"From today onward, I sever all ties with you, the Du Family, with no further relation!"
As Tang Yi spoke, his gaze slowly swept across Du Qingshan and the other two, and he walked leisurely towards the exit of the ward.
But as he passed by Du Qingshan, Tang Yi suddenly uttered, his tone indifferent, "However, there is something I hope you remember. The things you took from me, I will take them back double!"
"You..."
Du Qingshan was startled. Although Tang Yi's manner was calm, it gave Du Qingshan, who was accustomed to riding out storms, a strong sense of impending crisis.
"Big brother! This bastard is just too arrogant, daring to threaten us just as he leaves!" Du Qingshui, standing to the side, said resentfully.
"The second brother is right, that little bastard Tang Yi is really detestable!" Looking at his son Du Hao, who was still unconscious in his arms, Du Qingsong said fiercely, "Moreover, this bastard dares to hurt my son, I must avenge this grudge!"
"Enough!" As the Helmsman of Du Corporation, Du Qingshan shut his brothers up with just one word.
"Although I have no idea what this kid has experienced to undergo such a drastic change in demeanor, becoming so arrogant and overbearing, and judging by the skill he revealed just now, I fear he might have been biding his time for quite a while, definitely harboring no small schemes!"
"However, he is still young and inexperienced. If he had insisted on clinging to the Du Family, then Bai Shaochen might have had to go through some trouble to deal with him. But now that he has declared a break with the Du Family, he will have to bear the brunt of Bai Shaochen's strike and revenge on his own, saving us from getting dragged into it!"
"As for his parting words, it was nothing but the reckless rant of a youth. With just him..."
Du Qingshan let out a disdainful snort, yet despite his words, he somehow felt an inexplicable unease in his heart.
...
After leaving the hospital, Tang Yi hailed a taxi and headed to Shanghai University.
"Who would have thought, after five hundred years, I'd actually return to university life!" Looking at the grand entrance of Shanghai University, Tang Yi felt surprisingly nostalgic.
Before he was eighteen, Tang Yi lived under the oppression and humiliation of the Du Family. After confessing his love to Mo Qingxue, he was tormented by Bai Shaochen for a full decade. Although he was saved by Fairy Luo Xia afterward, he had to fight bloodily in the Cultivation World for five hundred years to survive.
If he counted, among the more than five hundred years of his life in his previous existence, only the first year he entered Shanghai University was the only time when Tang Yi truly felt happy and relaxed.
Watching the boys and girls coming and going at the university entrance, sensing the youthful aura emanating from them, Tang Yi's heart, which had long become old, seemed to grow a bit younger as well.
However, seeing Tang Yi standing at the entrance of Shanghai University, the passing men and women kept sizing him up, especially the gossip-loving girls who started whispering among themselves.
"So this is that Tang Yi? I thought he would be some high, rich, and handsome guy, but he looks so ordinary! Does he really have what it takes to make all the male students at Shanghai University go through a collective heartbreak overnight, with the male dorms wailing for days on end?"
"Heh heh! What do you know, in this day and age the bold live and the timid starve. Just because he dares to confess his love to the goddess Mo Qingxue in front of the whole school, and what's key is that he was even accepted!"
"Really? No wonder those boys who have a crush on Mo Qingxue feel like crying themselves to death. If they knew all it took was some thick skin to get the goddess, they would have rushed to confess on the evening news!"
"Heh! You think confessing doesn't come with a price? I heard that the night Tang Yi successfully confessed, he got beaten up and ended up in the hospital for several days. During that time, his only close friend, Lin Shaocong, took an even worse beating and became unrecognizable, just like a pig's head. He's still lying in the dorm right now, and no one dares to take him to the hospital!"
...
Tang Yi's hearing was incredibly sharp. Although those girls spoke in hushed tones, he heard everything clearly. However, he wasn't one to quibble with women. But when he heard the last part, Tang Yi suddenly burst into rage.
"Fatty was beaten up!"
In his previous life, Tang Yi lived under the abuse and humiliation of the Du Family until he turned eighteen. After he confessed his feelings to Mo Qingxue, he suffered ten years of torment at the hands of Bai Shaochen. Although he later followed Fairy Luo Xia into the Cultivation World, the realm was cruel beyond measure. In order to survive, Tang Yi had to constantly fight for his life.
When he thought about it, Tang Yi from his previous life only truly experienced happiness during the first year he entered Shanghai University. Besides having Mo Qingxue, what was even more important was that he had found a true friend, a real brother in 'Fatty' Lin Shaocong.
Lin Shaocong was not tall, and he was extremely overweight. Combined with a timid character similar to Tang Yi's, he too had suffered from bullying at home since he was young. After growing up and entering Shanghai University, he, like Tang Yi, was also ostracized and mocked by his peers.
Lin Shaocong and Tang Yi became close friends, perhaps because of their similar personalities and fates.
In his previous life, when Tang Yi was targeted and retaliated against by Bai Shaochen, everyone, including the Du Family, disregarded him. Only Lin Shaocong reached out to help Tang Yi. Otherwise, it would have been unlikely for Tang Yi to endure ten years of torture, let alone meet Fairy Luo Xia afterward. It's fair to say that it was because of Lin Shaocong that Tang Yi managed to turn around what was originally a tragic destiny.
However, because of his selfless assistance to Tang Yi, Lin Shaocong also became a target for Bai Shaochen's retaliation, which led to a miserable end.
Hearing that his only close friend had been beaten, Tang Yi couldn't suppress his anger any longer, and he sprinted towards the male dorms.
"Whoever dares bully my friend, I won't let you get away with it!"
As Tang Yi made this resolution, his speed increased. Before long, he had already arrived at the male dormitory.
Following his memory, Tang Yi quickly found the dorm he shared with Lin Shaocong. In the past, both were so ostracized that no one wanted to share a room with them, resulting in just the two of them living in their dorm room, which was much better than the typical seven or eight people crammed into one.
As soon as Tang Yi pushed open the door, he saw an immensely overweight 'fatty' lying on a single bed.
This 'fatty' was so heavy that he must have weighed at least three hundred pounds. His enormous size had even distorted the metal bed frame.
Looking at this familiar figure, Tang Yi called out with a trembling voice, "Fatty!"
"Tang Yi!" Seeing Tang Yi at the door, Lin Shaocong was extremely excited. Despite his bruised face, he was smiling from ear to ear, "Man, you're awesome! You always talked about confessing to the goddess Mo Qingxue. I thought you were just boasting, but you really went for it!"
Lin Shaocong immediately gave Tang Yi a thumbs-up, praising him, "You've got guts, and I, Fat Master, am thoroughly impressed. When will you bring the goddess to show me, huh?"
"Definitely!"