Chapter 51: The Front of the Lovelorn

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Huafu Grand Hotel is a fairly upscale star-rated hotel in Wuyue City.

Generally, only those companies in Wuyue City with good revenue and profit would choose this hotel for their annual meetings.

Today, the second floor of Huafu welcomed more than a hundred guests.

They weren’t from any companies on a team-building trip, but a group of students who had just graduated.

These students were from Wuyue Advanced Middle School’s senior year class three and four.

It’s not uncommon for students to eat and drink, and Huafu had hosted students before.

However, what was strange was the stark polarization of the expressions on the faces of these fresh graduates.

The male students showed not a trace of joy from graduating; instead, each one of them looked downcast and miserable, with hardly any of them smiling. Some of the boys, looking particularly pale, even had the demeanor of someone much older, as though they had been cuckolded.

The female students, on the other hand, were the exact opposite; most of them were extremely happy, each one grinning from ear to ear, as if delighted like a best friend’s husband had died.

Tang Qian was now very happy herself.

The reason was simple.

The last time she invited Lin Yao to go shopping, she wanted to show off the strength of Zhou Yiwen in front of Lin Yao, since he was the only aspect in which she could outdo Lin Yao. However, she unexpectedly ran into Jiang Cheng and Cao Wang.

Since she was a girl, Tang Qian was more perceptive. At that time, she vaguely noticed that Lin Yao liked Jiang Cheng, or at least had a considerable fondness for him.

Today, returning to school, Lin Yao indeed went to find Jiang Cheng again!

Such actions by Lin Yao were almost as if she had confirmed her crush on Jiang Cheng beyond any doubt!

Lin Yao likes Jiang Cheng?

Hahahaha, it’s sheer joy to hear!

For Tang Qian, the most satisfying thing in her life was marrying into a wealthy family, becoming a madam of considerable leisure, happy every day. In contrast, Lin Yao, who once trod on her ruthlessly, ended up with a powerless, unimportant, and incapable ordinary Cultivator!

Tang Qian had even begun to imagine, twenty years down the line, Lin Yao struggling with life, her figure grown fat and her beauty faded, while she herself remained well-maintained and in good shape. When they met again, she would triumph over Lin Yao on the very aspect of appearance that Lin Yao had once been most confident and proud of!

She was very much looking forward to that day, to the look on Lin Yao’s face.

Love?

Naive.

Oh, Lin Yao, to think that you too had a day of folly. If you had just taken a little interest in Zhou Yiwen, I wouldn’t have been able to snatch him away.

But now, he’s in my hands!

With your looks, couldn’t you have your pick of any guy from the entire Advanced Middle School?

But who did you choose, of all people? Jiang Cheng, a guy without any special talents and just an ordinary family background.

Heh, let’s just wait and see; there’s a long life ahead of us, and you’ll regret it one day!

Tang Qian would have liked to laugh out loud, but as Zhou Yiwen’s girlfriend, she had to restrain her joy since Zhou Yiwen wasn’t happy.

At the class dinner, Tang Qian sat at a table with the other girls, surrounded by Xie Linshan from the neighboring class three.

Tang Qian had heard that it seemed Xie Linshan had agreed to be with Chen Shuai.

Though Chen Shuai was not as impressive as Zhou Yiwen, he was still the only son of Dean Chen and would never be short of money.

In Tang Qian’s view, whether it was Zhou Yiwen or Chen Shuai, let alone Wang Ze and Liu Ting, those second-rate male Cultivators, wasn’t any of them better than Jiang Cheng?

At least in the matter of choosing men, she, Tang Qian, was far superior to Lin Yao!

From this moment on, she and Lin Yao were set to enter two different worlds, and probably wouldn’t have much to do with each other in the future.

Most of the girls at the dinner table shared similar thoughts to Tang Qian’s.

Honestly speaking, Jiang Cheng wasn’t bad in their eyes; he fit into the category slightly above average. But after all, he was just an ordinary male Cultivator with a reasonably handsome face and nothing else special to him.

But Lin Yao was not an ordinary person. Her liking Jiang Cheng was like a princess who, instead of marrying a Crown Prince about to ascend the throne from another nation, insisted on marrying a eunuch from her own palace.

Not only did this lower her own worth and invite mockery, but it also ruined the princess’s happiness and future prospects.

What future could a eunuch possibly have?

He couldn’t possibly be the male protagonist of a novel, could he?

Since the mood among the female Cultivators was quite good, the atmosphere at their dinner table was also very pleasant.

However, there was one exception, and that was Xie Linshan, who was sitting next to Tang Qian.

Xie Linshan was not as excited as the other girls; she simply smiled calmly, appearing much cooler.

“Linshan, are you preoccupied with something?” Tang Qian asked with concern.

Xie Linshan offered a slight smile, casually saying, “Not at all, how could you tell?”

“I noticed you’re not smiling much today.”

“Ah? What’s there to laugh about?”

“Are you for real?” Tang Qian widened her eyes and whispered, “Lin Yao likes Jiang Cheng, can’t you see?”

“I can tell.”

“Then why aren’t you laughing?”

“Well, what’s there to laugh about?”

Tang Qian curled her lips, “Isn’t it funny that she likes Jiang Cheng? He’s even from your class. Just some mediocre male Cultivator. Lin Yao has really poor taste in men. I thought she was holding back for someone amazing since she didn’t date all through high school. But it turns out, she was holding back for a Jiang Cheng. That’s hilarious.”

Xie Linshan remembered the scene when she had bumped into Jiang Cheng at the shopping mall that night.

Jiang Cheng probably couldn’t compare with Zhou Yiwen, but he was more than enough compared to Chen Shuai.

“Jiang Cheng is actually not bad,” she said.

Tang Qian disdainfully said, “Not bad? Look at the clothes he wears, the total doesn’t even exceed twenty Spirit Stones.”

Xie Linshan silently added, Then you haven’t seen Jiang Cheng spend two thousand Spirit Stones without even blinking.

However, Xie Linshan and Tang Qian were only acquaintances, and there was no need to inform Tang Qian about Jiang Cheng’s situation.

Besides, even if she did tell her, Jiang Cheng couldn’t compare to Zhou Yiwen, so it was better not to humiliate herself.

Moreover, although Lin Yao liked Jiang Cheng, it wasn’t necessarily the case that Jiang Cheng would reciprocate her feelings, so it wasn’t clear whether Lin Yao could actually marry Jiang Cheng.

After all, there was a female Cultivator by Jiang Cheng’s side, who wasn’t at all inferior to Lin Yao, and even had advantages over her in some aspects…

Amid the jubilant atmosphere of the female classmates, the male counterparts seemed much more subdued.

They were mostly drinking silently, barely touching the food on the table.

Imagine, the goddess you’ve secretly loved for three years in high school, suddenly you learn she likes someone on the last day of graduation.

If this person belongs to some influential second-generation or some big boss, then it would have been easier to accept because, honestly, you can’t compare.

But this person is that damn Jiang Cheng!

All classmates, everyone had a clear understanding of what Jiang Cheng was like; he was slightly better than the average male student, but not by much.

What did he do to be liked by Lin Yao?

What did he do?

If it was a male Cultivator worse off than Jiang Cheng, that could have been more acceptable because indeed, he wasn’t as good as Jiang Cheng.

But those who believed they were better than Jiang Cheng simply couldn’t accept it.

They racked their brains and still couldn’t understand why Jiang Cheng could win Lin Yao’s affection.

Class Three’s monitor Wang Ze, Class Four’s monitor Liu Ting, Chen Shuai, Zhou Yiwen, and several other male classmates were among those who couldn’t accept it at all.

These guys played drinking games until it got dark. Even as most students from the hotel had left, they hadn’t moved an inch.

Originally, they maintained a competitive relationship to the point of life and death.

Since all of them liked Lin Yao, they might not have said anything outwardly but were definitely comparing themselves in secrecy, none willing to concede to the others.

But now, with Jiang Cheng’s emergence, they suddenly found a common enemy and united like never before!

“Brothers, can we let Jiang Cheng off the hook?”

“No way.”

“Impossible.”

“If he dares to touch Lin Yao, I’m gonna have someone give him a good thrashing!”

“It’s a peaceful society now…”

“What’s there to be afraid of, my dad is the Chief Arrestor!”

“That’s the spirit!” Zhou Yiwen gave a thumbs-up and then gathered the guys together, “We need to have a good talk with Jiang Cheng. We can’t control Lin Yao liking him, but if he dares to agree to her…”

“We’ll deal with him!”

“We’ll fight him!”

“Yiwen bro, get me a truck, and I’ll send Jiang Cheng to another world right on the spot!”