Chapter 9: Shocking Gossip! Yu Xiaogang Is Actually Bibi Dong's Old Flame?!
However, Tang San glanced at Wang Sheng and the others behind him. After hesitating for a moment, he still shook his head.
"Thank you for your kindness, Teacher."
"But I'd rather eat on the first floor with my roommates."
A trace of approval flashed through Yu Xiaogang's eyes. He nodded and said,
"Mm, very good. Not aloof or eccentric—able to integrate into the group."
"Since that's the case, go on, then."
After speaking, he clasped his hands behind his back and prepared to head upstairs.
As he passed by Lin Yuan, he deliberately slowed his steps, putting on the posture of an elder instructing a junior, clearly intending to offer a few comments.
After all, he had heard Lin Yuan earlier say that he was going to the second floor.
However, Lin Yuan didn't even spare him a glance.
As if he were nothing more than a lump of air.
He didn't pause at all when passing by Yu Xiaogang—just brushed past him and strode up the stairs.
Ignored!
Blatantly ignored!
The sermon Yu Xiaogang had prepared got stuck in his throat, and the expression on his face froze instantly.
That feeling was like punching a lump of cotton—unbearably frustrating.
What made it even worse was—
Xiao Wu, who was following behind Lin Yuan, hopped along after him as well.
"Hey! Lin Yuan! Wait for me!"
Xiao Wu shamelessly chased after him, grinning as she said, "I want to go check out the second floor too."
"But I don't have any money. Lend me some first, will you?"
"I'll pay you back after I get the Spirit Hall subsidy. Deal?"
Lin Yuan stopped, looking down at this utterly shameless rabbit who would sell her dignity for food, a teasing smile on his face.
"Oh?"
"Who was it just now calling me a pervert, a lecher, a hooligan?"
"What—now that you're hungry, you remember to borrow money from a 'lecher'?"
"Classmate Xiao Wu, that's not a very good attitude when asking for help."
"And besides…"
Lin Yuan deliberately dragged out his tone, his gaze sweeping over Xiao Wu from head to toe.
"Borrowing money from a lecher comes at a price."
Hearing this, Xiao Wu instinctively covered her small chest and took half a step back, her face full of wariness.
"You… what are you trying to do?"
Lin Yuan laughed inwardly. 'What do I want to do?'
But his expression remained calm, his gaze only growing more invasive.
Xiao Wu was so unsettled by his stare that her voice changed pitch.
"Y-you're not actually into… that kind of thing, are you?"
"Pervert! Absolute pervert!"
Seeing her acting like she was facing a mortal enemy, Lin Yuan snorted with laughter, then put on an expression as if he were looking at an idiot.
"What are you even thinking?"
"I mean that borrowing money comes with interest."
"Why is your mind so dirty?"
"Tsk tsk, aren't you supposed to be a Rogue Rabbit? What kind of filthy yellow trash are you stuffing into your head?"
"Only someone who's already thinking crooked would twist my words like that, right?"
This barrage of rhetorical questions left Xiao Wu completely stunned.
Her face instantly flushed bright red—this time, she was genuinely embarrassed to death.
"Ahhh—!"
"You're the one with a dirty mind! Your whole family is dirty!"
"I won't eat anymore, okay?!"
Xiao Wu stomped her foot in anger and turned to leave.
But after taking just one step, her stomach very uncooperatively let out a loud gurgle.
In the quiet stairwell, the sound was especially clear.
Xiao Wu froze in place.
Holding back his laughter, Lin Yuan waved his hand.
"Alright, alright. I was just messing with you."
"Come on. Today's my treat."
With that, he went up to the second floor without looking back.
Xiao Wu stood there, conflicted for exactly 0.01 seconds.
In the end, appetite triumphed over dignity.
"Hmph! I'll eat you bankrupt!"
"Free food would be wasted otherwise!"
She followed him upstairs in a huff, muttering under her breath, "Just you wait—after I'm full, I'll settle the score with you!"
Downstairs, watching the two leave while bickering like a flirtatious couple, Wang Sheng and the others were full of envy.
"So this is the world of big shots?"
"Letting us talk to Lin Boss like that—give us ten guts and we still wouldn't dare."
"Only Sister Xiao Wu is brave enough."
"This must be what they call mutual attraction between geniuses. We just don't get it."
At the stairway entrance, completely left out in the cold, Yu Xiaogang frowned deeply as he watched the scene.
He turned to Tang San, who was still lining up on the first floor, and asked,
"Xiao San, who are those two?"
"Are they also work-study students?"
Not only had they ignored him, the so-called Grandmaster, but they were also so arrogant and flamboyant.
Especially that black-clad boy—he gave Yu Xiaogang a very bad feeling.
That look in his eyes was as if he were staring at a clown.
Seeing his teacher's expression darken, Tang San hurried forward to explain.
"Teacher, that boy is called Lin Yuan. He's the newly elected dorm leader of our Seventh Dorm."
At this point, Tang San paused and lowered his voice.
"He has innate full soul power. His martial soul is a black spear—he says it's called the 'Soul-Devouring Spear.'"
"And that girl is named Xiao Wu. Her martial soul is the Soft-Boned Rabbit."
"She also has innate full soul power."
The moment those words fell—
Yu Xiaogang, who had just been wearing a gloomy expression, instantly widened his dead-fish eyes.
"What?!"
"Both of them have innate full soul power?!"
His voice even cracked from excitement.
He had been freeloading at the Nuoding Academy for so many years, yet not to mention innate full soul power—even a genius with innate level seven or eight was something he'd never seen.
And now this single class has produced three of them at once!
Yu Xiaogang's eyes instantly burned with fervor.
If he could take both of them as disciples, together with Tang San—under his guidance—wouldn't the name Yu Xiaogang resound throughout the entire Douluo Continent in the future?
Then let's see who would still dare look down on him!
"Xiao San, are you sure it's the Soul-Devouring Spear, not the Soul-Breaking Spear?"
Yu Xiaogang asked again.
He knew the Soul-Breaking Spear—it was the inherited martial soul of the Breaking Clan.
But what kind of martial soul was the Soul-Devouring Spear?
Could it be a mutated martial soul?
Meanwhile, after Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu found a seat on the second floor and sat down, Lin Yuan summoned his diary with a thought and began writing.
Since he had run into Yu Xiaogang just now, it absolutely had to be recorded.
This was some huge gossip.
[Seeing is believing. Today, at the cafeteria entrance, I finally met that so-called legendary Grandmaster—Yu Xiaogang.]
[Looking at his dejected appearance, it's really hard for me to imagine.]
[That such a trash Soul Grandmaster stuck at rank twenty-nine was once actually the old flame of Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong?]
[I have to say, although this guy's strength is garbage, when it comes to picking up women, he really does have some skill.]
[He not only completely bewitched our noble and aloof Pope, but even managed to make Liu Erlong of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan devoted to him.]
[It's just a pity that, at heart, he's a coward—truly the number one example of living off women while acting tough.]
The moment the diary updated—
The women who possessed diary copies instantly exploded!
Heaven Dou Empire — Crown Prince's Residence
Qian Renxue stared at the diary, her face full of shock.
"What?! Yu Xiaogang is Bibi Dong's old flame?"
"How is that possible?!"
Her eyes widened in disbelief.
"That woman's taste is that bad?"
"Lin Yuan isn't just making this up, is he?"
"No… this gossip is way too big. I need a moment."
Although she kept saying she didn't believe it, doubt had already begun to take root in Qian Renxue's heart.
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End of Chapter