A few days later, Qian Renxue awoke from her slumber. Seeing herself nestled against her husband's chest, she lazily leaned in and affectionately kissed Zhao Ling's cheek.
"My dear…"
Zhao Ling gently stroked Qian Renxue's head, asking softly, "Xi'er, you're awake? Did you sleep enough?"
"Mmm…" Qian Renxue responded languidly. She lightly tousled her golden hair, making her look increasingly alluring.
Zhao Ling's eyes went wide, and he subconsciously swallowed hard, his arms once again embracing the girl's slender waist.
Qian Renxue was startled and quickly pleaded with Zhao Ling.
"H-husband, please calm down. If you keep this up, Xi'er won't dare to come play with you next time…"
Hearing Qian Renxue's words, Zhao Ling didn't dare to continue his antics.
If he truly scared this girl off, and she really stopped coming to see him, wouldn't he cry himself to death?
He was already being kicked around like a ball by his confidantes.
If this girl stopped coming to him too, he would definitely cry himself unconscious in the restroom.
Alas, what kind of situation was this? He had so many wives.
Yet, they all treated him like a plague god, and it was all because of his Barbaric War Body.
"Alright, alright… I won't mess around. I'll just hold my precious Xi'er, is that okay?"
Zhao Ling gently comforted Qian Renxue, lest she get scared and return to the Prince's residence right away.
Such a charming and beautiful woman, even just holding her was a pleasure.
"Mmm…" Qian Renxue finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as her husband didn't mess around, it was fine.
Once Qian Renxue had recovered sufficiently, she bid farewell to Zhao Ling and returned to the Prince's residence.
After all, she was currently posing as Xue Qinghe. If she stayed at Zhao Ling's mansion every day, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.
Zhao Ling watched as Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, left in a carriage, then closed the door…
Nuoding Academy
The scene shifts back to Nuoding Academy.
After a period of recovery, Tang San, who had been beaten twice by people sent by Qian Renxue, finally fully recovered.
Of course, during this period of recuperation, Tang San wasn't idle.
After all, he had promised Wang Sheng and everyone in Dorm 7 that he would teach them some skills.
Therefore, during this time, Wang Sheng and the others in Dorm 7 would attend classes during the day to learn theoretical knowledge.
When they returned to Dorm 7 at night, they still had to face Tang San's strict teaching. Everyone had to study until after 11 PM before they could wash up and sleep.
Everyone in Dorm 7 was very convinced by Tang San. With Tang San personally teaching them, they naturally wouldn't drag their feet.
Therefore, during this past period, under Tang San's guidance, although the apparent progress of the Dorm 7 residents wasn't significant, they gradually learned the basic usage of hidden weapons.
Of course, for Tang San, this was clearly not enough.
He also planned to use the methods Yu Xiaogang used to train the Shrek Seven Monsters in his previous life to train these Dorm 7 members.
However, Tang San currently had only one hundred gold spirit coins, which was not enough to purchase herbs to complement those training methods and help everyone become stronger.
Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang also began investigating the backgrounds of those who had beaten Tang San.
He discovered that all those people were actually behind some merchants, and these merchants had all recently left Nuoding City.
As for where these merchants went, he couldn't find out.
He then went to ask the dean of Nuoding Academy, wanting to know the specific origins of these merchants.
But the dean of Nuoding Academy was also helpless; he simply didn't know the specific backgrounds of these merchants.
Anyway, those merchants had simply brought those students to the academy, saying they wanted to enroll in Nuoding Academy.
And they immediately offered twenty thousand gold spirit coins—a full twenty thousand gold spirit coins!
For a primary spirit master academy like theirs, twenty thousand gold spirit coins was an astronomical sum.
At the time, he naturally agreed without a second thought. Who knew that these students came to enroll in their academy just to deal with a six-year-old brat?
This itself was hard to understand. What was so remarkable about this brat named Tang San that those merchants and students would maliciously target him?
He couldn't figure it out. The dean of Nuoding Academy was completely baffled.
However, thinking that those merchants had given a full twenty thousand gold spirit coins just to beat Tang San twice, providing ample funds for the entire Nuoding Academy, he really wanted to ask those merchants if he needed to open a convenient door for them again, so they could beat that unlucky child Tang San twice more, and then they would give another twenty thousand gold spirit coins?
However, he knew this was impossible, as those merchants had all disappeared without a trace.
Moreover, this matter had already attracted the attention of his old friend Yu Xiaogang, so it probably wouldn't be easy to earn extra money using this method again.
When Yu Xiaogang saw that the dean of Nuoding Academy couldn't explain the merchants' backgrounds, he couldn't help but show disappointment. He knew very well that his old friend shouldn't be lying to him.
And now that he was working under someone else, it was impossible for the other party to fully explain everything they were doing to him.
To thoroughly investigate this matter, he probably had to rely on Tang Hao's methods. After all, Tang Hao was now a true Titled Douluo expert.
Moreover, he had long been famous and had some influence on the Douluo Continent.
If Tang Hao were to investigate this matter, the difficulty would probably be much less than for himself.
It was just a pity that since he last saw Tang Hao, he had disappeared without a trace. Yu Xiaogang had no idea where he was now.
Yu Xiaogang could only silently say in his heart.
"Tang Hao, oh Tang Hao, you'd better come back soon. Only you can handle this matter.
If even you can't handle this, I'm afraid your precious son will eventually be secretly killed."
And Tang San also didn't know where his father had gone. The last time Tang Hao came to Nuoding Academy, he didn't show up to see him at all.
This made Tang San a bit worried that his father might have encountered some accident by going to the Great Star Dou Forest.
But thinking about it, he also felt that it was impossible. Even if his father faced three Thousand Catties Ant Emperors, even if he couldn't defeat them, he should still be able to escape.
Moreover, his father wasn't a fool and would definitely use methods to disperse the Thousand Catties Ant Emperors.
As long as his father faced a single Thousand Catties Ant Emperor, with his level 90 spirit power and the ring-detonation effect of the Great Sumeru Hammer, it shouldn't be difficult to kill it.
So Tang San felt that his father must have safely reached the Titled Douluo level.
As for where he was now and what he was doing, he didn't know.
According to his father's trajectory in his previous life, he would have gone to see his Blue Silver Empress mother, who had perished due to self-sacrifice.
But in this life, the Blue Silver Empress was no longer his mother and had no relation to his father.
Tang San racked his brains but still couldn't figure out where his father had gone…