Why Are You Holding On to Me?

On the other side of the sports field.

With the crisis resolved, the surrounding students began excitedly discussing the spectacle they had just witnessed.

But Xiao Wu was still immersed in the lingering fear from before.

She was about to pat her small chest to calm herself down and release that suffocating feeling.

But the moment she moved, she realized something was wrong.

Her hand seemed to have been welded to something?

Lowering her head, she looked.

Her boneless little hand was tightly wrapped in a broad and warm hand.

Not only were they holding hands—they were interlocking their fingers!

"Ah!"

Xiao Wu cried out softly and tried to pull her hand back as if she had received an electric shock.

But that large hand was incredibly strong, like iron pliers. She could not pull free at all.

The warm touch of their palms facing each other traveled all the way up her arm and burned its way to her face.

"Um..."

Xiao Wu's face was as red as a ripe apple. With her head lowered, her voice faint as a mosquito, she said:

"The crisis... the crisis is already over."

"Why are you still holding my hand?"

"Didn't you say it yourself... men and women should not touch..."

Hearing this, Lin Yuan not only refused to let go, but shamelessly squeezed that soft little hand.

He turned to look at the rabbit girl before him, who was so embarrassed she was nearly steaming, and spoke with complete confidence:

"Yes, I did say that."

"But you were the one who took my hand first."

"I'm a rather passive person. Since you held my hand, I have to see it through and protect your safety."

"Who knows whether that old monster in the sky might launch a surprise attack?"

Xiao Wu: ???

That counted as a reason?

Xiao Wu felt that Lin Yuan was being far too shameless!

"But... but everyone is watching!"

Xiao Wu panicked and looked around. Although everyone was discussing what had happened in the sky and few paid attention to them.

The feeling of holding hands in public still sent her shame level overload.

"So what if they're watching?"

Lin Yuan shrugged indifferently, leaned close to Xiao Wu's ear, and chuckled:

"Anyway, they all know I'm a 'pervert.' What's wrong with a pervert holding hands?"

"But you, Xiao Wu."

"Your palm seems to be sweating."

"Are you that nervous?"

Boom!

Xiao Wu felt her mind buzz.

This bad guy!

It was obviously because he was holding her too tightly!

She wanted to argue. She wanted to step on his foot.

But for some reason, hearing that teasing voice by her ear and feeling the warmth from his hand.

Her wildly beating heart inexplicably felt a trace of sweetness.

"Hmph... pervert!"

In the end, Xiao Wu could only scold him coquettishly.

Yet the hand he was holding honestly stopped struggling.

And Lin Yuan, utterly shamelessly, directly led Xiao Wu back to the Seventh Dormitory by the hand.

On the way back, he took advantage of the free time to write today's diary.

[Didn't expect Spirit Hall to move so quickly. It's only been five days from when I sent the Anonymous Tip Letter to today. Their work efficiency is pretty high!]

Meanwhile, far away in the Papal Palace, Bibi Dong looked at those words, and a playful cold smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"High efficiency?"

"Little fellow, you're still too naive."

Bibi Dong's slender fingers lightly tapped against her scepter.

"That anonymous letter only arrived in my hands today."

"The reason I was able to send people there five days early was purely because I read your diary and prepared in advance."

"After all, if you really ran away into seclusion with that One Hundred Thousand Years rabbit, how would I get diary rewards?"

In order to keep Lin Yuan, this "spoiler cheat," she had no choice but to play along with his script.

Over the past few days, Lin Yuan had been writing about his daily cultivation, as well as Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Xiao Wu.

Others were occasionally mentioned, but not very often.

Even if the system said that the person whose name was mentioned the most would not necessarily receive rewards.

Even so, over these five days, Xiao Wu had undoubtedly received more rewards than any of them!

And this had actually caused quite a bit of dissatisfaction.

Some people had not received a single reward yet!

For example, a certain little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, as well as Dugu Bo's granddaughter, Dugu Yan.

Of course, the system could not give good things every time. Over the past few days, Xiao Wu had only received some Gold Soul Coins and some cultivation experience for the Shadowless Kick to assist her training.

And the diary continued.

[This lineup is rather interesting.]

[Besides Bibi Dong's personal Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo Duo, there's even someone who plays with a Snake Lance.]

[If I'm not mistaken, that should be Snake Lance Douluo She Long, who has been lurking in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace for a long time as "Xue Qinghe's" bodyguard, right?]

[Tsk, tsk. Looks like that arrogant and spoiled Young Master Qian Renxue can't sit still either.]

Qian Renxue looked at the diary and was not surprised that Lin Yuan had recognized Snake Lance Douluo.

On the contrary, it raised her trust level in Lin Yuan by another step.

"Since you can recognize She Long, it proves that you really were at the scene."

"And She Long appearing there also indirectly confirms that Tang Hao is in Nuoding City."

"Lin Yuan..."

A sharp glint flashed in Qian Renxue's golden eyes.

"It seems that those prophecies about the future in your diary were not baseless."

At this very moment, whether it was Bibi Dong or Qian Renxue.

Their trust level in Lin Yuan's diary had both reached the threshold of sixty percent.

They no longer treated it as a joke, but began seriously examining the value of the information within.

Of course, that excluded certain "emotional gossip" that was hard to accept.

For example, Yu Xiaogang had approached Bibi Dong with ulterior motives.

Bibi Dong still had reservations about that point.

"Although Xiaogang's theories are somewhat extreme, his character..."

Bibi Dong frowned slightly, still harboring a trace of hope.

However, Lin Yuan's following review of their combat strength poured cold water directly over the actions of those three Titled Douluo.

[I just wonder whether these three Titled Douluo can keep Tang Hao there.]

[Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo at least have the Two-level Stasis Domain. Don't tell me they'll be too reluctant to use it when the time comes.]

[If they think Tang Hao suffered severe injuries in that battle years ago, has hidden injuries in his body, and definitely can't display his full strength, then they're completely wrong!]

[Tang Hao is best at erupting in desperate situations!]

[Don't assume Tang Hao can't use Ring Detonation and the Great Sumeru Hammer just because he has old injuries. He actually used them during the Spirit Master Competition finals in the Original Work.]

[In the Original Work, during the Spirit Master Competition finals several years later.]

[Tang Hao relied on his battered body and, right in front of Bibi Dong and several Titled Douluo, forcibly smashed through Spirit Hall's defenses!]

[The power of that hammer strike would not be exaggerated even if it were called world-destroying!]

[At the time, the soul power barrier jointly set up by Bibi Dong and several other Titled Douluo was like paper and shattered instantly!]

P.S.: Request follow-up reading~~