You Have Courted Death!

"Why? I thought Tang Ya seemed pretty nice. She even gave me this Silent Sleeve Arrow to play with!"

Lin Ming helplessly covered his forehead. "My dear Beibei, why are you so dumb? Have all those fishing lessons you learned from following me around gone straight into a dog's stomach?"

Seeing the confusion in foolish Beibei's eyes, Lin Ming could only explain helplessly.

"Tell me, what do you put on a fishing hook?"

"Bait, obviously."

Having fished with Lin Ming for so long, Beibei had naturally learned quite a bit about fishing.

"Exactly!" Lin Ming pointed at the Silent Sleeve Arrow.

"How much is this thing even worth? Look how happy it made you."

Beibei was not an idiot. He understood what Lin Ming meant.

"Lin Ming, are you saying Tang Ya wants to use me as a fish?"

"Looks like you're not completely hopeless after all."

Lin Ming let out a breath. He had finally managed to make this stubborn fool understand.

"But it doesn't seem like that. Tang Ya looks like a pretty good person."

The breath Lin Ming had just let out caught in his throat again.

"Bro, what's your status, and what's hers? You think she's good to you—what does she even have that could be good for you? Is smiling at you enough to count as treating you well? Then I grin at you every day with all my teeth showing. Why don't you devote yourself to me?"

Beibei was left speechless by Lin Ming's barrage, but after thinking it over carefully, it did seem that he had spent money on Tang Ya all day.

As for Tang Ya, all she did was say, "Beibei, you're so nice!" and "Beibei, you're amazing!" Then there was that worthless Silent Sleeve Arrow.

Just as Beibei was about to give up, a thought in his heart told him that he should join the Tang Sect.

Even the words he wanted to say changed. "But, I still think..."

Before he could finish, Lin Ming cut him off. "No buts, Beibei. Let me tell you this: if you join the Tang Sect, then you and I are through!"

Lin Ming placed especially heavy emphasis on those final two words, striking straight at Beibei's heart.

He and Lin Ming had been good friends since childhood. They had known each other for nearly ten years now.

It could be said that in Beibei's heart, Lin Ming was the second most important person after Mu En—the unshakable number one among all his friends.

Hearing that Lin Ming wanted to cut ties with him, even that inexplicable thought in his heart could no longer stop Beibei. He hurriedly said, "Don't, Lin Ming! Isn't it enough if I don't join?"

He did not want to lose Lin Ming as a friend, so he could only abandon the idea of joining the Tang Sect.

"That's more like it. Hurry up and sleep. We have to report in tomorrow."

At this moment, in the God Realm's Sea God Temple.

"Damn it, damn it!!!"

A furious roar accompanied boundless divine power flooding through the Sea God Temple, making the entire temple tremble.

Tang San glared furiously at Lin Ming in the crystal ball before him.

"You actually dared to stop the person I chose from joining the Tang Sect. You have courted death, damn it!"

That was right. The inexplicable thought in Beibei's heart had been sent by Tang San.

Unfortunately, Destruction had been watching Tang San at every moment. The instant he sent out that thought, it was intercepted, and only an extremely tiny fragment entered Beibei's mind.

But compared to Lin Ming's importance in Beibei's heart, that tiny fragment was utterly powerless.

The moment Lin Ming said the words "cut ties," that thought was immediately blasted out of Beibei's mind.

Meanwhile, in the Destruction Temple.

"Hahaha! Seeing Tang San suffer a setback makes this old man feel wonderful. This little fellow sure knows how to talk. He doesn't even need this old man's help!"

Watching Lin Ming and Beibei in the scene before him, Destruction could already imagine Tang San flying into a rage. He could not have felt more delighted.

The next morning.

Lin Ming and Beibei arrived at Class One, Year One early in the morning to report in.

"Beibei!"

From far away, a girl with a high ponytail ran toward Beibei.

"Beibei, Beibei! Have you thought about what I told you yesterday?"

The newcomer was Tang Ya. The moment she arrived, she wrapped her arms around Beibei's arm and asked.

If this had been the melancholy prince from the original story, he probably would have joined the Tang Sect yesterday already.

But the current Beibei was Lin Ming's good brother. Even if he did not share Lin Ming's personality, he had at least been influenced by him. He would no longer do such shameless simping.

"Sorry, Tang Ya. My status is special, so I can't join the Tang Sect."

Beibei was quite clever. He directly invoked his status as a Shrek Celestial Dragon and plainly told Tang Ya what a gap in social standing was.

"But, but..."

Tang Ya could not think of any reason to refute him. After all, she did not dare deny Shrek Academy, much less slander it. That would be no different from courting death.

Yet her obsession with reviving the Tang Sect ran too deep. Beibei was an indispensable source of support.

A mist gathered in her eyes, and her voice became slightly choked. "But Beibei, you're my only friend. If you aren't willing to help me... I... I really don't know what else I can do..."

Even an ordinary person would feel pity and sympathy upon seeing this, let alone Beibei, who in the original story had been destined to fall in love with Tang Ya at first sight.

Even though he had not fallen in love with Tang Ya at first sight now, he certainly had some affection for her.

"Tang Ya, don't cry. Although I can't join the Tang Sect, I can help you expand it. Consider it my small contribution."

Lin Ming did not say anything about this. They were only being friends, after all. As long as he was around, Tang Ya would never be able to lure Beibei away.

"Really?" Tang Ya asked, her eyes slightly red.

"Of course. As long as it's within my power."

Beibei had not been swept away by emotion. His answer was very clear: only things within his power.

"Alright."

A trace of disappointment flashed across Tang Ya's face, but she quickly recovered and put on a smile. Still holding Beibei's arm, she said, "Beibei, I'm in Class One too. Let's go in together."

The three entered the classroom together and casually found seats.

Lin Ming sat in front of Beibei, while Tang Ya sat to Beibei's left.

By this time, most of the students had arrived, and class was about to begin.

Amid the sound of high heels striking the floor, a woman dressed in Shrek teacher's attire entered the classroom.

She walked up to the podium and revealed an easygoing smile. "Hello, everyone. I'm your homeroom teacher."

She wrote her name on the blackboard, then said, "My name is Li Wei. You can call me Teacher Li."

Lin Ming was slightly disappointed when he heard Li Wei's name. It was not that "old hag" Zhou Yi after all. He had wanted to mess with her.

"Today is the first day of school, so let's first choose our class officers."

Li Wei walked to the edge of the podium and continued, "Shrek Academy respects the strong and encourages students to advance down the path of strength. Therefore, our class monitor must be the strongest person in the class. Anyone who feels confident in their strength may now come up to the podium and nominate yourselves."