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Chapter 36

Valley of Qiankun Questioning Love! Wang Dong'er's Self-Termination!

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God knows what the author was on when he wrote this piece of shit plot.

This Valley of Qiankun Questioning Love is supposedly the place where the God of Love died, and it's said to grant rewards if you pass its trials.

Rewards? Ha, I haven't seen a single decent benefit. All it does is disgust people to death and then slap a "test of emotions" label on the whole mess.

Aside from Huo Yuhao and his two companions, others were dragged in to suffer, but I'll rant about them later.

Let's focus our firepower on Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er, those two "crouching tigers, hidden dragons" of stupidity.

Both of them like Huo Yuhao, so the valley forces them into a "only one can survive" PK—the winner lives, the loser dies.

At first, Wang Dong'er tried to cooperate with Wang Qiu'er to find a way out, but Wang Qiu'er never once looked at her properly from start to finish.

Wang Qiu'er genuinely wanted to kill Wang Dong'er.

Of course, the rules changed later to "someone must die to save Huo Yuhao."

As soon as Wang Dong'er heard that, she immediately wanted to protect Huo Yuhao and offered to die herself.

Wang Qiu'er fought tooth and nail to kill Wang Dong'er, and Wang Dong'er handed her head over on a platter—is there anything wrong with that?

On the surface, it seems fine; isn't it just dying for love? Heart-wrenching and moving.

But in reality? It might make sense from their own perspectives, but if you look at the bigger picture—they're all idiots, pure and simple.

Wang Dong'er, you are the successor of the Clear Sky Sect, and your elders back home treat you like the apple of their eye.

You like Huo Yuhao and are willing to die for him, but have you ever thought about your family?

Did they raise you all these years just so you could go out and die for some man?

And at this point, Wang Dong'er didn't even know she was Tang Wutong; she didn't know she couldn't actually die.

When Wang Qiu'er first tried to make a move, Wang Dong'er was quite calm and still wanted to see if they could work together.

At that moment, she at least looked like a rational human being.

But the second she heard "someone must die or Huo Yuhao will," Wang Dong'er immediately stabbed herself—crisp and clean.

She even had the gall to say something righteous about "giving Huo Yuhao to Wang Qiu'er so he can be with the one he loves."

Pah.

You think you're so kind, so devoted, so noble, right?

Huo Yuhao loves you at this moment, you idiot.

Once you die, you're forcing a person Huo Yuhao doesn't even want onto him; do you think he'll be happy later?

You're playing matchmaker for his next wife.

You walk away, feeling at peace with yourself, moved to tears by your own performance—what a pathetic play of self-indulgent martyrdom.

And what about Huo Yuhao? His lover is gone, the person he needed is gone; why the hell do you think he'd be happy?

To put it bluntly, isn't this just for your own pathetic sense of pride?

You want to use this "great sacrifice" to make him feel guilty for the rest of his life, just to show how devoted, how giving, and how amazing you are.

But did you ever ask what he wanted?

If he didn't want you, there'd be no point in dating you in the first place.

Wang Dong'er's whole act is nothing but a useless, self-righteous, self-indulgent, and self-gratifying sacrifice.

It serves no purpose other than to upset her family and stab her lover in the back.

And even then, she acts like she's the one who suffered the most, feeling so wronged.

You might have wiped your hands clean by dying, but how is Huo Yuhao supposed to live after that?

If Huo Yuhao doesn't love you, your death was for nothing.

If Huo Yuhao truly loves you and follows you into death, your death was still for nothing.

If Huo Yuhao loves you but is afraid of death, he'll live the rest of his life in regret and self-loathing—and your death was, yet again, for nothing.

I've racked my brain, and I still can't understand what kind of benefit Wang Dong'er's suicide was supposed to bring.

In truth, in such a shitty situation, the best choice was what Wang Dong'er suggested at the beginning—the two of them working together to find a solution.

This is the Valley of Qiankun Questioning Love; it was stated from the start to be a "test of emotions," not a "slaughterhouse for emotions," and certainly not the "Valley of Qiankun Suicides."

It's looking for emotional depth and attitude, not who can die the fastest.

And even if—even if you exhausted every possible option and found that one person truly had to die—

Setting aside family responsibilities and clan missions, just looking at the emotions involved—

Wang Qiu'er should have been the one to die.

Why? Because you, Wang Dong'er, are the legitimate girlfriend, the one Huo Yuhao truly loves.

What was Wang Qiu'er at that point? Nothing more than an ordinary female friend who had a bit of a crush on Huo Yuhao, not even enough to count as "liking" him.

So, if Wang Qiu'er had died then, Huo Yuhao might have been sad for a while, but his true love would still be there, and he could have gone on living.

But if Huo Yuhao's true love died, leaving behind only a "female friend he had a crush on"—Huo Yuhao would only be more miserable, living a life worse than death.

[If we're calculating this based on emotional debt, if someone absolutely has to die, then Wang Qiu'er dying is the most damn profitable, least loss-making deal.]

Seeing this, the characters truly couldn't hold it in anymore.

Good grief, they knew this Wang Dong'er was stupid, but they never imagined she could be stupid to such a degree.

[Douluo Era 1 God of Evil]: "Not bad, not bad. With a brain like that, she could apply for the record of the lowest IQ in the God Realm."

[Douluo Era 1 God of Evil]: "When the time comes, what's-her-name, Tang San's daughter, right? I'll personally test your IQ!"

[Douluo Era 1 God of Evil]: "Such a precious specimen must be preserved well; it'll come in handy when studying brains in the future."

[Douluo Era 1 God of Destruction]: "The daughter of a future God King, and she can actually be this stupid!"

[Douluo Era 1 God of Destruction]: "Asura, how did you pick your successor? Are you sure there isn't a problem with this Tang San's genes?"

[Douluo Era 1 Asura God]: "How would I know? She's really embarrassing me..."

[Douluo Era 1 Tang San]: "No, is this really my future daughter?"

[Douluo Era 1 Tang San]: "Choosing to commit suicide herself, and then handing her own boyfriend over to another woman—a woman her boyfriend might not even like?"

[Douluo Era 1 Tang San]: "Hiss!"

[Douluo Era 1 Xiao Wu]: "It's over, our future parenting must be the problem. San, if we reach the God Realm in the future, do we need to find a better teacher?"

[Douluo Era 1 Yu Xiaogang]: "That shouldn't be right. If I'm in the God Realm in the future, with me guiding her values, how could your daughter still have problems, San?"

[Douluo Era 1 Yu Xiaogang]: "Could it be that in the future, you'll be too soft-hearted and won't let me educate her?"

[Douluo Era 1 Tang San]: "Ah, is that so? Could it be that I'll be a daughter-obsessed father in the future?"

[Douluo Era 1 Tang San]: "That won't do! If a child is not taught, it is the father's fault! To prevent her from embarrassing us later, it seems that if she is born, I must educate her strictly!"

[Douluo Era 1 Tang San]: "Teacher, I'll be counting on you then! Once you're in the God Realm, you must educate my daughter well!!"

[Douluo Era 1 Yu Xiaogang]: "Leave it to me! With my accumulation as a master of theory, I will definitely be able to educate your girl well in the God Realm!"

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