Chapter 13: The Invincible Dragon’s Triumph (12)

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The dimensional livestream room has a dedicated forum for its exclusive audience.

Recently, a surge of posts about the "Dragon Overlord Breaking Off Engagement" trend suddenly appeared in the livestream room.

[Did you guys see that livestream where the engagement was broken off?]

Last night, couldn’t sleep, and suddenly noticed an unknown livestream channel rocketing onto the top of the top spender leaderboard on the homepage! You know the top spender leaderboard, right? Usually, it’s either wealthy ladies showering money on cute young guys or rich men backing beautiful women. But guess what? Last night, the number one spot was taken by a livestream featuring the Pure White Flower Saintly Mother system.

Curious, I clicked in, and my goodness—a breakup right at the start! Big scene! @Dragon Overlord System, come learn a thing or two. Stop cheating every time the lead gets slapped in the face; after a while, I’m getting visual fatigue from it.

Comment 1: Just left the livestream. One thing to say: insane, totally insane. The streamer has gone mad!

Comment 2: The Pure White Flower Saintly Mother system is supposed to be for ancient romance livestreams, right? Breaking off an engagement? What does that even mean? Did the male lead dump the female lead?

Comment 3: Bro, you’re short-sighted. It’s not the male lead breaking off the engagement! The streamer jumped in wielding a sword, knocked the male lead down with a *thump*, then slammed down the sword loudly and said, in front of everyone, that she was breaking off the engagement with him!

Comment 4: No way! Even the Phoenix Overlord system wouldn’t do that against the male lead.

Comment 5: Exactly, who dares stand against the male lead like that?

Comment 6: Don’t the romance channels usually depict male leads as incredibly powerful? Who’s going to watch a show like this?

Comment 7: Me! I’m tired of the Dragon Overlord system’s clichés. I love watching this kind of content!

Comment 8: Highly recommend! It’s more thrilling than swordplay! No system-built gods here—the streamer is the real god!

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Comment 526: Finally the day has come! I love fight scenes. The best fight scenes are in Dragon Overlord systems, but whenever a female character doesn’t submit, they just smash her face in, crushing her physically and mentally. Being female, I just can’t relate to the male lead (complicated feelings.jpg).

Comment 527: Indeed, the Pure White Flower Saintly Mother system is making a breakthrough, and the streamer they signed is so bold.

Comment 528: Pure and simple, when one person ascends, all rise.

Comment 529: Off-topic, but haven’t you heard? Some male aspiring deities are taking a different path, scrambling to play male supporting roles in female-oriented stories.

Comment 530: Of course. Many systems are buying up female scripts at high prices, taking the male lead role there with overwhelming status, then casually adding the female lead to their harem. Then other female characters are just there to be picked off at will.

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Comment 665: Why are so many male viewers so eager to watch the male lead get slapped down? I thought this thread would be a battlefield.

Comment 666: The world has long suffered from Dragon Overlord dominance! This is karmic retribution coming back—no complaint.

Comment 667: I watch whichever side has the better fights, no gender bias here.

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Comment 700: This streamer can only slap the male lead down during his childhood phase. After a few more years of development, his resources will grow exponentially.

Comment 701: The comment above is right. Many aspiring deities dare not easily humiliate the male lead because the male leads in female scripts are just too overpowered.

Comment 702: I heard the Phoenix Overlord system upgraded only after being a long-time male lead support system and accumulating enough points.

Comment 703: The priority setting in these microcosms is always the male lead; resources and fortune brainlessly pile onto him. Otherwise, if slapping the male lead down was so popular, every system would be copying it.

Lo Yuqing clicked on the next post.

[Never thought I’d see the male and female leads fight outright.]

The female lead was pounding on the male lead! The fight scene was almost as exciting as the early days of the Dragon Overlord system’s debut. Highly recommend it to anyone who loves action scenes. Also, I have never seen such a tough streamer—she actually turned off the cheat mode right before my eyes.

That beating felt so satisfying. But of course, it’s the male lead—no one had ever treated him like that before. He immediately countered by proposing a six-year agreement with the female lead. Guys, remember to tune in then!

Comment 1: I told you the Pure White Flower system likes to mislead; the flavor never changes.

Comment 2: Exactly. Other streams show the leads all lovey-dovey, either lovers or enemies with tension. But here, they’re slashing swords at each other, blood boiling—like sworn enemies meeting.

Comment 3: Amazing! When ancient romance was popular, this Pure White Flower system ruthlessly tortured everyone under the pretense of pampering. Now it’s famous for pampering by beating up the male lead, right?

Comment 4: Right on! Basically, no one gets a break in these old-school romances, male or female.

Comment 5: Could it be that the male lead just deserves a beating?

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Comment 56: How did the Pure White Flower system get a contract with such an aspiring deity? I’m curious why the Phoenix Overlord system didn’t sign her.

Comment 57: Told you, don’t be so naive. Could the Phoenix Overlord system’s script allow such antics?

Comment 58: Two tigers can’t share one mountain—Phoenix Overlord is one tiger, this ruthless aspiring deity of the cold sword path is another. Two tigers can’t both dominate the same territory.

Comment 59: So you’re saying the aspiring deity signed by Phoenix Overlord is a weakling?

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Comment 60: I advise moderation in joking, or that forty-meter-long blade won’t retract, and you’ll drown in your own words.

Comment 61: Rationally speaking, the Phoenix Overlord system probably follows the “heartthrob” route, but it does have many loyal followers. Farewell to the upstairs commenter.

Comment 62: I’ll take the kids’ table at the banquet, thanks.

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Comment 100: Off-topic, but is the sword cultivator really that terrifying? This one sword cultivator beating down the male lead in the romance world is like a dimensional crush.

Comment 101: It’s not the sword cultivator that’s scary; it’s the ruthless path of cultivation that’s terrifying!

Comment 102: Summary—no men in mind, naturally a god with the sword drawn.

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The light brain flickered softly indoors.

After browsing the forum, Lo Yuqing exhaled deeply and removed the helmet connecting her to the neural interface.

She turned her head to the window, where countless skyscrapers stood. Neon lights of dazzling colors slipped through the gaps between the towering hundred-story buildings. Brilliant blues and fierce reds intertwined on billboards buried in dense haze.

When skyscrapers block out the sky, living at higher floors becomes an exclusive privilege of the wealthy.

Her fingers, warm with faint heat, touched the icy window. The glass reflected a figure nearly 1.8 meters tall, a woman with neat short hair.

She wore a well-tailored white shirt, two buttons undone at the collar for comfort while working at home. On the right, she swept back her hair, revealing metal-shining earrings; on the left, strands hung down, partially obscuring her sharply defined profile.

Rebellious, unruly, mercurial.

This was everyone’s first impression of Lo Yuqing.

She leaned closer to the window, gazing down at the blurred red, blue, and green lights of passing cars. From nearly five hundred floors up, the city looked like a colorful mist.

Her eyes were sharp; a faint sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth before she lifted her head to look straight ahead.

Though at the highest floor of this building, there were at least ten taller skyscrapers in the city.

Lo Yuqing had earned her doctorate by thirty-five and was an academician. Graduating from the world’s top-ranked University A, she earned a multi-million annual salary at the leading tech company, Dream Technology. Now, she was one of the founders of Dawn Technology, a rapidly rising force in City A.

In the dimensional livestream room, her ID was “Stop Competing, Let’s Rest Together.”

She personally dropped nearly two hundred thousand credits to push the 888 livestream channel to the top of the top spender leaderboard.

Lo Yuqing was born into a highly advanced technological society where human lifespans reached eight hundred years, and student training cycles extended up to fifty years.

Though the tech tree was fully developed, cultural and philosophical progress lagged behind. Many top executives in tech giants were predominantly male—up to seventy-five percent.

This was closely tied to the societal education philosophy.

Most women were guided by elders to pursue liberal arts careers.

Elders believed these jobs were easier and more stable, and girls didn’t need to suffer so much. Meanwhile, tech companies demanded overtime, night shifts, and business trips, causing hair loss and skin problems.

But Lo Yuqing did not believe their nonsense.

In a tech society, academic credentials meant more than just education.

As a direct beneficiary, Lo Yuqing knew they represented power—a chance for wealth redistribution.

What she despised most about this seemingly egalitarian tech society was that females were advised from childhood to stay far from the centers of power—technology.

While elders lectured endlessly about how difficult and grueling STEM fields were and how unsuitable women were for them, reality showed this was indeed a tech society, not a humanities-driven Renaissance.

These crude, absurd, and ridiculous ideas and policies all served a clear purpose—to keep women as far away as possible from all centers of power.

Fueled by this anger, Lo Yuqing founded Dawn Technology, a company almost entirely female. Though listed only five years, its rapid growth had attracted widespread attention.

Yet Lo Yuqing was not happy.

She was shocked to find that equally outstanding women around her were tightly controlled by men in romantic relationships.

Lo Yuqing finally realized that gender inequality could not be fixed simply by education or technology, nor by slogans about equality.

She had experienced several relationships herself.

They included wealthy heirs, self-made tech elites, and handsome but backgroundless young men.

Having been through this, Lo Yuqing concluded that despite the rise of equality movements and women’s growing awareness of male oppression, the age-old notion of male dominance in relationships persisted.

First, there was male dominance in economic foundations.

Second, male dominance in the superstructure.

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Male dominance in relationships was another form of male control over women. The highest-ranking men could often control hundreds or thousands of women through this.

But women failed to realize this and merely complained about men’s bad traits.

They called men lazy, arrogant, lacking empathy, vain, and both arrogant and insecure.

Unbeknownst to them, under patriarchal thinking, once a woman tries to enter a male-dominated relationship, she has effectively made a pact with the devil.

Women exchanged beauty and understanding for the chance to marry into a higher social class—a tacitly acknowledged rule.

However, over time, men with more power refused to honor this rule. They abused their authority, imposing the law of the jungle—survival of the fittest—in the relationship.

Beauty plus understanding equals power—

Strike that.

Beautiful but powerless women—valid.

To fill this inequality, they demanded more from women, without shame.

Some women tried to break the economic male dominance but overlooked that their economic position was still subordinate to men in the superstructure.

In the end, they became stepping stones for lower-class men climbing up.

This showed that as long as the superstructure favored male dominance, it did not matter who dominated economically.

Conversely, breaking the superstructure’s male dominance required generations of women to build strong economic foundations.

After the rise of the dimensional livestream room in her tech society, certain livestreams chose wealthy, devoted STEM male leads, painting a dreamy, beautiful picture of women winning the affection of tech “straight men” through innocence and charm.

These gained massive popularity.

To Lo Yuqing, these poor girls were deceived by another colossal lie—they were attracted not to men themselves but to the power men held.

But society misleadingly equated power with men.

So women, who should have fought for power alongside men, instead withdrew and ended up competing among themselves for men.

How ridiculous!

Dealing daily with self-righteous tech straight men in the marketplace, Lo Yuqing could not tolerate any streamer focused on “conquering men.”

Her psychologist had once recommended that the best therapy for her extremism was not emptiness and mindfulness but fighting poison with poison—finding her kind in the dimensional livestream room.

One late night, after finishing work, Lo Yuqing stumbled upon a livestream channel featuring the [Pure White Flower Saintly Mother System Ruthless Sword Cultivator].

Curious under the ID [Stop Competing, Let’s Rest Together], she clicked in.

It was a newly started channel, still showing the plot synopsis. After quickly scanning the story, Lo Yuqing was stunned, as expected.

But her keen intuition told her the streamer chose this script for a reason.

She decisively signed a contract with the newcomer.

She wanted more women to see that what truly fascinated them was not powerful men.

The phrase “powerful men” itself was wrong. It should be “men’s power.”

Men are only modifiers of power.

Lo Yuqing turned her head.

On the big screen, the sword-wielding girl pressed her thin lips tightly, standing tall and poised like a sharp blade, unyielding despite the harsh winds and frost.

Yue Nianxin and Shen Xing cheered excitedly around her, while Liu Zongyu stood at the crowd’s edge, grinning but too shy to approach, awkwardly taking small steps.

Under the gaze of thousands, the girl seemed to notice and turned her head toward Lo Yuqing.

Across countless dimensions, their eyes met as if sharing a silent understanding.

The pioneer fights through with flesh and blood.

Those who come after will follow, treading the path of their predecessors to explore new frontiers.

Lo Yuqing smiled.

She had not been mistaken.

She looked forward to the day they might cross dimensions and time to meet.