Chapter 36 "A Word"_2

Therefore, the riddle he posed, at least in his own eyes... was unsolvable.

But to his surprise, Huang Donglai only hesitated for a moment before calmly responding, "Alright, then let me tell you the story of 'The Tortoise and the Hare'."

"Ah?" Xue Tui was stunned; he never imagined that the other party would actually take up the challenge.

However, after the initial shock, he steadied his mind and silently told himself, "No worries... this kid is probably just making something up on the fly... hmph, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, still wet behind the ears, improvising a story, what kind of sense could it possibly make?"

Then, Huang Donglai recounted the tale of The Tortoise and the Hare in plain language.

Xue Tui was astonished after listening.

After Huang Donglai finished, Xue Tui sat there pondering for a long while, looking for all the world like he'd never heard of "The Tortoise and the Hare."