Only after Ye Chen walked away did Zhou Fan breathe a sigh of relief.
"Finally managed to talk him into leaving."
Xia Qingran smiled beside him. "Well, who told you to beat him in your last spar?"
"That's just how he is. Beat him once, and he'll keep pestering you for another spar until he wins."
"Did he pester you before too, senior?" Zhou Fan asked curiously.
Before he had defeated Ye Chen, Xia Qingran had probably been the only person among the Imperial Capital's younger generation who could match him.
The younger members of the other families, such as the Eastern Family and the Bai Family, were a cut below Ye Chen. He probably wasn't interested in them.
"Mm-hmm. Before you came to the Imperial Capital and sparred with him, he always came to me."
"We sparred three times. I won the first time, so he kept pestering me."
"The second time, we tied."
"During our third spar, the erosion from my Ice Spirit Body held me back, and I lost to him."
"He wanted to keep sparring with me, but once he learned that the erosion from my Ice Spirit Body was getting worse, he stopped asking," Xia Qingran said.
What Zhou Fan was going through now was exactly what Xia Qingran had gone through before.
"But aren't you fine now, senior? Why doesn't he ask you to spar?"
"Because he doesn't know my Ice Spirit Body is fine now," Xia Qingran said.
"If he found out, he'd probably come looking for another fight."
"Then..." A mischievous idea suddenly popped into Zhou Fan's head.
Xia Qingran saw through him at once. She shot him a fierce glare and warned, "I'm telling you, you're not allowed to tell him!"
"I finally got rid of that lunatic. I don't want