Dong'er, My Sister

Although Bibi Dong surpassed Qin Xuan in every aspect of strength, her movements were restricted by the need to hold her disheveled collar closed with her left hand, leaving her unable to fully unleash her abilities. Qin Xuan narrowly evaded her attacks time and again.

"Hey, Sister Dong'er, if you don't stop, you're going to draw people over," Qin Xuan said shamelessly as he dodged.

"So what? Let's see whether they listen to you or me. When that happens, I can still catch you." Bibi Dong intensified her assault.

"Of course they'll listen to you, but is it really okay for people to see you looking like this?" Qin Xuan suddenly leaped backward, performing several consecutive backflips in midair before landing atop a large tree and putting distance between himself and Bibi Dong. They stared at each other from afar.

Bibi Dong's rumpled, wrinkled collar and slightly disheveled hair looked wrong no matter how one looked at them.

Qin Xuan added, "Besides, you don't want anyone else finding out about this, do you?"

At those words, Bibi Dong immediately deflated like a punctured balloon. Her face shifted from green to purple, and after holding it in for a long while, she finally squeezed out, "Y-you'd better not let this get out, or I'll kill you."

"Of course, of course. I still want to leave Slaughter City alive, then marry you and bring you home."

Qin Xuan wore a playful grin, but his expression carried a deeper meaning.

A blush spread across Bibi Dong's pretty face as she snapped in embarrassed anger, "Bastard, don't even think about it. I will never marry you. And you have to keep Xiaogang's matter secret too, or I'll still kill you."

"Yes, yes, my Lady Saint. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first. If someone finds us later, I don't really care. I'm a man about to die, with a worthless life. But you... tsk, tsk."

Qin Xuan clicked his tongue. He was still in a hurry to open blind boxes.

"Wait." Just as Qin Xuan was about to leave, Bibi Dong's hesitant voice sounded by his ear.

"What is it?"

"Don't die in Slaughter City."

Qin Xuan smiled. "What, worried that if I die, no one will marry you?"

Bibi Dong inwardly spat at Qin Xuan's shamelessness. Yet she did not get angry. After all, they had known each other since childhood. Somewhat sorrowfully, she said, "It's just that if you die, then in Spirit Hall, apart from Xiaogang, I won't have any other friends left."

Qin Xuan gave a wicked smile. "Doesn't that mean you can't bear to part with me?"

Before awakening the system, he might have felt his future was bleak. But now that he had a cheat, going to Slaughter City was imperative.

After all, that Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core would be of immense use to him. In some respects, it was even more precious than a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, comparable to an Immortal Herb.

It could give the Vermilion Bird sealed within his Martial Soul a chance to evolve.

"Pah, keep dreaming. The one I like is Xiaogang. If you dare mention this again, you won't even need to go to Slaughter City. I'll slaughter you right now."

As Bibi Dong spoke, two yellow, two purple, and two black Soul Rings rose beneath her feet. She was about to summon the Death Spider Emperor.

Qin Xuan hurriedly admitted defeat. "Don't, don't. I can't beat you." Bibi Dong possessed the Death Domain. The gap in strength between a Soul Master with a domain and one without was enormous, not to mention the vast difference in their Soul Power.

Even if their Soul Power were equal, before his cheat had been converted into actual strength,

he was not confident he could defeat the undisputed Twin Martial Souls genius of the Douluo Continent.

"Then hurry up and get lost." Bibi Dong said in embarrassed fury, "You'd better keep today's matter buried in your stomach. Otherwise, even if you die in Slaughter City, I'll drag you out someday and whip your corpse."

"Then I'll accept your auspicious words." Qin Xuan left with a smile.

After that farce, the two could be said to have let bygones be bygones.

At the same time, Qin Xuan realized that Bibi Dong before her descent into darkness was genuinely easy to placate.

Though somewhat proud and arrogant, she was innocent, kind, adorable, and endearingly foolish.

Before awakening his memories, why had the original owner been stupid enough to act like a simp?

If he had possessed his current methods back then, what place would Yu Xiaogang have had?

Sigh, he could only take things one step at a time.

Once Qin Xuan left,

the forest returned to its former tranquility.

"That bastard. How did he change so much overnight? Could this be the real him?"

Bibi Dong was furious. She stomped her foot hard and muttered as she adjusted her clothes. Recalling how Qin Xuan had ambushed her earlier, her cheeks burned fiercely.

Perhaps even she had not realized that compared with the "simp" from before, the current Qin Xuan was not as repulsive to her as she had imagined.

Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang was having a miserable time.

As a master schemer, how could Yu Xiaogang not know about Qin Xuan's feelings for Bibi Dong?

But in the past, Bibi Dong had been completely under his thumb. Whatever he wanted, she gave him. She was practically at his beck and call.

Toward other men, on the other hand, she had always been disdainful, including Qin Xuan.

Yu Xiaogang did not believe Qin Xuan could pose any threat to him.

At the same time, this was what allowed him to remain composed and self-assured in front of Qin Xuan.

Whenever anyone showed him disrespect, Bibi Dong would stand on his side.

But things had changed after Bibi Dong went into the woods with Qin Xuan.

Yu Xiaogang began to grow anxious and uneasy.

Though he still did not believe Qin Xuan could steal Bibi Dong from him, one could never be too careful.

Especially when the other party held leverage over him. What if Bibi Dong compromised because of him?

At that thought, a nameless fire surged within Yu Xiaogang. It felt as though a hundred thousand alpacas had trampled through his heart, and his head felt covered in green.

[Yu Xiaogang's resentment +2888]

[Yu Xiaogang's resentment +2776]

He wanted to go over and investigate, but the moment he took a step, he hesitated.

Yu Xiaogang was that kind of person: insecure, arrogant, selfish, self-centered, and yet exceedingly cowardly.

A scum who could abandon his wife on their wedding night, flee alone, and disappear for twenty years—one could imagine just how ugly and vile his heart was.

As he struggled with himself, footsteps sounded from deep within the forest.

Hearing them, Yu Xiaogang thought it was Bibi Dong and was instantly overjoyed.

"Bibi Dong—" Yu Xiaogang abruptly turned, but his voice came to a halt.

Qin Xuan strolled out leisurely. The moment he saw Yu Xiaogang, he checked his Emotion Points and found they had already exceeded ten thousand, filling him with delight. Then he heard Yu Xiaogang say, "Qin Xuan, why are you alone? Where is Bibi Dong?"

"What did you call me? And is the Lady Saint's name something a mere librarian like you can call?" Qin Xuan said with a smiling face, immediately giving Yu Xiaogang a show of dominance.

Yu Xiaogang's expression changed slightly. He forcibly suppressed his resentment and anger, then changed his words. "Lord Qin Xuan, why didn't the Lady Saint come with you?"

"How could the whereabouts of the Lady Saint be something a little lackey, a little librarian like you can speculate about? Just wait here properly."

"No matter when it is, you must know your place and weigh your own worth. If you dare violate the oath you swore earlier, I will absolutely do as I said."

"And another thing." As Qin Xuan spoke, he placed his right hand on Yu Xiaogang's shoulder and leaned close to whisper into his ear, so softly that only the two of them could hear.

No one knew what exactly he said into Yu Xiaogang's ear, but Yu Xiaogang's anger instantly reached its peak.