2024-09-17 00:01:54"I don’t care whether you want to help me or not. Just stay out of my way," Sophia snapped.
Alex shook his head.
Her understanding was as dull as a butter knife, and her parents were much worse.
There was little hope she would realize the truth any time soon.
Alex felt no obligation to reveal his true self to her, as their relationship had been doomed from the start.
He was simply pl
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Chapter 634
High above the misty peaks of Wudang Mountain, the sky filled with streaks of white. Hundreds of disciples rose on their flying swords, blades humming beneath their feet like living things.Lu Piao flew at the front of one tight formation, his plain robes whipping in the wind, jaw set like iron. For years he had swallowed his rage. Now it burned clean and bright.A younger disciple pulled alongside him. “Brother Lu Piao, you are joining the fight against the Yin Yang Sect?”Lu Piao’s face darkened, the old scar along his cheek pulling tight. “Joining? I’ve been waiting for this day since they beat me bloody in that back alley many years ago. Counted every insult, every stolen pill, every junior they cut down just to prove they could. Today I collect.”“Same here,” another called from his left, a woman with a fierce scar across her brow. “They slapped me in the middle of the street in Qingshui, laughed while the crowd watched. Said Wudang dogs didn’t deserve to walk the same ground. Th
Chapter 633
All the merchants dropped to their knees at once. The arrogant confidence that had carried them into the courtyard shattered in an instant. Their plan to strong-arm the City Lord had failed spectacularly. Their champion—the mighty Dark Serpent—had been killed with a single stroke by Wudang’s famed sword maiden.“We don’t have the money with us!” one merchant cried out, voice trembling. “We’ll need to return to our shops and warehouses to gather it.”Alex regarded them coolly. “I’ll be merciful this once. You have until sunset to return with twice what you owe. Every last coin. Fail, and the consequences will be far worse than today.”The merchants prostrated themselves, foreheads pressed to the stone in desperate bows. Then they scrambled up and fled the courtyard in a panicked rush, silk robes flapping as they ran.Zhuge Liang watched them go, his expression tight. “My lord, they won’t return with the gold. They’ll come back with more people—reinforcements from the Yin Yang Sect.”Al
Chapter 632
The next day, the great hall of the Bai Mansion felt too quiet.Alex lounged in the high-backed chair at the head of the room, one leg crossed over the other, fingers drumming lazily on the carved armrest. Sunlight poured through the open doors and painted long golden stripes across the polished floor.He had ordered the servants to leave the heavy wooden gates wide open. Let them come. He wanted to watch every greedy face twist when they handed back twice the gold they had stolen yesterday. A simple lesson: you don’t con the City Lord and walk away smiling.Zhuge Liang stood at his right shoulder.Hours crawled by. No line of merchants appeared. No clink of returning coins.Instead, a low rumble rolled up the street—hundreds of boots, mixed with the sharper ring of steel. Then the shouting started.“Lord Bai must answer for his tyranny!”“Open the gates! The people demand justice!”Alex’s eyebrow lifted. He rose slowly and stepped onto the wide balcony overlooking the courtyard. Belo
Chapter 631
That night, Qingshui City lit up like a festival nobody had planned.Every tavern, every pleasure house, and every merchant’s private courtyard rang with laughter and clinking cups. The same men and women who had watched a mercenary get sliced in half that morning now toasted Lord Bai as if he were the greatest fool alive.Gold from the City Lord’s own treasury weighed down their tables, and they spent it like water.In the Golden Lotus Restaurant, a fat silk merchant slammed his cup down and roared with laughter. “Triple! The man paid us triple! City Lord Bai Xaichun—still the same drunken idiot he was before Wudang. Remember how he used to stagger in here, gambling away everything and chasing skirts? Nothing’s changed!”His friends howled. A woman in faded rouge leaned across the table, eyes sparkling with wine and greed. “He slept with half the city for free back then. Now he’s handing out gold like it grows on trees. We should have asked for ten times!”Word spread faster than spi
Chapter 630
The crowd froze, a hundred faces locked in horror. Blood pooled across the stones, dark and spreading, the metallic stink thick enough to taste.The big mercenary’s halves lay there like discarded meat—upper body face-down in its own mess, lower half still twitching. No one breathed. No one dared move.Then the screaming started.A woman dropped to her knees, hands clamped over her mouth. Merchants who had swaggered forward moments earlier stumbled backward, shoulders bumping, eyes wide with animal fear.The bamboo rod in Alex’s hand looked almost harmless again—slender, innocent wood—but every soul in the courtyard now knew better.Alex lowered it slowly, voice calm as morning mist. “One hit. That’s all it took. Anyone else want to test the other nine?”Silence crashed down harder than the roar of protest ever had.A thin merchant near the front—silk robes trembling—dropped his debt paper like it burned his fingers. “I… I’ll take the band-aid,” he stammered. “Please. That thing. It d
Chapter 629
In the quiet hush of the Bai Mansion, morning light spilled across the polished wooden floors of the great hall. Alex sat in a high-backed chair, Lord Bai in every sense—ruler, protector, architect of a new order. Across from him, Zhuge Liang leaned forward, his scholar’s robes draped neatly, eyes sharp with the weight of centuries of strategy.“Lord Bai,” Zhuge Liang said, “are you certain you want to hand out a single Wudang strengthening pill to every person who accepts the band-aid Gaia? These pills are ruinously expensive. One dose could feed an entire family for a month.”Alex frowned, the lines deepening between his brows. “They’re my people. What’s wrong with giving my own the very best? Even a farmer feeds his pigs the finest grain if he wants them strong.”Zhuge Liang fell silent for a moment, studying him. “Then… are you planning to butcher them later?”“Hell no,” Alex answered, a low laugh escaping despite the seriousness in his eyes. “But we need their strength. We’re goi
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The woman is a gold digger! This story is starting to become stupid.