Girl, let me check it out.

"They are both from the Chenjun Xie family, but their surname is just Xie."

"And I am Xie Lingwan."

The girl said with a smile.

"Look behind you."

The sound of water waves was heard, and Wang Rui looked back, only to see a pair of transparent vertical pupils without any emotion staring at him.

It's a dragon!

A dragon made entirely of water!

His hair stood on end and he fell to the ground in fear.

The water dragon flew over the head of Wang Rui who was lying on the ground, flew to the side of Xie Lingwan, and lowered its head.

The girl stretched out her little hand and pinned the ever-bright rose on the horn of the water dragon.

Shuilong shook his head in delight for a moment.

Wang Rui looked at the scene with eyes wide open, horror filling his old face.

"Elemental Spiritualization...Five Elements 4th Level...Have you reached the Five Elements 4th Level?"

The girl did not answer, but waved her hand.

The dragon approached Wang Rui little by little, and the pressure was getting stronger and stronger.

Wang Rui lay prostrate on the floor, sweating profusely and terrified.

The girl walked closer with her hands behind her back, holding a rose in her hand, looking like an aristocratic lady who was ignorant of the ways of the world.

"Sign or not?"

Xie Lingwan asked with a faint smile.

Chapter 130: As if We First Met

Wang Rui walked out of the teahouse in a daze, with his pale beard smeared messily on his old face, looking quite miserable.

He could feel that there was a cause and effect constraint of tremendous force in his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Ironclad rule? I didn't sign it... I didn't sign it..."

He repeated to himself, with a look of madness on his old face.

"I didn't sign it, right, haha, I didn't sign it..."

The old man stumbled into the crowd and then gradually disappeared.

On the attic of the teahouse, Xie Lingwan stood by the window and watched Wang Rui's actions, without a trace of emotion in her beautiful eyes.

A giant dragon formed of water element was coiled beside her, with a rose on its head.

This makes this majestic creature look a little cute.

"Xie Lue's power is getting weaker and weaker, and only a few tribesmen are still on his side."

The rose in Xie Lingwan's hand fluttered flexibly, like a butterfly flying on her fingertips.

"It looks like in just a few days, I will be able to send him back to Chen County to spend his old age in peace."

The girl was secretly calculating in her mind.

As his biological father, Xie Tao has recently realized his potential and has given him 100% support for his decisions and strategies, giving him whatever he wants.

This also gave Xie Lingwan the opportunity to further lay the groundwork and prepare to transform all of Xie Tao's power into her own after his death.

After all, he is her biological father, and he had barely fulfilled the basic responsibilities of a biological father when she was a child. Xie Lingwan still did not intend to take action while he was alive.

The girl was silently planning her next move, her mind full of thoughts.

at this time.

Xie Lingwan suddenly felt a sharp pain in her sea of ​​consciousness, as if thousands of steel needles had pierced straight through her soul.

She bent over in pain. The strong feeling of nausea and dizziness made her pretty face lose its color and turn it pale.

The water dragon opened its ferocious mouth and let out a silent howl, as if it felt the same pain as its master.

The dragon's scales collapsed piece by piece, followed by the dragon's flesh and blood, and finally the entire dragon's body including the dragon's head was twisted in pain.

"Snapped!"

The giant dragon disintegrated and turned into pure water, which fell heavily on the ground, making a crisp sound.

The rose fell from the faucet and lay alone on the messy ground.

There are little drops of water on the petals, as if they are crying silently.

Waves of severe pain accompanied by a dizzying feeling forced the girl to hold onto the windowsill to maintain her balance.

She was breathing rapidly, and her hair, which had been tied into an elegant bun, was now a little disheveled. The jade hairpin in her hair was crooked, as if it would fall off at any time.

"It hurts so much."

She spoke with some self-mockery, her soft and gentle voice containing a distressing hoarseness.

In order to prevent Wang Rui's secret connection from being discovered by Mrs. Wang of Uehara, Xie Lingwan forced him to sign an ironclad agreement with embedded sentences, which caused great trauma and burden to her mentally.

Even though she had extremely strong mental strength and a high talent for the Five Elements, and had even broken through to the Xunwei Realm of the Fourth Level of the Five Elements yesterday, she still could not sign this iron rule without any negative effects.

Xie Lingwan was like this, if an ordinary person signed this iron rule, he would probably bleed from all seven orifices and explode to death on the spot.

The Xie family of Chen County has not been good at practicing since ancient times. The family members have only retained the minimum cultivation requirements to be able to sign the golden and iron rules. It is conceivable why the ancestors of the Xie family avoided this kind of golden and iron rules like the plague.

Xie Lingwan took out a handkerchief and elegantly wiped away the trace of blood that flowed from the corner of her mouth.

As the eldest daughter of the Chenjun Xie family, she inherited the realism and selfishness in the Xie family's bones.

Xie Lingwan has always been the one who cherishes her life the most and rarely abuses her body.

But recently she has frequently broken this tradition that she has always adhered to.

why?

The girl asked herself silently in her heart.

"Because I don't have time."

she said softly.

The girl looked at the glaring bloodstain on the handkerchief, a little dazed.

The handkerchief looked a little worn. The originally moon-white fabric had turned slightly yellow, the fabric at the corners was a little curled up, and the rose pattern embroidered in the center was a little blurry.

People who are familiar with Xie Lingwan know that it is basically impossible for this young lady, who is extremely picky about her quality of life, to allow such a thing to appear around her.

She would even throw away the bathtub she had used once and replace it with a new one, not to mention small items like handkerchiefs that she carried with her.

There is only one reason why she keeps carrying this old handkerchief:

This was given to her by Fang Weihan.

Xie Lingwan's mind was filled with thoughts, and she unconsciously recalled the first time she and Fang Weihan met.

As the richest family in the world, the living environment of the children of the Chenjun Xie family is naturally quite good.

But this living environment only includes material aspects, not spiritual ones.

The existence of the iron rule makes every member of the Xie family naturally defensive towards the people around them.

This defense doesn't change no matter how old you are.

Kid, if you kill someone, does that not count as murder?

Society can tolerate the existence of something like a novice protection period, but the Xie family of Chen County cannot tolerate it.

She had been bound by her family's strict requirements of being a noble lady since she was a child, and was always on guard against the people around her, everyone except her parents and grandfather.

After all, she was born in the Xie family of Chen County, a noble family with the least human touch.

No one's heart is born cold.

The girl was once as nimble as a butterfly, trying to show kindness to the people around her.

But it was ruthlessly blocked.

She couldn't understand why her brothers and sisters looked at her with wary eyes.

Even if someone is willing to talk to me, they will be quickly taken away by adults.

She threw herself into her mother's arms feeling very aggrieved and cried to her about her confusion and doubts.

"Wanwan, don't talk too much with others. The more you talk, the more weaknesses you will reveal."

Mother told her.

My mother was the eldest daughter of the Zhou family in Runan. Her marriage to Xie Tao was a family marriage and there was no affection between them.

"Thank you family, eating is done in silence, plotting is done in silence, and even killing is done in silence. You will slowly understand when you grow up..."

"It's my mother who's sorry for you..."

The mother held the young Xie Lingwan in her arms, her voice choked with sobs.

Not long after, my mother died of depression.

On the day she died, her husband, her own father Xie Tao, did not shed a single tear, and there was no sign of sadness on his face.

This is the norm for the Xie family of Chenjun.

"Mom, you forgot to tell me that even funerals are silent."

From that day on, the butterfly in the girl's heart died.

She tried to learn the way people around her spoke and to integrate into this silent family.

With her intelligence and talent, she did it, and did it better than anyone else. She also successfully won the special treatment of her grandfather, the patriarch Xie Mingren, and became the most beloved person of this generation in the Xie family.

Xie Lingwan originally thought that life would go on peacefully like this, and that she would eventually become a person like Xie Mingren, inheriting the Xie family's foundation and leading the family forward.

But sometimes fate arranges things that you can't imagine.

When she was twelve years old, a small episode occurred in the girl's life.

At that time, Shi Dongliu, the president of Qinghuo Academy and the "imperial tutor", opened a private school in the inner city of Changming at the invitation of Emperor Fang Zun and Zhongshu Ling Wang Tun, specializing in educating the children of aristocratic families on how to behave.

It can be seen that the emperor and the Secretariat wanted the heirs of the aristocratic families and the royal family to get to know each other first so that they could form closer ties in the future.

Xie Lingwan was just the right age, so she was also on the admission list.

She didn't know that this incident would change her life.

Xie Lingwan hated all the children of aristocratic families from the bottom of her heart. She hated their hypocrisy and their pretense, even though she would communicate with them with a perfect smile, even though...

She herself is one of them.

Just as her father taught her, she accepted all the goodwill from the children of the noble families without hesitation, and at the same time she maneuvered among them flexibly and tried her best to complete the tasks assigned to her by the family.

Although she didn't want to talk to these people at all.

Xie Lingwan looked at the group of children from aristocratic families gathered together, talking and laughing, and she couldn't help feeling ironic.

"Look, they are laughing so happily, like butterflies."

The girl laughed inwardly.

"Butterflies are destined not to live long."

"What a poor bunch of people."

She turned away, not intending to join in their conversation.

Too childish.

The girl thought.

"You are so childish!"

Xie Lingwan blinked, feeling somewhat confused.

I didn't say anything either?

She turned around and saw a little boy squeezed out of the crowd and shouted at them.