Just as she hesitated, the system prompt arrived.
[Congratulations to Child Without Parents for obtaining: Soul Power Boosting Pill x1!]
Only two rewards were left!
Bibi Dong panicked instantly.
She gritted her teeth and made up her mind.
To hell with her dignity, she wanted the reward!
Once dignity was lost, she could pick it back up.
But if the reward vanished, it would truly be gone forever!
Just as her finger was about to touch the red envelope icon, Hu Liena's message popped up.
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Teacher! I just researched a metaphysical mystic art for grabbing red envelopes. Before you claim a red envelope, send one out first to try. That should increase your winning probability!]
A metaphysical mystic art?
Increasing the probability?
Bibi Dong's mind right now was entirely occupied by those two peerless treasures. Seeing the words "increase your winning probability," she did as Hu Liena said almost without thinking.
She tapped open the red envelope feature, selected "Transfer Red Envelope," and without carefully looking at any options, confirmed the transfer directly!
Meanwhile, at the Crown Prince's Mansion.
Seeing this message, Qian Renxue instantly envisioned the bad scene that might unfold in her mind.
She hurriedly sent a message of warning.
[Child Without Parents: Don't go sending random red envelopes! Even if you're going to send one, you must manually select the item to transfer first, not do it randomly!!]
Unfortunately, by the time this message went out, Bibi Dong's red envelope had already been sent.
[A red envelope from Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall!]
Just as Li Yuan was feeling regretful that he hadn't grabbed a red envelope reward, he saw another red envelope pop out and tapped it with near-reflexive speed.
The next second, he felt something extra in his palm—silky to the touch, with a slightly cool elasticity, and a faint, lingering fragrance. It was a pair of black lace-trimmed... stockings?
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Worn Black Lace Stocking.]
[Li Yuan: Sick! And it's even the lace kind!]
[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: What lace? What are you talking about? (Blank expression)]
[Ice-Snow Smart: ???]
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: Nana, tell Teacher, have you ever used this metaphysical method yourself?]
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: No, Teacher, I just researched it. What's wrong? Could it be... that it doesn't work well? (Innocently blinks)]
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: It's nothing, Nana. Come to the Pope Palace. Teacher... will make you some bamboo shoots fried with meat tonight.]
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Really? Thank you, Teacher. I'm coming right over!]
Quite a few group members who didn't know the truth were left utterly bewildered.
Only the few who were in the know, such as Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, were already covering their mouths, their shoulders shaking with laughter.
Meanwhile, at the Crown Prince's Mansion.
An array of unimaginable imagery floated into Qian Renxue's mind as well.
Black, lace?
Could it be the thing she was thinking of?
[Li Yuan: @Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall, your socks stink to high heaven! How long has it been since you washed your feet?]
[Loves Eating Carrots: Yuck! Group Leader, barf! I feel it's necessary for me to keep my distance from you. (Retching)]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: I think so too. (Rolling eyes)]
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Don't let Ning Rongrong's words in the chat fool you.
Her face was flushed completely red, however.
Because she remembered the last time she mistook a pillow for Li Yuan and stepped all over it.
Wasn't that giving him a "reward" in a roundabout way?
Oh dear, how mortifying!
The Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong's face flushed a blazing red all at once, the heat spreading from her cheeks all the way to the tips of her ears in shame and anger.
She wanted nothing more than to rush over to Li Yuan right this instant and chop him into pieces!
She gritted her teeth as she stared at Li Yuan's message on the screen.
Outrageous!
What decent person gets a girl's socks and smells them as a first reaction?
Smelling them in secret by yourself would be one thing, but you actually went and posted a message about it.
Furthermore, this was absolute slander.
She, Bibi Dong, smelled fragrant all over; where on earth was there any foot odor?
At least it smelled fine to her own nose.
No!
She absolutely could not allow this bastard to slander the purity of this pope.
Thus, consumed by anger and shame, Bibi Dong made a decision that she would later want to travel back in time to strangle herself over.
She was seen picking up one of her own jade feet—as white and flawless as jade, with a graceful arch, toes as round as pearls, and painted with seductive purple nail polish—and aiming it at the brick.
"Click," she snapped a photo, then sent it directly into the group chat.
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: [Image] (A close-up of a jade foot that could be called a work of art, pink, flawless, and painted with purple nail polish)]
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: I reiterate, this emperor's feet do not smell! You damned pervert! Don't let this emperor ever see you again, or I'll break your legs!]
After firing off that curse, Bibi Dong felt half of the foul Qi in her chest vent out. She took a deep breath, composed her mood, and prepared to continue snatching those last, most precious two rewards.
Yet before she even had a chance to tap the red envelope, Li Yuan's message popped up.
[Li Yuan: The bait was taken at last! Beautiful, love to see it, post more! (Finally breaking into a wicked grin of a successful scheme)]
As soon as these words dropped, the entire group chat fell into an eerie silence once more.
All the onlookers were dumbfounded.
What the actual fuck?!
You could even play it like this?!
Was this... a provocation tactic?
Deliberately calling them stinky to trick the pope into posting a picture to prove her innocence?
And then... he really got to see it?
[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: 666! Top-tier intellectual battle! (Prostrating in admiration)]
[Big Cat in the Night: ... (Silently gives a like)]
[Ice-Snow Smart: ... Lesson learned. (Silently takes notes)]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: (Flabbergasted)]
[Loves Eating Carrots: (Flabbergasted)]
[Single Living Housewife Who Runs an Academy: The group leader's IQ genuinely crushes Bibi Dong's,tsk tsk tsk, led around by the nose like a dog.]
Bibi Dong stared at the words on the screen, blanking for two whole seconds before reaction set in...
"Li—Yuan—!!!"
A piercing shriek filled with boundless shame, humiliation, and murderous intent echoed through the Pope Palace once again.
After a while.
Bibi Dong finally snapped out of the aftermath of the "jade-foot photo social death incident," but the foul Qi in her chest was still blockage-inducing.
Fuming, she looked back at the red envelope icon on the screen.
Dignity, broken promises... all of it was cast to the back of her mind at this moment.
Li Yuan owed her this!
He was the one who drove her into such a state.
She would treat this reward as a mental damage fee.
It was what she deserved.
Yet an event that made her blood pressure spike even higher occurred.
[Dear, you didn't grab anything at all!]
"Crack!"
Bibi Dong violently slammed the brick onto the ground, lifted her other black-silk-clad foot, and stomped down hard on Li Yuan's avatar.
She suspected Li Yuan was rigging the game against her!
How come people ahead of her drew things, and people behind her drew things, and with so many people having already drawn, logically speaking, the probability of her drawing something last should have been extremely high?
Yet when her turn came, she—the dignified pope—ended up with nothing?
A rigged operation, this was definitely a rigged operation!
Just as she gnashed her teeth, preparing to denounce Li Yuan in the chat for rigging the odds behind the scenes.
[Congratulations to Ice-Snow Smart for obtaining: Adaptive Growth God-Bestowed Soul Bone x1!]
Bibi Dong: "..."
At this, Bibi Dong grew even more certain of her guess.
"Li Yuan, you truly deserve the way of the secret chamber!"
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: What kind of dog luck is this! Wuwuwu... Why am I the only one who didn't draw a single thing!]
[Loves Eating Carrots: I didn't get anything either, ugh.]
[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Dog luck!]
[Ice-Snow Smart: Oh my, oh my, sorry, hehe, how did you guys know I drew a God-Given Soul Bone?]
[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Congratulations to you! (Gritting her teeth, fists also quietly clenching)]
[Li Yuan: 666, what a marvelous flex!]
Li Yuan never expected to encounter someone so skilled at flexing in this world; she was practically on par with him.
Right at that moment, the system prompt popped up once more.
[Shall we invite new group members?]
[Available targets: Douluo Continent 1-4]
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