(Or: The Fastest Awakening + The Fastest Face-Slapping in Star Luo History)**
Inside the restaurant, the people of Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School ordered dishes with the ease of nobles picking flowers in spring.
One plate after another, tens of thousands of gold coins flew as if they were scooping ladles of water from a river.
This arrogant spending made the Star Luo Empire's delegation feel spiritually injured.
Dai Tianfeng dry-coughed to maintain imperial face.
"Ahem… We'll also order."
Even though the numbers on the menu made him want to kneel and cry, they were already seated here—how could they just watch?
Besides—
If even Titled Douluo were fighting for food like hungry ghosts reincarnated…
Then this food wasn't food.
It was clearly divine cuisine.
Under the contradictory emotions of "we can't afford it but we can't miss it", the Star Luo delegation trembled as they ordered a few dishes.
With every order, their heart bled.
A single plate of braised pork cost six or seven thousand gold coins?!
That was enough to book the top courtesan at the continent's most expensive brothel for an entire night!
And the kind you could have serenade you repeatedly with zero cooldown.
Just as they were painfully waiting for the dishes to arrive, Dai Tianfeng's peripheral vision caught Dai Weisi repeatedly sneaking glances at Zhu Zhuyun.
His son's gaze contained three parts resentment, three parts heartbreak…
…and the remaining ninety-four parts:
"Where the hell did my fiancée go?"
Dai Tianfeng's eyelids twitched.
A sense of extreme danger exploded in his chest.
He leaned in like a tiger about to bite ears off.
"What are you staring at?! Did your soul fall out?!"
Dai Weisi jolted violently, whispering with a face full of grief:
"Father… Zhuyun… is she really not going to be my Imperial Princess anymore?
Did she and Lord Deity already…"
His voice crumbled.
Before coming here, he was still daydreaming.
A Divine Emissary as his wife!
That was an opening so strong even a Sleeping Dragon and Young Phoenix would cry in envy!
When he inherited the throne, with the Divinity's own spokesperson as Empress…
Heaven Dou? Spirit Hall?
Star Luo would stomp both into the dirt!
But—
Reality smashed his dream into a QR code.
A broken one.
Unscannable.
Looking at Zhu Zhuyun's intimate proximity to that young Divinity…
Her blushing face…
Her dutiful kneading of his shoulders…
Even an idiot would immediately recognize—
This was no pure relationship.
This was cooked. Thoroughly.
The Empress was gone.
The golden ladder was gone.
What kind of situation was this?!
What kind of situation was this!!!
While he drowned in heartbreak, he didn't notice—
His words were the equivalent of lighting a fuse beside a nuclear bomb.
Dai Tianfeng's face went from green → white → purple → fiery liver-red!
"Smack!!!"
A resounding slap crashed onto Dai Weisi's cheek.
Dai Weisi stared at him blankly.
But the expression Dai Tianfeng gave him was:
Sheer, primal, existential terror.
The surrounding officials trembled like quails.
"You dare STILL think like that?!"
Dai Tianfeng grabbed his collar, pressing his mouth to Dai Weisi's ear as he hissed:
"Are you BRAINSICK?!"
"Didn't you SEE Zhuyun's status now?! Is that someone YOU can fantasize about?!"
"You want her to be your wife?! Why don't you call me dad while you're at it?!"
"You want to accompany your dead brother in the afterlife for company, don't you?!"
"If you dare provoke Lord Deity over this braindead nonsense—
I won't need him to act."
"I'll twist your head off myself and show you WHY flowers are red!!"
Dai Weisi's soul left his body.
That's right!
What kind of suicidal thinking was that?!
Just recalling Dai Mubai's tragic ending made him tremble.
He bowed his head instantly, wishing he could bury his entire head inside the table.
After finally seeing him "wake up," Dai Tianfeng collapsed into his chair, exhausted as if he had fought a ninety-ninth rank Titled Douluo.
—But this scene enraged Zhu Chenfei.
He panicked.
How can this stupid prince wake up so fast?!
Continue courting death!
If you keep causing trouble and get killed, the Divinity slaps the Dai Family out of existence, and then—
Wouldn't the emperor's throne naturally fall into MY Zhu Family's lap?!
My emperor dream was halfway complete and you suddenly become SANE?!
Absolutely unacceptable!
Zhu Chenfei immediately leaned in with a "kindly old father" expression:
"First Prince, don't listen to His Majesty's nonsense!"
"A real man must be bold! Happiness must be fought for!"
"Think about it—Zhuyun was originally your fiancée!
By reason and emotion, you should fight to win her back!"
Dai Weisi, after just climbing back from hell, now saw every shadow as an assassin.
He spun around and roared:
"I don't believe your ghost!"
"You old geezer—you're wicked!!!"
"You want me to DIE so your Zhu Family can take the throne, right?! Bah!"
Zhu Chenfei: "…"
The officials silently nodded.
Yes.
This shameless old fox… that's exactly what he was thinking.
At this moment, Hu Liena gracefully delivered their dishes, trays in hand, hips swaying, posture like a painting.
Before them—
"Dragon Whisker Phoenix Tail Shrimp":
Crystal shrimp, golden threads of fried vermicelli, garlic fragrance intoxicating.
"Dongpo Soul-Shattering Pork":
Red-glazed cubes trembling like living jade.
"Boiled Cabbage":
Clear broth, emerald hearts—yet the aroma overshadowed both meat dishes entirely.
Everyone stared.
Eyes glazed.
Throats rolled.
Dai Tianfeng swallowed hard, then forced out his last shred of imperial dignity:
"Ahem… everyone, begin eating. Maintain—maintain etiquette."
"CLANG!!!"
Before he finished, a dozen pairs of chopsticks erupted like lightning.
This was not dining.
This was Mount Hua Sword Duel—
but with chopsticks!
"That dragon whisker shrimp is MINE!"
"Move! I've never eaten anything like this!"
"You snatch from me?! I'll snatch your ancestors!"
Dai Tianfeng's soul left his body.
The dignified Emperor reached in three times.
Three times—
His chopsticks were intercepted midair.
Not even a cabbage leaf reached his bowl.
Watching the Soul-Shattering Pork vanish, he panicked.
His imperial aura exploded.
"ALL OF YOU—STOP!!"
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