by Dragon King
“Isn’t he staying here for the night?” Zhao Yanzi asked immediately.
“Do you want Ren to sleep here?” Zhao Hongyu asked her.
Realizing her mistake, Zhao Yanzi curled her lips and didn’t know what to say.
“Ren, you can sleep here if you want,” seeing Zhao Yanzi’s pout, Zhao Hongyu smiled again and said to Hao Ren.
“No, thank you. I better go back,” Hao Ren stood up and said.
“Go! Go!” Zhao Yanzi raised her head and yelled.
Zhao Hongyu smiled, giving a small pat on her forehead.
“Auntie, I’m going now. I’ll come over tomorrow to tutor Zi.” Hao Ren picked up the architectural design books Zhao Hongyu gave him.
After Hao Ren walked out of the room, Zhao Hongyu gently pinched Zhao Yanzi’s cheek. “Today, I got another phone call from you class advisor complaining about you.”
“Oh? What did she say?” Zhao Yanzi’s eyes widened.
“She said that when your boyfriend came to the school, you hugged him. The gossips around it had spread all over the school.” Zhao Hongyu looked at her. “It was Hao Ren, wasn’t it?”
“Mom, it isn’t like that…” Zhao Yanzi blushed and tried to explain.
“I don’t want to listen! I don’t want to listen…” Copying Zhao Yanzi, Zhao Hongyu covered her ears with her hands and walked out of her room.
While Zhao Yanzi raged in her room, Hao Ren drove the Ferrari back to his dorm in East Ocean University.
When he got back to the dorm, Zhao Jiayi and the others rushed over and insisted that he should buy them a meal. After all, they were traumatized by Hao Ren, the ‘Winner in Life,’ who had lunch with the Lu sisters at Hongji Square and drove around with the beautiful Class President.
Since all of his defenses were useless, Hao Ren got more than ten dinners delivered to the dorm, treating his buddies and the guys from nearby dorms. Comforted by the food, they stopped their indignant complaints.
“Zhao Jiayi, how are the basketball practices?” Eating a box of fried rice noodles, Hao Ren asked.
“I train every day. Today, I practiced until nine,” Zhao Jiayi said.
“Zhao Jiayi has now become one of the main players on the Basketball Team, and he will become the Captain of the team very soon!” Zhou Liren yelled. He patted Zhao Jiayi on the arm and said, “Then, you can recruit me onto the team. Now, girls are inviting you to meals, but I have nothing.”
“You are not good enough.” Zhao Jiayi lightly slapped his hand off.
“Zhao Jiayi is awesome. The whole Basketball Team is under his command,” Cao Ronghua chimed in.
“Is it because Xie Wanjun is going abroad?” Hao Ren asked.
“How did you know?” Zhao Jiayi asked curiously. Then, it dawned on him. “Oh, Xie Yujia must have told you that. It’s no big deal. Since he has been busy recently, he let me act as the temporary Captain.”
Temporary Captain. Most likely, Zhao Jiayi would be the Captain after Xie Wanjun goes abroad.
“Yeah. Zhao Jiayi is a big figure now. Girls are trying to date him, and some even went to the stadium to watch him practice. I should have joined the Basketball Team, too!” Zhou Liren lamented regretfully.
Hao Ren grinned and asked Zhao Jiayi, “When does this year’s season begin?”
“The first match is next week. We were one of the best last year, so we don’t have to compete with the universities in East Ocean City and have advanced directly to the second round. We’ll have an away match with Sanmu University in Xinan City. Sanmu University got the eighth place last year,” Zhao Jiayi said.
“According to the Class President, our class will book a bus and go to the match, following the school bus that is taking the Basketball Team. Since it’s only a two-hour drive from here, Xie Yujia said the trip would be counted as a class activity and hoped that every one of our classmates could go and cheer on the team. However, she insisted on paying for the bus from her pocket instead of using the class fund,” Cao Ronghua said.
Since Hao Ren hasn’t been living in the dorm recently, he was not aware of the activities of the class. He guessed that Xie Yujia paid for the class trip so that more people would be willing to go and cheer for Zhao Jiayi.
The guys got excited about the topic of the class trip. Xinan City was not far from East Ocean City, and there were several attractions to see. Besides, Sanmu University’s Film Program was said to be full of beautiful girls…
Hao Ren didn’t join their discussion. Instead, he carried the architectural design books to his upper berth to read.
“Below Fifth Heaven is the mortal world, above Fifth Heaven is the world of the cultivators, and above Ninth Heaven is the world of Immortals.” Suddenly, Hao Ren remembered what Zhao Hongyu had told him.
The dragons could move freely in the ocean, on the land, and below Eighth Heaven. However, they couldn’t freely enter the territories of the sect.
The East Ocean Dragon Clan had a history of more than 1,000 years, and the prominent sects probably also had a history as long as 1,000 years. If the six major sects didn’t drag each other into the fierce war which resulted in a substantial carnage of human cultivators, those dominant cultivation sects wouldn’t be forced to ascend to Fifth Heaven and up, and the Dragon Tribe wouldn’t be able to get control over the land.
Su Han said that it had taken great risk for her to get the Metal-Water Mystic Crystal. Now thinking about it, maybe she had ventured into Fifth Heaven and had stolen or grabbed it from one of the powerful sects.
Otherwise, she would never have found such a natural treasure in this mortal world. Here, even West Ocean Mystic Ice, the lowest-grade water-elemental Mystic Crystals, were treated as superior treasures by the West Ocean Dragon Clan.
Due to the large number of dragons and their simple cultivation process, a lot of them had reached Zhen-level which was equivalent to the Core Formation Realm of human cultivators. If a war broke out between the dragon and human cultivators, the Dragon Tribe would prevail since they had more mid-ranked cultivators, and that was why the major cultivation sects went to Fifth Heaven.
“Well, I wonder what these cultivation sects look like.” Hao Ren couldn’t help but wonder.
He dozed off, and the morning came in the blink of an eye.
As usual, Hao Ren went with his roommates to eat breakfast in the cafeteria before going to class. The difference was that his Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll was now in constant circulation, and the Dragon Core was automatically absorbing the essence from nature.
He activated his Nature Essence and found that the mid-aged lady selling Youtiao was emitting a pale blue light; the guy drinking soy milk had a bright blue light; the girl in a black dress who was messing with other girls around her had a green light; the guy checking his cell phone had a grey light; a teacher with glasses had a red light; a middle-aged man who was driving on campus had a yellow light; and in the distance, the man doing Tai Chi in the small forest had a green light…
Among the large group of people milling around in the school, they stood out even though there weren’t many of them.
After reaching Kan-level, it was the first time Hao Ren realized that dragons surrounded him!
Those masters who were two realms higher than Hao Ren and could conceal their auras from him and those Inspectors who could completely conceal their presence couldn’t be detected by Hao Ren. Therefore, there might be even more dragons around him than what he saw.
The dragons merged into the mortal world. If they didn’t cultivate techniques of the Dragon Tribe, other cultivators wouldn’t be able to tell their identities.
He looked at Zhou Liren, Zhao Jiayi, and Cao Ronghua and found no lights on them. After all, there weren’t that many dragon cultivators compared with the number of mortal beings.
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth; white, green, blue, red, yellow.
On his way to the class, Hao Ren didn’t see a single person with a white light which proved the rarity of the m
etal-elemental dragons!
Most of the auras Hao Ren sensed were blue. There were thousands of water-elemental dragons who came from branches of river, lake, and ocean.
The brighter the light, the higher the realm the cultivator was in. Hao Ren looked down at himself and saw that the light on him was very dim.
It meant that the other cultivators could tell that he was only on Kan-level.
No wonder they ignored him!
Although Hao Ren had gotten out of the ‘kindergarten’ level by breaking through the Spirit Concentration Scroll, Kan-level was actually the level of ‘elementary school.’
In the circles of the dragons, if one were lower than Zhen-level, he or she would be ashamed to greet others.
However, Hao Ren was cultivating five elements at once, so he was equivalent to five Kan-level cultivators!
Entering the classroom, Hao Ren glanced around and found no cultivators here besides himself. Xie Yujia walked in with her backpack, talking and laughing with Ma Lina. Hao Ren looked at her carefully and saw no light on her.
“Hey! Did you know that after Lu Linlin and Lu Lili joined the Taekwondo Club yesterday, lots of students swarmed to the club? The President of the Taekwondo Club is exhilarated!” Yu Rong leaned over and said.
“They also joined the Swimming Club, and 300 students joined the club after them!” Gu Jiadong said.
“Damn! They are perverts who just want to see Lu Linlin and Lu Lili in swimsuits!” Huang Jianfeng yelled indignantly.
“Didn’t you join too?!” Yu Rong turned and gave him a dirty look.
“I… I need to lose weight!” Huang Jianfeng explained lamely.
Hao Ren rubbed his forehead, wondering what the girls were up to.
Undoubtedly, the clubs they joined would dim the glamour of Huang Xujie’s club.
“Gongzi…” a crisp voice came from the door.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili entered the classroom hand in hand. They were wearing thin and light long-sleeved floral blouses and jeans that accentuated their long slim legs. The only difference between them was that one had a ponytail and the other had pigtails. Their appearances dazzled the guys.
“What… Are you doing here?” Hao Ren asked.
“We are here to keep you company during class.” They smiled.
188 Idiot in Life
Thud!
Xie Yujia who was sitting in the front row suddenly put down her ball-point pen and stood up.
She turned and walked toward the back, looking at Lu Linlin and Lu Lili coldly.
Sensing something was not right, the guys who were crowding around the back rows scattered.
“Sorry, but this is the class for Class Two only, and the class is about to begin. Please leave now,” Xie Yujia said sternly as she walked over.
Lu Lili looked at her and backed off two steps, but Lu Linlin took one step forward. “That sounds weird. We just want to sit in on your class; it is bothering you?”
They glared at each other, and sparks flew between their eyes.
“I’m the Class President, and I asked you not to interfere with the order of our class,” Xie Yujia said calmly, though everyone could see that she was angry.
“Weird. Does the school forbid other students from sitting in on a class?” Lu Linlin wouldn’t back off. She continued to stare at Xie Yujia.
They had similar heights, so they faced each other with livid expressions, leveled.
This confrontation lasted only several seconds, and the guys had all settled down to watch how the drama would unfold. However, Hao Ren couldn’t let it continue. He stood up immediately and pulled them apart.
“Ok! Stop it!”
“Gongzi! Look at her! She’s so mean,” Lu Linlin turned to him and complained.
Xie Yujia gritted her teeth and shook slightly with fury.
“Stop it. You guys should go. If you want to keep me company, please come when we’re in a big classroom when multiple classes are present,” sensing Xie Yujia’s anger, Hao Ren said to Lu Linlin and Lu Lili.
“We didn’t bother her. Why did she come over and mind your business?” Lu Linlin was stubborn, determined to fight with Xie Yujia.
“Lu Linlin! Lu Lili!” Xie Yujia couldn’t contain her anger anymore. “Don’t think that you can do whatever you want just because you are the Principal’s granddaughters!”
Xie Yujia turned to Hao Ren, but before she could open her mouth, Lu Linlin said, “Oh, I get it. You like Gongzi, too, don’t you?”
Xie Yujia’s face fell, looking like she was about to lose her temper.
“Linlin! Lili!” Hao Ren’s tone got stern. “Go back!”
Li Linlin looked stiff, and Lu Lili tugged at her lightly. “Sister, let it go.”
Xie Yujia stood there and looked at them.
The guys froze with fear, and no one dared to utter a word.
In the past, Xie Yujia had always been calm and never lost her temper. However, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili seemed to have triggered something inside her.
Lu Linlin pulled Lu Lili out of the classroom. Before she left, she gave Xie Yujia a stare.
Xie Yujia didn’t back off. She squinted her eyes and stared back.
The guys were excited since they had never seen two beauties fight over a guy.
Ding… The class bell rang.
Glancing at Hao Ren, Xie Yujia said to him, “Mr. Hao Ren, please conduct yourself!”
Then, she turned and walked to her seat in the front row.
In her white shirt and straight pants, Xie Yujia stomped away.
“You’re finished. Finished!” Zhou Liren leaned over to Hao Ren and gloated over Hao Ren’s misfortune.
The other guys were also excited. After all, it was quite a topic that Xie Yujia, the sister of the top figure Xie Wanjun, had a clash with Lu Qing’s granddaughter during their class.
When the class ended, Xie Yujia, still angry, packed up her bag and left the classroom without a word. Ma Lina followed her immediately, probably trying to comfort her.
Hao Ren thought of sending her a text message or calling her but found both inadequate.
In the next few days, the atmosphere between Hao Ren and Xie Yujia was awkward, even more awkward than when Zhao Jiayi told her that Hao Ren liked her a while back. Even the girls in the class began to cast unfriendly glances at Hao Ren.
Hao Ren continued to tutor Zhao Yanzi each evening and cultivate the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll. It seemed like nothing had changed; his cultivation progress was zero.
“This is the knot in my heart.” Hao Ren couldn’t sleep at night and found that he cared about Xie Yujia a lot.
Friday came, and the cold relationship between Hao Ren and Xie Yujia had no sign of thawing. She refused to return his text messages or answer his phone calls, and she ignored him when he walked over trying to talk to her.
Hao Ren had a taste of Xie Yujia’s stubbornness.
When the last class ended, Xie Yujia picked up her things and walked out of the classroom. Ma Lina walked to Hao Ren’s side and poked his forehead with her finger. “You idiot! Xie Yujia almost cried that day.”
“Really? When?” Hao Ren was astonished.
“During class after the confrontation. Why did you think she was silent? She was trying to contain her tears!” Angry at the memory, Ma Lina hit his arm with her fist.
The punch was not forceful, but Hao Ren’s heart ached.
Zhou Liren and the others had all gone out to watch Zhao Jiayi practice basketball. After Ma Lina left, Hao Ren was the only one in the classroom, picking up his stuff in slow motion.
The campus was quiet, except for the occasional yells of the students celebrating the end of the school week.
Hao Ren didn’t know if Xie Yujia would go home and talk her heart out with that old Grandma, but he had no one to talk to. Not wanting to discuss such matter with Zhao Jiayi and his buddies, he had to mull over it himself. He was about to leave the classroom sullenly when he saw Su Han standing at the door i
n an indigo-colored shirt.
“Upset?” Su Han looked at him and asked.
“Relationship problems,” Hao Ren answered.
“The love affairs of the mortals are of no interest to me.” Su Han looked at him. “You come with me today. I need you to do me a favor.”
Hao Ren couldn’t refuse Su Han’s request for help; he picked up his bag and walked to the door. Su Han turned and walked out with him.
Downstairs, Hao Ren started the Ferrari while Su Han got in the car.
When the car passed the basketball court, Huang Xujie, who was in his loose sports jersey, was drinking water at the sideline. When he saw Su Han in the passenger seat of Hao Ren’s Ferrari, he choked on the water.
Hao Ren saw Huang Xujie as well. However, with his current strength, he no longer thought of Huang Xujie as his rival.
He stepped slightly on the gas pedal, and the Ferrari shot out of the school.
When they were out of the school, it occurred to Hao Ren that he hadn’t asked Su Han where they were going.
“To my home in the Flower City on Plum Flower Road,” Su Han said.
Hao Ren’s heart lurched, not expecting that they would go to Su Han’s home. Then, he remembered that Lu Qing also lived in Flower City.
While Su Han gave directions, Hao Ren drove the car steadily. People in the nearby cars all looked toward the dashing car and pretty Su Han in it.
After entering the high-end residential complex, Su Han directed Hao Ren to park the car in the underground parking lot. She took him into the elevator, which made Hao Ren feel very familiar.
Ding! The elevator reached the eighth floor. Hao Ren walked out of the elevator and saw Lu Qing’s apartment. In this building, two apartments shared one floor. Su Han lived right across from Lu Qing!
Hao Ren had spent several nights in Lu Qing’s place, and he had never imagined that Su Han was living next door.
Elder Lu Qing was indeed a master of public relations. He not only arranged for Lu Linlin and Lu Lili to live in his place to draw them over but also made Su Han, an Inspector, into a lecturer at his school. On top of that, he got her a place next door to him. He was doing everything he could to make friends for the benefit of East Ocean.