The next morning,
Zhu Zhuqing, lying in bed, slightly opened her eyes, her expression still a little dazed.
"You're awake?"
Yu Xiaowei's voice came, startling her awake instantly.
Realizing this wasn't her usual room, she sat bolt upright, checking her clothes for damage.
"Don't look. I have a fiancée. I'm not interested in you,"
Yu Xiaowei said irritably. "Thanks to you, I got a room, but I have to sleep on the sofa."
Zhu Zhuqing blushed instantly, threw back the covers, and jumped out of bed.
"Come on, breakfast's here. Have some before you go."
Smelling the aroma of the food, Zhu Zhuqing shuffled out, looking hesitantly at Yu Xiaowei.
"I won't charge you, hurry up and eat."
Hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing's face turned even redder, and she said softly,
"Thank you."
"What are you saying? Speak louder."
Yu Xiaowei said impatiently, "Hurry up and eat, don't dawdle. You can leave after you finish eating, I have things to do."
Zhu Zhuqing didn't say anything more, picked up her chopsticks and ate heartily.
Last night, the waiter saw Yu Xiaowei carrying a woman back, so today's breakfast was particularly lavish.
The hungry young man and woman looked at each other in silence and quickly finished their meal.
Yu Xiaowei sat casually in his chair, picking his teeth with a toothpick while sizing up Zhu Zhuqing.
Three months had passed, and her clothes were even more shabby, but it was clear that she still paid attention to her appearance, although the worn patches on her clothes could not hide the hardships she had endured over the past few months.
After finishing her meal, Zhu Zhuqing stood awkwardly opposite Yu Xiaowei.
"Why aren't you leaving yet? I didn't ask you for money for this meal. If you don't leave, I'll have to charge you."
Yu Xiaowei gave her an unceremoniously dismissive order.
"Um... um..."
Zhu Zhuqing stammered, fidgeting with the hem of her clothes, momentarily speechless with nervousness.
"What's with the fuss? Just say what you want to say, I'm not going to eat you."
"Um... could you give me back my soul tool?"
Zhu Zhuqing pulled two gleaming gold soul coins from her pocket and handed them to Yu Xiaowei, looking at him expectantly.
"I remember, I said you owed me ten thousand gold soul coins, right?"
Yu Xiaowei rested his chin on his hands, scrutinizing Zhu Zhuqing with a playful smile.
Hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing panicked even more, tears welling in her eyes as she said,
"I... I've tried my best, this is all I've managed to save."
"Alright, alright, I was just joking. Here, take it back."
Yu Xiaowei couldn't stand seeing women cry; because of this, he had been tricked countless times by Liu Erlong and Ning Rongrong.
He pulled a bracelet from his soul tool and casually tossed it over.
"Payment settled, you can go now."
After hurriedly taking the soul tool, Zhu Zhuqing quickly checked it and found her belongings still intact inside. She lowered her head and said again,
"Thank you."
"Hey, I robbed you and you're thanking me? Go on, go!"
Feeling like she'd been granted a pardon, Zhu Zhuqing quickly ran out.
"Tsk tsk, she's just a 12-year-old girl after all."
Watching her hurried departure, Yu Xiaowei remarked.
After instructing the waiter to clean the room, he also went out to leave. He'd been delayed this morning and needed to hurry to the city gate to keep watch.
Just as he reached the stairs, he saw Zhu Zhuqing standing at the corner, looking down with a complicated expression.
"Why are you still here?"
As if she hadn't heard him, Zhu Zhuqing didn't turn around.
Yu Xiaowei walked over suspiciously and found her body trembling slightly, with two long tear tracks on her face.
Following her gaze, he saw
two groups of people arguing downstairs.
On one side was a boy in a light blue outfit and a girl in a pink top with her long hair neatly tied in a ponytail.
On the other side was a tall, blond man with double pupils, accompanied by two seventeen or eighteen-year-old twins dressed flamboyantly.
Wow, what a stroke of luck!
Yu Xiaowei was overjoyed. Damn it
, it was precisely because he didn't know when Tang San would enter the city, fearing he'd miss the appointed time while staying in the hotel, that he'd been spending so much time monitoring the city gates from the restaurant—he was practically exhausted.
Now everyone's here.
Tang San and Dai Mubai's first battle.
He sat smugly on the stairs, tugging at Zhu Zhuqing's sleeve.
"Why are you crying? I just returned your soul tool to you, is it really that exciting? Come on, sit down, watching people fight is the most fun."
Zhu Zhuqing, her face streaked with tears, hesitated for a moment, wiped her tears, and then sat down beside him, pursing her lips.
The conflict downstairs was escalating, and the two sides were already arguing.
Manager Wang from the hotel rushed over from backstage, but after a few words of persuasion, the argument only intensified.
Watching Xiao Wu pointing her finger at Manager Wang and cursing, Yu Xiaowei licked his lips.
A 100,000-year soul beast.
Right before his eyes.
Then he laughed self-deprecatingly, "Dream on! If I absorb a 100,000-year soul ring now, wouldn't I just be waiting to explode and die?"
Tang San and Dai Mubai had already started fighting in that short time.
The two exchanged a punch right from the start. Dai Mubai's attack was blocked, while Tang San was forced back four or five steps.
Dai Mubai won the first exchange decisively.
Looking at Tang San's right hand, now as white as jade, Yu Xiaowei thoughtfully stroked his chin. He recognized it as the Xuan Yu Hand,
said to be immune to all poisons and as
hard as a rock. He wondered whose hand was harder, his or Tang San's.
The two then began a second round of fighting.
This time it was much more exciting. Both used fists and feet, employing a variety of subtle moves.
This round ended when Dai Mubai was knocked five meters away, with Tang San slightly ahead.
Yu Xiaowei couldn't help but applaud them in his heart.
It was flashy, like a martial arts movie, quite entertaining. The hand-to-hand
combat ended there; next was the contest between Soul Masters.
The battle horn sounded as Dai Mubai's Martial Soul was activated, and Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
"Tsk tsk, so this is Blue Silver Grass? Looks like nothing special. Is that a White Tiger? Interesting."
Yu Xiaowei commented mercilessly, completely unaware that Zhu Zhuqing, upon hearing the word "White Tiger," burst into tears once again.
"Dai Mubai, Martial Soul, White Tiger, Level 37 Battle Soul Master, please enlighten me."
"Tang San, Martial Soul, Blue Silver Grass, Level 29 Weapon Soul Master, please enlighten me."
The fight in the hotel became even more exciting.
Tang San perfectly demonstrated the qualities of a control-type Soul Master, while Dai Mubai perfectly displayed the fearless ferocity (and idiocy) of a power-attack-type Soul Master.
After seeing Tang San bind Dai Mubai, Yu Xiaowei curled his lip and sneered,
"What's wrong with your brain? Just because the opponent has Blue Silver Grass doesn't mean you can treat him like a human being. If it weren't for his extra Soul Skill, he'd be a fool not to be slaughtered like a pig."
As Dai Mubai's third Soul Ring lit up, he used his White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
Having completed his second transformation, he instantly turned the tide of the battle. However, after defeating Tang San, he didn't continue his attack. Instead, he beckoned to the twins and walked out the door.
Yu Xiaowei's assessment of their fight was:
all show and no substance, utterly useless.
A suppressed sob came from the side. Yu Xiaowei turned to look at Zhu Zhuqing. Although he knew what was going on, he still asked, feigning concern,
"Why are you crying again? Was your man among those two people?"
Zhu Zhuqing didn't want to answer this question, but then she thought of Dai Mubai openly embracing the twins, while she herself had endured hardship and even been bullied by bad people for the past two years while searching for him. She couldn't help but feel a pang of grievance.
"Yes, the blond one is my fiancé."
"Oh—"
"That bastard, he's quite the player!"
Dai Mubai, who had just stepped out of the hotel, inexplicably turned back for a glance.
When he saw Zhu Zhuqing sobbing with her head down, and Yu Xiaowei staring at him beside her, he felt a surge of inexplicable irritation and immediately pointed at Yu Xiaowei, yelling,
"You! Who are you looking at? Do you want a beating?"
Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Manager Wang, who were checking in, all looked in the direction he was pointing, stunned.
They saw a boy about the same height as Dai Mubai walking down the stairs, cracking his fists as he went.
"I've never seen anyone offer themselves up for me to beat up before." (
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