By my calculations, Ning Tian and Wu Feng should be about finished getting ready. It's about time I went to find them and see whether the class assignments were out yet. As long as I wasn't in Class One, and my homeroom teacher wasn't Zhou Yi, any other class would do.
Even being in the same class as Dai Huabin would be fine.
Come to think of it, Huo Yuhao seemed to have sworn that he'd end the White Tiger Duke's bloodline... I wonder how he'll react when he sees the future God of Emotion, Dai Yuhao, with the surname Dai.
That single sentence made Xu Jiujiu's heart shudder.
As the younger sister of Xu Jiawei, the emperor of the Star Luo Empire, Xu Jiujiu was naturally well aware of the delicate relationship between their family and the White Tiger Duke.
Their Xu Family had not originally been the royal family of the Star Luo Empire. They had merely been the secluded Star Crown Sect within the empire. Ten thousand years ago, the Dai Family, the White Tiger Duke's family, had been the royal family—and a member of the Dai Family had even become a god.
Unfortunately, after Dai Mubai, the elder brother of that Sea God Tang San, became a god, the White Tiger branch of the Dai Family had gradually declined. Years of internal strife had left it short of talent, with a gap in its ranks of top fighters. Then the continents of Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent collided, and the Sun Moon Empire began expanding. If their Star Crown Sect hadn't used the power of the stars in its Star Crown Martial Soul to lead the people and the army in repelling foreign invaders and putting down internal rebellions, the Star Luo Empire might have split into two countries, just like the Heaven Dou Empire had ten thousand years ago.
Afterward, the White Tiger branch realized it could no longer maintain the throne. To preserve its family and stabilize the empire, it voluntarily ceded the throne to the Xu Family. Their family had earned the support of the court and the people by saving the country, and became the new royal family.
Out of consideration for Dai Mubai, the member of the White Tiger branch who had become a god ten thousand years ago, and because the Dai Family still had some prestige, they hadn't wiped them out. Instead, they had allowed the Dai Family to become the hereditary White Tiger Duke's Residence, retaining its military power and noble status.
Over all these years, the Xu Family had long grown accustomed to royal privileges and to sitting high upon the throne.
They had never once considered returning the throne to the White Tiger branch, which had since recovered and flourished.
And now she was being told that Huo Yuhao, who would one day become the God of Emotion, was a member of the Dai Family—and would even take the surname Dai in the future?
As for the first half of Ao Yao's words, Xu Jiujiu had subconsciously ignored it.
In her view, since Huo Yuhao had ultimately chosen to take the surname Dai, that meant he had let go of the hatred in his heart. It was even possible that this so-called hatred had been nothing more than a misunderstanding.
Once Huo Yuhao grew up and became the God of Emotion, would he force the Xu Family to return the throne to the White Tiger branch?
And if that happened, would the White Tiger branch really spare them, the way they had spared it?
Xu Jiujiu couldn't help taking a deep breath. Her expression darkened, unreadable.
Come to think of it, Dai Hao really was a scumbag. After Huo Yuhao's mother, Huo Yun'er, gave birth to him, Dai Hao just forgot all about her. That left Huo Yuhao with an unhappy childhood and cost him his mother in his youth. It was only natural that Huo Yuhao resented him.
It's just a shame that Huo Yuhao never managed to fulfill that oath in the end. He even brought Dai Hao with him to the Divine Realm, and eventually took the surname Dai.
Tang San was absolutely outrageous. To make sure he could tame Huo Yuhao into a dog one hundred percent, he'd prepared a backup plan as far back as the day Huo Yun'er died. Later, he even resurrected Huo Yun'er and handed her over to Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to look after, all so they could finish taming Huo Yuhao after he became a god.
No wonder Huo Yuhao ended up like that, after all that. One scheme after another—without the ability to see the future, who could possibly resist?
Ao Yao jotted down a few notes, then stood up and prepared to leave the dorm room.
Wang Dong'er, who seemed to be resting on her bed but had actually been watching Ao Yao's every move, felt her heart tighten. She quickly got up as well. "What are you going to do?"
Ao Yao, already at the door, looked back in confusion.
Come on, do I have to report where I'm going?
Seeing that Ao Yao didn't answer, Wang Dong'er quickly came up with an idea and said, "It's our first day meeting. We might be sharing a dorm room for a long time, so let me treat you to a meal?"
Wang Dong'er wanted to treat me to a meal?
Ao Yao had just started thinking that Wang Dong'er seemed a little more normal, but now he felt there was something off about her again.
Sigh...
Dealing with people connected to Tang San is such a headache.
"Sure. But I'm also going to find two friends. You don't mind, do you?"
"Of course not."
Wang Dong'er immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
She knew exactly who the two friends Ao Yao meant. They were none other than Ning Tian and Wu Feng, who had just been mentioned in the diary. She didn't care about them.
All she cared about was whether she could stay by Ao Yao's side. Only then could she make sure she appeared in the diary often.
The two of them left the dorm room one after the other. As soon as they reached the foot of the dorm building, Ao Yao's eyes narrowed slightly.
In the short time they'd been inside, the person lying in the rattan chair by the dorm entrance had changed.
The person in the chair was no longer Xuan Zi, covered in grease and only interested in wolfing down chicken legs. In his place sat a very ordinary-looking old man, with a deeply wrinkled face, yellowed eyes, and drooping eyelids. He looked like a hunched, decrepit old man on his last legs.
But in reality, this unremarkable old man was none other than Mu En, the master of Sea God Pavilion and a ninety-ninth-level Dragon God Douluo!
Mu En and Xuan Zi—those two were something else. They treated themselves like dorm supervisors, taking turns on duty...
Ao Yao quickly turned his gaze away from Mu En and fixed it on a figure not far away.
Although he'd lost some time helping Tang Ya hunt for her third Soul Ring, Huo Yuhao had still managed to enter Shrek Academy.
He wondered who Huo Yuhao's roommate was now that he'd lost Wang Dong'er.
Ao Yao couldn't help glancing back at Wang Dong'er.
Even now, I still don't quite understand why Wang Dong'er ended up as my roommate.
Going by the usual plot, if I came out at this time, I should have run right into Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er fighting. In the end, Wang Dong'er would have lost to Huo Yuhao because she'd underestimated him. Then Huo Yuhao would have caught the attention of the proud Wang Dong'er.
Honestly, it's just absurd.
No matter how you looked at it, Wang Dong'er had a yellow Soul Ring and a purple one, a combination that surpassed the optimal ratio. Her Martial Soul was also the top-tier Light Goddess Butterfly. Even if she'd underestimated him, how could she have lost to Huo Yuhao?
Following Ao Yao's gaze, Wang Dong'er also noticed the figure who had just arrived at the new students' dormitory. Her hands clenched into fists.
That guy is Huo Yuhao?
Because of what the diary recorded, Wang Dong'er had no favorable impression of Huo Yuhao. If anything, she loathed him.
When Huo Yuhao walked over, Wang Dong'er gave a cold snort and turned her head away.
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