Chapter 1411 — Yu Feng's Suspicion
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Chen Yuxuan's expression turned somewhat ugly, but what Yu Feng said was indeed the truth — the truth of the past, at least. In the old days, Chen Yuxuan truly could not hold the Chen family up. Back then he spent every day with An Liwen and the rest, eating, drinking, and making merry, known as one of the Four Young Masters of Songshan, and rather pleased with himself for it — until he woke up one day, too late. He had missed the best years for cultivation. He watched Qiu Lingshan step by step into the ranks of cultivators while he himself stood still, and so he had resolutely chosen to go out into the world, to the border defenses, to fight smugglers and drug lords to the death, hoping to force out his own latent potential.
But because of his age, Chen Yuxuan still made no progress — until he met Instructor Eagle. It was during a training camp; the Mysterious Investigation Bureau had, by all accounts, gone to enormous lengths to secure Eagle as an instructor. And it was precisely through that acquaintance with Eagle that Chen Yuxuan groped his way to the threshold of cultivation, and afterward rose in one leap to become an early Yellow rank expert.
Yet although he had become a Yellow rank expert, he knew well enough that he was still far too weak. Such strength was nowhere near enough to hold up the whole Chen family — even the bodyguards of many a big boss were early Yellow rank experts — and yet Chen Yuxuan had no way out. He could only work diligently while striving to raise his cultivation.
He understood too that if not for his sister's nominal betrothal, the Chen family would likely never have come this far. But that nominal betrothal — even Chen Yuxuan himself did not believe in it, let alone anyone else. So many years without a word; Chen Yuxuan had even come to think that it was a smokescreen his grandfather had deliberately laid down back then for the family's sake. Otherwise, how could an ancient sect possibly take a fancy to his sister, still in swaddling clothes? There was simply no sense in it.
"Yu Feng, don't push people too far!" Chen Yuxuan said coldly. "Half a word is too many when the talk doesn't agree. Since that's how it is, please go ahead. Lingshan and I still have work to discuss."
"Driving me off? Ah, yes — a rumor just came back to me. Chen Yuxuan, aren't you one of Qiu Lingshan's suitors? Years of chasing and you never caught her. What's the matter, afraid I'll beat you to it?" Yu Feng snorted scornfully. "But let me tell you, Chen Yuxuan — the betrothal between Qiu Lingshan and me was settled by our families. You don't qualify! There's nothing here for you. Get out, and don't make me throw you out."
"First, this is a workplace, and Qiu Lingshan and I have work to discuss," Chen Yuxuan said. "Second, if anyone leaves, it's you. You said it yourself — the betrothal was arranged by the families, not decided by Lingshan herself. She doesn't like you, and she already has someone in her heart. So if you have any sense, you'd best give it up, before you're rejected and lose face. There — I've said what needed saying. Suit yourself."
"Someone in her heart?" Yu Feng's face darkened. "You mean that someone is you?"
"It certainly isn't you!" Chen Yuxuan could hardly name Wei Zhao on Qiu Lingshan's behalf, so he said only that.
"Fine! Very fine!" Yu Feng stared at Chen Yuxuan and nodded, grinding his teeth. "Chen Yuxuan, so you're determined to stick your oar in?"
"I would not shrink from it!" Chen Yuxuan said firmly. This was a matter he had to take up, whether for Qiu Lingshan's sake or for Wei Zhao's. Since words had carried them this far, then let it be settled here — otherwise Yu Feng would keep pestering Qiu Lingshan day after day, and that would be a problem in the end.