You Want Me to Trample You Underfoot Too?

Qian Renxue was getting angry.

This Group Leader kept stopping halfway through his explanations, even hinting that something was wrong with her origins and her mother... outrageous!

[Li Yuan: Have you never wondered why your biological mother, Bibi Dong, wanted to smash you to death the moment you were born?]

Those words exploded like a depth charge in the otherwise tranquil group chat.

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Holy crap! How could there be such a vicious mother in this world?]

[Big Cat in the Night: How horrifying. Even a vicious tiger doesn't eat its own cubs.]

[Loves Eating Carrots: Exactly, exactly! Bibi Dong really is a bad woman. That's far too cruel—she could even bring herself to hurt her own child! (angry)]

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Wait... is this still the Douluo Continent I know? Why do I recognize every word, but can't understand them when they're put together? (questioning life)]

[Little One in the Forest: Awoo... (this baby is scared to death)]

Little One had only just woken up, and the first thing she saw was all this information unsuitable for children.

Her whole world came crashing down.

A biological mother wanted to kill her daughter?

Did they have any idea how much psychological damage these few short sentences could do?

To a baby whose mind was still immature, who had only just turned three hundred months old?

It was every bit as devastating as a slap across the face.

At that moment, even the way Little One looked at the enormous black dragon beside her changed.

He won't eat me, will he?

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Bibi Dong, I originally thought you were simply evil. Now I see you don't even qualify as human. I despise you!]

[Ice-Snow Smart: This doesn't sound very believable. No matter how ruthless a mother is, surely it's difficult for her to want to kill her own newborn? This... doesn't make logical sense.]

Her brows knitted tightly. She felt that it made no logical sense at all.

[Li Yuan: It's simple. Stories need internal logic, but reality is often so bizarre that... it doesn't need any logic at all.]

[Child Without Parents: Keep going.]

Qian Renxue's brief reply froze the atmosphere in the group for several seconds.

She actually... hadn't denied it?

What did that mean?

What the Group Leader had said might actually be true?!

That was absurd!

Storm-tossed waves surged through everyone's hearts.

They all knew Bibi Dong was ruthless and deeply calculating. After all, she was a woman who had firmly secured the position of pope and led Spirit Hall to unprecedented heights.

But who could have imagined that beneath her iron-fisted treatment of outsiders, Bibi Dong would be so... vicious toward her own flesh and blood?

She had even wanted to kill her!

[Li Yuan: To answer that question, we need to turn back the clock many years. Before that, I'd like to ask everyone something.]

[Li Yuan: Do you think an exceptionally gifted heir to a major power, with twin martial souls, would fall in love with a useless, penniless boy who had terrible talent and spent all day fantasizing about becoming a master theorist? More importantly, this penniless boy came from a hostile faction.]

[Big Cat in the Night: Of course not. For the children of major powers, marriage is never their own decision. Their parents command, the matchmakers arrange, and a political marriage is their ultimate fate!]

In the Star Luo Empire, Zhu Zhuqing looked at the question on the screen, and her eyes dimmed once more.

She understood that all too well.

[Ice-Snow Smart: Probably not?]

After the lesson she had just learned, she no longer dared jump to conclusions.

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Absolutely not! If someone tried to make me marry a penniless boy who had nothing, did nothing but daydream, and refused to work hard, I'd definitely have Grandpa Sword and Grandpa Bone break his legs and throw him out! (hands-on-hips Doro emote)]

Ning Rongrong's answer was decisive, earning nods of agreement from many in the group.

That was the normal response they expected from the heir to a major power.

Yet Li Yuan's next message left everyone staring in disbelief.

[Li Yuan: Then let me tell you—yes! Not only would she love him desperately, she even fantasized about appointing this penniless boy as an elder after she inherited her position, so he could stay by her side forever.]

[Li Yuan: And this daughter favored by heaven was Bibi Dong!]

At those words, everyone's jaws dropped.

Bibi Dong?

The pope whom the world saw as noble and coldly beautiful, pure as ice and jade, who had never been in a relationship or had any romantic rumors?

She had actually had such a bizarre past?

Just what kind of dumb luck had that penniless boy stumbled into?

Or rather, what bewitching potion had he fed Bibi Dong?

Once the shock passed, however, none of them had any faith in that relationship.

Because it was destined to be a tragedy.

What top-tier power would allow its heir to marry a penniless, utterly worthless boy from a hostile faction?

Wasn't that simply handing aid to the enemy?

Who would do something so stupid?

And what they found utterly unbelievable was this.

A plot that even the authors of the most melodramatic novels wouldn't dare write lightly had actually happened in real life?!!

At Blue Tyrant Academy.

Liu Erlong, who had been lazily basking in the sun in the courtyard, stretched comfortably. Her tight leather outfit fully displayed her lovely curves, tightly enclosing the rounded fullness that seemed ready to burst free.

She casually picked up the Little Brick beside her and glanced at it.

That single glance made her freeze.

Poor talent, useless martial soul, master theorist, penniless boy, hostile faction... those key phrases together made her heart give a sudden lurch.

Why did the person in this story sound so much like Xiao Gang?

Liu Erlong bit her pink lip and shook her head.

Impossible. Absolutely impossible!

Xiao Gang was a master theorist, a genius whose talents had gone unrecognized.

How could he be that "utterly worthless penniless boy" the Group Leader was talking about?

It had to be a coincidence!

[Yandere Pope of Martial Soul Hall: What do you know?! He's the best! His talent is just a little poor, his martial soul is just a little poor, and his health is just a little poor, that's all! Do you know how hard he works?]

[He's always researching theories, trying to prove himself! What right do you have to look down on him?]

At Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong was about to explode with anger.

Her face twisted hideously as she clenched the Brick in her hand and stared fixedly at the Chat Group, as though she wanted to memorize the name of every person who had belittled Yu Xiaogang.

[Li Yuan: All right. Since you've brought up Gangzi's theories, let me tell everyone another funny story.]

[Ice-Snow Smart: Wait, is the Gangzi you're talking about Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, the one who proposed the ten core competitiveness theories?]

[Li Yuan: Yes. You know him?]

[Ice-Snow Smart: Yu Xiaogang, known as Grandmaster, has a widely circulated saying: there are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters!]

[Li Yuan: The most ironic thing is that the man who said it has been stuck at level twenty-nine his entire life, unable to break through. So according to his own theory, wouldn't he himself be the biggest "good-for-nothing"? Tell me, isn't that hilarious?]

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Pfft... I'd say there are no useless martial souls, only useless Grandmasters.]

[Child Without Parents: A textbook example of what not to do.]

Then the entire group fell into an eerie silence.

Of course, it wasn't because the women had all left. They were probably clutching their stomachs and rocking back and forth with laughter, unable to spare a hand to type.

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong was already rolling around on her bed, laughing so hard that tears streamed down her face. "Hahaha... there are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters, and he turns out to be the useless one himself? Hahaha, what an absolutely priceless punch line!"

Meanwhile, in the Crown Prince's Mansion.

Qian Renxue's expression was grim. Was this worthless man the reason her mother, Bibi Dong, hated her?

But if her mother loved Yu Xiaogang, then how... had she herself come to exist?

And what role had her father, Qian Xunji, played in all of this?

She felt as though her brain had been stirred into a bowl of porridge.

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Would you stop talking nonsense?! Xiao Gang suffered a martial soul mutation, and he only had half a level of innate soul power. That's why he couldn't cultivate further.]

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: If you're so capable, let's see you cultivate to level 29 with half a level of innate soul power! You don't understand anything. You're just jumping on the hate bandwagon!]

At Blue Tyrant Academy.

Liu Erlong was utterly furious.

She had never imagined that the person Li Yuan was talking about really was Yu Xiaogang.

Looks like you want me to trample you underfoot too, Li Yuan, huh?