Book 13: Chapter 101

In case you forgot, allow me to give you a friendly reminder. Gu Xianxian may be a name you vaguely remember because his name came bundled with his wifes. It took Liaodongs Gu Clan and Ning Xinzhu more than twenty years of work to create Divine Couple Guxian Deities.

Gu Clan used to make a living from hunting in the mountains. Therefore, developing martial arts was a necessity. Later on, whether it was due to them being punished for animal abuse or realising they could never achieve greatness in the mountains, they left the mountain they called home to start a business. In time, Gu Clan became another member of Liaodongs martial community.

Gu Xianxian always felt he was above others, and, thanks to his fathers fame, he became quite well known for his cudgel skills in his youth. While I had never seen his skills, I had seen his clans cudgel discipline. To be fair, they were pretty good. On one of my birthdays, my friends in Hangzhou lined up at Night Fortress to put on performances. His old man, who was 104th in line, gave me a bear paw as a birthday gift and performed for me as I enjoyed the premium bear paw. The bear paw was sharp. I mean, his discipline was tasty. What? Lets move on.

Gu Xianxian was young, pretty competent and looked decent, I guess? In Liaodong, his family was loaded and had a degree of influence, but cla.s.sy and Gu Clan didnt a.s.sociate. Id say his father was lucky he didnt look like him. Anyhow, considering Gu Xianxians resume, he was deemed a perfect match for Ning Xinzhus eldest daughter.

Gu Xianxian and Ning Zhuorus families tried to build them into heroes. Alas, they ended up becoming maggots of the pugilistic world. Instead of praising them as Divine Couple Guxian Deities, people did a play on the first xian in Gu Xianxian and remarked, Envy mandarin ducks, not guxian deities. Before they were married, they kept flaunting their relations.h.i.+p. After marriage, they flaunted their wealth. If people didnt respect their parents, theyd likely be dead already. But you had to give them courage for still carrying themselves the same way; surely they had something going for them.

Gu Xianxians gait was steady, and his internal energy development had reached about 80% of his fathers level. From what I could tell, he didnt acquire his skills from wrestling bears or his internal energy from his father.

Once he kicked everyone out, Gu Xianxian heaved a big breath. I think I should share this embarra.s.sing matter with you. Luckily, there are no outsiders now.

Says who?

As a true man, are you still bearing a grudge over what I previously said? Men value other men based on guts. Now that Im pouring my heart out, were friends.

Theres an outsider if I say so.

You know what they call you? A tsundere.

He might be referring to me, Tian Xiaoguo voiced.

Whoa! How can a footrest speak?!

Im not a footrest. Im a human being.

Tell him to leave!

I placed my chin onto my hand. You still havent gotten to the main subject after all this time. I bet you wont finish sharing your issue anytime soon, either. You expect me to go without a drink for so long? If you dont mind, Im fine with you brewing tea, serving refreshments, giving me a ma.s.sage, cleaning the floor and

Okay, okay, okay, fine. Let him listen in.

I did mention Gu Xianxian looked nothing like his old man. However, they were both as shameless as each other. I didnt invite his old man to my birthday, yet he still invited himself. His son pulled over a chair for himself and even leaned in to grab my shoulders, so I whacked his hand away and said, You can talk, but dont sit. Take his chair away, and dont give him any tea. Id rather you clean the floor with it.

Hes just joking. Ill pa.s.s on tea. Ill have some wine. Only once he confirmed Tian Xiaogua had left to fetch wine did Gu Xianxian let out a sigh. I cant believe Ive needed to resort to consulting you.

Dont force yourself. p.i.s.s off. Dont ask for my help.

Come on, youre being petty again. I was just kidding.

I dont have all day.

Long after a hard think, Gu Xianxian slapped his tea and, speaking through his clenched teeth, told me, Okay, listen carefully because Ill only tell it once.

To summarise, the husband was useless, and his wife w-, excuse my slip of the tongue. The husband was handsome, and his wife was pretty; they had rabid fans wherever they went. That was what they saw, not me or anyone else. As annoying as it was to witness them publicly flirt, there most certainly were people who envied them.

According to Gu Xianxian, his wife started having bigger and bigger fits in the past year, seemingly taking issue with everything. She would swear at him, hit him and even get in his old mans face to curse at him. On account of Ning Clan, Gu Xianxians old man didnt escalate the issue with his daughter-in-law, which only resulted in her taking yards for every inch she was given. Gu Xianxian had no idea what caused her change in temperament, but he had grown accustomed to putting up with it, so nothing changed.

A few months ago, Ning Zhuoru told Gu Xianxian that she received a commission that required their help in exchange for a handsome reward. Given he was already rich, Gu Xianxian didnt care for the reward, not to mention how sketchy it all sounded to him. Before he could deny the request, however, he gave in once Ning Zhuoru gave him the first smile in a long time and beseeched him to help. That was how he ended up at Fiends Genesis new compound.

Their relations.h.i.+p improved upon arriving at the base, but things had begun deteriorating recently, and Ning Zhuoru grew increasingly distant once again. I knew about this part since I overheard them already.

I just cant figure it out. Brother Wu, youve been promoted to right-hand man and know how to diagnose illnesses. Help me work out whats going on. Is there an ailment that makes peoples personality change drastically?

Its pretty obvious. Seeing Tian Xiaogua return with wine and refreshments, I signalled for him to stop. Wait. Thats the wrong tea.

Tian Xiaogua: Huh?

Give him some biluochun, longjing, maojian, shoumei or xueya t-

Gu Xianxian stood up. Enough, enough, stop talking about green-coloured teas! What are you trying to tell me?

Tian Xiaogua and I stared at Gu Xianxian. It took a while, but Gu Xianxian eventually burst out crying.

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