Chapter 11: Everyone Wants to Become Qian Xunji
[Su Yan: About you, Bibi Dong—regarding whether you were Blind Douluo or not… honestly, there is another possibility: you might've been set up by capital interests.]
[Su Yan: This is not something that can be explained in a few words. Let's continue talking about you and Yu Xiaogang. Your relationship was discovered by Qian Xunji.]
[Su Yan: Qian Xunji's method was simple—he separated the two of you. After all, who could tolerate their genius successor being taken away by a good-for-nothing? And that trash was even the child of an enemy clan.]
[Su Yan: As for Yu Xiaogang—he left without hesitation. And when he left, he actually believed you were the one who broke your promise. He even resents you now. He never once considered that you were locked up by Qian Xunji.]
[Su Yan: Or maybe… Yu Xiaogang understood everything perfectly but chose to leave because he was afraid of death. What do you all think?]
Inside the Pope's Palace.
A pained expression surfaced on Bibi Dong's face.
Xiaogang… even now, he hates her?
Yet… He could never imagine what she had gone through…
[Seven Treasures Little Princess: Wait… in a normal storyline, shouldn't Yu Xiaogang be charging into the Spirit Hall, fighting his way in to rescue her?]
[Yan Zi is Not Swallow: Normally, yes. But Yu Xiaogang seems… not very normal. So he really just did nothing and left?]
[Group Member No. 9: This is not the plot I wanted. Terrible service.]
[I Am an Orphan: It's obvious! Yu Xiaogang knew everything. The fact that he fled so decisively proves he was scared. And because he was scared, he didn't dare to break into the Spirit Hall.]
[Cat in the Shadows: Honestly, that makes sense. I also met a scumbag like that—because he was scared, he ran away.]
[Su Yan: @Cat in the Shadows, if you ever need help, remember to find me.]
[Cat in the Shadows: Okay.]
[Carrot Lover: ???]
[Seven Treasures Little Princess: These two are acting suspicious…]
[Yan Zi is Not Swallow: It's broad daylight—what exactly are you two doing?]
Su Chen was in an extremely good mood at this moment.
According to the timeline…
Zhu Zhuqing should be escaping from the Star Luo Empire around now.
Even though Zhu Zhuyun didn't truly intend to kill her, the pursuit would still be dangerous. And opportunities to play the hero saving the beauty were not to be missed!
[Su Yan: Friends, listen—first love is unforgettable! A love-struck mind is incomprehensible! Yu Xiaogang ran, yes, but Bibi Dong was already blinded by love!]
[Su Yan: Qian Xunji must've been furious at the time. After driving Yu Xiaogang away, his disciple was completely ruined. What was he supposed to do?]
[Su Yan: In the end… Qian Xunji chose the most extreme method—he gambled everything, even using his own body, to defy fate itself!]
[Su Yan: I still say that everyone hates Qian Xunji, yet everyone wants to become Qian Xunji.]
CRACK!
Crown Prince's Mansion.
Qian Renxue froze completely. The jade mirror slipped from her hand and shattered on the ground. Her beautiful eyes welled with tears.
'So… this is how Father obtained you…
So this is why you resented me so deeply… So… I should never have been born…'
Qian Renxue crouched down, hugging her knees, tears falling like beads, soaking her skirt within moments.
Pain.
It hurt too much.
So this… this was the answer she had sought all her life?
'Bibi Dong… if this was the truth, then you should've killed me from the start. You should never have let me be born…'
Inside the Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong shut her eyes tightly, overwhelmed by agony. If not for the jade mirror dispersing its power to suppress her evil thoughts, she might have already fallen into madness.
But even then, she was still suffering immensely.
That pitch-black memory… a thorn embedded in her heart all these years—
Now pulled out and stabbed back in again.
Again and again.
The pain was suffocating.
"Wait—?"
Bibi Dong abruptly opened her eyes.
Shock, anger, and even a faint hint of embarrassment flashed across her face.
Everyone hates Qian Xunji, yet everyone wants to become Qian Xunji?
Human words?
Are these even human words?!
Bastard!
No one in the group knows you, but all people know me, Bibi Dong. How dare you say such words?
Shameless!
Despicable!
Bibi Dong grabbed the jade mirror and smashed it onto the ground. Still not satisfied, she lifted her jade-like high-heeled foot and stomped on it several more times.
"You wretch!"
'If I ever meet you one day, I'll drag you into a secret chamber and personally ask you— Do you really want to be Qian Xunji?
Do you really want to become my nourishment?'
Spirit Hall.
Hu Liena was completely stunned.
The Spirit Academy was close to the Spirit Hall, and she had almost reached the entrance already when she suddenly learned such a terrifying secret.
Should she still go find her teacher?
Would she be silenced for knowing too much…?
This was too scary.
And Su Yan—how could he dare say something like this?!
[Seven Treasures Little Princess: Is the group owner even human?]
[Yan Zi is Not Swallow: Absolutely shameless!]
[My Surname is Not Yu: Beast!]
[Carrot Lover: Su Yan, I never expected you to be this kind of person!]
[Cat in the Shadows: ???]
[Su Yan: I'm just an honest man who likes to speak little truths. And objectively speaking—Qian Xunji was a beast, but if I were Qian Xunji, I might have been an even bigger beast.]
[Su Yan: Think about it differently. If you were the Pope of the Spirit Hall, or the Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, or the patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect—after raising a genius disciple for so many years only to see them end up like that—what would you choose?]
[Su Yan: If the same thing happened in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Clear Sky Sect, or the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect—do you think Bibi Dong's ending would have been any better?]
[Su Yan: Anyone who becomes a major powerhouse—who among them isn't ruthless, heartless, and willing to do anything for benefits? From their position, they act for their faction. Honestly, Bibi Dong might've ended up worse elsewhere, and she would never have become Pope.]
Su Yan's words dropped, and the entire group fell silent.
Ning Rongrong was the first to stop talking.
If she did what Bibi Dong had done, then even if her father and Grandpa Sword pampered her to the heavens, they would never allow her to marry into an enemy power.
They would definitely choose an excellent disciple and force her into a political marriage. And that would already be the best outcome.
In truth, that wasn't much better than Bibi Dong's suffering.
The others kept quiet too.
Even though they weren't from major clans, they understood exactly what Su Yan meant.
Which of those powerful families wasn't cruel and merciless? Which one had any humanity left?
[Cat in the Shadows: Exactly! Bibi Dong was lucky she was in the Spirit Hall. If it had been an imperial family, she might've been locked in a secret chamber and forced to give birth until she died!]
Zhu Zhuqing didn't dare say much.
But if it had been the Dai family of the Star Luo Empire… Bibi Dong would absolutely have been turned into a breeding machine, stripped of every shred of dignity and emotion.
A fate far crueler than the Spirit Hall's.
That was why, after Dai Mubai fled, Zhu Zhuqing never stopped thinking about escaping as well— She had to run.
[Carrot Lover: Heavens… are the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Clear Sky Sect, and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect all that horrible too?]
[My Surname is Not Yu: It's not about "horrible." It's reality.]
[Group Member No. 9: Even a mighty Pope has pains she cannot change… sigh.]
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