Su Chen narrowed his eyes and leaned against Hu Liena, recalling the past as he let loose with his criticisms!
That's right.
He was letting loose!
[Bibi Dong was the youngest Pope in Spirit Hall's history, hailed as its most powerful leader and the finest Pope of all time. She founded the Spirit Hall Empire and became its first empress, and was one of Slaughter City's gods of slaughter. She was the second person in history to possess Twin Martial Souls and the first to resolve the backlash between them. As the Pope and supreme ruler of Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong was the most authoritative figure in the Soul Master World, the object of every Soul Master's reverence.]
[Some thought Bibi Dong was irredeemably evil; others thought she was a tragic figure. My take? Every pitiable person has something hateful about them.]
[At the end, Yu Xiaogang said: "She's not only the sort of person who stops at nothing to achieve her goals, but also an incredibly patient and formidable woman."]
[And Hu Liena said: "She's actually had a very hard life, too."]
Hu Liena was completely stunned.
I didn't.
Don't say random things.
If she hadn't needed to keep her identity secret, Hu Liena would have shut Su Chen up herself.
Well, shutting his mouth wouldn't have helped!
[So let's say this: if Little Scumbag didn't have protagonist luck, Bibi Dong's life would have been a power fantasy about a remarkable woman.]
[Like Hu Liena, Bibi Dong was an orphan. Because of her extraordinary talent, she was brought to Pope Palace, where Qian Xunji took her in as his disciple. She became Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden.]
[Thanks to her extraordinary talent and Twin Martial Souls, Bibi Dong enjoyed her master's affection and a princess's treatment despite being an orphan. Qian Xunji even raised her to be the next Pope.]
[Her life should have been happy and brilliant, until that scumbag appeared—Yu Xiaogang. He destroyed Bibi Dong's life completely.]
At the same time,
all the women who possessed a Diary Copy were gritting their teeth in anger.
Yu Xiaogang!
That scumbag Yu Xiaogang again!
[Bibi Dong falling in love with Yu Xiaogang was a mistake from the start. She was Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden, the next Pope Spirit Hall was grooming, yet she fell for the son of one of Spirit Hall's enemies—a worthless good-for-nothing, no less.]
[Imagine raising your successor with your own hands, only for her to fall for your sworn enemy's son. How furious would you be?]
[People say Bibi Dong was hateful, and this is exactly why. You were an orphan who received every honor and resource Spirit Hall could offer, yet instead of repaying that kindness, you went and did something like this. How could that not be hateful?]
[So, that's what I mean when I say every pitiable person has something hateful about them. To Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong was nothing but an ungrateful wretch.]
Spirit Hall.
The Pope's Bedchamber.
Bibi Dong clenched her fists so tightly she was desperate to drag Su Chen into a secret room.
Bastard!
Couldn't you show me a little mercy? You just had to tear into me like that?
Damn it!
Just you wait. I'll make you pay.
I want to see just how good you are at running your mouth, Su Chen.
Of course, Bibi Dong had nothing to say about the contents of Su Chen's diary...
She couldn't argue with him!
[There may be another reason for this, too: the manipulation by Asura God and Sea God that I wrote about yesterday. They needed to make Little Scumbag the villain.]
[Anyway, either Asura God and Sea God were manipulating things, or Bibi Dong was just blind and ungrateful. Now that we've covered what made her hateful, let's talk about why this woman was pitiable!]
[When Qian Xunji discovered that Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang were in love, he decided to separate them. And who wouldn't? No one could stand by and watch their disciple get led astray by a good-for-nothing.]
[Of course, first love cuts deep. Even after Qian Xunji drove Yu Xiaogang away and locked Bibi Dong up, her heart had already been stolen by Yu Xiaogang.]
[What could he do next? Qian Xunji must have been furious. In the end... he took the extreme route, entering the game himself to turn the tables!]
[Everyone hates Qian Xunji, yet everyone wants to be Qian Xunji.]
The Pope's Bedchamber.
Bibi Dong had been lost in painful memories as she read. But when she saw that last line, she instantly felt as if the world had turned upside down.
Everyone hates Qian Xunji, yet everyone wants to be Qian Xunji?
Damn it! Su Chen, you bastard! What kind of nonsense are you writing???
Everyone hates Qian Xunji? Do you want to be Qian Xunji too, Su Chen...? You damn lecher!
Furious, Bibi Dong grabbed whatever she could find in the bedroom and hurled it around. She wanted to seize Su Chen and point her External Soul Bone at him, then ask him to his face: Do you really want to be Qian Xunji?
The Crown Prince Mansion.
In the secret room, Qian Renxue read this and froze, her eyes unfocused.
So... is what happens next what I think it is?
Is that how Father got you?
Qian Renxue was losing control of her emotions. She couldn't help thinking that if this was true, she might finally understand why Bibi Dong had treated her so cruelly all these years.
Was this the answer I wanted?
[I don't know if I can write the details in this diary. Anyway, the result was that Qian Xunji forced himself on Bibi Dong and made her give birth to a daughter—Qian Renxue.]
[Later, netizens gave Qian Xunji the title "Secret Room Douluo."]
[From a man's point of view, I think Qian Xunji did what he did to Bibi Dong out of sheer helplessness. As the old saying goes, "Love grows with time." Plenty of women throughout history have fallen in love with the men who forced them. If Qian Xunji had felt even a little affection for her, then taking her first time and spending all those years together should have been enough to win her over.]
[So I guess Qian Xunji only wanted Bibi Dong to give up on Yu Xiaogang and focus on being a good Pope. He didn't touch her again afterward, and never managed to win her heart.]
[From that point on, the innocent and kind Bibi Dong died, and the Rakshasa God's inheritance came upon her. The first trial of the God Trial: devour the soul of an angel!]
Boom—!
The Crown Prince Mansion.
Qian Renxue couldn't take the blow. She collapsed to the floor, dazed, tears streaming from her eyes as she kept murmuring:
"No, that's not it. It wasn't like that. No... no..."
As far as Qian Renxue knew, Qian Xunji had died of his injuries.
After reading Su Chen's diary, she was overcome with emotion. She couldn't believe any of it was true.
She had gotten the answer she wanted, but the truth hurt too much. She couldn't accept it.
Inside the carriage.
Hu Liena's face had gone deathly pale, and her body trembled despite herself.
She couldn't believe it either.
Her teacher had been forced by the previous Pope, given birth to Qian Renxue, and then killed the previous Pope...
Hu Liena gritted her teeth and pretended to be calm as she continued reading the diary.
[The outcome was plain to see: Bibi Dong completed the Rakshasa God's First Trial, and from then on, the Rakshasa God's evil thoughts controlled her. Her heart began to turn evil, and her feelings for Yu Xiaogang gradually became an obsession, turning her into a madwoman.]
[Didn't I say earlier that every pitiable person has something hateful about them? No one else was to blame for Bibi Dong's tragic fate. Was Qian Xunji really worse than a beast?]
[Not entirely! Qian Xunji's actions were unforgivable, but how was he gravely wounded and killed? He was injured while trying to capture Tang Hao's wife, the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Grass, Ah Yin. By then he had already gathered all his Titled Douluo Soul Rings. There's no doubt why he went after Ah Yin: it was definitely for Bibi Dong.]