The Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong froze.
Su Chen.
A transmigrator.
He really did know everything. He even knew what had happened to her and the painful experiences she'd buried in the depths of her heart!
He understood her all too well.
But.
What worried Bibi Dong now wasn't that Su Chen might expose her past. It was his final sentence. It had caused a crack in her unyielding resolve to take revenge.
If.
Given Nana's behavior now, if Su Chen had no mysterious diary and was only a Level 15 Soul Master, would she agree to let him be with Nana just because he was handsome?
No!
She wouldn't agree!
She had already been raising Nana to take over from her. How could she let some good-for-nothing lay a finger on her?
So what would she do?
Bibi Dong's face twisted with pain as she struggled inwardly!
If that were the case.
She would forcibly lock Nana away. If Nana still wouldn't give up, she would find someone to force her into marriage... She would...
How was she any different from him?
No!
That wasn't true!
She wouldn't!
Bibi Dong's heart waged a fierce battle within her, plunging her into turmoil... That's right. I did nothing wrong. He ruined me. He ruined me. I'm not wrong to kill him. I'm not wrong!
As she spiraled into madness, murderous intent filled the entire Pope Palace, and the temperature turned icy.
Suddenly.
A warm current flowed from the Diary Copy into Bibi Dong's body. The agony in her mind instantly shattered, and she emerged from the endless darkness.
Hu Liena had never seen her teacher lose control like this. The icy killing intent all around them nearly made her crumple to the floor.
Seeing that Bibi Dong was recovering, Hu Liena hurried up to the dais and took her hand, calling gently:
"Teacher."
At her words, two scorching tears fell from Bibi Dong's eyes.
"Nana, promise me."
"If you ever fall in love with someone, tell me beforehand. You must listen to my advice, all right?"
Hu Liena threw herself into Bibi Dong's arms and replied softly, "Teacher, I'll remember."
Though she didn't know what had happened to Bibi Dong, she could tell it must have been an unbearably painful memory.
The diary updated again.
[Ptui! You didn't think that was all, did you? At most, that makes him a scumbag, not a human-shaped cesspit. What really makes him one is that after Qian Xunji broke up the couple and he ran away, he got together with his own cousin.]
[Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang's cousin—his actual cousin! I'm a pervert, and even I think that's seriously messed up!]
[First Tang Yuehua falls for her own brother, Tang Hao, and now Yu Xiaogang falls in love with his cousin, Liu Erlong. No wonder they call this the Love Continent!]
Moonlight Pavilion.
Bang!
Tang Yuehua had been quietly enjoying the gossip, but she lost focus and dropped the book in her hand.
Her expression made it clear that someone had ripped open the deepest wound in her heart.
The gossip had come back to bite her?
One of the noble students below asked with concern:
"Teacher, are you all right?"
Like a startled Xiao Wu, Tang Yuehua collected herself and calmly said:
"I'm feeling a little unwell. I'll go rest."
This was terrifying.
How did Su Chen know everything?
Crown Prince Mansion.
Qian Renxue had just returned. She read the diary and instantly stood there, utterly dumbfounded.
Oh, heavens!
She could hardly bear to imagine it.
Teacher Yuehua had actually... actually...
A dimly lit cave.
A nondescript Blue Silver Grass.
Inside the tiny plant lay a vast, pitch-dark space, where a beautiful, blue-haired woman stood.
Ah Yin.
She was just as shocked. The gossip had come back to bite her, too.
Ah Yin knew Tang Yuehua, of course. And Tang Yuehua's older brother, Tang Hao, had to be either Tang Hao or Tang Xiao...
This was completely absurd.
And yet.
Ah Yin was praying that she might one day become one of the lucky audience members, so the diary would write something about her son.
Tang San: I'm sweating bullets.
Holy Soul Village.
Tang San and Xiao Wu had graduated, and next they were due to report to Shrek.
At that moment, Xiao Wu was munching on a carrot as she watched Tang San smithing. She felt immensely relieved that she and Third Brother weren't related by blood!
"Third Brother, do you think anyone in this world could fall in love with their own brother or cousin?"
"I mean, in a romantic way."
Tang San froze at her question. He thought for a moment, then said:
"If they aren't related by blood, I suppose it's acceptable, as long as they don't care what society thinks."
"But if they are related by blood, then it goes against human decency and is utterly immoral."
Xiao Wu nodded firmly, then her expression suddenly turned complicated.
Third Brother!
Do you know that person is your teacher?
Xiao Wu didn't say anything. She'd never thought much of Yu Xiaogang to begin with; she only respected him because he was Tang San's teacher.
After seeing all this in the diary, she felt utterly helpless.
There was nothing she could say.
Yesterday, when she'd first discovered the diary's magic and tried to tell Tang San, she'd been zapped by electric shocks. She'd nearly ended up as a roast rabbit.
The diary updated again.
[We've wandered off topic. Let's get back to Yu Xiaogang. Here's the million-soul-coin question: did he know Liu Erlong's identity beforehand or not?]
[Yu Xiaogang was known as the Grandmaster. He suffered endless humiliation from childhood because of his Martial Soul Mutation, and was eventually driven out of his clan. He was able to compile the Ten Great Martial Soul Theories, and because he'd been mocked over his own mutation, he studied all kinds of Martial Soul Mutations and bloodline inheritances.]
[Sure, we call him a good-for-nothing, but he must have read an awful lot. Besides, Liu Erlong was the daughter of his second uncle. Even if she was an illegitimate child, her Martial Soul had mutated... do you think the clan wouldn't have recorded that in its archives?]
[Fine! Let's say Yu Xiaogang never saw those records. But Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender were able to develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill together. Were they really so unfamiliar with each other?]
[And the Martial Soul Fusion Skill was the damn Golden Sacred Dragon. Could it have been any more obvious?]
[It's just ridiculous! Fire Dragon, Golden Sacred Dragon—both of their Martial Souls came from mutations of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. They even figured out a Martial Soul Fusion Skill together, and you're telling me they never talked about it??]
[Here's what happened.]
[On their wedding day, his second uncle showed up, and Yu Xiaogang vanished from the face of the earth. No sense of responsibility or courage—none of it!]
[Imagine a woman being told on her wedding day that her groom is her cousin, only for the man she loves (her cousin) to vanish without a trace, leaving her alone to face society's ridicule, her family's humiliation, the loss of her lover, and every other kind of pain. It's hard to imagine how Liu Erlong endured it without taking her own life!]
[Just like Bibi Dong back then, trapped in a dark chamber, enduring despair and wishing she were dead. If she hadn't needed to protect Yu Xiaogang, she might have taken her own life long ago.]
[The irremovable shadows in both these women's lives were all caused by Yu Xiaogang, that spineless good-for-nothing. If that doesn't make him a human-shaped cesspit, what does?]