"So you're Rook, the guy who got chased so hard he lost his pants!"
"Shut up, you… Everyone, don't listen to his nonsense. That absolutely never happened."
Celeste Grant listened quietly to their gossip, finding it thoroughly entertaining.
She was all too familiar with these topics. This trope was running rampant in cultivation dramas. She was already desensitized to the endless love tribulations that popped up at a moment's notice.
Killing one's wife to prove the Dao, killing one's husband to prove the Dao, undergoing a love tribulation—these were all plot points she thought only existed in melodramatic cultivation novels. 'So they have them here in the Cultivation World too,' she thought. 'I guess art really does imitate life.'
Just as she was lost in thought, she saw Yvonne Sawyer and Victor Rhodes boarding the ship.
Once aboard, Victor Rhodes had the timid expression of a new bride meeting the in-laws, leaving the onlookers completely stunned.
