"But you're hurt. If something happens to you, how will you protect me in the future?" Tears streamed uncontrollably from Xiao Wu's eyes. She looked at Xu Ran with her beautiful eyes and gave a sorrowful smile.
Xiao Wu's smile was so beautiful that Xu Ran felt his heart almost melt.
This was Xiao Wu, the heroine of the Douluo Continent. She was already so beautiful as a young girl. How beautiful would she be when she grew a little older, when her long hair, dazzling as the river of stars in the heavens, spilled over her shoulders?
But by then, Xiao Wu would be his girl. He would accompany her as she grew, cultivate alongside her, and do everything a couple should do together.
When that time came, he would even pummel Tang San together with Xiao Wu!
Now, in Xiao Wu's heart, Tang San was vicious, disgusting, and skilled at putting on an act. All six years had been nothing but false affection. Whatever Tang San said in the future, Xiao Wu would think he was acting.
Eat, sleep, flirt with Xiao Wu; show off, slap faces, and pummel Tang San.
Naturally, he could not be the only one pummeling Tang San. Xiao Wu had to help too.
After all, who had told Tang San to covet Xiao Wu's Soul Ring and Soul Bone? Whether he actually harbored those intentions or not, Xiao Wu had already decided that he had come for her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
"Stop crying. I don't want to see a girl cry in front of me." Xu Ran rested his palm against Xiao Wu's delicate cheek. He could clearly feel the soft tenderness of her skin. Calling it so delicate that a breath or a touch could break it would be no exaggeration. In particular, the two faint trails of tears on her cheeks filled Xu Ran with boundless tenderness.
"All right, I won't cry. I won't cry." Xiao Wu spoke through her tears and wiped them from her eyes, trying to appear a little stronger in front of Xu Ran.
That hidden weapon had nearly struck her just now. With its speed, she might well have been unable to dodge in time.
If not for Xu Ran, she might have died just now.
She was deeply moved. She knew that from now on, besides her mother, Da Ming, and Er Ming, she had one more person she could truly trust. That person was Xu Ran.
He had disregarded whether he might expose himself and directly helped him reveal Tang San's true face.
He had even risked his life, using his own body to shield her from the hidden weapon.
She still remembered her mother saying that if she ever met a man who would risk his life for her, she must cherish him. Men like that were the most precious treasures in the world.
Had her mother meant someone like Xu Ran? Xu Ran, the Emperor Auspicious Beast, also possessed the character of a gentleman.
"Xu Ran, how are you feeling now? Don't move. Let me look at your back." Xiao Wu took a deep breath and looked at Xu Ran's back, which was already stained red with blood. At that moment, the skin around the spot where the hidden weapon had pierced him was turning black.
Poison. The word instantly surfaced in Xiao Wu's mind.
Xu Ran's current symptoms clearly indicated poisoning, and an extremely potent poison at that. Otherwise, with his constitution as an Auspicious Beast, it could never have injured him. An Auspicious Beast was protected by auspicious Qi; ordinary poison could not hurt him.
This poison might very well have been concocted for him by Tang Hao. How powerful would a poison concocted by a Titled Douluo be? Xiao Wu's heart instantly turned to dead ashes. She did not know whether the Auspicious Beast could survive this terrifying poison.
At that moment, Tang San was utterly bewildered.
Looking at Xu Ran's condition, he broke out in a profuse sweat.
He had seen it clearly just now. Xu Ran was immensely powerful and had easily blocked his hidden weapons. All twelve had been stopped without exception. Even he could not help feeling a little appalled. Xu Ran's strength was beyond anything his current self could match.
Yet Xu Ran was actually this good at acting.
He had seen that Xu Ran had deliberately let that hidden weapon pierce his body. He had even used Sword Qi to slow it down. How the hell was that the behavior of someone who could not withstand a hidden weapon?
Xu Ran was clearly acting. Looking at the blood on the ground, which seemed enough to form a river, Tang San could only feel that it was rather overdone.
Are you fucking serious?
How could a human body possibly contain so much blood?
This is way too fake!
And fucking poison, too? Where would a work-study student like me get poison like that? There's even such a huge black patch of poison on his back.
Seeing all this, how could Tang San fail to realize that Xu Ran was putting on another act at his expense?
"Xu Ran, you're fucking putting on an act to frame me!" Tang San was furious. Seeing this scene, he finally understood what Xu Ran wanted to do. He wanted to fabricate a scene in which Tang San tried to kill Xiao Wu while Xu Ran played the hero rescuing the beauty. Xu Ran was even falsely accusing him of using poison.
If Xiao Wu believed all this, her affection for Xu Ran would soar, while his own image in her heart would plummet a thousand fathoms. Every hidden weapon he had thrown just now had been aimed at Xu Ran. He had never intended to hurt Xiao Wu, but after Xu Ran's maneuvers, it now looked as though he had wanted to attack her.
Now he really felt he might die of being wronged.
Initially, when he saw the blood on the ground, he had wanted to mock Xu Ran for his blatantly fake acting. But now he could not laugh at all. Having figured out Xu Ran's aim, he could only stare in bewilderment.
Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
Tang San's head was full of question marks. All he knew now was that he had to expose Xu Ran's intentions quickly. He could not let this act succeed, or the damage to his image in Xiao Wu's heart might never be reversible.
Xiao Wu raised her head and gave Tang San, who stood not far away, a somewhat cold and merciless glance. She looked at him only once before withdrawing her gaze. The last feelings she had held for Tang San had died too.
All she knew was that Tang San had tried to kill her just now, and Xu Ran had been injured precisely because he had not expected Tang San to attack her. What was Tang San coming over to say now? He had clearly attacked her, yet now he was acting like the victim, as though Xu Ran were the great villain. How laughable.
Tang San was the one who had attacked them, Tang San was the one playing the victim, and Tang San was also the one accusing someone else of acting.
She now harbored intense hatred for Tang San. He had deceived her for six years, and now he even wanted to kill her and Xu Ran.
"Xu Ran, how are you feeling now? Can you force this poison out?" Xiao Wu asked softly, stroking the wound on Xu Ran's back and finding the sight somewhat horrifying. Although the wound was not deep, the poison was very powerful. After all, this poison had been given to Tang San by the Titled Douluo Tang Hao. Tang San had been able to make hidden weapons at six years old, something she had found rather hard to believe back then. But now that she knew his father was Tang Hao, she understood. These hidden weapons had been prepared for her by Tang Hao.
If she ever noticed Tang San and the others' intentions, they would use hidden weapons to kill her. Even if they could not take her Soul Ring, they could still take her Soul Bone. Otherwise, why would a six-year-old child be able to make hidden weapons? This was the only possible explanation.
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