Helian Wei Wei felt it was funny and curved her lips. "How are there people like you who answers your own questions."
The pampered sons of wealthy families wanted to cry, but had no tears: [We also didn't want to do that. The key point is that you should look at the dear friend standing next to you. His chilly gaze seems as if we only need to speak one wrong word and we'll lose our lives, god!]
"It's fine." Baili Jia Jue massage his temples, as if he couldn't bear the pain on his cheek. "Just let them go."
Wei Wei uttered 'mm' as she casually threw that person in her hand to the side. As she watched the defeated and fleeing figures, she looked again at the side of Baili Jia Jue's face, which was turning red. "Very painful?"
"A little." Baili Jia Jue calmly replied. "Myself fighting against four people, I wasn't able overcome them."
Having heard what was said, those lads who were running at the distance slipped one after another, lying! This person lied again! Clearly the one who beat them up so badly that they even had trouble recognizing their mom and dad, was pretending again!
"We need to apply something to reduce the swelling." Wei Wei's fingers poked at that face as she looked here and there, not the least bit like the usual shy girl. She tilted her head as her brows furrowed slightly. "How did the force come at you? There seems to be something strange about the way the force was directed."
Baili Jia Jue's eyes flashed, don't know if it was on purpose or not as he pushed her hand away, his devilish appearance spoke with an emotionless tone. "What, is Minister Bankroller feeling pained?"
"Huh?" Wei Wei smiled as she retaliated with. "No matter what, you're under my protection. Let's have your wound treated a bit before we talk about what happened today."
Baili Jia Jue indifferently 'mm'd as he took advantage of the moment when Wei Wei turned around to throw the white handkerchief that he'd just used to wipe his hand into the garbage by the side, his face an image of aloofness that was unfamiliar to Wei Wei.
This was the real him. It's rumored that he shunned the world for ten years. The apathetic Third Prince who stepped out of the nine layered palace only as a last resort and only occasionally appeared to say a few words.
Luckily, within White Academy, there was a doctor who could heal people. That doctor also basically hadn't seen such a gorgeous student before as his old hand continuously trembled.
Wei Wei leaning by the side of the wood medicine cabinet, casually browsed those medicines, seeing the guy's handsome face slowly shrinking, took the iodine from the doctor's hand, and without the slightest bit of unnaturalness, moistened a corner of the white handkerchief and leaned her body to lightly apply the medicine on the side of Baili Jia Jue's face. The warm sunshine spread on her body. Her entire body was encircled by a golden halo.
If these movements were done by another woman, it'd be difficult to avoid expressing a trace of ambiguity. However, there was simply a complete absence of this kind of feeling from Wei Wei's body. She maintained a distance from him that was just right, neither too close, nor too far. Most of all, her expression smiled lightly carrying her characteristic languidness, and seemed as if she was doing something very ordinary.
"All done." Wei Wei retrieved the handkerchief.
Baili Jia Jue also didn't prevent her from treating him, clearly he's used to people serving him. It's just that, when Wei Wei retrieved that handkerchief, his pair of dark eyes looked up slightly.
Wei Wei collected everything, returned them to the doctor, and smiled as before. "We merely used a bit of iodine, and shouldn't have to pay for it."
The doctor receiving the things was dumbstruck. Only when the two people left, did his senses return to him, and became extremely angry. [Who said it wasn't necessary!]
"The people who wanted to hinder you were those young lords from the Superior Compound?" Wei Wei also didn't beat around the bush as she immediately spoke to the point. "Because of the competition this time?"
Baili Jia Jue emotionlessly 'mm hm'd and rolled his sleeves in a manner that was neither rushed, nor slow. His build as well as his face were flawless. Walking within a crowd, he was like a precious oil painting. Frequently, people would turn their heads to look at him. This wasn't an overstatement at all.
Wei Wei felt that actually, this environment wasn't suitable for chatting, as she turned her head and directly sighed. "When you go out next time, you should wear a mask, just like Third Prince."
When he heard the word 'mask', Baili Jia Jue's fingers stiffened and seeing that there's no other intent in Wei Wei's eyes, he then calmly said. "The academy rules states that students can't wear masks."
Wei Wei raised her eyebrows. "You still care about the school rules?" Wonder who it was that showed himself off in front of the teacher on their first day of school.
Baili Jia Jue smiled. "Of course."
"The principal said that we need to wait for the third team member." Wei Wei's lips curved. "You seem to be very close to our third team member, should you ask the servant by your side to rush him a bit?"
"I already rushed him." Baili Jia Jue looked up and scanned the passageway to the Inferior Compound not too far away. "He's already here."
Wei Wei followed his gaze, looked over, and only saw a demonically charming guy surrounded by three or four young girls with him in the middle. He smilingly chatted with them, not uncomfortable about it in the slightest. He seemed to attend to each of the girls, not paying special attention to any single flower among a field of thousands.
Having noticed their gazes, Nangong Lie faced the two girls to his left and right and smiled, extremely elegantly. "My friends have arrived. Can I trouble you to give me some space?"
Even though the young ladies were felt they lost face slightly, they also didn't resist this request of his as they glanced at him with hidden bitterness then left with their servants.
When they passed by Wei Wei's side, there arrogant expressions resembled a peac.o.c.k that spread its tail.
Wei Wei didn't pay any attention to them. She already lazily found a place to sit down.
On the other hand, when Nangong Lie saw the two of them appearing together, his pair of long and narrow eyes was brimming with an unprecedented contemplation.
"I heard that there's a fair maiden who saved the hero?"
Wei Wei smiled. "Your information network is truly fast."
Nangong Lie smiled demonically as his arm plopped on Baili Jia Jue's shoulder. "This hero, how does it feel to be rescued by a fair maiden?"
"Those people just now told you?" Baili Jia Jue calmly glanced at him.
That gaze was extremely cold!
Nangong Lie's scalp first numbed before his subconscious mind 'mm hm'd once.
He hadn't even reacted when he heard the guy's characteristic demonic cold voice transmit over. "Relying on selling your s.e.x appeal in order to obtain news from the girls, how do you feel about that?"
Chapter 147 - His Highness Drank Vinegar
"Pfff." Helian Wei Wei couldn't control herself and laughed softly.
Nangong Lie's whole body felt like it was choking. That wickedly handsome face burst into alternating red and white colors and looked very unsightly, enough to make him look like he was ill!
That's why it's been said, if we were to quarrel, don't pit ourselves against a certain someone. In a moment of carelessness, we'd entrap ourselves!
"You chose divination, he chose martial qi." Wei Wei stretched her body. "The principal's intent is to have us talk it over and decide who should go onstage first."
"Doesn't matter." Nangong Lie uninhibitedly turned to the pillar behind him and leaned on it. When his eyes swept over the side of Baili Jia Jue's face, he unexpectedly raised his eyebrows.
Nangong Lie didn't care. Baili Jia Jue cared even less. He tall, graceful body stood there and casually said. "Whatever."
Wei Wei had previously always felt that she was unorganized and careless. Seeing these two people today, she discovered that she was actually the more 'w
ell-behaved' student'.
However...the matter of who should go up first, um...
"Then how about since divination required more time, divination should go up first. The two of us can then sleep offstage. Next will be me, and last, martial qi, is that OK?" Wei Wei again wanted to embody a democratic mindset.
Nangong Lie rascally seemed to mutter. "I also want to sleep offstage." Taking turns to sleep during the competition, thinking about it, ha, how cool that was going to be!
"Among us three, only you don't require physical strength." Wei Wei's lips curved into a smile. "The person who doesn't require physical strength, does he need to sleep?"
Nangong Lie hadn't replied when Baili Jia Jue already opened his mouth. "He doesn't need it. Continue."
Nangong Lie:...
Who says he didn't need it! ! ! When he performed divination was when he expended the most mental focus, all right? !
"You can sleep during the divination." Wei Wei was originally joking, but didn't expect Nangong Lie's eyes to suddenly light up. "That's a great idea."
From beginning to end, Shadow, who was listening by the side, was totally at a loss.
Were these three people actually participating in a competition, or were they going there to sleep...
"No matter what, for the sake of the award money, we must win." Wei Wei laughed lightly, flowing out like a spring wind.
Shadow...this time, he could be considered to have experienced what was meant by 'money will make the devil turn millstones'.
The purpose of White Academy holding this competition, shouldn't be mainly on account of the award money, right? !
Wei Wei was beaming as she added. "There's also the beautiful vacation."
Shadow: ... how about the understanding that the competition was about the honor of each compound? !
"I heard that based on the way it's been done at White Academy in previous years, competitors from every compound all practiced ahead of time. Should we also practice?" Wei Wei paused then continued, "practice together?"
Nangong Lie shook his head, faced the sky, and lamented. "When I perform divination, I'm too s.e.xy. I'm afraid that you won't be able to control yourself and fall in love with me."
"Hehe." The corners of Wei Wei's mouth twitched.
Baili Jia Jue's demonically charming thin lips moved. "Not necessary."
His two word reply actually was identical to Wei Wei's thought. "I also feel that it's unnecessary to waste time practicing together." Wei Wei stretched out her body and curved her lips into a smile. If they were together, she'd have misgivings, instead.
Actually, the two young men were the same. Compared to Wei Wei, they were even more concerned that while practicing, they might expose some clues in regards to their identities.
"At that time, we need to compete first with the good compound." Wei Wei rolled up the papers the principal gave her and handed to them. "This is the list of names for the Good Compound. It's two out of three matches. In other words, if we win the first two matches, then the third person won't need to appear."
After hearing that, Nangong Lie's turned to lie on top of the stone table. "Aah, if I'd known earlier, I would've insisted on being the third person!" That way, he wouldn't even need to to on stage!
When facing the Superior Compound, the competition system changes." Wei Wei's eyebrows jumped. "It's decided by the school that divination goes third, and completely opposite to the previous position. However, we need to first win over the Good and Fine Compounds."
"Then that will take a comparatively long period of time." Nangong Lie extended his hand to roll up his long hair, while his eyes looked up, pondering something else.
Baili Jia Jue grasped the porcelain cup in front of him and calmly took a sip, his posture graceful, filled with a strong aura of self-restraint. "Not necessarily."
"Not necessarily? You feel that we won't win?" Nangong Lie knit his brows, that shouldn't be. Even though everyone said that Helian Wei Wei, this young lady, was a good-for-nothing, however, based on his observations during this short time, she wasn't that simple.
Baili Jia Jue arranged his sleeves, and glanced at Nangong Lie in an aloof manner. "Not necessarily need to use a lot of time."
Nangong Lie was stunned before he came around. He'd misunderstood the other person's meaning.
"You mean to say that we will certainly face the Superior Compound, and that when we handle the Good and Fine Compounds, we won't take that much time?" After Nangong Lie silently confirmed this, he took a long time to add one more statement. "You're saying this, but have you thought about what the people from the Good and Fine Compounds will think."
Your Highness, you're only a student from the Inferior Compound!
Even if the reality was this way, you couldn't be that aggressive, right? !
However!
"I like this proposal!" Nangong Lie smiled uninhibitedly as he faced Wei Wei and said. "Then let's decide on that. We're going to blitzkrieg (speed through) the first two compounds!"
Wei Wei was sitting with her legs slightly elevated. Her expression didn't change much at all. From start to finish, there was a light smile on her lips which was comfortable to look at. "This proposal is not bad. However, the Good and Fine Compounds are not as easy to defeat as we imagine. At least, when we reach the Fine Compound, the Hei family's young master will be an obstruction and won't be easy at all."
"A son of the Hei family?" Nangong Lie first glanced at Baili Jia Jue. After that, he meaningfully turned his head back and faced Wei Wei to say. "It seems that you have a very high assessment of him."
Wei Wei also didn't lift her head as she looked at the paper she's rolling up and replied. "He's indeed worthy of attention. I feel that he's even stronger than those people at the Superior Compound."
"Oooh, so it's like that." Nangong Lie lengthened his intonation as his eyes turned towards Baili Jia Jue's direction and glanced over.
There wasn't the slightest bit of change on Baili Jia Jue's face, merely that the hand hidden inside his sleeves became slightly sluggish. There were even layers of water ripples forming within the cup he was holding.
That pair of originally soft eyes also became ice-cold and difficult to sense at this time.
Seeing that he sat there so calmly, Nangong Lie even felt that he hadn't stirred things up enough and added. "Putting it this way, you even quite admire him?"
"You can say it like that." Wei Wei's finger tapped on the names of opponents that merited attention and pushed forward a bit. She originally wanted to have the guy sitting in front of her take a look at the opponent he'd face, Young Master Yuan, but when she met the pair of eyes as cold and chilly as ice, she couldn't help but pause a bit. "What is it?"
Baili Jia Jue let go of the teacup in his hand and lazily and demonically smiled. There wasn't the slightest bit of warmth in his eyes. "Nothing."
"Is your face hurting again?" Wei Wei could only think of this one thing as her smiling expression became milder. "Don't worry. When the finals of the competition comes around, we'll also have those brothers properly taste the flavor of being hit in the face..."
Chapter 148 - Look Down on Third Prince
"You're injured by someone?" Nangong Lie seemed as if he's heard some fairy tale and his entire body perked up to look at Baili Jia Jue's direction with disbelief.
When had the person known as Ghost Palace's Third Prince ever been hit?
Even if he'd lost martial qi.
Nobody dared to even make noise in front of him.
It's not because of any other reason except that this person's methods were too cruel!
So ruthless that even those people from the four great clans didn't dare to act without thinking.
Moreover, he knew how to hold a grudge!
He didn't like to immediately put things in order, but would later slowly make up for it knife by knife!
Those shadow secret guards who tried to assassinate him were a specific example.
D
on't be deceived by how calm and unhurried he seemed when he was at Armament City.
After he returned, he'd visited the palace, merely a visit like that had alarmed the four great clans and eight influential families.
He didn't say who sent out those secret guards and only said that he'd find the evidence among these people. This made those people totally dumbstruck, but could only look on helplessly as he investigated them one by one.
Each time a family was investigated, a little something would always be revealed.
The leaders of the four great clans had no choice but to spend more money to take care of matters. What they wanted was face, especially for their offsprings. There were some things which, if people in the capitol knew, it'd undoubtedly become the common people's laughingstock. That would be more unbearable than to suffer a beating.
Right now, none of them dared to visit the brothels, precisely because they feared that Third Prince might be unhappy and directly send people to those beds!
Forget thinking that the Third Prince was as aloof as a god and wouldn't interfere with these matters!
By this time, there'd already been two elders who were investigated in this way, investigations which traumatized them so much, they could no longer get a hard on no matter who their partner was!
Think about it. Fundamentally, in the midst of happily performing the act was when a man felt ecstasy, also when his guard was down, yet at exactly that moment, a sword suddenly appeared at his head, also with countless numbers of shadow guards motionlessly floating in the air. Even though they haven't touched a single hair, and they only watched with lingering gazes, merely thinking of this scene was enough. Nangong Lie's body filled with goosebumps.
That's why he couldn't believe that this kind of man would take a beating.
You could kill him and he'd still feel it's impossible!
There must be something going on!
Based on his understanding of Ah Jue, the guy must be up to something!
Nangong Lie watched his friend's calm appearance, and was just about to open his mouth, when he was interrupted by Baili Jia Jue. "There were four of them and only one of me, is it strange that I'm injured?"
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