Douluo: This Legend of the Dragon King is not quite right

Chapter 452 Yun Ming is the one who has changed the most.

“However, I wasn’t the first to notice something was wrong.” Leng Yaozhu paused. “Guan Yue felt the same way as me.”

"We talked privately a few times and gradually discovered that the beginning of this change seemed to be when everyone was guided by the academy to choose to worship or even believe in the sea god Tang San without reservation."

Her tone became more certain:

“It was from that time that many people changed. And Yun Ming… he was the one who changed the most.”

Leng Yaozhu's voice was filled with regret and disappointment:
"Yun Ming in the past, although proud, was upright and had a broad mind. He was like a chivalrous knight who upheld justice. With his towering spear, he acted according to his own principles and bottom line. You could even say that he had a rare childlike heart."

“But after he became a believer in the Sea God, he changed.” Her voice lowered. “He became somewhat… petty and narrow-minded. For the so-called Shrek glory, he could become unscrupulous and reckless.”

"Moreover... he became flirtatious and gentle to everyone, yet indecisive, no longer as sincere and honest as before."

"He seemed to have silently attracted the hearts of almost all the outstanding girls in his class, yet he went his own way, enjoying the feeling of being pursued, but in the end... he always rejected their feelings in the cruelest way."

Hearing this, Lu Jun roughly understood.

He looked at Leng Yaozhu and asked softly:
"So, teacher, you..."

"I do not have."

Leng Yaozhu immediately shook her head, her tone tinged with relief and lingering fear.

"After discussing with Guan Yue and confirming the root cause of this change, I felt a strange fear and rejection."

"I began to consciously distance myself from Yun Ming, and also from Shrek Academy, where the atmosphere was becoming increasingly strange."

"I'm a little better off than my sister; at least I managed to graduate from the inner courtyard."

She paused, her tone suddenly becoming complicated, tinged with sarcasm and disgust.

"But what I found even more absurd and disgusting was that on the day I graduated and left school, Yun Ming... he actually came to find me."

Lu Jun's heart skipped a beat. According to the original plot he knew, it was probably on this day that Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai, the sisters, became complete enemies because of Yun Ming.

The younger sister was jealous of her older sister and hated her even more for secretly confessing her feelings to Yun Ming behind her back, even though she knew the older sister liked Yun Ming.

The older sister might still harbor a sliver of hope... She confessed her feelings to Yun Ming, but after being rejected, she told him to treat her younger sister better, and if possible, to give her another place in his heart, even if it was just a small one...

All misunderstandings stem from the parties involved being enigmatic and failing to provide clear explanations.

This led to the two sisters becoming bitter enemies.

Thinking of this, Lu Junqiang suppressed his urge to complain about this melodramatic plot and continued to listen attentively.

Leng Yaozhu's voice carried an incredulous tone, as if she still found the whole thing utterly absurd:
“That guy Yun Ming… he actually asked me to my face, ‘Leng Yaozhu, don’t you like me? Why are you always avoiding me and staying away from me?’”

"..."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jun's lips twitched involuntarily.

what the hell!

This cloud of darkness...

Wasn't the original work portraying him as a pure love warrior who was deeply devoted and only loved Yali?
How could someone utter such standard lines, almost like a king fishing?
This is so different from the Yun Ming he remembered!
Leng Yaozhu continued, her tone filled with detachment and unfamiliarity: "When I looked at his still handsome face, brimming with confidence, or even arrogance, I felt an unprecedented sense of alienation."

"He seems to think that because he is so dazzling, all girls must have feelings for him."

"He also seemed to enjoy the feeling of being admired and pursued by many outstanding women, and enjoyed rejecting them in a seemingly helpless but actually cruel way when they confessed their feelings to him... thereby gaining a kind of distorted psychological satisfaction."

Her voice trembled slightly as she buried her face deeper into her knees:
“Whether it was Cai Yue’er… or several other outstanding girls at the time… almost all of them had experienced something like this, and were treated like this by him.”

"Fortunately, my sister and I both became wary after noticing the problem with the atmosphere at Shrek Academy, and ultimately chose to leave, thus avoiding being caught in the trap."

"Otherwise, I really can't imagine what would happen..."

Hearing this, Lu Jun's curiosity grew even stronger, and he couldn't help but ask:
"So... what was your answer to him back then, teacher?"

As soon as the question popped into Lu Jun's mind, an indescribable feeling of nausea surged up.

He found it hard to reconcile the Yun Ming in the original work, who was depicted as a pure-love war god who was only devoted to the Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li, with the Yun Ming described by Leng Yaozhu, who was a womanizer who enjoyed being pursued but cruelly rejected others.

Since they claim to be in a pure love relationship, they should be single-minded and maintain clear boundaries with other members of the opposite sex.

This ambiguity, constantly sending the wrong signals, isn't it just deliberately giving people illusions and opportunities?
Yun Ming is undoubtedly a typical example of this, portraying himself as a deeply affectionate person while behaving like a playboy.

To say that all the outstanding women of his time were infatuated with him is absurd to the point of being bizarre, as if everyone had been forcibly de-intelligented and possessed by a love-struck mind.

Lu Jun secretly curled his lip.

Although his relationships with others are not exactly clean, with complicated entanglements with Gu Yuena, Leng Yulai, Di Yue, and even the current Ice Emperor, he has never tried to portray himself as someone of pure love.

He admits that he may be a little greedy, but he treats everyone who is sincere to him with the same sincerity and responsibility, and will never be hypocritical or play with feelings.

He maintained clear boundaries with other women, giving them no chance for misunderstanding, making it impossible for a situation like that of the Yunming era, where all women were so infatuated with him that they lost their minds, to occur.

That's not charm at all; it's more like some kind of...coercive psychological influence?

Or rather, it is a deformed product of the blind worship atmosphere of Shrek Academy?
Otherwise, it would be a bit too absurd if all the women only liked Yun Ming.

No matter how outstanding a man is, this situation should not occur.

As Xu Xiaoyan, who sees things most clearly and lives most wisely, herself said:

There are many kinds of people in this world. Some people are born to be the goal to be pursued, like the stars in the sky, and you just need to try to get closer to them; others are meant to be the idols to be worshipped, and you just need to admire them from a distance.

Just as Lu Jun's thoughts were churning, he saw Leng Yaozhu slowly raise her face.

Those phoenix eyes, usually majestic and wise, gleaming with a fiery light, were now veiled with a misty haze, carrying a deep self-mockery and a weariness that came from shedding all pretense.

What was my answer to him?

She gently repeated Lu Jun's question, a bitter smile curving her lips, as if the scene from that day was still vivid in her mind.

"When I looked at him, at Yun Ming, who had once stirred my heart during my teenage years but had now become so unfamiliar and even somewhat repulsive, all I felt was a chilling disappointment, and even... a trace of fear."

(End of this chapter)