[Judging by the time, Ning Tian and Wu Feng should be about done unpacking. It was time to go find them and see whether the class assignments were out yet. Any class would do, as long as it wasn't Class One and Zhou Yi wasn't the homeroom teacher.]
[Even being in the same class as Dai Huabin would be fine.]
[Come to think of it, Huo Yuhao seemed to have sworn to cut off the White Tiger Duke's lineage... I wondered how he'd react if he saw Huo Yuhao, the God of Emotion, who'd changed his surname to Dai.]
That single sentence shook Xu Jiujiu to her core.
As the younger sister of Xu Jiawei, emperor of the Star Luo Empire, Xu Jiujiu naturally understood the rather delicate relationship between their family and the White Tiger Duke.
Their Xu family had not originally been the imperial family of the Star Luo Empire, but merely the Star Crown Sect, a secluded sect within its borders. Ten thousand years ago, the White Tiger Duke's Dai Family had been the imperial family of the Star Luo Empire, and they had even produced a god.
Unfortunately, after Dai Mubai, the elder brother of Sea God Tang San, became a god, the Dai Family's White Tiger line gradually declined. Prolonged infighting depleted their talent and left a gap in their highest-level fighting strength. Then the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent collided, and the Sun Moon Empire began expanding. Had their Star Crown Sect not used the stellar power of its star crown martial soul to lead the people and the army in repelling foreign invaders and quelling internal unrest, the Star Luo Empire might have split into two separate nations, just like the Heaven Dou Empire of ten thousand years ago.
Afterward, knowing that they could no longer sustain their imperial rule, the White Tiger line voluntarily yielded the throne to the Xu family to preserve their family and the empire's stability. With their achievement in saving the nation winning recognition from both the court and the people, the Xu family became the new imperial family.
Out of consideration for Dai Mubai, who had become a god ten thousand years ago, and because the Dai Family still retained a certain prestige, they had not exterminated the family to the last man. Instead, they allowed them to retire to the hereditary White Tiger Duke Manor, retaining their military authority and noble status.
Over all these years, their Xu family had long since grown accustomed to the privileges of royalty and to sitting high upon the imperial throne.
Returning the throne to a White Tiger line that had rebuilt and flourished was something they had never even considered.
And now you're telling me that Huo Yuhao, who could become the God of Emotion in the future, was a member of the Dai Family and would even change his surname to Dai?
As for the first half of Aoyao's remark, Xu Jiujiu subconsciously ignored it.
In her view, since Huo Yuhao ultimately chose to change his surname to Dai, that meant he had already let go of his hatred. It was even quite possible that this supposed hatred had merely been a misunderstanding.
Once Huo Yuhao matured and became the God of Emotion, would he force the Xu family to return the throne to the White Tiger line?
When that time came, would the White Tiger line really leave them a way to survive, as they had done for them?
Xu Jiujiu could not help drawing a deep breath, her expression turning dark and unreadable.
[Come to think of it, Dai Hao really was a scumbag. After having Huo Yuhao with his mother, Huo Yun'er, he actually forgot all about her, leaving Huo Yuhao with a miserable childhood and costing him his mother while he was still young. It was perfectly understandable that Huo Yuhao hated him.]
[Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao never fulfilled that oath in the end. He even brought Dai Hao into the Divine Realm and finally changed his surname to Dai.]
[Tang San really was outrageous. To make absolutely sure he could tame Huo Yuhao into a dog, he had already laid his contingency plans when Huo Yun'er died. Later, he even resurrected Huo Yun'er outright and entrusted her to the married couple Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, just waiting to complete the final stage of taming once Huo Yuhao became a god.]
[With him going that far, no wonder Huo Yuhao ended up like that. One link followed another-without an all-seeing heavenly eye, who could possibly withstand it?]
Aoyao casually jotted down a few lines, then rose to leave the dorm room.
Wang Dong'er, who appeared to be resting on her bed but had actually been watching Aoyao's every move, felt her heart tighten and hurriedly got up as well:
"What are you going to do?"
Already at the door, Aoyao turned back in puzzlement.
Seriously, buddy, did I have to report to you wherever I went?
When Aoyao said nothing, Wang Dong'er had a flash of inspiration in her panic and hurriedly said, "Today's our first day meeting each other, and we might be sharing this room for a long time. How about I treat you to a meal?"
Wang Dong'er was actually offering to buy me a meal?
Aoyao had just thought Wang Dong'er was becoming a little more normal, but now he felt there was something off about her again.
Sigh...
Dealing with anyone connected to Tang San was such a headache.
"Sure. But I need to find two friends to come along. You don't mind, do you?"
"Of course not."
Wang Dong'er immediately breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
Of course she knew who the two friends Aoyao mentioned were. They were simply Ning Tian and Wu Feng, whom he had just mentioned in his diary. She did not care.
All she cared about was whether she could stay by Aoyao's side. Only then could she ensure that she appeared frequently in the diary.
The two left the dorm room one after the other. As soon as they reached the foot of the dormitory building, Aoyao's eyes narrowed slightly.
In that brief span of time, the person lying in the wicker chair by the dormitory entrance had changed.
The person in the wicker chair was no longer Xuan Zi, covered in grease and knowing only how to ravenously devour chicken drumsticks. In his place was an old man with an utterly ordinary appearance, a heavily wrinkled face, clouded yellow eyes, and drooping eyelids. He looked like a hunched old man whose life was a candle flickering in the wind.
Yet in truth, this thoroughly unremarkable-looking old man was none other than Mu En, the master of the Poseidon Pavilion and the level ninety-nine Dragon God Douluo!
Mu En and Xuan Zi-these two were pretty amusing. They were treating themselves like old dorm supervisors, taking turns on duty here...
Aoyao soon shifted his gaze away from Mu En and toward a figure not far off.
Although helping Tang Ya hunt for her third Soul Ring had delayed him a little, Huo Yuhao had still successfully entered Shrek Academy.
The only question was who Huo Yuhao's roommate was now that he no longer had Wang Dong'er.
Aoyao could not help glancing back at Wang Dong'er.
[Even now, I still couldn't quite understand why Wang Dong'er had become my roommate.]
[According to the normal plot progression, coming out at this moment should have let me run straight into Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er fighting. In the end, Wang Dong'er would lose to Huo Yuhao because she let her guard down. From then on, Huo Yuhao would catch the proud and haughty Wang Dong'er's attention.]
[Honestly, it was pretty ridiculous.]
[No matter how you looked at it, Wang Dong'er had one yellow and one purple Soul Ring, a combination that surpassed the optimal configuration, and her martial soul was the top-tier light goddess butterfly. Even if she let her guard down a little, surely she shouldn't have lost to Huo Yuhao?]
Following Aoyao's gaze, Wang Dong'er also noticed the figure who had reached the freshman dormitory, and her hands involuntarily clenched into fists.
So this guy was Huo Yuhao?
Because of what had been recorded in the diary, Wang Dong'er had no favorable feelings toward Huo Yuhao whatsoever. In fact, she was filled with disgust.
Seeing Huo Yuhao approach, Wang Dong'er gave a cold snort and turned her head away.
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