are not beings worthy of my trust. Long Chen limped out of the forest holding his injured stomach.

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The Long Family Meeting Hall Long Hu, who had tidied up his clothes and face, sat on the head of the family chair with a gloomy face. Long Hu's face was gloomy because he heard the bad news from one of the elders of the Long Family that the family to which Long Chen was engaged had broken off the engagement by force.

The family even threatened to make trouble with the Long family if the engagement wasn't broken off immediately. For the past three years, the Long family had also received the same request to cancel the engagement, but this time it was different because the family had the support of a powerful person behind it.

"Head of the family, we'd better cancel the engagement."

"Yes, head of the family, it's pointless to continue the engagement with a family that doesn't have that kind of heart."

Some of the elders of the Long Family were in favor of canceling the engagement, even though they could only do so out of necessity. Even though they knew that it would make Long Chen suffer even more if they didn't cancel the engagement as well, the Long family would suffer.

"Let's call Chen'er! She has the right to decide all this, not us." Long Hu replied, looking at the elders with a haggard face.

He was Long Chen's uncle. He was also Long Chen's only family since Long Chen's parents had disappeared somewhere. Long Chen was given to Long Hu by his father when he was still an infant. Then, after giving the baby to Long Chen, Long Chen's father left without saying anything other than leaving Long Chen to him.

Although he had spoiled Long Chen since childhood, Long Chen never asked him for anything, and even Long Chen himself was very hardworking in martial arts and managed to become a genius at the age of ten. Unfortunately, three years ago, she didn't know what happened to Long Chen, who returned with many wounds all over his body. What's worse, Long Chen's meridian was also injured when he came back, and the injured Long Chen didn't say anything to them. He just smiled and left before entering his residence.

Until now, Long Hu himself didn't know why Long Chen was injured, and he only knew that Long Chen's injury must be related to his fiancée. After Long Chen was injured, Long Chen's fiancée managed to join one of the third-tier sects in the eastern continent. Not only that, she immediately broke off the engagement, saying that Long Chen wasn't the right man for her. Of course, Long Hu refused the female family's request because the engagement had been in place since Long Chen was a child, and their engagement letter was also signed by each family's ancestor or grandfather.

"Long Chen has already suffered a lot because of our stupidity." The first elder of the Long family sighed as he remembered where Long Chen had returned to without saying a word, and how he had a smile on his face when he looked at them back then.

"Huh ... now the kid has run off somewhere, so we can't ask him directly."

"Damn! This kid is giving us all a headache."

Some of the elders were annoyed by Long Chen's uncontrollable mischievous behavior. Every day, some of them would lose some things. Even if the lost things were worthless, they were still their personal belongings. And then there was Long Chen, who would brazenly steal valuables from the Long Family's treasure room, even daring to sell out just to be bought with some food that had no value.

"All right, let's wait for him..."

BOOM.

"Head of the family, head of the family!"

From outside, someone shouted anxiously into the hall. When Ling Hu saw the blood stains on the mouth of the man who had entered, all the elders understood that there was trouble outside.

"Head of the family, the head of the Li family broke into our family residence with several cultivators from his family. He even brazenly attacked and killed our family guards." The man from the Long family knelt with a sad face and recounted all the events that had just happened outside. When Long Hu heard that the Li family dared to break into the Long family and even kill Long family members, it made him very angry. Not only him, but all the elders there were also angry.

"Let's see what the Li family patriarch wants to do here."

Long Hu took all the elders with him to see what the Li family planned to do to their Long family. Outside, several young people were lying with their mouths covered in blood, and some of them were already not breathing.

"Hahahaha, the little Long family dares to fight my Li family? They have no idea how high heaven is!" A middle-aged man, not much different in age from Long Hu, stood up while stomping on the head of one of the guards at his feet.

"You have no right to enter my Long Family's territory!" The man lying weakly at the feet of the Li family patriarch shouted.

"Huh? Only a lowly servant of the Long Family dares to yell at me? Do you deserve to yell at this head?" The Li family patriarch smiled disgustedly at the man beneath him as he increased the pressure to stomp on the man's head.

"You ungrateful devils! Worse than animals, you don't know that the Li family wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for the Long family." The man whose head was being stomped stubbornly shouted insults at the Li family patriarch.