But hold your horses~

The words in the Notebook clearly would not stop updating because of Liu Erlong's inner panic.

[Lu Chen: Growing up without a father's love, then losing her mother to illness-such upheaval during the crucial childhood years when her personality and values were taking shape thoroughly molded Liu Erlong into someone sensitive, irritable, paranoid, and perhaps a little insecure.

I have to marvel at it. Gangzi might be a complete disaster both as a person and as a Soul Master, but he could always spot the easiest woman to manipulate in a crowd at first glance.

You can't judge someone by appearances alone. On the surface, Bibi Dong is elegant, noble, and supremely powerful, one of the handful of people standing at the very pinnacle of the Douluo Continent.

Compared to her, Liu Erlong is far weaker, only a Soul Saint, and fiery and quick-tempered to boot. No matter how you look at them, they don't seem like the same kind of person.

But in reality, aside from how easily Liu Erlong loses control of her emotions and lets anger rule her, acting without much thought, she is extremely similar to Bibi Dong.]

Following Lu Chen's words, the women in the Chat Group thought it over carefully and realized that really did seem to be the case.

[Netherworld: A tragic childhood, tremendous talent, a paranoia prone to extremes, a crazed urge to destroy...]

[Spirit Cat: @Liu Erlong, aside from your IQ being much lower than hers, you really do seem pretty similar?]

[Little Princess: I suggest Auntie Liu Erlong change her group nickname to "Mini Bibi Dong."]

[Ah Yin: Is this what your human literary circles often call substitute romance?]

Despite their complicated, agitated feelings, Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong could not help slowly typing question marks.

The difference was that Bibi Dong was simply disgusted.

Without the influence of the Rakshasa Divine Sense, and after the successive jolts of Lu Chen's bloody facts and her guilt toward Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong had basically completed her shift from loving Gangzi to hating him. All it would take was a few more "courses of treatment" from the Notebook to consolidate the results, and a brand-new T0 character would be theirs-Rational Bibi Dong.

Thus, the thought that Gangzi had actually gone on to dabble in substitute romance, finding a miniature version of her, filled her with an indescribable disgust.

Liu Erlong's feelings were far more complicated: panic, avoidance, anger, confusion, and even a tiny sliver of hatred rising from the deepest recesses of her heart that she herself refused to admit...

Even a pie chart would have struggled to depict her current state of mind.

"Xiao Gang... so I was just a substitute?"

"You never loved me at all?"

[Lu Chen: You can hardly call it love. She was just easy to manipulate, perhaps with a little resentment mixed in.

Gangzi probably never expected Bibi Dong to be so easy to fool, either. So although he successfully withdrew in the end, he later began harboring ambitions beyond his station.

And after learning that Qian Xunji had died from severe injuries, those thoughts only intensified. But Bibi Dong had already become the Pope, and there was no longer any possibility between them. Unable to let go of his resentment, he found himself a substitute in Liu Erlong.]

[Lu Chen: Liu Erlong's tragedy doesn't stop there. She would have been lucky if she were merely a substitute.

In reality, Gangzi treated her as a tool for taking revenge on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!]

Holy crap, now that was a path no one had imagined!

The scrolling text in the Chat Group once again reached peak speed.

[Xiao Wu: Oh my god, what's going on?]

[Ah Yin: Didn't Lu Chen say before that Yu Xiaogang was the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Leader's biological son?]

[Yanzi: The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan never really wronged him, did they?]

[Netherworld: As the clan leader's own son, he absolutely received the best education and resources growing up. He couldn't even make it through the first stage evolution of a beneficial Martial Soul Mutation. Only being exiled was already a good outcome, wasn't it?]

[Spirit Cat: Does that good-for-nothing really think he could have gotten into Spirit City to study on his own? Wasn't it all thanks to his father's standing?]

[Little Princess: Maybe he just thinks, "My theories are invincible, so your Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan ought to keep me comfortably provided for"?]

[Angel: My verdict: absolutely unbeatable.]

[Little Princess: Huh? Sister Angel finally showed up? You hadn't chatted in ages, so I thought you were busy with something important.]

[Angel: Thanks for your concern. I did have something urgent earlier, but it's taken care of now.]

Seeing Qian Renxue finally speak up in the group, Lu Chen quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, his earlier spoilers might have been too much of a shock for a sixteen-year-old girl like Qian Renxue. Though she was far more mature than her peers, when it came to family affection, her heart was also far more sensitive than theirs.

But Lu Chen could not avoid giving those spoilers, either. For an intelligent person, the truth was clearly something best learned sooner rather than later.

If Qian Renxue could free herself from that inner turmoil sooner, she would not end up with a God-level Martial Soul possessing innate level 20 Soul Power, only to still be a level 76 Soul Saint at twenty-nine...

Lu Chen: Thank goodness for me.jpg

The still-young Lu Chen clearly did not know that sometimes, a single careless remark would take a lifetime to repay~

[Lu Chen: If I said this to Liu Erlong's face, I wonder whether she would tear me to pieces?

After all, she's Gangzi's designated brain-dead fan. When it comes to blind fanaticism, even Bibi Dong falls far short of her.]

[Yanzi: @Liu Erlong, ?]

[Little Princess: @Liu Erlong, ?]

[...]

[Liu Erlong: Enough, all of you! I'm nothing like that! She's slandering me!]

[Xiao Wu: So you didn't massacre that forest of Soul Beasts (⊙o⊙)?]

[Liu Erlong: ...]

[Ah Yin: @Liu Erlong, o.0?]

Liu Erlong, whose bluster had already been weak, was sunk once again.

Go on, stir things up! Keep stirring! I'll be waiting for the day I get to feast on your gossip!

[Lu Chen: Think about it. Did Gangzi really not know Liu Erlong was his second uncle's daughter?

Gangzi, Flender, and Liu Erlong are respectively the Horns of Wisdom, Flight, and Slaughter of the Golden Iron Triangle. Together, the three can perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with a 99% fusion rate-the Golden Sacred Dragon.

Liu Erlong is a fool. She wouldn't wonder whether Yu Xiaogang's surname, Yu, had anything to do with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Since she didn't grow up in the clan, it's understandable that she hadn't heard rumors of the clan's good-for-nothing. But would Gangzi, who spent his entire life researching Martial Soul Mutation, fail to notice anything unusual about Liu Erlong?]

[Lu Chen: He most likely knew. And so, on their wedding night, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's second-in-command, Liu Erlong's biological father and Gangzi's second uncle, appeared.

He revealed Gangzi's background on the spot and sternly forbade Liu Erlong from having any further contact with that good-for-nothing.

Perfect timing, a similar ending, and our Gangzi ran away again, leaving another mess of scattered feathers behind~]

By then, everyone in the Chat Group was seething. They could not even spare the attention to gang up on Liu Erlong anymore and immediately launched into a tirade.

[Netherworld: That good-for-nothing already ran away once at Spirit Hall, and now he ran away again?]

[Spirit Cat: Even if there was no scheme, he's still a complete coward!]

[Yanzi: No scheme? How is that possible! A trick doesn't have to be new when it works this well!]

[Liu Erlong: Aah!!!]

[Liu Erlong: Yu Xiaogang, you beast, I'm going to kill you!!!]

[Little Princess: @Liu Erlong, I know you're worked up, but hold your horses. Tell us exactly what happened back then!]

[Liu Erlong: Just like Lu Chen wrote in his Notebook, that faithless man suddenly appeared, explained who we both were, and warned me not to have any further contact with Yu Xiaogang.]

[Liu Erlong: Then that beast ran out as though he'd lost his mind. I wanted to chase him, but that faithless man stopped me. Only Flender went after him, but in the end, even he couldn't bring him back.]

[Liu Erlong: Looking at it now, he played all of us!]

[Liu Erlong: I'm definitely going to kill him!]

Liu Erlong's barrage of messages came fast and frantic, showing that her anger had reached its limit.

Lu Chen smiled faintly. Ning Rongrong had been right about one thing: she had gotten worked up a little too soon...

If I bring out the spiritual romance move, what will you do then?