"..."
The corner of Xiao Yan's mouth twitched, and he took half a step back.
What kind of joke was this?
Wouldn't fighting Third Brother just be asking for a beating?
"Alright, I was just teasing you. A Da Dou Shi like me wouldn't bully a tiny Dou Zhe like you." Xiao Lang spoke with the air of someone too lofty to be understood.
"..."
Xiao Yan didn't want to stay another moment. His Third Brother was practically the king of show-offs.
Every gesture he made exuded an overwhelming aura of swagger.
"Let's go. It's getting late; we should head to Jia Nan Academy's recruitment site." After finishing his ginseng chicken soup, Xiao Lang let out a satisfied groan and led Xiao Yan to his feet as they headed outside.
At that moment, waves of clamor rose from the enormous square. Countless young people were desperately squeezing toward its center. If not for the troops dispatched by the City Lord's Manor to maintain order around the square's edges, the excited crowd would likely have already charged in without regard for anything else.
Staring blankly at the sea of people, Xiao Yan let out a long sigh after a while and shook his head in frustration. At this rate, there was no way they would get through the assessment smoothly today.
"Hmph, out of ideas now?" Seeing Xiao Yan's dejected expression, Xiao Yu, who had been chatting with Xun Er and Xiao Mei behind him, gave a smug snort.
"What are you so smug about? Don't tell me you've spent three years at Jia Nan Academy without finding even one internal passage?" Xiao Lang said, shooting Xiao Yu a sidelong glance.
"You!"
Xiao Yu had been about to snap back, but upon seeing that face, she instead said with a