Chapter 4188 — He Refused!
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"I'll just keep muddling along here. It suits me fine—no need for Senior Brother Xu to trouble himself." Wei Zhao was utterly impervious. He looked Xu Lingchong up and down, then said with a playful expression, "Senior Brother Xu, seeing that you're all right—that really is just wonderful. Though, well... hehehehehehe..."
To onlookers, Wei Zhao's burst of laughter was baffling, but Xu Lingchong knew exactly what it meant—the little bastard was laughing at him for having lost his family jewels!
"What are you laughing at!" Xu Lingchong's laughter was instantly rankled into a fury. "Laugh again and I swear this young master will finish you off right now!"
"Heh, you may control heaven and earth, but do you control whether I laugh or not? The managing senior brother of the Chongtian Pavilion doesn't have that much power, does he?" Wei Zhao said, watching him with sly amusement.
"Hmph, you've got nerve, Wei Zhao. You'd better watch yourself—don't ever let this young master catch you in something!" Xu Lingchong was grinding his teeth in rage, yet he could not lay a hand on Wei Zhao. He could only turn and depart with his retinue, his face dark as a storm cloud.
He truly had not imagined that this fellow Wei Zhao, faced with the present him, would show not the slightest fear. It seemed the boy was not as easy to handle as he had thought. He would have to plan this out carefully from now on!
Wei Zhao—and Shangguan Lan'er. Those two would have to pay.
Watching Xu Lingchong's departing back, Wei Zhao curled the corner of his mouth slightly. No good ever came of such visitors. Now that this one had returned, he would surely make trouble for him. He would have to stay on his guard in the days ahead.
For a time after that, Wei Zhao rarely left his dwelling, spending every day in seclusion cultivating. He had already faintly touched the barrier at the peak of the early Golden Core stage and had thought he would break through in one smooth stroke. Yet for some reason, it was as though he had hit a bottleneck—only that final small step remained, and he could never take it, and he could not tell where the problem lay.
Beyond that, one other thing surprised Wei Zhao considerably: Xu Lingchong had not come looking for trouble at all!
During this period, Xu Lingchong attended occasion after occasion, reverting to the glorious managing senior brother of the Chongtian Pavilion, his power and status gradually consolidating. Yet the one thing he did not do was go make trouble for Wei Zhao.
Stranger still, wherever Xu Lingchong went, he always brought Meng Zhou along. The two were inseparable, thick as thieves—so much so that even Kang Jingming grew jealous. He had always considered himself Xu Lingchong's number one lackey!
Now the trust and regard Meng Zhou enjoyed clearly far outstripped his own. And what vexed and bewildered him even more was that Xu Lingchong insisted they all address Meng Zhou as "Brother Meng"!
Meng Zhou was to be treated exactly as they treated the great Young Master Xu—attended with the utmost respect front and back. Damn it, it was like acknowledging another ancestor!
What kind of honeyed potion had this Meng Zhou fed the great Young Master Xu to make him treat him so well? This was good to the point of excess!
Moreover, the inseparable intimacy between the two, in Kang Jingming's eyes, did not look like ordinary friends or a simple superior-subordinate relationship at all. It gave one the impression of a pair of deeply devoted lovers!
Lovers? The instant that bizarre thought surfaced, it gave Kang Jingming a fright. The more he thought about it, the stranger it seemed—yet he dared not ask, and could only keep serving on in cold-blooded dread.
This bewilderment was not Kang Jingming's alone; others close to Xu Lingchong shared it. Two grown men suddenly becoming so intimate—their relationship had plainly gone beyond friendship. It was impossible not to grow suspicious. (To be continued) R655