The Clever Yu Xiaogang: This Plan Cannot Fail

"What do you mean, 'us'?"

"It's not like you've never seen us before."

Xiao Wu glared at Tang San and tossed those words over her shoulder without looking back. Then she headed for the dormitory, taking the equally bewildered Tang Wulin with her.

"Wulin, I didn't expect him to leave just then!"

"I'll give it back to him right now."

Xiao Wu was in a good mood. She had been worrying about how to return the bedding to him, but now that he had left, wasn't this perfect?

"You..."

Tang Wulin was taken aback too. He hadn't expected Xiao Wu to grab him so readily. But before he could let go, another voice, even more surprising, rang out in his mind:

[Congratulations to the host for successfully holding hands with Xiao Wu]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining: 100,000 Gold Soul Coins]

[The reward has been sent to the system space]

[Note: the host may withdraw it at any time. The system space can store all nonliving things]

[Please continue interacting with the goddess to receive more milestone rewards]

"You... call this holding hands?"

"But even this earns a reward?"

Surprise showed on Tang Wulin's face, though he was even more surprised to have received a reward. So even this could earn him one.

And this time it was Gold Soul Coins—a full hundred thousand of them.

Perhaps a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins meant little to members of great clans, but that was already the combined annual income of all the ordinary people in Nuoding City. To him as he was now, it was an astronomical sum.

The money Grandpa Jack had given him when he came to the academy, the savings he had put aside for Wulin to get a wife, amounted to less than half a Gold Soul Coin.

I was going to spend Grandpa's money during my first few days at the academy, then collect the stipend after becoming a Soul Master and take it back to him. I never expected...

I'd come into a windfall thanks to Xiao Wu.

Tang Wulin was deeply surprised. As he let go, he couldn't help taking another look at the girl before him. He hadn't expected Xiao Wu to be a lucky star.

"Wang Sheng, later, tell that Tang San the dorm auntie picked up this quilt earlier..."

"Yes, Sister Xiao Wu."

"Hey, Wulin, what are you looking at?"

Beside him, Xiao Wu had just folded the bedding and placed it on the floor. She tilted her head, a puzzled look on her face.

"Nothing."

"I was just wondering what to eat later."

Tang Wulin quickly looked away and shook his head with a smile, making up an excuse.

"Huh? How about steamed radish, stewed radish, boiled radish, and braised radish?"

The moment Xiao Wu heard about food, she made her suggestion.

"..."

Tang Wulin said nothing. In his opinion, none of those were as good as spicy rabbit head, but he couldn't very well say that in front of this rabbit.

"Come on, Wulin!"

"It's time to go out and spend some money!"

As the saying went, strangers at first, familiar the second time. Xiao Wu grabbed his arm again and headed out of the dormitory with him, speaking with a smile.

"Xiao Wu, have you heard that men and women shouldn't touch each other casually?"

"Oh, come on, I'm not afraid. Don't tell me you are? I just wasn't paying attention..."

Tang Wulin pulled free and looked at the thoroughly serious Xiao Wu with a helpless expression.

She really was an open-minded little rabbit.

"Teacher, he wasn't willing to come see you."

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Tang San had arrived at Yu Xiaogang's office and told him the truth about Tang Wulin.

"Still unwilling to come?"

Yu Xiaogang paused, unable to keep himself from murmuring.

"Yes, Teacher."

"Even though I grew up in the same village as him, I never thought he'd be so disrespectful to his teacher and elders. Your concern for him was wasted."

Tang San looked thoroughly displeased. Since Tang Wulin refused to acknowledge his teacher, Tang San thought he would amount to nothing more in his entire life. Even with his so-called genius talent, he was really nothing special.

"All right, I understand."

"Xiao San, go back and rest."

Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang sighed as well and waved a hand. He had made his disciple come all this way for nothing.

"Um, Teacher..."

"I might have to ask you for another set of bedding."

Tang San spoke somewhat awkwardly, looking embarrassed. His teacher had given him his own bedding, yet he had failed to protect it...

"Hmm?"

"There's plenty more in the cupboard. Just take a set."

Yu Xiaogang paid it no mind. He pointed to the cupboard in his office as he spoke.

"Yes, Teacher."

Only then did Tang San smile and answer. He stepped forward and opened the cupboard, only to see many sets of bedding stacked inside. He couldn't help feeling puzzled.

How...

Does Teacher have so many sets of bedding?

He picked up a set at random, murmuring to himself. Perhaps it was because his teacher liked quilts!

After Tang San returned with the bedding, he looked at the quilt lying on the dormitory floor, bewilderment flashing in his eyes.

"The quilt's back?"

Tang San frowned in confusion.

"Hey, you, Tang San."

"Earlier, when you passed out, the quilt was lying on the floor with nobody claiming it, so the dorm auntie picked it up. Sister Xiao Wu just got it back."

Wang Sheng spoke as Xiao Wu had instructed him.

"..."

Tang San paused, but a gleam appeared in his eyes. Xiao Wu was a girl's name. Was it the girl from before?

He hadn't expected her to be so nice...

"Mm, I see."

"I'll thank her when she comes back."

Tang San spoke with a smile.

"You..."

Wang Sheng was speechless. Sister Xiao Wu was right—this Tang San really was a fool.

"Ah, this Tang Wulin is really stubborn..."

Meanwhile, after his disciple left, Yu Xiaogang sat alone in his office, at a loss. Innate Full Soul Power was something that appeared only once in a hundred years, and Tang Wulin's Martial Soul was an unprecedented, top-tier dragon Martial Soul.

Why was he so stubborn?

As the Grandmaster's disciple, his future path would be bright all the way. Did he really have to refuse him?

Just then, someone knocked on the door.

"Come in."

"Grandmaster, Tang Wulin has asked me to hunt a Soul Ring for him. The dean will be coming too, and we've set the date for ten days from now."

"Your disciple has Innate Full Soul Power too. Why not come along?"

Director Su entered and looked toward Yu Xiaogang. Smiling, he explained his plan.

After all, with the man's cultivation, to put it nicely, he was a Soul Grandmaster expert on the same level as a Spirit Hall deacon. But to put it bluntly...

As a disciple of a great clan, he had been showered with resources since childhood, yet this was all the strength he had. He truly was trash among trash.

If he really went to hunt a Soul Ring for Tang San, even hunting one from a Soul Beast that was only a hundred years old would be fine, as long as he didn't get the boy killed along with him.

"That couldn't be better..."

"Let me thank you and the dean in advance, Director Su."

Yu Xiaogang's eyes lit up. He had been worrying about Xiao San's First Soul Ring, and now someone had come to help him.

"It's all for the children. It's only right."

Director Su smiled and shook his head. With that, he left Yu Xiaogang's office. A genius with Innate Full Soul Power had the potential to become a Titled Douluo, and would be a Soul Douluo at worst.

Befriending such a genius would be something worth boasting about when he grew old. He had also asked the girl named Xiao Wu whether she wanted to come, but unfortunately...

"With them doing the hunting..."

"I won't have to worry about the possibility of things going wrong."

After Director Su left, Yu Xiaogang let out a laugh and spoke in a good mood. Dean Fakes was a rank 38 Soul Elder.

With Director Su, another Soul Elder, there as well, he could leave both Xiao San's First Soul Ring and Second Soul Ring to the two of them. As for Yu Xiaogang himself...

Although he was a rank 29 Soul Grandmaster, his Luo Sanpao was only the equivalent of an ordinary Hundred-Year Soul Beast. He was far too weak.

"Unfortunately, if Tang Wulin learns that the dean is a Soul Elder and I'm only a Soul Grandmaster, won't he be even less willing..."

He couldn't help sighing as he spoke.

"Wait!"

But at that very moment, Yu Xiaogang suddenly thought of something. His eyes lit up, and an idea took shape in his mind.

If Tang Wulin met stronger Soul Masters, he would naturally look down on him even more. In that case, all he had to do was make sure Tang Wulin never met anyone stronger than him before taking him as his teacher!

Whatever else might be said, he was still a Soul Grandmaster!

He couldn't fool the genius disciples of a great clan, but fooling a small-village villager like Tang San was so easy anyone with hands could do it!

"Hahaha..."

At that thought, Yu Xiaogang sprang to his feet. His somewhat hunched back straightened at that moment.

"I, the Grandmaster, cannot fail with this plan!"

"..."

Back in Dorm Seven, Tang Wulin looked at Xiao Wu, who was eating snacks, a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Wulin, what are you looking at me for?"

"Do you want some too?"

Xiao Wu stopped eating her potato chips and held out the whole bag to him. Come to think of it, he was the one who had bought them.

"No, I'm just curious..."

"Are you sure the Spirit Hall deacon who awakened your Martial Soul is going to take you to hunt a Soul Ring?"

Tang Wulin fell silent, but couldn't help asking.

"Yeah! Why wouldn't he? I—I'm a genius with Innate Full Soul Power..."

Xiao Wu blinked rapidly and spoke without thinking. If she didn't use that excuse, she would have to go with him, and wouldn't that expose her?

A bunny still had to protect herself.

"Oh, all right, all right. If you won't eat chips, I can give you a radish instead, okay?"

"..."