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

noon.

Bibi Dong carried the food box, walked through the long corridor, and arrived at the dark room where Yu Xiaogang was.

The stone door was pushed open.

Yu Xiaogang remained seated on the edge of the bed, and did not look up when he heard the door open.

Bibi Dong placed the food box on the table and opened the lid.

Three dishes and a soup, a bowl of white rice. Stir-fried seasonal vegetables, stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat, a steamed fish, and a bowl of mushroom soup.

These are all foods that Yu Xiaogang loves to eat.

He glanced at it but didn't move.

"Xiao Gang, let's eat." Bibi Dong gently placed the chopsticks down and spoke softly.

Yu Xiaogang remained silent.

Bibi Dong sat down in the chair and looked at him.

Time passed slowly. The steam from the food gradually subsided, and finally it went completely cold.

Yu Xiaogang never touched that bowl of rice.

"The food is getting cold," Bibi Dong said.

"Let me go."

Bibi Dong did not respond.

"Let me go," Yu Xiaogang said again, his voice a little strained.

"What exactly do you want to do by locking me up?"

Bibi Dong remained silent for a while.

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

"I have nothing else I need you to agree to."

Yu Xiaogang finally raised his head and looked at her.

"I have only one request. Let me go."

Bibi Dong remained silent.

Seeing her silent expression, Yu Xiaogang could no longer suppress the anger in his chest. He suddenly raised his hand and swept the food off the table.

The sound of shattering dishes was particularly jarring in the stone chamber.

Food was spilled all over the floor. The fish was broken in two, bamboo shoots and greens were mixed in with the broken pieces of porcelain, and soup had soaked the ground.

Bibi Dong looked down at the mess on the ground.

Her lips moved.

"Xiaogang," she said softly, "you never used to treat me like this. You never got angry with me."

Yu Xiaogang's fingers were trembling as he angrily questioned, "You weren't like this before."

"You never used to lock me up, never treated me like...like your prisoner."

He raised his head and looked into Bibi Dong's eyes.

"You've changed, Dong'er."

Bibi Dong's eyelashes trembled slightly.

"You've become no longer kind, no longer gentle, no longer the Bibi Dong I knew." Yu Xiaogang's voice grew heavier with each sentence.

"The way you are now scares me. It makes me feel like I've never really known you."

Bibi Dong remained silent.

The stone chamber remained quiet for a long time.

She didn't respond to Yu Xiaogang's words. She simply reached out and took out another meal from her storage soul tool.

Same food box, same dishes.

Clearly, Bibi Dong had made preparations in advance.

She placed the new food on the table and rearranged the chopsticks.

"Xiaogang, eat up," she said.

His tone was as calm as if nothing had just happened.

Yu Xiaogang looked at the food that had reappeared intact, then looked at Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong continued to gaze at him with deep affection.

Yu Xiaogang remained silent.

They didn't touch their chopsticks.

Bibi Dong waited for a long time.

The food got cold again.

She looked at Yu Xiaogang's stubborn profile, at how he would rather go hungry than touch the food she brought him.

Another image suddenly popped into my mind.

Liu Erlong carried hot tea into the room. She sat down beside him. She patted his shoulder, and he didn't flinch.

He'll definitely take what that woman hands him.

Bibi Dong's eyes darkened for a moment.

But she didn't say it.

Bibi Dong sighed and walked out of the dark room.

She thought to herself, "Now that I'm gone, Xiao Gang will probably eat."

……

From that day on, Bibi Dong would appear in the dark room on time for all three meals every day.

The meals were always plentiful. Three dishes and a soup, two meat dishes and one vegetable dish, were all dishes that Yu Xiaogang used to love to eat when he was in the Spirit Hall.

Yu Xiaogang initially refused to touch it at all.

Bibi Dong did not try to persuade her.

He simply set out the food and sat down to attend to his own business. Sometimes he would gaze affectionately at Yu Xiaogang, and other times he would close his eyes and meditate.

Yu Xiaogang was just an ordinary person, so after going hungry for two days, he finally picked up his chopsticks.

He ate very slowly, chewing each bite for a long time. He didn't look at Bibi Dong, nor did he speak.

Bibi Dong didn't say anything. She just sat quietly beside him, waiting for him to finish eating.

Then take away the dishes and leave.

A week passed just like that.

……

Bibi Dong's schedule became extremely regular this week.

In the early morning, I delivered breakfast to Yu Xiaogang, and then I cultivated in the quiet room.

Her soul power steadily increased at the Soul Saint level, getting closer and closer to the next level.

At noon, I went to the dark room to deliver lunch to Yu Xiaogang. After he finished eating, I cleared away the dishes.

In the afternoon, I practiced meditation.

In the evening, I went to the dark room to deliver dinner.

Late at night, I went to Chihiro's secret room.

day to day.

Chihiro has completely adapted to this life.

He even started to cooperate proactively.

When Bibi Dong pushed open the door and came in, he would look up at her with a complex and distorted gaze. There was hatred, humiliation, and a secret expectation that he himself was unwilling to admit.

Bibi Dong never spoke much to him.

She did what she wanted to do, then turned and left.

Qian Xunji lay there, watching her departing figure, a smile appearing on his lips.

He stopped thinking about it.

Thinking about it is useless.

Seventh day.

evening.

Bibi Dong sat cross-legged in the quiet room.

The phantom of the Death Spider King appeared behind him, and dark green soul power surged along his meridians like a tide. When the soul power reached a certain point, it seemed to encounter some kind of obstacle, but after repeated impacts, it finally broke through with a bang.

A powerful aura emanated from her body.

The candlelight in the quiet room went out all at once, then immediately came back on.

Bibi Dong opened her eyes.

Level 76.

She had been stuck at this hurdle for quite some time. Her months of day and night practice finally allowed her to cross this threshold.

Soul power surged through his meridians, becoming even more profound and solid than before.

Bibi Dong stood up.

She felt the growing power within her, but there wasn't much joy in her purple eyes.

It's just a breakthrough.

There's still a long way to go before becoming a Title Douluo. And a long way to go before truly controlling everything.

She stepped out of the quiet room.

The servants waiting outside immediately bowed when they saw her.

"Congratulations on your breakthrough, Your Highness."

Bibi Dong nodded.

"During my seclusion these past few days, has anything important happened in the palace?"

The attendant respectfully presented several documents.

"Elder Yueguan has taken care of the daily affairs. These documents require Your Highness's personal review."

Bibi Dong took the document and casually flipped through it.

These were all routine reports, nothing special.

She closed the document.

"Understood. You may leave."

The attendant responded and withdrew.

Bibi Dong stood by the window of the Papal Palace, gazing at the deepening twilight outside.

It's time to go see Xiaogang.

She turned around and walked toward the dark room.

……

The door to the dark room was pushed open.

Yu Xiaogang sat at the table, his ever-present notebook spread out in front of him. Hearing the door open, he didn't look up, nor did he stop writing.

Bibi Dong went in and placed the food box on the table.

"I made a breakthrough today," she said.

His tone was very calm, as if he were talking about something trivial.