Douluo: When Tang Wulin Met Little Huo Niang

Chapter 17 Heart-to-heart talk
“Isn’t that right?” However, Huo Yutong was clearly prepared. “I heard from Teacher Wang Yan that you were angry about me being insulted, so you attacked him, right?”

"……Um."

Tang Wulin felt embarrassed when his thick lie was exposed by just a few words.

Huo Yutong couldn't help but laugh.

"Why do you have that expression? You should be proud."

It was not until Wang Yan came to her at noon that she found out the whole story.

Today she specially asked Tang Yaduo to help her prepare thirty fish in order to express her gratitude to Tang Wulin.

She has always been the one being bullied since she was a child.

Apart from her mother, no one would help her. Tang Wulin was the first peer who offered a helping hand to her when she was isolated and helpless.

So even though she didn't show it on the surface, she was actually very happy now.

She held her chin with both hands and asked:

"I heard from the teacher that the reason you approached him was because you felt that I cared about him. Do you want to know why I cared about him?"

Tang Wulin nodded.

"Well, let me tell you my story."

Huo Yutong looked up at the starry sky with a melancholy look in his eyes, lost in memories.

"My real name is not Huo Yutong. My original surname is Dai, and I am the biological daughter of Duke Baihu..."

In the following time, through her narration, Tang Wulin learned about Huo Yutong's past bit by bit.

The image of a girl who was born in the Duke's Mansion, suffered from bullying under the oppression of the Duchess, and even her only mother was beaten and bedridden. In the end, she had to run away from home alone to find a way to revenge gradually emerged in front of him.

And as the story ends, the figure of this girl overlaps with the petite girl in front of him.

After the story was told, Tang Wulin fell into silence.

He grew up in a happy family. Although his family was not well off and he learned that his parents were missing some time ago, his childhood was generally happy.

However, Huo Yutong is different. According to her description, her life has been sunk in darkness until recently, and she has only recently found a glimmer of light.

He found it hard to imagine what this kind of life was like, but fortunately he could feel the emotions revealed in Huo Yutong's words.

When she talked about her mother, her words were full of tenderness; when she talked about the servants who bullied her and her daughter, her tone was very cold; when she talked about the Duchess and Dai Huabin, the darkness she revealed seemed to be ready to devour anyone...

After listening to this, Tang Wulin finally understood why Huo Yutong gritted her teeth whenever she mentioned the scumbag.

It’s not because she was hurt by a scumbag, but because she is the daughter of that scumbag.

Maybe when she sees the scumbag, she will think of her scumbag father who didn’t even know he had a ten-year-old daughter.

After a long silence, Tang Wulin asked:

"So what are you going to do next?"

Huo Yutong answered without hesitation:
"I want to completely exterminate the lineage of Duke White Tiger and make them disappear from this continent completely."

"But you are not strong enough now. You can't do this."

Tang Wulin's tone was extremely sad.

The reason why he said this was not only because Huo Yutong had poor talent.

Moreover, because he is a person from ten thousand years later, he knows where the future is heading.

Even though he was only nine years old, he knew that in addition to the Sun-Moon Federation, the Star Luo Empire also remained, and the emperor was the descendant of the White Tiger Duke.

Judging from Huo Yutong's performance, she doesn't seem like someone who would give up revenge, so there is only one conclusion: she succumbed to reality and failed in revenge. "I have to do it even if I can't do it." Huo Yutong said firmly: "Even if I die, as long as I can bite off a piece of meat from the Duke's Mansion, I will be satisfied."

She had sworn at her mother's grave to take revenge on the Duke's Mansion. Regardless of the outcome, she would never give up as long as she was alive.

The ferocity in Huo Yutong's words made Tang Wulin silent again.

Since they met, his impression of Huo Yutong has always been that of a gentle, hardworking sister who always cares about others. He never thought that she would speak in such a tone.

If you think about it, the two of them don't understand each other at all; they know very little about each other.

Under such circumstances, she was actually willing to tell him about her past. This trust was extremely precious.

At least let her know the final outcome.

Thinking of this, Tang Wulin made up his mind and said:
"Sister Yutong, what I'm going to say next may sound unreal, but please believe me, I won't tell you a single lie."

Then, he told Huo Yutong about his past.

Huo Yutong had told him about her own affairs, so he should reciprocate.

In fact, if you really think about it, the priority of keeping his past secret is far lower than that of Huo Yutong.

Even if Huo Yutong told others about his affairs, it would most likely be regarded as nonsense. And if he told others about Huo Yutong, she might be assassinated by someone sent by the Duke's Mansion within a few days.

After all, there are only a handful of people who believe that Tang Wulin came to this era from ten thousand years later through the turbulence of time and space, but as long as the relevant people do an investigation, they can confirm that what Huo Yutong said is true.

"..."

This time it was Huo Yutong’s turn to be stunned after listening to the story.

It wasn't that she didn't want to believe Tang Wulin, it was just that what he said was too magical.

Traveling through time and space, even traveling through ten thousand years, plus the matter of the Golden Dragon King's seal, she just felt like she was listening to a novel.

If someone else said this to her, she would just think that the other person was joking and would just laugh it off.

But looking at Tang Wulin's serious expression, she knew that what he said was not a lie.

The kid wasn't the type to talk nonsense at a time like this.

After struggling to digest what Tang Wulin said, Huo Yutong took a deep breath and said:
"Wulin, please don't tell anyone else what you just said except me. Of course, I won't tell anyone else either."

What Tang Wulin said was so weighty that if she wasn’t representing just herself, she would have even wanted to tell him about Tian Meng.

Fortunately, she was the only one who knew about it, and at most there was only one silkworm. As long as she didn't say anything, no one else would know about it.

"Got it. I will keep Sister Yutong's matter a secret for you."

Tang Wulin nodded seriously.

“No need to call me Sister Yutong. I’m only two years older than you.” Huo Yutong smiled bitterly and shook her head gently. “From now on, we are companions who keep secrets from each other. Just call me Yutong.”

"Okay, Yutong."

Under the brilliant starry sky, Tang Wulin felt that the distance between him and Huo Yutong was one step closer.

Digression
Huo Niang's current favorability towards each character
Dai Huabin: -95 (extremely disgusting, not -100 just because there is an even more disgusting Duchess above)

Zhou Sichen: 5 (quite interesting classmate, good friend of Tang Wulin)

Xiao Xiao: 15 (roommate who I just met for a few days and with whom I have almost no communication)
Wang Yan: 20 (a kind and gentle teacher)

Beibei, Tangya: 50 (the benefactor who gave her a new home and whom she had known for a short time)
Tang Wulin: 75 (his personality is very similar to Huo Niang, he helps her beat Dai Huabin, and he is the only one who knows her past)
The general favorability is not high because the time of acquaintance is not long, less than ten days at most, and the passing line is 0 instead of 60. As long as the favorability is a positive number, it means that the impression is good.

By the way, I read the original novel and found that Tang Wulin’s emotional development was closest to that of a normal person among the protagonists in the first three parts.

Tang San is a time traveler who has no emotional growth at all. He is a wooden man in the early stage, and his emotional transformation in the later stage is too abrupt (brother becomes girlfriend in an instant). Only Tang Wulin has a detailed transformation process from a pure little virgin to a love expert (he blushed when he saw his senior at the age of nine, and couldn't say anything back when Mu Xi teased him, but he was able to respond freely to the kindness of girls in the later stage)
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(End of this chapter)