CH 50: The Truth of Both Worlds

(A/N: Since about half or something of this chapter was entirely copied from another fanfic that I was dissatisfied with, I simply copy pasted and cleaned that chapter as a sign of respect and barely changed the part I copied. It's "Douluo: Wuhun is Actually Bibi Dong" by "Homophone of fish" by the way. Read it if you want, if your brain can handle a lot, and I mean a LOT of frustration. Ning Rongrong being the first and only heroine from Shrek instead of Zhu Zhuqing simply fucked the story for me as well.)

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Listening to her, Ah Li's blood boiled. Every word made his veins pop. This was the single most disgusting act to him. Fooling someone who genuinely loves you and taking advantage of them just for your own gain.

The victim being Bibi Dong simply enraged him even further. If not for all the tortures and suffering he had planned for Yu Xiaogang, he would have killed him right here and now. But he had to hold back. Death was a mercy to him.

He wanted to make him suffer. Both physically and mentally. So he had to stay patient. His rage now would simply fuel the desire to hurt him even more later.

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Yu Xiaogang :"I intentionally put myself in a place where Bibi Dong often appears, a place where people can guess what Soul Skills the Soul Master will give birth to after obtaining the designated Soul Ring, and I will show my intelligence there! Later Bibi Dong really succeeded in being attracted by my intelligence, and started to approach me!

That's how I became friends with Bibi Dong, but I didn't take the initiative to look at the collection of books in Martial Soul Hall just because I became friends with Bibi Dong, because that would make my purpose too obvious. So I never took the initiative to mention it. I just kept making hints in my relationship with Bibi Dong.

The naive Bibi Dong was soon fooled. She was afraid that I would feel inferior, so she offered to let me take the path of a theory master, and took me to join the Martial Soul Hall! She thought that she took the initiative to help me, but she didn't know that I deliberately guided her to make these decisions!

Everything went smoothly as I planned, no, it should be said to be smoother than I expected, because at that time I had already accepted Bibi Dong's confession!"

Yu Xiaogang slowly told the story with pride, showing off how he was able to fool the Saintess of the Martial Soul Hall. Only in front of Flender would he dare to say these things. He wouldn't dare to admit anything in front of Liu Erlong. And alcohol was of course part of revealing everything.

"Hahaha awesome, Xiaogang! You are so awesome!" Sure enough, after listening to Yu Xiaogang's narration, Flender not only did not look down on Yu Xiaogang or scold him, but praised him wholeheartedly.

Sure enough, birds of a feather flock together. Only someone rotten like Yu Xiaogang would be friends with him. If only he knew the Liu Erlong he loved so deeply had been fooled as well.

"Yu! Xiao! Gang!" But looking at the prideful Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong's eyes were red. If she could, she would have skinned him alive and torn his flesh from his bones. If looks could kill, Yu Xiaogang would have been sixty feet underground by now.

She hated him. She hated him even more so than before. She had never hated anybody so much. Not even Qian Xunji who r*ped her, or Tang San who killed her. In her previous life, the reason why she couldn't let go of him was because she thought their love was pure. That she approached him, but hurt him in the end.

Only now did she face the truth.

"Ahhh!! Damn you, Yu Xiaogang, damn you!" Her roars echoed throughout, but no one heard it :"I want to kill you! I WANT TO KILL YOU!!" She swung her claws at him. Again and again without stopping. But she was but a soul. Everything was in vain.

"Then why did you separate from her in the end?" Flender asked curiously, Bibi Dong was famous for her beauty after all :"Surely you didn't take the initiative, right? Since such a top-notch woman has been cheated, there is no reason to throw it away! Did she discover the truth?"

"No, that's not the case..." Hearing him, all the pride on Yu Xiaogang's face disappeared, replaced by an angry face :"I was deceived..." Making his friend even more curious. Bibi Dong, seeing that she couldn't hurt him, stopped for a moment.

Panting from anger, a look of absolute outrage gracing her face as she waited for him to say what she already expected to say :"Just like what you said just now, since I have cheated on a top-notch woman like Bibi Dong already, there is no reason to throw it away.

With her help, I can have an easier time finding solutions to my Martial Soul defects! Besides, who would not like a woman who is unparalleled in talent, beauty, and treats you wholeheartedly? I of course began to actually fall in love with her slowly."

With Flender urging him, Yu Xiaogang continued. But Bibi Dong didn't care anymore. She hadn't cared since she woke up in her current state. So what if he had loved her at some point, she had suffered way too much to care anymore.

But in the end I found out that I was the one being used!

That bitch took a fancy to my wisdom, so I used my wisdom to help her integrate the knowledge collected in the entire Martial Soul Hall. The integrated knowledge also includes the knowledge I collected in other sects!

When I accomplished this one feat, she abandoned me! The ridiculous thing is that I thought I took advantage of that woman, but I didn't expect that I was used by her instead in the end!

Although I could also see the entanglement and intolerance in her eyes when she bid farewell to tell me the truth. I think Martial Soul Hall was the reason behind this and she was just completing the task, so she pitied me there!

But I still hate them! I hate that bitch, and I also hate the Martial Soul Hall behind her! If there is a chance to take revenge on Martial Soul Hall, I will definitely make that bitch and the Martial Soul Hall regret it!"

"This...sorry brother!" After learning the truth, Flender felt sorry for what happened to Yu Xiaogang. Even though he was gloating in his heart, he hurriedly spoke out to comfort him. No wonder, these years, whenever Yu Xiaogang mentioned Martial Soul Hall, he was full of hate.

"Damn it, I want you in hell, Yu Xiaogang!" Bibi Dong roared, eyes red and full of resentment. She hated everything. She hated Yu Xiaogang, she hated her life, she hated her own stupidity.

She was blind enough to fall in love with such a bastard, that even though came to her with bad intentions and thousands of schemes, still blamed her in the end. Her life was filled with regret. This much anger and sadness was something she had never experienced.

The sufferings she endured in the past, her own teacher r*ping her because of Yu Xiaogang, her entire lifetime work of bringing the Martial Soul Hall to power just for it to be ruined because of not killing Tang San simply because he was Yu Xiaogang's student, and everything else she regretted, hit her harder than ever.

She wanted to kill him. She wanted to slaughter Yu Xiaogang, the disgusting monster that gave her all that suffering. But without being able to even do that, all she could feel was despair. Regret and despair mixed together, filling her hurting heart, made the tears of absolute helplessness finally fall.

Her eyes burned, as did her heart. The hot tears felt scorching hot on her cheeks, like pure lava being poured on her beautiful face. But as they fell, they simply disappeared without a trace. Her screams echoed with no one to hear them.

She didn't know this much pain was possible until she felt it.

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Bibi Dong laid against the wall, Ah Li hugging her from the side and drawing comforting circles with his thumb, a look of emptiness and despair in her eyes as she stared off into space.

"I wish I would have just died." She choked out, voice hopeless :"If that had happened, I at least wouldn't have to suffer even more betrayal. I wouldn't have figured out that all the sufferings I endured weren't for nothing..."

"Sister Goddess, please don't say that." Ah Li's soothing voice at least delivered some comfort :"I know you've suffered. Suffered pain unimaginable to anybody else. But death... that's the end. You have a chance now. A chance to make things better for the past you. But if you had died, there wouldn't be any chances. It would simply be the end."

She wanted to get mad. Be angry that he didn't find his suffering enough for her to want it all to simply end. End and free her. But she couldn't. She couldn't get mad at the boy she had watched grow. The sweet boy who she saw unbearable sadness in the eyes of.

Sadness she knew was caused because of her. It broke her heart even further. The same eyes who always looked at her with love, happiness, excitement and pure fondness and care, were filled with sadness. But it also comforted her, because she knew there was at least someone who cared for her.

She smiled. A smile filled with nothing but sadness. Even though she wanted to at least act, act so he wouldn't look at her with those eyes, she simply couldn't.

"What do you know, Li'er?" She looked away, finding it hard and painful to look at those eyes :"You're just a child. What do you know about death?"

"I... sigh... once upon a time, there was a boy." Ah Li sighed, finally making up his mind as he leaned back against the wall, looking ahead at the space :"He was an ordinary boy in an ordinary world.

A world with simple humans, no Soul Masters, and simple animals, no Soul Beasts. It was completely normal, with no abnormalities. But the boy wasn't so ordinary."

As he started, she turned to look with eyes still red at his face. Look at the small smile and eyes full of nostalgia as he continued :"He could dream about other worlds. Worlds different from his world, filled with amazing beings and things that didn't exist in his world.

Worlds so colorful compared to his boring world. He grew addicted to looking at these worlds. Addicted to the stories he saw in them. Stories of amazing people chosen by the world and the heavens. He thought they were showing off to them, because no matter which world he dreamt about, they would always show stories of people more amazing than anybody else.

People unique even in those worlds. But he came across a certain world. A world that made him marvel. A world that shone so interestingly colorful he couldn't help but be addicted to.

The world of Douluo Dalu.

And in that world, he found someone amazing. Someone extraordinary. Someone that shone brighter than anybody else he had seen in any other world. Someone who even though he could meet, couldn't talk nor touch, he still fell in love with.

Her name was Bibi Dong."

Her eyes went wide. She was shocked to no end. As she looked at Ah Li who still didn't look at her, it felt like pieces of a puzzle were falling together.

"The boy found her amazing. More talented than anyone, more beautiful than any being, she simply amazed her. Hahaha but she also frustrated him to no end. No matter what the person who she loved did, she was always... you know.

But he couldn't do anything about it. He could only helplessly watch the story of the world in sadness as it would end with her death. Then watch the story again just to see her. See her brilliance again, again and again.

Hoping for the ending of the story to be different each time he watched again. But it didn't matter, stories had already happened. They were simply engraved and couldn't change. Helplessness hurt him, but he couldn't do anything. And one day, he... he... sigh...

I died."