By the time An Changqing reached this point, Qin Wu’s face had twisted with indignation.
“Damn it! I didn’t find out about this until my senior year, either.”
“I thought that after Fu Wenyu and the others left, I would become the strongest person in the academy. Naturally, I went to challenge the top-ranked student, only to be beaten into the ground.”
“That was when my old man finally told me that this so-called Liu Ruyan was nothing more than a ghost the principal had invented to indulge his cross-dressing fetish!”
An Changqing coughed twice. “Ahem. You can’t exactly put it that way. The principal was only trying to motivate us.”
“I say he’s got a cross-dressing fetish. Bah, what a shameless old pervert.”
Since there were no outsiders around, Qin Wu let his mouth run freely.
He simply couldn’t bear to watch a young junior like Chen Guan continue being deceived by the lies about the Ghost Senior.
Chen Guan was indeed incredibly strong, but no matter how strong he was, there was no way he could defeat a tenth-tier principal before graduation, right?
If that shattered his confidence and ruined his path forward, Qin Wu would feel responsible.
Still, Qin Wu estimated that Liu Ruyan would probably be graduating this year.
After all, this year’s Huaqing class was simply too strong. The principal might even ride the wave of their success and move up to an even higher position.
Once the principal left, the Ghost Senior would naturally be set free.
……
Evening.
Qin Wu had generously booked out the entire restaurant. The sixteen members of Huaqing Academy were about to enter and celebrate a victory that had practically been monopolized by their own school.
“Don’t hold back. Eat as much as you like.” Qin Wu thumped his chest, his voice booming. “Especially you two, Chen Guan and Yuehe. We may already have the championship in the bag, but we still need to put on a proper show in tomorrow’s finals!”
Just as everyone was about to step through the entrance, several figures standing outside brought them all to an abrupt halt.
The lively atmosphere from a moment ago was snuffed out as if an invisible hand had clamped down on it.
At the front stood none other than An Changsong, chairman of the Huaxia Superpower Association.
Beside him, a gentle-looking woman regarded them with a warm smile.
On the other side stood Su Jin.
Every student instinctively straightened their backs.
“Dad, what are you doing here? Mom, when did you arrive?”
An Changqing was the first to react. He walked forward with a smile on his face.
The woman standing beside An Changsong was An Changqing’s mother, Ruan Junya.
Su Yuehe followed him forward and gave Su Jin a slight bow, her voice soft.
“Mother.”
“Mm.”
Su Jin’s reply was as sparing as ever. Her gaze lingered on her daughter for less than a second before shifting away, as though they were strangers in public.
“Your mother happened to be passing through, so I came over with her for a meal.”
An Changsong smiled as he spoke. He patted An Changqing on the shoulder, his tone warm and familiar.
“Young people should enjoy your own gathering. We old folks won’t intrude. Have fun, and don’t drink too much.”
With one arm around his wife’s shoulders, An Changsong turned and left.
As soon as An Changsong was gone, quite a few students breathed a sigh of relief.
Only after those figures had completely disappeared around the street corner did Qin Wu dare take a deep breath.
He theatrically wiped at the nonexistent sweat on his forehead, then leaned over and exclaimed in a low voice, “My god, that was… the Chairwoman herself.”
His voice was full of relief at having survived the ordeal, along with unmistakable lingering fear.
“Who else would it be?” Long Ao shrugged. “You’ve seen that face plenty of times on television.”
“It’s fine. Mother… She was probably just passing by. It had nothing to do with us.”
Su Yuehe spoke with difficulty, her voice so quiet that it sounded as though she were talking to herself.
Deep down, she was still a little disappointed. She had thought her mother had come to see her, only to discover that they had merely happened to run into each other.
“Ahem, stop standing around. Get inside, get inside. The food’s already been ordered.”
Qin Wu hurriedly smoothed things over and ushered everyone inside.
Chen Guan, meanwhile, was still recalling what Ruan Junya had looked like.
As An Changqing’s mother and An Changsong’s wife, Ruan Junya’s face was strangely unfamiliar to Chen Guan.
Compared with her husband and son, Ruan Junya was simply far too low-key.
“What are you thinking about, Chen Guan? Hurry up. We’re all waiting for you.”
Qin Wu’s booming voice interrupted Chen Guan’s thoughts.
He came back to himself and followed everyone into the restaurant’s luxurious private room.
The enormous round table was already covered with a dazzling array of dishes. Steam rose from the food as rich aromas filled the room, washing away the oppressive atmosphere from outside.
“Come on, everyone, take a seat.”
Qin Wu acted like the host, dropping himself into the seat closest to the door.
“I’m paying tonight. Anyone who tries to be polite is going to have a problem with me, especially you two.”
He pointed at Chen Guan and Su Yuehe.
“The finals are tomorrow. We have to eat well, drink well, and get plenty of rest tonight.”
Everyone took their seats, and the atmosphere finally grew lively again. The conversation naturally returned to the day’s matches.
“Seriously, Bai Huanran didn’t lose unfairly. Yuehe, your Word Spirit is just too ridiculous.”
Qin Wu spoke while picking up a piece of braised pork.
“Not really.”
Su Yuehe sat beside An Changqing, sipping her juice in small mouthfuls. Her mood was still low, and she only gave a polite response.
“Senior Bai surrendered on his own initiative. Otherwise, I would have been heavily drained, too.”
An Changqing noticed her disappointment and said gently, “Don’t dwell on it. The Chairwoman has always been like that. She definitely cares about you in her own way.”
“I know.”
Su Yuehe lowered her head and prodded the fish in her bowl with her chopsticks. She said nothing more.
Seeing this, An Changqing didn’t know how else to persuade her. He sighed and changed the subject.
“Speaking of which, the finals are tomorrow.”
He looked across the table at Chen Guan. “As someone who has fought both of you, I feel I have the right to say something.”
The moment he said this, everyone’s attention turned toward him. Even Qin Wu, who had been eating with his head down, pricked up his ears.
“Oh? Senior Changqing, tell us. Just who’s stronger, Brother Coffin or Senior Yuehe?”
Shan Heng’s face was full of curiosity.
“Well…”
An Changqing deliberately adopted a thoughtful expression, drawing out the word as his gaze shifted back and forth between Chen Guan and Su Yuehe.
“Yuehe’s strength lies in her ability to simplify anything complicated. She stands outside the rules. Any attack you use against her may become ineffective before her eyes—or even turn around and be used against you.”
As he spoke, he turned to Chen Guan.
“But Chen Guan is different.”
“His strength lies in taking anything simple and making it even simpler.”
An Changqing picked up his teacup and took a sip, moistening his throat.
“That secret technique Shizuko Kaga used would have been rather troublesome for me to deal with.”
“And what happened?” He spread his hands. “Chen Guan kicked her flying.”
“So,” An Changqing concluded, “one of them argues through the rules, while the other simply flips the table and refuses to reason with you.”
“If those two go up against each other, I have no idea what will happen. Either way, the arena is probably going to be wrecked. Let’s hope the organizers don’t cut corners tomorrow and give them a sturdier battlefield.”
His joke immediately lightened the atmosphere in the private room.
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
