Ling Luochеn

As he wrote, he got carried away without meaning to.

He had meant to write about Gangzi, but ended up writing about Shrek's three phantom gods instead.

He still had Xiao Wu to write about after that.

To keep himself from getting too carried away with his diary and letting his personal feelings show too clearly, Shen Yichen decided to take a little break.

He opened the chat group. It was time to hang out and remind everyone he was there.

As soon as he entered, he saw Chang Wei (Du Busi) beating up Lai Fu (the Soul Engineer) in the group.

[Du Busi: Villain! You must be overjoyed to see something happen to Shrek's main team. With this chance, you might even be able to take the soul tool tournament championship!]

[Du Busi: Oh, no, that's not right. Fortune is on Yuhao's side. Even if he brings the reserve team, your Sun Moon Empire still won't be able to win!]

[Soul Engineer: Sect Master Du, you've misunderstood me. I've always loved peace...]

[Du Busi: The Sun Moon Empire has the ambitions of a wolf, and everyone knows it!]

Shen Yichen skimmed through the chat history and realized, somewhat awkwardly, that he hadn't concealed either of Xuan Zi's two outrageous blunders, wanting his teacher to understand how serious the matter was. As a result, Sister Lexuan seemed to have been caught in his AOE attack...

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: Right. Shrek may be no good, but the Sun Moon Empire is no better!]

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: On that point, Sect Master Du and I are heroes of like mind.]

The corner of Du Busi's mouth twitched. When the boy needed him, he called him Sect Master Du, but when he didn't, he called him Old Undying, was that it?

[Soul Engineer: Great Sage, your misunderstanding of our Sun Moon Empire still runs too deep.]

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: First off, let me make this clear, I'm not racist. Second... I heard your Sun Moon Empire's nobles have pitch-black skin?]

[Soul Engineer: Uh, that's true. However, quite a few nobles have fair, clear skin.]

Jing Hongchen glanced at himself instinctively. Though he was old, he wasn't black.

Compared with the Sun Moon Empire's traditional nobles, who were either black or white, his complexion was closer to those from the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: Guns and cannons have no eyes, and you can't speak the same language as the black brothers.]

Honestly, there was nothing wrong with the Sun Moon Empire launching a campaign to unify the continent, as far as the progress of history and civilization went.

Sun and Moon together made Ming, and Shen Yichen was rather fond of the empire's name.

But there was no helping it. You couldn't speak the same language as the black brothers.

Even if he had to wear the label of someone who hindered the progress of human civilization, he couldn't possibly let the Sun Moon Empire unify the continent!

The thought bothered him too much.

[Soul Engineer: Great Sage, isn't it a little too arrogant to decide whom you like and dislike based solely on skin color?]

[Great Sage Equal to Heaven: You're a black brother too? See, I told you, you can't speak the same language as the black brothers.]

[Du Busi: Hahahahaha!!!]

This was the best Du Busi had felt in the several days since he got the Diary.

After teasing and disgusting the Soul Engineer, Shen Yichen went back to writing his diary.

This time, however, he kept an eye on the group chat as he wrote, creating the illusion that he was still chatting with them.

He had finished writing about Yu Xiaogang, so it was time for Xiao Wu.

There wasn't much to write about Xiao Wu, that hundred-thousand-year-old rabbit.

Things like sharing a bed and a pillow, or "Are you afraid I'll r*pe you?"

There was no need at all to write about how many litters the hundred-thousand-year-old rabbit had borne, as the netizens in his previous life had speculated.

It had nothing to do with him anyway. Whatever!

Of course, if Third Brother did something to annoy him in the future, he wouldn't mind writing about that kind of thing specifically to disgust him.

That said, among all the female supporting characters in the first part of Douluo Continent, there weren't many Shen Yichen felt nothing for. There were only two: Xiao Wu and Huo Wu.

Of course, that was excluding old ladies like Chao Tianxiang.

(P.S. I'm telling you, Chao Tianxiang only gets richer and more mellow with age. Anyone get me? Dog-head-to-save-my-life.jpg.)

After rambling about this and that for a couple of lines, he finished today's diary entry.

The reward was another increase to his attributes.

Though he hadn't tried it, he figured that with his current attributes across the board, he wouldn't need to rely on Indestructible Diamond Body to outlast Bei Bei and win.

The snowball had slowly begun to roll.

"Hey, little one, come down!"

"Hm?"

Shen Yichen stood up, planted his feet on the head of Yu Xiaogang's statue, and peered down.

At Yu Xiaogang's feet, a girl with long, straight black hair was waving at him.

The girl had a cool, aloof bearing and fair arms. Seen from above, she looked like a princess.

Only the Shrek uniform she wore rather spoiled the view.

He had just finished his diary anyway, so Shen Yichen decided not to keep hogging this treasure land of good feng shui.

With a light hop, he leaped from the statue's head.

He had intended to land steadily, but to his surprise, the young girl beneath the statue opened her arms and swiftly scooped him into her embrace.

"Hm?" Shen Yichen blinked. Was this... right?

"Phew..." The girl set Shen Yichen on the ground and gently pinched his little face. "I told you to come down, but I didn't tell you to jump down right away. That was too dangerous!"

Shen Yichen looked up and gauged the statue's height. True, it was over ten meters tall, and it really was dangerous for a child to jump down from it.

But he wasn't an ordinary child, was he?

"Did you grow up in Shrek City? Did you see that Shrek Academy was destroyed a few days ago and sneak in to have a look around?"

Shrek was destroyed?

Oh, right!

I remember now. I was the one who did it!

I was wondering why it took so long for someone to show up while I was on Yu Xiaogang's head. So the students and teachers were all on break.

Still, the quality of these ten statues at the entrance is really quite good. They came through the Golden Cudgel's bombardment without a scratch!

If I'd known, I'd have given this area some special attention back then.

Shen Yichen had been living on Sea God Island all along and really hadn't paid much attention to the Outer Court.

"Good thing I saw you. If it had been a teacher instead, you'd be in trouble."

"Oh, then... thank you, big sister?"

"What, are you a little reluctant to thank me?" The girl put a hand on each of Shen Yichen's cheeks and gently kneaded them.

"Mm, no, no."

The girl's fingers were slender and cool to the touch. Even though she was kneading his cheeks, it felt oddly comfortable...

Of course, the main reason was that the girl was pretty. Men were visual creatures, after all~

"My name is Shen Yichen. I live in Shrek City. What about you, big sister?"

Well, who said Sea God Island wasn't part of Shrek City?

"Ling Luochеn, a third-year student at Shrek Outer Court."

Ling Luochеn?!!

Oh~~~

Shen Yichen tilted his little head up and studied the girl closely. Just as he thought, there weren't that many wild beauties in the world.

But in the original story, wasn't Ling Luochеn an ice-cold beauty?

This pretty big sister didn't seem icy at all.

"Little one, do you want to come to Shrek Academy someday?"

"Uh, yes!"

"Then call me senior sister!"

"Senior sister?"

"Yes!" The corners of Ling Luochеn's mouth curled up, giving her the sly, impish look of a little fox. "Come on, senior sister will show you around Shrek Academy."

As it turned out, women were visual creatures too.

Even an ice-cold beauty wouldn't be cold to everyone.