What a loss! A huge loss!!
At 9:30 in the morning, a black Volvo pulled up in front of the Kidd Academy gate. Xu Ershao looked exhausted, with a slight swelling on his left brow bone. He was originally considered a handsome young man, with naturally charming eyes that were sure to attract girls. But now, his eyes were swollen like peaches, which inevitably diminished his allure.
Xu Ershao saw Chen Xiao walking towards them from afar, carrying a backpack on one shoulder. Chen Xiao's expression was serious, and his eyes were somewhat unfocused, as if he were absent-minded and lost in thought. Fortunately, the road in front of Kidd Academy was a specially widened first-class highway; otherwise, Xu Ershao even suspected that Chen Xiao, in his current absent-minded state, would have bumped into a telephone pole.
When Chen Xiao walked over, Xu Yifan called him three times before he reacted, and he managed to force a helpless, bitter smile.
"What's wrong with you?" Young Master Xu got out of the car and looked Chen Xiao up and down with a smile: "You look like you were violated and lost your virginity last night."
Chen Xiao grinned and gave him a wry smile, along with a middle finger, before noticing Xu Ershao's almond-shaped eyes: "What's wrong with you now? Did you get into a fight with someone else's girlfriend?"
Xu Yifan rubbed his peach-shaped eyes, but showed no sign of frustration. Instead, he straightened his chest and said, "What do you know! Let me tell you, for a man, scars on his body are like medals! A grown man who doesn't have a single scar on his body is not manly at all."
However, this sudden chest-straightening movement was too forceful, aggravating his injuries. Xu Ershao groaned in pain, his voice trembling.
"Are you really injured?" Chen Xiao's tone turned serious, and his expression became solemn. He said in a deep voice, "Who did this?"
Joking aside, Chen Xiao was still very concerned about his only friend, Xu Yifan. If Xu Yifan had really been beaten up like that, as a brother, he couldn't just stand by and do nothing!
"Don't worry. I was beaten up... but you can't avenge me anyway." Young Master Xu rubbed his chest and said with a wry smile, "Didn't you ask me where I went to skip class yesterday? Let me tell you, I found a master who is incredibly skilled! I paid a huge price to hire such a master! Yesterday, I went to the airport to pick up my teacher, and after settling him in, I practiced a few more moves."
As he spoke, Young Master Xu chuckled, "Chen Xiao, when we usually fight one-on-one, although I'm not as good as you, it wouldn't be so easy for you to take me down, would it? The teacher I invited this time is a true master! Yesterday, we sparred, and he knocked me down in just two moves! And that was with mercy!"
Two encounters?
Chen Xiao's heart skipped a beat—then he had indeed encountered a master.
Chen Xiao knew about Xu Ershao's fighting skills. Although Xu Ershao came from a wealthy family, he was not the kind of spoiled brat. When they met three years ago, this guy's fists were already very hard, obviously because he had been fighting hard since he was a child.
Over the past three years, the two have become good friends and joined the karate club together. Xu Ershao has indeed put in a lot of hard work. His current skill level, while not quite matching Xu Ershao's, is not far off. Normally, it's difficult for three or five ordinary men to get close to him.
Such a simple act would result in someone easily knocking you down in just two moves...
"You don't really want to learn martial arts, do you?" Chen Xiao chuckled. "Will your old man agree? He's counting on you to follow in his footsteps. Do you want to learn from your older brother?"
Xu Ershao's older brother, the eldest son of the Xu family, is already thirty years old this year. Although the Xu family is worth hundreds of millions, the eldest son of Xu has absolutely no interest in business. Moreover, he is even more stubborn and hot-tempered than Xu Yifan.
Instead of navigating the business world, he joined the underworld, where he became a notorious figure! Born into a wealthy family, he was rich and powerful, and his influence was undeniable. He was also incredibly skilled in combat. When he first started out, the underworld looked down on him, considering him a rich kid. But he angered Xu, the young master, who single-handedly chased seven or eight men down three streets with a long knife! In the end, his white shirt was stained red. From then on, he became a tough character in K City's underworld, known as "Little Red Robe."
In K City, the name "Little Red Robe" is very well-known in the underworld!
Chen Xiao looked at Xu Ershao with a slight worry on his face—he didn't have any prejudice against people in the underworld, but he didn't want his best friend to go down that path.
"Don't worry." Xu Ershao strode over, grabbed Chen Xiao's neck, and although he winced in pain when he lifted his arm, he still laughed loudly: "Even if I really have to go into the underworld, I'll drag you along to be my top henchman—I'm just interested in kung fu! In the future, once I've mastered kung fu, with our brotherly looks and kung fu skills, I'll find a way to convince the old man to invest a hundred or two hundred million, and we'll make a movie and create a kung fu superstar for fun. Haha..."
As he spoke, he casually tossed the car keys to the security guard at the school gate, who quickly and solicitously took them and went to park the car for Xu Ershao.
"Why did you switch to such an old-fashioned car?" Chen Xiao looked at Xu Ershao's black Volvo sedan. Such cars were usually driven by mature and steady older men. Although Chen Xiao didn't have a car now, his driving skills were quite good two years ago.
"My master took my BMW Z8, so I just drove one out of the house this morning," Xu Ershao explained casually, then lowered his voice and chuckled, "By the way, you have to introduce me to that pretty girl later. I made a phone call last night to help you sort things out. It's quite a coincidence, really."
"What's wrong?"
Xu Ershao chuckled: "Didn't that cabbage girl offend a girl at school? You said that girl was upset because she had just broken up with her boyfriend, which is why she clashed with the cabbage girl, right?"
Chen Xiao nodded, but then a thought struck him, and he glared at Xu Ershao: "Could it be..."
"That girl, the one you saw at the school gate yesterday morning. I was breaking up with her at the time." Young Master Xu spread his hands and sighed helplessly.
Chen Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and scolded, "In the end, the root of the problem lies with you! You dumped her yesterday morning, and she was in a bad mood, so she bullied Bai MM to vent her frustration, right?"
"Hmph, that girl is no good either, she's very hypocritical." Young Master Xu curled his lips: "But Xiao Ma likes her very much, so he got into trouble with your cabbage girl in order to stand up for her."
"She's not 'my' cabbage girl." Chen Xiao frowned: "Don't talk nonsense."
"If it's not yours, is it mine?" Xu Ershao walked side by side with Chen Xiao into the school, but deliberately laughed, "Since you say that girl isn't yours, I'll make my move! I saw her once when she registered, she was very pretty."
Chen Xiao stopped immediately, looked at Xu Yifan, and sighed: "You...you'd better not provoke her. Her family isn't well-off, and it's already a struggle for her to be able to study here. This girl is different from that rich girl at school, you..."
"Hahahaha!!" Young Master Xu pointed at Chen Xiao and laughed loudly: "Look! I haven't even made a move yet, and you're already getting impatient! Alright, alright! Brothers are like limbs, women are like clothes! If you want me not to touch her, then I won't!"
Before Chen Xiao could explain, Young Master Xu changed the subject: "By the way, if you're free these next couple of days, I'll take you to meet my master! I'll show you what a true master is!"
In the morning, Chen Xiao went to a management class. Xu Ershao's class was different from Chen Xiao's, so he went to the sports stadium alone—he was practically someone who could do whatever he wanted at school. This wasn't just because he had a rich father, nor was it just because his older brother was a notorious gangster in the city.
One reason is that one of the investors in Kidd Academy, this prestigious school, is Xu Ershao's father, and even the land on which it is located belongs to Xu Ershao's father.
To put it simply, Xu Ershao is the son of a "school board member." He's quite intelligent, but he doesn't really like studying, so his grades are so-so. He spends most of his time at the gym and with girls.
Chen Xiao attended classes diligently in the morning and ate something at the school cafeteria at noon—using Xu Ershao's meal card. Ever since Xu Ershao had said those words to him, Chen Xiao had come to terms with it. Since they had decided to be best friends for life, there was no need to be too formal; deliberately keeping a distance would only create awkwardness.
There weren't many classes today, and nothing much happened until 2 PM. Chen Xiao was too lazy to go to the gym to work up a sweat—he was exhausted from working every day, so where would he find the energy to expend on exercise? He'd even stopped practicing karate much lately.
After thinking for a moment, I strolled toward the library in the college.
Kidd College's library is even bigger than the K City Municipal Library! It's a completely modern building, and they even spent a lot of money to import a modern electronic management system from abroad. The cost of building this library alone is over 100 million.
It's a pity... such a wonderful library, yet it's usually deserted. After all, how many of those rich kids are truly studious? These people have no worries about life, no pressure to get into college, and plenty of their youth to squander; few of them are willing to waste their time in a boring library.
Therefore, this place has always been the most secluded spot in Kidd Academy. In Chen Xiao's memory, three years before he came to this school, the occupancy rate of the huge library has never exceeded 20%.
Originally, Chen Xiao wasn't the kind of bookworm who would spend his whole life studying books, but the school library had another attraction for him: free internet access.
This is a benefit that probably only Chen Xiao enjoys in the entire school.
Which student at Kidd Academy doesn't have a laptop? Some particularly wealthy students, like Xu Ershao, upgrade their laptops faster than their phones, always being the first to buy and try out any new and good models.
But Chen Xiao doesn't have the money now. He doesn't have a laptop, so the row of free desktop computers in the library has become his favorite place to pass the time.