"Pfft." Hulena could hardly contain her amusement as she looked at Tang San, who was acting like a buffoon in front of Qian Renxue. She didn't know what to say when he tried to use the authority of the Martial Soul Hall to intimidate her.
Qian Renxue's status within the Martial Soul Hall was probably even higher than that of the teacher, the Pope. The teacher was Qian Renxue's birth mother. Back then, when the Martial Soul Hall was without a leader, it was ultimately natural for the teacher to take the position of Pope as Qian Renxue's mother.
Now that Qian Renxue had returned, there was likely to be a major reshuffling within the Martial Soul Hall.
However, this had nothing to do with her. No matter what happened within the Martial Soul Hall, all she needed to do was to fulfill her duties with due diligence.
"Why are you all staring at me like this? I'm not an impostor; I have a Token." The way Xu Ran and the others looked at Tang San with an amused gaze made him feel humiliated in his pride.
His status as the Saint Heir was genuine, damn it, why was Xu Ran looking at him as if he was a fool?
"Nana," Tang San felt somewhat uneasy; he always had the sense that Xu Ran held some sort of trump card.
Moreover, the woman by Xu Ran's side, with her stunning beauty, seemed to hold an extraordinary status; otherwise, he wouldn't dare to act so fearlessly against him, to slap him in the face.
Although he had not been paying attention just now, the fact that she could land a hit on him was proof enough of the woman's strength.
Hulena did not pay Tang San any mind, but instead approached Qian Renxue and bowed respectfully, saying, "Hulena pays her respects to the Miss."
Hulena's eyebrows lifted as she peeked at Qian Renxue's face.
In reality, the last time she saw Qian Renxue, she was only five or six years old, and Qian Renxue was just a little over ten at the time. Now, naturally, she was very curious about Qian Renxue. Driven by a woman's vanity, she did not want to be outshined by others, especially in front of Xu Ran.
She was extremely confident in her appearance. As a goddess in the Martial Soul Academy, she was a famous campus beauty, pursued by countless individuals.
But the moment she saw Qian Renxue's face, she felt somewhat ashamed. Qian Renxue's beauty was ethereal, transcending the mundane. As the Inheritor of the Angel God, although she had not yet become a god, she possessed a hint of divine aura.
This, combined with the noble temperament she cultivated while living a life of luxury in Tiandou City, endowed her with a distinguished and somewhat intimidating air.
Qian Renxue was a natural-born leader, but in front of Xu Ran, she kept her aura in check. She knew well that in front of a man, a woman needed only to stay behind him without outshining him, especially in front of others.
However, she was not as gentle when dealing with outsiders; her commanding presence could be daunting.
At this moment, Hulena was somewhat distracted, feeling a tinge of sourness in her heart as she watched Xu Ran and Qian Renxue holding hands.
Just moments before, Xu Ran had also been holding her hand, but she had been a bit flustered... Now watching the well-matched couple of Qian Renxue and Xu Ran hand in hand, she couldn't help but feel envious.
The sensation of Xu Ran's hand-holding still seemed to linger between her fingers, and it felt very good indeed.
From her youth, she had never had any physical contact with any man. In her heart, she disliked those vulgar men. But Xu Ran was different.
"Nana? What's going on?" Tang San looked bewildered, and even more panicked inside. Damn it, what exactly was happening? Hulena was the goddess, her status on a par with that of the Elders.
And even the Elders, when facing the goddess, would not dare to overstep.
One could say that within the Martial Soul Hall, aside from Pope Bibi Dong, there were few who would dare to disrespect Hulena.
Yet here was Hulena, directly addressing an unfamiliar woman as "Miss."
In the Martial Soul Hall, who else but Hulena could hold the title of Miss?
Tang San was on the verge of tears, his legs gave out, and he suddenly had a bad premonition. Seeing the relationship between Xu Ran and that woman, didn't that mean Xu Ran held a higher position in the Martial Soul Hall than him?
Damn it???
Tang San's mouth hung open, unable to accept the news for a moment.
He had thought that as long as he managed the Martial Soul Hall well and laid a solid foundation there, Xu Ran would be courting death by coming to the Martial Soul Hall.
Good lord, now you're telling him Xu Ran's identity within the Martial Soul Hall was even higher than his, and that it wasn't Xu Ran, but he, Tang San, who was actually walking to his death?
It's going to be bad!
Tang San felt a tingling on his scalp and his legs were a bit weak. He wanted to quickly leave this place to calm down. But he had just made harsh statements, and running away now would surely be laughed at by Xu Ran, wouldn't it?
And logically speaking, his kind Aunt Dong, Bibi Dong, was the helmsperson of the Martial Soul Hall. With Bibi Dong who loved his teacher so much, his position in the Martial Soul Hall should have been very stable!
Thinking of his backer Bibi Dong, Tang San felt a little reassured.
At this moment, he didn't know that the person in front of him was Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong's daughter, Qian Dao Liu's granddaughter. Had he known, he would've been flabbergasted. Qian Renxue was believed dead before being sent to infiltrate the Tiandou Empire, and all the outside world thought she was dead. As for Tang San, he didn't even know of Qian Renxue's existence.
"Ignorant," Hulena glanced at Tang San, igniting his anger. He wished he could ruthlessly bully Hulena for a bit. The thing he couldn't have, Xu Ran could, which made him incredibly angry. Everything that happened today made his emotions oppressively terrible, and the outlet for these emotions had become Hulena.
He had decided that Hulena would never escape the palm of his hand in this lifetime.
Even if he couldn't have her heart, he must first have her body.
"This is the daughter of the current Pope, the granddaughter of the Great Elder, Her Highness Qian Renxue," Hulena said, her voice respectful.
"What? When did Aunt Dong have a daughter? How did I not know about this?" Tang San asked in bewilderment.
But that was no longer important now. As Bibi Dong's daughter, that meant she was the daughter of the former Pope Qian Xun Ji. How high would her position in the Martial Soul Hall be? The Qian Family had been the inheritors of the Martial Soul Hall, and Qian Renxue was the only descendant of the Qian Family now.
And Xu Ran was intimately mixed up with Qian Renxue.
Did this mean Xu Ran had become the Martial Soul Hall's son-in-law?
At this thought, Tang San felt a surge of jealousy.
Why did all the good things happen to that damn Xu Ran? Such a beautiful woman, like an angel, how comfortable it would be to hold her in his arms, to hold her hand, to kiss each other, to exchange fluids?
If he could be with Qian Renxue, then he could naturally take control of the Martial Soul Hall.
But instead, it wasn't his, but Xu Ran's, his enemy.
Tang San felt his face flush with embarrassment, thinking of the insults he had hurled at Xu Ran, as if he had been speaking to himself. Xu Ran was Qian Renxue's boyfriend, the Martial Soul Hall's son-in-law, a true member of the Martial Soul Hall. And he was nothing.
Tang San felt an urge to cry. Why was it always him who was hurt?
Had it been easy for him to show off in front of Xu Ran? This failed attempt at bragging, without Xu Ran saying a word, he could imagine Xu Ran laughing at him on the inside.