Challenging the Dojo

Liu Chang'an's attitude towards his "fans" was extremely rude. He wouldn't even reply to messages from his classmates, leading many to say that he had become arrogant after gaining fame and no longer respected his former classmates.

Are you all so idle? Why do you all always like to focus on other people's affairs? Or is it because life is too short and life is too exciting, and we can never experience the wonders of different lives in our own? So when we see something shining in someone else's life, we can't help but feel excited and yearn for it?

After reaching this conclusion, Liu Chang'an nodded. If that's how it is, then it's somewhat understandable.

So he replied to some classmates' messages, and as for complete strangers, he replied to those whose profile pictures, IDs, and content seemed agreeable.

He even saw Nong Xinrui's account, which displayed her full name and professional certification.

Without a doubt, the current situation was all created by Nong Xinrui. In her view and the view of most people, the current trend is to support Liu Chang'an, to create an image of him as a top student and martial arts master, and to give him a popular and beautiful girlfriend. He is simply a winner in life.

However, behind every event lies a deeper purpose. While some journalists like Nong Xinrui who operate new media may want to spread more positive energy, Nong Xinrui is definitely not among them.

She's not a star-making agent, so what's the point of hyping up Liu Chang'an like this? Wanting to know the reason, Liu Chang'an didn't ask Nong Xinrui. He analyzed it himself using his usual way of thinking. When Nong Xinrui first met him, the topic she talked about was that he taught Wang Yibo and Gao Cunyi a lesson. In other words, it wasn't a story about a top student, selflessly saving others, or being a popular internet celebrity. These things were used as a starting point.

Nong Xinrui has found her initial focus. So, the three parties involved in this matter at the beginning are only the opposing relationship between herself and Pu Shougeng, the seemingly unrelated relationship between herself and Nong Xinrui, and the remaining unknown relationship is the relationship between Pu Shougeng and Nong Xinrui.

If two of the three relationships are eliminated, only one unknown relationship remains that could have led to the current situation.

Pu Shougeng, only by wiping out your entire gang can we truly live up to your name.

Liu Chang'an thought for a moment and tried to contact Ma Benwei, but realized that he did not have Ma Benwei's contact information. So he sent a message to Qin Yanan and asked her to help him find Ma Benwei.

Ma Benwei arrived quickly, still driving his Bentley Bentayga, followed by Qin Yanan's champagne-colored Bentley sports car. The two luxury cars, both starting with the letter B, were parked together, attracting considerable attention. Qin Yanan, in particular, stepped out of the car behind him Qin Yanan was stunningly beautiful, and her aloof demeanor made her seem more like a fairy than Zhu Juntang.

At this moment, Liu Chang'an was already standing outside Pu Shougeng's martial arts school. It was a detached courtyard-style building in the suburbs, with a waterway in front planted with reeds and lotus flowers, and green bamboo growing on the bank. The greenery revealed a sense of tranquility. The central gate was wide open, revealing a spacious inner courtyard. Further away, the courtyard appeared deep and secluded. The three-story building used a lot of glass walls and bamboo groves for decoration, giving it a refined and elegant feel, like that of a hermit.

It seems that opening a martial arts school is indeed profitable. Even in a suburban city like Junsha where land prices are relatively affordable, owning and building such a building would be an astronomical sum.

The prize money Liu Chang'an received for saving lives wasn't even enough for Pu Shougeng to use for planting bamboo.

"I just got a call saying my great-grandfather is paying attention to this matter. I don't know if he means he's concerned about you, or if he's concerned about whether someone is hyping you up. It seems like he wants to know if you're the one pulling the strings?" Qin Yanan walked up to Liu Chang'an and tugged at his arm. She was even more puzzled as to why her great-grandfather would care about such a trivial matter.

Ma Benwei stood far away. If his Ma Weiming, were here, he might have the confidence and strength to talk to Qin Yanan, but Ma Benwei had already been dealt with twice by these cousins. Despite his excitement, he was still very self-aware.

"What's the point of this?" Liu Chang'an shook his head. "Why are you here? You're just a little girl. Don't be fooled by adults fighting."

Qin Yanan was both amused and exasperated. "How dare you talk to me like that? I'd like to ask you what you're doing standing here. You've already beaten up Gao Cunyi and Wang Yibo. If you want to fight Pu Shougeng, just send him an invitation. Standing here like this, people will think you're here to cause trouble!"

"I'm here to challenge them, don't let them misunderstand and think I'm here to look at the house." Liu Chang'an looked at Qin Yanan in surprise, "Do they really think I'm not here to challenge them?"

"You're here alone to challenge the school? Do you think this is some kind of martial arts movie?" Qin Yanan grabbed Liu Chang'an's arm. "Nobody cares about the old-fashioned martial arts school system anymore. You'll get ganged up on and beaten up as soon as you walk in, believe it or not?"

"Women are so long-winded." Liu Chang'an pulled his hand away, sighed, and tried to reason with Qin Yanan, "I've made up my mind. Even if you stop me now, I'll come back at another time. Can you really keep watching me forever?"

"I don't care, I'll keep an eye on you for a week first, I can handle this," Qin Yanan insisted.

Liu Chang'an affectionately stroked Qin Yanan's hair, "You little girl, you're just as stubborn as your great-grandmother."

Qin Yanan pushed his hand away. She didn't feel uncomfortable at all. This little cousin had probably spent a lot of time with his elusive great-grandfather and had picked up some of the old man's airs. He would often speak to her like an elder.

It was clear that Liu Chang'an knew a lot about his great-grandmother. He himself had never met Ye Sijin, but his great-grandfather had probably talked to him about Ye Sijin often.

"You can't keep an eye on me. The moment you close your eyes, I'll vanish without a trace." Liu Chang'an recalled similar scenarios and waved his hand. "Stop talking nonsense. I'm here to challenge you today. Just treat it as a show."

"This isn't like you at all. I heard that Gao Cunyi asked you to challenge Pu Shougeng to a duel several times, but you refused each time. Why did you come here on your own now?"

"He asked me to come, and of course I didn't want to. But since I wanted to come, I did."

"That's all nonsense. Can't you talk to me properly?"

"Okay, actually this isn't my problem, it's yours. You're really meddling."

"I'm just worried about you!" Qin Yanan was already furious. If this were her own younger brother, she would have beaten him so badly that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him!

"Thank you for your concern, but concern is meaningless. Fighting side by side is the most important thing. Otherwise, it's all just empty talk from someone who doesn't care about you." Liu Chang'an smiled slightly. Just like him and Qin Peng, they never exchanged many words of concern or advice because they were already fighting side by side on the battlefield.

"You..." Qin Yanan was furious. This man's understanding of "concern" was...? It seemed that in his eyes, kinship and friendship were meaningless. After all, what was the point of caring about or cherishing kinship and friendship if you didn't care? Did he think that if he wanted to jump into a fire pit, and his wife and daughter tried to stop him, only jumping into the fire pit with him would be meaningful?

This lunatic is ultimately young; his understanding of human relationships is too extreme.

Liu Chang'an was certainly not like Qin Yanan thought. It's just that in most of his life, there were very few women who were wives, and even fewer close relatives like children. So of course he didn't consider the "concern" from his wife and children. As for the "concern" from friends, it was meaningless unless they were fighting side by side; it was just a matter of keeping up appearances.

Perhaps it was because she had Ye Sijin's face that he had some different expectations of her. Liu Chang'an thought to himself, then called out to Ma Benwei and walked forward on his own.

Qin Yanan pressed her hand tightly to her chest in anger, and hurriedly went to the car to get her shoes to change into. She had rushed over in the car and hadn't even changed into her driving shoes.

Qin Yanan quickly caught up with Liu Chang'an, glaring at him angrily. "If anything happens to you, I won't be able to explain it to my great-grandfather. But I'm going in with you now, and if anything happens to me, I don't believe your great-grandfather will forgive you!"

"Of course. Even if there's a hail of bullets ahead, I'll be your human shield and won't let you lose a single hair." Liu Chang'an laughed and ruffled Qin Yanan's hair.

"Get off me!" Qin Yanan said irritably, swatting Liu Chang'an's hand away. The more she interacted with him, the better her temper became.