Rebuking Xue Qinghe

"..."

Bofeng smiled helplessly. "Dean Liu Erlong, this is our first meeting. Besides, when you were young..."

"I hadn't even been born yet, so how could we possibly have met?"

Only then did Liu Erlong nod. She had probably remembered incorrectly, but Bofeng truly looked remarkably like that person.

"By the way, Boss Bofeng, are you here to apply for a teaching position?" Liu Erlong got straight to the point.

Bofeng nodded. "Please enlighten me, Dean. I heard from Teacher Yinshu that the final test is to exchange a few moves with you. Please."

"That's right, the final test is to exchange a few moves with me. But now, I intend to change the rules a little." Liu Erlong smiled mysteriously.

"Please enlighten me, Dean," Bofeng said.

Liu Erlong smiled. "To become a qualified teacher, one must not only possess formidable strength, but also have patience with students. Neither can be lacking."

"You defeated Teacher Yinshu and the other two earlier, so there is no doubt about your strength. Tomorrow, I will specially arrange a class. When the time comes, I hope Boss Bofeng will personally give it a try."

Practical teaching?

"As long as Boss Bofeng completes tomorrow's teaching task, I'll consider you to have passed my test. How about it?"

Bofeng did not hesitate and nodded decisively. "No problem. What time should I come tomorrow?"

"If I remember correctly, after noon tomorrow, the academy will organize an outdoor practical combat class for the students. How does that sound?" Liu Erlong suggested.

An outdoor practical combat class?

Putting aside what he already knew about these students, an outdoor practical combat class?

It sounded like a class that involved fighting. He would wait and see tomorrow.

"No problem," Bofeng said.

"Good. I will also be there in person. I hope Boss Bofeng can pass the test and officially become part of Blue Tyrant Academy."

After learning a little about the academy's basic situation, Bofeng prepared to take his leave and get ready for tomorrow's test.

Outside Blue Tyrant Academy, with Liu Erlong seeing him off, Bofeng entered his carriage and officially returned to the Department Store.

The carriage jolted along the road as Bofeng sat quietly inside, thinking about how to complete the first lesson of his life tomorrow.

Before long, the carriage slowly came to a stop. They had arrived home.

"Boss, we're here."

"Boss?"

"Boss!!!"

Seeing that Bofeng inside the carriage had not moved at all, the attendant called out several more times.

"Oh."

"I'm coming! I'm coming!"

Bofeng unhurriedly got out of the carriage. As he entered the store, Xiao Bai suddenly approached him.

"Brother Feng, where did you go just now?"

Bofeng said, "I had some matters to attend to, so after leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, I deliberately took a detour."

Seeing the grave look on Xiao Bai's face, Bofeng asked, "Sister Bai, what happened?"

Xiao Bai glanced upstairs and softly said, "That Crown Prince Xue Qinghe you dislike has come."

Bofeng's eyes immediately widened. Well, well! Did this count as taking the initiative?

"Did she come alone?"

"Alone. She has been waiting upstairs for quite some time. Brother Feng, do you want to go see her?"

Bofeng looked at the tightly shut room on the second floor. Forget it...

Some things had to be made clear face-to-face. Xue Qinghe had sent people to follow him; Bofeng had actually known that for a long time.

They were all soul masters. Such little tricks could be seen through at a glance.

Therefore, Bofeng was usually extremely careful in his actions and rarely let her get hold of any leverage against him.

After straightening his clothes, Bofeng slowly went upstairs.

Hopefully, this time, all the problems could be resolved at once.

Bofeng arrived at the door, took a deep breath, and slowly opened it.

"Brother Bofeng has finally returned. I have been waiting for quite a while." Xue Qinghe sipped fragrant tea as she looked at Bofeng with a smile.

Bofeng sat down opposite Xue Qinghe. "May I ask why Your Highness the Crown Prince has come?"

"Why have I come?" Xue Qinghe smiled. "For the past three months, I have sent you invitations every single day. Yet someone seems unwilling to show me any respect and has kept making excuses, so..."

"So you came in person?" Bofeng said.

"Is this how the Department Store receives its guests?" Xue Qinghe's gaze sharpened as she silently watched Bofeng before her.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, you send those so-called invitations every day, but I am busy with official matters every day and thus cannot attend your banquets."

"If there is nothing else, Your Highness the Crown Prince may leave first. I still have matters to attend to." Bofeng issued an eviction.

"Fine!" Xue Qinghe smiled faintly.

"Since Boss Bofeng has matters to attend to, I will not disturb you any longer. However, before I leave, there is one more thing I must mention."

"Please speak..."

Xue Qinghe smiled mysteriously. "Tomorrow, the invitations will continue as usual, and they will keep coming until the day you voluntarily accept my invitation."

"Wait!"

Just as Xue Qinghe was about to leave, Bofeng spoke up.

"Oh? Brother Bofeng, could there be something else?" Xue Qinghe asked.

With a dark expression, Bofeng walked straight over to Xue Qinghe.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, there is a question I have wanted to ask you for a long time."

Seeing Bofeng acting so differently, even speaking in a different tone than usual, Xue Qinghe became serious. "Please ask..."

"You have constantly arranged for people to follow me. What exactly do you mean by it? I imagine Your Highness the Crown Prince knows my every move this past year better than anyone. If you want me to join the Royal Family, just say so. There is no need for all these pointless schemes."

"We are all soul masters, so let's speak plainly. I need space to live my life, and I have secrets of my own. Why are you being so relentlessly clingy, acting as coy and hesitant as a woman?"

"You..." Xue Qinghe was speechless.

Bofeng had struck at Xue Qinghe's sore point. That was right, she was a woman.

"That's right, I did arrange for people to follow you, and I do hope you can assist me. Wouldn't it be a pity for someone as talented as Brother Bofeng to spend his life in business?"

"And you went to Blue Tyrant Academy just now. Don't think I don't know. Didn't you simply want to get away from me so you could naturally go and do other things?"

Xue Qinghe looked deeply at Bofeng, intending to observe his reaction through this.

"That's right, I do want to get away from you." Bofeng nodded calmly.

"I ask that Your Highness the Crown Prince stop interfering with my normal life. I have no interest in all those schemes and intrigues."

"I am just an ordinary fisherman, nowhere near as complicated as you think. The only reason I went to Blue Tyrant Academy was to experience life. Spending all day in the store counting money—wouldn't that get boring?"

"..."

Xue Qinghe was actually left speechless. Bofeng was a talent, and in just one year, he had built a vast commercial empire.

Other than Spirit City, where no store had been established, what city or even smaller village on Douluo Continent did not bear the presence of the Department Store?

But even if Bofeng said so, Xue Qinghe would not believe his words.

A year ago, the resonance produced by their martial souls...