(I got off work late today and couldn't finish writing in time. I'll revise this later and make up for it with extra updates.)
Flender rubbed his chin and looked thoughtfully at Yu Xiaogang:
"Xiao Gang, what do you think?"
Yu Xiaogang closed the dossier and leaned back in his chair, his gaze resting outside the window,
his face betraying nothing. Only after a long while did he slowly speak:
"Liu Erlong... I know her. We might as well go ask."
Tang San leaned closer from the side, curiosity on his face.
"Teacher, you really know this Liu Erlong?"
Yu Xiaogang nodded, his tone level:
"Of course I do."
Flender walked over from the window, slapped Yu Xiaogang on the shoulder, and laughed heartily:
"Know her? That's putting it mildly!"
He turned to Tang San and Dai Mubai and explained with animated delight.
"Back then, the three of us-me, Xiao Gang, and Liu Erlong-made a name for ourselves across the continent as the Golden Iron Triangle.
When the three of us teamed up, we swept through more arena tournaments than I could count. Those were glorious days."
Tang San was slightly taken aback.
He had heard Yu Xiaogang mention bits of his past now and then, but he had never imagined that Flender and Liu Erlong had been his partners back then.
He glanced at Yu Xiaogang's unruffled face, then at Flender's exuberant expression, and vaguely sensed that the relationship between this Dean Liu Erlong and his teacher was probably more than a simple "partnership."
Still, he did not press the matter and merely nodded. "So that's how it is."
Dai Mubai chimed in from the side:
"Even better. Since you know each other, borrowing a venue shouldn't be difficult."
Flender rubbed his chin and chuckled:
"Hard to say. That