Chapter 25: Another Chick…
The group walked into the huge garden, within the garden were many smaller gardens, and within the smaller gardens were many small yards, each one with a different price value.
The road here was wide, there were several types of plants on both the left and right of the road. There were also some man-made mountains and sceneries, basically, it was extremely beautiful.
Gu Bai was elegant and well-paced as he walked on the stone slates beneath his feet. His eyes didn’t drift, it was as if he was walking through his own garden at home.
Qi Guan Qi was in front of him to make a path for him, and of course, the one in front of them all was the hard-working Wei Wu.
Just as they walked to the center of the huge garden, a sound suddenly rang in midair.
Wei Wu saw it and almost immediately, hid somewhere else.
In the next moment, something crashed into the floor, cracking a huge hole in the good ol’ stone slates.
Qi Guan Rui seemed like he had a hard time backing off, avoiding it by just the slightest bit.
A girl dressed in red stood in the hole, she had almond eyes and peachy cheeks, she was quite pretty.
She held a fiery red whip in her hand as she shouted towards the sky, “Bitch! If you have the guts to seduce that man, I definitely won’t let you off easy!”
Once she was done yelling, then a cold, clear female voice came from far away, “This time, I will give face for Li Xuezhang[1], if there is a next time, then I will take your life.”
Then a great power came after, hitting her face with a “pa” sound, making her back up continuously without being able to stop.
Even though the girl was furious, it seemed like she could also see the power difference between herself and the other, so she restrained herself from making any sound.
But just as she looked back, she saw Qi Guan Rui standing beside the hole, and she immediately felt shame and anger, she slammed her whip towards him, “You, servant! What are you looking at?!”
The whip carried a strong wind, releasing extremely sharp sounds.
If it had really hit someone, then it would have definitely cut through their skin and exposed the flesh beneath, creating untold damage.
Gu Bai saw and his eyes turned cold.
Before the whip could even land on Qi Guan Rui, it was grabbed by a hand. Where did this freaking shrew come from, dare to bully my Gu Xiao Shan?
Qi Guan Rui originally wanted to dodge it.
But he immediately remembered that his current power was supposed to be only that of a High-Level Low Rank Wu Shi, he was three levels lower than that woman who was a High Level Wu Shi, so he shouldn’t have had any power to fight back.
So, he gave up.
After all, it was just one whip, it wasn’t anything.
Once today passed, he could kill her himself, and make her into a container for the snake gus.
But Qi Guan Rui hadn’t thought that Gu Bai would react so fast.
Just as the whip was about to land on his face, a long, slender hand had already caught it.
Stopping it right in front of him.
Qi Guan Rui smiled, “Thank you, City Governor, for saving me.” He quickly walked the few steps to come to Gu Bai’s side, then spoke softly, “I’m fine now, Gege…”
Gu Bai nodded, his finger snapped, and then the whip was frozen with frost. And it frosted very fast, continuing all the way up to the handle of the whip.
At the same time, the whip broke into parts, falling onto the floor.
Gu Bai spoke expressionlessly, “That’s good.”
Qi Guan Rui suddenly turned his head, speaking lightly next to Gu Bai’s ear, “Even if it was against the one that Gege fears the most, would Gege not abandon me then either?”
Gu Bai was a bit shocked, but he still nodded, “Of course.”
To say the person he was most afraid of, then it was definitely the psycho protagonist. But Gu Xiao Shan, rest assured, even if your brother couldn’t beat him, he would definitely take you along when escaping!
Don’t be scared, you are protected by brother!
Qi Guan Rui received the definite answer, so his smile became even warmer, “Gege treats me so nicely, I would also be very good to Gege.”
Gu Bai nodded again seriously.
Good that you had a little heart.
The two of them just stood there speaking quietly, the face of the red-clothed girl before them became twisted.
She was a girl who, at the very least, was born with extreme talents, not only was she stopped from trying to deal with a servant, even her weapon had been destroyed. And never mind her weapon being destroyed, those two men dared to ignore her and speak amongst themselves like so…they definitely didn’t have her in their sights!
Just because she couldn’t fight against that bitch, didn’t mean she couldn’t finish some faces she’d never met before.
The red-clothed girl’s face reddened, her hand reached towards her waist and immediately pulled out a soft sword.
In an instant, the soft sword had countless types of sword shadows appear as it lunged towards Gu Bai.
Gu Bai hadn’t recognized her earlier, but now seeing the soft sword, he did.
The Vicious Flower, Wang Yingluo, the woman that the leader of the Lan Tian Association of the Qing Tian Academy, Li Qingyu, was interested in.
At the same time, she was also the protagonist’s side girl…one of them.
Also, an ex-concubine that was ranked very low and was very quickly used to death by the protagonist.
He couldn’t lie, once realizing that Wang Yingluo was the protagonist’s concubine, Gu Bai’s heart tightened. But once he’d found the memory of all the encounters between this woman and the protagonist, he relaxed again.
Wang Yingluo was a vicious woman, but she was beautiful and had a great body. To men, she would be a great one-night stand. After all, it wasn’t as if one were going to take her as a wife, so she’ll do with just that face and body. Why would you care if whipping people or murdering were her hobbies?
In the original, the protagonist met this woman right when he signed up. At that time, Wang Yingluo had already broken through the level of High-Rank Wu Shi and went into the level of Wu Jun, and was also one of the inner academy’s students. Also, through Li Qingyu’s power, she had great connections within the inner academy.
For the sake of the connection, the protagonist came onto Wang Yingluo and successfully made her betray Li Qingyu. The events of being with him, and the forbidden scenes in between, the author’s pen moved as if it was flying while the readers read contentedly. But once the protagonist got rid of Li Qingyu, he took over his power and Wang Yingluo became useless.
If she stayed peaceful, then she would be one of the protagonist’s concubines. The protagonist had so many women, he wouldn’t care about adding another one. But too bad, Wang Yingluo was the jealous type, she dared to make trouble for the other women by the protagonist’s side. So naturally, she was taken care of by some of the more powerful ones, making her into a complete cannon fodder, from head to toe.
It could be said that Wang Yingluo’s usefulness was for the protagonist to successfully get close to some people and build his power.
But she wasn’t absolutely necessary, if she wasn’t there, the protagonist just had to change the target and he would still be able to reach the goal.
So basically:
Killing Wang Yingluo → Wouldn’t affect the protagonist → Wouldn’t damage the protagonist’s fate → What the protagonist should have, he will still have.
That made Gu Bai a lot more reassured.
So just as Wang Yingluo’s soft sword came towards him, Gu Bai had already seen through all the pathways of her sword.
It seemed like it was very slow, but also just an instant, Gu Bai’s hands were both covered by a snowy-white glove made of silk.
Truly, what a sight, clean, flawless, and spotless……
Then Gu Bai lifted his hand in front of everyone’s eyes.
In the next moment, all of the sword shadows disappeared, just between the palms of Gu Bai’s hands, the sharp blade of the soft sword was held there.
But his hands, even though they were grabbing onto a dangerous weapon, weren’t injured at all.
——The crystal-silkworm-made gloves, were refined over and over, it could not be pierced by blades or spears, be damaged by water or fire, you deserve to have one[2].
Gu Bai spoke coldly, “Scram.”
Wang Yingluo was oppressed twice, her face almost couldn’t hang anymore.
But after all, she didn’t have enough power. After finally letting out an “I won’t let you guys off easy” sentence, she left.
Then, Gu Bai looked at Wei Wu.
Hun, you sure hid quickly, my Xiao Shan almost got hurt. Hun, your garden is at least a bit way too unsafe, hun!
Wei Wu wore a smiling face as he came up again, “That was just a little accident, please follow me, my valuable customers.”
Gu Bai still wore his stone face.
Accident! Accident my ass, if one were to die because of it, then does it also count as accident, hun?!
But in reality, Gu Bai knew too, aside from the fact that this martial artists’ inn was very expensive, another specialty of it was that they didn’t forbid fighting.
For any staying customers, unless they stayed peacefully in their rooms, or else, once they came out, their lives and deaths were on themselves.
Of course, he also couldn’t blame them. Gu Bai had made the setting himself and this was exactly what he’d set.
Cause, obviously, if they couldn’t do anything in the inn and had to be completely obedient the whole time, then what was he gonna use for excitement when writing?
So, in this unscientific world, where an unscientific, also no logic-having inn, everyone should be going after each other, so……that’s just where all the fights and killings came from.
No one took care of it.
It could also be counted as one of those situations where the company was big enough to bully their own customers…you either didn’t stay here or if you did, you were to be responsible for your own safety.
Gu Bai sighed internally.
If he’d come by himself, then he definitely wouldn’t have picked this inn! What was there to enjoy? This was just such a troublesome complex!
None the servants of Tian Du Cheng knew, so he could only come here and enjoy.
……Whatever.
Gu Bai thought about it, he could count what just happened now as a way of putting his name out there.
At least if he’d successfully lured the other’s attention, then there were gonna be some, however weird and odd people coming to his doorstep, right?
Finally, Gu Bai was put in quite a gorgeous, personal garden.
And the next morning, as expected, someone came to see him.
Gu Bai leaned against a soft cushion as he sat, he looked at the people in front of him with a cold face but was very chaotic internally.
Oh man, man, man, what freaking day is it today? Why would they come?!
Qi Guan Rui stood behind Gu Bai quietly, his hands massaging his shoulders at just the right speed.
He was also observing the two young males who came to greet.
In front of the two of them, sat two people.
They both seemed to be in their twenties, one was a Beginner Wu Jun, the other was a Middle Level Wu Jun. Without a doubt, within their age group, they were some very talented geniuses.
The rich, young master looking male held a fan in his hand, he looked very dashing and admirable. From his introduction earlier, he said his name was “Chen Yuanhao”.
His friend that sat beside him looked like a very serious young male, he also said his own name, it was “Chou Tu”.
Almost every second sentence that Chen Yuanhao uttered, Chou Tu retorted back, but their relationship seemed to be very good.
They were so close they seemed like brothers that came from the same womb.
Gu Bai looked at those two, feeling very conflicted inside.
Chen Yuanhao, Chou Tu……these names.
What luck did he bump into today? First, he’d met the protagonist’s cannon fodder concubine beauty, then he met this pair of besties.
He sighed; Gu Bai felt a bit of a headache.
If he were to put tags on Chen Yuanhao and Chun Tu’s for their real identities, then it would definitely be “Underling A” and “Underling B”!
That’s right, they were the top two underlings that the protagonist had taken in.
Translator: Crispyfry
Proofreader: Grumpykit
QC: Xiao
Xiao’s Comments: Brutal world…good luck, Gu Bai~
Translator’s Notes:
[1] Xuezhang (学长), basically the chinese ver of “senpai”, I could’ve put “senior” but it sounded either too old or just doesn’t make sense
[2] “You deserve to have one” (你值得拥有) – This is an iconic phrase that advertisements usually end with.
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Well, the protagonist is traveling with you which is why you keep having these fateful encounters. Lol
Gu Bai can never have a peaceful day haha!
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
Thanks for the chapters! Such a treat to see these as an alert in my email!
Thanks for the chapters! I really love this story~
Thanks for the chapter! ^^