A Wife for Winning a Fight? Does the Douluo Continent Have a Rule Like That?

Leng Yaozhu, who had been watching from the sidelines, saw what happened.

A flicker of astonishment crossed her stunning face before she helplessly pressed a hand to her forehead.

This silly boy... she sighed inwardly.

Dugu Yan was still a child, and this was only an ordinary sparring match between Soul Masters.

But could he really just punch a girl like that?

At that moment, Dugu Yan sat sprawled on the ground, clutching her chest.

Her eyes instantly reddened, great beads of tears welling up in them.

Her grandfather had once told her very sternly.

That was a very important part of a girl's body.

If any nasty boy dared touch it, she had to teach him a good, hard lesson!

But now, not only had she been touched, she had also been defeated!

An inexplicable sense of humiliation rose within her.

"Um... are you all right?"

Lu Xuan looked at Dugu Yan, who was on the verge of tears.

Feeling a little awkward, he walked over and reached out to help her up.

Smack!

Dugu Yan slapped his hand away.

Her tears finally began to fall, and she shouted at him indignantly:

"You... you jerk!"

"???"

Lu Xuan's outstretched hand froze in midair, his face covered in question marks.

He scratched his head in confusion.

He had clearly held back, only knocking her away with a light blow.

Why did this little girl look as though he had defiled her innocence and inflicted the greatest injustice in the world on her?

And why was she calling him a jerk?

We're all little brats here.

You're as flat as an airfield.

Nothing's even developed yet. What are you getting so embarrassed about?

Besides... that feeble little "jerk"...

It doesn't pack any punch as an insult!

Girl, do you realize that acting like this...

Will only give a real villain even more wicked ideas!

Still, Lu Xuan had to admit.

With Dugu Yan all teary-eyed and puffing out her cheeks in anger.

And that delicate little face like a porcelain doll, she really was adorable.

Ahem, let me make a solemn declaration first.

I'm absolutely not into little girls. I'm firmly in the mature-woman camp!

Besides, according to the original story...

Dugu Yan would grow up to be a top-tier mature beauty, with a smoking-hot figure and an icy, alluring air!

So there's no reason to zap me now!

Dugu Yan was now haphazardly wiping her tears away with the back of her hand.

Her purple eyes stared stubbornly at Lu Xuan.

She had been defeated and humiliated.

But the pride in her bones would never let her admit defeat.

Something her grandfather had once taught her suddenly surfaced in her mind:

"Yanyan, in this world, strength is everything!"

"As long as you become the strongest female Soul Master, you can take your pick of all the men under heaven!"

That's right!

Dugu Yan silently swore to herself, clenching her little fists tightly.

I'll train hard. I'll become stronger than him!

Once I'm the strongest Soul Master, I'll tie up this nasty boy who humiliated me, drag him home, and make him my man!

Then I'll make him serve me tea and water every day and bully him mercilessly.

I'll repay today's grievances tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold!

If Lu Xuan could have heard Dugu Yan's grand "revenge plan" at that moment.

He would certainly have quipped:

"Woman, that's a dangerous idea!"

Just as the two stared at each other, locked in a somewhat awkward stalemate.

A gentle, fragrant breeze drifted past.

"Oh dear, I'm so sorry. Our little Xuan didn't know his own strength this time. Let me apologize to you on his behalf."

At some point, Leng Yaozhu had strolled over to them.

The Heavenly Phoenix Douluo, normally so lofty and imposing.

Had now tucked away every trace of her sharp edge.

She was like a gentle older sister from next door.

Bending down, she gently picked Dugu Yan up from the ground.

She even stretched out a slender finger and poked the little girl's puffed-up cheek.

"To make up for our little Xuan's mistake, I can grant you three requests."

"Anything you can name, I can help you make it happen," Leng Yaozhu coaxed with a smile.

"Really? Anything?" Dugu Yan's eyes instantly lit up.

If this beautiful big sister, whom even Grandpa was afraid of, helped me...

Wouldn't that mean I didn't have to wait until I grew up?

I could get revenge right now?!

"Of course." Leng Yaozhu smiled and nodded.

Dugu Yan turned excitedly, pointed a small, fair finger at Lu Xuan, and announced loudly:

"Then my first request is that he has to be my man! Second, from now on, he has to listen to me about everything! Third, he isn't allowed to refuse!"

At those words, the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's

Valley seemed to fall silent for an instant.

Leng Yaozhu froze for a moment, then let out a snort of laughter, unable to stop herself from covering her lips and giggling.

As a woman who had also been through that innocent, uncomprehending age.

She saw straight through Dugu Yan's little scheme.

This had nothing to do with understanding love or romance.

The little girl simply thought that "making him obey me" was the harshest punishment and revenge possible.

"All right."

Struggling to hold back her laughter, Leng Yaozhu let her gaze shimmer and went along with the idea.

"But you're both still too young."

"How about this? We'll settle it for now by calling you an 'engaged couple,' and make it official once you've grown up. What do you think?"

"Yes!" Dugu Yan nodded emphatically without the slightest hesitation.

In her simple logic, as long as this "jerk," Lu Xuan, was tagged as hers.

He would have to obey her from then on, so whether it became official sooner or later made no difference.

That way, she could take her revenge on him with every right to do so!

At that thought, the little girl even tipped her chin smugly at Lu Xuan.

Meanwhile, Dugu Bo, standing a short distance away, was already too shocked to speak.

He stood rooted to the spot, his mind completely blank.

The thing he had spent so long painstakingly plotting.

Had been accomplished in one fell swoop, all because of a children's fight?!

Wasn't this far too easy, too dreamlike?!

Yanyan... my wonderful granddaughter, you'll definitely thank Grandpa someday!

Dugu Bo screamed wildly inside.

He trembled all over with excitement, tears streaming down his aged face.

With young Lu Xuan's talent, coupled with his background.

He would surely become an invincible being standing at the pinnacle of the continent!

With this connection.

The tragic fate that had plagued generations of the Dugu Family, leaving them in agony from the backlash of their poison and sending them to early graves.

Might truly come to an end with Dugu Yan's generation!

This was a salvation that generations of the Dugu Family had never dared dream of!

And at the center of the storm, Lu Xuan stood alone, utterly bewildered in the wind.

He looked at the smug Dugu Yan.

Then at Leng Yaozhu, who was smiling like a fox.

Finally, he glanced at Dugu Bo, who was so excited he seemed about to faint, and felt his whole world go wrong.

"Wait..." Lu Xuan was at a complete loss.

"Nobody told me the Douluo Continent had a rule where you get handed a wife just for winning a fight?!"

Lu Xuan suddenly recalled how the protagonists across several generations of the original story had gotten their wives.

Maybe... possibly... that really was how it worked?

A wife for winning a fight—was that actually right?