But speak of the devil and the devil comes; “some wealthy young masters” followed the sound and came over. Sheng Jinghai was originally forced by his parents to visit various business friends. Hearing that it was noisy here, and catching sight of his fiancé inside, he immediately walked over in three steps made into two, wrinkling his brows and asking: “What’s wrong?”
He saw Shi Yunmu behind Shi Yubai, and immediately had an idea: “Shi Yunmu, what else do you want to do?”
Shi Yunmu: “Ah? Me?”
Xu Yi furrowed his brows, the silver dragon’s protective urge toward his friend manifesting itself to the limit at this moment: “Don’t falsely accuse Xiao Mu, it has nothing to do with Xiao Mu.”
Only then did Sheng Jinghai look toward Xu Yi. The Xu family and the Sheng family sat on equal terms, and neither side dared to easily provoke the other. The situation at hand was a bit tricky, but the feeling of getting furious for the sake of a beauty spontaneously arose within Sheng Jinghai’s heart, and his tone was not good: “How familiar can Young Master Xu be with Shi Yunmu? You don’t understand his behavior behind the scenes.”
Xu Mingzhou: “.”
The Sheng family had indeed given birth to an idiot.
He stood out and said faintly: “Sheng Jinghai, if your eyes are useless, donate them. There is also a limit to biased defense.”
Sheng Jinghai stared fixedly at him, not speaking immediately. Since childhood, his parents had been comparing him with Xu Mingzhou; the “old and new hatreds” at this moment were like adding oil to fire, making him even more displeased: “Xu Mingzhou, aren’t you also a biased one?”
The atmosphere was at daggers drawn. Caught in the middle, the two magic creatures looked left and looked right, as if falling into confusion.
Shi Yunmu asked Xu Yi quietly: “Can’t we check the surveillance?”
Having stayed in the Xu family for a long time, Xu Yi understood the societal rules a bit better than Shi Yunmu. He shook his head and also said in a small voice: “We can’t. This kind of higher-grade banquet hall will be regarded as a private space; generally speaking, it is not allowed to install surveillance, otherwise it is violating the privacy rights of the guests.”
Shi Yunmu felt somewhat regretful: “Then it’s very troublesome, whereas looking at the surveillance could have solved the matter.”
The two sides stalemated, and some other young masters and young ladies of wealthy families could not help but open their mouths to persuade awkwardly, deeply afraid that these two would fight and affect other people.
Shi Yunmu had a sudden flash of inspiration. He looked toward Shi Yubai, revealing a bit of a smile.
Like a demon that thought of a way to prank someone.
A bad premonition arose within Shi Yubai’s heart, and sure enough, it was verified in the next second:
The young man lowered his head slightly, his tone quite aggrieved: “Xiao Yi, let’s forget about this matter.”
Xu Yi received the signal, behaving as if filled with righteous indignation: “It can’t be forgotten, how can we let them falsely accuse you?”
“It doesn’t matter to me,” Shi Yunmu feigned strength, “If brother’s fiancé thinks of me that way, then let him think that way! The innocent are clear!”
As if a white lotus flowers blooming strongly on a snow mountain, coupled with that good face, it was much more delicate and frail than what Shi Yubai acted out.
Shi Yubai: “…”
His hand holding the cake was trembling.
This younger brother of his, why did he walk the exact same path as him?!
Sheng Jinghai said with a foul face: “Shi Yunmu, what are you pretending for?”
He thought that even if he said it this way, it would still not be anything, and Shi Yunmu also shook properly.
But this was an era that looked at faces. Seeing a more delicate and frail white lotus flower appear, the scales within people’s hearts would uncontrollably tilt, and a portion of people cast condemning gazes toward Sheng Jinghai: “Young Master Sheng, it’s not good for you to say that.”
“Exactly, the person is already so afraid of you.”
Sheng Jinghai: “?”
This guy was really pretending, why did nobody understand him?
Xu Mingzhou glanced at his younger brother’s friend: “Since the involved party said to forget it, then we won’t pursue it.”
“However,” curving his lips, Xu Mingzhou’s eyes behind the lenses carried no temperature, “The next time you play your ideas onto my younger brother again, even if you, Sheng Jinghai, are present, I will still pursue it to the end.”
“…” Sheng Jinghai cursed a madman in his mind. He looked toward Shi Yubai, pulling him lightly, “Forget it, Yubai, let’s go.”
Having suffered a setback, Shi Yubai also knew that the Xu family was someone he couldn’t afford to provoke, so he could only follow Sheng Jinghai and leave. Before leaving, he subconsciously turned his head and glanced toward Shi Yunmu again. The young man, who was just so delicate and frail as if unable to withstand the wind and filled with grievance, was currently staring at him quietly.
Everyone seemed to not see it, but those deep green eyes were distinctly eerie, distinctly cold.
As if as long as he found an opportunity, he would bite through the hunter’s neck in one go.
For some reason, Shi Yubai shuddered.
…
“Master, are we just going to let them off like this?!” Little Wei was even more filled with righteous indignation than Shi Yunmu himself.
The crowd dispersed, and Xu Mingzhou also gently stroked Xu Yi’s head, going to get cake for his “frightened” younger brother.
In the corner of the banquet, Shi Yunmu did not speak, directly holding out Little Wei, displaying the “little brother” he had newly taken in to Xu Yi.
Meeting the silver dragon’s inorganic blue eyes, Little Wei trembled all over, not daring to speak anymore.
Why was its master’s friend also so terrifying?!! QAQ
Xu Yi stared curiously at the shivering dust demon, extending his finger to poke Little Wei’s fluffy body: “You actually took in a fellow whose volume is even smaller than yours, huh.”
Shi Yunmu: “Hey, what kind of words are those?”
Xu Yi assumed an innocent state: “Literal meaning.”
His original form was frighteningly large, requiring an entire valley to serve as a habitat. When Shi Yunmu was still a thorough slime through and through, he could only stay on top of Xu Yi’s head, or Xu Yi had to transform into human form for the two magic creatures to communicate normally.
Little Wei remained motionless, just like a dead thing, listening to the two big bosses mock each other: “…”
It was a bit dead, did any magic creature care?
Seeing Little Wei’s cowardly appearance, Shi Yunmu let out a laugh, and only then leisurely packed the black ball into his own pocket.
Xu Yi took a glance, knowing that his bad-hearted friend did it intentionally, purely to tease it.
“So did you get a group-pampered script?” After putting away the somewhat dead Little Wei, Shi Yunmu raised his head and asked.
Xu Yi was puzzled: “Group-pampered? What group-pampered?”
Shi Yunmu was greatly shocked: “Have you not read any novels?”
Xu Yi: “You know it, I am relatively illiterate.” He was busy all day long collecting shiny treasures, where would he have time to read any books?
Shi Yunmu was stupefied. He realized that only he had drawn the identity of a cannon fodder character in a novel, while his friend had no difference from a simple transmigration.
Seeing him with a stupefied face, the confusion in Xu Yi’s heart became even greater: “What’s wrong with this?”
“Nothing,” Shi Yunmu returned to his senses, replying vicariously, “This only means that the probability of you encountering god-like people is lower than mine.”
Xu Yi was reassured: “Then that’s pretty good.”
Shi Yunmu: “?”
Where was it good?
The two magic creatures whispered, and finally Xu Yi figured out Shi Yunmu’s current situation. He couldn’t hold back, almost laughing to the point of losing his breath: “Ha… Haha, no wonder that human ‘older brother’ of yours targets you so much, turns out you guys are one real young master and one fake young master!”
“You even gained a human husband for nothing! Haha!”
Shi Yunmu looked at him resentfully: “Stop laughing…”
Xu Yi laughed enough, and asked him: “Then what are your plans now? Are you just going to let these humans jump around back and forth for nothing?”
His blue eyes turned into the vertical pupils of a beast in an instant, and then restored to their original state, “Being so forebearing doesn’t look like you.”
“Of course not.” The young man replied calmly, glancing toward the direction where Shi Yubai was located, the sound of his speaking light like a murmur, “Isn’t this looking for an opportunity?”
Xu Yi nodded his head: “True, the laws of human society are quite troublesome. If you still want to live a normal life on the surface, you have to follow their rules.”
Shi Yunmu looked back at Xu Yi light-heatedly: “Sometimes it’s not so necessary to abide by them either.”
“For example?”
The young man pulled his lips a bit, his smile innocent: “I borrowed the hand of the ten-legged spider to destroy some pieces of trash.”
Xu Yi applauded sincerely, and then asked sincerely: “Why didn’t you go at it yourself?”
“…”
Shi Yunmu looked at him with squinted eyes: “This matter has to be spoken from when I traveled into this book…”
“You make a long story short.” Xu Yi said.
Shi Yunmu choked up, expressionless: “My magic power is gone.”
It was still in recovery.
Xu Yi was shocked: “Your magic power is actually gone?”
“Gone.”
Xu Yi sighed: “No wonder you didn’t move your hand yourself.” He carried sympathy for his friend, “How pitiful.”
Shi Yunmu said: “Isn’t this still thinking of ways to restore to the peak period.” He looked at the luxuriously decorated ceiling above his head, “However, manufacturing a bit of a small accident can still be achieved.”
At any rate, he had eaten a ten-legged spider; his magic power was filled, and he should be able to try a long-range attack.
The young man lowered his head, moving his fingers.
Thus, at a place where no one paid attention, the upper part of the chandelier was stuck by a clump of liquid, gradually corroding the components.
Ten seconds, nine seconds… one second.
“Clang!”
Amidst the explosive crash of the fall, Shi Yubai, who stood beneath the chandelier, had his pupils expand rapidly, watching with his own eyes as that huge chandelier brushed past his hair and crashed onto the ground, glass fragments splashing in all directions.
Rising and falling everywhere were sounds of screaming and questioning, not knowing why such an accident would happen.
The manager rushed over in a hurry: “Heavens, Young Master Shi! Are you injured anywhere? Hey, you over there, hurry up and go get the medical kit, what are you standing there frozen for? Didn’t you see Young Master Shi’s face got scratched?! Where are the security guards? Where are the maintenance workers!” She checked the dazed Shi Yubai’s injuries anxiously, but her mouth could still not help but mutter, “Strange, it was just inspected yesterday, the chandelier was clearly very secure…”
Very secure.
But right now on that shattered chandelier, elements were evidently scattered all around, not showing a single bit of being secure.
Moving his stiff eyeballs, Shi Yubai subconsciously cast his gaze beyond the chaotic crowd—
The young man stood beside Xu Yi, watching this farce with cold detachment.
Seeming to have some perception of the gaze Shi Yubai cast over, he slowly lifted his raven-black eyelashes, looking toward Shi Yubai.
Within the glaze-green pupils, there was no emotion whatsoever.
But very quickly, those long and curved eyelashes fluttered quickly twice, the smoothly arched eyes curved up, his eyebrows and eyes bending, his smile overflowing.
The young man made a mouth shape, quietly, word by word: “What, a, pity.”
As these three words of his fell, Shi Yubai only felt his whole body grow cold, as if falling into an ice cellar.
The smile slowly restrained itself, and the young man regretfully looked a few more times at the pale-faced Shi Yubai.
This time, it counted as his miss, failing to aim accurately. It made things a bit too big; it wouldn’t be good if it attracted some alert fellows over, it was better to wait for next time.
Next time, he wouldn’t let this human be so lucky.