After Climbing Up from the Bottom of the Cliff, My Engagement Was Broken Off

"Have you heard? Something big happened to the Gu family of the northern lands last month!"

"No. What could have happened?"

"You still don't know? The Gu family's young master, Gu Nanxing, announced that her engagement to Pei Lian was off. From now on, they can each marry whoever they want and have nothing to do with each other."

"Pei Lian got dumped."

As a sort-of party involved, Pei Lian stopped halfway through cracking a melon seed. How could he have known? He had only just climbed up from the bottom of a cliff, and learned from a passerby that his engagement had been called off.

[Host, you should rush to the scene right now and tell Gu Nanxing, "Thirty years east of the river..."]

Pei Lian cut off the System, which had inexplicably appeared in his sea of consciousness after he fell off the cliff. In a calm voice, he stated a cruel fact: "It took me three hundred years just to climb up from the bottom of that cliff. What can I do in thirty years?"

[Host, why are you crying while you talk?]

Pei Lian declined the handkerchief a kind passerby offered and wiped away his uncontrollable tears with the frayed sleeve of his robe.

"Obviously! Wouldn't you cry if the person you loved called off your engagement?"

[Thirty years east of the river... No, three thousand years east of the river... Host, you can do this.]

Pei Lian: Thanks for trying to comfort me. It doesn't help at all.

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1. A traditional cultivation ensemble story. The cultivation stages are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Tribulation Transcendence, and Great Ascension.

2. Plot-focused, with a relatively light romance.

3. My writing isn't great, but I'm working to improve.

4. I aim to update daily. If I can't update, I'll post a notice before eleven at night.

Theme: Stay positive and keep moving forward