Douluo Continent: Bibi Dong's Start with the Secret Chamber and Qian Xunji

Upon hearing this, Bibi Dong's fingers curled slightly.

"You said I'm not good enough for you." Yu Xiaogang's voice was shrill, full of resentment.

"You call me a piece of trash, a discarded pawn of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus, a useless strategist who only talks the talk, and saying that being with you will only be a burden to you."

He paused for a moment.

"You said you've never been sincere with me."

"I remember every single word."

Bibi Dong's lips moved slightly.

"Those words..."

"Those words were false?" Yu Xiaogang continued, "Was someone forced to say them?"

Bibi Dong remained silent.

Yu Xiaogang looked at her, and the anger in his eyes gradually cooled, turning into a deeper disappointment.

"Even if those words were false," he said, "was it also false that you knocked me unconscious and locked me up here?"

"no the same."

"What's different?"

"I love you," Bibi Dong said.

These three words, falling into the stone chamber, carried a heavy weight.

Yu Xiaogang was stunned for a moment.

"Those words weren't what I meant," Bibi Dong's voice lowered. "I had no choice. If I hadn't said them, you would have stayed, you would have been..."

She stopped.

The name was not mentioned.

"I can't let you stay," she said, "but I never wanted to lose you."

"So you locked me up?"

Yu Xiaogang's voice finally showed some emotion.

Did you ask me? Did you ask me if I was willing or not?

"You wouldn't want to."

"Of course I don't want to!" Yu Xiaogang's voice echoed in the stone chamber. "Who wants to be locked in a secret room? Who wants to be 'stored' like an object?"

Bibi Dong's breathing quickened for a moment.

"Then what do you want me to do?" Her voice finally showed a hint of emotion. "Watch you leave? Watch you and that Liu Erlong—"

She stopped abruptly.

Yu Xiaogang's expression changed.

"Liu Erlong?" He took a step forward. "You've been following me?"

Bibi Dong remained silent.

"You've been spying on me all along." Yu Xiaogang's voice tightened. "For the past few months, you've been watching me in secret. You know Flander, you know Erlong, you know where we went and what we did."

His fingers clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

"What did you do to them?"

"no."

"If you arrest me, won't they come looking for me?"

"They can't find it."

Yu Xiaogang's face turned pale for a moment.

"Bibi Dong," he said in a low voice, "if you hurt them—"

"I said, no."

Bibi Dong raised her head, her purple eyes surging with emotions that Yu Xiaogang had never seen before.

"I didn't touch them. I just took you away. When they wake up and find you're gone, they'll look for you, but they won't find you. This is Wuhun City, my place."

"Then let me go."

"no."

"Bibi Dong!"

"Except for this," Bibi Dong said, "I can agree to anything else."

Yu Xiaogang looked at her, and the anger in his eyes was gradually replaced by a deeper weariness.

"Anything else?" he said. "I only have one request: to leave this place."

"That's impossible."

The two looked at each other.

The stone chamber was so quiet that only the faint sound of airflow from the vents could be heard.

a long time.

Yu Xiaogang turned around, his back to her.

"You can go now," he said.

Bibi Dong stood there, watching his back.

Just like back in the library. When he was angry or sad, he would turn away, leaving her with a silent back view.

Bibi Dong wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.

She felt she was too clumsy with words and didn't know how to ease the tension.

The stone door opened and then closed again.

The footsteps faded into the distance.

Yu Xiaogang did not turn around.

Bibi Dong walked through the long corridor.

Her pace quickened.

Instead of returning to the main hall or going to the study, she went straight to the other side of the secret chamber.

When the door was pushed open, Qian Xunji was sitting against the headboard.

He had gotten used to this life over the past few months. Every day he lay in his secret room, waiting for Bibi Dong to come.

He even began to look forward to her coming.

Because this is the only person he can see.

The stone door was pushed open with a loud thud.

Qian Xunji looked up and saw Bibi Dong's face, and her heart skipped a beat.

Her expression was different from usual.

When she comes, she is indifferent and nonchalant, as if she were using a tool.

But today, a fire burned in her eyes.

"East--"

Before he could finish speaking, Bibi Dong had already taken out a whip and lashed it out.

The specially made whip causes excruciating pain when it strikes a person, but it leaves no obvious marks and does not damage muscles or bones.

The second whip fell.

The third lash.

Qian Xunji curled up, letting out a suppressed groan.

He did not beg for mercy.

Over the past few months, he has learned not to beg for mercy. Begging will only make her beat him harder.

The sound of whips slicing through the air came one after another.

Bibi Dong didn't speak, but silently lashed out with her whip. Each lash was delivered with all her might, each strike landing in a non-lethal spot.

The words she couldn't utter to Yu Xiaogang all turned into whips.

Why don't you believe her?

Why don't you ask her?

Why leave?

Why with that woman?

The whip fell.

Qian Xunji's muffled groans gradually changed tone.

It still hurts.

But something else was mixed in with that pain.

His body began to tremble, not from fear.

Bibi Dong stopped.

She looked down at the person curled up on the ground, her chest rising and falling slightly.

Qian Xunji raised her head.

The pain lingered on his face, but he was grinning.

A distorted arc.

The anger in Bibi Dong's eyes burned even brighter.

She threw down the whip.

Then he stepped forward and tore off Qian Xunji's clothes.

Qian Xunji's robes were torn open and scattered on the ground.

He lay on his back on the bed, his chest heaving. Shallow whip marks crisscrossed from his collarbone to his lower abdomen.

Bibi Dong looked down at him.

The once high and mighty pope now lies there naked.

There was no soul power, no majesty, no grand, lofty principles. There was only a body trembling slightly from the whip, and a pair of hands that didn't know where to go.

Qian Xunji turned his head away, avoiding her gaze.

Looking at him like this, Bibi Dong felt a twisted pleasure welling up inside her.

It's not happiness.

It is a final confirmation.

She was certain that this person could no longer hurt her. She was certain that the fears that kept her awake at night had turned into a puddle of mud beneath her feet.

She did not speak.

He bent down.

This is her ultimate test. She won't waste a single opportunity.

Only faint sounds and suppressed breathing remained in the sealed room.

After an unknown amount of time, the sound stopped.

Bibi Dong straightened up, tucked her loose long hair behind her ears, and straightened her robes. Her movements were composed, just as they had been when she arrived.

She didn't look at the person in the bed.

He turned and walked towards the stone gate.