Tang Hao narrowed his eyes. When the ball was struck, he had clearly discerned the future trajectory of this ball. He shifted his feet and reached his intended destination.
Bam! An explosive detonation.
The ball flew as fast as lightning across the net and struck violently on the ground. Then, under Qian Wei’s fearful eyes, it bounced off the ground and flew directly at his face.
“F*ck, this is the end of me!”
That was his single thought right before he fell.
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Thwack! Thwack!
The sound of a tennis racket hitting a tennis ball could be heard on the court.
Occasionally, someone would cry out in pain.
Qian Wei fell again and again. His face was swollen and disfigured from being struck by the tennis ball, while his opponent was casually waving his racket. His strokes looked casual, but every shot was deadly.
This was not a competition but a one-sided massacre.
Girls were squealing all around the tennis court.
“Wow, he’s so cool!”
The girls were thrilled. Their eyes were turning into heart shapes.
Coach Xu stood on the spot, dumbfounded. The boy’s performance on the court had stunned him over and over.
His heart was full of admiration, but at the same time, he felt bitter.
The boy’s performance could simply be described as ‘horrific’. The technique and strength he had displayed in the matches were world-class.
‘Prodigy! He’s an earth-shaking prodigy!’
Thwack!
Another ball struck Qian Wei. He grunted and fell limply onto the ground, unable to get up.
“I… I admit defeat! Please, spare me!”
Tang Hao was emotionless. He pointed toward another man. “You’re next!”
The person he pointed at went limp in his feet and nearly fell on his knees. Under the intense pressure from the crowd, he was forced to walk on the court. His fate was the same as Qian Wei’s.
Tang Hao ‘fixed’ the final person before stepping down from the tennis court.
“You’re too cool, Lil Tang! Didn’t you say that you only know how to play a little? Why are you so amazing?” Wu Xiaomo and the other girls exclaimed as they crowded around Tang Hao.
“Amazing? I’m just normal,” Tang Hao replied.
Qin Xiangyi walked over with a towel and wiped away his sweat.
“I’ve already said, there’s no need to worry,” Tang Hao said.
Qin Xiangyi rolled her eyes at him and mumbled, “You’re even so good at tennis. I wonder if there’s something that you’re not good at.”
Tang Hao smiled, embarrassed.
With his current physique, any normal sport was a walk in the park.
“You all can continue. I’ll take a break!” Tang Hao walked toward the bench next to the tennis court.
At this moment, he heard someone calling him eagerly, “Guru!”
Tang Hao was surprised. He turned around to see Coach Xu running over to him. When he neared, he seemed like he was going to fall on his knees. “Allow me to kneel before you, Guru!”
Tang Hao was shocked. He was wondering what his antics were.
“Please accept me as your disciple, Guru!” He grabbed Tang Hao’s hands tightly and his eyes looked at Tang Hao eagerly.
“Well… I can’t! I’m not a guru!” Tang Hao grinned.
“That’s a true blue guru for you, so humble!” Coach Xu’s eyes were sparkling. His admiration for the guru grew yet again.
“Guru, here, please sit down!”
“Guru, are you feeling warm? I’ll fan you!”
“Guru, why not apply for a membership? It’s free, so you can come here more often.”
Coach Xu was eager to please Tang Hao and circled him relentlessly. Tang Hao had a headache dealing with this, but no matter what he did, Coach Xu did not want to leave. Tang Hao just let him be.
After a while, Fu Renjie and the other men left defeatedly.
Qin Xiangyi and the other women played for a little while longer and left the club around noon.
The five of them went to have lunch.
After lunch, Tang Hao fetched Sis Xiangyi back to Azure Sky Gardens.
“Lil Tang, are you busy in the afternoon?” Qin Xiangyi suddenly said.
“Nothing. Why?”
“Then… how about we go on a date!”
Tang Hao’s hand shook. The little three-wheeled motorcycle nearly rammed into a lamp post.
“Cough cough! Sis Xiangyi, you must be joking, right?” Tang Hao was [abashed].
“I’m not joking. You are my boyfriend today… Also, your performance was amazing earlier. I should reward you! So, are we going or not?” Qin Xiangyi’s eyes were sparkling with a hint of cunning.
“Of course I’ll go!” Tang Hao replied urgently.
“Alright then. Send me back to my house first, I’ll take a shower and change clothes.”
“Alright!”
Tang Hao replied, then sped along the road with his little three-wheeled motorcycle.
Back at Azure Sky Gardens, the security guard there went cross-eyed.
“F*ck me, it’s really them!”
“That kid Lil Tang, he must’ve struck a gold mine to have Boss Qin fall for him!”
After he sent Sis Xiangyi back to House Number 9, he waited for more than an hour before she came out again. She had changed into a fashionable set of clothes and wore makeup. She was more beautiful than ever.
“Let’s go!”
She walked over leisurely and hopped on the little three-wheeled motorcycle.
The motorcycle’s engine roared to life and the motorcycle sped away. At the entrance to the Gardens, the security guards were once again cross-eyed as they looked on with admiration.
“I wonder when can I be like Lil Tang and find a beautiful woman!” A young security guard said with admiration.
“In your dreams! Why don’t you look into a mirror and see how you look?” An older security guard mocked him.
“Hey! One can dream, right?” The young security guard sulked.
The two of them went to the theme park after leaving Azure Sky Gardens.
The couple spent the entire afternoon at the theme park, enjoying all the attractions there.
For Tang Hao, this was the happiest day in his life as far as he could remember.
He had been poor since young. His mother was gone since he was very small, and his father had struggled to raise him. He left, too, from being overworked.
One could say that he did not have a happy childhood.
This made him appreciate this moment of joy even more.
After leaving the theme park, they had dinner and watched a movie. Tang Hao sent her home at about eight o’clock at night.
“Lil Tang… I’m so happy today!”Qin Xiangyi was standing under a street light. Her enchanting face enveloped in the warm light was like from a scene in a dream.
Her red phoenix eyes were like pools of spring water: calm, gentle, inviting, alluring.
She blinked as she looked at Tang Hao. There was a certain fragility in her gaze.
Both of them were nervous as their eyes met.
She suddenly burst out laughing. She tiptoed, leaned forward and pecked Tang Hao on the cheek.
“Thank you so much for today, Lil Tang!”
Her pretty face turned bright red. She ran back into her house as though she were escaping from something.
Tang Hao stood there dumbfounded. He touched his cheek and mumbled, “Aw, man, I should have kissed her back.”
He chuckled at himself, then rode on the little three-wheeled motorcycle and returned to Tang Village.
At this moment, there was a black car parked not too far away from House Number 9. Chen Sandao sat in the car with a pair of binoculars in his hands. His face was gloomy.
“This b*tch couple.
They’re even together now! What qualifications does this country bumpkin have to go after my woman? I’ll make sure that you’re dead!” He spoke to himself through gritted teeth.
In a fit of rage, he threw the binoculars to the ground, then stomped on it like a madman.
“Everything’s in order, boss! We’ve found the person, and Deputy Superintendent An has already agreed to it. This kid won’t get out of this.” The driver turned around to tell him.
“Alright!” Chen Sandao sat down and straightened his clothes.
“You brat, I’ll make sure you regret ever crossing paths with Chen Sandao.” His face was vicious when he said that.
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It was drizzling early in the next morning.
Tang Hao sat cross-legged on his bed, absorbing the Liquid of Spiritual Condensation in his body.
He did not sleep again that night. As his level of cultivation grew and his physique changed, he did not feel tired even after staying up for long periods.
His sleeping time had been substituted with time for cultivation and studying knowledge imparted by the pendant, including medical skills, talisman-making, and sorcery.
The techniques of talisman-making and sorcery required one to be in the middle period of the State of Qi Channeling. Tang Hao’s level of cultivation was currently not enough, though he could first learn the techniques so that he could easily master them in the future.
Especially talisman-making, which required a thorough study into the deep and complicated domain of talismans to even become a novice in the art.
He opened his eyes after a long while.
He had absorbed another portion of Liquid of Spiritual Condensation and had increased the amount of qi in his body.
“I’ll have to go shopping in the medicinal herb market today!” He mumbled while calculating.
Three days had passed in the blink of an eye since he quit his job.
He had spent the past three days at home, only going out the night before to deliver more potions to President Biao and Sis Xiangyi.
It was time to go out to buy more medicinal ingredients.
Tang Hao was in no rush to move house. All the preparations for the mansion was complete and he could move in anytime.
He rode his little three-wheeled motorcycle into town and went straight for the medicinal herb market.
After a few rounds in the medicinal herb market, he had acquired ingredients for weight-loss potions, aphrodisiac potions, beauty enhancement cream, and health-care potions. He had bought multiple portions for each type of concoction.
Especially the ingredients for aphrodisiac potion and beauty enhancement cream. These two concoctions were very high in demand. The aphrodisiac potion was very lucrative, selling at twenty thousand yuan per bottle.
After that, he left the medicinal herb market.
He had not driven for too far before he saw two police cars driving in his direction.
Tang Hao glanced at them then turned to look elsewhere. He did not have a good impression of police officers. They had framed him at the bathhouse in their first encounter, then he was wrongly accused in the next.
He smirked and continued driving.
He soon noticed that something was amiss. The two police cars changed directions abruptly and drove toward him. They braked in front of him and blocked his way.
The doors to the police cars opened. Out rushed a squad of police officers.
One of the police officers was a female. Her face was perfectly shaped like a pumpkin seed, and her delicate features could launch a thousand ships. Her body was tall and slim, and it curved at all the right places.
Tang Hao was surprised when he saw her. ‘Wasn’t she the beautiful female police officer from the bathhouse? I think her name is Zhao Qingxue.’
Then, his expression changed. ‘Wait, this doesn’t seem right at all! Why do they look like they’re coming to arrest me?
‘But what did I do though?’ Tang Hao was puzzled.
“Hey! What’s going on?” He shouted.
“What’s going on? Hmph! Don’t you know what crime you have committed?” A middle-aged police officer laughed coldly, showing an expression of disdain. “You’re still so young but you’re already human scum.”
The other police officers also showed him expressions of disdain.
Zhao Qingxue looked absolutely disgusted. “Squad Leader Sun, there’s no mistake, that’s him. We caught him last time in a bathhouse during a prostitution ring crackdown. He was lucky at that time to get off scot-free. I didn’t expect him to be a rapist, too.
“I knew it. This person is a pervert. Pure human scum.” Her face was ice-cold as she glared at Tang Hao.
“So he has a former record of ****… Prepare to be locked up for a long time, kid.” The middle-aged police officer laughed coldly.
Tang Hao was thoroughly confused when he heard all that. ‘Rape? What’s going on? When did I ever do something like that?
‘That’s impossible!
‘Unless… I’m being framed again?’
“Officers, wait. There must be some kind of mistake here. Did you mistake me for someone else?” He said urgently.
“Heh! How could we mistake you for someone else? It’s you, alright!” The middle-aged police officer smirked, then ordered the police officers around him. “Cuff him up and haul him away.”
Two police officers rushed forward and pinned him down.
Tang Hao felt angry all of a sudden. He had been called a rapist when he was innocent, and it did not look like they had been mistaken. The only possibility left was that he was framed again.
At that moment, he could not think of who could have done it.
‘Zhang Tianhao?
‘No, he doesn’t have that much power. The crime of rape was a serious offense.
‘So if it’s not Zhang Tianhao, who else could it be?’
Tang Hao was clueless.
The two police officers treated him roughly. They folded his arms behind his back and pinned him onto the hood of the police car. Tang Hao was furious and wanted to break free of their grip.
With his strength, he did not have to struggle too hard to shrug off these two people.
He restrained himself not to do so after thinking about it. He was innocent, and therefore had nothing to be afraid of. He did not want to be framed with another crime of assaulting the police.
Clack!
He could feel the coldness of the handcuffs as they went around his wrists.
“Officers, I’m really innocent.”
“Nonsense. That’s what all the criminals say when we haul them in, and how many of them turn out to be innocent anyway? Enough talk, let’s go.”
The two police officers shoved Tang Hao into the car, then the cars left.
In under twenty minutes, Tang Hao found himself in the interrogation room once more.
Two police officers sat in front of him, one of them was the Squad Leader Sun. Zhao Qingxue and another police officer were observing at the side of the room.
“Tang Hao, I’m asking you, where were you at 8.30 pm last night?” Squad Leader Sun asked menacingly.
“Eight-thirty? I was at home. No, I was on the way home,” Tang Hao replied after thinking for a while.
“So this must be you then!”
Squad Leader Sun opened the case file in front of him and retrieved a photograph. He pushed it in front of Tang Hao.
This was a photograph from a security camera. There was a little three-wheeled motorcycle in it. Tang Hao looked closely and saw that he was in the photograph.
“That’s me. What about it?” Tang Hao asked confusedly.
Squad Leader Sun smirked. He retrieved another photograph. On it was a woman about twenty-four or twenty-five years of age. She looked pretty, but her eyes were swollen and looked languid.
“Does this person look familiar?”
Ta
ng Hao looked at it and found her somewhat familiar. “I’ve seen her before, last night on this street. She was a little drunk, and I helped her get up.”
“Ha! So you’re admitting it!” Squad Leader Sun laughed coldly.
“What did I admit?”
“The crime, of course! She is the victim. Are you still trying to argue out of this, kid? The crime scene is at an alley not too far away. You must have been aroused and tailed her into the alley, where you committed the crime!
“We’ve found hairs on her body and skin flakes in her fingernails. We’ll just have to match them with your DNA and we’ll know if you really did it.”
Squad Leader Sun slammed the table and stood up. His eyes were as fierce as a tiger’s while glaring at Tang Hao.
As a veteran police officer, Squad Leader Sun carried a threatening aura on him. Any normal criminal would have been intimidated being glared like that.
Tang Hao was not a normal person though. Furthermore, he was innocent. The glare had no effect on him.
“Officer, I didn’t do it. Please don’t frame innocent people!”
“Innocent people? Hah! You’re innocent? Don’t try to argue anymore. She had singled you out as the criminal, and the security camera had captured you following into the alley after her. With the hair and skin flakes, that’s enough evidence to lock you away. You still say you’re framed?” Squad Leader Sun slammed the table again and roared.
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Tang Hao furrowed his brows. He was very sure that he was being framed.
Looking at the evidence presented, the framing was premeditated, too.
‘The situation isn’t looking good! I might just be found guilty!’
“Are you ready to confess yet, kid? You’ll be treated with leniency if you come clean on yourself, at least get a few years shaved off your sentence. Otherwise… you’re in for a good time!” Squad Leader Sun said sternly.
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