Yalan Teahouse,
The elegant private rooms were filled with the faint aroma of tea.
With its streetfront location, the rent wasn't cheap, not to mention the wide variety of high-end teas that were hard to find on the market.
Even the waitresses were dressed in well-fitting cheongsams, with their hair neatly done up in buns, meticulous in every way.
The beautiful waitresses each looked like paintings on their own, but when Su Xiyan walked into the teahouse, all of those lovely women instantly lost their glow.
It was a perfect illustration of the saying "no contrast, no harm done".
When Su Xiyan arrived at Yalan Teahouse, Tang Zhiyuan, the overall supervisor of the Su City Demon Hunters, was already sitting in a corner waiting for her.
"Supervisor Tang," Su Xiyan walked over and greeted him.
Tang Zhiyuan looked Su Xiyan over, "Have a seat! What kind of tea would you like?"
"Jasmine tea," Su Xiyan replied.
The tea arrived swiftly. Tang Zhiyuan didn't ask the servers to prepare it, but started going through the intricate steps himself.
The boss of the Su City Demon Hunters was personally brewing tea?
Su Xiyan got right to the point, "Supervisor Tang, what did you want to see me about?"
Without halting the motions of brewing, Tang Zhiyuan spoke plainly, "Nothing much really, I mainly just wanted to ask if you have a Chen Shuo around you?"
Chen Shuo??
Su Xiyan's heart lurched violently!
Chen Shuo was a vampire! Did Tang Zhiyuan single her out for a private meeting because he already knew Chen Shuo's true identity?
Discipline in the Demon Hunter Organization was extremely strict.
If anyone found out that Su Xiyan, a demon hunter herself, was harboring a baby vampire, it would bring cataclysmic shockwaves through the entire Demon Hunter Organization!
At this point, Su Xiyan could only feign ignorance for the time being: "Yeah, Chen Shuo lives with me."
"What's the matter, Supervisor Tang? Why are you suddenly asking about him?"
On the surface, Su Xiyan acted nonchalant, but her pitch black eyes shone as she closely observed Tang Zhiyuan's microexpressions.
Tang Zhiyuan smiled, "I'm not suspecting that Chen Shuo is the Demon King!"
Su Xiyan: "???"
Tang Zhiyuan: "Little Su, where did your usual cleverness run off to?"
It's said that when a woman falls in love, her IQ drops. Could this be a manifestation of that??
Two red clouds emerged on Su Xiyan's fair and exquisite face.
As a seasoned veteran, Tang Zhiyuan immediately discerned that the relationship between Su Xiyan and Chen Shuo was unusual.
Su Xiyan asked, "Wasn't it you, Supervisor Tang, who said that Chen Shuo just happened to appear near all the spots where the Demon King showed up?"
Tang Zhiyuan replied, "That's right! And that's why I wanted to find you to ask if you could ask Chen Shuo if he's seen anything... abnormal."
"For ordinary humans, the appearance of a vampire should count as abnormal right?"
"We demon hunters always act prudently, never allowing humans to discover our existence. But vampires don't necessarily do the same. To them, humans are delicious food."
"It's very possible they would leave behind some kind of trail or flaw. Since Chen Shuo happened to be nearby, maybe he saw something unusual."
Ordinary humans? A wild delight surged through Su Xiyan's heart!
So Tang Zhiyuan still hadn't discovered Chen Shuo's true identity.
The only reason Tang Zhiyuan specifically sought out Su Xiyan was because demon hunters had a rule to never allow ordinary humans to find out about the existence of vampires and demon hunters. For humans, it would be an earth-shattering revelation!
Therefore, when hunting vampires or tracking their whereabouts, demon hunters would do their utmost to prevent ordinary humans from catching on.
The long and winding path Tang Zhiyuan took was simply to get Su Xiyan to sound out Chen Shuo to see if he had noticed anything unusual.
This wasn't much like Tang Zhiyuan's way of doing things!
As the boss of the Su City Demon Hunters, Tang Zhiyuan had absolute authority.
Su Xiyan sensed Tang Zhiyuan's aberrant behavior. He was a crafty old fox, there must be more to this matter than meets the eye.
For such a simple thing, he could have just sent a message through the demon hunter internal network, or even just made a phone call to explain things clearly in a few sentences.
But instead, Tang Zhiyuan specifically called Su Xiyan out to ask her face-to-face.
All of Tang Zhiyuan's actions were proof enough that this matter wasn't as easy as it appeared on the surface.
After thinking it over, Su Xiyan voiced her own thoughts:
"Chen Shuo is my roommate. Before letting him move into my home, I already conducted a background check."
"He's a Su City native born and raised here. His parents do business elsewhere and he's their only child. His background is clean."
"Su City is his hometown where he grew up. And he's a Nanli University student, which happens to overlap with where the Demon King appeared, nothing too strange about that."
"Supervisor Tang, you know me. I wouldn't let someone who makes me feel unsafe live in my home."
Tang Zhiyuan contemplated briefly, "There's no need for you to be so anxious. I'm not suspecting Chen Shuo's identity."
"I only wanted you to ask Chen Shuo if he noticed anything out of the ordinary."
Su Xiyan nodded, "Okay, when he comes home after class later today, I'll try probing him to see if I can get any useful information for us."
"But Supervisor Tang, I don't think you should place too much expectation on Chen Shuo. He's just an ordinary human. He goes so many places every day, he may not necessarily remember."
From Su Xiyan's expression, Tang Zhiyuan understood he wouldn't get any information out of her.
"Alright, I'll await your message then."
Su Xiyan got up to leave, "Okay. Thank you for the tea, Supervisor Tang. Goodbye."
As he watched Su Xiyan's departing figure, Tang Zhiyuan's expression gradually grew solemn.
After quite some time passed, Tang Zhiyuan called his secretary, "Investigate the young man living with Su Xiyan, called Chen Shuo."
"Be careful."
Though he hadn't even seen Chen Shuo's face before, Tang Zhiyuan's many years of experience told him that this youth who seemed sunny and full of promise had an air of unfathomable depth about him.
In contrast to Tang Zhiyuan's gravity, inside the car after leaving the teahouse, what occupied Su Xiyan's mind more was unease.
Though Tang Zhiyuan's combat ability wasn't high, and he was already quite advanced in years, only at the Gold first-stage.
But he was able to firmly sit in the position of Head Supervisor of the Su City Demon Hunters relying on his insight into human nature and means that exceeded the average person.
+ Slow Paced + Main Character Thrives Together with His Disciples】 Transmigrated into a cultivation world, Chu Xingchen awakens a discipleship system that reveals the tags of his disciples! Starting from scratch, he builds the strongest sect. Disciple One: Li Yingling 【Gold Tag: Genius Cultivator】【Purple Tag: Extremely Lucky】【Blue Tag: Bewitchingly Beautiful】 Disciple Two: Li Hangtian 【Gold Tag: Reincarnated】【Purple Tag: Ruthless and Decisive】【Blue Tag: Loyal and Noble】 Disciple Three: ??? 【Orange Tag: Alluring Demoness】【???】【???】 Thus, in the cultivation world, an unremarkable little sect appears out of nowhere, but little do others know that each member of this sect is a powerhouse in their own right. The book is also known as: Cultivation? It's Exactly Like This!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
