The Despicable Tang Hao

"Referee, you can announce the result now, right?"

After casting Tang San a disgusted glance, Zhu Zhuqing turned to the host and said coolly.

"Huh? Oh!"

The host froze for a moment before hurriedly announcing in a loud voice, "I declare the Li Mao Combination the winners!"

"Woohoo!"

The audience immediately erupted in cheers.

Amid the audience's cheers, Zhu Zhuqing slowly walked down from the arena. Ning Rongrong was waiting for her there with a smile.

Elsewhere.

Dedicated medical personnel hurriedly carried Tang San, who was badly injured and poisoned, and the unconscious Xiao Wu away on stretchers.

Zhu Zhuqing seemed to remember something. In a flash, she appeared before the unconscious Xiao Wu, looked at the five-clawed wound on her chest, and wiped it with her hand. The black aura lingering over it immediately dissipated.

And so, the matter came to an end.

Then the scene shifted, and time advanced to night.

At this moment, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong walked shoulder to shoulder out of Soto Grand Soul Arena, chatting and laughing.

They looked up at the sky.

The night was not pleasant tonight. Dark clouds blanketed the heavens.

Neither stars nor moon could be seen.

Zhu Zhuqing suddenly frowned. Seeing this, Ning Rongrong asked, "Zhuqing, what's wrong? Did you leave something inside?"

"No, it's nothing."

Zhu Zhuqing shook her head, then suddenly said, "I just remembered I have some personal business to attend to. Rong Rong, you should head back first."

"Personal business? All right, then."

Ning Rongrong reluctantly waved goodbye to her, turned around, and gradually disappeared into the distance.

As Zhu Zhuqing watched Ning Rongrong's retreating figure, her expression gradually turned cold. Then, without saying a word, she turned and walked in a certain direction.

Comments from the Live Stream Room drifted across at just the right moment.

Huh, what's going on?

Why did her expression change the moment Ning Rongrong left?

Did something happen?

Something's off...

Everyone was confused.

Even Zhu Zhuqing herself, as the person involved, did not understand what was wrong with her.

Why had she deliberately sent Ning Rongrong away?

But as the video continued, everyone soon learned the reason.

In the video.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Zhu Zhuqing transformed into a black shadow and darted through the city like lightning. It seemed as though she was avoiding something.

Soon, when she arrived in a relatively secluded area, she suddenly stopped.

Because a black figure stood ahead, blocking her path.

At that moment, the dark clouds obscuring the moon quietly drifted away.

Soft moonlight spilled down.

Allowing everyone in the Live Stream Room to clearly see what that black figure looked like.

The person was covered entirely in black clothing and even wore a black hood over his head. From his appearance, they could only tell that he was a tall man.

"You've been secretly watching me ever since earlier. What exactly do you want?" Zhu Zhuqing's entire body tensed. The instincts bestowed by her Martial Soul told her that this black-clothed man was extremely dangerous! His strength was absolutely beyond anything she could imagine.

By this point, everyone in the Live Stream Room understood the reason behind Zhu Zhuqing's unusual behavior earlier.

So she had sensed someone lurking in the shadows.

Yeah, she even deliberately sent Ning Rongrong away so she wouldn't get dragged into this.

This girl is pretty good. She's worth befriending.

But who exactly is this guy dressed all in black and hiding his face?

I think I might know who this person is...

No way...

Even so, he wouldn't go that far...

Moonlight Pavilion.

Unlike the others, Tang Yuehua had recognized the black-clothed man almost the instant he appeared as her second brother, whom she had not seen for many years. At the same time, after connecting the cause and effect with the previously revealed footage, she vaguely began to suspect the boy's identity.

Ah, Hao, after all these years, why have you fallen so low? Tang Yuehua sighed inwardly, feeling as though some illusion had shattered.

Tang Hao's actions were simply far, far too different from the indomitable second brother she remembered.

Since when had the mighty Clear Sky Douluo fallen so low as to pick a fight with a little girl?

What's more, it had been an open and honest battle on the Soul Arena stage, not some sneak attack in the dark. You... sigh.

Shaking her head, Tang Yuehua continued watching.

In the video.

The black-clothed man, dressed from head to toe in black and wearing a hood that made it obvious at a glance that he was no good person, did not answer Zhu Zhuqing's challenge. Instead, he said to himself, "The boy you injured on the Soul Arena stage today is my son. I've been an unfit father and hardly cared for him since he was young..."

"You came here over that?"

Zhu Zhuqing impatiently cut off his monologue and said icily, "On the Soul Arena stage, Soul Skills have no eyes. If you're afraid of getting hurt, then why go onstage at all?"

"What do you want? Say it plainly!"

She had already realized that this night would not end peacefully.

After all, since this guy was shameless enough to bully the young with his seniority, nothing she said would likely make any difference.

"..."

The black-clothed man paused. Clearly, he had not expected the girl before him to be completely unafraid of him. She even dared to question him in return.

Shameless, absolutely shameless!

This black-clothed man was far too shameless!

His son lost on the Soul Arena stage, so he came to trouble a little girl?

A person like this was destined to amount to nothing...

Pah! Disgusting!

A stream of comments filled with disdain for the black-clothed man flashed past.

Tang Hao, as the person involved, watched with his face alternating between green and white. He wanted to curse at them, but held himself back. Upon careful reflection, he could actually understand what he had done in the video. Tang San had obviously been seriously injured. It was far more than a minor wound.

His son had been beaten up. Would it make sense for a father not to stand up for him?

Especially since Tang Hao had spent these years wallowing in despair, raising Tang San in a negligent, hands-off manner from childhood, simply letting things fall apart. It was only after Tang San's Martial Soul awakened that he regained hope. Because of that, he had always felt guilty toward his son and wanted to find ways to make it up to him.

Now that he saw his son so badly injured, he naturally could not accept it.

Therefore, Tang Hao was not surprised that his future self would go looking for trouble with Zhu Zhuqing. Given his temperament, he really might do such a thing. As for bullying the young being disgraceful and lacking a strong person's pride... on the day his wife sacrificed herself, the once peerless Tang Hao had died along with her.

All that remained now was a crippled body barely clinging to life.

What was wrong with bullying someone younger just once to vent his son's anger?

In the video.

The black-clothed man was clearly rendered speechless by Zhu Zhuqing's reasonable words. Only after a while did he say, "Getting injured during a spar on the Soul Arena stage is unavoidable. But you're so young, yet you strike with such viciousness. My son nearly lost his life." As he said this, he recalled Tang San's wounds and the poison covering his body. If he had not received treatment in time, then perhaps...

The girl before him did not look very old, yet she had acted with such viciousness. If his son had not been lucky enough to avoid his vital areas, he might already have... At that thought, the black-clothed man's anger suddenly flared!