The Way We Were

Yan Dongxu discovered that Zhao Qingqing was becoming more and more bold.

She now often cracked risqué jokes with him.

"Why are you just standing there? Go get two more boxes!"

"Yeah, yeah, too little is not enough."

“Don’t you see the size? Has Blue Emperor gotten any bigger?”

"You should use the smallest size."

"Haha, I'm laughing to death."

...

The audience was extraordinarily mocking.

They sent barrage after barrage of teasing comments about him.

"You guys are just jealous, gritting your teeth in envy right?" Yan Dongxu said arrogantly.

"Ptooey!"

"Say less!"

"How dare you talk to your elders like that?"

...

Yan Dongxu laughed while waiting for Zhao Qingqing to pay.

"You pay first, I'll transfer it to you later. I only brought one phone when I went out, I'm livestreaming."

"No need! Do I still need you to pay such a small amount?" Zhao Qingqing refused.

"You must have done that on purpose."

"It won't take one or two more minutes, switch over to scan the code. Don't let Blue Emperor pay."

"Yeah, hurry and pay, we can't freeload."

"Stop streaming for now, we can wait a while."

...

The audience was quite principled.

Yan Dongxu quickly switched out of the livestreaming app to pay first.

"Okay, paid."

He switched back to update the audience.

"That's more like it."

"Check to make sure you didn't get it wrong. It looked to me like Blue Emperor was buying chewing gum!"

"Didn't get it wrong, I saw clearly it was 0.03 thickness."

...

After leaving the supermarket, Yan Dongxu and the others went back to cook.

He helped out for a while before Zhao Qingqing told him to rest.

Watching Zhao Qingqing busying herself alone in the kitchen, he inexplicably felt a surge of happiness.

He pretended to watch TV while actually using his abilities to sense everything within a kilometer radius.

His abilities were too freakish. Within a kilometer radius was like his domain, nothing could escape his eyes.

A quarreling couple on the tenth floor, a beauty showering on the fourteenth floor, an otaku watching anime on the twenty-sixth floor...

Everything was within his perception.

Suddenly!

He saw Uncle De was on the rooftop of their building.

This instantly caught Yan Dongxu's attention.

Wasn't Uncle De supposed to be out? Why did he come back and go sit on the rooftop instead of going home?

He saw Uncle De breathing evenly.

He was familiar with this breathing frequency. It was the method of breath control.

However, the breath control method Uncle De was using was slightly different from the one Zhou Quan taught him.

There were subtle variations in frequency, but overall it was the same.

"Is this old guy also a cultivator?"

Yan Dongxu murmured to himself as he continued observing.

He saw Uncle De breathe for a while before suddenly opening his eyes, his black pupils instantly turned crimson.

His eyes were the same color as the evening glow on the horizon, but also somewhat sinister.

Only when the afterglow was gradually shrouded by the night did Uncle De’s eyes slowly revert to black.

He let out a murky breath and his figure flashed, instantly disappearing.

Yan Dongxu’s mind stirred, sensing that Uncle De had reappeared five hundred meters east.

After the next flash, Uncle De was already outside his range of perception.

"So powerful!!!"

Yan Dongxu broke out in goosebumps, realizing Uncle De was extraordinarily strong, likely also an ability user.

But on second thought, Uncle De had been retired for years now, yet he was still firmly ranked second on the assassin leaderboard.

It showed how freakish he used to be.

There was probably a huge gap between his record and those ranked behind him, otherwise he wouldn't have remained unsurpassed for so many years.

"Zhao Qingqing, can you tell me about your family?" Yan Dongxu asked while sitting on the sofa.

"Give me a minute." Zhao Qingqing quickly finished what she was doing, washed her hands, and came over after.

"Dinner will be ready in half an hour. Wait a while longer."

Zhao Qingqing said considerately.

"Okay, I'm not hungry yet."

Yan Dongxu responded before looking at her curiously.

"Let me talk about myself first." Zhao Qingqing understood what he meant and jumped right in.

"We're a huge family clan. I'm from the main Zhao bloodline."

"Grandpa is the current leader of Black Gauze."

"According to the rules of our clan, from every grandson's family, one or two people must be selected for assassin training."

"My dad is grandpa's eldest of five kids. Since there's just me and my sister in our family, one of us was destined to go for training."

"I basically grew up outside ever since I was born. Rarely asked about family matters. It was my sister who took care of everything for me."

"I was able to attend school and get into the police academy all thanks to my sister using her own time to earn those for me."

"If ever she refused the assassin training, I would undoubtedly be the one to go."

"Because she's older, she had a choice while I didn't."

Zhao Qingqing's eyes reddened as she spoke, full of gratitude towards her sister.

Yan Dongxu could hardly imagine how brutal the assassin training was, but the reality was definitely harsher than he could envision.

He met Zhao Yunyun twice and though very annoying, she was still an alright person.

Yan Dongxu also knew Zhao Yunyun doted a lot on Zhao Qingqing as her little sister.

"What's the deal with White Moon and Black Gauze then?" Yan Dongxu asked next.

"Huh? You sent Ye Qingya back for so long earlier and she didn't tell you?" Zhao Qingqing was astonished.

"No, she said if I was curious then just ask you when I got back."

"Humph, she's too embarrassed to say." Zhao Qingqing coldly laughed, seeing through Ye Qingya's little scheme.

"White Moon and Black Gauze used to be one organization."

"Later as White Moon gradually expanded, it split off on its own."

"But everyone tacitly understood that the members never distinguished yours versus mine."

"They believed deep down that they were still one organization."

"This situation continued until five years ago when cracks started appearing, later rupturing completely."

Zhao Qingqing sighed, unwilling to continue.

"Why, what happened?" Yan Dongxu was intrigued and quickly asked.

"Five years ago, Black Gauze took on a mission with a reward of five billion yuan!"

"That was the biggest job Black Gauze ever accepted since being founded. So upper management was extremely attentive, not daring to be the slightest bit careless."

"White Moon was responsible for intelligence. Their information network spreads all over the world with an accuracy rate as high as 99%. You could say nothing escapes their grasp."

"But for that mission, White Moon had a serious error in their intel."

"It resulted in Black Gauze suffering an extremely heavy casualty rate. My second and fifth uncles died in that battle."

"Black Gauze also lost several top assassins who perished in the ambush."

"Back then Black Gauze had a total of six top masters of Uncle De's level. They were known as the Six Ghosts of Black Gauze in assassin circles."

"After that mission though, of the Six Ghosts only Uncle De the Night Ghost remained. Black Gauze suffered an unprecedented devastating blow."