I just wanted to cultivate immortality, but I was forced to open a harem

Mr. Yukinoshita was puzzled.

Yukino is his proud daughter, beautiful, pure, intelligent, independent... Mr. Yukinoshita does not think that all the compliments in the world are excessive when applied to his daughter.

However, for a top wealthy family like the Kamo family, do their young masters need beautiful women?

Even if they like Yukino's looks, her sister Haruno is just as beautiful as anyone else, and her personality is more suitable for being a wealthy lady than Yukino's. However, the Kamo family is dismissive and insists on having Yukino.

Things were back to square one and at a stalemate. The three of them sat facing each other in silence, at a loss as to what to do.

……

On this side, Yukinoshita Yukino rushed out of the room and stumbled to the lobby.

She felt inexplicably sad and miserable, and her face was filled with panic. She was like an abandoned stray cat, not knowing where to go.

She grew up in a traditional family. Her mother was very strict and had very high expectations of her and her sisters.

Her mother was terrible, but her father was a daughter slave, always looking at her kindly, touching her head, and granting her every request.

Unfortunately, my father was very busy with work and my mother didn't like me acting like a spoiled brat in front of him all the time. Gradually, a sad and thick barrier developed between father and daughter.

As for her elder sister, Yukino liked and admired her very much when she was a child, and always followed her like a follower.

However, she didn't know since when, her sister's character began to become very bad, and she enjoyed teasing and playing tricks on her.

Those jokes that seemed harmless to her sister were seen as a violation of her self-esteem and independent personality by Yukino, who was gradually awakening her self-awareness.

Later, in her heart, her sister became the most terrifying existence second only to her mother, and just hearing her voice made her irritated.

Not to mention that her parents valued her sister and ignored her. This different treatment hit Yukino's sensitive heart even harder.

So, Yukino became an outsider in the Yukinoshita family.

She thought that she would leave this family sooner or later as her parents let her do whatever she wanted, but she didn't expect that she would be sold out by them through an arranged marriage.

"I shouldn't have any expectations of them, but I always long for their love and understanding, but in the end I only got this... I am such a fool!"

Tears flowed down like pearls that had broken off the string, falling to the ground and shattering.

Yukinoshita Yukino sobbed suppressedly, and her heart suddenly became dead. She just wanted to jump off the high rooftop and end it all.

"Here, for you." Someone next to me handed over a pack of tissues.

Yukinoshita Yukino looked up and found that it was this guy Hayashi Kazuma.

Damn it, he actually saw me at my most embarrassing side.

Yukinoshita Yukino took the tissue and wiped her face vigorously. The feeling of shame and anger surged up, but it made her feel less uncomfortable.

"Why are you here? Where are your aunt and girlfriend?" Yukinoshita Yukino pretended to be calm.

"We went out to play," Lin Hezhen shrugged. "We said we wanted to see the night view of Sapporo, so we took Mai with us. I want to emphasize again that Mai is my sister, not my girlfriend."

"Hmph, let's just assume that's the case for now. Then why don't you come along?"

Lin Hezhen raised his hands in surrender and said, "Go shopping with a woman? Spare me. I would rather run ten kilometers in a snowy day wearing only a short-sleeved T-shirt than wandering around the streets with a woman carrying a lot of bags."

"Is shopping so painful?" Yukinoshita Yukino was a little surprised.

"Shouldn't you just think about what you want to buy in advance, then go directly to the store, choose the style you like, pay the bill and go home?"

After hearing her words, Lin Hezhen's impression of Yukinoshita Yukino changed a lot. This woman does have her merits.

"It would be nice if Murakami Maki was as decisive as you. Unfortunately, she is a real woman, and she really just shop when she goes shopping. She goes into every store to look around, tries on every piece of clothing she likes, then finds out a lot of faults, and finally doesn't buy anything. It's good if she can buy 3 or 4 pieces a day."

Hearing his description, Yukinoshita Yukino was also a little frightened.

She put her hand on her forehead and said, "What an inefficient waste. What's the point of shopping? To kill time? I have never gone shopping with friends, so I can't comment, but if this is the daily routine of a normal woman, then I respectfully decline."

Lin Hezhen laughed and said, "Yukinoshita, you finally admitted that you have no friends. Were you excluded at the party, so you hid here to lick your wounds secretly?"

Xue No sighed, "If that were the case, I would have hit back hard at those guys who resorted to trickery. Unfortunately, the trouble I got into this time was much bigger than that."

"Really? If you don't mind, can you tell me about it?" Lin Hezhen's eyes moved and his gaze fell on the small bronze mirror worn around Yukinoshita's neck.

Chapter 76 Yukino decides to cancel the engagement

Looking at the other person's sincere eyes, Yukinoshita Yukino's grievances that had been suppressed in her heart seemed to have found an outlet, and she just wanted to let it out.

But no, that's not the right way to do it!

Lin Hezhen was just an outsider, and confiding in him was of no use other than giving himself some psychological comfort.

If he became indignant and caused trouble for his parents or the Kamo family, things would become even worse. Yukino didn't want an innocent person to be hurt because of her personal affairs.

No matter what difficulties, dangers, swords, wind and frost she faced, Yukinoshita Yukino always survived alone. This is her persistence and her pride.

This time, there will be no exception.

She decided to solve the problem herself and try to find Kamo Yu or the person in charge of the Kamo family to discuss the cancellation of the engagement.

If you can't solve it...

She looked at the night view outside the window and sighed softly.

No one really cares about you anyway, right?

After coming to her senses, Yukinoshita Yukino had regained her usual calm demeanor.

She said calmly, "Thank you for your concern, Lin, but if you think you can win a girl's favor by giving her some inspirational speeches when she's crying, then I advise you to give up as soon as possible."

Lin Hezhen smiled: "You adjusted yourself so quickly, you are worthy of being Yukinoshita. However, I don't want to win your favor, but I want to understand your unfortunate experience and make myself happy."

"You're taking pleasure in other people's misfortunes? You have such a bad taste. I didn't realize you were such a lowly person. You're simply unworthy of being human."

Lin Hezhen said nonchalantly, "If you were scolded by the same person every day for a month, you would also wish her bad luck."

"Hmph, that's the thinking of a weakling. If it were me, I would be more inclined to refute her head-on." Yukino said confidently.

Lin Hezhen nodded: "This answer is very much in your style, but some people won't listen to reason with you. Rather than convincing people with reason, they prefer to convince them with force."

"Let them try. My motto is 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' For those who like to use violence, violence is the right way to deal with violence."

"It's a pity that they don't appear in the form of individual combat, but form gangs and collude with each other to form huge interest groups, entrenched above the heads of ordinary people, like dark clouds covering the sky and blocking out the sunlight."

Lin Hezhen's words were suggestive, and Yukinoshita Yukino frowned when she heard them.

"You have something else in your words."

"What I meant is that Ms. Yukinoshita's strength alone is not enough to compete with it."

Lin Hezhen guessed that Yukino's trouble should be related to the Onmyojis of the island country.

He had always been wondering how the Unsmiling Cat could erase people's memories of Mai Sakurajima on such a large scale with his limited abilities.

Now, when he saw the small bronze mirror on Yukinoshita Yukino's neck, he discovered a clue.

The aura of this bronze mirror is somewhat similar to the aura of an ancient cedar.

Now that I think about it, there must be a powerful magical weapon of high level hidden in the ancient cedar. The Unsmiling Cat and Mai accidentally triggered its power, which caused the anomaly that interfered with reality on a large scale.

The aura was extremely hidden, and the Unsmiling Cat didn't notice it at all. And if he hadn't presided over the ceremony of correcting reality with Gushan as the center, he probably wouldn't have noticed it either.

Later, when Lin Hezhen went to the ancient cedar again, the ancient cedar had withered and died, and the strange smell was gone.

Lin Hezhen guessed that it must have been taken away by the Onmyoji.

After Sakurajima Mai recovered, he thought the incident ended there, but he didn't expect that the incident with Kamo Ayame happened again, and items of the same origin appeared on Yukinoshita's body.

Thinking about the Kamo family's style of doing things, Lin Hezhen guessed that the Onmyoji of the island country were probably of similar character. If an ordinary person like Yukinoshita went against them, he would definitely suffer the consequences.

Yukinoshita Yukino frowned and said stubbornly, "How do you know I can't compete with it if you haven't tried it?"

She was still too naive and didn't know how dark the Kamo family's methods were.

Her parents and sister protected her too well, making her think that the intrigues she encountered in school and life were all the evil in the world.

Yukinoshita Yukino is just an ordinary person, so Lin Kazuma can't explain in detail and can only give some advice.

"In short, if you encounter a problem that you can't solve yourself, asking others for help is also one of the solutions. If you really have no one to turn to, come to me. Then you will find that I am much more capable than you think."

Hearing this, Yukinoshita Yukino chuckled: "Thank you for your kindness. But as you said, those huge interest groups are like dark clouds covering the sky, blocking the sun. If even I can't resist, what can you do?"

Lin Hezhen smiled.

"It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to compete with interest groups, because with the power of ordinary people, at most, a man's anger will cause blood to splatter five steps away, and the deterrent effect is really limited. However, I am not an ordinary person."

"By the way, I advise you to throw away the little thing around your neck as soon as possible. It has an ominous aura and seems to be cursed."

"I would do the same without you telling me."

Only then did Yukinoshita Yukino remember that she was still wearing the small bronze mirror given to her by the Kamo family.

"A curse? I have to say your intuition is pretty accurate."

In her opinion, the engagement with Kamo Yu was an ominous curse.

"You just said that you are not an ordinary person, what does that mean?" Yukino asked.

"If there is a chance, you will know it later. Well, I'm leaving now, take care of yourself." Lin Hezhen nodded and turned to leave.

"This guy talks like a riddle man." Yukino shook her head, "Do boys really like to act cool in front of girls?"

She still couldn't believe what Lin Hezhen said.

Glancing at the bronze mirror around her neck, Yukino took it off in disgust and wanted to throw it into the trash can.

I looked around but couldn't find it, so I could only hold it in my hand temporarily and prepare to throw it into the trash can in the room.

"In the end, I still have no choice but to go back to the room my parents booked for me." She laughed at herself.

"But this time I will never compromise or forgive!"

Yukinoshita Yukino made up her mind and, like a gladiator entering the arena, she held her head high and fought back against fate.

……

Returning to her room, she first threw the small bronze mirror into the trash can, then fell on the soft big bed and let out a sigh.

She said she wanted to cancel the engagement on her own, but she didn't even know the specific situation of the Kamo family and Kamo Ren. Everything had to start by collecting information, and she didn't have much time left.

"Getting married after graduating from high school? That only leaves a little over a year. During this year, I must find out the situation of the Kamo family, and then lobby the key people in a targeted manner, and come up with reasons that are enough to make them change their minds."

"My parents and sister are my enemies. In order to prevent them from interfering with my actions, I must move as far away from them as possible, and it would be best if I could earn my own money. Otherwise, they will use living expenses as a threat."

Yukino began to plan her own breakup.

Chapter 77: Monster Aobozu

Yukinoshita Yukino spent the whole night looking up information and made a preliminary action plan. She was so tired and sleepy that she finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell into a deep sleep on the bed.

During this time, her parents and sister came to knock on the door, but she ignored them.

She really didn't know how to face the family who "sold" her, nor did she want to face it.

She had a dream. In the dream, she found Kamo Yuu and finally cancelled the engagement after some effort. As a price, she had to pay a huge sum of money to the Kamo family.

Instead of asking her family to help her pay, she found a job and supported herself and paid the compensation with her own abilities.

She rented a small one-bedroom apartment, worked overtime every day due to her busy schedule, and her life was very hard, but she was also very happy because this was a life that truly belonged to her...

Tears wet her thick eyelashes, and Yukino felt a happiness she had never experienced before in her sleep.

The smile blooms quietly like a water lily in the night.

The evening breeze suddenly blew open the heavy curtains.

The moonlight was scattered all over the ground, like the wine brewed by the poet, accidentally spilled on the ground.

A dark shadow suddenly appeared, he entered the room quietly, stood in front of Yukino's bed with his back to the moonlight, and stared at her.

“Haha, what a pure bloodline! It’s a pity to give such excellent material to those Yin-Yang masters. Your only destiny is to return to us.”

The person who came made a hoarse voice, and turned out to be a one-eyed monk wearing green clothes and holding a wooden fish.

He took out a small gray stone from his arms and wanted to put it on Yukino's forehead.

"Don't move!" A young male voice sounded in the room.

"Who is coming?" The one-eyed monk was shocked.

With his level of cultivation, he didn't even notice when this person came to his side.

"I should be the one asking you this, youkai."