Chu Qing refused the joint recruitment of more than a dozen aristocratic families, and the news spread.
For a time, countless people cursed aloud:
"How could he just refuse?"
"I heard those aristocratic families wanted to help him build a super family."
"Each family alone was offering him three to five young women from their family."
"Forget three to five—even if you gave me just one, I'd be willing to lose ten years, a hundred years off my life."
"Those are daughters of aristocratic families!"
"People like us might not see even one in our entire lives!"
"I heard those aristocratic families wanted to join forces and give him one cubic meter of Golden Silk White Jade!"
"I heard Golden Silk White Jade is the foundation of top aristocratic families!"
"Even a piece the size of a fingernail could stir up a bloody storm among top aristocratic families!"
"And yet he refused?"
"What gave him the nerve to refuse?"
"Throughout all ages, not a single prodigy born of ordinary status had ever been able to refuse the recruitment of top aristocratic families."
"Besides, this time it wasn't recruitment—it was cooperation!"
For a time, the entire vast Imperial Capital, even the whole Great Gan Empire, learned of Chu Qing.
What was more:
The news seemed to have sprouted wings, traveling through certain transnational organizations to other empires.
Great Zhou:
Cui Moyang was working as an assassin in a major city.
When she heard the news about Chu Qing, joy filled her face.
"His name has reached Great Zhou?"
"How is he so amazing?"
Thinking of Chu Qing made Cui Moyang's heart race.
This young man had given her thoughts and longings unlike anything she had ever known.
"He's already this formidable!"
"I can't be worse than him!"
Otherwise, one day, she