Living Off a Woman

"Put this flower away carefully. Find a suitable time to consume and refine it. Our feelings don't need anything to prove them. You must understand that raising your strength as quickly as possible is what matters most. Having lived another life, I'm sure you know that your current situation isn't as safe as it appears. I don't want to see anything happen to you."

"Mm."

If Lin Hanye had already died, Bibi Dong would never have been willing to part with it. But things were different now.

To protect Little Linzi from being hurt again, she had to become stronger as quickly as possible.

"Little Linzi, what are your plans going forward?"

Although she dearly wanted to bring Lin Hanye back to Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong knew that would be no different from sending him to his death. No matter how careful the two of them were, there was no guarantee that the truth would not come to light one day.

After all, that beast in human skin of a teacher would never allow her to fall in love with another man.

"I plan to first find a group of like-minded companions, then prepare to establish a Soul Master Guild in the future."

Lin Hanye immediately explained his idea of founding a Soul Master Guild.

However, he did not say it was for himself. Instead, he said it was to protect Bibi Dong, to benefit the countless people of Douluo Continent, and to help commoner Soul Masters like themselves.

Sure enough, upon hearing of Lin Hanye's lofty "ambitions," Bibi Dong revealed an even more starry-eyed expression than Liu Erlong had before.

"Then you sought out Liu Erlong and Shao Xin to establish the Soul Master Guild as well?"

Bibi Dong felt secretly delighted. If Lin Hanye had not traveled the continent with Liu Erlong because he liked her, then perhaps Liu Erlong was not as hateful or deserving of death as she had imagined.

"Mm. And Erlong isn't as closely connected to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as you think. In fact, like you and me, she's someone with a bitter fate."

Lin Hanye nodded and told her about Liu Erlong's experiences.

Bibi Dong had previously only known that Liu Erlong was Yu Luomian's Illegitimate Daughter, raised outside the family. She had not known that Liu Erlong and her mother had been "abandoned" by that scumbag.

After learning of Liu Erlong's past, Bibi Dong felt much more relieved.

Of course, more importantly, she could hear Lin Hanye's concern for Liu Erlong in his words.

Otherwise, if it had been someone else, no matter how many people died, she would not have felt anything at all.

"Little Linzi, establishing a Soul Master Guild will be far more difficult than we imagine. I'm only the Saintess now, and Qian Xunji still sends people to watch me from time to time, so I can't offer you much help. This is my savings, a little over two million Gold Soul Coins in total. There are also these Immortal Herbs I picked from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. In addition, inside the Soul Tool containing the Immortal Herbs is a piece of Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue I prepared for you. I believe it can be of some help to you."

As Bibi Dong spoke, she took out a Gold Card from her Soul Tool and removed the Soul Tool at her waist that could store living creatures.

This girl... Lin Hanye was deeply moved. For a long while, he could not say a word. Unable to bear deceiving this pure-hearted woman any longer, he said seriously, "The road ahead of me is destined to be rough and uncertain. Perhaps for certain reasons, I won't be faithful to you alone. Can you still love someone like me?"

"No matter what the future brings, no matter how the world changes, no matter how you change, I will stay by your side and accompany you. For you, I am willing to do anything, regardless of whether it is right or wrong."

Bibi Dong hugged Lin Hanye and leaned into his arms, wishing that things could remain this way forever.

Once the love in her heart was unleashed, it was like a dam bursting—impossible to stop.

As for Lin Hanye saying that he would not be faithful to her alone, she instinctively assumed that he was forcing himself, for her sake and for the sake of the many impoverished people and commoner Soul Masters of Douluo Continent, to associate with women he did not like in order to rapidly expand the Soul Master Guild.

Lin Hanye held Bibi Dong, gently stroking her smooth Wine Red Long Hair as he inhaled her faint, elegant fragrance. He couldn't help sighing inwardly. What a foolish woman.

He had no doubt that if he asked her to assassinate Qian Xunji right now, she would agree. Love-struck women needed nothing else; all they needed was love.

Aside from being somewhat clingy, they were perfect in every other way before the person they loved.

Just as Lin Hanye had said before—no matter if everyone says you are wrong, I will still believe you are right. Perhaps the world needs reason, but I will always favor you. You are my entire life.

Those words could not have described Bibi Dong more aptly.

Once she fell in love with someone, she simply would not care what kind of person he was. Even if he were trash, even if he sought fame and reputation, even if he held double standards, even if he turned around and fell in love with other women, she would silently devote herself to him. Even if the whole world abandoned him, she never would.

In the Original Work, such a woman had been ruthlessly abandoned by Gangzi, merely because, under Qian Xunji's coercion, she had said, "I was only with you for your theories, to use you."

It was simply laughable to the extreme.

He really had no self-awareness.

Little did he know that his pitiful theories had only been obtained from Spirit Hall's Library Pavilion through Bibi Dong.

Afterward, he claimed to despise Bibi Dong, yet turned around and exploited her indulgence toward him to act recklessly. Whether it was using the Papal Decree Tang Hao gave him to impersonate a Spirit Hall elder, or defying the Pope during the Soul Master Tournament, either offense alone was enough to get him killed hundreds or thousands of times.

He truly was the worst of the worst.

Yet Bibi Dong had never hated such a man. All that was left was endless longing and love.

She had even ordered the destruction of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the clan that had once humiliated him so deeply, so that he could openly be with her Cousin.

Perhaps Bibi Dong was not a good person in others' eyes, but anyone could condemn her—except Yu Xiaogang.

Forget it. Let me take a woman like this. Yu Xiaogang should go become Prison Xiaogang instead. That bastard couldn't handle her. Lin Hanye inhaled the fragrance between Bibi Dong's hair and held her tighter. "Lovesick Heartbreak Red can assist cultivation. You can first refine this Narcissus Jade Bone, then consume Lovesick Heartbreak Red after breaking through to Soul Emperor. That way, the effects of both Immortal Herbs can be brought out to the fullest."

As he spoke, Lin Hanye reluctantly released Bibi Dong, then took the whale glue and the other Immortal Herbs from her Soul Tool and stored them in his own Soul Tool. Finally, he returned the storage pouch containing the Narcissus Jade Bone to Bibi Dong.

"Mm."

Naturally, Bibi Dong readily agreed to whatever Lin Hanye said. How did that saying go?

When you fall in love with someone, you become the humblest one, terrified of not doing well enough, cautious about everything, until you are covered in wounds. Bibi Dong was more or less in that state now.

Fortunately, Lin Hanye had never intended to hurt Bibi Dong from beginning to end, and he truly did want what was best for her.

So she had not entrusted herself to the wrong person.

The two remained in the tea house's private room until late. Only when it was time for the Spirit Hall Team's evening spirit battle did Bibi Dong have no choice but to return.

Late at night, at the mouth of an alley in the Rich District of Gengxin City.

Lin Hanye looked at the familiar, resentful figure before him, unsure of how to begin.

PS: Second Update.