Na'er: Brother, you're mean!

On the street, Na'er held a candied hawthorn skewer in each hand, one in her left and one in her right. She was enjoying them so much that sometimes she even let Lin Nuo eat half of one.

"Brother, have some."

"Na'er, who gives someone a half-eaten snack?" Lin Nuo said with an amused smile.

Na'er showed no sign of giving in. Her voice was full of hurt and displeasure. "Then you have to eat it, Brother! Otherwise, it means you don't love me anymore. You must like that female pervert more!"

Lin Nuo: "?"

He hadn't expected Na'er to bring up Tang Wuling every other sentence, calling her a female pervert at every turn. What was this, were they going to become bickering love rivals?

With no other choice, he raised his hands in surrender. "All right, all right, I'll eat it, okay?" He opened his mouth and ate the strawberry Na'er offered him, the half she had already bitten.

The fruit melted in his mouth, its sweet, refreshing juice spreading across his tongue. The sweetness was just right, and there seemed to be some other flavor mixed in.

And why did he feel like Na'er was marking her territory? It had to be his imagination.

As it happened, fate could be so wonderfully coincidental: the "female pervert" Na'er had just mentioned appeared right in front of them.

Tang Wuling happened to be walking toward them. When she saw Na'er and Lin Nuo, she immediately waved happily. "Brother Lin Nuo! Na'er!"

"Wuling." Lin Nuo nodded.

"Where are you going?" Tang Wuling came right over and asked curiously.

"We're going to get something to eat. Want to join us?"

"Is that okay?" Tang Wuling noticed Na'er's hostile gaze fixed on her, as if it were saying, Say yes, and I'll kill you.

Lin Nuo naturally noticed Na'er's displeasure. He reached out and patted her little head. "Na'er, you're happy to have her join us, right?"

If he wanted the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings to get along peacefully in the future, he'd just have to endure the firepower coming his way.

In short: desensitization.

In the end, at a small restaurant, Na'er sat with narrowed eyes, glaring at Tang Wuling as she dug into her food across the table. Why did that damn Golden Dragon King have to show up here?

Why ruin this wonderful meal with Brother?

And Brother, too.

Na'er turned to Lin Nuo with displeasure and said, "Brother, you're mean!"

She'd paid for the meal herself, and he'd still invited Tang Wuling, that female pervert, along. Did he even care about her?

Hearing Na'er say that about him, Lin Nuo didn't argue. He peeled a shrimp himself and popped it into Na'er's mouth. "All right, all right, it's my fault. I'll peel your shrimp for you, okay?"

Looking at the shrimp, now peeled clean, Na'er saw that her brother had given in. At last, she nodded haughtily. "Fine."

Seeing Na'er's reaction, Lin Nuo felt pleased. Na'er was so easy to appease.

He went on peeling shrimp for her, but Na'er didn't just make him peel them. She lifted her bowl to Lin Nuo, who was busy peeling shrimp, and fed him.

Sitting across from them, Tang Wuling watched the scene with envy. I want that, too...

When the restaurant owner came to settle the bill, he was instantly dumbfounded by the sight before him.

The table was covered in plates stacked into a mountain, and three little kids sat there looking relaxed. Whose kids could eat this much?

Na'er casually pulled out a stack of bills and handed them over. "The bill, please."

"Right away, young miss." The owner happily took the money and went to settle the bill.

Only then did Tang Wuling come to her senses. "Um... Brother Lin Nuo, Na'er, I'll treat you next time."

Na'er ignored Tang Wuling completely. "No need."

Just then, Lin Nuo remembered something and invited Tang Wuling, "Wuling, come by my place. There's something I need to give you."

He'd been wondering how to hand that Soul Spirit over to her. Now that they'd run into each other, and she was alone, it would be easy to give it to her.

Hearing this, Na'er looked at her brother. "Brother, isn't it a little early to give it to her?"

Tang Wuling only had three ranks of Soul Power right now. Na'er felt it was too soon to give it to her.

"It doesn't matter." Lin Nuo didn't think it was too early. As long as he could show Old Tang how good he was, little by little, in advance, that was all that mattered.

As long as he planted a seed in Tang Wuling's heart, sooner or later, the flower that bloomed would crush Old Tang!

Although Tang Wuling had no idea what the two of them were discussing, she still agreed. "Okay."

The three of them walked down the street together. Na'er gripped her brother's hand tightly, like a little dragon guarding its food, and glared at Tang Wuling.

Tang Wuling naturally understood why Na'er was acting that way. She awkwardly rubbed the back of her head, not knowing what to do.

"Relax. Na'er's just like that, but she's a very kind little sister." Lin Nuo noticed the tension and spoke slowly to ease the awkwardness.

"Okay." Tang Wuling nodded obediently. Having been raised with a good education, she understood that Brother Lin Nuo was trying to ease the tension.

Suddenly remembering something, she hurriedly looked at Lin Nuo. "Brother Lin Nuo, I think I heard a voice in my dream yesterday saying something about being my father."

Hearing this, Lin Nuo stopped walking and stared at Tang Wuling with utmost seriousness. He was certain that voice belonged to a clone of Great God King Tang.

Na'er also looked at Tang Wuling curiously. She suspected Tang Wuling was trying to make conversation to get close to her brother. That awful female pervert!

Lin Nuo rubbed his chin and thought for a few seconds before saying, "Wuling, if you hear that voice again tonight, just curse back at it. I'm your dad."

Tang Wuling, the protagonist of this era, could be called the most miserable protagonist in all four Douluo installments. As for the fifth, he hadn't read it.

The Golden Dragon King Bloodline had indeed been the reason Tang San had no choice but to send Tang Wuling down to the mortal world. But was that really the whole story?

Perhaps Tang San had already laid out his plan for the next ten thousand years the moment Tang Wutong was born. He'd planned everything perfectly, only for the Golden Dragon King's seal to break and throw all his plans into disarray.

In other words, Tang Wuling had been living on her own father's chessboard from the very beginning.

By the time of the Dragon King era, Douluo Continent had long since become a chessboard for Sea God Tang San. He was the player, while Tang Wuling's parents were simply carrying out their son's orders.

Every unpredictable variable had to be eliminated, like the Underworld Emperor, that Son of Destiny, and... now him.

He was a little curious about what role he would play on Tang San's chessboard. But Lin Nuo preferred to be the one moving the pieces. A ten-thousand-year plan, huh?

Then Lin Nuo will lay out two ten-thousand-year plans. Let's see how you control the situation.

Inside Tang Wuling's Sea of Consciousness, Old Tang's figure slowly appeared. Seeing Lin Nuo and Na'er through his daughter's eyes, he spoke with a note of satisfaction, his voice softly echoing through the Sea of Consciousness. "The Silver Dragon King, and this inscrutable young man... It seems my daughter's knack for making friends is every bit as good as mine was back then!"