Tang San hadn't heard what Tang Yu had said. In a low voice, he said, "Brother, I want to go out and be alone for a while."
After saying that, Tang San went outside. Xiao Wu immediately followed him. Tang Yu found a place to sit down, and Tang Xiaomi came over to him. "Brother Tang Yu, aren't you sad?"
Tang Yu smiled. "Xiaomi, let me tell you: my dad hasn't actually left. He's been hiding nearby, watching me and Xiao San. You can't tell Xiao San this secret."
Tang Xiaomi smiled and nodded, then murmured, "I wonder if Brother Tang Yu's dad will like me... What if he doesn't like me as his daughter-in-law?"
"Ahem." Tang Yu coughed in alarm. Tang Xiaomi was wonderful in every way, except that she was a little too forward. She'd caught him off guard who knew how many times already.
Tang San and Xiao Wu probably wouldn't be back until evening. Tang Yu could skip dinner, but Tang Xiaomi and the others needed to eat—and most importantly, Tang Xiaomi needed to eat—so he had no choice but to cook himself.
That evening
Tang San and Xiao Wu came back. Tang Yu could tell their relationship had grown closer, but he saw through it without saying a word.
Tang San stared in surprise at the table full of dishes, then looked at Tang Yu. "Brother, you can cook?"
"Of course I can. I was just too lazy to do it before." Tang Yu waved a hand.
Tang San was speechless. You could cook, and you still made me do it alone all these years???
After dinner, since the blacksmith's shop only had two rooms, they slept as they had at the academy.
Actually, Tang Yu and Tang San had considered sleeping together as brothers, while Xiao Wu and Tang Xiaomi shared a room. But Tang Xiaomi wouldn't agree. She insisted on sleeping with Tang Yu, so they had kept things as they were.
That evening
Tang Yu and Tang Xiaomi lay in bed. Looking at her little face, Tang Yu asked, "Xiaomi, do you want to know where you came from?"
Tang Xiaomi paused, then shook her head.
Tang Yu stroked her hair. "If you don't want to know, then don't. I'll protect you from now on, anyway."
Tang Yu had asked the system about Tang Xiaomi's origins long ago. Whatever else one could say about the system, it knew a lot of things. It could easily serve as a search engine for all the worlds.
The system had told Tang Yu that Tang Xiaomi was actually a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. But unlike other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, she had no memories from when she was a Soul Beast and didn't know that she was one. Even if she remembered those memories someday, she wouldn't change at all—in other words, her personality wouldn't change drastically.
Tang Yu had also learned from the system that Tang Xiaomi's true form was the Nine Seas White Dragon. Like the Purple Heaven Azure Dragon, it was an Eastern dragon, a kind that had never appeared in Douluo Continent's history.
After all, Douluo Continent was just a novel, while Tang Yu had come to a real world. It was entirely possible for the novel to leave out many things. Besides, if Tang Yu hadn't crossed over, Tang Xiaomi might have become the first Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to starve to death on the street. So it was perfectly normal that the novel hadn't mentioned her.
The next morning
After breakfast, the four of them went out to have fun. They'd finally gotten a day off, so of course Tang San and Tang Yu wanted to take Xiao Wu and Tang Xiaomi around the area near Holy Soul Village.
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