Though he was annoyed, Wang Yue still insisted, "My dad made it!"
Yu Qiao had been clever from a young age. Wang Yue sounded so serious that he didn't seem to be lying, which left Yu Qiao puzzled. His dad might be unreliable, but surely he wouldn't lie to a child. Frowning, Yu Qiao pressed him, "Really?"
Wang Yue figured that since they were still just kids, there was no rush to get close to Lin Qile. He said irritably, "What's it to you whether it's true or not?"
As he spoke, he deftly squeezed between Yu Qiao and Cai Fangyuan.
Yu Qiao was only nine, but he was tall for his age, probably around five feet tall. Cai Fangyuan, meanwhile, was like a big, round ball and weighed well over a hundred pounds. Both of them were pretty strong for kids.
And yet Wang Yue had squeezed right between them. Yu Qiao and Cai Fangyuan hadn't been able to stop him at all. Both boys looked at each other in surprise, suspecting the other had gone easy on him.
But Du Shang didn't believe his two friends would betray him. His eyes widened as he exclaimed, "He's a master!"
Lin Qile wasn't especially interested in wuxia novels. She only knew about them from what her friends had told her, so she frowned and asked, "What master? Didn't Yu Qiao and Fangyuan go easy on him?"
Du Shang pointed at Wang Yue's back, practically buzzing with excitement. "Cherry, do you think you could squeeze between Fangyuan and Yu Qiao? I know I couldn't! But Wang Yue did it easily."
Lin Qile caught on, too. Qigong had been all the rage lately, so she asked excitedly, "Do you think he practices Turtle School Ki? Otherwise, how could he be so strong