Chapter 4: Into Long Aotian’s World, Day 4

Chapter 4: The Fourth Day of Transmigrating into a Long Aotian World

An Yi raised an eyebrow and squinted at Huang Chan.

Glancing around, he saw that everyone’s expressions mirrored Huang Chan's from moments ago—still wearing expressions of cheap, hypocritical pity and schadenfreude, as if collectively afflicted with selective blindness.

An Yi had no idea how to even begin complaining.

Still, analyzing the situation, since he had transmigrated into a novel world, it made sense that people were blinded by the plot's influence and turned a blind eye to reality... right?

The power of the plot... was both domineering and absurd.

And based on Huang Chan's reaction, the plot's hold wasn't too strong.

A simple reminder could snap him out of it.

Of course, it might also have something to do with them being "villains" in the story.

But for now, it was all just speculation.

Just then, a woman’s voice rang out loud and clear across the banquet hall.

"Break off the engagement! I’m breaking off the engagement today!"

An Yi focused his gaze—sure enough, it was Yang Sisi.

Huang Chan instantly forgot his earlier doubt, his eyes gleaming with excitement. Rubbing his hands together with glee, he grabbed An Yi and dragged him toward the commotion.

He had to get a front-row seat for this drama!!

An Yi stumbled from being yanked, twitching at the corner of his mouth, and was passively pulled by Huang Chan to the very front of the crowd.

The banquet hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

At that moment, everyone attending the banquet had undisguised shock on their faces, as if they never expected something like this to happen. How interesting—everyone’s eyes were filled with barely concealed curiosity and excitement.

To be honest, An Yi was shocked too.

For Yang Sisi to storm into her fiancé’s elder’s birthday party and make a scene about breaking off the engagement—besides being an idiot, he couldn’t think of any other explanation.

Even if she got her wish today and broke it off, no, she *would* break it off today, but after the banquet, she would definitely face consequences.

Stupid beyond belief!

Standing in the middle of the banquet hall, Du Guyuan’s face was gloomy, dark enough to drip with water!

The rest of the Du family looked equally grim, as if they’d all been painted with cheap black paint.

An Yi: "Ooh~ Yang Sisi is in for it~"

He remembered in the original plot, Yang Sisi had done exactly this, and her fate wasn’t much better than An Yi’s or Huang Chan’s.

The only difference was between dying horribly or dying slightly less horribly.

Du Guyuan stared deeply at Yang Sisi, a cold, cruel, textbook-villain "bloodthirsty" smile slowly curling at the corner of his mouth. "Ha! Fine! Very fine!!"

"You want to break off the engagement with me?"

Yang Sisi, like a proud peacock, held her head high and looked down at him with a gaze that screamed "garbage." "Of course I want to break it off. Look at yourself—what part of you is worthy of me?"

"The man I will marry must be the most outstanding in the world, like... hmph~"

As she spoke, a hint of coyness even appeared on Yang Sisi’s face.

An Yi: ...

Fucking legendary!!

Du Guyuan’s face looked terrible; he felt the sting of being cuckolded on a grand scale.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Don’t regret this!!"

He didn’t care about Yang Sisi at all—he cared about his own face. Though in others’ eyes, he didn’t have much face to begin with.

But since she dared to do this, he would make sure she didn’t get away with it!!!

Du Guyuan swore in his heart: *Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west—don’t bully a young man in poverty!!*

He would make Yang Sisi pay for today’s stupidity!! A hundredfold repayment for today’s humiliation!!

Upon hearing his words, Yang Sisi’s expression grew even more disdainful. "Regret? Hahaha~"

"Regret breaking off the engagement with you?"

"That day will never come!!"

Yang Sisi wanted to twist the knife in a few more times, but was cut off by a furious roar.

"Enough!!" Du Guting’s face was like stone as he stepped forward, his gaze sharp as a blade.

"Miss Yang, since you look down on the Du family so much, then this engagement ends here!"

"I will personally visit your esteemed parents to inform them!"

Yang Sisi’s arrogant momentum faltered, a barely perceptible twitch at the corner of her mouth.

But she said nothing, held her noble head high, and turned to leave!

An Yi rubbed his forehead. This utterly stupid, utterly ridiculous engagement cancellation was happening right before his eyes.

Absolutely baffling!!

Beside him, Huang Chan didn’t share the same gleeful expression as everyone else. Instead, he stood frozen, saying to An Yi, "I feel like something’s off."

An Yi reached out and patted his head, looking at him with pity. "Congratulations, you finally grew a brain."

Around them, hushed murmurs of discussion began.

Du Guting, an old fox indeed—he's got skill—kept his expression unchanged and loudly announced for the guests to continue enjoying the banquet, as if it were just a minor entertainment.

An Yi nodded to himself. "An old fox indeed—he's got skill."

Du Guyuan seemed to say something to Du Guting. Du Guting shot him a vicious glare and, as if to ignore him, waved him off to leave.

Just as Du Guyuan took his first step out of the venue, An Yi froze in place.

Beside him, Huang Chan’s confused rambling didn’t even register.

At that moment, his ears were filled with a deafening noise!

It was as if thousands of out-of-control, frantic ducks were shouting through loudspeakers right next to his ears, turning into sharp needles stabbing into his brain.

His head felt like it was splitting with pain!

Those shouts seemed like someone was yelling something excitedly, causing An Yi to step back two steps involuntarily, almost losing his balance!

Huang Chan beside him was startled and quickly reached out to steady him: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

"I told you something was off with you today!"

But now An Yi was in no state to pay attention to him; the intense cacophony captivated and shattered his mind.

His throat felt constricted, and he could only scream inwardly: "Stop! Stop! Stop!"

Fortunately, as he kept wishing fervently, the noises in his ears actually began to fade gradually.

There were fewer voices.

As if some sounds were filtered out, An Yi gradually began to make out some of the words around him.

Some distinct words began to surface...

"Come on, dude... this is a bit too sloppy!"

"Is the author brain-dead?"

"Fucking hilarious! How is this even possible?"

"Did the author get his head slammed in a door?"

"Yang Sisi will definitely regret this!"

"I can already imagine what happens next: the male lead explodes, the ex-fiancée cries her eyes out, the male lead flaunts with other beauties, a classic face-slapping revenge arc after the engagement is broken."

"The author must be a single-celled organism!"

"I'm totally indifferent to this kind of plot~"

"Make waves~"

"Blitzkrieg Poland!"

"..."

An Yi's face went stiff. He pushed aside the warm water Huang Chan had handed him and said, "I'm fine, just a little tired."