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“Junior Brother, although things have turned out this way, I can still only stay with you for thirty minutes… Any longer than that would be very detrimental to you.”

At the top-floor terrace of the Jiali Hotel, Zhu Shanying elegantly sat sideways on the edge of the swimming pool, reaching out to scoop up the water.

It seemed she felt the long-missed freedom, a happy smile on her young, beautiful face, her eyes bright under her slender eyebrows.

Xue Jing stood not far behind her, arms crossed, and began to speak,

“You big family types really have a lot of troublesome affairs… So what happens after thirty minutes?”

Zhu Shanying, sitting by the pool, drew up her long legs, hugged her knees, resting her head on her knees, and looked sideways at Xue Jing with a smile in her bright voice,

“I’ll be considered as having finished the deal.”

Xue Jing paused slightly and said, speechlessly, “Are you sick?”

Thirty minutes, including all the preparations – who are you looking down on?

Zhu Shanying buried her head even lower, her face slightly reddened, and after hesitating for a moment, she said with a smile, “However, on the contrary, if it’s resolved within thirty minutes, it won’t be considered as finished… Want to give it a try? Junior Brother.”

Xue Jing, hearing this, showed no change in expression, but simply replied,

“Your mind is a bit disordered, Senior Sister Zhu.”

Zhu Shanying pouted, “Why don’t you have any reaction at all? Doesn’t that make me look like a clown?”

Xue Jing extended his hand and took out a red nose from an invisible crack in the air—this was one of the props he had bought, considering that he might need disguises in the future.

He tossed the red nose to Zhu Shanying, who instinctively caught it and twitched the corner of her mouth slightly at the item she caught.

Then she put it on her nose. Paired with her beautiful face, it looked both ridiculous and cute.

With a clown’s red nose on, Zhu Shanying stood up and said seriously,

“Junior Brother, I am officially laying my cards on the table. I am not just an ordinary ‘note’ ability user, but a super ‘note’ ability user!”

“I’m from the thirteen giant rooms, a direct member of the Zhu Family, with a very formidable status.”

“Oh,” Xue Jing nodded.

Seeing that Xue Jing was not surprised, Zhu Shanying adjusted the red nose on her face and said, “You guessed it already.”

“If you’d said otherwise, that’s when I’d have been surprised,” Xue Jing replied.

“Then many of the issues I’ve encountered have their explanations… but there are some details that I want to confirm with Senior Sister.”

Hearing this, Zhu Shanying’s expression turned somewhat desolate as she said, “I’m sorry, Junior Brother… because of me, you unwittingly went through many dangerous troubles…”

Xue Jing smiled, stepped forward, and gently touched Zhu Shanying’s head.

“Senior Sister Zhu doesn’t need to worry about it; these troubles are not really dangerous for me… Besides, these matters might not really have started because of you.”

Although because of his closeness with Zhu Shanying, it had led to various complex hostilities from the Zhu side towards him.

But these kinds of issues, if they happened to someone else, might be Zhu Shanying’s fault; happening to him, not necessarily.

The glaringly bright “Robbery” stat approaching twenty thousand on his attribute table always signified the real reason behind his trouble-ridden life.

Even without Zhu Shanying, there would always be a Li Shanying, Zhao Shanying, or Liu Shanying as a substitute.

Troubles would definitely find him, Zhu Shanying was merely a medium for trouble.

“Junior Brother still has such a way with words,” Zhu Shanying said with a tender smile.

She assumed Xue Jing’s words were merely meant to comfort her, but she also understood that Xue Jing likely wasn’t blaming her, quietly easing her worries.

If her junior brother came to dislike her because of this, she really wouldn’t know what to do.

“I am from the First Urban Circle’s Capital City, a member of the main branch of the Zhu Family in the Capital, the Greater House of the Capital. Besides our ‘Greater House’, there is another branch in Capital City that belongs to the legitimate lineage, the ‘Lesser House’…” Your next read is at My Virtual Library Empire

Zhu Shanying began to tell her own family history and the reasons why Xue Jing had met with animosity from the Zhu Family along the way.

Previously, not long after Xue Jing set off to attend the U19 elimination tournament in Maple City, Zhu Shanying was called back to the family headquarters in Capital City.

There were two reasons for the recall.

One was because she had been too close to Xue Jing… two adolescents of the opposite sex, when a girl invites a boy to her house every day, nobody believes nothing is amiss.

The second reason was a bit more classic.

Within large family clans, for various reasons such as ensuring marriage matches were appropriate and to prevent the dilution of family bloodlines, internal marriages were conducted.

The Capital City Greater and Lesser Houses of the Zhu Family had split a long time ago and were two main lineages whose blood relations had long surpassed three generations; they were suitable candidates for marriage… In other words, there were no more suitable marriage partners for each other than the two houses themselves.

To ensure that the relationship between the two houses did not drift apart, it was perfectly normal to marry members between them periodically.

After Zhu Shanying returned, she received a notice that she was likely to be united in marriage with Third Young Master Zhudai Shou from the Lesser House.

In this matter, she had no control over her fate… but luckily, she had a loving grandfather.

Faced with Zhu Shanying’s strong opposition, her grandfather, the former family head who had already passed on his position but still held immense prestige, Zhu Jingshi, spoke up and postponed the family’s marriage decision.

“So that’s it, the Lesser House of the Zhu Family feels that the reason for your resistance to the marriage is all because of me.”

Xue Jing nodded, getting the gist of the situation.

“So that’s why Zhu Xuanli blocked my rewards within The Sixth Agency, Zhudai Shou instigated Zhou Yinglin to try to kill me on the stage, even hired ‘White Emperor’ Lu Shenliu to come personally to Yuan City, and during the joint exam, someone used [GOD-287] to try to assassinate me…”

Xue Jing began to reckon accounts, formally attributing several longstanding troubles, whose causes hadn’t been entirely clear, to the Lesser House of the Zhu Family in Capital City.

Zhu Shanying blinked, only then realizing how much Xue Jing had to endure because of her, and let out an awkward cough.

“There are some other issues too…”

Xue Jing spoke up.

“The fact that the higher-ups chose me to play the role of a young examiner in the Martial Arts Examination, was that your doing? Sister Zhu?”

Zhu Shanying shook her head and then nodded, saying, “It must have been my grandfather’s doing… I talked to him a lot about you, and he seemed to take quite an interest in you.”

“What about this, then?” Xue Jing stretched out his hand and pulled from the void.

A giant sword, larger than a man, was pulled out by him.

Zhu Shanying’s eyes sparkled, “The Forgotten Greatsword… that’s one of my grandfather’s collectibles.”

“And this?”

Xue Jing once again took a beautifully dark blue, Nine Chi Great Spear from the void.

“Night Ice… also one of grandfather’s collectibles.”

Zhu Shanying’s expression became somewhat gleeful, almost beaming with joy.

“So grandfather really did listen to what I said… It seems like he really likes you quite a bit, junior brother.”

Zhu Shanying took off the red nose on her face, saying with a smile brimming with meaning.

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