My Rules

Since he was certain he couldn't win, Chu Huai Xu decisively gave up struggling.

He walked up to Liu Chenggong and raised both hands.

"Junior Brother Chu, what are you doing?" Liu Chenggong asked.

"Hm? Don't you need to tie me up?"

I know the procedure! I was already familiar with it back at Spring Autumn Mountain. The Four Great Sects were more or less the same!

Liu Chenggong looked at the exceptionally handsome young man before him, a sneer appearing on his face.

"No need. You're merely at the Aperture Opening Stage. Do you think you have any ability to resist?"

"If you surrender now, we'll actually find it boring."

"If you try to escape halfway, that might make things a little interesting."

He looked at Chu Huai Xu with a playful smile, as if he were gazing at a toy in the palm of his hand.

Meeting his gaze, Chu Huai Xu slowly lowered his raised hands.

"What is your relationship with Liu Chengqi?" he asked directly.

Liu Chenggong laughed. "You've got quite the nerve!"

He looked Fox Face up and down, then snorted. "But that's true. If you didn't have some guts, you wouldn't have dared to attack Chengqi."

As the Deputy Captain of the Medicine Mountain Enforcement Team, he naturally had nothing to fear. Besides, this was no secret in the Outer Sect, so he said, "Liu Chengqi is my younger cousin."

"Oh, right. You must be new here, huh? I forgot to tell you—his father is one of the Nine Great Stewards of the Outer Sect."

A gentle breeze passed by, lifting a few strands of Chu Huai Xu's ink-black hair.

Liu Chenggong and the others had expected to see him scared witless. Instead, they saw that his expression remained unchanged.

"I understand." Chu Huai Xu merely replied flatly.

That displeased the Deputy Captain of the Enforcement Team greatly.

He even began to wonder whether this person had no understanding of human relationships at all.

The Nine Great Stewards were the highest authorities in the Outer Sect.

You had beaten someone's only son this badly. Did you know how serious the consequences would be?

"What do you understand?" Liu Chenggong's expression darkened.

Chu Huai Xu smiled. "I understand why he loves getting handsy, yet quite a few Senior Brothers still recommend going to him to learn martial arts."

"The son of a Steward, and the younger cousin of the Deputy Captain of the Enforcement Team. No wonder."

Liu Chenggong merely smiled at this without saying anything.

To him, other people currying favor with him—and with his uncle, who held the esteemed position of Steward—was perfectly normal.

It was as if he personally owned a Wine House on Medicine Mountain. The business was incredibly prosperous.

But the people who came to eat and drink there—were they really doing so because the food and wine tasted good?

Not necessarily.

At this moment, Liu Chenggong looked around and asked, "That Junior Sister named Han Shuangjiang isn't home?"

"Mm, she didn't come back with me," Chu Huai Xu said.

"This Junior Sister must be very beautiful, right?" A smile appeared on Liu Chenggong's face, the kind all men understood.

"Yes, she is breathtakingly beautiful," Chu Huai Xu replied.

"She and you have an unusual relationship?" Liu Chenggong asked again.

"Mm, you could say it isn't ordinary," he said.

"No wonder. My younger cousin likes that sort of thing." Liu Chenggong raised one hand and lightly patted Chu Huai Xu on the shoulder, whether in consolation or to twist the knife. "Nothing can be done, brother."

"So he has the legacy of Wei Wu Yi Feng—he's a Cao thief." Chu Huai Xu spoke words they could not understand.

Good grief, Liu Chengqi. You look so respectable, but it turns out you like stealing other people's beloveds. So that's your thing!

No wonder you couldn't resist touching her right in front of me.

Chu Huai Xu did not find it strange that the son of a dignified Steward was teaching martial arts to mortals.

He had some understanding of what second-generation heirs were like.

On Earth, there were even people who drove luxury cars to work as rideshare drivers, accepting only female passengers.

After skiing suddenly became popular, there were also second-generation heirs skilled at it who went to work as ski instructors.

Was it for the money?

It was for the fun, for the thrill of chasing women.

As for the vile behavior in television dramas, where they immediately bullied and forced women into submission, they truly disdained doing that.

They preferred to display their charm and demonstrate their abilities and methods, using the tricks that had never failed them to seduce women and make them throw themselves at them.

People like that could never lack women from the moment they were born.

Ordinary people were shocked by the prices and could only yearn for those unattainable women, shouting, "Is it gold underneath, or encrusted with diamonds?" But to them, such women were only pocket change. They even found playing with them boring, lacking in flavor.

They also needed a sense of psychological accomplishment!

They also needed to use these achievements to boast about their charm!

Some exhausting jobs that other people relied on to support their families were merely pastimes to them—things they could do whenever they wanted and stop whenever they pleased.

When learning that "Jiligu Lu Eight Trigrams Palm" whose name he could no longer remember, Chu Huai Xu had already vaguely guessed something while looking at Liu Chengqi's luxurious robes and his manner and attitude.

"I just didn't expect Liu Chengqi to be so wild. He misunderstood my relationship with Little Housekeeper, and wanted to earn ten taels of silver from me while treating me like a dog."

"He never regarded me as a person deep down." Chu Huai Xu laughed.

But he knew very well that Liu Chengqi had definitely succeeded before—damn it, more than once! He might even have cuckolded people.

What was interesting was that the Liu Chenggong before him also seemed not to regard Chu Huai Xu as a person.

He lightly patted Chu Huai Xu's shoulder again and said, "After Chengqi's Spirit Fetus was damaged, his mood has been terrible. He can only find a little excitement in life. Junior Brother Chu, please be understanding."

Liu Chenggong was truly bored. He felt that anyone who dared to injure his younger cousin would be easy to provoke, allowing him to have a little fun.

Who would have thought that the young man with a somewhat fox-like face would grin at him and reply:

"Consider it done."

Outside the Bamboo House, Liu Chenggong could not be bothered to waste any more words on Chu Huai Xu.

His expression darkened as he ordered his two subordinates, "You two, go capture that Junior Sister Han and bring her back!"

"Yes." The two men, who seemed to have neither names nor surnames, replied.

"Then let's go, Junior Brother Chu." Liu Chenggong's gaze was gloomy.

"Please lead the way, Senior Brother Liu." Chu Huai Xu gestured politely.

He was the typical sort of person who liked to speak respectfully first, then say something deeply disrespectful—or even do something deeply disrespectful.

When he had severely injured Liu Chengqi, he had also called him Senior Brother Liu at every turn.

Before becoming a companion-for-hire, he had dated twice. One of those relationships had even been a secret affair with his university counselor. Whenever he reached the climax, he would shout, "Teacher," and occasionally even make the teacher cry—tears flowing from three eyes.

In short, his manners were impeccable!

Yet Liu Chenggong's expression grew even gloomier. He snorted coldly, stuck a Divine Movement Talisman onto himself, and said, "My younger cousin is probably already growing impatient. We need to hurry."

With that, he grabbed Chu Huai Xu, lightly tapped his foot, and leaped onto a branch, rapidly moving between the ancient trees.

Before long, he had brought Chu Huai Xu back to the Medicine Mountain Enforcement Hall and locked him in the Dungeon.

As he had said, Liu Chengqi truly could not wait any longer. He had been waiting in the Dungeon for a long time.

Chu Huai Xu guessed that he had taken some spiritual medicine, which was why his injuries had completely healed.

Having a Steward for a father did make that understandable.

What surprised him slightly was that there was also a half-white-haired man in the Dungeon.

The moment Liu Chenggong saw him, he respectfully said, "Uncle."

The old man immediately raised a hand. "How many times have I told you? When we're outside, address me by my official position."

"Yes, Steward." Liu Chenggong suddenly became exceptionally obedient.

The half-white-haired old man nodded slightly and sized up Chu Huai Xu. "You are Chu Huai Xu?"

"That is correct. Disciple greets Steward Liu." Chu Huai Xu raised his hand in salute, continuing to uphold the virtue of impeccable manners while buying himself some time.

"I heard from Chengqi that you possess only a mere two apertures of cultivation and have just entered the Aperture Opening Stage. Yet you managed to injure him, using the 'Eight Trigrams Palm of Boundless Heaven and Earth' he taught you?"

Chu Huai Xu immediately raised his eyes, a gleam appearing in them. "Exactly! Has Steward developed an appreciation for talent?"

As he joked around, he still found time to silently remember: So that's what it was called—Eight Trigrams Palm of Boundless Heaven and Earth.

Upon hearing this, Steward Liu's old face first showed a moment of astonishment, then darkened considerably.

It had to be said: when these three people surnamed Liu darkened their expressions, they looked exactly alike!

The old man snorted coldly. Then, with a flick of his finger, a shallow wound appeared on Chu Huai Xu's arm, and blood began to seep out.

Chu Huai Xu looked down in surprise and glanced at his arm.

He did not care about such a minor wound. It was just that his robe was torn, and he did not know whether Little Housekeeper could mend it.

Steward Liu crooked a finger slightly, and a drop of blood flew into his palm.

"Hm? A low-grade Spirit Fetus?" He swept over it with his divine sense.

He had never seen this type of Spirit Fetus before, but its aura was weak, and its grade was clearly extremely low.

The old man had personally come over because, after hearing his only son's description, he wanted to see this young man's aptitude.

Although he possessed terrifying authority in the Outer Sect, he also knew that if the young man were a heaven-blessed prodigy, he would truly have to be cautious.

But this mere low-grade Spirit Fetus was worlds apart from my son's Blazing Fire Spiritual Embryo!

"You think you deserve me to appreciate your talent?" The old man looked coldly at Chu Huai Xu, his expression indifferent.

After saying that, he intended to turn around and leave. He said to his only son and nephew, "Do whatever you want with him."

He was merely a Registered Disciple with a low-grade Spirit Fetus. If he died, so be it. They could simply make up some excuse.

"Steward! Please wait!" Chu Huai Xu shouted.

The old man turned back in confusion, his brows tightly furrowed.

"I know the Outer Sect's rules by heart. May I ask—was it Senior Brother Liu who attacked first? I merely acted in self-defense. Exactly which rule did I break?" Chu Huai Xu looked righteous, his words ringing with force.

The old man, who had had his son late in life, looked at this naive young man who seemed never to have been tempered by worldly hardship and said in a booming voice, "It doesn't matter who attacked first. You injured my son, so you broke the rules! You broke the rules of me, Liu Tianfeng!"

This shout secretly contained Spiritual Power. It shook Chu Huai Xu's mind and made him dizzy. His vision went black, and he nearly lost his balance. His face instantly turned pale.

At that moment, a deep, honest voice finally came from not far away.

"Steward Liu, what tremendous official authority you have!"