The nobles of Douluo Continent likewise cloaked themselves in a magnificent veneer, beneath which lay a filthy, despicable core.
Tang Fan thought of a person and a place, and asked Bibi Dong, "Do you know about Moonlight Pavilion and Tang Yuehua?"
"Moonlight Pavilion? I've never heard of it. Who's Tang Yuehua?"
Back on Douluo Continent, at Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City, Tang Yuehua's heart skipped a beat when she heard Tang Fan mention her name.
"Why did he mention me? Could it be that I did something in the future?"
The noble students at Moonlight Pavilion also gazed curiously at the sky screen.
Those who came to Moonlight Pavilion to learn noble etiquette were still children, and they might not yet have committed many evil deeds.
But in the future, the noble etiquette they learned at Moonlight Pavilion might become the perfect fig leaf for their evil deeds.
"Moonlight Pavilion is a place in Heaven Dou City that teaches noble etiquette. Tang Yuehua is Tang Hao's younger sister. Her Martial Soul is the mutated Noble Ring, which comes with its own domain but can't cultivate.
"That's why she opened Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City to teach noble etiquette.
"Going by the time, Moonlight Pavilion should already be open."
"So there's a place like that? I really hadn't noticed."
"Tang Yuehua herself may simply want to teach noble etiquette and earn a little money on the side.
"But the noble etiquette she teaches has indeed become an accomplice to the nobles' evil deeds.
"Good manners and bearing make people lower their guard without realizing it, and then they fall into the traps of evildoers.
"Some nobles like to deceive commoners with a hypocritical appearance and polished manners first, then savor the twisted pleasure of tormenting the people they've deceived."
Back on Douluo Continent, Tang Yuehua wanted to speak up in rebuttal, but she couldn't bring herself to say anything.
What Tang Fan had described really existed on Douluo Continent. Before the truth was laid bare, she could still deceive herself, but once it was exposed, any defense she offered would be meaningless.
At that moment, however, the noble students spoke up for Tang Yuehua.
"Teacher, what gives him the right to say that? We're clearly learning etiquette to improve our own refinement."
"Exactly. We nobles are all graceful gentlemen. We're nothing like those lowborn wretches who don't know the first thing about etiquette, or those brutes who have nothing but strength."
That remark alone showed that the child would be no good when he grew up. More tragically, there were plenty of others who thought just like him.
Tang Fan chuckled. "Heh, actually, what people discuss most about Tang Yuehua is her love life."
"Her love life? What about it? Who did she fall in love with? Don't tell me it was another piece of trash like Yu Xiaogang?"
Bibi Dong's curiosity for gossip had also been piqued.
"Tang Yuehua never married. There are two theories. The first is that she was Emperor Xue Ye's mistress.
"But I don't think that's very likely. Even if the Clear Sky Sect had fallen into decline, Xue Ye wouldn't dare force Tang Yuehua to become his mistress."
"Mm, I don't think it's possible either. How old is Xue Ye? I'm afraid he's long since had the desire but not the ability."
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Xue Ye, who was watching the sky screen, choked on those words.
Tang Fan was also amused by Bibi Dong's shockingly blunt words.
"Hahaha... I don't know whether he has the desire but not the ability, but he really doesn't have many children."
"What's the second theory? Did the man she loved die, and she decided to remain faithful to him?"
"No. The second theory is that she fell in love with someone she shouldn't have."
"Who?"
"Tang Hao!"
"Tang Hao? Wait... who did you say? Tang Hao! Her own brother!"
"That's right. What I just said, 'She fell in love with someone she absolutely shouldn't have,' was the exact wording in the book.
"Together with her attitude when she met Tang Hao and the way she treated Tang San as her own, those details all support the idea that the person she fell in love with was Tang Hao."
On Douluo Continent, Tang Yuehua was dumbfounded. She hadn't expected Tang Fan on the sky screen to dig out those feelings she shouldn't have harbored deep in her heart.
Feeling her students' strange gazes, Tang Yuehua could no longer bear it and ran back to her room.
Elsewhere, Tang Hao was just as shocked.
"Brother Hao, you and our little sister..."
"No! Absolutely not! Big brother, you have to believe me. I had no idea our little sister felt that way."
"Alas! What a sin! If Father has seen this, I'm afraid... Come on, you're coming back with me."
"Aren't we looking for Ah Yin anymore?"
"How can you still be thinking about Ah Yin now? Do you really want to anger Father to death?"
In fact, most of the Clear Sky Sect's disciples being reduced to cripples had already left its master, Tang Wei, exhausted in body and mind. Now, hearing that Tang Yuehua had actually fallen in love with her own brother, he immediately spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed unconscious.
Gossip like this was also the common people's favorite topic of conversation. Perhaps before a few days had passed, countless versions of the story about Tang Yuehua and Tang Hao, brother and sister, would spring up.
Tang Fan would never have imagined that a single offhand remark from him could leave Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua utterly humiliated in public.
Just then, he saw a notification pushed to his phone: there was a drone light show nearby.
"I only mentioned it once just now, and I'm already getting a notification. It really is the age of big data."
"Hm? What are you talking about?"
Bibi Dong had only just recovered from her shock and hadn't heard Tang Fan clearly.
"Nothing. I'll take you to see a light show."
"Huh? Is there one now?"
"Mm, you're in luck. Sit tight."
On the drive, Bibi Dong asked another question. "Did anything... come of it between Tang Yuehua and Tang Hao?"
"Of course nothing came of it. Although the book didn't say, Tang Yuehua most likely never married in the end.
"But there was a pair of cousins who did end up together. Why don't you guess who?"
"How could I possibly guess? Stop keeping me in suspense."
"All right. It was actually Yu Xiaogang and his cousin Liu Erlong."
"Huh?! Yu Xiaogang! Why is it him again?"
"After all, he's the protagonist's teacher, a supporting character with a pretty major role.
"In the original book, after Qian Xunji drove him out of Spirit City, he met Flender and Liu Erlong.
"The three quickly became close friends and even formed the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Golden Sacred Dragon.
"It was because of this Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill that readers said Yu Xiaogang, that piece of trash, held Luo Sanpao back."
"Why?"
"Because the essence of this Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill is to use Liu Erlong and Flender's strength to release Luo Sanpao's true form.
"Luo Sanpao was a Radiant Sacred Dragon all along. It's just that Yu Xiaogang was such trash that he could only barely release its true form by borrowing other people's strength."
"Yu Xiaogang really is trash. But Liu Erlong is Yu Xiaogang's cousin? Why isn't her surname Yu?"
"Liu Erlong is the illegitimate daughter of Yu Xiaogang's second uncle, Yu Luomian. Her Martial Soul is the mutated Scarlet Dragon.
"As the two spent time together, Liu Erlong fell in love with Yu Xiaogang. They were about to get married, but on their wedding night, Yu Luomian came looking for them.
"He revealed that the two were cousins. Guess what happened next?"