[The first possibility was that this had all been arranged by Asura God. Asura God wanted to prop up Little Scumbag. Everyone knew that every protagonist needed a great villain, and Bibi Dong's role was to be the stepping stone on Little Scumbag's path to godhood.]
[After all, before Little Scumbag came along, Bibi Dong had been the most talented person on the entire Douluo Continent. Making such a genius his great villain was perfectly reasonable!]
Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong's face instantly turned deathly pale, and a murderous aura spread around her.
Little Scumbag!
Who exactly was Little Scumbag?
How could she exist only to be someone else's stepping stone? She was the Pope of Spirit Hall. How dare he!
Asura God.
Su Chen really was mysterious. He even knew about the Divine Realm and Asura God. Could it be that she really was just Little Scumbag's stepping stone?
Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
Hu Liena saw her teacher's face go pale and hurriedly spoke up.
"Teacher, please calm down... This is only the first possibility. Someone as powerful as you could never be another person's stepping stone."
"Hmph!"
"Utter nonsense!"
"I won't take it to heart."
Bibi Dong snorted, so furious that she nearly crushed the shaft of the scepter in her hand.
Just as Bibi Dong had said, she had already accepted the Rakshasa God's inheritance.
A stepping stone?
Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
Hu Liena quickly nodded too.
"I'm sure the first possibility isn't right. It should be one of the other two. Let's keep reading, Teacher."
And yet.
How could Hu Liena have known that she really did know how to comfort people!
Elsewhere.
Su Chen continued updating his diary, writing down the second possibility.
[The second possibility was that Bibi Dong's encounter with Yu Xiaogang had been part of Yu Xiaogang's scheme from the very beginning.]
[As we said earlier, Yu Xiaogang's Soul had mutated, and he'd suffered endless humiliation in his clan. He was desperate to prove himself, and he really needed Spirit Hall's records!]
[But never mind whether he was useless or not, as a member of the Blue Tyrant Clan, there was no way he could get his hands on Spirit Hall's high-level confidential records. So he definitely needed someone to help him.]
[Anyone who could help him access Spirit Hall's core records would have to be an important figure in the organization. They'd have to be a Titled Douluo, an elder, or a Platinum Bishop. But could someone like that really be used by Yu Xiaogang?]
[That's why the innocent and kind Holy Maiden, Bibi Dong, was Yu Xiaogang's only hope.]
[For someone who'd grown up surrounded by discrimination and humiliation, manipulating an innocent Holy Maiden of Spirit Hall would be as easy as my bro playing basketball.]
Spirit Hall.
When Bibi Dong read this, it felt as if a knife had twisted in her heart.
"Impossible. Absolutely impossible."
"Xiaogang wasn't that kind of person. Xiaogang absolutely wasn't that kind of person."
Hu Liena watched her usually composed teacher lose control, and her own heart ached.
She hadn't expected her teacher to have such a past, either—to have once been an innocent and kind girl, just like Hu Liena herself.
But!
Her teacher insisted on not believing it, yet she was clearly shaken. From an outsider's perspective, Su Chen's analysis in the diary made a lot of sense!
A useless man who'd been humiliated all his life— even without becoming twisted, would he really have cared about some damned romance?
Hu Liena watched Bibi Dong anxiously, her heart aching for her, and tried to comfort her.
"Teacher, please calm down. There's still a third possibility. I also think the first two are wrong!"
"Right, we still have the third possibility."
The moment the words left her mouth,
the diary said:
[The third possibility was to set aside conspiracy theories: Bibi Dong was an idiot. But I couldn't imagine just how much of an idiot she'd have to be. A loser whom even the people in his own clan looked down on, yet somehow he became the apple of your eye.]
[If your eyes are no good, you can donate them.]
In an instant,
Hu Liena stood there, completely dumbfounded.
Come on!
Was this really how you were supposed to write a diary?
Hu Liena didn't dare say anything now. Every time she tried to comfort her teacher, her own safety was on the line. If she said another word, she'd only make her teacher angrier.
Bibi Dong was so furious she nearly spat up blood.
Bastard!
Su Chen was a complete bastard. You're the idiot! If your methods weren't so mysterious, I'd have you locked in a secret chamber!
How infuriating!
Bibi Dong gritted her teeth, her chest rising and falling violently, as if she were about to leap out and settle the score with Su Chen!
She looked at Hu Liena.
"Nana, I'm going to ask you something seriously. Which possibility do you think it was?"
What?
Hu Liena's heart instantly sank.
Teacher, can you please spare me?
Choosing the first meant you were a stepping stone. The second and third weren't really any different—they both meant you were blind!
"P-perhaps it was because... because..." Hu Liena agonized over it for ages, only to realize she couldn't find a single good quality in the so-called Grandmaster, Yu Xiaogang, to defend him to her teacher!
Boohoo!
Teacher, it really seemed like you'd been blind.
Bibi Dong had been fuming, but seeing Hu Liena struggle for so long without finding any way to comfort her—or even managing to say anything—left her feeling dazed.
She, too, began searching for an answer in her mind.
After a long while,
all Bibi Dong could recall was that Yu Xiaogang had once been a little handsome. She couldn't think of anything else that might explain why she'd fallen for him.
Could it be...
Had she once been just as lovestruck as Nana was now?
The diary continued updating.
[Of course, which possibility it was didn't matter. It couldn't conceal Yu Xiaogang's scumbag nature. No matter why a Holy Maiden helped you, you still turned around and pushed her into a pit of fire?]
[Did he have no idea what kind of useless loser he was? A toad reaching for swan meat—he could've dated Bibi Dong and broken up with her, and that still wouldn't have been enough. He actually wanted to elope with her?]
[How dare he! She was the successor to the Pope's position, raised on Spirit Hall's resources. And this useless, motorbike-riding punk wanted to steal her away?]
[But when Qian Xunji stopped and threatened him, Yu Xiaogang didn't even dare say a word. He just ran off, then held it against Bibi Dong, blaming her for not running away with him and for changing her mind. Did he ever think about the pressure she was under?]
[If he'd had even a shred of courage to risk everything for love, I'd have thought better of him. If he'd given even a tiny bit of thought to her, Bibi Dong's tragedy would never have happened. What a scumbag!]
[Come to think of it! If I were just a level-fifteen nobody, and I eloped with Hu Liena??? Would Bibi Dong end up following in Qian Xunji's footsteps?]
[Shiver~!]
At this point in the diary, Su Chen couldn't help shuddering.
If he eloped with Hu Liena while he only had level-fifteen Soul Power, then—oh man! Would that psycho Bibi Dong be even worse than Qian Xunji?
Qian Xunji had only used one secret chamber.
Bibi Dong might just put him in one too.
Star Dou Imperial City.
Qian Renxue had just left the palace. After seeing the contents of the diary appear in her mind, she immediately felt unable to hold it together.
She'd keenly sensed that there was a hundred percent chance that Bibi Dong's attitude toward her stemmed from this. Bibi Dong had once been Yu Xiaogang's lover, and her father had broken them up. What had happened between them?
Qian Renxue looked up at the sky, her eyes filled with complicated emotions as she recalled the look of disgust on Bibi Dong's face whenever she saw her.
What was your tragedy?
Was that why you hated me so much?
Meanwhile,
it wasn't just Qian Renxue.
At that very moment, all the women who possessed a Diary Copy had also caught wind of a huge secret—the huge secret surrounding Bibi Dong, the Pope of Spirit Hall.
What exactly was her tragedy?
Where did the old road lead?