Fu Hua Saw the Whole Game and Let Otto Make His Move

A blond figure stepped slowly out of the shadows. Otto adjusted the brim of his hat with one hand and rested the other on Su Shang's shoulder. A gentle healing light flowed from his palm into her body, and her broken ribs and torn muscles visibly knit back together.

"You held on well, young lady." Otto's voice was warm and measured, as if the shot he had just fired had been no more than a casual brush of dust from his sleeve. "But grit alone isn't enough against a brute like that."

Su Shang panted hard and looked up at him, wariness and confusion mingling in her eyes. "You... who are you?"

"A traveler passing through." Otto smiled faintly and crouched to wipe the blood from her face with a clean white handkerchief. "As it happens, I have some information about your grandmother. Would you like to know where Chi Yuan is?"

Su Shang went rigid. She stared into Otto's eyes, struggled with herself for a moment, then finally said hoarsely, "Take... take me to her."

Otto rose and tilted his head toward the canyon exit. "Come on. It isn't far."

The Light Screen froze there. The air in the Douluo God Realm seemed to turn solid.

"Twenty breaths." Tang Wulin's voice held a rare, restrained anger. "He waited twenty whole breaths. He could have acted before the first punch, but he chose the instant before that blow would have killed her. Save someone at the brink like that, and they'll rely on you almost by instinct."

"And that's not all," Gu Yuena said, her voice cold as ice. "First he showed her overwhelming force, then he healed her, and finally he offered information about Chi Yuan. Three favors, each building on the last. Fu Hua had only just rescued