Chapter 857
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Chapter 857 Falling Out!
Hearing Fang Yu’s question, Zhao Zinan raised her knees and buried her head between her legs, seemingly trying hard to remember.
Fang Yu didn’t rush her, waiting for Zhao Zinan’s answer.
About three minutes later, Zhao Zinan raised her head, shook it gently, and said: “Mr. Fang Yu… I’ve thought carefully, and I didn’t experience anything strange when I was young.”
“Nothing? Like suddenly fainting at some point, or experiencing a car accident, being struck by lightning, falling off a cliff…” Fang Yu listed several scenarios and said, “Think again carefully, did anything like this ever happen?”
Zhao Zinan shook her head decisively and said: “These… definitely not.”
“Really nothing?” Fang Yu asked.
“Hmm…” Zhao Zinan answered with certainty.
Her life’s development had been extremely ordinary.
When she was little, she was particularly shy, crying whenever she saw strangers. Over the years, this caused her parents to dislike her.
As she grew up, she went to elementary school, middle school, university… During her school years, because of her appearance, she was always the center of attention in her class and school, which made her naturally shy and timid self very uncomfortable.
She had once proposed not going to school, wanting to stay at home and complete her courses with a private tutor.
But this request was rejected by Zhao Jidao.
Zhao Jidao believed that Zhao Zinan must interact with the outside world, otherwise her character flaws would never be fixed.
After that, whenever Zhao Zinan said she didn’t want to go to school, she would face severe scolding.
Therefore, she no longer dared to say so, and could only endure the discomfort and continue going to school as usual.
But in this process, she became even more timid and shy, developing to a pathological degree.
Whenever she met strangers, even if she was in a good mood that day, it would immediately turn bad, her emotions would plummet, and she would even feel cold all over, her delicate body trembling.
She had seen many psychologists, but none could treat her condition.
Due to her increasingly severe character flaws, the elders in her family became increasingly cold toward her, even treating her as mentally ill.
Later on, even her parents didn’t want to deal with her much, leaving only her brother Zhao Xuan to care for her as before.
Zhao Zinan’s first twenty-four years of life had been spent this way.
Apart from shyness and timidity, there was only the cold stares and scolding from family elders… she hadn’t experienced any strange events like what Fang Yu mentioned.
Fang Yu knew that Zhao Zinan had no reason to lie about such things, and with her personality, she probably wouldn’t lie anyway.
Could something have happened… that Zhao Zinan didn’t know about, or had forgotten?
But if that were the case, there would be no way to know or verify it.
“Brother Fang Yu, am I… very strange?” Zhao Zinan asked softly, hugging her knees as she noticed Fang Yu’s silence.
“Indeed very strange,” Fang Yu answered.
“Oh…” Zhao Zinan lowered her head.
Fang Yu realized his words could be misinterpreted and said: “I meant your physical constitution, not you as a person.”
Zhao Zinan still kept her head down, hugging her knees, lost in thought.
Knowing Zhao Zinan’s fragile personality, Fang Yu thought for a moment and said again: “As for you… you’re the purest person I’ve ever met, like a blank sheet of paper.”
Hearing these words, Zhao Zinan raised her head, her eyes shining like stars.
“Everyone is born as a blank sheet of paper,” Fang Yu said. “But as we age and experience more things, we slowly become like books. You’re different though, you’re still a blank sheet, with at most just a few pages added.”
“…What about you?” Zhao Zinan asked.
“Me?” Fang Yu was taken aback, then answered, “I should be like a series of books, from volume one to volume one thousand, and that might not even be enough.”
Hearing Fang Yu’s strange metaphor, Zhao Zinan found it oddly amusing and suddenly giggled.
Immediately after, she realized this might not be appropriate and quickly covered her face, explaining: “Brother Fang Yu, I wasn’t laughing at you…”
“It’s fine, laugh if you want to,” Fang Yu said. “Don’t worry too much about what others think. In this world, you need to put yourself first, otherwise…”
At this point, Fang Yu suddenly thought of someone, and his heart trembled.
Zhao Zinan stared at him with wide eyes, waiting for the second half of his sentence.
But Fang Yu stood up and said: “It’s getting late, let’s go back and rest.”
“…Mm.” Zhao Zinan obediently replied, getting up to follow Fang Yu.
…
The next morning, as expected, both branches of the Wang family sent teams to the temporary hall of the Northern Capital Martial Arts Association.
Although the major families couldn’t attend in person, they all sent scouts to linger outside the temporary hall to gather information.
It could be said that the entire Northern Capital martial arts world was quietly paying attention to the development of this matter.
Wang Zhishan and Wang Hetian, the two family heads, each brought six followers and stood at the entrance of the temporary hall.
They wore white and gold robes, exuding an aura of nobility and superiority.
This was the Wang family!
“We want to see Huaixu,” Wang Hetian stared at Zheng Ze in front of him and said coldly.
“The master is still resting and cannot meet with you two at the moment. Please come back another day…” Zheng Ze said anxiously, following the script Fang Yu had given him.
For everyone in the Northern Capital, the Wang family was an existence difficult to look up to.
Under the Wang family’s years of dominance, most people in the Northern Capital believed from the bottom of their hearts that the Wang family was indeed superior.
Zheng Ze was no exception.
Now, facing the two family heads of the Wang family, he still felt some fear in his heart.
Especially after saying what he just did.
Sure enough, after hearing Zheng Ze’s words, Wang Zhishan and Wang Hetian’s expressions changed instantly!
Especially Wang Zhishan, whose face turned ashen, with a fierce light in his eyes.
“Master Huaixu is refusing to see us!?” Wang Zhishan raised his voice and questioned, “He should be very clear about why we’re here! The only reason we’re still maintaining peace is out of respect for him!”
“But respect is mutual.”
“If he treats us Wang family members like this… don’t blame us for breaking all pretense!”
In fact, Wang Zhishan’s words had already broken all pretense.
Wang Hetian didn’t speak, his face extremely gloomy.
And the twelve followers behind them also had rising auras.
Twelve Huashen-stage cultivators…
This lineup could dominate any region in China.
Zheng Ze swallowed, inevitably feeling fear in his heart.
“Master Huaixu can choose not to see us, but at minimum… First, return Wang Wenshan to us. Second, that Fang Yu who acted yesterday must also be handed over to us!” Wang Hetian said coldly.
As he spoke, the aura of the two Wang family teams grew stronger.
The guards of the Martial Arts Association around them were all suppressed by this aura, unable to breathe, their faces pale and eyes fearful.
Even in its prime, the Martial Arts Association had few Huashen-stage experts internally.
Not to mention now!
The Martial Arts Association was supported by Huaixu alone!
But today Huaixu wasn’t coming out… making the Martial Arts Association a paper tiger without any resistance.
Zheng Ze’s face turned slightly pale, and he remained silent.
“I’ll state once more, either hand over these two people. Or, Huaixu comes out to talk to us face to face!” Wang Hetian said coldly.
This time, he didn’t even use an honorific when referring to Huaixu.
Clearly, Wang Hetian no longer intended to save face for Huaixu.
And this statement was accompanied by the spread of true qi.
“Puff!”
A guard immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowing and begging: “Great masters, this matter has nothing to do with us, please be merciful and spare us servants…”
With one guard taking the lead, the other guards also knelt down, begging together.
After all, the Martial Arts Association was already half-dead, and they didn’t want to continue serving as guards here.
Moreover, having offended the Wang family, the Martial Arts Association was basically finished.
Now, self-preservation was the right path!
Seeing these guards kneel down, both Wang Hetian and Wang Zhishan flashed looks of contempt.
A bunch of spineless cowards.
If it weren’t for Huaixu, they wouldn’t want to come to such a place personally, lowering their own status.
Wang Zhishan looked at Zheng Ze and said: “You should really tell your master not to let his one mistake implicate so many innocent people.”
Zheng Ze now didn’t know what to do.
Half an hour ago, Fang Yu had called him, told him to say what he just said, and then hung up.
In the current situation, he truly didn’t know what would be the right thing to do.
“Stop wasting words with this servant.”
Wang Zhishan stepped forward, suddenly extended his right hand, grabbed Zheng Ze by the neck, and lifted him up.
“If we can’t see Wang Wenshan, can’t see Fang Yu… then Huaixu will never see you again.” Wang Zhishan’s eyes were bloodshot, filled with killing intent as he spoke.
“Unfortunately, if hell doesn’t exist, you really will never see Wang Wenshan again.”
At this moment, a lazy voice came from the side.
Wang Zhishan’s expression changed slightly as he was about to turn his head.
“Ah!”
But the next second, he felt a sharp pain in his right hand, screamed, and clutched his right arm as he retreated several steps.
Looking back again, he saw Fang Yu standing in front of Zheng Ze, with half a steaming bun still in his mouth.
