Chapter 82: Then and now (third update)
"A baron's grandson, borrowing money from a lord's grandson?" Wu Youren wore a strange expression. "Are you serious?"
He knew the other man had lived miserably in Jin Garden, but however miserable he had been, could he have had it worse than him?
"I fucking should've challenged you back then," Liu Jingming snapped, so angry he spoke without thinking.
"At worst, I'd be like He Wenhao-already dead!"
"All right, then." Wu Youren nodded expressionlessly. "I'll put in a word later and have them kill you!"
That was certainly bluster, but compared with the other hostages, he already had some influence at Red Pine Martial Academy.
"What the fuck are you saying?" Liu Jingming rolled his eyes. "I came to borrow money, not make an enemy."
"So you do remember you came to borrow money?" Wu Youren snorted. "I thought you'd come to lend me some!"
In this world, there was no saying that the debtor was king. In the vast majority of worlds, the lender was king.
Debtors could only become kings in a world of overgrown infants, or in the final stages of a Ponzi scheme.
In a world ruled by the law of the jungle, anyone who could lend money had no fear of failing to collect!
But Wu Youren was not deliberately trying to needle him. He simply wanted to test how the other man would react.
A man might mean a tiger no harm, yet the tiger might mean to hurt him. Out in the world, there were many times when one truly could not afford to be careless!
"I know you're impressive. Can't I admit I was wrong?" Liu Jingming's expression changed, and he spoke with a grin.
He had indeed worked hard to repair their relationship before