A Young Girl's Secret Feelings

"I'm liked!"

"Big Brother likes me!"

Tang Wulin curled up beneath her blanket, so excited that she could not help rolling around on the bed.

Luo Qing's words had clearly produced an unexpected effect.

For the first time, Tang Wulin felt her heart beating so fast.

Even Old Tang in her sea of consciousness could not help asking, "Wulin, what's wrong with you? Your emotions are fluctuating so intensely!"

"Hehe, Big Brother likes me. Someone likes me too!"

It was as if Tang Wulin had not heard Old Tang at all. She simply giggled foolishly to herself.

"What?"

How could Old Tang possibly keep a straight face after hearing Tang Wulin mutter to herself?

"How old is my daughter?"

"And someone's already confessed to her?"

Old Tang truly wished the divine position he had inherited was that of the Thunder God rather than the Sea God.

If it were, he could strike that bastard trying to steal his family's cabbage dead with lightning every day.

Although Old Tang was a soul fragment of Tang San, he had neither the burden of a God King nor any ambition to grow stronger. The only one he cared about was this daughter he had watched grow up.

Unlike his eldest daughter, who had been directly split into two, this daughter left behind on Douluo Star during the God Realm crisis was the sole anchor of this soul fragment.

He could not possibly compete with his main body for a wife, so the only one he could care about was his daughter.

And now, the daughter he had watched grow up already had the mindset of a love-struck fool.

How could this be allowed?

"Wulin, calm down first. What's with that silly grin?"

Old Tang restrained the temper that was about to explode and looked at his still-giggling daughter as he asked.

"Huh? Oh—Big Brother said he liked me today!"

Seeing how hopeless she looked, Old Tang's face was full of disappointment.

"Wipe that expression off your face. Look at yourself. What do you think your Big Brother would think if he saw you like this?"

The moment Tang Wulin caught the key words, her smile vanished at once.

She looked at Old Tang with an inquisitive gaze.

"Then, Old Tang, can you help me see whether Big Brother and I are suited for each other?"

The moment she said that, even with Old Tang's self-restraint, his eyes turned bloodshot and he began panting like a bull.

It was exactly the same reaction as his main body.

"How old are you, little girl? And you're already thinking about romance?"

Old Tang completely ignored his main body's experiences. After all, he was only a soul fragment and had long since cut himself off from those things.

What he needed to do now was replant this little cabbage that was about to be dug away by someone else.

Moreover, the astonishing wisdom inherited from the God King told him that if he flatly refused and denied his daughter's thoughts too forcefully—

His daughter might never trust him again.

"Think, think! What should I do?"

Old Tang racked his brains and came up with an idea.

He looked at Tang Wulin and forced a kindly smile onto his face.

"You want me to see whether you two are a good match? Then you need to tell me the boy's name first."

"It would be best if you could also tell me in detail how you met and what feelings you have for him. Old Tang would never hurt you!"

Tang Wulin naturally had some trust in this person who seemed to share an origin with Ultraman, so she told him everything about their exchanges and experiences.

Old Tang listened in silence, but the more he heard, the more something felt wrong.

"This isn't right! Why does it feel like no one stole the cabbage? The cabbage took the initiative to dig up someone else?"

His expression instantly became spectacular. If he had previously been furious over someone prying away his precious little girl—

Then now, all that remained was helplessness.

He truly had no solution. What girl threw herself at someone like this?

Even his eldest daughter had only become that way after being put under a spell by his main body's heavy-handed methods.

When his main body had hurriedly left Tang Wulin behind, he had merely planted a coordinate.

Old Tang had checked over and over, yet he had found nothing that could affect her emotions or preferences.

Then there was only one conclusion: Tang Wulin was the one taking the initiative to chase after someone else.

The boy was the cabbage!

Tang Wulin looked at Old Tang's constantly changing expression and asked curiously, "Old Tang, are you performing face-changing?"

Hearing that, Old Tang could only stop making faces. He rubbed his face, calmed himself as much as possible, then seriously asked first, "What's that boy like?"

Although Old Tang had already learned about him before, he still wanted to hear what the boy was like from his daughter's perspective.

At Old Tang's question, a smile immediately appeared on Tang Wulin's face.

"Big Brother? Big Brother is like the sun. As long as he stands there, people cannot help wanting to get close to him and feel his warmth."

"He's very considerate and cares about other people's feelings."

"He's very upright, and he seems a little tsundere."

"Tsundere?"

"Yes. Earlier, he clearly looked like he disliked me, but as long as I acted a little pitiful, he softened up."

"He obviously wanted to help me, yet he still acted like he was taking in a little brother, helping me in such a roundabout way."

"On the surface, he says I'm foolish, but in truth, he's terrified I'll get tricked and taken away."

The more Old Tang listened to that description, the more wrong it sounded.

"How is that a boyfriend? Isn't that just a mother?"

He looked at his daughter with a complicated expression.

Although his daughter had yet to recognize him, he still felt that the daughter before him had no future at all.

"How did I give birth to such a love-struck fool?"

He could not understand it no matter how much he thought about it. In the end, he blamed it on the fact that his main body was also a love-struck fool.

"So, what do you want to do?"

Since there was no way to stop her, he could only take things one step at a time.

"I want to get closer to Big Brother step by step, then confess my feelings on a suitable holiday, walk into the hall of marriage with him, and have a few adorable babies."

As she spoke, a foolish grin appeared on her face again.

Seeing that his daughter had even thought of their children's names, Old Tang truly felt powerless.

"But have you considered this possibility?"

"It seems that the Big Brother you like hasn't noticed your feelings. And when he said he liked you before, perhaps he didn't mean it in a romantic sense?"

Tang Wulin immediately became angry.

"How is that possible! Big Brother said himself that he liked me! He always keeps his word, so how could he lie to me?"

Old Tang glanced at her. His daughter was truly pitifully foolish.

"Liking someone does not necessarily mean romantic love. You can like family, and you can like friends."

"You can even like things you enjoy."

"How can you be sure that your Big Brother truly has those feelings for you?"

"B-but that doesn't prove he doesn't, either!"

Seeing Tang Wulin's unwilling expression—

Old Tang immediately smiled and held up one finger before her.

"Then let's make a bet. I can provide a way to test it.

"If he truly has other feelings for you, rather than romantic feelings between a man and a woman, then you must not date before you come of age."

"But if it really is as you say, if he truly wants to marry you and spend his life by your side—"

"Then even if Old Tang has to risk these old bones of mine, I'll make the two of you happen!"

Tang Wulin looked at Old Tang and immediately fell into deep thought.

To put it plainly, she was also afraid that what Old Tang had just said might be true. If it were, then would her behavior just now not have been nothing more than one-sided wishful thinking?

But she wanted to know the answer too, and her gaze drifted around the room.

Suddenly, her eyes landed on the comic book spread open on the table. It was open to the page where Daigo held the Divine Light Stick and asked himself that question.

Even as an ordinary human, Daigo could make his own decision when faced with matters of great right and wrong, without hesitation.

What about her?

Tang Wulin's mind seemed to be jolted awake by a thunderclap.

Her muddled thoughts instantly cleared.

That was right. No matter what she did, she could not hesitate and refuse to move forward.

Tang Wulin extended her hand and hooked pinkies with Old Tang.

"Fine, then I'll take that bet!"