"Old man, you want to save them, don't you?" Zhou Qingran finally spoke, coldness in her beautiful eyes as she gave Lu Chen Daoren no face at all.
"Zhou Qingran, watch yourself before the dean..." the vice-dean instinctively barked.
"Your voice is too loud." Zhou Qingran glanced at him without saying a word, yet those words inexplicably rang in his mind. He hastily shrank his neck and shut his mouth at once.
Lu Chen Daoren was not angered. He chuckled and looked at Zhou Qingran kindly. "Calling it saving them gives this old man too much credit. It would be better to say that I'm asking for a favor."
Zhou Qingran looked straight at Lu Chen Daoren. "I don't want to grant this favor."
At that, the vice-dean, Jiang Feng, the old man in splendid robes, and the others all stiffened. They had not expected Zhou Qingran to be this forceful, to the point that she would not even give the dean any face.
Although Lu Chen Daoren had said that Zhou Qingran's strength might surpass his own, who was Lu Chen Daoren? He was the dean of Celestial Pivot Academy, one of the foremost figures in the Heavenly Pinnacle Saint Realm, with countless connections.
It could be said that no one dared refuse him face.
Yet Zhou Qingran was just this direct. She did not want to grant this favor.
Lu Chen Daoren was not surprised by Zhou Qingran's words. Smiling faintly, he said, "Everything can be discussed. You surely have conditions of your own. Why not tell me what they are?"
This time, Zhou Qingran did not directly refuse. After a moment of silence, she stared at Lu Chen Daoren and said, "You understand my condition."
Lu Chen Daoren shook his head with a bitter smile. "Qingran, you