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“Uhh……right!” Thin Monkey hastily nodded. He guessed that Lou Zhenming wanted to avoid the blame.

“Is that so? Before you promised to give me 100,000 RMB.” Xiao Chen said.

“Euh……there was this matter?” Lou Zhenming stared blankly. He didn’t think that Xiao Chen would actually follow up with his lie, but he also couldn’t exactly say that he didn’t say it before, right? He had just said that he had been possessed, so if he rejected this, wouldn’t that mean that he was exposing himself? Thinking up to here, Lou Zhenming turned to look at Thin Monkey.

“Umm……I had diarrhea, so I don’t know?” Thin Monkey wasn’t sure whether to agree or disagree.

“Young master Lou, could it be possible that you want to renege on your debt and was pretending to be possessed to deceive me?” Xiao Chen immediately shook his head with a disappointed face and said: “Forget it, you aren’t trustworthy. In the future, I won’t hang out with you, don’t look for me after we finish tomorrow’s exams.”

“Hey, don’t……” Lou Zhenming was frightened. If he didn’t find him after tomorrow’s dismissal, wasn’t that the equivalent of not going to go underground illegal boxing? Then wouldn’t his previous arrangements become null? It couldn’t be helped, Lou Zhenming could only clench his teeth to say: “Fine, 100,000 RMB, but I don’t have it right now, can you wait several days? Next month, my father will give me an allowance, I’ll give it to you then!”

“That’s good enough. Then I’ll go and look for you to hang out tomorrow.” Xiao Chen nodded and turned around to leave.

“****!” Lou Zhenming angrily gnashed his teeth as he watched Xiao Chen’s departing back, then glared at Thin Monkey: “See? This is what you brought about. In the future, if you eat whatever stinky tofu again, I’ll throw you into a manure pit and leave you there!”

When Xiao Chen returned to his seat Deng Xiaokun was in the middle of saying something to Tang Tang. When he saw Xiao Chen, he asked: “What was Lou Zhenming looking for you for? I didn’t think he would even use such a low-level method, trying to frame you of cheating? Is he not aware that you’re a bookworm?”

“When I went there just now, he didn’t acknowledge it and said that he was very forgetful, not knowing what had happened. This person is sick, so we don’t need to manage him.” Xiao Chen shook his head. He certainly didn’t believe that Lou Zhenming was sick, but between 100,000 RMB and exposing him, 100,000 RMB was more important.

“Ah?” Deng Xiaokun was instantly surprised: “He’s still able to speak these words? Lou Clan’s future is hopeless. Oh right, Tang Tang and I were thinking of going to the bookstore to buy some review materials, want to come with?”

“I won’t be coming.” Xiao Chen was currently thinking of rushing over to the pharmacy to buy some medicines in order to reach a higher strength as soon as possible.

“That’s fine, when we’re done buying, we can lend it to you for you to take a look. In any case, you aren’t far from us.” Deng Xiaokun nodded.

On the other hand, Tang Tang gave Xiao Chen a somewhat helpless look and used a finger to point at Cheng Mengying. Clearly, she misunderstood Xiao Chen and thought that he was following his goddess home.

Xiao Chen wanted to rebut, but it wasn’t easy to explain, so he put his backpack onto his back and left the classroom.

But before he walked too far, the sound of a text message sounded from his cellphone. He took it out for a look and saw that it was from Jin Beibei: “Brother-in-law, cousin Mengying asks whether or not you want to ride with us?”

This incoherent text message could only be sent by Jin Beibei; one moment, brother-in-law, the next, cousin Mengying, but in reality these two people didn’t have any relationship.

“No need, I’m going to buy a bit of medicine, you guys go back first.” Xiao Chen returned a text message, then casually erased the message. The less people knew of the relationship between him and Cheng Mengying, the better.

Xiao Chen jogged ahead and noticed Jin Beibei’s red Beetle from his peripheral vision. It seemed like it slowed down a bit, then disappeared at the corner of the block.

Regarding Xiao Chen’s early arrival at the pharmacy today, Hong Yan was evidently quite astonished. Her big eyes sparkled as she looked at Xiao Chen: “Are you here to buy medicine? Should I call grandfather?”

“Yes, I’ll be troubling you.” Xiao Chen withdrew his vision on Hong Yan and gave a smiling nod. Every time he came to the pharmacy, he felt that seeing Hong Yan was a delightful matter. This girl was a very classical beauty, a contrast to the modern aura of the city, yet didn’t appear incompatible. Instead, she seemed like a corner of tranquility in a noisy area.

Hong Yan placed down the book in her hand to go call for her grandfather. Xiao Chen’s vision fell onto the book that Hong Yan placed down, 《Thousand Medicinal Herbs Imperial Edict》? This name made Xiao Chen slightly distracted, what ancient book was this?

Those ancient medicine books, Xiao Chen had heard of to some extent, like Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, Yellow Emperor’s Internal Canon, but he had never heard of this ‘Thousand Medicinal Herbs Imperial Edict’! Compiler Lin Dongfang? What kind of person was this Lin Dongfang? Could it be that this person was a medical expert?

While Xiao Chen was marvelling over this, Hong Yan was already bringing over old Chen. When Hong Yan saw that Xiao Chen was stealing a glance at her book, she faintly knit her eyebrows: “Peeping at another person’s thing isn’t good.”

“I was just curious, what you, as a girl, was reading, I thought you would be reading some romance novel……” Xiao Chen said with an awkward smile.

“What’s a romance novel?” This answer made Hong Yan slightly puzzled.

“Romance novel?” Xiao Chen didn’t know how to explain this. Was this classical beauty before him truly unaware or purposefully playing him? But seeing her big eyes filled with innocence and curiosity, seemingly like she wasn’t lying, could it be that she was really unaware? “Well, books that describe stories of men and women’s love……”

“You mean…..Jin……** Mei¹?” Hong Yan’s, who didn’t use any cosmetics, face immediately blushed as she widened her eyes at Xiao Chen, looking at Xiao Chen as if looking at a lecher.

“Pfff……” Xiao Chen slapped his own forehead, was Jin ** Mei a romantic novel? Fine, it could be considered an ancient times love, but……he wasn’t referring to this!

“Okay, Yanyan, go and read, I’ll go get his prescription.” Grandpa Chen chuckled as he spoke to Hong Yan, not explaining it either.

In Hong Yan’s childhood environment, there simply wasn’t any romantic novels. Inside the Hidden Scriptures Pavillion, there were only cultivation and medical records. As for classical masterpieces, there were only a few and Jin ** Mei was one of them. Hong Yan was disobedient as a child and felt that medical records were boring, so she stealthily went to steal some story books to look at. By casually stealing like this, she stole a book of Jin ** Mei……thus, Jin ** Mei became little Hong Yan’s young lady enlightenment teacher²……

However, Hong Yan ultimately didn’t have the courage to finish it. Every time she read it, she felt like a fire was burning inside of her body. There was a kind of unspeakable feeling, comfortable, yet uncomfortable? In any case, when she read it for too long, she would feel an electric shock go through her. Sometimes, she would even leak a little and it made her feel ashamed, as if she was doing some very evil wrongdoing!

As a result, she didn’t look at it afterwards. When she grew up a bit, she slightly understood some things and became more embarrassed to look at it.

This matter was a secret hidden away at the bottom of Hong Yan’s heart with no one knowing about it. But today, Xiao Chen’s sudden words made Hong Yan subconsciously think that Xiao Chen was speaking of Jin ** Mei. This type of secrets-being-seen through feeling made Hong Yan’s heart pound incessantly.

Hong Yan was thinking: Could it be that Xiao Chen has also read it? Did he deliberate speak of it and is thinking of ** me?

Hong Yan’s original good impression of Xiao Chen instantly placed him into the ranks of lechers. If Xiao Chen knew of this, he would be crying ‘injustice, injustice!’

When Hong Yan was leaving, she didn’t forget to glare at Xiao Chen. A classical beauty’s glare had a special bearing, but Xiao Chen was confused, when did he tease this little classical beauty?

“Old gentleman, this is 120,000 RMB.” Xiao Chen placed the 120,000 RMB that he earned from that wealthy woman in the morning onto the counter: “I’ll be troubling you to grab the medicine!”

“Oh? You collected it so quickly? Young fellow, you can’t be deliberately pretending to be poor before me?” Old Chen looked at the money on the counter with amazement. Of course, he was just joking, from observation, he could make out that Xiao Chen was truly short of money.

“How could that be possible……” Xiao Chen was immediately embarrassed: “This is earnings from helping a person in the morning.”

Old Chen nodded and didn’t ask any further. Instead, he received the money and rapidly helped Xiao Chen take the medicine, finally taking special care to cover the medicinal herbs before handing it over to Xiao Chen.

“Many thanks.” Xiao Chen nodded. This auxiliary medicine being worth 120,000 RMB as the price after a discount, so Xiao Chen couldn’t thank the old gentleman enough.

“The following auxiliary medicine will be worth 200,000 RMB, this is also the lowest price.” Old Chen gazed at Xiao Chen and said: “Although I am the manager of this pharmacy, I am not the boss, so I can’t do too many transactions that make a loss.”

“I understand, you’ve already taken care of me a lot. I will try to think up a solution.” Xiao Chen didn’t feel the slightest bit of surprise, but this price of 200,000 RMB made him suck in his tongue. This was an astronomical figure for the current him.

Old Chen didn’t speak any further. Xiao Chen left the pharmacy and quickly walked home.

Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei were playing a new movement video game in the living room. When Xiao Chen entered the entrance, he immediately saw those shaking breasts, much more real than whatever DoA³; Jin Beibei was truly impressive. Xiao Chen thought: Before, if I really married Cheng Mengying, would Jin Beibei be the dowry? It appeared to be right, freely shaking around, it would certainly be very pleasurable.

Marring the older cousin and getting the younger cousin as the dowry, this wasn’t a rare matter within these ancient martial aristocratic clans which retained ancient traditions and customs. A dowry was normal, but naturally, this was only limited to weak clans. For Jin Beibei, the eldest young lady of Jin Clan, she simply didn’t need to be dowry.

“What are you looking at, your eyeballs are about to fall out. Is it very attractive?” When Cheng Mengying saw Xiao Chen’s foolish, starry-eyed look, she instantly felt unwell in her heart. Is this young lady that unappealing? In First High, you looked at Shen Jinxuan, in Second High, you look at Tang Tang, now at home, you look at Jin Beibei, what kind of venting is this?

“Uh……it’s not bad……” It was hard for Xiao Chen to answer; if he said it was attractive, the young lady would scold him, but if he didn’t say that it was attractive, Jin Beibei would be unhappy, so he could only compromise.

“You’re looking at me?” Jin Beibei used her hands to support her chest, her face red with excitement⁴: “Brother-in-law, am I more attractive than cousin?”

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“I actually have a good plan, when it comes time for me to text Teacher Lei, I’ll also text Xiao Chen. Then we can report Xiao Chen for looking at his cell phone during an exam and when the teacher sees the exam answers in his cell phone, it would be like yellow mud falling onto the crotch of his pants, even if it wasn’t his fault, it would still be his fault¹!” Thin Monkey, as he was Lou Zhenming’s number one trusted advisor, had a pretty good brain and quickly thought up a way to fix up Xiao Chen.

“This is a pretty good plan. When it comes time for you to report, I won’t be able to step in because I am currently pretended to have friendly relations with Xiao Chen.” Lou Zhenming said after thinking for a moment.

“Okay, Brother Ming.” Thin Monkey nodded.

The afternoon exam was English, a subject that Xiao Chen previously wasn’t good in. However, this class was just a relatively more things to remember subject. Xiao Chen took several days to memorize most of the material and after the exam paper was given out, Xiao Chen started to write at a tremendous speed. Although Xiao Chen currently try for this 10,000 RMB scholarship, he couldn’t exactly score too badly or else it would be easy for him to be expelled. He currently had no background, so he had to carefully consider several matters.

After testing more than half the exam, there still remained half an hour.

“Phbbbt——” The noise of a fart sounded out, then under the astonished gaze of all the students in the class, Thin Monkey held his stomach as he ran to the restroom while all the surrounding students held their noses.

Lou Zhenming sat right behind Thin Monkey and almost threw up from the smell of the fart!

Initially, he didn’t think too much into it, but after waiting 10 minutes and Thin Monkey still hadn’t come back, Lou Zhenming became a little worried! They had agreed to report Xiao Chen 20 minutes before the exam finished, this way it more or less secured the possibility of Xiao Chen copying off of Tang Tang. This way, it would make his expectation fall from the clouds; this feeling would definitely make Xiao Chen wish he was dead.

However, Thin Monkey went to the bathroom and still hadn’t returned after their agreed upon time was reached. Lou Zhenming anxiously looked out the door repeatedly, but didn’t see Thin Monkey’s shadow and his neck almost fell from stretching.

“Lou Zhenming, what are you doing? Not carefully taking your exam, instead glancing around?” At this time, school administration had placed Director Xu as head proctor and he happened to be examining each classrooms’ situation. As he entered Third Year First Class’s classroom, he saw Lou Zhenming looking all over the place, so he immediately shouted out in askance.

With regards to Director Xu, Lou Zhenming was still very afraid of him. As long as this guy gave his father a call, then when he returned home, he would be beaten up for a good while. Lou Zhenming hastily said: “N-……nothing, I finished writing so I was just casually taking a look……”

“Casually taking a look? It isn’t that you want to copy?” Director Xu glared at Lou Zhenming.

“How could that be possible……but I did just see fellow classmate Xiao Chen playing with his cell phone……” When Lou Zhenming saw Director Xu, he was reminded of being humiliated in the cafeteria and because his heart was anxious since Thin Monkey hadn’t come back, he reported Xiao Chen in a moment of excitement.

Cheng Mengying wrinkled her brows. She was aware of Xiao Chen’s academic record; he was first from the bottom year after year in First High, so it was impossible for him to have any good achievements after transferring over to Second High. Could it be that he really was cheating?

Tang Tang was frightened. Second High’s school regulations were very strict; cheating on an exam was a demerit the first time and they would be persuaded to give up the third time. Xiao Chen had transferred for a few days, so wouldn’t this be a major demerit?

“Xiao Chen, were you playing with your cell phone?” Director Xu knew Xiao Chen had a relationship with Cheng Zhongming, moreover he had just obtained Cheng Clan’s investment. In the next school director meeting, it was possible for him to be appointed vice-principal, so he naturally couldn’t offend Xiao Chen at this time.

Although Xiao Chen was Cheng Mengying’s servant, beating a dog required the consent of the master.

“Playing with my cell phone?” Xiao Chen was somewhat puzzled in his heart, was this Lou Zhenming ill? One moment he would be fine, the next he would be ill, wasn’t this just falsely accusing him of cheating during an exam? But Xiao Chen hadn’t played with his cell phone at all the entire time, so there was nothing for him to fear: “Director Xu, I haven’t played with my cell phone, I’ve been answering questions the whole time.”

Although Lou Zhenming regretted his impulse, he couldn’t make any concessions at this time and could only brace himself to say: “Informing Director Xu, I saw Xiao Chen playing with his cell phone a moment ago!”

Director Xu knit his brows. He couldn’t side with Xiao Chen under the eye of the public, so he had no other choice but to say: “Xiao Chen, take out your cell phone for me to take a look.”

“Okay, no problem.” Xiao Chen was actually indifferent as he pulled out his cell phone from his pocket to give to Director Xu.

Director Xu took Xiao Chen’s cell phone and browsed through his call record and texts, then placed it onto Xiao Chen’s desk: “Lou Zhenming, there’s nothing in Xiao Chen’s cell phone. Even if he was playing with his cell phone, couldn’t it have been him looking at the time?”

“Impossible!” Lou Zhenming was originally expectantly looking at Director Xu. In his opinion, as long as Director Xu saw the texts, Xiao Chen would be toast. However, his desired outcome didn’t occur and he suddenly became anxious as he directly got up, picked up Xiao Chen’s cell phone, and read the text message record.

“Huh??” Seeing that there was no recent texts in Xiao Chen’s cell phone, Lou Zhenming was instantly stunned as he became frantic: “Impossible, it should definitely be there, how come it’s not there?”

It wasn’t weird for Lou Zhenming to become frantic; Xiao Chen hadn’t even turned on offline mod. In addition, he had been watching Xiao Chen the entire time from the corner of his eyes and hadn’t seen Xiao Chen take out his cell phone to delete messages. In fact, his idea was to report Xiao Chen when he took our his cell phone for a better effect.

“What nonsense!” Xiao Chen creased his brows: “Director, you see……”

“Lou Zhenming, have you vented enough?” Director Xu wasn’t too happy at this moment. In his opinion, this was definitely Lou Zhenming taking revenge for Xiao Chen cheating a meal off of him.

“Impossible, I received it, why haven’t you received……geh!” Lou Zhenming suddenly realized his slip up.

“You received?” Director Xu turned his head and coldly looked at Lou Zhenming: “Bring out your cell phone for me to examine.”

“This……my……my cell phone doesn’t have anything good to look at……that, Director Xu, nevermind, I’ll go back to answering questions……” Lou Zhenming subconsciously wanted to leave.

However, he was held by Director Xu and his cell phone was taken out of his pants pocket. Director Xu rapidly browsed through it and when he finished reading, his face had already become incomparably gloomy: “Lou Zhenming, it seems like you’re the thief crying thief, yes? You yourself used your cell phone to cheat, yet you still falsely accused a classmate? Your exam is invalided this time and you will accrue a major demerit. If this happens again, you will be directly expelled!”

“I……” Lou Zhenming truly wanted to cry but had no tears. He scolded Thin Monkey in his heart. It would’ve been fine for him to take a dump at any other time, but he had to go at the most critical moment. In the end, Lou Zhenming reported Xiao Chen without being clear on anything and instead threw himself in.

“Hmph!” Director Xu coldly snorted and left Third Year First Class. As for Lou Zhenming, he couldn’t only resentfully return to his seat and feel more resentful the more he thought.

After Director Xu left and the exam ended, Thin Monkey walked in with a pale face.

“Thin Monkey, where the **** did you go? Did you get dropped into the toilet?” Lou Zhenming was angered upon the sight of Thin Monkey.

“Brother Ming, I had diarrhea……” Thin Monkey wasn’t aware of the matter of Lou Zhenming’s exam becoming invalid, but he did know that according to their agreement, he should have reported Xiao Chen. But in the end, he hadn’t come out of the restroom: “In fact, when you, Brother Ming, and Young Master Qun were eating, I myself had nothing to eat, so I bought several strings of fried stinky tofu and fried wool egg² and when I finished eating, everything went up **** creek.”

“You……” Lou Zhenming didn’t know what to say after hearing this: “When I saw that you didn’t come back before, I became anxious and reported Xiao Chen on my own. In the end, Xiao Chen’s cell phone didn’t have any text messages, and Director Xu discovered that my cell phone did. I’m screwed this time since my score was invalidated and I accrued a major demerit!”

Getting marked a major demerit wasn’t what Lou Zhenming feared; with his status and background, even if he accrued 100 major demerits, it would be impossible for the school to expel him. But the key problem was that once his father Lou Siwen knew of it, then he was screwed.

If it was a demerit due to a scuffle, then it could be forgotten because Lou Clan mingled with the underground, so fighting was a common occurrence and Lou Siwen wouldn’t care about it. What Lou Siwen cared about was Lou Zhenming’s academic record. Cheating in this exam would be enough for Lou Zhenming to be beaten black and blue.

“Ah? It can’t be, I made Teacher Lei give him a text message!” Thin Monkey was bewildered: “It’s impossible for Teacher Lei to forget.”

“I am also confused, Teacher Lei is very reliable when engaging in business, could it be that Xiao Chen’s cell phone is out of credit?” Lou Zhenming was extremely befuddled.

Just at this time, Xiao Chen was smiling as he walked over and sat right next to Lou Zhenming. This seat was previously Ma Gangmen’s seat, but he had been in the hospital for the past few days, so the seat was empty.

“Young master Lou, were you the one who sent me the answers on my cell phone?” Xiao Chen raised his cell phone and let Lou Zhenming get a look at the text message.

It could be considered that he avoided a calamity before; due to the matters of finding a dog in the morning, his sim card was new and he forgot to replace his old sim card. He felt like something was wrong after finishing the exam, so he walked over after trading sim cards.

Not long after he exchanged it, Xiao Chen received a text message with the answers to the English exam just then! Xiao Chen glanced over it and saw the amount of correct answers weren’t too low, at least 80% of them were correct.

“Ee……” Lou Zhenming was flabbergasted as he rigidly watched Xiao Chen’s cell phone screen! Isn’t this the English exam answers from the exam just now? Moreover, this sender is Lei Dianfeng’s dummy cell phone! Lou Zhenming recognized the cell phone number, but why did Xiao Chen only receive it now?

Could it be signal delay? Thinking about it, there was only this possibility. Lou Zhenming suddenly had the urge to cry. His report on Xiao Chen didn’t succeed and he got in trouble instead, but the worst part was that the little bit of friendship he built up with Xiao Chen was destroyed just like that!

No good, absolutely no good, he still needed to make Xiao Chen go to the underground boxing stage to do illegal boxing, their relationship couldn’t be broken off this manner! Thinking up to here, Lou Zhenming gave a puzzled look to Xiao Chen: “Young master Xiao, what are you talking about? I have a little personality disorder, did I send you answers a moment ago? I don’t remember, I can’t remember anything! Thin Monkey knows that I’m sometimes like this, sometimes I don’t know what I’ve done the moment before, just like something’s possessed me……”

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Because of all kinds of affairs, the atmosphere in the car wasn’t too harmonious. No one spoke again until they stopped in the school parking lot. After Tang Tang got out, she gave a faint sentence of thanks and quickly walked towards the sports field to wait for Xiao Chen.

Cheng Mengying watched Tang Tang’s figure and slightly knit her brows, then hmph’d and pulled Jin Beibei towards the school building.

“Cousin Mengying, are we not going to look out for brother-in-law?” Jin Beibei questioned.

“What’s there to look, his physical strength is good, he won’t die.” Cheng Mengying expressionlessly responded.

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At this moment, Lou Zhenming and Thin Monkey happened to be sitting by the flowerbed in front of the parking lot. Lou Zhenming watched Cheng Mengying’s departing figure and a smear of infatuation flashed past his eyes: “Where is that dumbass¹ Xiao Chen?”

“Jin Beibei’s car is small, and with how fat Tang Tang is, she has no other choice but to sit in the copilot seat. That leaves Cheng Mengying sitting in the back, but would it be possible for her to sit together with Xiao Chen? I reckon he was thrown onto the road?” Thin Monkey gave his guess.

“En.” Lou Zhenming was very satisfied with this: “I suppose this poor-*** Xiao Chen can’t even fork out taxi fare.”

“Brother Ming, will we just forget about it like this? Wasn’t Yue Shaoqun unreliable? Not only did he not teach Xiao Chen a lesson, he made us lose 1 million!” Thin Monkey angrily complained. He had put the previous cafeteria dining to heart; he originally thought that he would be able to eat well, but the result was Xiao Chen gathering up the food and walking away.

If it was before, Lou Zhenming would definitely stop Thin Monkey from speaking about Yue Shaoqun like this, but today, Lou Zhenming also had his own opinion: “Forget it, depending on others is inferior to relying on yourself. This kid Xiao Chen is clever in trivial matters and has a little skill, so these small schemes won’t be able to fool him. This kid was also previously a young master, not a country bumpkin, so if we want to give him a hard time, we have to properly consider everything!”

“Indeed, this kid can be considered a hardened person. I heard that he was previously a loser young master, but his people-hitting skill is pretty ferocious. He was able to hit Gangmen into the hospital and he still isn’t able to leave the hospital!” Thin Monkey nodded: “Brother Ming, I think that in order to fix up Xiao Chen, we have to be ruthless. An average person isn’t his opponent, but isn’t the underground boxing stage in our Lou Clan’s domain? We can go make Xiao Chen fight in the underground boxing……”

“Your meaning is to make him die in the underground boxing stage?” After Lou Zhenming heard this, his eyes brightened but then he wrinkled his brows: “But the key is how we will dupe him. This kid doesn’t seem like a fool, so it’s impossible for him to go just because we said so.”

“Brother Ming, isn’t this simple? What does this kid Xiao Chen lack the most? It’s money! When the time comes, we’ll tell him that the underground boxing stage has a pretty big bonus that can be attained. That way, we won’t need to worry about him not taking the risk!” Thin Monkey evilly cackled and said: “Besides, we can weaken the boxer’s strength in the underground boxing stage!”

“Actually, we don’t even need to weaken them. The boxers in the underground boxing field basically haven’t even reached First Layer Inner Strength and their strengths aren’t even on par with Ma Gangmen. It’s impossible for that poor-*** Xiao Chen to let off such a good money-making opportunity. When that time comes, we’ll let him win a few rounds, then let an expert Martialist go into action and directly get rid of him.” Lou Zhenming quickly drew up a plan. He came from an underworld clan, so killing a person wasn’t considered anything new.

Yue Shaoqun didn’t want to kill Xiao Chen but Lou Zhenming didn’t care. What Cheng Clan or Xiao Clan, if they were truly concerned about Xiao Chen, then Xiao Chen wouldn’t be his current appearance.

As the two of them were conspiring, Xiao Chen happened to be walking in from the school entrance with Tang Tang. Lou Zhenming gave a meaningful glance to Thin Monkey and the two people got up to walk towards Xiao Chen.

Running back from Jade Sea Sky Palace wasn’t considered anything for Xiao Chen. When he saw Tang Tang waiting for him at the school entrance, he felt warm in his heart. But when he saw Lou Zhenming walking over, Xiao Chen narrowed his eyes.

Xiao Chen was certain that the matter at noon today was Lou Zhenming wanting hoodwink him. If not for Xiao Chen recently advancing to Third Layer Qi-Training Truth Cultivator, then he truly would have been ensnared.

“Isn’t this young master Xiao? Did you eat well at noon?” Lou Zhenming did his utmost to make his expression seem as enthusiastic as possible: “The matter at noon truly was unlucky. The bowl broke from a moment of not being careful, but it’s just 1 million, not a big deal!”

“Since young master Lou is so well-off, then how about giving me a bit?” Xiao Chen didn’t expose him. The purpose behind transferring to Second High was to be low-key; Xiao Chen didn’t want to become enemies with Lou Clan after just transferring. Doing so simply didn’t benefit his investigation for the behind-the-scenes culprit. Moreover, he still wasn’t clear on whether Lou Zhenming’s hostility towards him was because Cheng Mengying or another matter.

“Ha……my hands can’t be so loose these days. Although 1 million isn’t regarded as much in my Lou Clan, young master Xiao should also know that our allowance isn’t much……” Lou Zhenming had been worrying that he wouldn’t be able to find a topic to bait Xiao Chen with, but Xiao Chen’s words were like delivering a pillow just as one got sleepy and inspired him: “But if young master Xiao is short of money, I actually know a way to earn money. Gangmen previously made quite the sum through this method.”

“Oh? Then let me have a listen.” Xiao Chen naturally didn’t think Lou Zhenming was here peacefully or had good intentions. Of course, this didn’t stop Xiao Chen from listening to it as a joke.

Tang Tang signalled Xiao Chen with her eyes, hinting him to not walk too close with Lou Zhenming, but felt helpless as Xiao Chen ignored it.

“In the west part of the city there is an underground boxing stage where you can do illegal boxing. As long as you win, you can obtain a 100,000 RMB reward. Gangmen previously won two rounds and won 200,000 RMB.” Lou Zhenming vividly described: “Young master Xiao, I can see that your skill isn’t weak. Ma Gangmen isn’t your opponent; if you are short of money, you can go try it! Naturally, you must be fearless of death, after all punches and kicks don’t have eyes.”

“Underground illegal boxing stage?” Xiao Chen’s heart suddenly jumped. This wasn’t because of the 100,000 RMB reward per round, but because of the Peak Third Layer Inner Strength expert that had come to kill Xiao Chen a few days ago. In that person’s pocket was a record card-like item which had “Number 3 Boxer, Vicious Wolf” written upon it. At this point, Xiao Chen could guess that this person was either a boxing athlete or an underground illegal boxing boxer! And right now, Lou Zhenming mentioned this underground boxing stage, with all these laid out, how could there be no connection?

Could it be that the one called ‘Number 3 Boxer, Vicious Wolf’ was someone Lou Zhenming looked for? After carefully thinking about it, he felt that this possibility was very large; Lou Zhenming belonged to Lou Clan, which started out as underground, and the underground boxing stage was one of the categories that underground gangs managed!

Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen actually wanted to go in order to get to the bottom of this; he really wanted to know who the one targeting him from behind was!

“That’s right young master Xiao, you should know why our clan does. This venue’s boss and my clan have some friendly relations, so if you want to go, I can bring you to experience it! Just think about it, you have nothing to lose by getting up on stage to hit a few rounds.” Lou Zhenming persuaded.

“Then I’ll go take a look……” Xiao Chen “hesitated” for a moment while his face showed an interested expression.

“Great, let’s first take the exam. When we finish exams tomorrow, I’ll bring you over!” Lou Zhenming knew when to stop. For this kind of thing, the more you spoke, the more you were bound to slip up. He was already very excited in successfully tricking Xiao Chen into underground boxing. From his point of view, he was truly a person talented in conning people; after all, wasn’t Xiao Chen fooled by him in a short time?

Lou Zhenming brought Thin Monkey away, then Tang Tang angrily stamped her foot by Xiao Chen’s side: “OK, Xiao Chen, it seems like you’ve increased your capability? Underground illegal boxing, you even dare go fight, do you not want your life? What, do you think that the small amount earned by selling breakfast is wronging you?”

“Oh, I thought that his ‘radiant with delight’ expression was quite amusing, so I went along with his trickery.” Xiao Chen shrugged.

“Haha, I was thinking that you coveted that 100,000 RMB!” Tang Tang let out a sigh of relief: “Seems like you aren’t a death-seeking idiot.”

Lou Zhenming walked with complacence as he thought that he succeeded in duping Xiao Chen.

“Brother Ming, I think that your acting a moment ago is worthy of an Oscar; it was extremely successful, that dumbass Xiao Chen was instantly fooled!” Thin Monkey praised.

“Didn’t you say that he’s a fool with nothing but money in his eyes? He is currently short of money; if we take hold of this point, we can play him to death!” Lou Zhenming felt that he was quite intelligent. He discovered that even without Yue Shaoqun’s help, he was still very fierce.

“Indeed, that Xiao Chen is a dandy with no IQ if we consider his previous status as young master Xiao. If he was replaced with Brother Ming, with such an attractive fiancée, the beauty would have already been married!” Thin Monkey deeply believed this.

“Haha, perhaps he has an issue with his tastes, like Tang Tang?” Lou Zhenming guffawed after he finished speaking.

“That young master comes from a loser life. Right, Brother Ming, I have already reached an agreement with Teacher Lei for this time’s examination, to help you cheat, so you should get a pretty good score.” Thin Monkey said.

“Oh?” Lou Zhenming’s eyes brightened: “That’s truly very good, if I can pass each test on the examination, my father will be happy and might reward me several million!”

Lou Siwen hoped that Lou Zhenming would become a cultured person. As the saying goes, a gangster isn’t fearful, but a cultured gangster is! Lou Siwen, who mixed with the underworld, believed this point and placed his hope on Lou Zhenming, but Lou Zhenming repeatedly disappointed him. This boy simply wasn’t suited for studying.

“Haha, I suppose that kid Xiao Chen will become our class’ first from the bottom this time. At that time, Brother Lou doesn’t need to say anything because it will be impossible for him to settle down.” Thin Monkey ridiculed as he thought about Xiao Chen.

“If you didn’t speak, I wouldn’t have thought about it; do you think that kid will copy Tang Tang?” Lou Zhenming put himself in Xiao Chen’s shoes; Xiao Chen wasn’t young master Xiao anymore, so if this kid continuously tested first from the bottom, then it was estimated that he would be expelled by the school. Therefore, in order for Xiao Chen to reverse this situation, he had to copy Tang Tang!

“Brother Ming, your meaning is to accuse Xiao Chen of copying to the teachers?” Thin Monkey suddenly thought of this.

“Let’s hold back this move. I just fear that Xiao Chen doesn’t dare go boxing. In that case, our plans would have been drawn up for no reason, so we’ll first look for trouble in school if he doesn’t dare go!” Lou Zhenming thought of the incident in the cafeteria, when Xiao Chen used Director Xu to suppress him. Since you used school rules to mess with me, then I’ll give you a taste of your own medicine: “But we have to emphasize evidence in order to do it in 1 go. We can’t let him have any space to quibble!

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When Yue Shaoqun previously came to Tang Clan, there was no need to inform anyone because he had the status of an ‘about-to-become’ son-in-law. He could directly go see Old Master Tang, but now things have changed and the two guards gave each other a look and courteously said: “So Young Master Yue has come, can you please allow us to go inform?”

Yue Shaoqun was somewhat annoyed in his heart, but his face showed a modest and genial expression: “This is natural, I’ll be troubling you two.”

Although Tang Fangbai was also puzzled on what Yue Shaoqun had come for today, he still let him in.

“Shaoqun pays respects to Old Master Tang!” Yue Shaoqun courteously bowed after entering the guest room.

“En, Shaoqun, what matter have you come here for today? Hehe, it’s been about two years since you’ve come here?” Although Tang Fangbai greeted Yue Shaoqun, he didn’t have too good of an expression. He felt that this boy was fake; directly breaking the engagement after seeing Tang Tang become unattractive, when had Tang Clan been so easy to bully?

Although Tang Clan was a bit in the wrong about this matter, their imposing manner couldn’t always be so feeble!

“Actually, it’s not that big of a matter. Tang Tang found her true love, so I came to bless her!” Yue Shaoqun kept his smile as before while he spoke.

Tang Fangbai’s look instantly changed: “Yue Shaoqun, what kind of random things are you saying? What ‘Tang Tang found her true love’?”

“Oh? It seems like grandpa Tang still doesn’t know? Tang Tang is currently in love with Xiao Clan’s young master Xiao Chen; the two people can be considered well-matched. As a matter of fact, I passed through here to congratulate you while on my way to do something else. But I would have never thought that you, grandpa Tang, was unaware……This is truly embarrassing, consider this me shooting off my mouth.” Yue Shaoqun put on an absolutely guilty expression as he spoke.

“Xiao Chen?” Tang Fangbai immediately creased his brows. Naturally, he was clear on who Xiao Chen was. If it was the previous Xiao Chen, who wasn’t driven out of his clan, that fancied Tang Tang, Tang Fangbai would happily go seek a marriage with Xiao Clan, but now……

However, Tang Tang was Tang Clan’s abandoned child and was actually a good match with Xiao Chen’s current status. Tang Fangbai was also disinclined to get furious because of a fat little girl, so he simply nodded indifferently.

“Hehe, grandpa Tang, how do you feel about my and Tang Tang’s engagement, yes or no……” When Yue Shaoqun spoke up to here, he instantly stopped. This extremely conformed with his hypocritical nature. Although he thought like this in his heart, he didn’t say it and made others say it for him.

“I am tired. Look at how old I’ve become, my vigor has faded and have to take a nap. How about resting here for a bit and then eating dinner together, Little Yue?” Tang Fangbai didn’t directly answer Yue Shaoqun’s words.

Yue Shaoqun was feeling uncomfortable at heart, but still had a smiling countenance on his face. He placed the brocade box onto the reception room’s small table and said: “I know that grandpa Tang is fond of antiques; this bowl is said to have been used by Demon Sect Cult Master Zhang Naipao, I hope that grandpa Tang will like it.”

“Oh?” The originally listless Tang Fangbai instantly changed his expression, turning it into a spirited one: “It’s a thing that the legendary Demon Sect Cult Master Zhang Naipao used? How about letting me take a look?”

“Yes, of course, I don’t know whether it’s genuine or fake, so I request grandpa Tang to inspect it!” Yue Shaoqun sneered in his heart. Old *******, I knew you were more hypocritical than me!¹

“Oh, leave it behind, I will study it. As for the matter you spoke of, I will consider it.” Tang Fangbai nodded and lovingly picked up the two pieces of the broken bowl.

“Then I will not be disturbing grandpa Tang’s rest, I take my leave!” Yue Shaoqun didn’t receive the reply he wished for, so he was somewhat disappointed. But since Tang Fangbai indicated that he would consider it, then that showed that there was a possible solution for this matter. As long as he was diligent, he would be able to achieve it.

After Yue Shaoqun left, Tang Fangbai impatiently picked up a magnifying glass to evaluate this so-called ‘bowl that was used by Demon Sect Cult Master Zhang Naipao’. At first, Tang Fangbai absolutely felt that it wasn’t worth doing, after all Zhang Naipao was merely a person in legends, but after a while, he suddenly let out a “huh” cry of surprise and his expression became dignified……

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“I’m so full~ Brother-in-law, do you think my chest is bigger or my belly is bigger?” Jin Beibei rubbed her perfectly round belly as she waddled around in the instant they walked out of Jade Sea Sky Palace.

“Cough cough!” After Tang Tang, who was in the back, heard this, she was a bit unhappy: “Jin Beibei, other people might fear you, but I, Tang Tang, do not fear you. Do you really think that Xiao Chen isn’t an outsider and is truly your brother-in-law?”

“Yeah!” Jin Beibei turned around to look at Tang Tang and seriously nodded.

Tang Tang was dumbfounded; she truly didn’t know how to respond. Jin Beibei’s reply instantly made her incapable of speaking. She finally understood why so many people suffered disadvantaged in front of Jin Beibei, because you were unconsciously already tricked by her.

Seeing Jin Beibei’s innocent expression, Tang Tang truly didn’t know whether she was really foolish or acting cute, so she had no other choice but to shake her head.

As for Cheng Mengying, she didn’t know why, but when Jin Beibei said “yeah”, she felt that it was the first time that Jin Beibei’s ‘making trouble’ skill was quite powerful……

Xiao Chen forced a smile and winked to Tang Tang, hinting that he was used to Jin Beibei’s jokes.

Seeing Xiao Chen’s manner, Tang Tang let out a sigh of relief. She feared Xiao Chen falling deeper and deeper, so she wanted to show that he and Cheng Mengying were impossible. If his thinking wasn’t put in check, Tang Tang truly feared him becoming depressed.

The four people had various concerns as they walked to the parking lot. When they arrived, they suddenly discovered that Lou Zhenming and Yue Shaoqun had left and the only vehicle left in the parking lot was Jin Beibei’s Beetle. How would they be seated?

The Beetle’s back row could reluctantly seat two people, but Tang Tang’s build ‘took up space’. At this time, Tang Tang was somewhat embarrassed: “You guys go by car, I’ll walk back?”

“Hold on……” Although Cheng Mengying didn’t have a favorable impression towards Tang Tang, her character wasn’t bad. Jade Sea Sky Palace was several kilometers from school, if one walked to school, wouldn’t one be tired to the point of falling down? Also, would one be late to the exam? One has to know, there was only an hour left until the afternoon exam.

But the present situation was that if they made Tang Tang sit in the car, with her figure, she would have to sit in the copilot seat. Then the problem came, who would sit with Xiao Chen in the back seat? The space in the back row was originally small and with Xiao Chen’s tall build, the two people would have to inevitably stick together.

If Beibei drove the car, then Cheng Mengying and Xiao Chen would have to sit together. Cheng Mengying didn’t want to sit together with Xiao Chen……

He doesn’t like me, so if I move close to him, won’t it mean that I’m cheap? Hmph!

Therefore, after Cheng Mengying said ‘hold on’, she didn’t continue speaking. She was a bit unsure on how to arrange this.

“I’ll run back, let Tang Tang take the car.” Xiao Chen didn’t wait for the young lady to speak and immediately spoke. In his opinion, he had enough physical strength and time to run back.

“No need, I’ll call a taxi……” Before Tang Tang even finished speaking, Xiao Chen gave a natural wave and quickly ran towards the outside of the parking lot.

As Cheng Mengying watched Xiao Chen’s departing back, she didn’t know why, but she suddenly had a feeling of loss. She was unclear of where this feeling of loss came from as she got into the back row of the Beetle. Cheng Mengying suddenly recalled that night when she slept soundly on Xiao Chen’s body and a red blush surfaced on her cheeks, seemingly like she put on some rouge makeup²……

“Huh? Cousin Mengying, what’s up with your face? Did you drink too much?” When Jin Beibei finally boarded the car, she unintentionally looked in the back row, saw Cheng Mengying’s reddish complexion, and was immediately baffled: “Not right, we didn’t drink alcohol? Oh oh oh! I know, in that movie we watched yesterday night, it said that a quick running man’s performance is super powerful. Moreover, the longer he can run, the more lasting he is, you were thinking that brother-in-law will definitely be very fierce later on!”

“You should marry him if he’s so fierce.” Cheng Mengying glared at Jin Beibei. Joking around at home wasn’t a problem, but there was currently a Tang Tang, so Cheng Mengying felt like she lost some face.

“I am currently considering it…that movie said that big-chested girls are comparatively strong in that area.” Jin Beibei gave off a pensive appearance.

Jin Beibei’s reply made Cheng Mengying want to rip off her hair. She was merely chiding Jin Beibei and didn’t expect her to actually take it seriously.

“You guys watch A movies…….at home?” Tang Tang opened her eyes wide. In Tang Tang’s opinion, only r-rated movies would discuss this kind of topic.

“No, C movie.” Jin Beibei blurted out.

“You two are quite dirty, outside you are goddesses, at home you are rotten girls, don’t lead Xiao Chen astray.” Tang Tang faintly wrinkled her brows. She really couldn’t bear it when thinking that Xiao Chen still regarded Cheng Mengying as a goddess, while it wasn’t worthy for him to do so.

“I……” Cheng Mengying was extremely angered by Tang Tang’s words. Yesterday, it wasn’t her wanting to watch, but rather Jin Beibei luring her to watch it, so she followed her to take a casual look-see. Who would have thought that Jin Beibei would speak it out loud in a public space?

“So what? That proves that our sexual orientations are normal while some other person’s sexual orientation is abnormal, being fond of regarding themselves as a masculine woman³!” Jin Beibei curled her lips.

“You……” Tang Tang pointed at Jin Beibei, but words didn’t come out. When did she ever want to be a masculine woman? However……

Tang Tang didn’t speak any further because she knew Jin Beibei was a person-confusing spirit and she definitely wasn’t her opponent. Moreover, there was no way to tell Xiao Chen the matter of Cheng Mengying watching C movies at home, so why speak? It would seem like she was speaking behind other people’s backs. She only hoped that Xiao Chen that understood the will of people and was aware of what kind of people they were.

Seeing Jin Beibei win, Cheng Mengying relaxed. However, she was somewhat displeased in her heart. Me watching C movies? Tang Tang is really meddlesome, I don’t believe that you haven’t watched before! This young lady is going through puberty, being curious is normal……

The Beetle exited Jade Sea Sky Palace’s parking lot and Xiao Chen could be seen running under the scorching sun on the sidewalk. Instantly, Cheng Mengying’s heart was struck, this person, was he truly Xiao Chen? The dandy that pursued Lin Ke’er and Shen Jingxuan?

Tang Tang saw Cheng Mengying stare dazedly out the window from the rearview window and was confused as to why, so she also took a look out the window. But at this time, Xiao Chen was already left behind by the car, so what Tang Tang saw was a billboard for the hot drama star called ‘Beast’. She couldn’t help but scold Xiao Chen for being a love-struck fool and couldn’t understand why Xiao Chen liked Cheng Mengying.

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When the bowl fell onto the floor, it had indeed already broken into pieces. But when he held it in his hands, Xiao Chen used an illusion to make everyone see that the bowl was in perfect shape. Of course, this was also because Yue Shaoqun and Lou Zhenming’s, as well as the others, strengths weren’t high, so Xiao Chen was able to fool them easily.

“It can be considered as such.” Xiao Chen nodded with a smile and didn’t explain any further.

When Tang Tang heard how Jin Beibei addressed Xiao Chen, she wrinkled her brows and wanted to say something, but ultimately said nothing. Xiao Chen seemed to quite enjoy being called this, so who was she to say something?

“Holy crap, I told you brother-in-law was a Transformer, he can even perform magic tricks!” Jin Beibei took a look at Xiao Chen, then took a peek at her chest and asked: “Brother-in-law, is it possible to make my chest even bigger?”

“……” Xiao Chen was speechless.

“Beibei, if your chest is any larger, you’ll need a cart to push it with.” Cheng Mengying was angry enough for her breasts to heart. Your breasts are so large, yet you still want to make them bigger? “I saw a flash sale for child strollers on the online, and it just so happens that it can support your chest. You can push one to school every day!”

“Then forget it……” Jin Beibei thought for a moment then replied: “Brother-in-law, how about you help older cousin Mengying enlarge her chest!”

“This young lady doesn’t need it!” Cheng Mengying wickedly stared at Jin Beibei.

Tang Tang glimpsed at Jin Beibei and wanted to say something but hesitated. Xiao Chen was here and she didn’t want to hurt Xiao Chen’s self-esteem, so she planned on speaking later.

The restaurant server began serving the first few dishes on the menu and the private room began to quickly become like the Manchu Han imperial feast. It was like the Shuili River flying through the skies and rapidly flowing on Earth, whatever you wanted was whatever you got.

“Yum yum!” Jin Beibei ate with oil dripping out of her full mouth.

Tang Tang witnessed Jin Beibei’s table manners and didn’t know what would be fine to tell her. Her appetite was already quite big, but seeing Jin Beibei, she still felt inferior.

Cheng Mengying was very refined as she took small bites of the French foie gras. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen was fearless and ate whatever he saw. If there was anyone that could compete with Jin Beibei, then that would be Xiao Chen.

“Brother-in-law, this turtle soup¹ is tasty, you should drink it too!” Jin Beibei drank several mouthfuls of turtle soup, then directly gave her ladle and bowl to Xiao Chen.

“Is that so?” Xiao Chen took the turtle soup and drank it. Sure enough, it was quite tasty. He didn’t think too much because Jin Beibei’s disposition as such. Moreover, the two of them were like this at home, both were gluttons!

“Brother-in-law, that dish also looks very yummy, help me take some!” Jin Beibei pointed at the Australian baked fish and said.

“Okay.” Xiao Chen did so in passing.

“Brother-in-law, that dish looks like a delicacy, help me take some!”

“Sure.”

Tang Tang knit her brows once more, but still didn’t speak out.

“Huh? How come the roast duck hasn’t come up?” After the third service, Jin Beibei suddenly discovered that the Yanjing roast duck still hadn’t appeared.

“It seems like the roast duck is in the self-serve area on the first floor, so you need to go take some yourself.” During the time Xiao Chen passed the entrance, he had caught sight of the Yanjing roast duck booth on the first floor. A Truth Cultivator’s spiritual perception was quite formidable, so Xiao Chen was able to remember anything he casually took a glance at.

“Great great, help me get one brother-in-law.” Jin Beibei said with saliva flowing out of her mouth.

“Why don’t you go get it yourself? For what reason do you make other people go when you have legs yourself?” Tang Tang finally couldn’t bear it and stood up in outrage by the injustice done to Xiao Chen.

“But my chest is big, if I run down then back up, my breasts will hurt from shaking.” Jin Beibei innocently replied.

“You……” Tang Tang was thoroughly dumbfounded by Jin Beibei, but she was still thinking in her heart: does this ** girl not have a sense of shame in her heart? Doesn’t she know that there’s a boy here? Speaking about chests and breasts, does she not know what bashfulness is?

Cheng Mengying originally wanted to scold Jin Beibei, but when she heard Tang Tang’s words, she was a bit upset in her heart and her pampered princess sickness recurred: “Xiao Chen, this young lady wants to eat roast duck, go fetch some for this young lady!”

After she finished speaking, Cheng Mengying gave Tang Tang a provocative look. Since everybody’s status has been made public, I don’t believe that you don’t know the matter of Xiao Chen being my manservant! You seem to quite care about Xiao Chen? Hmph hmph, then let me see whether Xiao Chen listens to me or you!

“Sure.” Xiao Chen refreshingly stood up and left the private room.

Tang Tang watched Xiao Chen’s departing back and a smear of complex emotions flashed past her eyes. After Xiao Chen completely left, she placed down the bowl and chopsticks in her hands and seriously looked at Jin Beibei and Cheng Mengying.

“Jin Beibei, Cheng Clan already broke the engagement with Xiao Chen, can I trouble you to not call him ‘brother-in-law’ in the future? Since your older cousin and him cannot be together, can you not give him any fantasies?” Tang Tang really couldn’t bear it anymore. Although she knew Xiao Chen liked Cheng Mengying in his heart, Xiao Chen probably didn’t even have the qualifications to be a fallback choice! How could they play someone like this?

“What’s wrong with me calling him ‘brother-in-law’? I’m from Jin Clan and I like regarding brother-in-law as a sister-in-law, so what relationship does that have to do with Cheng Clan?” Jin Beibei spit out a shrimp skin and counter-questioned Tang Tang with a strange look on her face.

“You……” Tang Tang was left speechless. She discovered that quarrelling with Jin Beibei made one suffer grievously. It was no wonder that sons of influential people would be like mice seeing a cat in front of Jin Beibei. This ** girl’s logical thinking and thought process was too amazing.

“Beibei!” Cheng Mengying shouted for Jin Beibei to stop, then looked towards Tang Tang and lightly said: “Tang Tang, I know you like Xiao Chen, but Xiao Chen is currently my servant. This is his voluntary choice and nobody forced him either. Beibei likes cracking jokes and if Xiao Chen took it seriously, then that’s still his business. If you care about him so much, then go advise him!”

Although Cheng Mengying’s words sounded very reasonable, how come Tang Tang could feel the thick smell of gunpowder? It was like Xiao Chen was Cheng Mengying’s personal belonging, but she didn’t believe that Cheng Mengying had any affection for Xiao Chen. Therefore, in Tang Tang’s mind, she regarded Cheng Mengying as the rumored scheming ‘green-tea *****’ prostitute that liked toying around with Xiao Chen’s emotions and happiness.

However, Tang Tang also secretly sighed in disappointment in her heart at Xiao Chen. Who made him like Cheng Mengying?

“Xiao Chen and I are only buddies, Xiao Chen just disdained to argue with Yue Shaoqun’s words!” Tang Tang also felt that she had no qualifications to lash out at Cheng Mengying and could only remind her: “Actually, Xiao Chen is a very good boy. If you don’t like him, then please let him off.”

“Right, right! Brother-in-law is very awesome, Beibei super-likes and ultra-worships him!” Jin Beibei suddenly chimed in.

“……” Tang Tang couldn’t make heads or tails of how this was related to their conversation. Was this Jin Beibei sent by Cheng Mengying to deliberately embarrass her?

Cheng Mengying gave Tang Tang a glance and wanted to say some words, but ultimately didn’t speak. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Tang Tang, but rather because ‘walls have ears²’. If by any chance Xiao Chen’s true motive of becoming her servant was leaked out, then there wouldn’t be any good happening for Xiao Chen and her.

As a result, during the time that Xiao Chen was away, Cheng Mengying and Tang Tang were silent and didn’t look at each other. On the other hand, Jin Beibei was thoughtlessly enjoying herself.

A while later, Xiao Chen came back carrying roast duck in his arms, but just as he entered the private room, Xiao Chen felt that there was a chill in the air of the private room. Although the three people were safe and sound, Xiao Chen still felt that the atmosphere was a little off! Perhaps this was due to a Truth Cultivator’s sharpened six senses?

“Eat some roast duck.” Xiao Chen brought some ready-made roast duck rolls with him from downstairs and placed one each in front of the three people.

Jin Beibei picked up a roll and bit into it. Oil flowed from the corner of her mouth as she chewed: “En, roast duck is tasty!”

“How come you’re not eating?” Tang Tang discovered that Xiao Chen had only brought back three roast duck rolls and he himself didn’t have one.

“Roast duck is supplied at 11 o’clock and that time has already gone past. I scrambled to snatch these final three.” Xiao Chen indifferently shrugged: “It’s fine if I don’t eat, there are still many other dishes.”

“Brother-in-law, eat mine, it’s really very delicious!” Jin Beibei handed over the roll that she took a bite of to Xiao Chen.

“I won’t eat……” Xiao Chen found it truly embarrassing to eat Jin Beibei’s saliva in front of Xiao Chen. If was fine if it was at home, but here, Xiao Chen didn’t want to make Tang Tang think that he was a **: “You eat, don’t you like eating?”

“Oh, then okay!” When Jin Beibei saw that Xiao Chen wasn’t going to eat, she went on eating.

Tang Tang originally wanted to give Xiao Chen her roll, but thinking about how she said Xiao Chen was her buddy, she was embarrassed to do such!

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An Audi A8L sped towards the southern outskirts of Songning City. In this place was Songning City’s most powerful clan, Tang Clan’s home!

Stopping the car at the entrance of Tang Clan’s family courtyard, Yue Shaoqun discovered that he was a little anxious in coming here. Tang Clan’s grandfather Tang Fangbai was a person that attached heavy importance to benefits. Although Yue Clan and Tang Clan had reached a tacit understanding long ago, this was still the first time for openly suggesting to rescind the engagement.

Yue Shaoqun felt that he should have brought a gift to flatter old man Tang, but because he came in such a hurry, he hadn’t prepared anything at all! His eyes swept through his car’s backseat and his eyes immediately lit up!

The broken bowl that Lou Zhenming had previously purchased made Yue Shaoqun think of something. He faintly smiled and carefully picked up the broken bowl, then got out and searched for something in the trunk for quite a while. Finally, he found a comparatively exquisite brocade box and placed the broken box inside³.

This brocade box had a ginseng within it last year, but after Yue Shaoqun used the ginseng in training his martial arts, he casually threw it into his car. He didn’t think that it would have such use in this moment!

Tang Fangbai was fond of collecting antiques, particularly antiques related to Martialists. And this bowl that was used by the Demon Sect Cult Master just happened to fit his tastes! Of course, broken antiques didn’t mean that it was worthless. In fact, many antiques were already broken at the time of being unearthed, but that didn’t influence the collection value! Because these things were lone goods for the most part and there would only be one of it whether it be broken or not.

When Tang Tang was 16 years-old, Yue Shaoqun was a frequent visitor to Tang Clan. Now that two years had so quickly gone by, the two guard disciples at Tang Clan’s entrance couldn’t help but stare a little upon seeing Yue Shaoqun!

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“It’s Lou Zhenming who dropped it onto the floor, what does it have to do with Xiao Chen?” Tang Tang had been paying attention to Xiao Chen the entire time, so she naturally understood the process of the matter. When she heard Cheng Mengying speak such, she naturally protested unfairness for Xiao Chen.

Cheng Mengying gave Tang Tang a glance and wrinkled her eyebrows before she spoke in a low voice: “You think I don’t know? And still speak with you? Since you care so much about Xiao Chen, then how about helping him foot the bill? All of this clearly shows that they want to trap him and that manager is their partner!”

“I……” Where did Tang Tang have so much money? If she had 1 million RMB, then she wouldn’t need to sell fried breadsticks in the morning!

“Older cousin Mengying, how about I go!” Jin Beibei mischievously smiled. It was unknown what kind of harmful ideas she had thought up.

Cheng Mengying hesitated. Although Jin Beibei’s method would definitely frame Lou Zhenming or even Yue Shaoqun, it would be best if she acted at this moment, so she calmly nodded.

But just as Jin Beibei was about to set out, Xiao Chen actually bent down and gathered the broken pieces of the bowl. As he was holding it in his hand, his expression was quite weird as he looked at Lou Zhenming and said: “But this bowl hasn’t broken? Isn’t it still fine? There is essentially nothing to make a fuss about?”

“Ah?” Just as Lou Zhenming was complacently smiling, he immediately became startled upon hearing Xiao Chen’s words. Right as he wanted to refute Xiao Chen, he suddenly discovered that the bowl in Xiao Chen’s hand was simply undamaged, without even the slightest crack!

Yue Shaoqun also opened his eyes wide. He was speechless as he looked at the bowl in Xiao Chen’s hand, could it be that he had unclear vision a moment ago? The bowl in Xiao Chen’s hand was obviously in good condition, how could it have broken?

The most bewildered person had to be Ma Xiaotian. Although she promised to cooperate with Yue Shaoqun and Lou Zhenming in putting on this play, her distance from Xiao Chen was quite far as to avoid suspicion, so she wasn’t too clear on whether to bowl had broken or not. When she walked over, Xiao Chen had already picked it up. She thought that Lou Zhenming had been too hasty in putting on this play and hadn’t seen clearly.

“Since it isn’t broken, then naturally it’s fine. It appears that Demon Sect Cult Master Zhang Naipao is a fierce person!” Ma Xiaotian let out a chuckle. She understood that there was no way to perform today’s business and could only be dropped.

“Impossible, it obviously fell and broke into pieces!” Lou Zhenming had gotten this opportunity to fix up Xiao Chen with great difficulty, so how could he let him off like this? He directly snatched the bowl from Xiao Chen’s hand to take a look, but before he carefully scrutinized it, the bowl broke into two pieces with a ‘plink!’. It stopped in Lou Zhenming’s hand just like this.

Lou Zhenming was flabbergasted, Yue Shaoqun was flabbergasted, and Ma Xiaotian was also flabbergasted. What kind of situation was this?

Cheng Mengying was puzzled, Tang Tang was puzzled, Jin Beibei looked pensive.

“H……how could it break?” Lou Zhenming didn’t expect that the perfectly fine bowl just a moment ago would turn into two halves in his hands. Wasn’t this too mysterious?

“Young Master Lou, what were you snatching for? Look, your snatching has caused it to go bad!” Xiao Chen said to Lou Zhenming with a distressed expression: “Although this 1 million isn’t much regarding someone like Young Master Lou, breaking it like this is still quite a pity, right?”

“I……” Lou Zhenming wanted to cry but had no tears when he looked at the bowl in his hands that split into two. Damn, this ******* isn’t from me snatching it away!

A smear of doubt flashed past Yue Shaoqun’s eyes as well, but his nature was that of a hypocrite’s, so it was impossible for him to speak bare-faced lies. He couldn’t still falsely accused Xiao Chen at this time, so he could only frown and say: “Lou Zhenming, how could you be this careless? Forget it, go compensate them for this. Although I’m treating for this meal, this bowl is not included!”

“I……” Lou Zhenming felt an urge to cry. He had recently applied for 1 million RMB to pick up girls from his father, how could he just use it like this to compensate for a bowl?

Although it was unknown which ** mastermind used this bowl, it was still indeed an antique. At the time of selecting this bowl, it was because of fearing that Xiao Chen would be able to judge the quality of the item and not want to take out 1 million, so the true value of the bowl really purchased with 1 million.

“Holy cow, brother-in-law has superpowers!” Jin Beibei muttered in a low voice to Cheng Mengying.

“……” Cheng Mengying was also clueless as to how this matter came to a 180 degree reversal.

“Swipe my card!” Lou Zhenming’s forehead was filled with black lines as he pulled out his bank card and gave it to Ma Xiaotian. Although he and Ma Xiaotian had agreed to cooperate in acting out this performance, this didn’t represent that he wouldn’t need to pay for ruining the bowl.

“Good……” Ma Xiaotian received the bank card and nodded.

“I’ll be leaving my diamond card here. My grandfather at the clan just sent me a message looking for me for something. Everybody, I am saddened to have to leave. However much you spend, I will pay for it.” Yue Shaoqun said. He felt that there wasn’t any significance in staying here any longer, so he handed over his diamond card to Ma Xiaotian.

As for his grandfather looking for him, it was nothing but an excuse. He didn’t fix up Xiao Chen and lost face in front of Lou Zhenming, so naturally he didn’t have any mood to eat here.

Lou Zhenming hesitated for a while. Yue Shaoqun had walked, so there was no point for him to keep staying here. Moreover, he had lost an immense amount of face in front of Cheng Mengying. It obviously should have been Xiao Chen compensating for the bowl, but it had actually become him. Feeling Jin Beibei’s expression of schadenfreude, Lou Zhenming opened his mouth and said: “I’ll be looking for an antique store to see whether or not this bowl can be repaired. I quite like this bowl, haha!”

While he was speaking, Lou Zhenming took the broken bowl with him and left the private room with Yue Shaoqun.

Just as Ma Xiaotian was about to follow right after, Jin Beibei shouted: “Hey, don’t go, I want to order!”

“Uh……then young lady Jin, what do you want to order?” Ma Xiaotian was helpless and could only hint for Lou Zhenming to stay a while before she gave him back his card.

“The things on this menu, give me one of each!” Jin Beibei pointed at the menu and said.

In the moment that Yue Shaoqun stepped out of the room, he almost tumbled down upon hearing Jin Beibei’s words! What kind of place was this? It was one of Songning City’s first-rate restaurants! All of the dishes on the menu together cost at least more than 1 million, did this ** want to rob this brother penniless?

“This……young lady Jin, can you eat up this much?” Ma Xiaotian weakly inquired. Although she was naturally glad to sell more, this was Yue Shaoqun’s treat, so it was equivalent to offending Yue Shaoqun. The gains would not equal the loss.

“Can’t I pack what I can’t eat?” Jin Beibei waved and replied: “Okay, I’ve finished ordering, you can go serve the food!”

“U……understood, young lady Jin.” Ma Xiaotian was forced to nod, then withdrew from the private room.

A smear of somberness flashed past Yue Shaoqun’s face, but he immediately resumed normality. A bit more than 1 million in his words was ‘money spent is just money spent’. He did not pursue a materialistic life, what he pursued was strength and authority!

“Young Master Qun, your meaning……” After Ma Xiaotian walked out of the private room, she was naturally going to inquire the financial backer Yue Shaoqun.

“Didn’t I already speak? I’ll be paying! Could it be that even if I leave my diamond card here, you still suspect my reputation?” Yue Shaoqun coldly asked as he gave Ma Xiaotian a glance.

“Of course I don’t dare, I’ll go pass on the order……” Ma Xiaotian trembled in her heart, then promptly made someone pass on the order.

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Jade Sea Sky Palace’s parking lot.

Lou Zhenming sat in Yue Shaoqun’s A8L car¹ feeling extremely unwell and angry: “This bowl obvious broke into two pieces when it fell onto the floor, but it was whole when Xiao Chen picked it up. Then when it was in my hands, it turned into two halves! What kind of sorcery did Xiao Chen, this kid, use?”

“Sorcery? If I’m not wrong, this kid should be practicing magic and used a camouflage.” Yue Shaoqun shook his head: “I heard that he imitated some magician on television to curry favor with some girl in the past.”

“So it turns out that it was this, damn it, I’ve been played by this kid! Young Master Qun, I’m unable to swallow this anger, not only was Xiao Chen not taught a lesson, but you and I also had to compensate 1 million!” Lou Zhenming ferociously spoke: “I’ll kill this kid!”

“Don’t be impulsive.” Yue Shaoqun glanced at Lou Zhenming: “Didn’t I tell you that his status is comparatively special? Since you know that he is Xiao Clan’s young master, if you go all out to murder him, I fear that you will provoke many troubles!”

“We can find someone to do it! I don’t believe that Cheng Clan will carefully investigate for someone like him!” Lou Zhenming had truly burst his top today. At first, he wanted to pull the relationship between him and Cheng Mengying with this meal, but who would have thought that not only did he not pull their relationship closer, he was even disgraced! The originator of all of this was Xiao Chen, and he hated him down to his bone marrow!

“Fine, I’ll solve this matter appropriately, wait for me to think up a reliable solution.” Yue Shaoqun responded.

“Then……good! I’ll be going ahead……” A barrier towards Yue Shaoqun already arose in Lou Zhenming’s heart. He could see that Yue Shaoqun not wanting to kill Xiao Chen wasn’t because he feared Cheng Clan’s unhappiness, but rather because of Tang Tang! If Xiao Chen died, how would he cast off Tang Tang?

But with the hindrance of Yue Clan’s status, Lou Zhenming didn’t dare say anything. Although he was a ** young master², comparing himself with Yue Shaoqun, his class was still lower by a lot. There were many times that he needed to depend on Yue Shaoqun’s support in order to raise his class.

“Your bowl.” Yue Shaoqun could see that Lou Zhenming was dissatisfied, but he didn’t have any solutions; he still needed to utilize Xiao Chen. For this matter, as long as Old Master Tang didn’t formally yield and create an engagement-breaking document, then he, Yue Shaoqun, wouldn’t feel steadfast.

“No need, Young Master Qun, you can take it to play.” Lou Zhenming’s class was still a bit lacking. He didn’t like playing with these cultured things, especially a lousy bowl that broke into pieces. Lou Zhenming didn’t have a damn use for it even if he brought it home.

Yue Shaoqun didn’t say anything. He started the vehicle and headed straight to Tang Clan. He had to settle this matter otherwise he would lose his little brother Lou Zhenming, and this was not a result that Yue Shaoqun wanted to see.

When Yue Shaoqun and Lou Zhenming left, the remaining people were Xiao Chen, Tang Tang, Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei, so the atmosphere became strange.

“Brother-in-law, was it magic that you showed just a moment ago?” Jin Beibei interestingly looked at Xiao Chen and asked.

What Xiao Chen had performed just a moment ago wasn’t magic, but an illusion. This was a special ability that those at Third Layer Qi-Training possessed! Theoretically speaking, this was an empty move that Truth Cultivators used in a fight to confuse their opponents, but Xiao Chen used it on the bowl.

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“Of course, of course, Mengying, feel relieved!” How could Lou Zhenming know that Cheng Mengying was fearing that people would pay attention to Xiao Chen, he was still thinking that Cheng Mengying disliked Xiao Chen! But what confused him was that since Cheng Mengying disliked Xiao Chen, why was she in the same class as Xiao Chen?

But this was most likely Cheng Clan’s arrangement. Lou Zhenming didn’t understand it and didn’t dare to inquire. His and Cheng Mengying’s relationship wasn’t close enough, so he could only secretly observe.

“Young master Xiao, Tang Tang, how about riding my car? Young Lady Cheng, Young Lady Jin, will you be sitting in little Lou’s car?” Yue Shaoqun seemed like he was a superior arranging for others. He was quite fond of this kind of being-in-a-commanding-position feeling, and his goal was to be a controller.

“I’m not used to riding in another person’s car.” Cheng Mengying lightly said and walked towards Jin Beibei’s Beetle.

“In that case, little Lou, you don’t need to drive, just let me drive.” Yue Shaoqun’s face was still light as if it was being bathed in a spring breeze as he spoke to Lou Zhenming. With regards to Cheng Mengying’s attitude, he wasn’t the slightest concerned. In his opinion, Cheng Mengying really wasn’t one of the targets he wanted to win over. Even if she was more beautiful and had a higher status, she would still be ridden by a man¹. Moreover, with regards to his great future plans, she would not be any help.

“No problems here Young Master Qun!” Lou Zhenming opened the A8L’s copilot door and sat down.

Yue Shaoqun waited for Xiao Chen and Tang Tang to be seated in the back row before getting on and starting the vehicle. Jin Beibei’s Beetle followed behind Lou Zhenming’s car.

“Young master Xiao, you and I are people of the same level, so you should know about Tang Tang’s status. Since you like her, then I feel relieved. It’s not easy for people of our level to find true love, you must treasure it!” Yue Shaoqun seemed like an elder sincerely speaking to Xiao Chen.

“Young Master Yue, this is not something you need to worry about, I understand your meaning.” Xiao Chen didn’t deny the relationship between him and Tang Tang in order to give her some face. If he replied that he wasn’t Tang Tang’s boyfriend, then it was supposed that Tang Tang would be very embarrassed at this time and feel like nobody wanted her.

“Then that’s good! I won’t speak too much, we feast for lunch! Originally little Lou was going to treat us, but it’s better if I treat!” Yue Shaoqun’s goal was achieved, so he was naturally disinclined to speak any further to Xiao Chen.

After successfully getting rid of Tang Tang, and with one of the ‘Four Large Aristocratic Clans and Five Small Aristocratic Clans’, Lou Clan’s, son to bear witness, Yue Shaoqun also became a free person in the future!

Jade Sea Sky Palace is Songning City’s biggest, most luxurious, as well as most expensive, restaurant. It wasn’t number one, but many successful figures like entertaining honored guests here. Moreover, the young masters of the ‘Four Large Aristocratic Clans and Five Small Aristocratic Clans’ were also frequent patrons of this place.

After stopping their cars, the several people entered the restaurant together. The doorway security guard had some sharp eyes; he knew all the bosses and prestigious people like the back of his hand, so when he saw the group before him, his heart immediately tightened!

“Miss Cheng, Miss Jin, Master Xiao, Master Qun, Master Lou, Miss Tang, welcome!” The security guard knew the people before him, but he paid special attention as he called out the order of the names; it was done in the order of the ‘Four Large Aristocratic Clans and Five Small Aristocratic Clans’. Cheng Clan was the head of the ‘Four Large Aristocratic Clans and Five Small Aristocratic Clans’ while Lou Clan was the last of them. The matter of Tang Tang separating from the Tang Clan was something the security guard knew, so Tang Tang was placed last, but he still didn’t know about Xiao Chen’s matter.

Yue Shaoqun’s eyebrows twitched. Clearly, he was feeling a bit unwell at hearing the security guard place Xiao Chen’s name before his. If it was before, he would have endured it, after all, Xiao Clan was a bit stronger than Yue Clan, but now……

Of course, he didn’t say anything, it was just something he noted down in his heart. He planned on informing the diamond client manager at Jade Sea Sky Palace about Xiao Clan’s matter afterwards.

“I scheduled for the number one diamond private room.” Yue Shaoqun gave the security guard a glance as he indifferently spoke.

“Yes, Master Qun, please!” The security guard promptly made an inviting gesture.

Jade Sea Sky Palace adopted a membership card system. That is to say, without a membership card, even if you wanted to eat here, it would be useless because you had to show your membership card to come in. Moreover, either the server or security guard would arrange a room for you according to the rank of your membership card.

Of course, people like Xiao Chen and his group didn’t need to show their membership cards because their faces were their membership cards, furthermore high level diamond cards! Recognizing faces was an important job for the security guards and servers to accomplish at this place.

Jade Sea Sky Palace’s first floor is a self-serve area, so naturally these things were free-of-charge. Any customers that ate here could take as they wished.

But this wasn’t any loss to their business because the customers with membership cards, which one of them would come to this place to eat free things? They would all go to a private room and order many specialty dishes. The restaurant already earned back its losses, not to speak of its yearly membership card fees.

The number one diamond private room was the most luxurious room for those with diamond cards, and it wasn’t that those with diamond cards could automatically enter. This place still had a lowest expense²!

Naturally, the decorations in this private room was outstandingly luxurious. All kinds of famous calligraphy and paintings hung on the wall. There were works of renown masters of the present age as well as antique calligraphy and paintings. On one side of the private room was a display frame with antique sacrificial offerings³ for customers to appreciate. In brief, this place’s taste was very elegant and luxurious. Using just a few words to explain, it was a high-end atmosphere!

The several people were led into the private room by a server. Xiao Chen was already a past frequent visitor here, so he didn’t show any peculiarities when he entered the private room and directly sat down.

After the people entered the private room, the diamond client manager Ma Xiaotian, who had just heard the news and rushed over, quickly stepping into the private room and spoke with a wide smile: “These young masters and young ladies, we are extremely flattered to have you here. Your humble servant has come late and has neglected you! In recent times, the number one private room has received some interesting toys, will these several young masters be appraising them?”

The client manager pointed to the antiques as she spoke about ‘interesting toys’. These young masters were born in prestigious aristocratic clans and outside of ordinarily having fun racing and play with women, they also liked playing with some cultured things. Jade Sea Sky Palace would regularly procure some antiques to give these young masters to appreciate. If there was a young master that took fancy to an item, recklessly spending money to buy it wasn’t a strange occurrence. To put it in simple terms, this was also one of the methods Jade Sea Sky Palace employed to earn money.

“Then let’s take a look!” Lou Zhenming stood up with a smile, but when he saw that Xiao Chen didn’t get up, he clapped Xiao Chen’s shoulder: “Young master Xiao, how about coming with me to take a look? I heard that you spent a lot of money to buy a jade thumb ring several months ago in this exact number one diamond private room.”

Lou Zhenming’s words weren’t wrong. Xiao Chen had indeed purchased a jade thumb ring from here several months ago, but that was a present for his grandfather’s birthday. At that time, his grandfather was still very fond of him and praised him with several sentences. But in a wink, several months passed by and he was already driven out of Xiao Clan. It was true that things stayed the same while people change, as that grandfather that used to spoil him didn’t even contact him after expelling him from Xiao Clan.

Xiao Chen didn’t wish to stand up, but when he saw Tang Tang get up in curiosity, he immediately stood up.

Tang Tang’s actions were entirely out of curiosity. Although she had come to Jade Sea Sky Palace to eat before, that was because she followed her elders here and didn’t pay any attention to the antiques and what not on the frame.

“Young Master Qun, Young Master Lou, young master Xiao, this bowl is from year XX and was used by Demon Sect Cult Master Zhang Naipao⁴……” Ma Xiaotian smiled as she pointed at a bowl on the display frame to introduce.

Ma Xiaotian’s words caused Xiao Chen’s heart to slightly stir. Her placing his name at the very end, what did this signify? Did this person already know about the matter of him being expelled from Xiao Clan? But the security guard at the restaurant entrance didn’t know, so could there be some internal problems? Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen was inwardly on guard. Naturally, this was a self-protection habit that he had formed in the past years.

“Oh? Demon Sect Cult Master? That’s a being from legends, I must examine this!” As he was speaking, Lou Zhenming reached out with his hand to pick up the bowl on the frame. He carefully scrutinized it as he observed and expressed wonder: “Holding this in my hand, I feel demonic qi, a kind of gloomy feeling! Young master Xiao, how about taking a look?”

While he was speaking, Lou Zhenming handed over the bowl in his hand to Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen was startled and subconsciously reached out to receive it, but when he extended it half-way, he instinctively stopped. Although there was a smiling expression on Lou Zhenming’s face, how come Xiao Chen felt that it harbored some evil intentions!

But even though Xiao Chen didn’t receive it, Lou Zhenming stuffed the bowl into Xiao Chen’s hand and let go before Xiao Chen could hold it steady. Plink! The bowl immediately fell onto the floor. Although there was a carpet spread on the floor of this private room, the bowl still broke into two halves!

“Ah! Young master Xiao, how could you be this careless? How could this bowl be broken by you? It’s truly unfortunate!” Lou Zhenming exclaimed.

“Broken?” The nearby Ma Xiaotian stared blankly, but actually smiled indifferently: “No problem, it’s just a toy that’s worth 1 million. This kind of money for young master Xiao is a mere trifle!”

“Xiao Chen, you were the one who broke this bowl, so excuse me for being unable to pay for you. I will still be treating for the meal!” Yue Shaoqun said with a serious expression as he walked over.

Xiao Chen finally understood why Lou Zhenming made such a huge circle and detour, originally, Lou Zhenming had been waiting for him here! Previously, Xiao Chen was thinking that Yue Shaoqun simply wanted to treat him to a meal and solidify his and Tang Tang’s relationship. But carefully thinking about it, there wasn’t a need for this as Yue Shaoqun had already treated them before.

Jin Beibei was at the side holding a menu and about to order. When she heard some sounds, she looked at the broken bowl by Xiao Chen’s feet and was somewhat doubtful: “Older cousin Mengying, what are they saying?”

“Hmph! Who made him so gluttonous and insist on going to this feast, causing him to stir up trouble?” Cheng Mengying snorted but was very worried in her heard. Although 1 million wasn’t a lot and Cheng Mengying could also take it out, but what kind of excuse could she use to take it out?

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“That’s right, you’ve guessed correctly, I want to treat you to a meal!” Lou Zhenming was actually grinning ear-to-ear as he nodded.

“Ah?” Xiao Chen was bewildered as he looked at Lou Zhenming. Had this person not been ripped off enough?

“You don’t need to be surprised. I know your identity, Xiao Clan’s young master? Relax, we are people of the same level; it’s better to squash enmity than keep it ongoing. I’m not afraid to tell you that in school, I follow Yue Shaoqun, Young Master Qun. It was also Young Master Qun who told me of your status. Young Master Qun said his relationship with you isn’t too bad and made me invite you out to eat to undo this misunderstanding!” Lou Zhenming said.

“Yue Shaoqun?” Xiao Chen didn’t think that Yue Shaoqun actually knew of his status. But the matter of Yue Shaoqun investigating him, Xiao Chen could understand. He wanted to free himself of Tang Tang and now that Xiao Chen had appeared before Tang Tang, it happened to coincide with his intentions. Particularly, after discovering the situation of his background, Yue Shaoqun discovered that Xiao Chen and Tang Tang were “an appropriate match”, so how couldn’t he be happy to death?

To be honest, regarding this hypocrite, Xiao Chen disdained to even take a glance at him. He would rather be a real low-status person. But now his situation and status was seen through, and it wasn’t something that Xiao Chen wanted to see. He aim in transferring schools was to start afresh in a new environment. Since there was Yue Shaoqun coming out now, this kid probably didn’t spread it out. If he did, then it would disrupt Xiao Chen’s plan on secretly cultivating.

“That’s right. That day when I went to save you, it was actually because of Young Master Qun, otherwise why would I go save you when we have contradictions?” Lou Zhenming replied: “How about it Xiao Chen, can you give me face? After finishing morning tests, I’ll play the host at noon and Young Master Qun will be company. I invite you and Tang Tang to a feast!”

“Tang Tang is also going?” Xiao Chen stared blankly.

“Yes, since Tang Tang is your girlfriend, then it’s fine if you go together!” Actually, this was Yue Shaoqun’s suggestion. He wanted to solidify the relationship between Xiao Chen and Tang Tang, but for Lou Zhenming, another person didn’t matter. Today’s food was destined not to be entirely eaten, even if 100 people were invited, he wouldn’t even spend 1 cent.

Xiao Chen originally wanted to decline, but thinking of that girl Tang Tang’s pitiful unable-to-eat-her-fill appearance, he straightforwardly nodded: “Fine, since you’re so sincere, then we’ll go.”

“Haha, then it’s settled. When we finish testing, be sure to be there!” When Lou Zhenming saw that his invitation succeeded, he was instantly extremely happy. This time, he would be able to mess with Xiao Chen until he wanted to cry but had no place to go to do so.

Xiao Chen entered the classroom and sat by Tang Tang. Tang Tang gave him a glance and asked: “Why did Lou Zhenming look for you?”

“He wants to treat us to a feast at noon.” Xiao Chen replied.

“Him? Invited us? He isn’t sick is he?” Tang Tang thought that this matter was inconceivable.

“He knows my identity……” Xiao Chen lowered his voice and said: “But he mentioned Yue Shaoqun and said that Yue Shaoqun would be company. I have a feeling that this matter is most likely related to this fellow.”

“Lou Zhenming knows your identity?” Tang Tang slightly wrinkled her brows and immediately spoke with some disgust: “This fellow Yue Shaoqun is quite shrewd. I reckon he is taking advantage of the things between us as a way to justify rescinding his engagement with me.”

“Rescinding is just rescinding, it’s not like anything good will happen by being with him anyway.” Xiao Chen was indifferent: “Eating and drinking without paying, only a fool wouldn’t go.”

“That’s true.” Tang Tang nodded. After she finished speaking, she didn’t speak any further and earnestly studied. Tang Tang’s academic record wasn’t bad, but Lou Zhenming seeing through his identity actually disrupted Xiao Chen’s plan of testing into first place.

He was previously ‘young master Xiao’, so how could he possibly test into first place? If he seized hold of first place this time, would he be suspected? This was Xiao Chen’s greatest worry. The 10,000 RMB right now wasn’t regarded anything in Xiao Chen’s eyes. One auxiliary medicine was at least 100,000 RMB, so 10,000 RMB was just scratching the surface.

Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen decided that it was better to take it step by step. This time I will get a test score close to Tang Tang, so even if Lou Zhenming suspects me, he will definitely think that I copied Tang Tang. When I truly become a Fourth Layer Qi-Training Truth Cultivator, why would I give a damn about him? Even if I’m doubted, at least I’ll have the ability to defend myself!

One has to know, there aren’t many Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialists within these aristocratic clans.

“Bzz……” Xiao Chen’s mobile phone received a text message.

Xiao Chen took it out to take a look and found that it was sent by the young lady: “What did Lou Zhenming seek you out for a moment ago?”

Cheng Mengying’s care was somewhat unexpected to Xiao Chen. He didn’t think she would pay quite the attention to him. Of course, in Xiao Chen’s opinion, this wasn’t because of the young lady having a favorable impression towards him, but rather because of her kindheartedness.

However, what made Xiao Chen not know whether to laugh or cry was Cheng Mengying’s text right after. The text message content was: “This young lady simply wants to remind you that everything must be reported to this young lady. You’re a servant, so you need to have the awareness of one!”

“Heh……” Xiao Chen read the text message and could imagine Cheng Mengying’s proud appearance. He replied: “Lou Zhenming wanted to invite me and Tang Tang to a feast at noon.”

After sending the text message over, there was no reply. But right beside Cheng Mengying, Jin Beibei was looking at Cheng Mengying’s mobile phone: “Cousin Mengying, I also want to eat a feast.”

“Eat, what eat? He didn’t invite you!” Cheng Mengying was somewhat annoyed. Why invite Xiao Chen and Tang Tang? What relationship does Xiao Chen and Tang Tang have? Doesn’t he know that he is this young lady’s servant? And if he wanted to invite, then he would have to also invite this young lady?

Of course, if Lou Zhenming knew Cheng Mengying’s thinking, he would probably die happy. He wanted to invite Cheng Mengying to a meal, but didn’t have any opportunities!

The first subject was language. Although Xiao Chen had done a great amount of review in the recent days, he didn’t dare to score to high this time. He used his spiritual consciousness strength to look at the answers on Tang Tang’s test paper, guessed the grade, and answered to get a similar result.

Naturally, Xiao Chen definitely would not be wrong in the same areas that Tang Tang was because if it was like that, then it would be considered as cheating! In any case, Lou Zhenming couldn’t see the test papers, so Xiao Chen didn’t need to use this kind of cheating.

In a blink of an eye, two hours went past and Xiao Chen handed over his test paper. Lou Zhenming quickly walked over, seeming to be afraid that Xiao Chen would run away: “Xiao Chen, let’s go and eat a feast.”

Just as Xiao Chen was about to reply, he caught sight of a big-chested person rapidly walking before Lou Zhenming: “Feast? Feast? Where is the feast? I also want to eat!”

“Uh……” Lou Zhenming was speechless. Seeing Jin Beibei and her big chest in front of him, he wasn’t pleased one bit with the visuals and was instead a bit depressed. Is this girl someone with extremely good hearing? So far away, yet able to hear about the matter of eating a feast? But when Lou Zhenming saw that the person behind Jin Beibei was Cheng Mengying, his eyes couldn’t help but brighten!

“Beibei, he hasn’t invited you, so how can you randomly join? Quickly come with me to eat some roast duck, I heard that the school cafeteria invited an authentic roast duck master over from Yanjing.” Cheng Mengying said as she pulled on Jin Beibei’s hand.

“Oh Mengying, how could I not invite you? As a matter of fact, Xiao Chen and I spoke of wanting to invite you! You and Jin Beibei should also come, I reserved a banquet table at the best restaurant in the city, Jade Sea Sky Palace, and there is also an authentic Yanjing roast duck over there! The authenticity is better than our school cafeteria; their duck is custom-fed and I heard that they use fruit tree charcoal brought in through air transport in their ovens. When they roast it, it’s a good yellow color and the outside is delicate while the inside is fresh, fragrant, and juicy!” Lou Zhenming hastily said.

“Good good, cousin Mengying, I want to eat!” Jin Beibei’s saliva was flowing out as she heard these words. Her eyes turned cat-like and looked at Lou Zhenming as if he was a big roast duck.

“Then fine, this young lady will reluctantly go and eat!” Cheng Mengying actually wanted to know what Lou Zhenming’s intentions on inviting Xiao Chen was, but she had no reason justification to go ask. Now, she happened to be able to come take a look.

Lou Zhenming was a little scared by Jin Beibei’s look. This girl shouldn’t be making trouble by coming along? He immediately said: “Then let’s go, I’ll guide in the front!”

Xiao Chen and Tang Tang followed right behind. Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei were a bit farther away from Xiao Chen, probably because they didn’t want to expose the relationship between them in front of outsiders. They didn’t know that Lou Zhenming already knew Xiao Chen’s identity, but even if they knew, what could be done? Cheng Mengying still had to pay attention to avoid suspicion.

The five people arrived at the school’s parking lot. Yue Shaoqun had been standing by his Audi A8L waiting and upon seeing Xiao Chen and Tang Tang walking over, Yue Shaoqun face exposed a sunlight smile. People would think that he was harmless and affable. He extended his hand to Xiao Chen: “Young master Xiao, I’ve been looking forward to meeting you. I feel relieved leaving Tang Tang in your capable hands!”

Xiao Chen and Tang Tang weren’t very surprised. After all, they already knew this matter beforehand. However, Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei were extremely astonished, how come this guy knew about this matter?

But Cheng Mengying wasn’t not stupid and related this to Tang Tang. She had also heard of the matter that Yue Shaoqun wanted to get rid of Tang Tang. Since Xiao Chen and Tang Tang were quite close, Yue Shaoqun wanting to investigate Xiao Chen was very easy.

This idiot! Cheng Mengying secretly thought to herself, why can’t you just play your part? Getting defeated in a woman’s hand? If you were on bad terms with Tang Tang, would Yue Shaoqun even be interested in you?

Seeing Cheng Mengying’s astonishment, Lou Zhenming promptly explained: “Mengying, I didn’t intentionally investigate Xiao Chen’s identity, there’s a reason for it. You should also know that although Young Master Qun and Tang Tang’s engagement was rescinded, no matter what, the two are considered to have a little sentiment. Young Master Qun wishes Tang Tang to have future happiness, so that’s the reason why he investigated young master Xiao’s identity! Naturally, I also know that you don’t want to make other people know that Xiao Chen was your previous fiancé. Rest assured, this matter will be limited to just me and Young Master Qun, and will not be made public to the class.”

“It better be like this!” Cheng Mengying pridefully nodded: “This young lady doesn’t hope for other people to know!”

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The wealthy woman could see that Xiao Chen was very earnest, without the intent to cheat or rob her. She let loose a sigh of relief and was somewhat expectant. Can this person really find my little Blacky?

“In that mahjong building over at the morning market street, me and my sisters go play mahjong there every afternoon!” The wealthy woman said after thinking about it for a moment: “But it isn’t open right now, how about we go at another time?”

“Are you going to find a dog or play mahjong?” Xiao Chen coldly asked.

“Don’t……Detective Arctic Fox, don’t get angry, let’s go right now!” The wealthy woman hurriedly asked, then telephoned a middle-aged man to come out from the villa: “Old Liu, bring us to the mahjong building!”

“Yes, Mrs. Wang!” That male nodded and went to the villa’s garage to drive out the car.

The wealthy woman’s car was a Mercedes-Benz S500L, approximately 2 million. This kind of car could only be considered an ordinary private car when he was previously in Xiao Clan. Therefore, Xiao Chen calmly sat down in the car and skillfully adjusted the back row air conditioner. This made the wealthy woman even more definite that Xiao Chen wasn’t a swindler, but rather truly competent.

It seemed like Xiao Chen should have ridden on this kind of car before, otherwise he wouldn’t be so familiar with the controls.

After arriving at the mahjong building, Xiao Chen got off the car and shut his eyes. The wealthy woman and driver didn’t dare to disturb him, watching Xiao Chen stand in spot.

After a moment, Xiao Chen said: “Follow me!”

“Oh, good, should we drive?” The wealthy woman hastily asked.

“If you wish to drive, then follow behind me.” If Xiao Chen got onto the car, his scent perception would naturally be much weaker, so naturally he couldn’t get onto the car.

“I’ll walk, Old Liu, follow us driving!” The wealthy woman was anxious for her puppy’s safety. Normally, she wouldn’t want to walk and extra step if she didn’t need to, but today was different. She wouldn’t hesitate to climb mountains or wave rivers if she could find Little Blacky.

Fortunately, the current season didn’t have rain. On the sidewalk’s surface remained a weak puppy smell. Of course, this was only something Xiao Chen, a current Third Layer Qi-Training Truth Cultivator, could perceive. It was absolutely impossible for others to achieve.

Xiao Chen walked in the front while the wealthy woman followed behind him, and the driver Old Liu slowly drove in the rear. The trio arrived at the Flower-Bird-Fish Market. This place was called ‘Flower-Bird-Fish Market’, but was actually a place that sold dogs, cats, lizards, and turtles, and was Songning City’s biggest pet market.

“It’s here.” Xiao Chen stopped at the door of a pet shop called “Family Has A Spoiled Treasure” and indifferently said.

“Here?” The wealthy woman stared blankly.

Xiao Chen didn’t reply, instead directly striding into the pet shop.

For a pet shop, early morning was when they just started doing business, so there wasn’t any business. The boss was a married couple and they were right in the middle of taking care of hygiene. Seeing customers come in, the proprietress promptly called out cordially: “Boss, buying a pet? My dogs are all imported purebreds, faces are especially straight……”

However, when the proprietress suddenly saw the mask on Xiao Chen’s face, she immediately felt that it was very strange! Even though there were a few dragon-embroidered clothed performers on the streets, subway and public transportation, it was her first time seeing one in her pet shop.

“Do you have a Tibetan mastiff?” Xiao Chen indifferently asked.

“Ah?” The proprietress stared blankly for a moment. Just as she was about to speak, the boss on the side immediately said: “No, how can our little store have such an expensive dog, my most expensive dog is an Alaskan malamute.”

Xiao Chen slightly creased his brows. He could only judge that this dog should have ultimately appeared in this pet shop due to his strong sense of smell, but when he entered the pet shop, the trail broke off. Not only did this entire place have the scents of other dogs, but this boss was in the middle of cleaning up for sanitation. Thus, Xiao Chen couldn’t judge where that Tibetan mastiff finally went!

Moreover, this pet shop had a U-shaped staircase. Even if Xiao Chen wanted to look for the dog, it would be very hard to start. He couldn’t just forcibly go upstairs to search right? However, this boss’ response made Xiao Chen get suspicious.

“Since I’ve found this place, you should know why I’m here.” Xiao Chen wasn’t anxious and began a psychological offense: “How much that Tibetan mastiff is worth, you two should be clear on. It shouldn’t be lower than 1 million in the market, but since you’ve stolen it, if we report it to the police, perhaps you’ll be sitting in prison?”

Hearing that Xiao Chen wanted to report them to the police, the boss and proprietress looked at each other and their expressions changed!

“It’s you guys who stole my dog?” The wealthy woman was impatient in her search for her dog, so she didn’t have any mood to ponder whether or not Xiao Chen’s words were true or false. Since he had judged that her Little Blacky was here for some reason, she instead subconsciously said: “Should we report them now?”

“Stop slandering us, when did we steal a dog, we just picked him up……” In a moment of desperation, the proprietress immediately defended herself. But when she spoke up to here, she suddenly quieted down because she let it slip!

“Haha, picked? Then we can forget reporting, as long as you return the lost dog to the owner, I can take responsibility and make her give you the fee for taking care of a puppy.” Xiao Chen’s goal was achieved. He couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief. From what he could see, this pet shop’s proprietress was still a good person and wasn’t lacking in conscience.

“Old Liu, go to the car and get me 50,000 RMB!” The wealthy woman instructed the driver.

“Yes, Mrs. Wang.” The driver called Old Liu nodded and immediately went to take the money.

When the pet shop’s married couple heard that they could attain a 50,000 reward, they were immediately very happy! Although the Tibetan mastiff they picked up was expensive, this thing was considered illegal goods. They didn’t dare to casually sell it off because Tibetan mastiffs were different from other dogs. The daily money for food was quite a lot, so as the matter stood, they couldn’t raise it nor could they sell it. Although it was a good thing, they unfortunately couldn’t enjoy it.

“Sorry, we indeed picked up a Tibetan mastiff, but if you guys know, then the several pet shop owners beside us should also know. I fear that you guys are people who they’ve sent to cheat me and want to cheat away the dog……we have to make sure, and only then will it be fine! In a moment, you have to admit that if the puppy doesn’t recognize you, then you can’t blame me for not giving it to you!” The boss was an astute person for being able to immediately speak like this after seeing the situation clearly. Naturally, the pet shop owners in the vicinity knowing was a complete fabrication. Who would let an outsider casually be aware of this kind of matter? He said it so that he wasn’t to blame.

“This is but of course.” Xiao Chen smilingly nodded. Naturally, he knew that pet shop boss’s thoughts, but didn’t go point it out.

Very quickly, the boss lead a black Tibetan mastiff from the upstairs. As expected, this dog was hidden upstairs. If Xiao Chen wanted to seek for it, it wouldn’t be so easy.

“Mrs. Wang, this is 50,000 RMB.” Driver Old Liu quickly returned with a black plastic bag in hand and handed it over to the wealthy woman.

“Little Blacky!” The wealthy woman indicated for Old Liu to hand over the money directly to the pet shop boss as she happily went and called that Tibetan mastiff.

When the Tibetan mastiff saw Mrs. Wang, it also walked over. The pet shop boss had a smile across his entire face as he received the money: “Many thanks, many thanks……this place has dog food, I’ll present you some……”

“Okay, I should go now.” Xiao Chen urgently needed to take the exam, so he naturally wasn’t willing to stay here for too long.

“Right, right! Thank you, heroic detective Arctic Fox. Old Liu, quickly give the money to this hero. Hero, where do you want to go? How about we deliver you?” The wealthy woman took notice that Xiao Chen truly had skill, so she naturally showed an exceedingly good attitude towards him.

“Sure, then send me to the vicinity of Songning City’s Second High, I have another customer waiting for me there.” Xiao Chen looked at the time. Although he could run, it was naturally better if someone wanted to deliver him.

“Good, good!” The wealthy woman promptly hinted for Old Liu to start the car.

In the car, Xiao Chen sat in the back holding a black plastic bag filled with 120,000 RMB worth of bills. He sighed with some emotion, he had finally gathered enough. However, this was merely 1 auxiliary medicine’s worth.

“Hero Arctic Fox, er, do you have a business card? If I have any problems in the future, I’ll be able to look for you?” The wealthy woman asked with extreme respect.

“Just give me a call.” Xiao Chen thoughtlessly replied. He didn’t have a business card, nor did he want to expose his identity.

“That’s good……” The wealthy woman nodded.

Seeing that Xiao Chen wasn’t fond of speaking, the wealthy woman could only close her mouth. After arriving at Songning City’s Second High, Xiao Chen got off the car. After the wealthy woman’s car drove away, he took off the mask and chef clothing, stuffed it into his backpack, then walked towards the direction of the classroom.

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This early morning, Lou Zhenming appeared very impatient and uneasy. He was waiting for Xiao Chen, but after he saw Tang Tang come without Xiao Chen, he couldn’t help but be somewhat anxious.

“Tang Tang, have you seen Xiao Chen?”

Lou Zhenming was thinking in his heart, it can’t be that this Xiao Chen’s grades are too ******, therefore he didn’t come to the test?

After knowing that Xiao Chen was Xiao Clan’s abandoned young master, Lou Zhenming involuntarily thought like this.

“Xiao Chen? Why are you looking for him?” Tang Tang naturally didn’t think that Lou Zhenming was showing kindly concern for a fellow classmate that hadn’t come to school. If he was like this, then something had to be up because when had Lou Zhenming ever paid attention to Xiao Chen?

“Ha, indeed there is a little business, but it’s a good matter…” Seeing Tang Tang’s alert appearance, Lou Zhenming didn’t speak any further. Some things had to be said in front of Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen didn’t appear until around 9:00 AM. Just around the time to take the exam, Xiao Chen slowly arrived. When Lou Zhenming caught sight of Xiao Chen, he immediately fast-walked over. This gave Xiao Chen a scare as he thought in his heart, is this kid sick? Don’t tell me he wants to find trouble in the classroom?

“Ha, isn’t this classmate Xiao Chen, good morning!” Lou Zhenming trotted to Xiao Chen’s front and beamingly said.

“Good morning? It’s already morning¹…what business do you have?” Xiao Chen looked at Lou Zhenming with bewilderment. Did this kid take the wrong medicine?

“Haha, Xiao Chen, the previous matter was just a misunderstanding, you don’t need to bother about it……” As he was speaking, Lou Zhenming put his arm over Xiao Chen’s shoulder and guided them towards the outside of the classroom. It was clear that he didn’t want anyone in the classroom to hear their words.

“Lou Zhenming, does your brain have a hole?” Xiao Chen creased his brows as he naturally didn’t believe Lou Zhenming’s words: “Have you not sufficed in treating me to a meal, and wish to treat me to another meal?”

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“Hehe, auntie Su, okay, wait a bit!” Tang Tang smilingly answered.

“It’s nothing important, I’m not worried.” Auntie Su nodded. Then, she immediately went to chat with a woman nearby who bought deep-fried breadstick. The two people were obviously recognized each other and were quite familiar: “Oh, that’s right, Old Xu, didn’t your family’s husband begin a rental service? There’s a good matter, here’s an flyer.”

“What flyer?” The woman called ‘Old Xu’ took the advertisement flyer to take a look at it: “Looking for dog? Aware 100,000? Real or fake? This much money?”

“In the mahjong place next to my inn, a wealthy woman lost her dog and seemed very anxious. For the wealthy, what is 100,000 RMB considered? In their eyes, their dog is more important than other people!” Auntie Su gossiped: “This old lady even accused my hotel guest of carrying off her dog and even reported it to the police! What a person, is being rich so great?”

“Oh? What dog, 100,000 RMB?” The speaker was unintentionally speaking while the listener was intentionally listening. Just as Xiao Chen was deep-frying deep-fried breadsticks, his hand slightly trembled. He lifted up his head and feigned a nonchalant appearance to ask.

“I don’t know what kind of dog. The wealthy truly take money as though it isn’t money. Tell me, how long do you think it would take to make 100,000 by selling breakfast? These people spend it in a blink of an eye……” As Auntie Su was speaking, she took the flyer in her hand and shook it in from of Xiao Chen.

So it turns out that it’s a fully grown Tibetan mastiff. No wonder the award is 100,000, an ordinary puppy couldn’t be worth this much money! Xiao Chen swept the flyer and remembered the phone number contact. But when he heard Auntie Su’s latter words, he looked face to face with Tang Tang. The two of them mutually forced a smile. 100,000 RMB, with regards to the previous Xiao Chen and Tang Tang, what could that be calculated as?

But the two people were the type of people who took what came. Tang Tang spoke with a smile: “It’s another person’s money, however they want to spend it, we can’t control. Haha, Auntie Su, here’s your deep-fried breadsticks and soybean milk.”

“That’s true, Little Tang, here’s the money.” Auntie Su took the deep-fried breadsticks and soybean milk, then quickly left the breakfast stall.

100,000. A smear of difficult-to-detect excitement flashed through Xiao Chen’s eyes. Looking for a dog? If he didn’t have the previous experience of finding the young lady’s bracelet, Xiao Chen wouldn’t have dared to receive this assignment. But right now, Xiao Chen felt that he should give it a try.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to put away the stall. After Xiao Chen and Tang Tang placed everything onto the tricycle, they left for school. However, just as they reached the school entrance, Xiao Chen suddenly said: “Oh, that’s right, Tang Tang, I forgot to bring pencils and an eraser. I’ll go buy it, you got to school first.”

“That’s fine, but at this time, the culture and education store ought not to be open for business. You have to go back to the morning market street to purchase……” Tang Tang said.

“No problem, doesn’t today’s exam start at 10 o’clock? There’s enough time.” Xiao Chen smilingly replied: “Help me put my backpack on the seat!”

Today was the day of the simulation exam. The test started at 10 o’clock; one branch of study in the morning, another in the afternoon, and there was another whole day tomorrow. Those who arrived at the school early were merely doing study review in the classroom.

“Okay, don’t be late, don’t forget that about the scholarship!” Tang Tang reminded.

“Relax, I’m never late for money.” Xiao Chen nodded in response.

After saying goodbye to Tang Tang, Xiao Chen ran back to the morning market street. He wasn’t going to buy pencils and an eraser, how could he forget them when the exam was such an important matter? He was still counting on this scholarship to purchase medicine, even though it was currently an inadequate amount¹.

Anyway, Xiao Chen didn’t immediately get in touch with the wealthy woman who lost her dog. Instead, he went to one of the morning market street stalls, intending to buy a mask. Seeing masquerade masks, Xiao Chen looked at how he was dressed up, then randomly chose an arctic fox mask.

Xiao Chen hadn’t taken off the chef clothes, but also didn’t want to expose his identity as a chef. Therefore, he bought an arctic fox mask to match his white gown, making it seem cool and dazzling.

The chef clothes that Tang Tang bought from the online flash sale actually wasn’t genuine. Rather, it inclined more to that of a COSPLAY² style. It was the type that was skintight, so along with the mask, there would be nobody associating him with a chef.

Xiao Chen temporarily didn’t plan on exposing his identity. Him selling breakfast was fine, but if he helped someone find their dog and actually found it, then who knew what the people of Cheng Clan would think? Would they doubt him or not?

These were all matters that Xiao Chen would have to consider. After buying a mask, Xiao Chen went to a network card stall to buy a SIM³ card. Nowadays, there were many parts of the country with prepaid cards. Just 5 RMB would give you several hundreds of nationwide, several tens of texts, and several hundreds of minutes of internet service with a cheap card. Although it was unknown where it came from, there were no people who came back to this person on the morning market street. There were actually quite a lot of repeat customers, so it could clearly be seen that it wasn’t fake.

Xiao Chen spent 200 RMB to buy a card and have the person cut it into the side of an Apple SIM card, then he put it into his Apple iPhone.

Although Xiao Chen was well-known for selling breakfast, the rear of the morning market street sold general merchandise for everyday use. They had nothing to do with the people selling breakfast in the front, so it was naturally impossible for them to recognize Xiao Chen.

After settling these matters, Xiao Chen looked for a place without people. Then he put the arctic fox mask onto his face and dialed that wealthy woman’s phone number.

“Who is it, calling me so early, tired to death……” The old lady took quite a while to answer the phone number, clearly not awake yet.

“Do you want to find your dog?” Xiao Chen directly asked her without speaking any superfluous words.

“Ah! Do you know the whereabouts of my little Blacky?” That wealthy woman obviously sobered up all of the sudden as she impatiently asked: “Feel assured that as long as you can provide a valuable clue, there won’t be a cent less from that 100,000 RMB reward!”

“I am a detective. If you want to find your dog, tell me where you are and we’ll speak face-to-face.” Xiao Chenr replied.

“Oh, okay okay okay, my home is in Qianhua Shui’An villa area, D region, 9th house.” The wealthy woman promptly reported her home address. She didn’t believe that Xiao Chen was going to rob her. Not to speak of the public security patrolling in broad daylight, there was still her servant, driver, and gardener in her home.

“Qianhua Shui’An villa area?” Xiao Chen was slightly distracted. Wasn’t this the neighborhood that he lived in? Xiao Chen paid special attention to the name of this neighborhood because Qianhua Shui’An was a real estate made by a very large development company in this province. Practically every city in this province had a flagship villa area: “Okay, wait a moment, I’m going there now.”

“Okay, then I’ll wait for you!” The wealthy woman hastily answered. Obviously, her dog was extremely important to her.

Like this, Xiao Chen wore the mask and wildly dashed all the way back to villa area. Of course, although Xiao Chen was strangely dressed and drew a lot of sideways glances from quite a lot of passer-by, it didn’t cause anyone to make a fuss out of nothing.

Nowadays, people were already desensitized by COSPLAYers and dragon-embroidered clothed people. If even Sun Wukong went to go buy a train ticket, then what could Xiao Chen be considered?

Just as Xiao Chen was running into the neighborhood, Xiao Chen passed by a red Beetle at his side.

“Oh damn, older cousin Mengying, quickly look at that arctic fox person!” Jin Beibei excited cried out as she pointed at Xiao Chen.

“It’s just a dragon-embroidered clothed performer, what’s there to look at?” Cheng Mengying shot a quickly glance and disapprovingly said. Jin Beibei had stayed overnight yesterday, so they were going to school together this morning.

“But, his back seems quite familiar, where have I seen it before?” Jin Beibei watched Xiao Chen who was running in the distanced and spoke with some suspicions.

“Perhaps it’s a person in this neighborhood, otherwise without the entrance card, how did he come in?” Cheng Mengying didn’t think much of it.

“Oh……” Jin Beibei started the car.

Xiao Chen naturally saw the young lady and Jin Beibei inside the vehicle, but didn’t dare to stop. If he was recognized, then he would have disguised himself in vain.

After arriving at the entrance of the 9th villa in D region, Xiao Chen pushed the doorbell. Without waiting too long, a large old woman ran out. It was hard to correlate her obese body with the speed that she ran at!

However, when that wealthy woman saw Xiao Chen at the entrance, she was immediately frightened and called out in surprise: “You! You are?”

“Let me introduce myself, this person’s⁴ nickname is Arctic Fox, and has come to help you find your dog.” Xiao Chen introduced himself.

“Uh……then mister Arctic Fox……why are you dressed like this?” The wealthy woman thought that Xiao Chen looked somewhat strange: “Can you take off your mask?”

“Do you want to find your dog or look at me?” Xiao Chen coldly asked.

“This……certainly looking for my dog.” If it was in normal times, this wealthy woman might have already driven out Xiao Chen. She definitely thought that Xiao Chen was a scammer, but at present, her dog had been gone for a day without any news. Her man was a company boss and usually attended many social parties. He also had a mistress on the outside. She⁵ still didn’t have a child, and because little Blacky and she relied on each other, it could be said that little Blackly was like her son. Therefore, as long as there was a single ray of hope, then she wouldn’t give it up.

“Good, but we must first reach an agreement about the price.” Xiao Chen opened his mouth and said.

“Rest assured, since I sent out an advertisement, I will definitely not renege on the 100,000 RMB.” The wealthy woman speedily replied. She didn’t keep digging at the matter of the mask.

“The price, 100,000 RMB, is slightly lacking.” Xiao Chen shook his head.

“Then……how much does mister Arctic Fox want……” The wealthy woman slightly wrinkled her brows, thinking in her heart ‘is this person a scammer?’

“120,000.” Xiao Chen replied.

“Ah? 120,000? Alright, no problem……” The wealthy woman thought that Xiao Chen would open his mouth and ask for a sum like 1.8 million, but didn’t expect that it was just 20,000 more than the original price. This wasn’t considered anything for her, so she immediately agreed.

When Xiao Chen saw the wealthy woman’s refreshed manner, he thought in his heart ‘am I too kindhearted, wanting very little?’ However, this was considered his first detective mission, so wanting a little more was fine. He feared that if he wanted too much, this wealthy woman would directly give up.

“Let me take a look at where your puppy usually lives.” Xiao Chen said.

“Okay.” The wealthy woman nodded and brought Xiao Chen into the villa. They arrived at the house pet room at the first floor of the villa: “It’s here.”

Xiao Chen put on an act of examining the puppy’s room for a whole, but was actually remembering the puppy’s scent and the appearance of the puppy from the picture hanging in the room: “Let’s go, bring me to the place where you lost your puppy.”

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“Old grandfather, this time I……” Xiao Chen hesitated for a moment, then said: “This time I came to purchase a medicine that’s different from the last two times.”

“Oh? Different?” A smear of curiosity flashed through the old gentleman’s eyes: “Let me take a look.”

Xiao Chen handed over the copied version of the prescription to the old gentleman, then respectfully said: “Old grandfather, help me take a look at it. How much is this assisting medicine?”

When the old gentleman scanned through the majority of the prescription, he clicked his tongue and his eyebrows slightly raised: “Young man, this assisting medicine is not cheap!”

“I know, there are 2 Bitter Relief Fruits……” Xiao Chen bitterly smiled as he nodded. Truth to tell, in his opinion, if the previous medicine would have been 20,000, then this medicine would be at least 40,000!

“In this medicine, besides the Bitter Relief Fruits, the Bone-Quenching Grass is also not cheap!” The old gentleman pointed at Xiao Chen’s prescription and said: “Our external price for the Bone-Quenching Grass is 100,000.”

“10……100,000?” Xiao Chen had an urge to cry. He originally thought that it would be 40,000 at most, but it suddenly became 140,000. Where would this money come from? However, Xiao Chen was really embarrassed to ask for a discount again.

“This is a high-level medicinal herb that Martialists use when tempering their bodies, what are you going to use it for? Could it be that you are also a Martialist?” The old gentleman’s gaze was like a sharp arrow shooting onto Xiao Chen’s body, wanting to see Xiao Chen’s inside information.

But in old gentleman Chen’s eyes, Xiao Chen wasn’t a Martialist. Either his body didn’t have the aura of a Martialist, or his hiding was extremely good! Of course, if Xiao Chen was really able to hide his strength at his age, then that would prove how formidable he was.

“High-level Martialist body tempering?” Xiao Chen stared blankly after he heard this. He wasn’t one that cultivated the Martial Dao, what was he going to do with something related to cultivation of the Martial Dao?

“Martialists use Bone-Quenching Grass to strengthen the hardness of their bones by tempering them. Truth Cultivators use Bone-Quenching Grass to temper their bones in order to lay down the foundation of higher level cultivation!” Tian Lao’s voice sounded out timely beside Xiao Chen’s ears, dispelling Xiao Chen’s doubts: “Both sides use it pretty similarly, enhancing their body’s inner quality.”

So it turns out that it’s like this. Xiao Chen inwardly nodded. But Xiao Chen’s previous moment of distraction made old gentleman Chen somewhat hesitate. Seeing Xiao Chen’s appearance, it was unlikely that he was a Martialist. Moreover, which high-level Martialist would be so poor?

“Even if I gave you all the other medicinal herbs to you, the Bitter Relief Fruit would be 20,000 RMB each, and the Bone-Quenching Grass would be 20% off, so the total would still be 120,000 RMB. This isn’t a small figure, are you sure you want to purchase the medicinal herbs in this prescription?” Old gentleman Chen looked towards Xiao Chen: “If this prescription has no use to you, I think you shouldn’t waste money.”

“120,000……” Xiao Chen clenched his teeth: “Old gentleman, I will gather it as soon as possible, see you later.”

After he finished speaking, Xiao Chen turned around and quickly left the pharmacy. There wasn’t much said, but he knew that old gentleman Chen wanted to fish for his words. But for some matters, Xiao Chen couldn’t say them to anyone.

“Quite an interesting boy……” Old gentleman Chen looked at Xiao Chen’s departing figure and faintly smiled.

“Grandpa Chen, that Bone-Quenching Grass, wasn’t it 1,000,000 for one? Why did you sell it to him for 100,000 and even added a 20% discount?” Hong Yan thought that Grandpa Chen was specially taking care of Xiao Chen.

“Hehe, our Hong Clan Chamber of Commerce can sell 10,000 of these things for a million each.” Old gentleman Chen smilingly replied.

“Grandpa Chen’s meaning is to not treat everyone impartially? But doesn’t our Hong Clan Chamber of Commerce carry on the tradition of good faith?” Hong Yan was somewhat baffled.

“Good faith is only when we promise other people matters, so we think up methods to achieve it.” Old gentleman Chen said: “As for the price, sometimes it’s a kind of emotional investment.”

“Hong Yan understands……” Hong Yan nodded in half-understanding.

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In a small bar’s theater box nearby Second High, Lou Zhenming and Yue Shaoqun sat facing each other.

“Young master Qun, didn’t you say that you would help me take care of that Xiao Chen? I feel agitated every time I see that kid, when will you kill him!” Lou Zhenming was truly a little anxious. His side hadn’t killed Xiao Chen, so he had no other choice but to pin his hopes onto Yue Shaoqun.

“Don’t be impatient.” Yue Shaoqun waved his hands. To be honest, he didn’t wish for Xiao Chen to die. It was very difficult for him to send off that fat girl Tang Tang; if Xiao Chen died, wouldn’t Tang Tang come back?

But it was impossible for him to speak of this to Lou Zhenming. If he spoke of it, Lou Zhenming would definitely despise him. At that point, why would Lou Zhenming want to be his little brother? Therefore, it was vital for him to emphasize strategy. Fortunately, he was a scheming-then-acting kind of person and had already clearly investigated Xiao Chen’s background.

“Louzi, do you know who this Xiao Chen is?” Yue Shaoqun lightly asked.

“Who is he?” Lou Zhenming was distracted for a moment: “Who could he be, does he have some background?”

“He is Cheng Mengying’s fiancé.” Yue Shaoqun tossed out a heavy bomb.

“Pfft……” Lou Zhenming had just drunk some beer, so he directly sprayed it out, spraying it onto Yue Shaoqun’s face.

“……” Yue Shaoqun had wanted to show off his skills, but didn’t expect for his face to be sprayed. It made him immediately somewhat speechless.

“Uh……young master Qun, sorry, that……I was frightened by you, your joke, really is……” Lou Zhenming apologetically picked up paper towel: “I’ll help you wipe it?”

“No need!” Yue Shaoqun beckoned his hand and said: “I haven’t deceived you, Xiao Chen’s identity is Xiao Clan’s eldest son.”

“What?!” Lou Zhenming opened his eyes wide, incredulously looking at Yue Shaoqun: “Young master Qun, you’re saying that Xiao Chen is that good-for-nothing that Xiao Chen expelled?”

“That’s right.” Yue Shaoqun nodded. Although Yue Shaoqun still hadn’t investigated Xiao Chen and Cheng Mengying’s living-together matter, Xiao Chen’s identity was very easy to investigate. In particular, with regards to their aristocratic juniors rumors: “This is why Xiao Chen cannot be killed, his identity is very sensitive. Cheng Clan hasn’t begun yet, so if you went and did it, wouldn’t this be embarrassing Cheng Clan? Especially since you are pursuing Cheng Mengying.”

“That’s also true……I never thought that Xiao Chen was Xiao Clan’s eldest son, I even though that he was really a bumpkin that came down from a mountain village!” Lou Zhenming was extremely surprised: “No wonder Cheng Mengying watched me punch Xiao Chen with such vigor, so this was the reason!”

Lou Zhenming still thought that Cheng Mengying desired Xiao Chen to have bad luck.

“Therefore, Xiao Chen cannot die yet. But if you want to vent your anger, I can help you.” Yue Shaoqun said.

“But if this kid doesn’t die, will I be able to successfully chase Cheng Mengying?” When Lou Zhenming heard about Xiao Chen’s identity, it made him want to kill Xiao Chen even more.

“He is already set up together with Tang Tang, what relationship would that have with Cheng Mengying?” Yue Shaoqun creased his brows: “Don’t look at his poor dandy ** appearance, he still searched for Tang Tang, my worn-out ** shoes. Do you think Cheng Mengying would still have a fancy for him?”

“You’re right.” Lou Zhenming thought that Yue Shaoqun’s words were quite reasonable after thinking about it for a moment: “Then how will I vent my anger?”

“Do you know what Xiao Chen currently lacks the most? As far as I know, Xiao Chen goes to the morning market street with Tang Tang every day to sell breakfast, so it may be assumed that he is poor to a certain degree!” Yue Shaoqun stated: “Tell me, if we make him spend money, then wouldn’t he be distressed enough to spit blood? Sometimes a psychological attack is more painful than being killed by a person. We must torment him, then we’ll feel refreshed!”

“True, but how can we make him spend money?” Lou Zhenming humbly asked.

“How about this, you invite Xiao Chen and tell him that I am treating him to a meal! When the time comes, you can just watch my plans!” Yue Shaoqun instructed.

“A meal? Young master Qun, you can’t be thinking of ordering a table of expensive dishes, then making Xiao Chen pay the bill? No good, this trick is ineffective. That kid Xiao Chen is very crafty, last time I used this trick, but the outcome was me being duped of hundreds of thousands!” Lou Zhenming felt pain when he thought about it.

“Louzi, either you say it’s no good, or I set my plan into action. Bring your ear close, I’ll tell you the plan!” Yue Shaoqun beckoned to Lou Zhenming.

Lou Zhenming promptly moved closer and listened to the plan Yue Shaoqun had, then immediately slapped the table and shouted with praise: “This is great! Let’s see if Xiao Chen can still act shamelessly! Young master Qun’s skill is much greater than mine!”
“En, okay, go!” Yue Shaoqun complacently nodded.

Early the next day, Xiao Chen crawled out of bed to make money. One hundred twenty thousand, Xiao Chen thought that it was very exciting, exciting enough to make him want to cry to death.

“Huh? What is this dress up? Uniform enticement or COSPLAY¹?” When Xiao Chen arrived at auntie’s grocery store, he saw Tang Tang dressed up like ‘cooking girl²’ and was immediately shocked.

“Isn’t it because our vendor is flourishing? I reckoned that we might be on the internet, so I prepared a dress in advance, so as to avoid others thinking we’re not up to standards.” Tang Tang explained: “I bought a set for you. The main thing is that every day we go to school, the greasiness on the body is a bit uncomfortable! I previously didn’t deep-fry so many deep-fried breadsticks, so the smell wasn’t so apparent. Nowadays, my body feel quite uncomfortable every day.”

“Okay, how much money did you spend?” Xiao Chen felt a pang of pain in his heart when he saw Tang Tang take out a chef’s uniform in front of him.

“It was from a flash sale, 120 RMB for two sets, couple chef wear³.” Tang Tang replied.

“Pff……this toy is for couples?” Blood was dripping from Xiao Chen’s heart. There goes 1/1000th of the medicine money.

“Okay, quickly change your clothes, we’ll be greeting our good business with a brand-new appearance!” Tang Tang said.

“Fine.” Xiao Chen nodded. He took the chef uniform and put it on, then went towards the morning market street with Tang Tang, starting their busy day.

As expected, Xiao Chen and Tang Tang’s clothing drew the attention of many morning market street travellers. Their business became a bit better than usual. Of course, there were many people gathered around to see the liveliness, but if they tried out Xiao Chen’s deep-fried breadstick, they would definitely turn into repeat customers.

“Little Tang, give me 5 jin of deep-fried breadstick and 10 bowls of soybean milk.” A fashionably dressed middle-aged woman arrived at the breakfast vendor. She was a small inn’s proprietress in the vicinity and also a frequent customer at the breakfast vendor. Every day she replaced the guests of the inn to buy breakfast, so the things she bought every day was quite a lot. Even before Xiao Chen came, she was very familiar with Tang Tang, and Tang Tang would give her a discount every time.

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“Before, I didn’t have strength and it would be too late to hide when I came across something. But now, perhaps if I ran into those two Martialists from the first time, I would be able to kill them?” Xiao Chen said with self-confidence.

“If it’s one versus one, definitely. If it’s two versus you, you’ll definitely die.” Tian Lao’s words was like a bucket of cold water.

“****, then what superiority does a Truth Cultivator have!” Xiao Chen rolled his eyes.

“There are superiorities in other aspects. For example, you can anticipate the enemy in advance. If the opposite party wants to punch, you can catch this information the instant that his arms lift up, then deal with it.” Tian Lao said: “If this happens, then you imperceptibly hold the upper hand. Third Layer Qi-Training, your eyes and ears become more sensitive and your perception becomes more formidable. Even if you don’t deliberately focus, you will still be well aware of your opponent’s every movement. Of course, if someone appears with that formidable perception you felt from your breakthrough, it will be impossible.”

“Oh? Since it’s like this, even if I confront a Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist, I can anticipate his moves? Even if I can’t defeat him, I will have the ability to defend myself?” Xiao Chen asked: “But, when I was Second Layer Qi-Training, I didn’t have this advantage?”

“Second Layer Qi-Training did have it, but it wasn’t so obvious. The most essential thing is the degree of your body’s flexibility. Haven’t you felt that the current you already has that kind of ‘being reborn’ feeling?” Tian Lao replied: “Regarding a Truth Cultivator, Second Layer Qi-Training and Third Layer Qi-Training is a dividing line. It can be said that only people with a bit of spirit roots can cultivate, but if one wants to advance from Second Layer Qi-Training to Third Layer Qi-Training, it won’t be so easy. At least the majority of the people would be eliminated. Even if these people drank ‘Rebirth Medicinal Liquid’, it would still be impossible for them to break through to Third Layer!”

“So turns out that it was like this!” Xiao Chen nodded. Indeed, his current body had a ‘lithe as a swallow’ type of feeling. Compared to before, he was much more agile. Xiao Chen brandished several fists and kicks, then a dumbstruck expression immediately appeared on his face!

What he attempted was a Martialist boxing technique and kicking technique, but he previously couldn’t even complete the set of movements. Yet right now he had easily accomplished it and made it seem like he casually punched and kicked out several times! Even if it was a Seventh Layer of Eighth Layer Inner Strength Martialist, they wouldn’t be able to accomplish it. There was a considerably complex and strict requirement on the body’s coordination and flexibility. Xiao Chen didn’t think that his body’s coordination and flexibility passed the height that made him surprised.

“The present you, after anticipating an enemy’s move, can send a command to your body in a split-second and accomplish some inconceivably problematic movements to evade the attack. But when you were Second Layer Qi-Training, that was out of question. Even if you could anticipate it, you wouldn’t be able to dodge it.” Tian Lao explained.

“So it was like this……right, didn’t you say that there’s an extra special ability every time a Truth Cultivator advances a layer? In that case, what special ability does Third Layer Qi-Training have?” Xiao Chen was very expectant towards this.

“Who told you there’s a special ability every layer? But Third Layer Qi-Training indeed has one. I’ve already transmitted all of these abilities into your mind, check it yourself and you’ll know.” Tian Lao replied.

“That’s right……” Xiao Chen promptly found Tian Lao’s special abilities explanation in his mind, then found Third Layer Qi-Training. “Illusion”, this word was reflected into Xiao Chen’s eyes, but what was this ‘Illusion’?

“Tian Lao, what’s the use of this ‘Illusion’?”

“The thing called ‘Illusion’ is actually a person misperceive things. It’s similar to magic or mirage!” Tian Lao answered: “This is commonly used in a fight. Not all Truth Cultivators have this ‘Illusion’ ability. It is because you cultivate ‘Seizing Good Fortune War Mantra’ that you can have this ability! This ability is also very fierce. For example, while you and another are fighting, you can make a fist illusion while in reality you are kicking. Thus, if the opposite party is confused by you, then your goal has prevailed.”

“Holy ****, so amazing!” Xiao Chen was immediately awed after he heard this: “Then even if I run into an opponent with greater strength in the future, I can use ‘Illusion’, and as long as he’s fooled, I can sneak attack him?”

“That’s impossible. Illusion can only influence people with strength equivalent to yours. If they’re slightly stronger, it’s possible to succeed. However, if they’re too strong, there’s basically no use.” Tian Lao returned: “Moreover, the period of influence won’t be too long. Based on the opposite party’s strength, it could be several dozens of seconds or just a several seconds. The amount of physical strength and True Qi is also a lot, you wouldn’t be thinking of using all your strength to maintain the illusion, right?”

“That’s true……” Xiao Chen immediately felt disappointed after hearing this: “Since it’s like this, then isn’t this thing and the mind influence ability about the same? There’s nothing special about it.”

“That’s very different!” Tian Lao explained: “Mind influence is classified as a passive effect and you can only affect one person at a time. But for Illusion, you can actually take the initiative to affect. Moreover, the illusions you make will affect however many people there are present. Both abilities aren’t of the same concept.”

“So it’s like this.” Xiao Chen nodded: “But appears to give off the feeling of being somewhat weak. If the other person involved is too strong, it would be useless even if I used it. If the other person involved is too strong, I have no need to use it.”

“You are merely Third Layer Qi-Training, what good ability do you think you can have? Don’t bite off more than you can chew, being able to have your current accomplishments is already pretty good. You should think about these things when you become a stronger Truth Cultivator!” Tian Lao actually felt that the abilities from the early Qi-Training stages wasn’t very useful. The reason he tossed out these baits was to urge Xiao Chen to cultivate.

“I will try harder to strive for entering Fourth Layer Qi-Training sooner.” After Xiao Chen heard Tian Lao’s words, he was somewhat excited. Third Layer Qi-Training’s ability, although there wasn’t too big of a use in a fight, with regards to an ordinary person, then it was already very amazing. Of course, he was very expectant to abilities from Fourth Layer onwards, whether or not it would be even more awesome.

“If you want to achieve Fourth Layer, it won’t be so easy. In this place with thin Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, you have to spiritual medicines to support you.” Tian Lao reminded: “I can give you a new assisting formula, or you can still boil the current one and take it every three days! Of course, the concrete amount of how many assisting medicines are needed, I cannot say for sure. Your situation is quite unusual, when you break through is when we figure it out!”

“Uh, we still need to buy medicine?” Xiao Chen’s excitement instantly cooled down. He originally thought that he was a genius, being able to handle it with two assisting medicines and not needing to worry about the problem of money anymore. However, he didn’t expect that this was just the beginning! Although he didn’t need to use the previous medicine anymore, it actually changed to another medicine!

“No kidding, cultivation is the road of defying heaven. If one could just sit there and cultivate, then this world would have become a Truth Cultivator’s world a long time ago.” Tian Lao ‘hmph’-ed.

Xiao Chen blushed with shame. He also thought that his way of thinking was too simple. Right, if Truth Cultivating was so easy, then would it be so awesome?

However, after Xiao Chen took a look at Tian Lao’s prescription, he nearly fainted! Xiao Chen didn’t know the worth of the others, but he did know the worth of the two Bitter Relief Fruits. This made Xiao Chen want to cry, but had no tears!

The value of one of this thing was quite considerable, wasn’t two wanting his life? Xiao Chen couldn’t count of that pharmacy’s grandfather to give him a discount and such. That just wasn’t realistic. He and them were neither relative nor friend, these two auxiliary medicines was already considered helping him a lot.

Right now, Xiao Chen could only place his hopes on tomorrow’s simulation exam. However, even if he became the number one of the year and received the 10,000 RMB scholarship reward, there was still a very big vacancy.

How much money did this assisting medicine cost? Xiao Chen also didn’t know. Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen decided to go inquire about the market price to set up a goal and raise money.

Xiao Chen wore some nice *** clothes and gotta da **** outta da villa. After he wenta thru da door, he happened to see Ye Xiaoye at da flowabed watering plantos. Ye Xiaoye also lookhed up at Xiao Chen, giving hima dat oddo look. After uno moment of hesitations, she askedo: “What drugos r u brewing everidays?”¹

“Medicine to strengthen one’s body and health, what’s wrong?” Xiao Chen asked.

“Strengthening your body and health? It doesn’t like you have any ailments, what illness do you have?” Ye Xiaoye thought that Xiao Chen was half-heartedly answering her.

“My body has an issue. Since childhood, I couldn’t cultivate Inner Strength. My father gave me a prescription to make me regularly decoct a medicinal soup to drink, perhaps I would possibly be able to cultivate Inner Strength and become a Martialist!” Xiao Chen said: “This isn’t any secret, if you aren’t a person from Songning City, you can casually inquire about Xiao Clan’s good-for-nothing young master’s reputation.”

“Ah?” When Ye Xiaoye heard Xiao Chen speak like this, she felt that she had a bit of a vile person’s heart in a noble person’s abdomen². It seemed like Xiao Chen was quite well-known, otherwise once she asked around, she would know whether it was true or false, and Xiao Chen didn’t need to take a lie: “Then is there any effect?”

“For the time being, there isn’t.” Xiao Chen shook his head. Actually, Xiao Chen didn’t deceive Ye Xiaoye. He indeed didn’t cultivate any Inner Strength, but he did cultivate True Qi.

“Oh……” Ye Xiaoye hesitated for a moment. It seemed like she had something to say, but she didn’t say anything. She lowered her head and continued on watering, no longer paying attention to Xiao Chen.

Since Ye Xiaoye didn’t call on him to speak, Xiao Chen naturally didn’t take the initiative to look for Ye Xiaoye. In Xiao Chen’s opinion, Ye Xiaoye was quite eccentric. Since she had Bitter Relief Fruit, she clearly knew about it. As such, her probability of discovering his secret would imperceptibly rise by a lot. Xiao Chen couldn’t let her discover anything.

Quickly fast-walking to that pharmacy, Xiao Chen pushed open the door to go in after arriving.

“Huh? It’s you again!” Hong Yan didn’t expect that Xiao Chen would come again. Did he come to buy that strange medicine again? However, even though she was curious, she didn’t ask about it and instead said: “Wait a minute, I’ll go call for grandpa.”

“I’ve troubled you!” Xiao Chen politely nodded. After all, this pharmacy’s grandchild and grandfather duo was pretty good to him.

“Young man, you came to buy medicine again? However, we’ve reached an agreement on 20,000 RMB!” The old gentleman walked out from the rear, looked at Xiao Chen, and said.

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“Then should I stop right now?” Xiao Chen inquired.

“If you don’t want to suffer rebound and die, then don’t stop.” Tian Lao seriously warned.

“……” Xiao Chen was somewhat speechless. Stopping means death, not stopping is also wrong, so what was he suppose to do?

“This is the sign of breaking through to Third Layer Qi-Training, but properly speaking, it shouldn’t be ah. You’ve only taken two assisting medicines, this is irrational!” Tian Lao thought aloud his doubts.

Breaking through? Xiao Chen relaxed in his heart, so it was just breaking through! He had thought that he was going to die. This made Xiao Chen not know whether to laugh or cry, can’t you say your thoughts in one go? Irrational, when has being a Truth Cultivator been rational?

Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen endured the scorching heat on his body and continued to revolve mental mantra. Xiao Chen’s body was like a piece of charcoal, slowly becoming a scarlet red, but his clothing emitted a faint trace of azure smoke.

Along with the passing of time, the heat on Xiao Chen’s body became increasingly higher and the clothes on his body was reduced to ashes. Inside of his dantian, it was filled with, in Xiao Chen’s opinion, a heaven-destroying, earth-exterminating type of huge energy. It was like the magma before the volcano erupted; it was ready to gush out at any time.

But under these side effects, Xiao Chen could clearly feel his spiritual consciousness strengthening at a very quick and violent speed. He seemed to have a panoramic view of every movement inside this villa!

Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei are right in the middle of playing with the tablet on the bed, while Ye Xiaoye……en? Ye Xiaoye unexpectedly went downstairs and is walking over to my room??!

What does this ** want to do, it can’t be that she wants to be a thief, right? Seeing Ye Xiaoye walk quietly on tiptoe like a female cat burglar, Xiao Chen was somewhat baffled. In particular, when she came to the doorway of his room, Xiao Chen became even more frightened!

He was right in the middle of cultivating, she wouldn’t have discovered anything, right? Xiao Chen’s cultivation secret was only known by himself, and he temporarily didn’t want anyone else know. However, his current state was ‘even if I want to hide, I can’t hide because I simply can’t stop’!

The medicine in his abdomen turned into a faint trace of warmth pouring into his dantian. Xiao Chen was startled and worried, when he previously went into his room, he didn’t lock his door because it wasn’t necessary to lock the door. The young lady would never come to his room, but who would have thought that Ye Xiaoye would come?

“Hong——”

Just as Xiao Chen was unsure of what to do, he felt a loud sound come out from inside his body. The hot energy inside his dantian suddenly erupted like a volcano, surging through the meridian channels in his body!

A warm feeling rushed through his entire body. At present, Xiao Chen felt that his entire body was lighter than a lot for a split second, as if it wasn’t his body!

It was as if the current Xiao Chen already wasn’t the previous Xiao Chen. That feeling was like breaking the cocoon and turning into a butterfly, like a carp leaping over the dragon’s gate!

In a flash, that hot energy disappeared into nearly nothing.

And just in this flash, Xiao Chen’s door was also pushed open. Ye Xiaoye’s brows were wrinkled as she looked inside the room. Seeing Xiao Chen’s ** body, her complexion immediately reddened and she let out a cry of surprise!

“Ah——” Ye Xiaoye sharply called. ‘Bang!’, Xiao Chen’s door was closed: “You’re in the middle of streaking!?”

Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei heard Ye Xiaoye’s shout from downstairs and were somewhat puzzled, but they held the mentality of watching the fun. The two of them rapidly ran down the stairs and caught sight of Ye Xiaoye standing outside Xiao Chen’s door blushing, with her chest undulating, unknown of what she was doing.

“Hey, what are you doing? You want to scare this young lady to death on your first time being startled? Don’t you have civility, this is everybody’s villa, not just yours!” Cheng Mengying saw that Ye Xiaoye was angry and was abnormally happy upon seeing this.

“You should take care of your servant. Streaking at home, whose influence could this be from?” Ye Xiaoye ‘hmph’-ed and coldly said.

“Streaking at home?” Cheng Mengying was startled for a moment. Didn’t Xiao Chen wear clothes at home? Seeing Ye Xiaoye’s appearance, it didn’t seem like she was speaking drivel.

At this time, Xiao Chen already changed his clothes and pushed the door to walk out. Hearing Ye Xiaoye’s words, he suddenly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Damn, I’m in my own room changing clothes, then you suddenly push open the door to come in and even scold me? Don’t tell me that you don’t change clothes in your own room? Last time, didn’t I see you wear what seemed to be a set of yoga clothes? And not what you’re wearing right now?”

“I……” Ye Xiaoye was disarrayed a moment ago, so her thoughts weren’t able to keep up. Now that she heard Xiao Chen’s opinion, she remembered. Yes, there seems to be nothing wrong with Xiao Chen being naked in his own room, right? It was indeed me pushing the door to go in……

Thinking up to here, Ye Xiaoye was a little embarrassed. Why did she feel like she was the thief crying thief?

“Older cousin Mengying, it turns out that this ** is a female pervert wa! You must take care, I heard that many female perverts eat up male and females! We are girls, we can’t be damaged by her!” Jin Beibei’s expression was bad as she stared at Ye Xiaoye.

“I……I only felt that your room was especially hot and came to see if there were any issues……” Ye Xiaoye stammered. Just a moment ago, she perceived a type of special energy, as if a cultivator was making a breakthrough. She was extremely astonished, so she went downstairs to take a look. She felt that it should be Xiao Chen’s room, but she didn’t expect Xiao Chen would be naked. This made her mind blank out the instant she pushed open the door, even so much as to forget her goal for coming here. When she calmed down now, that special energy had long disappeared.

Xiao Chen pushed open his door and a strong medicine smell spread out: “I was in the middle of brewing medicine in my room, it’s only natural that it would be hot, I still want to thank you for giving me the electric earthenware pot!”

“This……so it was like this……then I’m going……” Ye Xiaoye took a look at Xiao Chen and thought that he had no special place. She secretly shook her head in her heart, could it be that her perception had made a mistake?

“Older cousin Mengying, look at this female lecher having a guilty conscience. In the future, we must guard against her!” Jin Beibei said.

Cheng Mengying naturally didn’t believe that Ye Xiaoye was a female lecher. She always felt that Ye Xiaoye, this person, was strange, but seeing her suffer losses in front of Jin Beibei, she felt quite rejuvenated.

“Xiao Chen, what did she want to do?” Cheng Mengying looked towards Xiao Chen and thought that his person was suddenly a little different. As for what specifically was different, she couldn’t speak clearly about it¹.

“How would I know?” Xiao Chen bitterly smiled as he shrugged his shoulders: “Perhaps it was truly because my room door was too hot, making Ye Xiaoye think that there was something wrong inside!”

“Oh……” Cheng Mengying nodded and said: “Lock the door next time, this Ye Xiaoye is odd and strange. During the day, she doesn’t work or go to school, who knows what origins she has!”

“I got it, haha.” Xiao Chen laughed. Actually, he also thought that Ye Xiaoye was quite strange. Not only was there a ‘Bitter Relief Fruit’ inside the refrigerator, but there was also a great pile of medicinal herbs growing outside the villa, and he also didn’t know what they were for.

Cheng Mengying didn’t speak any further and went upstairs with Jin Beibei. Xiao Chen returned to his room, sat on the bed, and once more used his spiritual perception to perceive the state of the entire villa. However, that type of panoramic view feeling from before had disappeared. Xiao Chen already couldn’t see what the people inside the villa were doing, but he could still hear the voices very clearly.

This made Xiao Chen more or less disappointed. That feeling from a moment ago was truly very good. If he could peep at the young lady taking a shower……what am I thinking? Xiao Chen was thinking that he feared the young lady drowning and would be able to promptly save her, just this.

“Tian Lao, right now I……” Xiao Chen was slightly unsure of his own situation.

“Little Chenzi, there’s truly something wrong. You are currently already a Third Layer Qi-Training Truth Cultivator, don’t tell me you haven’t felt it?” Tian Lao’s voice was brimming with strangeness.

“It indeed doesn’t feel the same.” Xiao Chen nodded: “But I’m not stronger by too much. When I was breaking through to Third Layer, that feeling was quite good.”

“Of course there would be that in the instant of breaking through. And not too much stronger? You merely went from Second Layer Qi-Training to Third Layer, how much stronger did you want to become?” Tian Lao unhappily replied: “In those years, I took five assisting medicines, and only then could I smoothly break through to Third Layer Qi-Training. That was already a genius-class existence, but you only took two assisting medicines, you are……”

“Like this, I should be called a ‘universe super-unparalleled genius’?” Xiao Chen finished.

“Omen of qi deviation².” Tian Lao replied.

“Pfft……cough cough……” Xiao Chen thought that he was a super genius, how could this be an omen of qi deviation?

“Forget it, the way you cultivation is different from mine. I cultivated properly, you changed the cultivation, so you don’t need to use assisting medicines. There is also this possibility, but whether or not you’ll receive qigong deviation is hard to say.” Tian Lao’s voice brought a faint trace of worry with it: “But once you’ve started, there’s no turning back. Regardless of how it goes, you can only continue cultivating like this.”

“Can you not always frighten me in the future? Can’t you encourage me with a few words? With the possibility of qigong deviation every day, I feel apprehensive……” Xiao Chen was speechless. When all is said, it’s already became an established fact, unable to be altered, what’s the point of scaring me?

“You’re a genius.” Tian Lao encouraged.

Xiao Chen: “……”

No matter what, Xiao Chen was now a true Third Layer Qi-Training cultivator with strength equivalent to a Third Layer Inner Strength Martialist. Using Tian Lao’s words, he was slightly stronger by a bit, and this made Xiao Chen full of fighting spirit!

In the younger generation of Songning City, the most fierce was only a Third Layer Inner Strength Martialist. Naturally, there may be some people hiding their strength, but in the public, a Third Layer Inner Strength Martialist was already very strong, just like Chen Jinkun. If it weren’t so, he wouldn’t be able to obtain Shen Clan’s favor.

Xiao Chen really wanted to punch the wall, but this villa wasn’t his. If he destroyed the wall, he wouldn’t be able to compensate for it. Moreover, he didn’t want to pull too much attention to him and could only find an opportunity to test it out.

“Little Chenzi, it seems like your confidence has inflated?” Tian Lao could see that Xiao Chen was eager to try something.

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“Store manager Wang, has my car been managed? I’ve come to carry it off!” The person speaking was unexpectedly his little brother Chen Jinpeng, who he hadn’t seen for some days!

Chen Jinpeng previously didn’t have a car because his status in Chen Clan was very low. Even his father didn’t support him, so where would he get money to spend¹? The only method was to follow other people’s back to act as their little brother, and only then could he get some pocket money.

But now it was different. Yesterday, he was already confirmed to be Chen Clan’s third generation successor and went from a nobody to a flamboyant person in a short while. Thus, at first thing in the morning, he ran over to order a sports car. Of course, the car procedures and whatnot was entrusted to store manager Wang to handle, so he arranged to meet again in the afternoon.

“It’s been handled……but second young master Chen, these several people² have also settled on your car, what do you think?” Store manager Wang was unable to take responsibility. He could only let them talk it over and settle it themselves. In his opinion, Chen Jinpeng was Xiao Chen’s little brother and should give some face.

However, what was unexpected to store manager Wang was that when Chen Jinpeng caught sight of Xiao Chen, a flash of sneering satire flashed through his face: “Heeh? Isn’t this young master Xiao? Is working as a servant very pleasurable?”

Xiao Chen’s complexion slightly sunk, since when was he like fashionable clothes for Chen Jinpeng to look at? Truth to tell, Xiao Chen still didn’t think highly of Chen Jinpeng: “Chen Jinpeng, what’s your meaning? If you’re tactful, then hurry and give the car to young lady Cheng, otherwise……”

When Xiao Chen spoke these words, he wanted to smile. The words he was saying was exactly the same with those bad guy’s words in movies!

“Ha!” Before Xiao Chen finished speaking his words, Chen Jinpeng was already laughing heartily: “I say Xiao Chen, young master Xiao, are you ill? What status are you right now? You’re a servant, yet you dare to speak to me, your brother Chen, this way? If I were you, I would look for a crack to hide myself in! Store manager Wang, give me the key, I want to drive away the car!”

Chen Jinpeng was currently feeling good about himself. Although Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei were present, and he had also heard about the frightening rumors about Jin Beibei, in his opinion, he occupied the upper position in this matter. The car was ordered in advance by him, for which reason should he give it to Jin Beibei? Besides, Jin Beibei was in Second High, he was in First High. The two of them had no intersections, what was there to fear? Of course, what he didn’t know, he didn’t fear.

Store manager Wang was somewhat shocked in place. He didn’t expect that Xiao Chen would unexpectedly be scolded by Chen Jinpeng in this way. In the past, wasn’t this Chen Jinpeng a lackey following behind Xiao Chen? How come there’s such a reversal?

However, store manager Wang was a smart person. Seeing that Xiao Chen didn’t refute and instead stood in spot, flushed with anger, store manager Wang knew that perhaps the matter changed and that Chen Jinpeng’s words were about right. Perhaps this Xiao Chen went down in the world and became either Cheng Mengying or Jin Beibei’s servant.

Therefore, store manager Wang didn’t dare to offend Chen Jinpeng. He promptly handed over the car keys and a set of formalities to Chen Jinpeng: “Second young master Chen, the formalities have already been manage. The vehicle license has been taken care of as per your request, SongTTT777. There is no need to pay for this vehicle licence, just consider it me giving Second Young Master Chen a gift!”

In reality, Chen Jinpeng hadn’t bargained for the car. Not only did he buy the top recommendation, but also added an installation of many luxurious remodelling facilities. It could be said that store manager Wang earned close to 2 million from this car. Although this vehicle license was bought from an auction for a high price, it was only a mere several hundred thousand.

“Wahaha, 777, I like it! It’s like a slot machine foretelling that whatever I do in the future, I’ll win! You have done well, but you must change the way you speak to me afterwards. My brother is already dead and I am currently Chen Clan’s successor. In the future, just call me young master Chen. What second young master, don’t mention it again.” Chen Jinpeng said with complacence.

The information that Chen Jinpeng released made Xiao Chen slightly shocked. At the same time, it made Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei stare blankly. All of them didn’t expect that Chen Jinpeng would rise up. Xiao Chen not knowing was normal, but Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei lived outside, their family members naturally didn’t have enough time to inform them³.

“Yes, young master Chen……” The light of surprise flashed through store manager Wang’s eyes. No wonder Chen Jinpeng became so straightforward all of the sudden. So it turns out that he became Chen Clan’s successor. In that case, I have to pay special attention to this customer!

“Great⁴ young master Xiao……oh no, great servant Xiao, I’m going!” Chen Jinpeng raised the car keys in his hand and proudly walked over to his car.

“Heihei, you robbed my car, yet you’re still acting in front of me, heihei……” Jin Beibei had a thin smile as she looked at Chen Jinpeng.

Jin Beibei’s smiling expression made Cheng Jinpeng shiver, but after thinking about it for a moment, he didn’t mind it. If I don’t go annoy you, can you bite me? And beat me up senseless? Thinking up to here, Chen Jinpeng didn’t bother with Jin Beibei and minded his own business. He got onto that nouveau riche golden Panamera, started the car, and sped off……

“Miss Cheng, Miss Jin, young master Xiao, I’m sorry, you guys should also know that these aristocratic clan juniors are people I can’t afford to offend!” Store manager Wang said somewhat helplessly, but he already placed Xiao Chen at the very end. Although he wasn’t disrespectful, this indicated the problem.

“It doesn’t matter, this young lady didn’t fancy that car, it was too cheap!” Cheng Mengying naturally wouldn’t admit that she was in a bad mood in her heart.

“Heihei, I can’t even afford ‘cheap’.” Jin Beibei’s eyeballs rolled. She said to store manager Wang: “Hey, do you have another key to that car? Give me one!”

“Ah?” Store manager Wang stared blankly for a moment, then forced a smile: “The car key has been given to Mister Chen, how can we secretly keep one?”

“As long as it looks the same.” Jin Beibei said.

“There are some that look the same, but there is no use for them, they haven’t gone through matching……” Store manager Wang answered.

“Then can you give me one?” Jin Beibei asked.

“There’s no problem……” A key, although the price was considerable⁵, it was only a matter of several thousand RMB. The car sold just a moment ago had made an ample profit, and he naturally didn’t want to offend Jin Beibei because of this small matter: “Little Zhang, go find a Panamera key and bring it over.”

“Yes, store manager.” One of the staff responded and went to go take a key.

“Beibei, what do you want to do with this thing?” Cheng Mengying puzzled over Jin Beibei’s goal.

“To act pompous.” Jin Beibei replied.

“……” Cheng Mengying became speechless. Xiao Chen also became speechless. Store manager Wang was even more speechless.

Jin Beibei took the key and immediately left. Although Cheng Mengying was puzzled, she still left the car dealership with her: “Beibei, aren’t we buying a car?”

“Not buying, I just like being nouveau riche Jin Beibei version!” Jin Beibei had a lot of pent up rage since Chen Jinpeng had angered her. It would have been fine if he didn’t act pretentiously, but since he acted so in front of her, how could Jin Beibei let him off?

“Okay……” Cheng Mengying saw that Jin Beibei’s stubbornness was acting up and had no methods to fix it. It just so happened that there was an old car in her clan, an Audi A5. Although it wasn’t too good of a car, bringing it to use wasn’t a problem. It was just that she would have to go back to Cheng Clan for a while.

The several people left the car dealership because their moods had been disturbed by Chen Jinpeng, so they directly went home. At the villa gate, they discovered Ye Xiaoye at the flowerbed planting something. Ye Xiaoye’s cool image and her flowerbed gardener image was seriously inconsistent.

“Hey, how come you’re talking up half of the flowerbed?” Although Cheng Mengying didn’t grow flowers, when seeing that Ye Xiaoye didn’t bother to notify her after taking up half of the flowerbed, she immediately became annoyed. She was originally already unhappy at the car dealership, and when she returned, she saw Ye Xiaoye and became even more unhappy.

“Sorry, you weren’t home before.” Ye Xiaoye apologetically answered. This made Cheng Mengying feel very astonished and powerless. The other person notified you now and even apologized to you, what could you do about it?

“Sorry makes everything fine? This is public domain, what can you compensate us with?” Jin Beibei rolled her eyes: “I heard brother-in-law borrowed your electric earthenware pot? Do you still need repayment?”

“No need.” Ye Xiaoye was surprised. Her thoughts turned in circles as she was thinking about who brother-in-law was, then refreshingly shook her head. She was a little puzzled, why would Jin Beibei call Xiao Chen ‘brother-in-law’?

“That’s good enough.” Jin Beibei valiantly went into the villa.

Cheng Mengying felt her anger being melted. If it was exchanged for her, perhaps she could only admit it. She didn’t have such a weird thought process like Jin Beibei. Although it was Xiao Chen obtaining the advantage right now, no matter what, Xiao Chen was part of their group of people.

After going into the villa, Xiao Chen went into his room to brew medicine while Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei went upstairs to play something.

The second auxiliary medicine was immediately going to be used up. This made Xiao Chen head hurt. The third auxiliary medicine definitely wouldn’t be a simple 10,000 RMB, but rather change into 20,000 RMB. Although working as a breakfast vendor earned money, it wouldn’t make this much money⁶.

Fortunately, the welcoming school exam would be coming up soon. If he obtained first place, he would be able to take the scholarship. However, there would still be another 10,000 RMB left, which made Xiao Chen have a headache.

But no matter what, he had to look after well what was currently in front of him. Xiao Chen boiled the medicine well, poured it out, drained it in one gulp, then began refining the medicine in his stomach.

Just as Xiao Chen was preparing to calmly refine it, suddenly, a thread of warmth welled up from his dantian and started. Xiao Chen didn’t take it seriously, but along the passage of Xiao Chen’s refining, it became increasingly warming. This made Xiao Chen immediately frightened!

This wasn’t his first time refining this medicine, but this feeling was indeed vastly different. Although there was this warmth last time, it was the type of really comfortable warmth. However, today was completely different. Today, the quantity of heat already turned into a scorching burn, roasting Xiao Chen’s dantian and meridian channels. It was so hot that Xiao Chen could even feel his own body sending out the sort of ‘chi chi’ barbequing sound. This made Xiao Chen fearful.

“Tian Lao, it seems like there’s something wrong, it feels like I’m going to be cooked.” Xiao Chen anxiously asked, but didn’t dare to voluntarily stop revolving his mnemonics. Who knew if there would be an even more terrible thing happening after he stopped?

“Indeed there’s something wrong.” Tian Lao’s voice made Xiao Chen’s heart cool. What was called ‘indeed there’s something wrong’, could it be that a problem in his cultivation arose?

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“Haha, it could be considered unrequited love, but that’s a past matter. Now I’m secretly in love with you.” Xiao Chen indifferently smiled.

“Che, I don’t believe!” Although Tang Tang spoke like this, her heart had a burst of happiness for no reason, and she became more vigorous in making deep-fried breadsticks.

One morning passed by busily. Xiao Chen was so busy that he wasn’t able to eat anything. He prepared the young lady and Jin Beibei’s lunch, then said goodbye to Tang Tang and left.

“Brother-in-law, you’re bringing delicacies to me again?” Jin Beibei looked at Xiao Chen, then immediately snatched the bag in his hand.

“Beibei, how come you’re just like a starved ghost? Acting deranged all the time, can’t you act like a girl from a rich family for a bit?” Regarding Jin Beibei, Cheng Mengying was very unhappy with her manner.

“Aiya, it’s all my own people, why should I pretend? What well-bred young lady, that’s what I dislike the most.” Jin Beibei opened the bag and began eating.

“Hey, leave some for me!” Cheng Mengying became anxious and dashed to snatch it away.

“Cousin, aren’t you a well-bred young lady from a big clan? How come you’re coming to snatch it?” Although Jin Beibei was speaking, she didn’t fall behind in the least. A deep-fried cake already entered her stomach.

“If I don’t snatch, there won’t be any left! This morning’s congee, just as I finished drinking one bowl, you finished drinking the whole pot!!!” Cheng Mengying angrily replied.

“Eh……my body is still developing!” Jin Beibei felt somewhat embarrassed. This morning’s lean meat congee was really too tasty. She felt that it was tastier compared with those five star restaurants.

“What developing, it’s all going into your chest right?” Cheng Mengying also didn’t look after any young lady image. She snatched a fried dough twist and deep-fried cake, then ran to the other side. She didn’t eat as quick as Jin Beibei, so she was naturally weaker¹ and could only snatch to slowly eat.

Xiao Chen didn’t expect that the stuff he made would be so well-received. This actually made him let out a sigh of relief. It seems that Cheng Mengying is satisfied with me, this servant, and I can keep on acting as one.

To speak the truth, Xiao Chen currently didn’t want to separate himself from the young lady and work on his own. This wasn’t Xiao Chen liking Cheng Mengying so he didn’t want to be separated. Although there was this reason, this was only a minor detail. The main issue was that Xiao Chen didn’t want outsiders to pay attention to him. Over here, he could secretly cultivate and stealthily raise his strength. If he left, then the target would become larger and when the time comes, if he wanted to conceal anything, it wouldn’t be easy to do so.

At least right now Cheng Mengying’s Cheng Clan’s young lady identity was displayed here, so even if other aristocratic clans wanted to monitor this place, it would be highly unlikely. This was a problem that concerned Cheng Clan’s face.

“No need to snatch, if you want to eat, I can make some in the evening.” Xiao Chen smiled.

“Who would want to eat? This young lady is merely dizzy from hunger and there’s no other thing to eat but this. Xiao Chen, how come you’ve come back so late?” Cheng Mengying naturally didn’t want to admit that the stuff was tasty, so she shifted the subject.

“There were too many customers at noon, so I was delayed for a while.” Xiao Chen replied: “I didn’t eat anything and hurried to return.”

“Ah? No way? You also haven’t eaten?” Cheng Mengying had just finished eating the food in her hand. She immediately stared blankly and was somewhat moved in her heart. However, she had finished eating and could only say: “Beibei, don’t eat that much, leave some for Xiao Chen……”

“Eh……last fried dough twist²……” Jin Beibei had just stuffed the last fried dough twist into her mouth. She pulled it out and on top of it was a thread of sparkling and translucent saliva, but it didn’t make people feel disgusted. Instead, it would make other people feel especially captivated: “I haven’t eaten it, brother-in-law, for you……”

As she was speaking, Jin Beibei handed over the saliva covered fried dough twist to Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen immediately became speechless. Although he felt that this was a very romantic matter, currently he and the young lady had no relations, not to speak of Jin Beibei! If Xiao Chen received this and ate, then what relationship would he and Jin Beibei have in the future?

“Seeing that you haven’t eaten your fill, it’s better if you eat it. I’ll go soak some noodles in a moment……” Xiao Chen said.

“No need~ Actually, I ate my fill, eating a little more will make me burst.” Jin Beibei used her other hand to touch her underbelly, then lifted the fried dough twist in front of Xiao Chen: “Open your mouth, brother-in-law, ahh——”

“……” Xiao Chen couldn’t exactly eat it, nor could he not eat it.

“Beibei, your saliva is on it!” Cheng Mengying glared at Jin Beibei.

“Is brother-in-law avoiding Beibei?” Jin Beibei piteously asked.

For lack of a better option, Xiao Chen could only eat the fried dough twist Jin Beibei was handing over in one mouthful: “Okay, how about we set off?”

“Weren’t you going to eat instant noodles?” Cheng Mengying questioned.

“I’m full.” Xiao Chen didn’t want to waste any time. At the moment, it was already a little over 1 o’clock in the afternoon. If they were late by an hour, the car dealership should be closing.

“Beibei’s saliva can make you full?” Cheng Mengying looked at Xiao Chen’s relishing appearance and felt like he needed a beating.

Facing the young lady’s question, Xiao Chen could only respond with innocence. In reality, although this kind of way of eating was a bit romantic, Xiao Chen didn’t have too many ideas with regards to Jin Beibei. After all, Jin Beibei’s former deeds really had a strong impact in the hearts of people.

Xiao Chen was a fake dandy, not a real dandy, so it was naturally impossible for him to go provoking Jin Beibei for no reason. But after going through these several times of interaction, he felt that Jin Beibei’s disposition was good, not at all as frightening as people said.

After changing his clothes, Xiao Chen left the villa with Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei. They sat in Jin Beibei’s Beetle with Xiao Chen crammed in the back. With his height, he could ‘Bone-Shrinking God Art’.

On the road, Cheng Mengying was discussing what kind of car she should buy with Jin Beibei.

“Cousin Mengying, I think that we should buy a sports car, it’s very cool and dazzling!” Jin Beibei always drooled for a sports car, but was helpless. Although Old Master Jin treasured her, when all was said and done, Jin Clan had no business, so Jin Beibei’s pocket money wasn’t much.

“Can a sports car sit down three people? Do you want to be crammed into the back row in the future?” Cheng Mengying asked.

“Oh, right, there’s brother-in-law.” Only then did Jin Beibei remember that Xiao Chen was sitting in the back. She had chosen a car in accordance to her past ideas, but now there was an extra person.

“He’s the driver.” Cheng Mengying corrected her.

“How about we buy a Porsche Panamera, it’s also a sports car and has four seats.” Jin Beibei suggested.

“That’s also all right.” After Cheng Mengying heard the latter words, her complexion became a little better. She worried about Xiao Chen in her heart. In her opinion, the person who came to assassinate Xiao Chen the other day, was most likely dispatched from Cheng Clan. At that time when Xiao Chen drives and she’s sitting inside the car, it would be impossible for Cheng Clan to use force. But these words were no good to say to Jin Beibei. If she said these words, it would seem that she really cared about Xiao Chen. Even though Jin Beibei called ‘brother-in-law’ all day long, she didn’t think Jin Beibei really took it seriously.

Jin Beibei stopped her Beetle in front of the door of the Porsche car dealership and the three people got out together. To be honest, a Beetle was very unremarkable over here, so the three people didn’t draw any attention all the way until they went inside the store. There, the store manager’s sharp eyes saw Xiao Chen.

“Young master Xiao, you’ve come!” He didn’t know about the matter of Xiao Chen being driven out of the clan. Xiao Chen had a Porsche 911 that was bought over here and also came to frequently do maintenance, so the store manager was very familiar with him.

Matters that happen on the aristocratic clan level were very difficult for people on the secular circles to get first-hand information on. He still thought that Xiao Chen was Xiao Clan’s young master and was leading two beautiful women over to buy a car.

Xiao Chen was somewhat embarrassed, but after thinking for a moment, he said: “Hehe, hello, Manager Wang, I’ve come to buy a car. Is there any discount?”

Store manager Wang was dazed for a moment. In his opinion, Xiao Chen wasn’t someone lacking money. His Porsche’s remodelling expense already surpassed other cars’ prices, why would he want a discount?

However, store manager Wang seemed to immediately guess the general idea. Generally, these young masters would pretend in front of beautiful women in several forms, either spending money like it was water, or showing off how huge their social relations were; wherever they went, people would show deference.

From what store manager Wang could see, Xiao Chen could be considered the latter today. That is, making the beautiful women feel that his connections were very wide, and that he would be respected wherever he went. Thinking up to here, store manager Wang promptly replied: “Yes, since young master Xiao has opened his mouth, how about giving you a 20% discount?”

To speak the truth, 20% was already a lot; it was the highest discount that a store manager could give.

Xiao Chen was merely speaking thoughtlessly, he didn’t think that there would truly be a small advantage. This could be considered an unexpected happiness!

“In that case, many thanks store manager Wang, but it’s not me buying a car today, it’s my……goddess buying a car.” Xiao Chen didn’t know how he should address Cheng Mengying. Mistress would be a little stupid, so Xiao Chen suddenly remembered that Tian Lao called her ‘goddess’.

“Ah? Ha, I understand……” Store manager Wang didn’t think that it wouldn’t be Xiao Chen buying. Before, he placed his attention on Xiao Chen and thought that the females behind him were female companions he casually looked for. However, now that he carefully looked, he realized it simply wasn’t like this. Wasn’t this Cheng Clan’s Cheng Mengying and Jin Clan’s Jin Beibei?

Store manager Wang had materials regarding Songning City’s princesses and young masters. The purpose was to not offend these people, after all, these people were his potential customers. Therefore, when he clearly saw the identities of these two beauties, he was immediately frightened: “So it was Miss Cheng and Miss Jin, failed to respect, failed to respect! What kind of car do you³ two want to buy?”

“That Panamera.” Jin Beibei pointed towards a not-so-far away place’s stand car: “Nouveau riche Jin Beibei style happens to need something to show off my status.”

“Eh……” Store manager Wang almost couldn’t help but utter a laugh. Nouveau riche Jin Beibei? But he didn’t dare laugh, on the contrary he was feeling awkward at the moment: “Miss Jin, this car has been ordered by someone else and already paid for. If you want, I can schedule one again and as for the price, I can apply a bit more discount……”

Actually, if it was just an ordinary person buying the car, store manager Wang would immediately pass it over to Jin Beibei. At worst, he would give the genuine customer a little discount, but this car was scheduled in advance by a great person, someone store manager Wang couldn’t offend!

Jin Beibei was just about to ask if they could discuss it over because she wanted the car now, but then she heard a familiar voice sound out from behind her……

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