CRAAACKK…
The sound of something cracking seemed to fill the battling platform.
Everyone from Qingxuan Academy felt like they could hear the sound of their worldview falling apart right now.
This person here… was she still that weak and infatuated eldest daughter of the Yun family?
Where did these poisonous words come from? One sentence alone was enough to make someone else cough violently and puke blood.
"Why, you!" Su Ling was so angry that she couldn't get a word out. Her expression was livid as she yelled back, "Yun Qingyan, you'd better admit defeat now! Otherwise, I'm not going to let you off!"
"If you have so much time to bark, you might as well take the time to run around here naked!" Yun Qingyan casually dug her ears as a naughty smile spread across her lips. The whip in her hands cleverly flew across once again.
PAK PAK PAK!
It was followed by a few crisp sounds.
The thin dress on Su Ling couldn't take the battering of the whip anymore and fell off Su Ling in pieces.
A large amount of fair skin was immediately exposed. Her bright red embroidered peony bodice was incredibly eye-catching, and the two mounds of flesh proudly sticking out in front was enough to make anybody's blood rush through their bodies.
All eyes were on Su Ling like the spectators had turned into hungry wolves and tigers, and she felt like their gazes were burning her skin.
Even though Beian Nation ranked its citizens according to their level of martial arts, a woman's reputation was extremely important too, especially since Su Ling was from a powerful family.
The more revered a family was, the more they were concerned over reputation.
She was finished! Everything was ruined!
Su Ling's expression became threatening and looked like she was going to skin Yun Qingyan alive. "Yun Qingyan! You will die terribly one day!"
"I don't need you to worry about that. The evil person lives a long life after all." Yun Qingyan lazily curled her lips up. Her smile was slightly malicious and mostly cheeky.
The spectators were speechless…
Who would call themselves an evil person like that?
Had Yun Qingyan completely lost her mind?
But just as Yun Qingyan was about to lift that whip again, Su Ling finally learned her lesson this time.
Before Yun Qingyan could dislocate her jaw again, Su Ling quickly cried out, "I admit defeat!"
"Tsk! How boring." Yun Qingyan flung the whip back to Su Ling and dusted her hands off as she made her way off the platform.
Her black eyes scanned the nosy onlookers below the platform with a strange smile on her face.
As she scanned the crowd, anybody who met her gaze would immediately shrink back as if she was some sea monster of sorts.
The crowd quietly parted to make way for her to walk through.
She looked a complete mess and was bloodied from all the whipping earlier. But she walked on like a pine tree standing strong in the cold winter winds, proud and uncompromising.
When she walked past Baili Qingxue, Yun Qingyan stopped in her footsteps.
She hadn't forgotten that the original owner of this body was having a showdown with Su Ling precisely because of this man.
She went to a duel over a man who didn't have her in his heart at all… TSK.
"I won," Yun Qingyan said very seriously and emphasized on her words after her gaze swept across the stiff faced Lin Wanyue to finally land on Baili Qingxue himself.
"Qingxue is…" Lin Wanyue stood beside him and clutched her handkerchief tightly as she tried to say something.
But Yun Qingyan's sudden ferocious glare made her stop speaking immediately as a shout blasted in her ears, "Shut up!"
The rest of what Lin Wanyue wanted to say got stuck in her throat like that. It couldn't come out and she had trouble swallowing them back down, so her face turned all red. She had to maintain her gentle image, so she couldn't start screaming away at Yun Qingyan either.
Baili Qingxue frowned slightly and was about to speak when the clear voice of Yun Qingyan cut him off without warning.
"Don't worry, I'm not asking you to take any responsibility, neither am I asking you to marry me." Yun Qingyan waved her hands about as her eyes twinkled and she smiled like an innocent little girl. But those eyes were filled with deep mocking and great contempt.
"I won't harass you anymore," said the young lady with a bright smile and a cheery voice, as if she was just asking him if he had eaten.
A very strange and unknown feeling started to fill Baili Qingxue's heart. He felt like he couldn't bear to part with her, but it also felt like something else. Either way, it made it difficult for him to breathe.
Yun Qingyan observed Baili Qingxue's expression and she snorted in her heart. She raised her chin proudly and said arrogantly, "Today, you couldn't care less about me. Tomorrow, I'm going to become too good for you!"
"Baili Qingxue, I'll see you at the Battle of the Elementalists in a year!"
(P.S.: The original owner of the Yun Qingyan's body and the current owner were a soul that was split apart, but they're actually the same person. So now the two parts of the same soul have combined, it's not a possession of the body by someone else.)