In the lobby of the Spring Breeze Mansion, a mediocre looking protagonist sat in the corner.
He was ordinary looking, but his gaze carried the steadfastness that all protagonists have.
Although sitting in the green house, he still kept his hand on his sword.
Because for him, in this Yinjing City, where gold and silver and power are intertwined, the only thing he can rely on is the sharp sword in his hand.
Chu Fan had no time for the wine in his cup. He straightened his back and fixed his gaze on the entrance to the Spring Breeze mansion, only to be reassured when a slender figure appeared.
Chu Xiaoxiao had outstanding looks, especially her innocent sister-next-door aura, which was particularly noticeable in a place as dusty as the Spring Breeze House.
Dozens of pairs of eyes were staring straight at her along the way.
But no one dared to move, because when the banquet began, He Yunxiao, the famous Yinjing lecher, had stated that he wanted to enjoy the moon with Miss Chu.
That was the Marquis’ son, and no one would dare to cross his path.
Chu Fan looked at his sister and gripped his sword scabbard in his left hand.
Although Xiaoxiao is not my real sister, she has been with me for many years and is more than a blood relative. Damned He, the scoundrel, who has wreaked havoc on Yinjing, and has even tried to defile Xiaoxiao.
When Chu Xiaoxia returned to her seat, Chu Fan hid his thoughts and said in a softer tone, “I told you there were no sugarplums at the door, right?”
Chu Xiaoxiao puffed up and said, “Not only is there no candy canes at the door, there aren’t any on the far side of the road either.”
Chu Fan smiled dotingly, “If there’s none, then there’s none, so eat some candied fruits.”
Chu Xiaoxia stretched out her chopsticks and reached for the crab on the table.
“Xiaoxiao wants to eat this.”
However, Chu Fan tapped her hand with the end of his chopsticks and said, “Crab is cold, you have been in poor health since you were a child, so don’t be greedy.”
Chu Xiaoxiao stuck her tongue out at her brother and smiled sweetly, “I know.”
However, she quickly turned her words around.
“Just now, I went to the next street, but I ran into a few homeless people.”
Chu Fan was startled in his heart and his sword was instantly sheathed by an inch. He said urgently, “Are you alright! How did those few people treat you? Were you hurt?”
Chu Xiaoxiao said, “No, fortunately Mr. He passed by and helped me out.”
Chu Fan frowned, “He Yunxiao? He would do a good deed?”
Chu Xiaoxiao tilted her head in thought, “When Duke He is in private, he is completely different from the rumours. It seems like his usual arrogance and dominance is like this on purpose.”
He Yunxiao was now a puppet under her, to be used to remove the bad woman who would seduce her brother.
Chu Fan trusted Chu Xiaoxiao’s words completely, and it immediately occurred to him that He Yunxiao’s father, Wuqing Hou He Yuanhao, was a great general in the army, while his father, Chu Tianzhu, who had an accident many years ago, and his deputy, Du Lie, who had been beheaded the year before, were both quite prestigious generals in the army.
Could it be that He Yunxiao’s usual arrogant behavior was a deliberate attempt to hide his clumsiness?
It was not impossible. It was even possible!
Chu Fan put down the sword he had been holding tightly and lifted his cup of wine. He looked at the clear wine in the cup and made up his mind that he would vindicate his father’s injustice and return a clear and bright world to Qi.
***
In all fairness, the villain is really miserable, but also really cool!
After bidding farewell to Jiang Wuyou and returning to the lobby of Spring Breeze Mansion, He Yunxiao quickly got into the swing of matters.
He drinks and eats meat, fights, and hugs the right and left.
Not only did no one find him noisy, but people even came to make friends with him from time to time.
At first, some of the boys at the table felt that He-Yunxiao was a bit different from earlier, but when He Yunxiao told two dirty jokes, the atmosphere warmed up again.
But this time, no matter how he joked or how noisy he was, He Yunxiao’s gaze never fell in Chu Xiaoxiao’s direction again.
All this was seen by Chu Fan, who was a very careful observer.
This action of He Yunxiao just confirmed his suspicion that this Brother He, indeed, was seeking his own stigma in order to preserve his family.
Soon, the banquet opening session ended and the new girl, Du Yinyun, led the gong-wielding maids to appear.
Although the crowd in the hall had seen Du Yinyun once before at the opening of the banquet, they were still shocked by her beauty today.
Her eyes were lacquered, her lips red as blood, her eyebrows as white as snow.
Her face is expressionless, cold, and indifferent. And her brows are lightly knitted, like sorrow.
Du Yinyun walks slowly with her hands folded in front of her body and her body poised. This is not the usual walk of a woman on the street, but the traditional etiquette of a lady of a refined house.
With these kind of manners, the crowd could not help but recall her identity.
The daughter of General Du Lie!
Such a status added to the fact that many of those who had no interest in fighting for the courtesan girl were breathing heavily.
Only when she came closer did the crowd see her attire.
Even He Yunxiao, who had a wealth of experience in his previous life, lit up.
This girl was originally indifferent and aloof, a kind of iceberg beauty, but now she was dressed in tulle, and as she walked, her shoulders and thighs were hidden in the tulle.
Yet, as she walks around, her shoulders and thighs are hidden in the veil, which arouses people’s desire to find out more about her.
The owner of Spring Breeze Mansion is a talented person!
He Yunxiao could not help but sigh.
Du Hua Kui walked to the center of the hall, the center of the martial arts stage, to announce the rules of the competition, but unexpectedly, she had a glance at Chu Fan on stage.
He Yunxiao secretly said, “This protagonist’s aura is too terrible! Can this even match?
But what was even more terrifying was not the protagonist’s aura, but the bell in Chu Xiaoxiao’s hand!
Ding the bell!
A bell that could only be heard if one took the Soul Devouring Pill rang in He Yunxiao’s ears.
Instantly, millions of ants tore into his bones muscles and blood vessels.
The pain was indescribable, and compared to it, death was a relief.
If it wasn’t for the “poison resistance boost” he had received for nothing, He Yunxiao would be rolling on the ground in pain right now.
He survived the pain for a moment and knew in his heart that it was Chu Xiaoxiao telling him to get to work.
Damn it! Chu Xiaoxiao, you wait for me!
Otherwise, why would she ignore the naked stares of everyone else and only meet the “clear” eyes of the protagonist?
He Yunxiao knew this in his heart, but he couldn’t use it because he had long been “notorious” and no one in the capital who had eyes and ears believed that he had clear eyes.
So he threw himself into a kurtosis position and shouted at the top of his voice, “Miss Du, don’t be silly, let’s start the martial arts competition!”
Du Yinyun, who was standing on stage, naturally turned her head to look at him when He Yunxiao made a noise.
First, she was amazed by He Yunxiao’s handsomeness, and then secretly regretted it.
Such good skin was in the possession of a cynical bastardbastard. It was a waste.
After all, she is the daughter of Du Lie, and was brought up to be a talented and loyal person.
He Yunxiao may be handsome, but he is not of good character, and she will never like him.
[Du Yinyun’s favorability rating changed from 30 to 25]
Du Hua Kui withdrew her gaze from He Yunxiao and announced the rules of the competition in a clear, cold voice.
The rules were that the five girls of Spring Breeze House, including Du Yinyun, would score the points, and one point would be a gold flower. The top ten Golden Flower winners would go through to the next round of the competition.
In addition to this, additional gold flowers will be awarded as a reward.
In this way, the final winner will either be a strong martial artist or someone with a lot of money, and the Spring Breeze Mansion will make a lot of money.
Before Du Yinyun finished speaking about the rules and stepped down from the stage, her beautiful eyes swept over the duo of Chu Fan and He Yunxiao.
These two, one was plain looking but with clear eyes. The other was handsome but with a notorious and vile reputation.
Du Yingyun stepped down from the tournament stage and headed towards the martial observation platform dedicated to the first floor of the hall.
She was conflicted in her heart.
On the one hand, she admired Chu Fan very much and did not want such a person to fight for herself in martial arts and fight for jealousy; on the other hand, she was looking forward to having something with Chu Fan, after all, she would rather commit herself to a decent man than to those fops who did not do good things.
Du Yinyun had a different idea about He Yunxiao.
He Yuanhao is a famous general of his generation and is above his father in both military and warfare. When we score the martial arts competition later, I will discuss with Sister Wuyou to lower this villain’ s score and make him fall out of the top ten. I hope that he will be restrained from now on and put his heart on the Righteous Path.
When we arrived at the martial arts viewing platform, the gong-bearing maids were already ready to introduce the five scoring judges and announce the start of the competition!
However, what the crowd didn’t expect was that the competition would be scored by a double courtesan!
The other beauty queen was Jiang Wuyou, the long-established dance champion of Yinjing!
Normally, there would be five judges, one leader and four red cards, and the red cards would not choose the popular ones, but the older and less famous ones. The double beauty rating is a bit out of order, but no one objects.
An extra beauty is a welcome sight.
If not for Du Huaqui, it would have been nice to have Jiang Huaqui.
In the end, even Chu Fan got up to sign up, while He Yunxiao remained seated and did not move.
It was impossible to sign up.
If I entered the competition, wouldn’t that be giving Chu Fan a chop?
Du Yinyun stared at He Yunxiao and frowned because this guy, even until the registration was over, did not register to participate.
Not only did he not register, he even ordered a separate table of delicious food, looking like he was going to eat and drink a lot.
This appearance of He Yunxiao even led Du Yinyun to doubt her appearance.
I had heard that he was a drunkard and a womanizer. But why was he indifferent to me?
However, He Yunxiao was not an important person to Du Yinyun after all, so she did not give it a second thought and put her doubts about her looks behind her.
Afterwards, she hurriedly cast her gaze into the arena, as the clear-eyed Chu Fan took the stage for the match.
“The match begins!”
As the gong struck and the audience present called out, Chu Fan and his opponent moved at the same time.
And at that moment, He Yunxiao, who was at the bottom of the field, also moved.
He coughed loudly, instantly attracting many gazes, and then, amidst the gazes of the crowd, he lifted up a table of rice with one hand and swaggered around the tournament stage, heading for the first floor viewing platform.
“Crap! He Yunxiao is too ruthless!”
“Lifting a table of rice with one hand, this must be a seventh rank martial artist at least!”
“More than that, look at the wine in the bowl on the table, it’s as steady as a mirror, not a single ripple, He Yunxiao is definitely more than a seventh ranked cultivator!”
The eyes of the entire audience were focused on He-Yunxiao, and no one even bothered about Chu Fan in the martial arts arena.
This included Du Yinyun.
She looked at He Yunxiao as he walked towards her with his table raised, and her brows knitted.
Trying to get my attention in this way? A child’s trick.
But to her surprise, He Yunxiao didn’t even look at her as he walked next to Jiang Wuyou with the table in his hands.
He only gave Jiang Wuyou an eye-catching smile.
“Sister Jiang, which do you want, wine, food or beauty?”
In the lobby of the Spring Breeze Mansion, a mediocre looking protagonist sat in the corner.
He was ordinary looking, but his gaze carried the steadfastness that all protagonists have.
Although sitting in the green house, he still kept his hand on his sword.
Because for him, in this Yinjing City, where gold and silver and power are intertwined, the only thing he can rely on is the sharp sword in his hand.
Chu Fan had no time for the wine in his cup. He straightened his back and fixed his gaze on the entrance to the Spring Breeze mansion, only to be reassured when a slender figure appeared.
Chu Xiaoxiao had outstanding looks, especially her innocent sister-next-door aura, which was particularly noticeable in a place as dusty as the Spring Breeze House.
Dozens of pairs of eyes were staring straight at her along the way.
But no one dared to move, because when the banquet began, He Yunxiao, the famous Yinjing lecher, had stated that he wanted to enjoy the moon with Miss Chu.
That was the Marquis’ son, and no one would dare to cross his path.
Chu Fan looked at his sister and gripped his sword scabbard in his left hand.
Although Xiaoxiao is not my real sister, she has been with me for many years and is more than a blood relative. Damned He, the scoundrel, who has wreaked havoc on Yinjing, and has even tried to defile Xiaoxiao.
When Chu Xiaoxia returned to her seat, Chu Fan hid his thoughts and said in a softer tone, “I told you there were no sugarplums at the door, right?”
Chu Xiaoxiao puffed up and said, “Not only is there no candy canes at the door, there aren’t any on the far side of the road either.”
Chu Fan smiled dotingly, “If there’s none, then there’s none, so eat some candied fruits.”
Chu Xiaoxia stretched out her chopsticks and reached for the crab on the table.
“Xiaoxiao wants to eat this.”
However, Chu Fan tapped her hand with the end of his chopsticks and said, “Crab is cold, you have been in poor health since you were a child, so don’t be greedy.”
Chu Xiaoxiao stuck her tongue out at her brother and smiled sweetly, “I know.”
However, she quickly turned her words around.
“Just now, I went to the next street, but I ran into a few homeless people.”
Chu Fan was startled in his heart and his sword was instantly sheathed by an inch. He said urgently, “Are you alright! How did those few people treat you? Were you hurt?”
Chu Xiaoxiao said, “No, fortunately Mr. He passed by and helped me out.”
Chu Fan frowned, “He Yunxiao? He would do a good deed?”
Chu Xiaoxiao tilted her head in thought, “When Duke He is in private, he is completely different from the rumours. It seems like his usual arrogance and dominance is like this on purpose.”
He Yunxiao was now a puppet under her, to be used to remove the bad woman who would seduce her brother.
Chu Fan trusted Chu Xiaoxiao’s words completely, and it immediately occurred to him that He Yunxiao’s father, Wuqing Hou He Yuanhao, was a great general in the army, while his father, Chu Tianzhu, who had an accident many years ago, and his deputy, Du Lie, who had been beheaded the year before, were both quite prestigious generals in the army.
Could it be that He Yunxiao’s usual arrogant behavior was a deliberate attempt to hide his clumsiness?
It was not impossible. It was even possible!
Chu Fan put down the sword he had been holding tightly and lifted his cup of wine. He looked at the clear wine in the cup and made up his mind that he would vindicate his father’s injustice and return a clear and bright world to Qi.
***
In all fairness, the villain is really miserable, but also really cool!
After bidding farewell to Jiang Wuyou and returning to the lobby of Spring Breeze Mansion, He Yunxiao quickly got into the swing of matters.
He drinks and eats meat, fights, and hugs the right and left.
Not only did no one find him noisy, but people even came to make friends with him from time to time.
At first, some of the boys at the table felt that He-Yunxiao was a bit different from earlier, but when He Yunxiao told two dirty jokes, the atmosphere warmed up again.
But this time, no matter how he joked or how noisy he was, He Yunxiao’s gaze never fell in Chu Xiaoxiao’s direction again.
All this was seen by Chu Fan, who was a very careful observer.
This action of He Yunxiao just confirmed his suspicion that this Brother He, indeed, was seeking his own stigma in order to preserve his family.
Soon, the banquet opening session ended and the new girl, Du Yinyun, led the gong-wielding maids to appear.
Although the crowd in the hall had seen Du Yinyun once before at the opening of the banquet, they were still shocked by her beauty today.
Her eyes were lacquered, her lips red as blood, her eyebrows as white as snow.
Her face is expressionless, cold, and indifferent. And her brows are lightly knitted, like sorrow.
Du Yinyun walks slowly with her hands folded in front of her body and her body poised. This is not the usual walk of a woman on the street, but the traditional etiquette of a lady of a refined house.
With these kind of manners, the crowd could not help but recall her identity.
The daughter of General Du Lie!
Such a status added to the fact that many of those who had no interest in fighting for the courtesan girl were breathing heavily.
Only when she came closer did the crowd see her attire.
Even He Yunxiao, who had a wealth of experience in his previous life, lit up.
This girl was originally indifferent and aloof, a kind of iceberg beauty, but now she was dressed in tulle, and as she walked, her shoulders and thighs were hidden in the tulle.
Yet, as she walks around, her shoulders and thighs are hidden in the veil, which arouses people’s desire to find out more about her.
The owner of Spring Breeze Mansion is a talented person!
He Yunxiao could not help but sigh.
Du Hua Kui walked to the center of the hall, the center of the martial arts stage, to announce the rules of the competition, but unexpectedly, she had a glance at Chu Fan on stage.
He Yunxiao secretly said, “This protagonist’s aura is too terrible! Can this even match?
But what was even more terrifying was not the protagonist’s aura, but the bell in Chu Xiaoxiao’s hand!
Ding the bell!
A bell that could only be heard if one took the Soul Devouring Pill rang in He Yunxiao’s ears.
Instantly, millions of ants tore into his bones muscles and blood vessels.
The pain was indescribable, and compared to it, death was a relief.
If it wasn’t for the “poison resistance boost” he had received for nothing, He Yunxiao would be rolling on the ground in pain right now.
He survived the pain for a moment and knew in his heart that it was Chu Xiaoxiao telling him to get to work.
Damn it! Chu Xiaoxiao, you wait for me!
Otherwise, why would she ignore the naked stares of everyone else and only meet the “clear” eyes of the protagonist?
He Yunxiao knew this in his heart, but he couldn’t use it because he had long been “notorious” and no one in the capital who had eyes and ears believed that he had clear eyes.
So he threw himself into a kurtosis position and shouted at the top of his voice, “Miss Du, don’t be silly, let’s start the martial arts competition!”
Du Yinyun, who was standing on stage, naturally turned her head to look at him when He Yunxiao made a noise.
First, she was amazed by He Yunxiao’s handsomeness, and then secretly regretted it.
Such good skin was in the possession of a cynical bastardbastard. It was a waste.
After all, she is the daughter of Du Lie, and was brought up to be a talented and loyal person.
He Yunxiao may be handsome, but he is not of good character, and she will never like him.
[Du Yinyun’s favorability rating changed from 30 to 25]
Du Hua Kui withdrew her gaze from He Yunxiao and announced the rules of the competition in a clear, cold voice.
The rules were that the five girls of Spring Breeze House, including Du Yinyun, would score the points, and one point would be a gold flower. The top ten Golden Flower winners would go through to the next round of the competition.
In addition to this, additional gold flowers will be awarded as a reward.
In this way, the final winner will either be a strong martial artist or someone with a lot of money, and the Spring Breeze Mansion will make a lot of money.
Before Du Yinyun finished speaking about the rules and stepped down from the stage, her beautiful eyes swept over the duo of Chu Fan and He Yunxiao.
These two, one was plain looking but with clear eyes. The other was handsome but with a notorious and vile reputation.
Du Yingyun stepped down from the tournament stage and headed towards the martial observation platform dedicated to the first floor of the hall.
She was conflicted in her heart.
On the one hand, she admired Chu Fan very much and did not want such a person to fight for herself in martial arts and fight for jealousy; on the other hand, she was looking forward to having something with Chu Fan, after all, she would rather commit herself to a decent man than to those fops who did not do good things.
Du Yinyun had a different idea about He Yunxiao.
He Yuanhao is a famous general of his generation and is above his father in both military and warfare. When we score the martial arts competition later, I will discuss with Sister Wuyou to lower this villain’ s score and make him fall out of the top ten. I hope that he will be restrained from now on and put his heart on the Righteous Path.
When we arrived at the martial arts viewing platform, the gong-bearing maids were already ready to introduce the five scoring judges and announce the start of the competition!
However, what the crowd didn’t expect was that the competition would be scored by a double courtesan!
The other beauty queen was Jiang Wuyou, the long-established dance champion of Yinjing!
Normally, there would be five judges, one leader and four red cards, and the red cards would not choose the popular ones, but the older and less famous ones. The double beauty rating is a bit out of order, but no one objects.
An extra beauty is a welcome sight.
If not for Du Huaqui, it would have been nice to have Jiang Huaqui.
In the end, even Chu Fan got up to sign up, while He Yunxiao remained seated and did not move.
It was impossible to sign up.
If I entered the competition, wouldn’t that be giving Chu Fan a chop?
Du Yinyun stared at He Yunxiao and frowned because this guy, even until the registration was over, did not register to participate.
Not only did he not register, he even ordered a separate table of delicious food, looking like he was going to eat and drink a lot.
This appearance of He Yunxiao even led Du Yinyun to doubt her appearance.
I had heard that he was a drunkard and a womanizer. But why was he indifferent to me?
However, He Yunxiao was not an important person to Du Yinyun after all, so she did not give it a second thought and put her doubts about her looks behind her.
Afterwards, she hurriedly cast her gaze into the arena, as the clear-eyed Chu Fan took the stage for the match.
“The match begins!”
As the gong struck and the audience present called out, Chu Fan and his opponent moved at the same time.
And at that moment, He Yunxiao, who was at the bottom of the field, also moved.
He coughed loudly, instantly attracting many gazes, and then, amidst the gazes of the crowd, he lifted up a table of rice with one hand and swaggered around the tournament stage, heading for the first floor viewing platform.
“Crap! He Yunxiao is too ruthless!”
“Lifting a table of rice with one hand, this must be a seventh rank martial artist at least!”
“More than that, look at the wine in the bowl on the table, it’s as steady as a mirror, not a single ripple, He Yunxiao is definitely more than a seventh ranked cultivator!”
The eyes of the entire audience were focused on He-Yunxiao, and no one even bothered about Chu Fan in the martial arts arena.
This included Du Yinyun.
She looked at He Yunxiao as he walked towards her with his table raised, and her brows knitted.
Trying to get my attention in this way? A child’s trick.
But to her surprise, He Yunxiao didn’t even look at her as he walked next to Jiang Wuyou with the table in his hands.
He only gave Jiang Wuyou an eye-catching smile.
“Sister Jiang, which do you want, wine, food or beauty?”
