At the doorway stood Qian Renxue, her skin white and lustrous as jade, golden hair spilling over her shoulders. Her cool, pale-gold phoenix eyes carried the innate authority of a ruler.
Tall and graceful, she wore magnificent robes embroidered with gold that made her look all the more regal, like an angel from the highest heavens. Yet her breathtaking face was filled with anxiety.
With her appearance, an introduction to her appeared in the ink-wash scroll.
[Guest appearance in this performance] [Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong's daughter]
This revelation undoubtedly shocked everyone.
The vast majority of people on the Douluo Continent had no idea Bibi Dong even had a daughter. Only a select few knew, such as Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong herself, and several elders of Spirit Hall's Worship Hall.
Spirit Hall normally took deliberate steps to conceal her existence from the outside world, much less publicly reveal that she was Bibi Dong's daughter.
And when facing Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue had always called her "Big Sister," never "Mother."
That cry of "Mom" had only come because the script forced her to say it.
Qian Renxue was merely making a guest appearance at this moment; her real self was still in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace. Even though everyone had seen her female form, no one knew that beneath Xue Qinghe's exterior was actually Bibi Dong's biological daughter, Qian Renxue.
She stared at the scroll, furious over that cry of "Mom." If she could control the figure in the painting, she would never have let herself call Bibi Dong her mom. From beginning to end, she had never thought Bibi Dong deserved to be her mother!
And Bibi Dong, lying in the sickbed, likewise had no desire for Qian Renxue to jump out and call her mom at a time like this!
What was the livestream room trying to do?!
Was it going to make me suffer the humiliation of the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles script right in front of my own daughter?!
[Ordinary Livestream Room] [Huh???] [Bibi Dong actually has a daughter?!] [She's actually a married woman?!] [Tell me this isn't real!] [She must be an adopted daughter, like with Gu Xingzhou, right?] [Too bad my view is blocked. I can only see the written introduction, so I don't know whether Qian Renxue looks like Bibi Dong.] [Who did it? Qian Renxue, the Qian Family?!] [Does it matter who? At first, I thought this was an old cow munching young grass, but who knew there'd be a twist? It's actually cuckolding!] [Gu Xingzhou really is feasting!] [Oh, please. Secondhand goods? If I looked like Gu Xingzhou, I wouldn't touch her. Qian Renxue, now that's more like it!] [Hey, you're thinking too small! Why not have both?] [Awesome. They won't even let us watch the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles. It'd be a cold day in hell before that mother-daughter combo passed censorship!] [If it can't pass censorship, what's the livestream room bringing Qian Renxue out for?] [To make Bibi Dong die of embarrassment, obviously! Don't forget, this livestream room isn't here to force random couples together. It's here to wreck everyone!]
[Elite Livestream Room] [Xue Beng: Oh? Spirit Hall's Pope actually has a daughter. What a surprise. Too bad we can't see what she looks like.] [Liu Erlong: Qian Renxue... Qian... Is this child from the Qian Family??] [Xiao Wu: Huh? Then is Bibi Dong's husband in the Elite Livestream Room?] [Xiao Wu: After seeing this script, won't he be so furious that he goes after Gu Xingzhou?] [Ma Hongjun: Uh... Sure enough, feast too well and you'll pay dearly for it...] [Oscar: Gu Xingzhou probably won't survive this...] [Dai Mubai: Exactly. Even if Her Holiness doesn't mind, there's no way Qian Renxue's father could be that magnanimous, right? Unless...] [Ma Hongjun: He's got some weird fetish?] [Flender: Shut up, Fatty! What nonsense are you spouting!] [Ma Hongjun: Ah, sorry, sorry! I was wrong! Why did the livestream room post what I was only thinking?! Please don't kill me, sir! I was just making an offhand guess!] [Yu Xiaogang: ...]
Yu Xiaogang watched the scene with a complicated expression, bitterness churning inside him. He had never imagined that Bibi Dong had long since become someone's wife and had a daughter...
The scroll described Qian Renxue as tall and graceful, so she presumably was no longer a little girl. He immediately thought back to the Lantern Festival in Coconut Grove City that year. So the reason Bibi Dong had never shown up was that she already had someone she loved and had been busy bearing and raising a child...
Who was he?
Yu Xiaogang no longer cared. Instead, he found himself hoping Gu Xingzhou could give that man a good dose of anger.
Yet he still couldn't feel happy, because he realized he was actually last in line. Ahead of him stood Qian Renxue's father, then Gu Xingzhou, and only then himself. He might not even get a turn. Although he no longer cared either, that sense of defeat still refused to fade.
Then, within the ink-wash scroll...
After Qian Renxue appeared, Gu Xingzhou called out, "Big Sister, you're here?"
"How many times have I told you not to call me Big Sister! I'm not your sister! Forget it. How is Mom?"
"She's badly hurt. I've given her the best healing pills, but they can only slow her deterioration, not cure her. This ten-year solitary bamboo poison is bizarre, unlike anything I've ever heard of. There's nowhere to even begin. It spreads too quickly, and soul power can't force it out either."
"I was just about to use the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles on Mom. I learned this needle technique from Tang San. After Tang San died, Yu Xiaogang absorbed his martial soul and soul rings. Presumably, his method can cure this poison."
Gu Xingzhou explained.
"Let me try first."
Qian Renxue immediately stepped forward and attempted to force the poison out of Bibi Dong using her soul power.
At the sight, a spark of hope rose in Bibi Dong's heart.
Although the Six-Winged Angel's soul power had no healing effects, its core attributes were holiness and purification. Perhaps it could work against this bizarre, solitary poison.
Qian Renxue poured all her soul power into Bibi Dong through her wound.
She concentrated intensely as holy light flowed, but soon discovered that the poison could neither be purified nor easily forced out.
Desperate to save her mother, Qian Renxue steeled herself and decided to wrap the poison in her soul power, then draw both back into herself. But the poison clung tightly to her soul power and, in a bizarre backlash, followed it into her body!
"Big Sister, stop! You'll get poisoned too!"
Gu Xingzhou hurriedly grabbed her hand, trying to stop her, but Qian Renxue stubbornly refused to let go.
"If I let go, what will happen to Mom?!"
Qian Renxue roared.
Gu Xingzhou couldn't overpower his big sister, so he could only let her continue.
But as Bibi Dong watched this scene, a terrible foreboding rose within her!
If this went on, wouldn't my own daughter end up bedridden from the poison too, lying right beside me?!
What would happen afterward needed no explanation!
Bibi Dong had originally thought the worst outcome would simply be Qian Renxue failing, leaving her unable to escape the fate of Gu Xingzhou using the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles on her.
She had never imagined that wasn't even the worst of it!
The worst outcome was that she and her daughter would both be poisoned, and then the whole family would experience the Tang Sect Thirteen Needles together!!!
Meanwhile,
Upon seeing this scene, Qian Renxue, whose real body was in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, likewise grew so frantic that she burst into tears!
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