Tang Hao Makes His Move

"If you won't come with us, then you're just being stubborn."

Wang Dong'er said.

"Keeping one's word is a fundamental virtue."

"But this Shrek Academy is clearly a Swindler Academy. I don't care what you do, but Big Sister Xiao Wu absolutely cannot waste her time here."

"Don't say that." Xiao Wu tugged at Wang Dong'er. "Tang San, why don't you come with us? This Shrek Academy... it really is a scam."

"I... I am not leaving." Tang San looked at Xiao Wu, his expression earnest. "Xiao Wu, stay with me. The academy my teacher recommended cannot be wrong."

"This..." Xiao Wu looked at Tang San, then at Wang Dong'er, and immediately shook her head at Tang San.

Her meaning was clear enough; she simply didn't want to make things too awkward for Tang San. After all, six years of friendship as classmates was hard to come by.

"The three of us are friends, right?"

With unexpected calmness, Tang San asked an irrelevant question.

"Of course," Xiao Wu said.

Wang Dong'er hesitated for a moment before nodding.

"We are friends... so why do you always favor Wang Dong'er and never consider staying with me?"

Tang San asked, looking confused.

"This..." Xiao Wu didn't know how to answer.

"Friendships aren't all the same. You ask why Xiao Wu favors me? Because the heart is naturally biased."

Pointing to the left side of her chest, Wang Dong'er spoke up.

"Tang San, if Xiao Wu and I both fell into the water, you would definitely save Xiao Wu first. You know the reason why yourself."

"Big Sister Xiao Wu choosing to follow me is for the same reason you would choose to save her first. Do you understand now?"

"I don't understand."

Tang San suddenly let out a roar.

His eyes were red, and he looked at Xiao Wu with sorrow, his lips twitching for a long time without being able to speak.

When he looked at Wang Dong'er again, he was filled with resentment.

He suddenly felt like he was living in someone else's shadow.

If Wang Dong'er didn't exist, Xiao Wu would belong entirely to him.

He and Xiao Wu would surely be childhood sweethearts, together until the end.

In his past life, he was an orphan, ignored by everyone.

In this life, his mother was gone, and his father had finally made him feel cared for after he awakened his martial soul, but not long after, his father had left without a word.

To him, Xiao Wu and Wang Dong'er, his classmates of six years, were his best friends.

Now, he had been abandoned by both of them... Despair welled up within him. Tang San's eyes turned scarlet, and a cold aura leaked out, slowly spreading to the surroundings.

Is this killing intent?

His internal Soul Power began to circulate, and Wang Dong'er grew vigilant.

Xiao Wu's expression changed drastically.

This cold aura reminded her of someone.

Bibi Dong, the current Pope of Martial Soul Hall.

Tang San's aura at this moment was extremely similar to the "Divine Slaughter's Domain" that Bibi Dong had unleashed that day.

It was because that Divine Slaughter's Domain had weakened her mother, Da Ming, and Er Ming that her mother had died at the hands of Bibi Dong.

"Tang San, what is the meaning of this? You actually wanted to attack me and Dong'er... We've been friends for six years."

"No, Xiao Wu, I didn't mean to attack you."

Restraining his aura, Tang San came to his senses. He didn't even know what had just happened; it had been uncontrollable...

He explained to Xiao Wu in a panic.

"I don't want to hear your explanations." Xiao Wu shook her head.

If Tang San didn't want to attack her, then the killing intent from just a moment ago had been directed at Wang Dong'er.

Wang Dong'er was her family; she could not forgive Tang San.

"Tang San, I really didn't think you would harbor thoughts of attacking me and Dong'er over such a small matter. I truly misjudged you."

"Six years of friendship are gone today. From this moment on, we will have nothing more to do with each other."

"No, no, Xiao Wu, listen to me, I really didn't mean it."

Tang San's heart raced with anxiety, cold sweat soaking his entire body, but no matter how he explained, it was to no avail.

Wang Dong'er led Xiao Wu toward the exit of the village. Tang San wanted to follow, but Xiao Wu's words felt like a sharp blade piercing his spine, causing him to lose all ability to move. He collapsed to the ground in agony, forced to watch as the figures of Xiao Wu and Wang Dong'er disappeared.

"No...!"

Having lived two lifetimes, Tang San had thought himself a very strong person, yet he could not stop the tears from streaming down his face.

Put yourself in his shoes.

You have two beautiful childhood sweethearts.

You love one of them, but that person's heart no longer has a place for you, and the one occupying that spot is none other than your second childhood sweetheart.

Just today, both of them abandoned you, and because of their martial souls, you cannot even remain friends.

Just thinking about it was suffocating.

The only good news was that Tang San and Xiao Wu had never been together, so he could not really be considered to have been cheated on by Wang Dong'er.

"Pitiful..." Zhu Zhuqing shook her head.

"What's pitiful about it? That girl named Xiao Wu chose to leave with another girl rather than choose him; doesn't that just go to show how pathetic he is?"

Ning Rongrong said.

"To actually lash out at a companion of six years over such a trivial matter—a person like that isn't worth pitying, he deserves it."

"Child, thank you, I feel much better now." Flender muttered, "And thank you for firmly choosing our Shrek..."

Dugu Bo let out an "Hm?", and Flender chuckled, immediately correcting himself: "Swindler Academy, Swindler Academy."

"Senior, do you want me to draw something next to the characters? Like a pig's head? Or a tortoise?"

Tang San did not care about anything happening around him. His grief had reached its peak, and a sense of suffocation surged over him like a flood or a wild beast. Unable to withstand the emotional backlash any longer, he spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.

In the shadows, Tang Hao, who had witnessed everything, saw his rage meter explode.

His child was being humiliated like a stray dog.

The transformed soul beast he had been watching for six years had actually been taken away by a young girl. Today, even if it meant risking discovery and pursuit by Martial Soul Hall, he would vent this anger.

Wang Dong'er and Xiao Wu walked toward the city along the rural dirt road they had arrived on.

A few minutes later, just as the two were about to pass through a bamboo forest, a fierce wind suddenly whipped up within it. Amidst the flying bamboo leaves, the air froze into sharp ice crystals under a frigid killing intent.

Caught completely off guard, bloody gashes were already carved into the bodies of both Wang Dong'er and Xiao Wu.

"Dong'er, are you okay?"

Xiao Wu's face was full of concern; ignoring her own injuries, she gently wiped the blood from Wang Dong'er.

"I'm fine."

Wang Dong'er shook her head slightly. As she looked at Xiao Wu and prepared to stop her bleeding, the wounds on her own body began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Look, the Lovesick Heartbreak Red is working. As long as you're okay, I can rest easy."

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