Keep Digging It Up for Me

Regardless of the initial intention, the result was that everyone around benefited, the academy also gained advantages, and the entire system rose accordingly.

What's this called?

This is called the mindset of someone in a position of power.

Even if it's scheming, it's grand scheming. Even if it's selfish, it's still grand selfishness.

But Huo Yuhao is different.

His selfishness is petty selfishness.

In his eyes, there was only his own romantic feelings and his own little life.

He didn't care about his friends.

He didn't care about the college.

He didn't care about anything— the Spirit Pagoda, the conflicts between Soul Beast and Soul Master, or the future of the entire continent.

All he cared about was whether Tang Wutong was happy and whether he and Tang Wutong could be together forever.

To put it nicely, it's called being devoted.

To put it bluntly, they haven't grown up.

A person who has lived for decades and become Ultimate Douluo still only has those little romantic feelings in his heart, no different from a young boy just experiencing love for the first time.

Why were the First-Generation Seven Monsters able to ensure Shrek's glory for ten thousand years?

Because every one of them, even the most unreliable Ma Hongjun, knew that they should leave something behind for their academy and understood the importance of passing on traditions.

Where is Huo Yuhao?

He was too busy ascending to the Divine Realm to fall in love.

He never considered what would happen to the academy, his companions, or the Spirit Pagoda he had built with his own hands after he left.

He hadn't thought about it.

Or rather, he thought of it, but didn't care.

Anyway, he's going to live a divine life in the Divine Realm of gods, so what does the mess in the mortal world have to do with him?

This is the difference in perspective.

No matter how wicked or cunning Tang San is, he's still someone playing chess on a chessboard.

Where is Huo Yuhao?

He doesn't even understand that he's just a pawn, yet he spends all his time indulging in his own love and moving himself to tears.

Shrek trying to recreate the original myth?

Stop joking.

The first generation was led by a powerful figure who ascended to heaven with six subordinates, leaving behind a legacy that paved the way for the academy for ten thousand years.

What about this generation?

One love-obsessed guy led a bunch of others to their deaths, and he ascended to immortality. The rest of them went back to their old ways, and the academy gained nothing but a good reputation.

Reissue?

Replica my foot!

It would be good enough if they didn't squander the fortune left by the first generation.

Shrek Cafeteria.

Wang Dong'er slowly loosened her clenched fist.

She stood by the window, gazing at the shimmering waves of Sea God Lake in the distance, and remained silent for Jiujiu.

"The players... and the pieces."

She repeated the words from her diary in a low voice, a cold smile curving her lips.

Tang San is a chess player.

Huo Yuhao is a pawn.

And what about Wang Dong'er, or rather Tang Wutong?

It was just a rope that Tang San used to tie the chess pieces together.

"This debt..."

She raised her head, gazing at the starry sky above, a resolute chill surging in her eyes.

"I'll settle things with him sooner or later."

It wasn't just for her own sake.

It's also for Mu En, for Bei Bei and the others, and for everyone at Shrek who has been used as pawns for the past ten thousand years.

The Far North.

Ice Empress stretched, and the extreme cold around him surged slightly.

"Alright, reading this diary today was quite satisfying."

She turned to look at Snow Empress, her icy green eyes gleaming. "What do you think will happen next? I'm getting more and more curious."

Snow Empress slowly opened her eyes, her snow-white eyelashes trembling gently.

"Just keep watching."

Her voice remained cool and clear, but there seemed to be a subtle hint of expectation at the end.

Star Dou Forest, at the bottom of the Lake of Life.

Gu Yuena's purple eyes returned to complete calm.

Huo Yuhao is not a threat.

The one who truly matters is the one who has been hiding behind the scenes in the Divine Realm, orchestrating a game of chess for ten thousand years.

Tang San.

She gently closed her eyes.

Since we're on the topic, let's talk about how Tang San used his daughter as a pawn.

We can't just say Huo Yuhao is bad and Tang San is good, right? If we say that, we'll turn that bastard Tang San into a saint.

I just mentioned so much negative information about Huo Yuhao. Yes, negative information, not bad things. I didn't smear Huo Yuhao. It's really like that. I didn't smear him. So all I'm saying is negative information.

Next, let's talk about Tang San's scandals.

Actually, the biggest scandal involving Tang San is definitely the one about abandoning his daughter to use her as a pawn and a tool.

Other things, such as being treacherous and cunning, or ungrateful, are nothing compared to this. Let's talk about the biggest one.

Before the time travel, many people thought that Tang San sent Tang Wutong down to the mortal realm to give her experience, which was an expression of fatherly love.

Stop joking.

Have you ever seen a father train his daughter by sealing her memories, placing her next to a man, and forcing her to grow up with him, so that she naturally falls in love with him in the end?

Is this what you call experience?

This is called mating, isn't it?

From the very beginning, Tang Wutong did not descend to the mortal realm as an independent person. She descended as a rope for Tang San to tie down Huo Yuhao, and as a "reward" prepared for Huo Yuhao.

Just look at Huo Yuhao's life trajectory.

Orphaned at a young age and subjected to countless scornful treatments, she left the White Tiger Duke's Estate, entered Shrek, met Wang Dong, grew up together, experienced life and death together, and their feelings for each other deepened.

It all seemed like a match made in heaven, a love destined by fate.

But the question is, was all of this really just a "coincidence"?

Who is Tang San?

The God Realm Enforcer control the fate of the three realms; they can even predict when a person will die or be born.

Would he not know who his daughter would meet after descending to the mortal realm? Would he not know how far Huo Yuhao would grow in the future?

He knew.

He not only knew about it, but he also personally arranged it all.

Why did Tang Wutong, after descending to the mortal realm, end up at Shrek? Why was she assigned to the same dormitory as Huo Yuhao? Why was she forced to be a girl disguised as a boy, making them share a bed every day?

coincide?

There aren't that many coincidences in this world.

Behind every coincidence lies an unseen hand at work.

Tang San needs Huo Yuhao as a pawn.

Huo Yuhao possesses the Ultimate Ice, Mental Attribute, Million-Year Soul Ring, and the potential to grow into Ultimate Douluo or even Divine-level being—all manifestations of the destiny of Child of Destiny.

Tang San naturally had to keep such a person firmly under his control.

How to catch it?

Benefits? Huo Yuhao was just a poor kid back then, he had nothing. Giving him benefits too deliberately would easily arouse suspicion.

Power? Giving power directly would be counterproductive and could easily cause the pieces to become uncontrollable.

What is the best approach?

emotion.

Let his daughter date him, make him fall head over heels in love with Tang Wutong, and make him willing to give everything for Tang Wutong.

In this way, the piece will never leave the board.

You'll understand once you see what Huo Yuhao did later.