Your Circle Is Really Messed Up!

Your Circle Is Really Messed Up!

Zhongli, Paimon, and Zhu Zhuqing headed toward the Seven Treasure Hotel.

Not far away, two figures stood together, one of them tightly gripping the other.

"Boss Dai, calm down!"

"You need to calm down!!"

"Maybe they're really just having a meal?"

That would have been fine if he had not said it. The moment he did, Dai Mubai's face turned green!

With looks like Zhu Zhuqing's, what normal man could resist?

And he was saying they were just having a meal!

To hell with that!

"Fatty, don't worry. I'm terrifyingly calm right now."

Dai Mubai was not stupid. He knew Zhongli was a Titled Douluo, so why would he rush over and court death?

He had watched the whole thing. It had clearly been that damned Zhu Zhuqing who had thrown herself at him!

Damn it, she acted cold and aloof in front of him, Dai Mubai, but when she faced Zhongli, her eyes were practically dripping with affection!

She looked like she wanted to rush over and hug him.

Especially those several backward glances—so full of life. Paimon had been talking to her, yet she had gone and looked at Zhongli instead!

"It's good that you're calm, good that you're calm."

"Boss Dai, don't blame His Excellency Zhongli. It was your Zhu Zhuqing..."

Ma Hongjun did not continue, because he saw the murderous look in Dai Mubai's eyes.

"If you can't talk, sew your mouth shut!"

After snapping at Fatty, Dai Mubai said viciously, "Damned Zhu Zhuqing, very well!"

"Very well indeed!"

He was so angry that he laughed!

He had just come from Tang San's place and found Ma Hongjun. They had originally planned to go drinking together.

They said wine drowned sorrows, and he had intended to drink more than usual.

As for going out to have fun, that had merely been something he said in anger.

"Fatty, let's go get some girls!"

"???"

Ma Hongjun froze, completely baffled.

Hadn't this blond guy said he was not going before?

Had he been provoked that badly?

"Sure, I don't care. Nobody likes me anyway, so no one will care how I keep you company."

"You fatty, you make it sound like anyone would dare control me!"

"I'll take on ten!"

"Can you handle that?"

It was not that Ma Hongjun looked down on Dai Mubai. They had known each other for so long, and he knew best what state Dai Mubai was in every time he came back from fooling around.

Besides, they had been roommates back in Suotuo City, so there were few secrets between them.

Dai Mubai: "..."

"Zhu Zhuqing, you think you know how to have fun, huh? I'm even better at it than you!"

With a cold snort, Dai Mubai had Ma Hongjun lead the way toward that glittering world of wine and women.

Because of his martial soul, Ma Hongjun had sought out such places the moment he arrived in Heaven Dou City, so he naturally knew the way.

The two left arm in arm.

In the shadows, Flender shook his head and could not help sighing. "What a mess. Your circle is really messed up."

"Little White is like this, and so is Zhu Zhuqing."

"As the dean, I can't even say anything about them."

"But I have to admit, that girl Zhu Zhuqing has better taste. Hahaha..."

"Forget it. This isn't something a mere Soul Sage like me can interfere with. Better pretend I was never here."

The students had practically discussed it beforehand and left the academy together. Knowing they were troublemakers, how could Flender possibly not secretly follow them?

He had never expected to witness such a bizarre scene.

It would be nice if these students could be as devoted as he was.

Come to think of it, it was rather strange. Though old fellows like them were not exactly good people, they were not the casual sort either.

At most, they taught their students how to cause trouble and gamble.

Yet these youngsters had surpassed their masters!

Not only could every one of them cause trouble, they even knew how to "spend lavishly." It was something old fellows like them could not even figure out!

After lingering where he was for a while, Flender finally turned and left. He did not need to worry about Zhu Zhuqing's safety.

Following that man, there was nowhere safer.

Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai were merely going to that sort of place. As long as they paid, there would not be any problem.

Nothing would happen.

"Go back and cultivate properly. Strive to break through to Rank 80 as soon as possible."

Flender's talent was not low, but because of the mess involving Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang, his cultivation progress had slowed.

One had to know that in the original timeline, he had broken through to Rank 93 through his own efforts, starting with nothing!

That alone was enough to prove his talent.

Now that Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang had reconciled, he could finally rest easy.

There were not many simps at Flender's level in all of Douluo Continent—no, in the entire world.

As long as the goddess was happy, nothing else mattered to him.

Damn it...

The scene shifted to Zhongli and the others.

After the three entered the Seven Treasure Hotel, the owner was briefly taken aback, somewhat surprised.

However, he did not ask anything and behaved no differently than usual.

As a Soul Sage and a direct descendant of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he was exceptionally skilled at reading people and situations.

The three took their seats in a private room. When Zhu Zhuqing lowered her head, she could not see her toes, and her eyes kept stealing glances at Zhongli.

"Miss Zhu Zhuqing, your eyes tell me that you seem to have known me for a long time. Could you tell me why?"

"Of course, if you have something difficult to speak of, you need not say it."

Zhongli set down his teacup and spoke to Zhu Zhuqing.

It was simply too strange.

Was it that obvious?

Zhu Zhuqing was startled. Once she came back to herself, she silently thought this.

"I..."

Zhu Zhuqing had just wanted to say something, but it caught in her throat.

Should she tell Zhongli that she had seen him in a dream?

That the two of them had even been rather close friends in that dream?

Never mind whether Zhongli would believe it—even she herself found it hard to believe.

A dream was, in the end, only a dream. Sooner or later, one would wake up.

She could not completely treat what had happened in her dream as the backdrop of her present life.

"I..."

Zhu Zhuqing was at a loss for words and did not know how to explain herself.

"This is our second meeting."

"However..."

Before Zhu Zhuqing could finish, Paimon flew over to her side and said, "Zhongli, Miss Zhu Zhuqing obviously has something on her mind, so stop asking her."

"Miss Zhu Zhuqing, if there's anything, tell Paimon. Paimon definitely won't spread it around!"

Zhu Zhuqing: "..."

The courage she had finally worked up!

Little Paimon had defeated it just like that.

"Miss Zhu Zhuqing, it's fine if you do not wish to say more. I am not the sort of person who likes digging into others' secrets."

"Aiya, Zhongli!"

"I was about to learn Miss Zhu Zhuqing's secret, and you had to interrupt!"

The moment Paimon said that, the corners of Zhongli's and Zhu Zhuqing's eyes twitched. If Paimon had not interrupted, Zhu Zhuqing might have already revealed her secret!

Now that Paimon had interrupted her, it was nearly impossible for her to gather the courage to bring it up again!

Zhongli did not insist on the matter. It was not anything important, after all.

A moment later...