“Please thank your marquis for me! Tell him that Uncle Qing is indeed just like me, both of us gentlemen, models of keeping one’s word!” Ye Chu took the three-hundred-year lingzhi from the guard’s hand and casually tossed it to Liang Shan beside him.
Liang Shan caught it excitedly, yet he still felt a little dizzy. What kind of person was Qingyang Marquis? Not only was his temper explosive, but he was also notoriously stingy! Promises meant nothing to him. He had broken countless ones. People of Liang Shan’s father’s generation had cursed him behind his back as a petty villain more than once!
Yet such a man had actually kept his word and given the lingzhi to Ye Chu. He even let the matter of Ye Chu injuring his son slide. This was simply too unbelievable.
Most people in the hall felt the same as Liang Shan. They thought they had seen a ghost today. Even Ye Chu could defeat Qing Xiangming, and Qingyang Marquis could act like a gentleman. What else in this world was impossible?
Only the few who had been facing Qingyang Marquis directly seemed to understand why. Among them were Su Rong and Ye Chao.
Ye Chao had clearly seen Ye Chu gripping Qingyang Marquis’s wrist and the drastic change in the marquis’s expression after a slight struggle. Though Ye Chao did not want to believe the guess in his heart, what other reason could explain the marquis’s concession?
“Has he really stepped into the second realm? Become someone on the same level as Big Brother?” Ye Chao found the thought absurd. How could such a thing happen to Ye Chu?
Ye Chao looked at Ye Chu with complicated emotions. As if sensing his gaze, Ye Chu turned and met his eyes.
Looking at the lazy Ye Chu standing there, Ye Chao suppressed his feelings, exhaled lightly, and said calmly, “You have changed a lot in three years! But in dealing with people and matters, you must walk the righteous path to be a true hero of the world. Otherwise, no matter how much you change, you will only be scorned by others! To be a person and do things, first learn to be a proper person!”
Ye Chao still remembered that Ye Chu carried Ye family blood. He could not help advising him. Though Ye Chu had been expelled from the family, as brothers, he still hoped Ye Chu could improve and no longer be cursed by the world.
Ye Chu smiled, very casually. “I do not have such grand ambitions as… you. All I wish for is to enjoy life to the fullest while it lasts! Life is short. Why care about others’ opinions? Their words? If they want to curse, let them curse! It changes nothing for me!”
“Stubborn and unrepentant!” Ye Chao snorted. The faint hope that had risen in him shattered instantly. Ye Chu was still Ye Chu, putting pleasure first! His nature was fixed. His scoundrel character could never change. “Look after yourself!”
Ye Chao turned and left with a flick of his sleeve. He no longer hoped to save Ye Chu. Let such a person fend for himself!
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With the lingzhi in hand, Ye Chu did not linger in Qingyang Marquis Mansion. He left the gates with Liang Shan. Just as they stepped out, a clear, cool voice called him. “Ye Chu!”
“Hm?” Ye Chu turned and saw Su Rong chasing after him with Zhang Su’er. This surprised him. He thought Su Rong should despise him deeply. Why would she approach? “What is it? Can’t bear to see me go?”
His teasing words made Su Rong frown delicately. She exhaled through red lips. “You defeated Qing Xiangming. That already proves your strength. If you can change further, rid yourself of those bad habits, I think many people will admire you.”
“Including you?” Ye Chu laughed, staring straight at Su Rong. Her nose was refined and straight, lips vivid red, chest proudly raised. Tight trousers outlined long, beautiful legs with tempting elasticity one could feel just looking. Ye Chu had to admit she was a beauty, very captivating.
“Ye Chu! Take your dog eyes back!” Zhang Su’er saw Ye Chu’s gaze openly fixed on Su Rong. Her eyes flared with anger. This fellow was growing bolder. If not for helping them once, she would ignore him!
Ye Chu completely ignored the mad girl Zhang Su’er. He smiled at Su Rong. “I lack self-control most of all. If you stayed by my side, willing to guide me, perhaps I would change! But, little Su Rong, would you be willing?”
Many young masters and ladies coming out the gates saw Ye Chu teasing Su Rong with roguish words. They stopped abruptly. Some men glared furiously! Yet none dared step forward!
Su Rong’s expression grew colder. She said to Ye Chu, “I have no obligation to do anything for you!”
“Those words wound me deeply!” Ye Chu sighed. “We have known each other so many years. I always thought we were friends. I even thought if you asked me to warm your bed and keep you company at night, I could try hard to satisfy you. Yet you are so heartless. It seems we are not the same kind of people after all! My heart is thoroughly broken. I feel I will love no more!”
Hearing Ye Chu’s words, everyone thought this fellow was too good at pretending! You will love no more? As if you ever loved!
Such shameless words finally made Zhang Su’er explode. “Will you die if you are not shameless, not lewd, not evil? Is being admired by others not better than being a street rat?”
Ye Chu shook his head, expression somewhat melancholic. His whole demeanour grew deep. He sighed in an extremely low voice. “You do not understand my excellence! The talent heaven gave me, how could ordinary people like you comprehend? My flamboyance is heaven’s will. My lewdness is my true nature. Heaven wills it so. Would you have me defy heaven?”
Everyone stared dumbfounded. Their worldview completely overturned! This fellow actually took pride in it. Truly… truly… speechless!
Su Rong and Zhang Su’er were equally blocked by Ye Chu’s words. They did not know whether to laugh or cry in anger! When someone could shamelessly say such things and treat them as life’s pursuit, how could they persuade him?
“I think you should learn from me! In this world, follow heaven’s will! Then I will appoint you my left and right protectors, acting on heaven’s behalf! You will surely achieve great things! The world will worship you!” Ye Chu said to Su Rong and Zhang Su’er.
The two women felt they were going mad. They had come to advise Ye Chu. Yet Ye Chu was advising them to do evil and be shameless!
“Beyond saving!” Su Rong bit her pearl-like teeth. Her delicate, jade-like pretty face showed a faint, imagination-stirring blush. Disappointment filled her eyes. She finally stopped trying to persuade Ye Chu.
Seeing the two women silent, Ye Chu smiled. He patted Liang Shan, who stood stunned and lost, making him pick up the lingzhi that had fallen to the ground.
“Little Su Rong! Though you wounded my heart, I am magnanimous! If you ever feel lonely, empty, or cold, you can still call me to warm your bed and keep you company.” Ye Chu smiled, then laughed heartily with Liang Shan as they walked away.
Ye Chu knew he had thoroughly angered Su Rong this time. This woman’s disgust towards him had reached its peak.
But Ye Chu did not care. His reputation was already this bad. A little worse made no difference. Most importantly, Ye Chu did not want to hear everyone coming to tell him “be a good person”!
Hearing those words too often, Ye Chu felt like hitting someone. He had always been a person. They all said “be a good person”. Was that not calling him inhuman?
With today’s teasing of Su Rong spreading, surely no one would bother him with “be a good person” anymore!
