Chapter 116 Is this all the skill you've got? You think you're worthy to fight me?
Inside the room, Lin Wan'er had long since shed all pretense, leaning lazily back in her chair, wiping her hand with a handkerchief in disgust after touching Li Mo's teacup. Her usually aloof and refined face was now filled with jealousy and disdain, even appearing somewhat distorted.
"A piece of trash is a piece of trash. Even if he wears the skin of a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations), he can't change his dullness and incompetence. He can't even compare to a playboy like Xiao Jingxuan!"
"What are you talking about regarding your future? What are you talking about working hard in front of me?"
"If it weren't for the fact that the Li family still has some use to him, and that he himself is a brainless idiot who is easy to manipulate, would he really think I would be willing to put on this show for him? Listening to his ignorant and foolish words is simply an insult to my ears!"
Qingdai chimed in sharply, "That's right, they don't even know how to look in the mirror and see what kind of person they are!"
Little did he know that these cold, harsh, malicious, and disgusting words all seeped through the crack in the door, like icicles, and pierced into Li Mo's ears.
In an instant, all the color drained from his face, his fingers gripping the door frame turned white, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.
So it turns out... in her eyes, his proud achievements, his careful attempts to please, and his aspirations for the future...
It's all a joke!
They keep calling me an 'idiot' and a 'piece of trash'!
Lin Wan'er has always thought this way about herself.
At this moment, Li Mo felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head.
It not only extinguished all his enthusiasm and joy, but also instantly froze his heart, which was originally full of love and expectation, into ice!
...
In the end, Li Mo didn't have the courage to push open that door. He chose to run away.
While fleeing, he accidentally bumped into a vase in the corridor. He heard Lin Wan'er's wary footsteps coming from the private room, and he ran like the wind, not even knowing which way to go.
It wasn't until I ran out of the Drunken Immortal Pavilion and was hit by the autumn wind that my muddled mind cleared up a bit.
He staggered unsteadily to a large tree, his stomach churning, and he couldn't help but vomit, looking utterly disheveled.
This is what Xiao Jingxuan, Zhao Rui, and the others saw when they walked down the street.
The group had just finished celebrating and were preparing to move to another place to continue the festivities.
"Hey! I thought you were some clueless vagrant. Isn't this our newly appointed Jinshi, the Minister of War, the young master of the Li family? What's going on... are you so happy to be celebrating your success that you can't even walk straight?"
Li Mo had just finished vomiting and felt a little better. When he looked up and heard Xiao Jingxuan's irritating tone, his face immediately turned even uglier.
"Xiao Jingxuan, stop talking nonsense."
"I'm talking nonsense?" Xiao Jingxuan crossed his arms and walked around Li Mo, his tone playful.
"Given your personality, you should be eager to announce your success to the whole world, so why are you all alone and in such a sorry state? Could it be that..."
As if suddenly remembering something, Xiao Jingxuan maliciously speculated, "You went to fawn over your most beautiful fiancée in the capital again, only to be met with a cold shoulder and kicked out, didn't you? Hahaha!"
These words were like steel needles, precisely piercing Li Mo's bleeding wound.
The next second, he suddenly looked up, staring intently at Xiao Jingxuan as if he wanted to devour him alive.
"Xiao Jingxuan! What the hell are you spouting?! Are you looking for death?!"
Li Mo roared, his suppressed anger erupting at that moment, and he lunged forward without regard for anything else.
"Hey, calm down, calm down!"
Seeing this, Zhao Rui and Sun Wei quickly stepped forward and grabbed him tightly from both sides. However, Li Mo was under the influence of alcohol at the moment, and his strength was considerable.
Seeing his embarrassed and angry appearance, Xiao Jingxuan was not afraid at all, but instead sneered; "What? You're getting angry because I hit the nail on the head?"
"Tsk tsk, Li Mo, you're a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations), how can you still be so impatient? No wonder Miss Lin doesn't like you!"
"Shut up! Shut up!" Li Mo struggled frantically, every word Xiao Jingxuan uttered felt like a knife cutting into his heart.
Yes, he was only one place behind Xiao Jingxuan, so why could Xiao Jingxuan celebrate with friends and family, while he was considered useless and worthless by Lin Wan'er?
Why should I?!
Anger and resentment consumed his reason. Taking advantage of Zhao Rui and Sun Wei's inattention, he suddenly broke free from their restraints, his eyes red, and swung his fist at Xiao Jingxuan's face!
"I'll fight you to the death!"
Then, his already unsteady stance, coupled with his heightened emotions, made him even more vulnerable.
Although Xiao Jingxuan seemed like a playboy, he had been forced to train by his older brother. He nimbly dodged the attack and then unceremoniously threw a punch at Li Mo's abdomen, followed by another punch at his chin.
"Bang! Bang!"
Li Mo groaned in pain, forced to retreat repeatedly by the blows, and finally collapsed to the ground in a disheveled state, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth and his cheeks quickly swelling up.
Xiao Jingxuan vented his anger, flicked his wrist, and looked down at him.
"With such meager skills, you dare to fight me? You're just a piece of trash, a complete loser!"
As he spoke, he took out a few pieces of silver from his pocket and casually tossed them beside Li Mo as if he were giving money to a beggar.
"This is for medical treatment. Don't say I bullied you. You were the one who attacked first. I was just retaliating and didn't hold back for a moment."
After saying that, he didn't even bother to look at Li Mo again. He gave Zhao Rui and Sun Wei a wink, and the three of them strode away.
Li Mo was left alone on the ground, his face burning with pain, but his heart was colder than the autumn night ground.
Lin Wan'er's betrayal and Xiao Jingxuan's humiliation felt like countless needles piercing his dignity.
Just then, a familiar hem of a skirt silently appeared in his lowered gaze.
Li Mo suddenly looked up and saw that it was Lin Wan'er.
She stood there quietly, looking at him calmly, as if he were a complete stranger.
Li Mo suddenly realized that she had arrived a long time ago!
Therefore, she witnessed the entire process of him being beaten and humiliated by Xiao Jingxuan, and she neither spoke up to stop it nor called for help.
Instead, he chose to remain a bystander, only revealing himself after Xiao Jingxuan and the others had left.
A humiliation a hundred times more intense than the physical pain instantly overwhelmed his reason.
Li Mo struggled to get up, his eyes bloodshot, like a wounded and trapped beast.
"You saw it all along, didn't you?"
"You just stood there watching?! You watched me get beaten, you watched me get humiliated, why didn't you say anything? Why didn't you call for help?"
"Do you think...do you think I deserve it! Do you think I'm a piece of trash! That it's only natural for people to look down on me?!"
He spoke with all his might, every word dripping with blood and tears.
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