Douluo Contrast: The Ultimate Life Version of Tang San at the Start
Chapter 13

Switching the Playback Subject: Tang San and Tang Chuan (Please Recommend, Please Vote!)

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White World, Shrek Academy.

"It's finally finished!"

Seeing the video about Tang San of the Black World on the Comparison Sky Screen finally come to an end,

Ning Rongrong let out a long sigh of relief.

The video about Tang San of the Black World had been truly frustrating to watch. It made her fists clench!

Hopefully, the video about Tang Chuan of our White World will make things easier to bear.

At the very least, he shouldn't be so blindly filial toward Tang Hao.

She truly couldn't agree with that.

After waiting for several hours,

the Comparison Sky Screen finally lit up again, and images once more appeared upon it.

However, just like the Comparison Video of Tang San of the Black World,

in the Comparison Video of Tang Chuan of the White World,

it began with Tang Hao fleeing through the mountains and forests with Ah Yin and their newborn child, pursued by the Spirit Hall Soul Masters led by Qian Xunji.

To allow Tang Hao to escape with the child,

Ah Yin chose Sacrifice, allowing Tang Hao to break through to Title Douluo and obtain a hundred-thousand-year ninth Spirit Ring.

After breaking through to Title Douluo, Tang Hao glared furiously, looking as though he had transformed grief into strength. He unleashed the Great Sumeru Hammer Ring Detonation, detonating all nine rings at once and heavily wounding Qian Xunji. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he fled with the child.

The subsequent plot was basically the same.

It continued until Tang Hao carried the child in his arms to Holy Soul Village and chose to live in seclusion there.

[After going into seclusion in Holy Soul Village, Tang Hao prepared to give his son a name. He remembered that his wife Ah Yin ranked third in the sworn brotherhood between herself, him, and his elder brother, making her the Third Sister.]

[Tang Hao felt sorrowful and prepared to name the child Tang San.]

[However, upon hearing that he was going to be called Tang San, Tang Chuan immediately began wailing loudly, expressing his opposition through his cries.]

White World, Shrek Academy.

When she saw this, Ning Rongrong couldn't help laughing.

"Tang Chuan of our White World really is different!"

"He started resisting Tang Hao right from his name!"

"That's right! That's right!"

"The name Tang San sounds like it was chosen at random."

"In our village, no one names their children One, Two, or Three."

Facing the goddess, Oscar hurriedly echoed her and voiced his agreement.

[However, Tang Hao completely ignored the loud cries of the son in his arms.]

[After tossing the child aside, Tang Hao picked up the alcohol he had just bought and gulped it down. He drank until he was dead drunk, then collapsed in the inner room and fell asleep.]

[As for his son Tang Chuan, Tang Hao casually tossed him into a small cradle given to him by the village chief, Old Jack.]

[More than a year passed in the blink of an eye.]

[During that year or so, Tang Chuan gradually grew older. However, because he had been reborn as an ordinary person, and because Tang Hao got drunk every day and never devoted himself to raising the child,]

[Tang Chuan's physical development was extremely poor. He was far shorter and weaker than children his age, with a pale complexion that clearly showed he was malnourished.]

[In order to grow up healthy, Tang Chuan could only stand on a small stool by himself, struggle to rise onto his toes, and use a spatula taller than he was to painstakingly cook porridge and prepare meals.]

[At least this way, he could still manage to eat a few meals.]

[He wouldn't be left with nothing to eat and forced to go hungry whenever Tang Hao drank himself unconscious and forgot to cook.]

[However, because his body was too short and frail, Tang Chuan stood on the small stool, stretching onto his toes as he cooked porridge and prepared meals. Several times, the stool tipped over, sending him crashing to the ground and leaving him in tremendous pain.]

[Yet inside the house, Tang Hao was snoring like thunder after drinking himself unconscious. He never once came to help Tang Chuan.]

[Every time, Tang Chuan could only rub the injured spot on the ground, his eyes reddening as he endured the pain, got back to his feet, and continued cooking porridge and preparing meals by himself.]

White World, Blue Silver Forest.

"Wuwu~"

"Xiao Chuan, my child!"

Although she knew that Tang Chuan had not lived well in the past,

when she saw with her own eyes the miserable life Tang Chuan had led as a child under Tang Hao,

Ah Yin still couldn't help bursting into tears, feeling as though her heart had shattered.

She had sacrificed herself for her child.

But who could have imagined that her husband, Tang Hao, would be so utterly unfit to be a father, completely neglecting the child and getting drunk every day, making the child suffer so terribly?

As a mother, her child was a piece of her own flesh.

Seeing her child living in such misery, Ah Yin was overcome with heartbreak, crying as though her heart and liver had been torn apart.

At that moment, Ah Yin hated Tang Hao to the core.

Tang Hao!

You hypocritical, shameless, sinister wretch! Not only did you scheme to force me into Sacrifice, you treated my child so cruelly as well.

I'll definitely kill you!

Extreme North.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress sat atop an ice peak, watching the miserable life Tang Chuan had endured as a child being played on the Comparison Sky Screen.

"This human called Tang Hao is truly vile!"

"He doesn't deserve to be a father!"

Amid the howling, bone-chilling wind,

Snow Empress wore an exquisite long dress of snow-white fur. Her pure white hair danced in the wind, and a trace of fury flashed across her cold, sacred, nearly flawless face. She was deeply indignant on Tang Chuan's behalf.

Although she didn't like humans,

she still possessed compassion for human children.

"That's right!"

Ice Empress was also filled with righteous indignation and nodded in agreement.

[After Tang Chuan finally learned to stand on the small stool, rise onto his toes, and use the spatula taller than himself to cook porridge and prepare meals,]

[Tang Hao directly stopped doing all the cooking and other household chores, dumping everything onto Tang Chuan.]

[Tang Chuan silently endured it. Whenever he cooked, he would prepare a portion for Tang Hao as well. However, he never called Tang Hao "Father," not even once. The two of them seemed like strangers living under the same roof.]

[In contrast, because the village chief, Old Jack, often helped Tang Chuan, Tang Chuan frequently went to Old Jack's house to weed, plant vegetables, and do whatever he could in return.]

[When speaking with the village chief, Old Jack, and the other villagers in Holy Soul Village, Tang Chuan always said that his name was Tang Chuan, not Tang San.]

[Because the name Tang Chuan was obviously much nicer.]

[Therefore, the village chief, Old Jack, and the other villagers all chose to call him Tang Chuan.]

[But one time, on the way home after drinking, Tang Hao heard someone calling him Tang Chuan. He felt displeased, and after returning home, he coldly reprimanded Tang Chuan.]

["Your name is Tang San. I gave you that name. Who told you to tell Old Jack and the others that your name was Tang Chuan?"]

[Facing Tang Hao's reprimand, Tang Chuan calmly said, "I don't like the name Tang San. I want to be called Tang Chuan. I like mountains, rivers, and the earth. Is that not allowed?"]

[This made Tang Hao even more furious. "I'm your father. The name I gave you is your name. I won't allow you to give yourself some other name. Do you understand?"]

["Father?" A trace of mockery appeared at the corner of Tang Chuan's lips. "What kind of father ignores his child from childhood, then, just to drink, dumps every chore in the house onto a child barely over a year old? Is there really such a father in this world? I can't decide who becomes my father, but I can decide what my name is!"]

["How dare you!!" Tang Hao's eyes instantly turned bloodshot. His composure shattered, and in a fit of rage, he slapped Tang Chuan to the ground.]

[After Tang Chuan rose to his feet, he covered his red and swollen cheek with one hand and merely looked at Tang Hao calmly and coldly before silently walking out of the Blacksmith Shop.]

[Only Tang Hao's furious roar remained inside the Blacksmith Shop: "Get back here! I'm your father, and you have to listen to me!!"]

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