When the sun finally beamed down up the earth, Wandong rounded off his cultivation with satisfaction. After cleaning himself up, he made his way to the front yard. Ning Shan had the breakfast prepared and was waiting for him.
After bidding his mother good morning, Wandong sat down. He asked Ning Shan while having breakfast, "Hasn't my grandpa finished his cultivation?"
Ning Shan shook her head and said, "You grandpa is about to break through the bottleneck of his cultivation, which may take him a couple of days. Yaoting, look how competent you are now! Senior Sun and Senior Wu couldn't stop praising you, and your grandpa is satisfied with you to an incomparable amount. Believe or not, I feel as if I were literally in a dream."
Ning Shan fixed her eyes on Wandong with care and love filling her countenance, which was by no means comparison with the seemingly-exquisite breakfast on the table.
"Mother, I apologize for my misbehavior in the past. You were always worried about me back then. Now I'm a grownup. I promise I will never let down you, my grandpa and dad ever again."
On hearing that, Ning Shan beamed even more radiantly, she kept nodding and said, "I trust you, Yaoting."
"Well, where's Tang Xinyi? I can't find her," Wandong asked.
"Ah. Xinyi popped over to the court to visit the Princess Baidie. She wanted me to relay a message to you that she will stay in the court for the whole day, hence she is not going to the Qingyun Martial Club today. And she asked you to have your wits about you when alone."
"Yaoting, do you fancy Xinyi or not? If you like her, I'll make arrangements right away and make you tie the knot. You see you are not a teenager anymore..." Ning Shan started to drone on.
"Oh! Mother, I'm running late, and I'm full now. I...I am heading to the Martial Club now..." Before Ning Shan was done with her inquiry, Wandong rushed off like a puff of smog. Ning Shan went confused.
How could Wandong withstand sitting there and listening to his mom's plan? He had his heart set on Mulian only, hence there was no room for anyone else in his life. Problems might arise if Ning Shan went on mismatching her son with Tang Xinyi like this.
"Wu Yang, dare you to go further in your stupidity? It was merely three moves altogether and you have been practicing for nearly two hours. How come your performance still sucks as it was at the beginning? Are you getting on my nerves on purpose?" A girl yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Sister Leng, please stop beating me. It is all my fault, my bad, okay? Ouch...help!"A guy cried for help.
When there was still a certain distance from the place where Wandong and Wu Yang planned to meet, Wandong heard Leng Yuecui's reproach and Wu Yang's plea. The two guys were quite active. They arrived earlier than Wandong.
Wandong put on a light smile and speeded up his pace. Lifting his eyes, Wanodng spotted Wu Yang, with his face beaten black and blue, begging Leng Yuecui for mercy with bows and nods. Len Yuecui was as haughty as a queen, knocking Wu Yang's head from time to time. The more she knocked on him, the more she got used to it. At last, Wu Yang's head was not different from a wooden fish (A Buddhist instrument for knocking while monks are chanting sutras).
"Brother, you finally show up. Please help me!" Wu Yang spotted Wandong straight away and rushed over as if he had been saved by the bell.
Wandong stroked the bruises on Wu Yang's face and asked with his eyebrows knitted, "So that was done by Miss Leng?"
"Xu Yaoting, don't even think of getting me wronged. Bullying the weak is never in my dictionary," Leng Yuecui hastened to strike in.
Wandong stroked his nose and smiled. Leng Yuecui bullied himself through and through in the past by virtue of her superiority to him in cultivation. How come she never brought up bullying back then?
"Brother, you did misjudge Sister Leng this time. It was not she but the damn bitch who beat me," Wu Yang explained.
"What? Your sister beat you again? Did she agree that she wouldn't beat you in three days?" Wandong asked, his eyebrows rising and his eyes blazing with anger.
Wu Yang smiled wryly and answered, "Yes, but perhaps she is just in the habit of beating me, regardless of her promise."
"Preposterous!" Wandong let out a cry, and he was getting increasingly furious with Wu Yue.
"For my part, this brat is able to agonize you with his stupidity. If I were his sister, I would probably do the same. I just can't bear the sight of him. You ask him yourself. It was just three moves in the morning, and he still failed to grasp any of them after practicing for such a long time. He literally made me angry to death," Leng Yuecui came up and said in anger.
"Three moves? What are you guys talking about?" Wandong asked in bewilderment.