How Can Someone Be So Ordinary Yet So Confident?

How Can Someone Be So Ordinary Yet So Confident?

On the mountain path leading to the Chen Family Great Hall.

Chen Zhixing, looking like a young man in white, asked, "Lu Luo, has there been any progress on the matter I instructed you about last time?"

"Young Master, you mean finding people?" Lu Luo replied.

Chen Zhixing nodded and said with a beaming smile, "Mm. Your Young Master will test you—do you still remember what people we're looking for?"

"Of course I remember."

Lu Luo counted them off on her fingers and immediately began listing them one by one. "Anyone whose surname contains the characters Ye, Lin, Qin, Chu, Xiao, or Xu."

"And whose given name contains the characters Fan, Mo, Chen, Qing, Tian, or Xuan."

"If such people appear, and they're always shouting things like 'My fate is mine, not heaven's,' or if they're born with a crippled body, or have no father and mother, or are often looked down on by others, and so on..."

"Then I have to tell you right away, Young Master."

"Young Master, I got it right, didn't I?"

Chen Zhixing reached out and rubbed Lu Luo's hair, saying with a smile, "Not a single word wrong. Lu Luo is amazing."

Hearing Chen Zhixing's praise, Lu Luo's face instantly filled with satisfaction, her eyes curving into crescent moons.

As if he had remembered something, Chen Zhixing said, "Right, if I remember correctly, Sister Yue'er is coming back today, isn't she? Did you buy the Osmanthus Cake I asked you to buy?"

Lu Luo took out an exquisite gift box from her sleeve and handed it to Chen Zhixing, giggling. "Don't worry, I prepared it ages ago."

"Good."

Chen Zhixing nodded.

Over these ten years.

After his parents, Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang, recovered and were in good health, they waited until Chen Zhixing was three, then flew off together as a pair, traveling the world and amusing themselves.

It was actually Jia Qingyue, Sister Yue'er, who had spent a great deal of time with him.

However, Sister Yue'er carried the burden of rebuilding the Jia Family, so every now and then she would leave the Chen Family for a trip.

Only around the middle of each month would she return to the Chen Family.

Even so, as time warmed their feelings, the relationship between the two of them grew better and better.

To the point that now, Chen Zhixing and Jia Qingyue's relationship was already like that of sister and brother.

At the same time.

Inside the Chen Family Great Hall.

Chen Daoyan sat in the seat of honor.

On either side of him were some outstanding disciples of the Chen Family.

Aside from them, there were also two strangers Chen Zhixing had never seen before.

One was a Hemp-Clothed Middle-Aged Man whose temples bulged high and whose eyes shone with spirit, seated side by side with Chen Daoyan.

The other was a beautiful woman wearing a purple, cinched-waist tassel dress, her jet-black, clear and glossy hair coiled up. Her looks were rather superior, but there was a mole at the corner of her lips, which added a few traces of harshness to her appearance.

"Uncle Chen, Father, I'm not marrying that Chen Zhixing or whatever. I've heard people talk—this man's talent is mediocre, his strength ordinary, and there's nothing commendable about him at all!"

"I won't marry him! The man I marry must be an unparalleled hero!"

The beautiful woman stood in the great hall and spoke with a face full of dissatisfaction.

"Shut your mouth!"

Seeing this, the Hemp-Clothed Middle-Aged Man immediately said angrily, "The Chen Family is a Long-lived aristocratic family. For you to become Dao Companions with Nephew Zhixing is already climbing up to heaven itself. It's bad enough that you don't know to be content—how could you be allowed to make such a scene in the great hall?"

After saying that, the Hemp-Clothed Middle-Aged Man turned to Chen Daoyan and said somewhat apologetically, "Chen Family Head, my daughter's temperament is a little willful. Please don't take offense."

However.

Before Chen Daoyan could speak.

The beautiful woman's willow brows shot upright, and she gave a cold laugh as she asked in return, "Father, I admit the Chen Family is formidable, stronger than our family, but what does the Chen Family's strength have to do with that Chen Zhixing? Could it be he can take charge of the Chen Family?"

Her words paused, and the beautiful woman enunciated each word.

"Father, are you trying to push me into a pit of fire?"

As soon as these words fell.

The entire great hall instantly burst into an uproar.

The Chen Family disciples could not help being secretly shocked.

What she said was not false, but wasn't it far too direct?

The Hemp-Clothed Middle-Aged Man slammed a hand on the armrest of his chair and shot to his feet, laughing from sheer fury. "Lu Ying, what nonsense are you spouting?"

The woman whose original name was Lu Ying, seeing this, was not afraid in the slightest. Instead, she straightened her body and looked at the Hemp-Clothed Middle-Aged Man with a face full of stubbornness.

Their gazes collided in midair, needle against awn, neither yielding to the other.

Seeing this, Chen Daoyan could only give a light cough and say, "In my view, Niece Lu Ying, why don't you wait until that child Zhixing arrives, meet him once, and then we'll speak?"

Lu Ying lifted her chin and said, "Uncle Chen, you are my father's closest friend, and I respect you very much, but I also have to speak frankly. The Dao Companion I seek must be a Heavenly Pride, a Dragon among Men. He absolutely cannot be someone mediocre like Chen Zhixing!"

Chen Daoyan secretly shook his head when he heard this. He looked at the Hemp-Clothed Middle-Aged Man, pondered for a moment, then said, "Brother Lu, why don't we just forget this marriage?"

Indeed.

Chen Daoyan truly had wanted to marry this woman named Lu Ying to Chen Zhixing.

After all, Lu Ying's own father was a mighty Nirvana Realm expert who stood on equal footing with him!

If Lu Ying married Chen Zhixing, then Chen Zhixing would be equivalent to having a great backer in the Nirvana Realm!

And the Chen Family would gain another powerful ally as well.

But... compared to the Chen Family gaining another ally, he was even less willing to see Chen Zhixing suffer humiliation for no reason.

After all, over these ten years, he had truly witnessed just how terrifying Chen Zhixing's talent was! Just then—

"How lively."

A lazy voice rang out.

Everyone in the great hall looked over in the direction of the voice.

They saw a black-haired youth with red lips, white teeth, and a handsome, fair face strolling over in an easy, relaxed manner.

"Zhi'er."

Chen Daoyan smiled and nodded at Chen Zhixing, then introduced them. "Zhi'er, let me introduce you. This is Senior Lu Yuan, and this is Senior Lu Yuan's only daughter, named Lu Ying."

Chen Zhixing raised a brow, his gaze sweeping across them, and immediately understood.

No wonder that girl Lu Luo had said the person for this blind date had an extraordinary background.

Lu Yuan, one of the mighty Nirvana Realm experts whose name shook the Eastern Xuan Region!

The only daughter of a dignified Nirvana Realm expert did indeed have an extraordinary background.

However, Chen Zhixing merely took one look at Lu Ying's appearance and bearing before he already felt inclined to refuse.

This Lu Ying was not his type.

"Senior Lu. Miss Lu." Chen Zhixing cupped his hands, neither servile nor overbearing.

However, Chen Zhixing had only just finished speaking.

Lu Ying was already looking straight at him with a lofty gaze, speaking in a clear, crisp voice:

"You're Chen Zhixing, right? I've always been a straightforward person. I don't like beating around the bush."

"So I'll say it directly. If you want to be my Dao Companion, then even with the Chen Family at your back, you are indeed still a little lacking."

"The path I wish to walk is not one you can accompany me on. I advise you to dispel such unrealistic thoughts as soon as possible."

After she finished speaking, Lu Ying looked at Chen Zhixing with a calm, open expression.

"???" Chen Zhixing was slightly stunned.

What was this woman named Lu Ying talking about? How did he have unrealistic thoughts? What was going on?

Seeing that Chen Zhixing did not speak, Lu Ying's gaze noticed the exquisite gift box in Chen Zhixing's hand. Her expression eased slightly, and she said:

"You even brought me a gift? That was thoughtful of you. It's just that..."

She felt that what she had said just now had been a little too harsh, but then, with another thought, she felt that if her words were too gentle, what if Chen Zhixing thought there was still hope and clung to her relentlessly? Thinking of this, Lu Ying lightly bit her pearly teeth and said, "Chen Zhixing, I appreciate the sentiment, but the two of us really are not suited for each other. Your talent and strength have destined that the two of us cannot walk together."

"So please, do not have any further thoughts about me. Even with the Chen Family at your back, it still won't do."

After she finished speaking, Lu Ying raised her head, her gaze fixed steadily on Chen Zhixing.

She believed herself to have always been someone very clear about the path she wanted to walk.

Although her cultivation was currently ordinary, in her heart, the position she set for herself was to become a figure like a favored daughter of the heavens!

And a mediocre person like Chen Zhixing could not be joined together with her.

Someone like this would not be her target for a Dao Companion.

"..." Chen Zhixing gently pinched the space between his brows, finally understanding a bit of the sequence of events.

This woman named Lu Ying thought that he had asked the Chen Family to come propose marriage to her? For a moment, he could not help feeling both curious and amused.

He really wanted to know.

How did this woman named Lu Ying manage to be so ordinary, yet so confident?