Flender nodded.
"Alright, I'll support you."
The two exchanged smiles.
Though their personalities differed greatly, and though they had chosen different paths, at this moment, they had found a common goal.
"Oh, right." Yu Xiaogang suddenly remembered something. "How have Tang San and Cinderella been doing at the academy? Have they caused any trouble?"
Flender's expression stiffened.
He recalled Zhao Wuji's bruised and swollen face, and the scene at the hotel when Tang San had used some strange method to make Zhao Wuji howl in pain.
"Well..." Flender hesitated over whether to tell him.
Yu Xiaogang keenly noticed something was off.
"What is it? Did something happen?"
Flender sighed and ultimately decided to tell the truth.
He briefly recounted what had happened at the hotel that day, as well as Zhao Wuji's inexplicable injury afterward.
Of course, he omitted the details of Zhao Wuji using his pressure to bully Tang San and Cinderella. He merely said that a conflict had arisen between the students, Zhao Wuji had stepped in to mediate, and somehow ended up injured.
After hearing this, Yu Xiaogang furrowed his brow.
"That child, Tang San..." he muttered. "His methods really are rather strange."
Flender cautiously asked, "Xiaogang, do you know what he used? Even Zhao Wuji couldn't withstand it."
Yu Xiaogang shook his head.
"I don't know either," he admitted honestly.
"That child Tang San carries quite a few secrets. His fighting style, those strange techniques of his... I don't understand them very well."
After a pause, he added, "But his talent is genuine. And he is fiercely protective of Cinderella. As long as no one crosses his bottom line, he generally won't cause trouble."
Flender breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's good. That's good."
Yu Xiaogang looked at Flender and suddenly asked, "Flender, are you hiding