Wrong! Why Are You Going to a Hotel?

"It's you..."

"It really is you."

Xiao Wu's face was full of excitement.

"The one and only."

Ignoring Tang San's expression, as though he wanted to eat him alive, Tang Wulin smiled and answered.

"Wulin, where have you been all these years? Is this old gentleman with you your teacher?"

"Ever since you got your First Soul Ring and left, I never saw you come back. Did something else happen back then? Otherwise, you wouldn't have stayed away the whole time."

The excitement on Xiao Wu's face was plain to see. She could no longer contain her feelings, and the words tumbled out.

"..."

Beside them, Tang San clenched his teeth so hard he nearly broke his molars.

No matter how he tried to strike up a conversation with Xiao Wu, she either stubbornly ignored him or told him to get lost. She never acted with him the way she did with Tang Wulin!

"This isn't my teacher. You can call him Elder Jin. He's a senior responsible for protecting me. I've been doing very well these past two years. I just couldn't get away from my cultivation, so I didn't come back."

"Elder Jin, this is Xiao Wu, a good friend of mine from before I left Nuoding City. She's a genius too."

Tang Wulin made the introductions with a smile.

"As for what happened..."

"If I'm not mistaken, your companion here should be Yu Xiaogang's disciple, Tang San. I think he knows very well."

As he spoke, he changed the subject and looked at Tang San, a meaningful expression on his face.

"You..."

"Tang Wulin, it's been so many years. That's all in the past. Why bring it up again?"

Hearing Tang Wulin mention it made Tang San, who was already seething, even angrier. How many years had it been, and he was still bringing it up?

His teacher had indeed been a little wrong to abandon Tang Wulin back then, but faced with a powerful thousand-year Soul Beast, how could they possibly have turned the tables and killed it? Were they all supposed to die instead?!

Couldn't Tang Wulin be a little more magnanimous?

Besides, leaving the facts aside, Tang Wulin had kept defying his teacher back then, which was why they had gone in different directions. Could he really have been blameless?

"In the past?"

"It's not in the past yet."

Hearing that, Tang Wulin sneered.

In his plans, it would indeed be over soon, but at least for now, as long as Yu Xiaogang was still alive...

It wasn't over.

"Tang Wulin, you..."

"Tang San, I'm talking to Wulin right now. It's not your place to speak."

Just as Tang San was about to say something else, Xiao Wu gave him a cold look and spoke bluntly.

"I..."

Tang San gritted his teeth and could only stand there in silence, like a mutated wooden dummy. Only his eyes were full of killing intent. This Tang Wulin had truly had a way to death long ago!

"Anyway, Wulin, the way you've changed these past few years..."

"You've really changed so much."

Xiao Wu turned her gaze back to Tang Wulin and couldn't help marveling.

Now that she knew who he was, she was no longer reserved and openly sized him up.

He was extraordinarily handsome. At a glance, he looked like a man of consummate, perfect good looks, and a closer look only left her more amazed.

Wulin really had changed so much compared to six years ago. He had gone from a cute little boy to a thoroughly handsome young man. If not for his distinctive bearing, she would have had a hard time recognizing him.

"Do I look good?"

Seeing how intently she was looking at him, Tang Wulin fell silent for a moment, then asked with a smile.

"You do."

Xiao Wu answered instinctively and raised her head to look into his eyes. But at that very moment, her little face turned red. With their eyes meeting, she turned her head away in embarrassment.

She seemed to have been staring a little too directly!

"Ahem, ahem, Wulin, since you've been reunited with your friend, I won't stay here as a third wheel."

Watching the scene, Golden Crocodile Douluo had clearly realized something. After saying that with a chuckle, he immediately left and became a guard in the shadows.

He wasn't just leaving them time together. There was a deeper meaning to it... damn it, he was already so old and still single. Did he really have to eat dog food in front of the younger generation?!

"Elder Jin just left like that..."

Watching the old man disappear, Xiao Wu's first reaction was surprise. He was so impressive—he had to be a Soul Saint!

Her second thought was that he was giving them time alone together in Suotuo City!

"Mm..."

"Maybe he thought having him around would make us feel pressured. He is a Soul Douluo, after all."

Tang Wulin smiled faintly and answered.

"A Soul Douluo!"

At those words, Xiao Wu and Tang San were both stunned.

"So he's a Soul Douluo. That's amazing..."

For a moment, Xiao Wu wore a strained smile, but inwardly she let out a long sigh of relief. Luckily, he was a Soul Douluo. If he had been a Titled Douluo...

Forget seeing Wulin—she would probably have been finished in an instant!

Tang San's reaction was even more exaggerated than hers.

"A Soul Douluo! A powerful expert assigned to protect him is a Soul Douluo. Doesn't that mean Tang Wulin's teacher has to be a Titled Douluo?!"

At that moment, Tang San couldn't help being shocked. How had Tang Wulin found such a good teacher?! His own teacher, on the other hand, was just a good-for-noth...

"No, how can I question my teacher?!"

Tang San quickly dismissed the thought. A teacher for a day was a father for life; his teacher was half a father to him.

Not to mention that when he had no food or blankets, it had been his teacher who provided them. He could never question his teacher!

"Wulin, this is my first time in Suotuo City. How about we look around together?"

Just then, Xiao Wu suddenly thought of something. Her eyes lit up, and she made the suggestion.

"Of course."

Naturally, Tang Wulin didn't refuse. He nodded with a smile.

Then, under Tang San's fixed stare, the two headed into the distance, leaving him alone.

"Wulin, look! Isn't this bag pretty?"

"Hmm? This new little bag is quite a bit bigger than the old one, so it can hold more. Did you make this one too?"

"Mm-hmm, hehe, pretty, isn't it?"

"It's quite pretty. What about the old one?"

"?"

"Wulin, you're so strange. Of course I put the old one away. I made it myself, after all. It's not as if I'd sell it, is it?"

"Oh, right, Wulin, I came this time to check out a school called Shrek. I hear they only accept monsters. Want to come along?"

"Sure. I was planning to check it out too."

"Oh, yay!"

Watching Tang Wulin and Xiao Wu walk away, Tang San could still faintly hear them talking and laughing. His face was terribly dark.

His heart was bleeding.

He had originally thought that by coming to Suotuo City with her and entering an academy with high-level Soul Masters, he could dispel Xiao Wu's poor impression of his teacher...

Besides, they were the only two people there who knew each other, so as they spent time together, they were bound to grow closer. Who would have thought...

"I, Tang San, swear that in this life, I will not live under the same sky as you, Tang Wulin!"

Tang San let out a helpless growl, then looked in the direction the two had gone and followed them. He wanted to see just what they were going to do.

"Something's wrong."

At last, Tang San stared at the hotel before him, his eyes slowly widening. Th-this was?

"Rose Hotel..."

"This is actually a hotel!"

The hotel didn't look particularly large, but its exterior was decorated entirely in rose red, like an enormous rose, a sight that easily caught the eye.

Tang San's eyes were as wide as copper bells. No matter how little he knew about this kind of hotel, he could tell at a glance that something was wrong.

"No—"

"Xiao Wu—"

PS: I'm very sorry. Something happened at home today and delayed the update. Our old family home caught fire because of old electrical appliances...

Everything burned down. There's nothing left at our old home...