[White World, Spirit Hall]
[Little Bibi Dong stood frozen on the spot.]
[No one had ever said these things to her...]
[Never!]
[In Spirit Hall, she was the lofty Saintess!]
[Even Qian Xunji, the Teacher she respected most, had only ever kept telling her:]
["Dong'er, you need to cultivate faster and grow stronger. You are the glory of Spirit Hall."]
[Yet no one had ever asked whether she was in pain, nor had anyone seen through the suffering hidden behind her splendor.]
["Then what should I do?"]
[Bibi Dong's proud defenses completely crumbled.]
[At that moment, she cast off the Saintess's mask and was merely a helpless little girl.]
[Yu Xiaotian stopped before her, his gaze softening.]
[He extended a fair hand and gently touched Bibi Dong's brow.]
[A gentle, vast aura of the Golden Sacred Dragon flowed in.]
[In an instant, it soothed the turmoil in her meridians and dispersed that cold, sinister aura.]
["Slow down. Haste makes waste."]
["Your talent is no less than that of the Angel Clan, perhaps even greater than your Teacher's. You don't need to prove anything to anyone."]
["You are the one and only genius in this world!"]
[Yu Xiaotian withdrew his hand and spoke words that pierced straight through her soul.]
["I don't want to see a Saintess who twists herself into a monster for the sake of power."]
["I look forward to the day when an incomparable girl can stand shoulder to shoulder with me and look down upon this continent."]
[Whoosh—]
[A breeze swept through the garden, carrying countless fallen blossoms through the air.]
[Bibi Dong stared blankly at the boy before her.]
[Her heart pounded fiercely with a feeling she had never experienced before.]
[The narrow worldview Qian Xunji had instilled in her—"only power matters," "devote yourself to Spirit Hall"—]
[was shattered in an instant!]
[For the first time, someone expected her to become a better version of herself, rather than some so-called Pope Bibi Dong!]
[The boy stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm.]
[The girl's red lips parted slightly, her eyes glittering like stars.]
When they saw this scene on the Sky Screen,
people from both worlds erupted. They were practically a golden boy and jade girl.
White World.
"Oh my..."
Golden Crocodile Douluo looked at the Sky Screen.
He could not help clutching his chest.
Not because it hurt, but because the saccharine sweetness was too much to bear.
He looked at Qian Xunji, his tone full of teasing.
"Look at that, will you! Look at that!"
"What do you call this? This is vision! This is skill!"
"Your disciple got her heart stolen right in your own Herb Garden, and you're still sitting there drinking tea?"
"Who were you drinking tea with? That old fox Yu Yuanzhen!"
"His father distracted you, and his son ran off with your disciple!"
"You got cleaned out and didn't even know it!"
Qian Xunji's face had turned a sickly dark green.
He was furious.
Back then, he had been chatting merrily with Yu Yuanzhen.
He had even thought the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was nothing special.
But what happened?
That little thief, Yu Xiaotian,
right in front of him, on his own turf,
not only pointed out a cultivation problem that he, the Teacher, had failed to notice,
but also painted his disciple a grand vision!
Most importantly, Bibi Dong had actually believed him!
And she had really achieved it!
"Stand shoulder to shoulder and look down upon the continent..."
Qian Xunji gritted his teeth.
"How old was that brat back then? He knew how to flirt at that age?"
"And he was so good at it? Was he some kind of monster?!"
Qian Xunji felt like he had suffered a tremendous loss.
The Saintess he had painstakingly raised
had been lured away just like that!
Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
The entire clan was in an uproar.
The younger disciples stared at the Sky Screen.
Every one of them was flushed with excitement, their eyes filled with admiration.
"That's so cool! Seriously, so cool!"
"A real man should be like that!"
"Not only is he powerful, his skills with women are straight out of a textbook!"
"A few words, and the Saintess was completely devoted to him!"
"If I had even a tenth of Senior Yu Xiaotian's ability, why would I worry about not finding a girlfriend? Why would I worry about not conquering the world?"
Some of the older youths were even more ashamed, wishing they could crawl into a crack in the ground.
"Look at him. At eight years old, he was already discussing life, ideals, and the future with a future empress."
"What about us? At eight, we were still playing in the mud! We've really lived our lives like dogs!"
Yu Yuanzhen was currently sitting with one leg crossed over the other.
He stroked his chin proudly.
That smug expression could not be hidden at all.
"Hmph, that old fool Qian Xunji wanted to put on airs as the Pope in front of me back then."
"So what if we drank tea? So what if we chatted?"
"My son had already taken everything he had!"
"What is this called? This is winning before the battle even begins!"
"This round, my son Xiaotian won completely!"
Beside him, Bibi Dong looked at the Sky Screen, her gaze dreamy and a smile on her lips.
"Looking back on that time now, I still find it so shocking."
Her voice was so gentle it seemed to drip with tenderness.
There was none of the empress's usual majesty in it.
"We were obviously the same age, so why could you always think more deeply and see further ahead?"
"Back then, I felt that you had come to save me!"
Though Yu Xiaotian felt a little embarrassed inside,
he remained as steady as ever on the surface.
"Well, it was me, after all."
But inwardly, he was secretly delighted.
Of course! If a transmigrator isn't awesome, then who is?
Yu Xiaogang, seated beside them, watched the two of them being so lovey-dovey.
He went completely numb.
"Who am I? Where am I? Why am I sitting here being tortured like this?"
Black World.
Shrek Academy.
Ning Rongrong's eyes sparkled with little stars.
"Wow! That's so romantic!"
"This is the beginning of a perfect love story!"
"Childhood sweethearts, choosing each other, saving each other!"
"It's got a story, it's fun, and it's so exciting! I want a boyfriend like that too!"
Zhu Zhuqing, who had always been cold and aloof beside her,
also revealed deep envy in her eyes.
She glanced at Dai Mubai, and an indescribable disappointment rose within her.
"Is this the difference?"
"When faced with hardship, Dai Mubai chose to run away here and drown himself in pleasure."
"But Yu Xiaotian could always calmly carve out a path forward."
"Not only was he strong, he also knew how to respect and guide others."
Zhu Zhuqing's resolve hardened. She knew that her fate was in her own hands.
As for Oscar and Ma Hongjun,
their mouths were wide enough to fit an egg inside.
"I've learned something! I've really learned something!"
"This is the highest realm of wooing women!"
"No need for flowers, no need to grovel. Just win them over directly on the level of the soul!"
Even Flender, the usually shrewd and mercenary headmaster,
had a complicated look in his eyes.
He thought once more of his stubborn old brother, Yu Xiaogang.
"Sigh... though I don't want to admit it."
"But that world's Bibi Dong had clear eyes and a genuine smile."
"She didn't go mad because someone held her back."
"Perhaps Yu Xiaotian and Bibi Dong being together in that world truly was the better ending."
"Yu Xiaotian is simply too perfect—so perfect that no one even has the strength to envy him."
Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong stared fixedly at the golden boy and jade girl on the Sky Screen.
That scene was too beautiful.
So beautiful that it hurt her eyes and wrenched her heart with pain.
"If someone had seen through my pain back then,"
"would my life have been completely different?"
She had a powerful premonition.
That other version of herself from the Parallel World would absolutely never fall for that world's Yu Xiaogang again.
Hu Liena, her disciple who had been reporting to her,
looked at her Teacher's complicated, unreadable expression and barely dared to breathe.
But inside, she was muttering frantically.
"Oh my God, that Senior Yu Xiaotian from the Parallel World is far too perfect!"
"This is what a true perfect match looks like!"
"Teacher from the Parallel World and that Limit Douluo standing together are simply a match made in heaven!"
"And then there's that Master Yu Xiaogang. Not only is he weak, he gets utterly crushed in emotional intelligence too."
"What exactly did Teacher see in him back then?"
"Her taste in men really isn't very good."
Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
The atmosphere was awkward to the extreme.
Yu Xiaogang stood in the center of the main hall.
He felt the elders' gazes stabbing into him like needles.
An elder said,
"Bibi Dong has Twin Martial Souls and is also the Pope. At such a high position, perhaps she lacks love deep down."
"If you go to her now, even if you lower your head a little, even if you play up your misery, you might be able to win her back!"
Yu Xiaogang trembled with rage.
His fists clenched until they cracked.
Humiliation!
Utter humiliation!
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