Tang San: I Wasn't Guarded!!

Seeing Tang San disregard the sect rules and audaciously steal the sect's supreme arts, the women all wore expressions of contempt.

Heavenly favored daughters from major powers, like Ning Rongrong, felt a surge of indignation rising in their hearts.

Rules are rules; how could such behavior ever be permitted?

Tang San was truly a source of evil, his character so base and despicable.

Even Bibi Dong felt her impression of Tang San plummet to the absolute bottom at this moment.

Although she had committed similar acts in the past, her own actions did not prevent her from despising Tang San for his.

Especially now, as the Pope of Martial Soul Hall, she found such conduct even more intolerable.

[Did Tang San succeed in his theft? Naturally, he did—he is the protagonist, after all!]

[Just like that, Tang San began practicing the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. However, good times don't last; the secret learning was eventually exposed, drawing a pursuit from the upper echelons of the Tang Sect.]

[Tang San fled all the way until he reached Ghost Sorrow Cliff. It is a precipice where, it is said, if you drop a stone, it takes nineteen seconds to hear the echo—a place even more formidable than the eighteen levels of hell, hence the name Ghost Sorrow.]

[The plot is obvious by now: Tang San has nowhere left to run. Either he gets dragged back to suffer every imaginable torture before dying a miserable death, or... he takes a leap.]

[Our clever protagonist Tang San naturally chose the latter. Before jumping, he even gave it a high-sounding justification, claiming he had not betrayed the Tang Sect and was willing to prove his loyalty with his death.]

[No, seriously, isn't that ridiculous? He is clearly a petty thief who ignored sect rules, yet he speaks with such righteous indignation, acting as if he were some kind of loyal martyr.]

[If you really had that kind of resolve, you shouldn't have run away when you were discovered.]

[Oh, but the moment you realize you can't escape, you start talking about proving your loyalty with death and remembering the Tang Sect's kindness? How laughable!]

The women nodded silently.

Indeed, if he truly had the resolve, why not just turn himself in?

Why run away when caught?

To pull this act only after having nowhere left to run—isn't it disgusting?

[Then came something even more absurd: before jumping, Tang San stripped himself bare, claiming that he came from the Tang Sect and would leave as a ghost of the Tang Sect. Let's just say, this train of thought is truly one of a kind.]

The women: ...

They had finally realized that this Tang San was truly deranged.

There wasn't a single thing he did that they could understand.

[Following Tang San's leap, the scene shifts to Douluo Continent.]

[At that time, Tang Hao was locked in a fierce battle with Qian Xunji, a conflict that raged for three days and three nights.]

[By the way, didn't the Diary ask whether Tang San could still be considered Tang Hao's son? Actually, the answer is already quite obvious; the original text mentioned it.]

[When Tang San gained consciousness, he only vaguely heard the cries of Ah Yin, but he had absolutely no understanding of the specific situation.]

[This indicates that he was neither born into the world as a soul nor did he break through the veil of the womb to recover memories of a past life.]

[Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to have no impression of Ah Yin or the cause and effect of that battle.]

[Furthermore, Tang Hao and Qian Xunji fought for three days and three nights; how could a newborn infant possibly survive in the midst of that?]

[Therefore, many netizens from my past life said that the real Tang San died during that battle. The current Tang San is merely a cuckoo in the nest—it doesn't even qualify as soul possession.]

[Because if it were soul possession, he would at least have the memories of the original Tang San. Unfortunately, he does not.]

Su Ye poured his thoughts into the Diary, even providing subtle explanations for certain terms, fearing others might not understand.

Sure enough!

Once Ah Yin understood what it meant to be born into a world or to have one's body possessed, she collapsed without needing any further provocation from Su Ye.

She could no longer deceive herself; her child might truly have...

The others also felt they had learned something new—they hadn't realized there were so many ways to transmigrate.

But then another question arose: how did Su Ye himself transmigrate?

Hmm, that is a question. I'll have to post a thread and ask about it later.

[The next few years were relatively dull; Tang Hao defeated Qian Xunji and took Tang San into seclusion.]

[However, "dull" isn't entirely accurate. There were still some small stories and points of contention, such as: did Tang Hao actually know about Tang San's situation?]

Right, did Tang Hao know that his son's soul had been replaced by an adult from another world?

The women were suddenly curious again, while also wondering: if it were them, would they have been able to tell?

Ah Yin stared at the Diary, a glimmer of hope sparking in her eyes, though it was unclear what she was expecting.

[The original work doesn't explicitly state this, but many netizens from my past life have reached a consensus.]

[What is it? Listen to what I have to say next, and you'll understand.]

[I have to say, Tang San's childhood was quite bitter because his father, Tang Hao, didn't care about anything. He just drank every day and didn't even cook. Tang San had to take on the responsibility of caring for his deadbeat father at such a young age.]

[To be honest, the first time I read this, I was quite angry. I felt Tang Hao was truly a piece of work.]

[After all, that was his son. No matter the reason or how depressed Tang Hao was, he shouldn't have tortured his own child, right?]

[Tang San had to wash clothes and cook from the age of two—is this something a normal person would do?]

The corners of the women's eyes twitched; they had not expected the renowned Clear Sky Douluo to raise his child in such a manner.

But they quickly realized that, judging by this, Tang Hao must have discovered something.

Otherwise, he wouldn't treat Tang San this way. Just as Su Ye said, that was his own son; what kind of father would be so harsh to his own flesh and blood?

Sure enough, Su Ye's next words confirmed their suspicions.

[You can actually tell from this point that Tang Hao definitely discovered something. However, it's not that Tang Hao is particularly observant, but rather...]

[Tang San truly didn't take his old man, Tang Hao, seriously.]

[Because the village was full of ordinary people and Tang Hao spent his days drinking, he was the spitting image of a good-for-nothing, alcoholic father.]

[Tang San naturally assumed his father was just an ordinary person, so he didn't exactly... well, I wouldn't say he was completely reckless, but he didn't really pay much mind to hiding things.]

[From the moment he could run, Tang San would head to the back mountain every day to practice the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, occasionally muttering to himself about this world, that world, and the Tang Sect.]

[I mean, if Tang Hao still couldn't figure it out after all that, he might as well just drop dead.]

Uh...

The corners of the women's eyes twitched once more.

To be fair, Su Ye was right. To act like that in front of a Titled Douluo—if he didn't notice, he really shouldn't be alive.

It was likely that Tang San never imagined the ordinary father in his eyes was actually one of the world's top powerhouses.

Tang San: I didn't have my guard up!!!