What Exactly Did Bibi Dong Like About Yu Xiaogang?

The sight made Xiao Wu sick to her stomach. She shot back coldly, "Then why don't you dare ask Li Yuan directly?"

Yu Xiaogang was instantly struck speechless.

He wanted to, but the problem was that he didn't dare.

Li Yuan's explosive temper last time had given him quite a fright. What if he angered Li Yuan, and Li Yuan charged over to beat him black and blue?

His old arms and legs couldn't take that kind of punishment.

Of course, Yu Xiaogang could never say any of that aloud. He could only stammer out an excuse. "I... I was avoiding any appearance of impropriety. If this affected Li Yuan's studies, then I would be at fault."

"Hmph, you know perfectly well what you're after! I'm done with you!"

Xiao Wu snorted coldly, turned, and started to leave.

Bang!

With a dull thud, Yu Xiaogang slammed his hand onto the desk. Pointing at Xiao Wu, he trembled with rage. "You! Is that any way to speak to a teacher?"

"You? You think you deserve to be called a teacher?"

Xiao Wu spun around, planted her hands on her hips, and glared at him without backing down, her pink eyes filled with contempt. "You're nothing but a useless freeloader living off the academy. What gives you the right to run your mouth?"

"You! You little bastard! You damned rabbit, Xiao Wu! How dare you speak to me like that?"

Hit where it hurt, Yu Xiaogang flew into a humiliated rage and hurled insults without thinking.

"Hmph!"

A cold glint flashed through Xiao Wu's eyes, and she suddenly struck.

Her long, powerful leg shot up like lightning and clamped tightly around Yu Xiaogang's neck.

"Urgh... cough, cough..."

Yu Xiaogang's face instantly flushed red under the chokehold, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets. He struggled desperately, but he couldn't escape Xiao Wu's seemingly slender leg, which actually held terrifying strength.

Xiao Wu coldly watched him struggle. Only when he was close to suffocating did she finally release him.

Thump!

Yu Xiaogang collapsed onto his backside, gasping for breath, his face filled with lingering terror.

Xiao Wu looked down at him, her gaze icy. "For the Dean's sake, I'll let you off this time. If there's a next time, I won't show any mercy!"

"And Xiao Yuan's business is my business. Remember this—he's under this big sister's protection!"

With that, Xiao Wu tossed her ponytail and strode away, leaving behind only her valiant, spirited silhouette.

Yu Xiaogang remained slumped on the floor alone. It took him a long time to catch his breath, his expression hideous and his eyes brimming with resentment.

"Rebellion! This is outright rebellion! Even students dare to hit their teachers now! I'm furious!"

Yet Xiao Wu's lesson did nothing to diminish his intentions. Instead, it only fueled his curiosity.

She reacted so strongly. Li Yuan's Martial Soul must hold some enormous secret. If I could get my hands on it... perhaps I could rise in one leap to become a Martial Soul Grandmaster renowned throughout the continent!

Yu Xiaogang's eyes were filled with greed and fanaticism, as though he could already see himself gaining Li Yuan's secret, becoming famous across the world, and receiving the admiration of countless people.

"Just you wait... I'll get my hands on that secret!"

After leaving the office, Xiao Wu promptly posted the video in the Group Chat.

[Loves Eating Carrots: (4-minute, 47-second video)]

[Loves Eating Carrots: Look at how shameless this Grandmaster is. (vomiting emoji)]

The video showed the entire sequence: Yu Xiaogang's attempts to pry into Li Yuan's secrets while acting "righteous and stern," Xiao Wu's retorts leaving him speechless, and finally, his humiliated rage ending with Xiao Wu locking his throat with one leg.

The moment the video was posted, the group erupted.

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Wow! This guy is disgusting! What right does he have to pry into someone else's Martial Soul secrets?]

[Big Cat in the Night: And he has the nerve to talk about publishing a book. Generous with other people's knowledge, keeping the fame for himself. (contemptuous middle finger)]

[A Life of Bitterness and Solitude: I only finished catching up on the gossip yesterday, and today I got to see Yu Xiaogang's actual face. He fits my imagination perfectly! So ugly! And that whole "there are no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters" thing? I say there are only useless Grandmasters, not useless Martial Souls.]

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Ridiculous! I honestly don't understand. He's the one asking someone for help, so why is he still acting so high and mighty? (speechless)]

[Ice-Snow Smart: Probably to protect that pitiful self-esteem of his.]

[Child Without Parents: I used to think the Group Leader might have exaggerated a little when talking about Yu Xiaogang. Now I think everything the Group Leader said was spot-on. (eye roll)]

[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Absolutely shameless! He's supposed to be an academy teacher, yet that's how he treats a student he calls in for a talk? And when she doesn't want to tell him, he actually flies into a humiliated rage. I have no words!]

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Yu Xiaogang, the way you are now truly makes me sick!]

At Blue Tyrant Academy.

Liu Erlong spat, her face full of disgust. "I must have been blind back then to fall for you!"

She genuinely wondered whether someone had cursed her back then, or whether her brain had been caught in a door.

Otherwise, how could she have fallen for such a bastard?

[Li Yuan: Tsk, tsk, tsk. Just get used to it.]

At Notting Dormitory.

Watching Xiao Wu's sharp, decisive, valiant movements in the video—especially that final leg chokehold and her domineering declaration—Li Yuan couldn't help curling his lips into an appreciative smile.

To be fair, that kick had been seriously cool.

Who could say no to having a beautiful, spirited girl stand in front of them and protect them?

But that last bit... what was with the whole "Li Yuan is under this big sister's protection" thing?

Li Yuan's mouth fell slightly open, caught between laughter and tears.

Huh? Had I just gloriously become a kept man?

Nooo!

He didn't want to lose his motivation to strive so soon!

Though living off a woman wasn't exactly a bad thing.

Still, striving through the system would give him an even wider sea and sky to roam!

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: There's something I'm really curious about now. Why do you think Bibi Dong fell for such a shameless man back then?]

[Ice-Snow Smart: Hmm... I don't know either.]

It sounded like she simply didn't know, but the truth was that Ye Lingling really had no answer left to give.

[Loves Eating Carrots: Was Bibi Dong attracted to him because he didn't bathe? Because he was old? Because he was ugly? Or because he was useless?]

[Big Cat in the Night: I heard prisoners have to get buzz cuts. Maybe Bibi Dong was into prison chic.]

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Amazing! A heaven-defying old man rocking prison chic!]

[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Pfft, hahaha! I'm dying!]

At the Saintess Palace.

Hu Liena immediately shook like blossoms trembling on a branch with laughter. Clutching her stomach, she sprawled on her bed, nearly laughing herself to tears.

What the hell, attracted to him because he didn't bathe?

And what was this prison chic nonsense?

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant!

She knew laughing like this was rude, but she really couldn't help herself.

"Hahahaha! Sorry, Teacher! Just let me laugh my fill this once!"

Meanwhile.

At the Pope Palace.

Having just finished her morning official duties, Bibi Dong opened the Group Chat.

In that instant, the sky came crashing down.

Why had the group started talking behind her back again?

And most of it was belittling and mocking her and Yu Xiaogang...

Loves Eating Carrots' message in particular sent Bibi Dong's blood pressure soaring.

What did she mean, I was attracted to him because he didn't bathe?

"You bunch of little brats! What do you know?!"

Bibi Dong trembled with anger.

She took several deep breaths before barely suppressing the urge to kill every one of these "little bitches." With trembling hands, she typed out a line.

[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: First of all, I haven't done anything to any of you!]

[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: Second, what do you know? What happened between Xiao Gang and me back then wasn't anything like what you're imagining! I never wanted anything from him... that's called love. Do you understand?!]

[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: Finally, let me reiterate this. If you dare keep spouting nonsense, watch out, or I'll tear your mouths apart!]

Meanwhile.

At the Crown Prince's Mansion.

Watching her mother, Bibi Dong, still trying to defend Yu Xiaogang in the Group Chat, Qian Renxue felt the trace of guilt she had developed over her plans to secretly win over Gui Mei and Yue Guan vanish like smoke.

In its place rose an irrepressible resentment and... the frustration of iron that refused to become steel!

[Child Without Parents: Mom, I just don't get it. What exactly do you like about him?]

[Child Without Parents: No money, no strength, and no personal charm! Is it really like Carrot and Big Cat said? You only like him because he doesn't bathe and rocks prison chic?]

She simply couldn't understand her proud, ruthless mother, whose power reached the heavens.

How had she fallen for a useless man like Yu Xiaogang, who had nothing to offer and reeked of hypocrisy and pompous pedantry?

Because he was old?

Because he didn't bathe?

Because of his utterly nonsensical "theories"?

Or because his pitiful look of "unrecognized talent" in his youth could stir a woman's maternal instincts?