Douluo: Twin Origins, Suppressing the World

Chapter 230 Identity Exposed
"Jiang Xue!"

Ling Shuang and her companions, who had just arrived at the Sun and Moon Royal Academy, heard a female voice.

A white-haired girl jogged over from not far away.

Upon seeing the newcomer, Gu Yuena and Tang Ya both turned their gazes to Ling Shuang in the middle.

"What is it?" Ling Shuang asked indifferently.

He didn't know why, but the attitude of this young lady from the mortal world towards him had changed drastically three months ago.

Meng Hongchen, who initially kept her distance from him because of what happened when he enrolled, has become somewhat ambivalent about three months ago.

Ling Shuang was unaware of what had happened during this time, but he knew that if possible, he should minimize his interactions with this young lady to avoid exposing his identity.

"Jiang Xue, can you come with me for a moment?"

Meng Hongchen approached Ling Shuang, a strange light flashing in her ruby-red eyes.

"I'm busy," Ling Shuang coldly refused.

Firstly, it was to maintain Jiang Xue's public image, and secondly, it was to avoid having too much interaction with Meng Hongchen.

Meng Hongchen had already anticipated this outcome.

She wasn't in a hurry at all; a sly smile appeared on her exquisitely beautiful face.

"But I feel like saying this here might not be good for you~"

Meng Hongchen's eyes were curved, perhaps with a hint of fox-like charm.

"After all, Jiang Xue might not actually be Jiang Xue..."

Upon hearing this, Ling Shuang's heart skipped a beat.

However, he did not reveal any flaws on his face. Although Meng Hongchen said that, it could not be ruled out that she was deliberately deceiving him.

However, Ling Shuang couldn't be sure if Meng Hongchen knew anything. If she were to reveal it in public, things would get complicated.

After a moment of silence and thought, he nodded: "Okay."

Upon hearing this, Meng Hongchen's upturned lips widened even further.

"Then I'll wait for you over there." She pointed to the empty classroom next to her, then turned and walked over.

"What's wrong?" Tang Ya asked, puzzled, when she saw Ling Shuang return.

"It's alright, I'm going to talk to her about something. Please wait here for me for a moment." Ling Shuang didn't mention that Meng Hongchen might know her identity.

He did not intend to say more until this point was confirmed.

While I have faith in Tang Ya's acting skills, it's always best to avoid any unforeseen complications.

"Hmm." Although she still had many questions, Tang Ya didn't dare to ask any more because she had to maintain that special demeanor.

After speaking with the two of them, Ling Shuang headed towards the classroom where Meng Hongchen was.

The classroom door slowly closed.

Upon seeing his arrival, Meng Hongchen's smugness only intensified.

She took out several uniquely shaped soul tools and then gently pressed the buttons on them.

“The soul-severing device can interfere with the detection of mental power and prevent eavesdroppers. After all, I guess you don’t want others to hear what happens later.”

Meng Hongchen's actions made Ling Shuang even more suspicious that she might already know everything.

However, he certainly won't admit it first before things are confirmed.

Ling Shuang chose to continue playing dumb.

He kept a cold expression, adopting Jiang Xue's signature deadpan look: "Just say what you want to say, don't play games and waste my time."

Seeing his cold and sarcastic demeanor, Meng Hongchen felt a completely different sensation than before.

"Actually, I never expected that the detestable Jiang Xue would be you..." Meng Hongchen's crimson eyes were fixed on Ling Shuang, her red lips slightly parted, and she slowly uttered the last two words:

"Ling Shuang."

With those two words spoken, Ling Shuang became eighty percent certain of her guess.

"What Ling Shuang? I don't understand what you're saying." Ling Shuang frowned, somewhat "impatient."

Meng Hongchen's thoughts remained unshaken by his reaction.

She stretched out a slender, snow-white hand and shook it: "Still not admitting it?"

"I already know everything, Ling Shuang, my god."

At this moment, Meng Hongchen looked confident of victory. She had completed all the investigations and was almost certain of her conclusions before coming to find Ling Shuang.

In fact, during this time, while spending time at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Meng Hongchen had already sensed that something was wrong.

Although Jiang Xue appeared to be fine, her woman's intuition told her that she seemed to have seen this holy son somewhere before.

Initially, due to the conflict, she didn't think about this issue in detail, but as her mind gradually calmed down, this question began to occupy Meng Hongchen's mind again.

She couldn't figure out where this sense of familiarity came from; she was certain that she had never met this Jiang Xue Shengzi before.

Until three months ago, the teacher in charge of their next competition introduced them to the contestants they might encounter in the competition who needed special attention.

When introducing that person, Meng Hongchen's gaze once again fell on Jiang Xue, who stood expressionless to the side.

A thunderbolt exploded in my mind.

Those two completely different faces strangely merged together in Meng Hongchen's vision.

She finally found the source of that familiar feeling!

Upon reaching this conclusion, Meng Hongchen's first reaction was self-doubt.

The difference between Ling Shuang and Jiang Xue is too great, and their martial souls are completely different. They don't seem like the same person at all.

However, she did not believe that the feeling of familiarity was just her imagination.

And can two such brilliant and extraordinary talents really emerge in the same era?

With this skeptical attitude, Meng Hongchen began to investigate and verify her conjecture.

She first investigated everything about Jiang Xue.

He learned from his grandfather that Jiang Xue had actually entered the Holy Spirit Cult through him.

Prior to this, they had no information about Jiang Xue.

This made Meng Hongchen even more suspicious.

Subsequently, she received a message from her spies in the Star Luo Empire.

Princess Xu Jiujiu traveled to a far northern city-state of the Star Luo Empire.

Although the official reason was to observe the people's conditions, that reason clearly could not fully explain why this imperial princess should go in person.

What made Meng Hongchen even more suspicious was that, according to his intelligence, Jiang Xue, the Holy Son, had also been to the far north several times, and the places she went to were not far from that city-state.

So she had someone investigate the northernmost city-state that Xu Jiujiu had visited.

She soon received some interesting news.

There were traces of Ling Shuang's girlfriend Jiang Nannan, as well as the white-haired and green-haired female powerhouses from before, in that city.

However, there was no sign of Ling Shuang moving.

This is obviously unreasonable.

Connecting this with everything she had investigated before, Meng Hongchen finally confirmed her suspicions:
Jiang Xue, the Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult, is her idol, Ling Shuang!

(End of this chapter)