(Hmm, today is the last day of the bonus updates I promised for reaching 60 votes. Starting tomorrow, I'll return to three updates a day. Unless a helmsman appears, there won't be any extra updates for the time being. Over the past half month, many days saw 8,000 characters, with the most being 12,000 in a single day. This book is the worst-performing among Hammer's premium books, but also the one updated most diligently. Besides my own unwillingness to give up, I've been able to persist until now because of the support from fellow readers. I don't want to abandon it like this. Though there will be fewer updates later on, it's also because I want to sort out my thoughts again. Those of you with votes can still keep casting them. Thank you. Also, reader Chou Aifeng and reader 150503060101866, I can see your comments within the chapters through interaction management, but I can't reply to them. Please don't mind. If you post in the book review section, I can usually reply.)
"You—" Xun Xiu had not expected Luo Qian and Su Qing to be so blunt, berating him without leaving the slightest shred of face. It seemed he had only brought humiliation upon himself.
Lu Xiaotian cast Xun Xiu a mocking smile. His friendship with Su Qing and Luo Qian had been tempered through ordeal after ordeal. How could Xun Xiu drive a wedge between them with just a few words? Such obvious provocation would only backfire.
Xun Xiu clearly realized this as well. Though he believed he could suppress any one of the three, if all three joined forces, they would be a major headache for him. By now, all three had grown strong enough to threaten him; they were no longer the greenhorns at the first