Chapter 2730 — The Furious Kang Jinglong

Today was destined to be a day of celebration for the Kang family. The most excited person, apart from Kang the Divine Physician, was Kang Jinglong! He had been stifling his anger for far too long. Watching Wei Zhao openly flirt with his fiancée right in front of him was nothing short of a humiliating disgrace!

But in the past, to avoid provoking Wei Zhao, Kang Jinglong could only endure and endure again. When he truly could not hold it in any longer, he would gaze at the Ninja Turtle, and then he would manage to endure. Now, Kang Jinglong no longer needed to endure. He could finally fight back, finally pursue Wang Xinyan in direct opposition to Wei Zhao!

Because he, too, had a powerful backer now!

Kang Jinglong saw things with perfect clarity. In Instructor Bai's class, Wei Zhao would not dare kill him. He did worry that Wei Zhao might play dirty tricks, but the business with Zhong Yongliang a while ago had revealed something to Kang Jinglong: Wei Zhao did not dare truly do Zhong Yongliang in! Even though Zhong Yongliang was not Instructor Bai's student, he still did not dare!

In the end, it was all because Zhong Yongliang had an ancient-level background. If he had not been a disciple of the Tomorrow-and-Tomorrow Sect, would Wei Zhao have been wary of him? So now Kang Jinglong also had an ancient-level background, with a younger brother who was an elder of the Xuan Dan Sect. He did not believe Wei Zhao would dare do him in!

At least, in the matter of contending for Wang Xinyan, so long as he did not go too far, he believed Wei Zhao should be unable to do anything to him.

Although Kang the Divine Physician had said that Kang Jingming was now an elder of the Xuan Dan Sect and that the Kang family could act without scruple, facing Wei Zhao, Kang Jinglong was not so brainless as to go that far. Wei Zhao was not a man to be measured by common sense. If you did not cross his bottom line, he might, out of regard for your background, not easily do anything to you. But if you provoked his bottom line, he would not care who you were—he would just destroy you first and talk later!

And so, while the Kang family discussed their future development plans, Kang Jinglong was also scheming how to pursue Wang Xinyan, so as at least to surpass Wei Zhao in this matter and vent the hatred that had festered in his heart for so long!

At first, Kang Jinglong had felt nothing for Wang Xinyan; the betrothal had been arranged solely because it benefited the Kang family's development. But as time passed, especially with Wei Zhao's entrance, Kang Jinglong had imperceptibly come to regard Wang Xinyan as his private preserve, not to be touched by anyone else. Watching Wei Zhao draw closer to Wang Xinyan every day, Kang Jinglong's heart burned with fury and misery. Now that he had a chance to turn things around, he would certainly not let it slip!

This had already become a madman's psychology born of long suppression. Even now that the Kang family had grown powerful, he did not want to dissolve the engagement with Wang Xinyan. If he dissolved it, would that not prove all the more that he feared Wei Zhao?

In the past, he had indeed feared Wei Zhao, true enough. But now that he had Kang Jingming, an elder of the Xuan Dan Sect, as his backing, what the hell was there to fear!

When Wei Zhao entered the classroom, he was still carrying Wang Xinyan in his arms. This scene was caught by Kang Jinglong, who had just strode in full of spirits. Kang Jinglong's anger flared on the spot—how could he possibly endure it? Never mind that he had only just gained Kang Jingming's support; even without it, Wei Zhao carrying his fiancée openly into the classroom would have pushed him to the brink of explosion!

"Wei Zhao, what are you doing? Let go of that loli at once!" Kang Jinglong shouted angrily.

"??" Wei Zhao looked at Kang Jinglong, baffled. "What are you talking about? Is there something wrong with you?"

"Uh... let go of Wang Xinyan at once!" Kang Jingming had read a great pile of romance novels yesterday, hoping to find some counterattack methods to pursue Wang Xinyan and defeat Wei Zhao. But he had read too much, and just now, as he walked, his mind had been dwelling on those books' plots. Seeing Wei Zhao carrying Wang Xinyan, he had gotten excited and misspoken.

"You really do have something wrong with you. Can't you see she's asleep? If I let go, she'll fall to the ground!" Wei Zhao frowned, ignored Kang Jinglong, and continued into the classroom.

"Wait—if anyone's going to carry her, it should be me. What's the meaning of you carrying her?" Kang Jinglong rushed to stop Wei Zhao.

Wei Zhao paid him no attention.

"Huh? Wait, why is she asleep? How did you run into her? Where did you two go yesterday?" Kang Jinglong suddenly sensed something was off. Since Wang Xinyan was asleep, they surely had not run into each other by chance at school—Wang Xinyan could not have been walking while sleeping. That meant Wei Zhao must have carried the already deeply sleeping Wang Xinyan to school. So what exactly had happened between them?

The moment this thought crossed his mind, Kang Jinglong felt as though he had been cuckolded. His face flushed crimson, his eyes all but spitting fire. But Wei Zhao had already entered the classroom, and he could not ask too much in front of their classmates—otherwise, in the end, it would be he himself who was humiliated.

So Kang Jinglong could only swallow his rage and follow Wei Zhao into the classroom, seething with fury.

"Brother Kang, what's wrong?" You Panhu asked, feigning calm despite having witnessed the scene.

"Wei Zhao goes too far!" Kang Jinglong said, his face ashen. "It looks like he truly does not regard me as Wang Xinyan's fiancé!"

"This matter..." You Panhu pondered for a moment, then said, "There's really not much I can do to help with this, brother. The key problem is that Wei Zhao doesn't know your background right now, so naturally he doesn't take you seriously. If he knew your background, he should become wary."

"You have a point..." Kang Jinglong was calmed by You Panhu's words. The reason Wei Zhao was so unbridled was probably that he simply did not regard the Kang family at all. But that was no wonder—the Kang family had been declining like the setting sun, so it was normal for Wei Zhao not to take them seriously. After all, he did not even much regard the Hidden You family where You Panhu belonged! "Then what should I do? I can't very well go stupidly tell Wei Zhao that my brother is the Eighth Elder of the Xuan Dan Sect, can I?"

"This... well, it's not entirely impossible..." You Panhu thought it over and said, "After class, I'll go chat up Han Jingyi and see if I can find a way to get her notes on alchemy insights. Then you chime in from the side and mention that your brother is the Eighth Elder of the Xuan Dan Sect—that way Wei Zhao will hear it."

"That works. That's a good idea!" Kang Jinglong immediately agreed upon hearing it. This way, it would amount to indirectly informing Wei Zhao of his background.

You Panhu's idea could be said to kill two birds with one stone: he could discuss the alchemy notes with Han Jingyi and also curry favor with Kang Jinglong by helping him achieve his goal. You Panhu was quite pleased with himself—his intellect was still not to be underestimated; last time he had merely been careless.