Douluo Continent: Twin Golden and Silver Dragons Shock Bibi Dong

Upon hearing this, Qian Renxue's expression turned extremely ugly, but Xuan Hao's analysis was not yet over.

"Have you always felt that the reason you've paid so much attention to me and valued me so much over the years is because you've fallen in love with me?"

Xuan Hao looked at Qian Renxue's slightly flustered eyes, "Stop deceiving yourself. You don't like me at all. The only reason you care about me is because I've shown you strength that you can't control, because you've experienced too many inevitable defeats with me!"

"You're not convinced! You want to beat me, you want to tame me, you want to prove that you are the strongest and the most special by conquering a monster like me who doesn't respect anyone!"

“But I bet if one day I really bow my head before you and obey your every whim... your ridiculous ‘interest’ in me will vanish in an instant, and you’ll just think: Oh, so this Xuan Hao is nothing special after all.”

Do you think I don't know what you've been thinking about me all these years?

Xuan Hao took a step closer, their breaths almost mingling. "But have you ever thought about why, over the past few years, you haven't given me any substantial response to my various hints and attempts to control you?"

"Do you think that the reason I can be so intimate with Yanyan and Lingling without any restraint, but keep a clear distance from you, is because of my relationship with your mother, Bibi Dong?"

"That's a huge misunderstanding. I've said it before, I'm the kind of person who will stop at nothing to achieve my goals, even if it means being completely shameless. If I really wanted you, I wouldn't consider any of those messy obstacles and ethical considerations!"

Xuan Hao looked at Qian Renxue's face, which was gradually losing its color, and said, "There is only one reason why I have always kept my distance from you."

"I'm pretty sure that your feelings for me aren't love at all."

Xuan Hao took a half step back, looking at her with pity yet coldness in his eyes: "You don't love me. You don't even know how to love others. You only love yourself, only love your illusory authority and pride."

"A person who lacks empathy and disdains to understand the feelings of others cannot truly love anyone."

After saying this, Xuan Hao didn't look at Qian Renxue again and turned to leave.

However, the moment he turned around, a hint of shame, anger, and loss of control flashed in Qian Renxue's eyes as her pretense was completely ripped away. She suddenly reached out and grabbed Xuan Hao's collar tightly, unleashing a powerful force that dragged him into a dark, deserted alleyway.

"boom!"

Qian Renxue pressed Xuan Hao heavily against the rough blue brick wall, her hands pressing firmly against his chest.

However, Xuan Hao's nearly two-meter-tall figure stood there like an unyielding iron wall. Even though Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, was tall and nearly 1.8 meters, she still had to tilt her head slightly to meet his gaze when she "wall-pinned" him against the wall.

This physical dominance made the imposing aura she originally wanted to create appear somewhat weak and intimidating.

"Do you think you understand people's hearts perfectly? Do you think you know everything about them?!"

Qian Renxue gritted her teeth, looked up and stared intently at Xuan Hao, a hint of suppressed redness rising in her eyes, her voice trembling slightly with anger: "You shameless, lewd philanderer, what right do you have to stand here and look down on me and accuse me of not understanding love?!"

Faced with Qian Renxue's questioning, Xuan Hao did not struggle, but simply leaned against the wall and looked at her calmly with his eyes down.

"I'm a womanizer, I'm shameless, that's a fact. But when did I ever say that being a womanizer equals not loving?"

Xuan Hao countered with a question, his tone devoid of any guilt: "Why do you think Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling are willing to stay by my side so devotedly?"

"Because I'm strong? Talented? They saw the huge return on investment in me? I don't deny that these are facts. After all, if you like someone, that person must have some shining qualities and value that are worth liking. No one will love a useless person for no reason. Even if someone is useless in your eyes, they must have certain value in the eyes of the person who loves them."

Seeing Qian Renxue's slightly stunned expression, Xuan Hao continued:

"But these are just the first steps. The most fundamental reason they are willing to stay is that they feel happy and relaxed when they are with me."

"Do you think they don't mind that there are other women around me? How could they not mind? They often get angry and quarrel with me over these trivial things. But I also know exactly what they care about most deep down. They need security and to be valued, so I give them the special treatment they want and try my best to make them happy."

"Feelings are always mutual, and giving is mutual."

"But what about you?"

"You always put on that high and mighty god-like air. What you need is never an equal lover who can stand on your level and compromise with you. What you need is just a group of lackeys who kneel at your feet, obey your every word, and satisfy your vanity and desire for control."

"Moreover, in your logic, these lackeys can be replaced or discarded at any time once they lose their usefulness or go against your wishes."

Upon hearing this, Qian Renxue's fingers tightened suddenly, her knuckles turning white.

"Of course, I'm not telling you this today to accuse you of being utterly wicked."

Xuan Hao's voice softened slightly, "Everyone has their own way of surviving."

"Like me, my way of life, which seems unrestrained and promiscuous to outsiders, is ultimately because I lack love in my bones. I need a constant stream of affection and love from the outside world to fill the void in my heart. I know very well what I need, so in order to obtain this love, I am also willing to give what others need without reservation."

"I'm the kind of person who can take things on and let them go."

"And your way of life naturally has its own set of unbreakable logic. I never said you were wrong."

Xuan Hao reached out and gently grasped Qian Renxue's wrist, which was clutching his collar, and slowly removed her hand.

"I have always respected you and never looked down on you."

Xuan Hao looked down at her. "It's precisely because I see things so clearly that I've always deliberately kept my distance from you, not wanting to provoke you. Our survival logic and our desire for a relationship are completely opposite."

"Since we're destined to walk different paths, there's no need for us to force ourselves together and engage in mutually harmful and self-torturing activities."

Chapter 207 Love is not something sacred.

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As Xuan Hao pried her fingers apart little by little, Qian Renxue took a deep breath, her tense body relaxing slightly as she slowly released her grip on him.

A brief silence fell over the deep alley.

Just as Xuan Hao thought the one-sided showdown was finally over and was about to turn and leave, Qian Renxue's voice rang out behind him again. This time, her tone was less sharp, but more stubborn and difficult to conceal.

"And what about you and that woman?"

Qian Renxue raised her head, her eyes, now cold again, fixed intently on Xuan Hao: "Pope Bibi Dong... what are your feelings for her?"

"Don't try to fool me with those high-sounding reasons." Qian Renxue stepped forward, her tone resolute. "I'm a woman, my intuition is never wrong. The way that woman looks at you, the way she indulges you, is just not right! And you... your feelings for that woman are definitely not those of a teacher and student, or an elder and a junior!"

Upon hearing this name, Xuan Hao paused in his departing steps.

He turned around, looked at Qian Renxue's face, which was filled with curiosity and resentment, and asked with a hint of amusement, "Why do you care about this?"

"What kind of relationship I have with Bibi Dong, and what has happened between us, is our private matter. Even if we did something treasonous, it has nothing to do with you, His Highness the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, who is far away in the Heaven Dou Empire, right?"

Xuan Hao narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at her: "Or... after I exposed your thoughts, your twisted competitive spirit has started to flare up again?"

"Do you think that since even that high and mighty Bibi Dong can lower herself to please me, why can't you, Qian Renxue?"

Caught off guard by her hidden competitive spirit, Qian Renxue gritted her teeth and glared at him, retorting, "Is that not allowed?!"

"Of course it's not impossible."

Xuan Hao suddenly laughed, a laugh tinged with helplessness and mockery: "But the problem is, am I some kind of exceptional person? Is it really worth it for you to fight with the woman you hate the most for a bastard like me just to prove yourself?"

Xuan Hao walked back to Qian Renxue step by step, looking down at her with an extremely oppressive gaze:

"Besides, if your true intention is to compete with Bibi Dong for something to prove you're stronger than her, then your focus has never been on me, but on Bibi Dong!"

"In other words, you're just unilaterally competing with Bibi Dong. If Bibi Dong had her eye on someone else instead of me, Xuan Hao, would you also have gone to snatch that other person without hesitation just to annoy her and defeat her?"

"No! You're the one I want!"

Qian Renxue frowned and almost instinctively retorted sharply.

"Alright, stop lying to yourself."

Xuan Hao sighed helplessly, looking into her eyes filled with obsession: "I ask you, if you really got me, would you be happy? Or rather, how long could you be happy?"

"I've already made myself clear enough. The reason you still maintain such a strong interest in me isn't because you love me at all, but precisely because I've been guarding against you like a thief all these years, always keeping an insurmountable distance from you!"

“Once I break down this barrier, once I bow down and submit to you… believe me, you could lose all interest in me at any moment!”

"The reason you feel excited and happy now is purely because the sense of distance from what you want but cannot have is stimulating your nerves in the process of trying to tame me. But once you have completely obtained me and won this game, I, this 'trophy,' will inevitably become worthless in your eyes."

Xuan Hao leaned against the blue brick wall, looking up at the sliver of sky above the alley, his tone revealing a desolate understanding of human nature:

"That's how most things in this world are; what you can't have always seems more desirable."

"Even Ning Rongrong and Yan Yan, who you find incredible for staying by my side, are the same case."

Xuan Hao looked down at Qian Renxue and put forward an extremely realistic and cruel theory: "You only see a group of beautiful women surrounding me, but you have no idea that if I don't deliberately maintain that delicate balance between them, these girls' feelings for me will soon run into problems."

"why?"

Xuan Hao asked himself and answered: "Because in relationships involving multiple people, they have unconsciously developed a sense of comparison and competition. This sense of crisis and urgency will make them work harder to maintain the relationship. When they feel that they have received a little bit of my favoritism at some point, or even just the feeling of getting a little bit more advantage than others... it will make them feel extremely happy and satisfied."

"Conversely, because I sometimes favor others, they get jealous, angry, and unhappy. But then, as long as I coax them and show them more favor, the stark contrast makes them feel like they've regained what they lost, and they become even happier."

Xuan Hao looked at Qian Renxue's slightly dazed expression and smiled mockingly:

"It sounds shameless, vulgar, even ridiculous, doesn't it?"

"But Qian Renxue, remember this: that's what feelings are all about!"

"Love has never been some pure, noble, otherworldly, sacred thing. The essence of emotions, to put it bluntly, is a business of mutual exchange! Only, the commodity in this business is not gold coins and wealth with a price tag, but the living value of emotions!"

“And you…” Xuan Hao looked at her deeply, “If you can’t even give others the most basic emotional value, what do you have to talk about love?”

Xuan Hao looked at Qian Renxue's slightly pale face without pausing and continued to dissect this theory of tearing apart hypocrisy.

"So put away your self-righteous bargaining chips. Never make promises to others with wealth, status, or your superior power."

"In the face of true love, these material things are not a plus at all; they are a heavy burden on love itself."

"Even the 'responsibility' that people often talk about is the same."

Xuanhao shrugged. "The world always likes to put shackles on relationships, thinking that 'responsibility' is the guarantee for maintaining love. But in reality? Pure responsibility not only does not play any role in protecting love, but on the contrary, it is a huge and suffocating pressure."

"When you maintain a relationship out of so-called responsibility, there is not much love left in it, only the moral obligation to grit your teeth and the exhaustion."

Qian Renxue listened blankly, her lips twitching slightly as if she wanted to retort, but no sound came out.

Xuan Hao's voice softened slightly as he looked at her.

Do you know why love is always so alluring, even to the point that people are willing to throw themselves into it like moths to a flame?

"It's because from the moment it was born, it has been completely detached from the trivialities of real life. It doesn't care about your background, your soul power level, or how many gold soul coins you have. It is completely and thoroughly based on 'emotions'."

"It is precisely because love is based on pure emotion that it makes people blind, hot-headed, impulsive, and even willing to do anything for that person, daring to fight against the whole world."

Chapter 208 What are you saying in your gibberish?

……

Xuan Hao straightened up and slowly walked to Qian Renxue.

"Love is a product detached from reality. So when the outside world tries to suppress a love with the hardships of reality, worldly prejudices, or the rules of power, you will find that this emotional bond will not only not collapse, but will rebound and become even more unbreakable."

"The more oppressive the regime, the more intense the resistance, and the more profound the love. This is the rebellion of human nature, and also the instinct of love."

"Conversely, if you try to use material temptations, exchanges of benefits, or your power as the crown prince, you can easily change or buy out a so-called 'love'..."

"Then please don't doubt it, that wasn't love at all. It was just a transaction with a price tag."