"Yu Chen…"
"Yu Chen, you bastard, you really deserve to die! Yu Chen…"
He had just established his filial son persona, only for his biological mother to be snatched away.
Tang San's suppressed frustration was imaginable.
He wanted to curse wildly, but the heavenly curtain offered no outlet for complaint, so he could only rush out of the Eyes of Ice and Fire, find a random Spirit Beast to vent on, and beat it to death.
Afterward, he returned and sat dejectedly on the spot.
He didn't know how much time had passed when a familiar voice called out from behind him.
He looked up, following the sound. His eyes couldn't help but light up.
Because the people who came this time were none other than the Shrek Seven Devils, who had rushed here directly after leaving Tiandou Royal Academy.
Leading them was Xiao Wu, who had always been on his mind.
Seeing Xiao Wu appear, Tang San's previously depressed mood finally improved significantly.
However, before he could even greet Xiao Wu, she had already taken his hand, her voice choked with sobs, and began comforting him repeatedly.
"Third Brother, don't be like this. This isn't your fault."
"Why punish yourself with what happened on the heavenly curtain? Why make yourself covered in blood?"
??!
When did I punish myself with what happened on the heavenly curtain?
And covered in blood?
Looking at Xiao Wu, who had suddenly rushed out and grabbed his hand, Tang San was utterly bewildered at first.
It took him a long while to realize what Xiao Wu meant.
He knew that Xiao Wu had misunderstood.
She had mistaken the blood from the Spirit Beast he had just beaten to death for his own.
However, after regaining his composure, he didn't explain much.
Instead, he felt this was an excellent opportunity to feign misery and gain sympathy.
So, he lowered his head.
He let out a long, feigned sigh.
With a face full of sorrow, he continued, "Xiao Wu, you don't understand. I just found my mother, but now, I feel like she's left me again… This feeling of gaining and then losing makes me feel as if my heart is being cut by a knife…"
His words were a fortunate coincidence.
Hearing Tang San say this, Xiao Wu immediately thought of her own mother.
Her eyes couldn't help but turn red.
She actively hugged Tang San, stroking his shoulders and comforting him.
"Third Brother, what are you saying? I completely understand the feeling of losing a mother."
"Besides, this is something from a parallel World, what does it have to do with the real World? Don't be sad about this, Third Brother, we will always be by your side."
Feeling Xiao Wu's genuine emotions, the Shrek Seven Devils who had followed behind couldn't help but sigh.
Their previous disdain for his double standards now significantly subsided.
A moment later, it was Liu Erlong who broke the silence and began to comfort Xiao Wu.
"Exactly. And besides, it's not even certain if this will really happen. I even suspect this is a prank deliberately orchestrated by the heavenly curtain to trick us."
However, her words were more of an argument than comfort. It was also because of this that as soon as her words came out, they immediately drew everyone's attention.
Before Xiao Wu or Tang San could even ask, Ning Rongrong had already voiced her doubts further.
"Trick us?"
"There's no need for that, is there?"
"Exactly. With the heavenly curtain's power, it has plenty of ways to punish us; there's no need to do it this way."
Hearing everyone say this, Liu Erlong remained completely unperturbed.
With a serious expression, she continued to explain, "Pay attention to my wording. I said 'trick,' not 'punish.' There's a fundamental difference between the two, alright?
And if we're talking about punishment, I daresay no one here, except for Xiaogang, has felt the pressure from the heavenly curtain more deeply than I have."
"You mean… the heavenly curtain is deliberately playing games with us?"
Ning Rongrong's expression was strange; the more she listened, the more absurd it sounded.
Liu Erlong, however, had a matter-of-fact expression as she spoke, even presenting her evidence.
"That's right, that's exactly what I mean. You can tell by looking at the lucky audience reward it gave me earlier, can't you?"
"It also said it was a token of love between the parallel World's me and Yu Chen. But how long has the heavenly curtain been broadcasting now? Have you ever seen any contact between the parallel World's me and Yu Chen?"
Before she spoke, to be honest, most of the people present didn't take her words seriously.
But after she finished speaking, and they thought about it carefully, they indeed found it quite reasonable.
Sometimes, what people need is not an accurate result, but a reasonable excuse.
At least, that was the case for Tang Hao.
After she finished speaking, Tang Hao's eyes lit up.
However, at this moment, the one most excited and thrilled by this was not him, but Yu Xiaogang.
Although Yu Xiaogang knew in his heart that Yu Chen was more than a hundred times more outstanding than him.
From a practical standpoint, any woman choosing Yu Chen over him would be considered normal.
But knowing it and truly seeing the parallel World's Liu Erlong and Yu Chen's token of love fall from the sky, Yu Xiaogang still felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten excrement.
Although Yu Xiaogang had never said much about Liu Erlong, for someone as petty as him, who could hold a grudge for an entire lifetime over a few taunts from clan members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in his youth, how could he truly be as indifferent as he appeared on the surface?
So much so that during this period, his attitude towards Liu Erlong had lost its previous warmth, subtly tinged with a hint of distance.
It was only upon hearing Liu Erlong's analysis that he was able to resolve his inner turmoil.
His expression softened somewhat.
However, before they could continue to analyze this conclusion, the heavenly curtain above them changed again.
Immediately, another line of gilded small characters appeared.
Although the characters were small, each one was like a heavy hammer, striking hard at everyone's hearts, immediately shattering the slight hope that had just risen within them.
…
[It has been detected that a keen audience member has questioned the rewards issued by the heavenly curtain. The heavenly curtain will now skip some tedious details and focus on Yu Chen's romantic relationships!]
…
After the golden small characters flickered for about ten breaths, the scene on the light screen indeed changed again.
This time, the heavenly curtain released another preview.
And in this preview, as expected, it was not just Yu Chen and Bibi Dong.
Ah Yin, whom Tang Hao had always yearned for, also appeared in it.
She was still smiling brightly, just as she was in Tang Hao's memories.
However, her smile was no longer directed at Tang Hao, but at Yu Chen!
Looking at Ah Yin's brilliant smile in the preview, Tang Hao truly felt his heart shattering.
"No!—
"Ah Yin, no! How could you choose someone else?!"
Even though he was already old, his cries were miserable, like a child whose beloved toy had been taken away.
It's a good thing the people of the Douluo Continent hadn't seen "Goodbye Mr. Loser," otherwise, this scene would definitely be accompanied by a "One Plum Blossom" and the BGM of "Snowflakes fluttering, north wind howling."
Because at this moment, Tang Hao truly had the essence of Yuan Hua from back then.
Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and the others also changed color.
However, the most intense reaction at the moment was not from them, but from the common people of the Douluo Continent.
Although they were curious, for gossip's sake, about how many wives Yu Chen would eventually marry and which top beauties of the Continent he would become entangled with, what they truly cared about most was Yu Chen's earlier concept of spirit tools when he faced Supreme Pontiff Qian Xunji in Spirit Hall.
Many people had stretched their necks, waiting to see how he would develop brand new spirit tools and use Spirit Master technology to benefit the common people.
As a result, they were suddenly informed by the heavenly curtain that the main plot of the next part of the broadcast would not be this.
How could the curious onlookers accept this? They also started to make a fuss.