Chapter 33 Engagement Banquet Maybe You Really Have Destiny
The dress fits her perfectly.
After changing out, Lin Zhuyue checked the label and saw it was an XL. There was something wrong with current retailers and popular aesthetic trends. It was surprising that someone with her waist could wear an XL. So what was an S? Could it be children's clothing?
Lin Zhuyue put the clothes back into the bag and carried it downstairs. She put the bag into her schoolbag on the cabinet in the entrance hall to prevent herself from forgetting to take it with her when she left.
The porridge hotpot is almost ready.
While congee hotpot may seem like a simple dish of fresh ingredients cooked in rice porridge, it's actually quite sophisticated. The porridge's flavor changes with the ingredients added. After every two or three dishes, the chef will add a distinct ingredient, transforming the base flavor completely.
When Lin Zhuyue and Shican were eating, the chef was waiting by their side, adding the ingredients into the pot in a specific order and then taking them out for them, working very hard.
Shi Can decided to pay the chef more money, as he deserved it.
It was already late after they finished eating porridge and hotpot. Shi Can didn't give Lin Zhuyue extra lessons and just walked her back to the dormitory. He entered Lin Zhuyue's dormitory, opened the medicine box, threw away the expired ibuprofen sustained-release capsules, and stuffed a new box in.
Time soon arrived at the day of Ye Yangjia's cousin's engagement party.
The engagement party, which was held on a Saturday night, invited many young people, taking into account their academic schedules. Attendees didn't have to rush off; they could stay a night on the cruise ship after the event before returning to Celestial City.
Lin Zhuyue drew her bow in the archery hall, and her arrow barely hit the ninth ring. She ran to pull the arrow from the target, drew her bow again, and asked:
"By the way, what is Kunlun Branch?"
"The Spiritual Master Academy has four campuses in total."
Shi Can helped Lin Zhuyue adjust his bow posture.
"We're at the main campus. Besides the main campus, there's also the Kunlun branch, the Hong Kong branch, and the North Korea branch. The Hong Kong branch and the North Korea branch accept some foreign and ethnic minority students. As for the Kunlun branch... the difference from the main campus is that it's generally a bit less competitive."
Shi Chan didn’t forget to add:
"But no matter how bad they are, they can't be worse than Team Nine."
Lin Zhuyue hit the tenth ring this time, she asked:
"I noticed that you really look down on Team Nine."
"You don't understand Team Nine."
Shi Can handed Lin Zhuyue a new arrow and said,
"The students in Class Nine are not only weak, but each one is even crazier than the other. Although they can barely get an insignificant position in the Spiritual Master's Mansion after graduation, they are more suitable for a mental hospital."
Lin Zhuyue nodded: "I understand, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
“You have emotional intelligence.”
Shi Can said with disdain,
"But I think it should be called Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick."
Lin Zhuyue held the bow and praised politely:
"Thank you. You are very emotionally intelligent too."
Shican has no emotional intelligence.
While they were talking, Lin Zhuyue had already finished her training for the day. She went to the girls' locker room, took out shampoo and shower gel from the locker she was temporarily occupying, and showered in the bathroom next to the locker room. After washing off the sweat and drying herself, she changed into the skirt Cui Yi had bought her.
Shi Chan also changed his clothes.
He wore a striped shirt with a dark blue sleeveless sweater over it. His pants were a darker color than the sweater, and he wore brown leather shoes with adjustable laces. This was his party attire.
Not very formal.
But there is no need to dress particularly formally for an engagement party.
Lin Zhuyue looked Shi Can up and down.
Shican has a very attractive face and he is tall, with broad shoulders, a thin waist and long legs. Due to long-term exercise, he has a very good figure. He is like a walking clothes rack and looks good in anything he wears.
After packing up, they headed to Yuqiongshan Pier.
Ye Yangjia's cousin's family is not only a spiritual master but also does business.
However, from Shican's perspective, given the talents of his cousin's family, business is their main occupation, and being a spiritual master can only be said to be a hobby.
However, my cousin's family attaches great importance to the identity of a spiritual master, so he always makes ineffective efforts to become an excellent spiritual master and to select excellent genes for breeding within the available range.
Because of his family's business, my cousin's engagement party invited not only spiritual masters but also many business people. Therefore, the embarkation pier was not chosen in Tiancheng, but instead was set at Yuqiongshan Pier in Yubo City, which is next to Linhai City.
"It's quite far to the pier."
Lin Zhuyue walked beside Shican and asked,
"Not driving?"
"Drive from Tiancheng to Linhai City, then to Yubo City, and board the ship at Yuqiongshan Pier? You don't mind the trouble."
Shi Can walked towards the direction of the Spiritual Master Mansion building.
"The cruise ship they used for the engagement party has a helipad, and I applied for takeoff permission in advance. The helicopter is already waiting on the roof."
The management is very strict now. Unless there is an emergency, Shican needs to go through a lot of procedures if he wants to take a helicopter to do something.
Shi Can's helicopter was parked on the roof of the Spiritual Master's Mansion, with the pilot in the seat and the helicopter preheated. Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue boarded the helicopter, and after taking safety precautions, the helicopter took off directly.
Not long after, the helicopter landed on the cruise ship.
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia set off from Tiancheng in the morning. Although they did not take a helicopter, they arrived several hours earlier than Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can.
However, when Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can arrived, only Ye Yangjia was waiting for them.
Lin Zhuyue asked, "Where's Miyan?"
"Said he was going to tidy himself up."
After Ye Yangjia finished answering, he couldn't help but complain,
"And then you stay in your room for four hours without coming out. Is this what girls call 'tidying up'?"
Just when he was saying bad things behind her back, the real person finally walked onto the tarmac.
“Isn’t it normal to take a moment to dress up?”
Wen Miyan lifted a strand of hair and tucked it behind her ear. She walked forward and took Lin Zhuyue's hand.
"Come on, Zhuyue, I'll help you curl your hair."
Lin Zhuyue was brought into Wen Miyan's room.
The so-called "curling down the hair" sounds simple, but in reality, Lin Zhuyue was pulled to pluck her eyebrows, apply light makeup, wear ear clips, and finally get her hair styled. Wen Miyan performed the whole process with the skill of a stylist, very professional.
When I went out again, it was three hours later.
The boat has become lively.
Most of the invited guests have already boarded the ship. Most of them know each other and are gathered in groups of three or four. Some are talking about the stock market, while others are worrying about how to plan the land they have just bought.
Ye Yangjia didn't know what he was busy with.
Shi Chan was surrounded by many people.
Those people had flattering smiles on their faces and were asking Shi Can about his family's health, how his studies were going, which university he planned to apply to, and they were chattering about ordinary things as if they were very familiar with each other.
Shican's expression was cold, even a little impatient.
Lin Zhuyue asked quietly, "Are those people also spiritual masters?"
"No, they are from the business community."
Wen Miyan replied,
"The Shi family is also very influential in the business world. Wherever Shi Chan goes, people will fawn over him. He has a status as a foreigner, studying in Great Britain. Many people in the business world want to get close to him and even send girls of similar age from their families there. This forced Shi Chan to 'transfer' to a boys' school."
"But you know, in Britain... after someone found out that Shichan had transferred to a boys' school, they sent their son there as well."
"Even though I hate him."
Wen Miyan shook her head and said sympathetically,
"But sometimes I have to admit that it's not easy for him."
It's really miserable.
But Lin Zhuyue inexplicably wanted to laugh.
Perhaps because Shican rarely gets humiliated, this kind of thing is particularly precious.
So, when Shi Can looked at him through the crowd, Lin Zhuyue smiled at him.
Shi Can was a little dazed.
Although Lin Zhuyue looked a lot like Ling Yan, her facial features possessed a fresh, delicate beauty that was completely different from the male Ling Yan. Because of her cleanliness and simplicity, which was a pure beauty, girls like her were often referred to as "little white flowers" outside of Tiancheng.
But Lin Zhuyue is no longer a white flower.
Wen Miyan had used an eyebrow pencil to lengthen her eyebrows, applied eyeliner to the ends of her eyes, and brushed her eyelashes, making her eyes look larger than they were without makeup. Adding to that the natural blush and bean paste pink lip gloss, her look was still fresh, but a bit more "full-bodied" than before.
Her hair has also been styled, curled into big waves, with her bangs lifted up and tied with a fresh candy-colored small floral headband, but it is tied loosely, making her face look small and delicate.
The brilliance of the diamonds on the fishtail earrings is faintly visible among the hair.
Shi Chan seemed to be dazzled.
He had the illusion that he saw a princess walking out of the castle.
Shi Can ignored the people surrounding him, stood up and walked towards Lin Zhuyue, stood in front of her, and looked down at her.
Their eyes met.
Lin Zhuyue had a pair of slightly round almond-shaped eyes. Her eyes were big and bright, and the lights on the boat were reflected in her bright and clear pupils, with a little ripples of water. She was beautiful, pitiful, and extremely smart.
Shi Chan lowered his head and saw his reflection in her eyes.
The atmosphere was a little ambiguous for a moment.
Wen Miyan pretended to turn her head casually and took a step forward to slip away.
Shi Chan said, “Makeup is indeed a sorcery of East Asia.”
Wen Miyan almost tripped herself.
She turned around angrily, wanting to punch Shi Can to death—
You are so good at talking, are you trying to kill yourself?
Lin Zhuyue frowned and said unhappily:
"Master Shi, if you keep talking, I'm going to kiss you on the mouth with my palm."
"Did you put arsenic on your mouth today?"
Shi Chan teased,
"Why is it so poisonous?"
"Is it as poisonous as you?"
Lin Zhuyue is particularly quarrelsome today.
"Are you some kind of spitting cobra? You just open your mouth and you're venomous."
It was getting late when the cruise ship set sail from Yuqiongshan Pier. The engagement banquet was about to begin, and the invited guests gathered in the banquet hall from all over the ship.
The protagonist of the engagement party was Ye Yangjia's uncle's son, named Xiao Zixuan. He just graduated from the advanced department of the Spiritual Master's Mansion last year and was an unremarkable student in Class 3.
The heroine is named Qiao Xun, from Kunlun branch. She is one of the best students in Kunlun branch in terms of academic performance, but she cannot compare with the perverts in Class 1 of the main campus.
The engagement party was large in scale, but the process was very ordinary.
Xiao Zixuan knelt on one knee holding a large bouquet of bright red roses and asked Qiao Xun to marry him. After Qiao Xun agreed, he took out a diamond ring from a rose in the middle of the bouquet and put it on Qiao Xun's hand.
After that, it’s a free feast.
The two protagonists of the engagement party walked around the banquet hall, holding champagne in their hands, and greeted and toasted everyone with a waiter holding a tray of high-heeled glasses filled with champagne.
Shi Can was always annoyed by people greeting him, so he went to hide early. He found a corner to hide in, and when he huddled in, he discovered that Ye Yangjia was also hiding there.
Ye Yangjia greeted him: "...What a coincidence."
"Why are you hiding too?"
Shi Chan squatted in the corner and asked,
"Aren't you going to help your brother entertain the guests? Compared to your cousin, all the guests who came today who are related to spiritual masters would rather deal with you."
Ye Yangjia's face was full of pain:
"They keep asking me if I've found a girlfriend... Why don't they contact me as often as you?"
Shi Chan gave an expression that said, "You don't even know this."
"Dude, you have dual spiritual weapons."
Shi Can patted Ye Yangjia's shoulder and hoped that Ye Yangjia would enjoy a "happy" life in the future.
"It's not a pair of swords or anything like that, it's a pair of guns. A spiritual master's marriage focuses on the possibility of having a child after breeding. Your genes have more possibilities, maybe you can give birth to a rocket launcher, so you have the advantage."
Ye Yangjia was not looking forward to the so-called "battery launcher" at all. He didn't even have a girlfriend, but other people's expectations of him had reached the stage of Mendel's pea hybridization experiment. Ye Yangjia simply curled up into a ball, hugging his knees.
After bullying Ye Yangjia, Shi Can felt much better.
He hooked his finger, and a little paper man carrying a plate hurriedly avoided the crowd and ran towards him quickly.
"Isn't it a good thing to be liked by others?"
Shi Can took the plate, picked up a biscuit, and handed the plate to Ye Yangjia who was huddled beside him, saying kindly,
"Do you want to eat?"
Ye Yangjia replied before Shi Can retracted his hand:
"……eat."
Wen Miyan stayed in the crowd, chatting animatedly with young people of the same age.
Lin Zhuyue was hiding beside the dining table. She stared at the grape cake on the table and wanted to eat it very much, but was afraid of rubbing off the lip gloss on her lips.
"hello."
Qiao Xun pulled Xiao Zixuan over.
"Are you Lin Zhuyue?"
Shi Can, who was sitting in the corner, cursed and stuffed the plate directly into Ye Yangjia's hand. He stood up and strode across the banquet hall towards Lin Zhuyue.
Qiao Xun asked in a friendly manner, "Can I drink?"
"The whole Kunlun branch has heard that a very powerful person has come to Class 1, Grade 3 of the main campus. I really want to meet him."
She took the cup from the plate and handed it to Lin Zhuyue, saying,
"It's very low in alcohol, so you won't get drunk."
Lin Zhuyue looked at the wine glass. The light golden liquid in the glass was shaking slightly, reflecting the numerous and bright lights in the banquet hall.
Lin Zhuyue stretched out his hand and said:
"I haven't tried it, you can try it..."
She drank wine secretly as a child.
The adults had just opened the bottle the day before, and there was still more than half of it left. She held the bottle and drank it all. She was drunk, but she probably wasn't very drunk, otherwise she wouldn't have any memory of it.
Shi Chan reached out and snatched the glass of wine.
Xiao Zixuan seemed to have some grudge against Shi Can. When Shi Can approached him, he seemed a little scared and became much more reserved.
Shi Chan raised his glass and looked at it against the light.
Shi Can scoffed, his eyes tinged with anger. His eyes were usually beautiful, but when he got angry, they became extremely aggressive, a bit like a wolf.
He handed the wine glass to Xiao Zixuan and said simply and directly:
"Drink it."
Xiao Zixuan took the wine glass and put it back on the plate held by the servant.
But Shi Can picked up the glass of wine and handed it to Xiao Zixuan again, and ordered rudely and concisely:
"I said, drink it."
Lin Zhuyue looked at the irritable and ferocious Shi Can in confusion, then looked down at the wine in Shi Can's hand, and only then realized that there might be something wrong with this glass of champagne.
Qiao Xun wanted to stop the drink and said:
"He's already drunk a lot, he can't..."
Shi Can ignored Qiao Xun and said aggressively:
"Xiao Zixuan, today either you drink the wine or I send it for testing."
Xiao Zixuan and Qiao Xun's faces turned ugly.
Seeing the commotion, the elders of the Xiao family hurried forward and tried to ease the atmosphere in the banquet hall:
"Hey, what's this for?"
"Are you planning to rape first and then kill, or kill first and then rape?"
Shi Chan held up a goblet of champagne and asked,
“Who is to be blamed?”
Xiao Zixuan's father asked, "What do you mean?"
Shi Can shook the goblet in his hand and took a step closer:
"Uncle Xiao, don't you know exactly what I mean? I don't think your good-for-nothing son has the guts to do such a thing without your consent."
Father Xiao said angrily: "Shican! Don't think that I dare not educate you on behalf of your parents!"
Shi Can didn't show any fear at all.
Ye Yangjia came over from a distance and scolded:
"Okay, are you embarrassed? Do you have any shame?"
Neither Xiao Zixuan nor his father, the elder, dared to utter a word when faced with an angry Ye Yangjia. Although they were close relatives, barely considered family, the difference in their status was very obvious.
Shi Can threw the wine glass at Xiao Zixuan's feet.
The sound of breaking glass startled Xiao Zixuan and Qiao Xun.
Shi Can said to Xiao Zixuan:
"This is to give face to your cousin."
After saying that, Shi Can pulled Lin Zhuyue out of the banquet hall. As he walked, he took out his cell phone and called the helicopter pilot who was resting in the guest room:
"Let's go. Something unexpected happened. My schedule has changed. I'm going back to Tiancheng now."
The driver was dazed, but still replied to Shican, saying that he would be there soon.
"What's with that wine?"
Lin Zhuyue asked Shi Can,
"What kind of drug was put in it?"
"I don't know, but there's definitely a problem."
Shi Can held Lin Zhuyue's wrist tightly and said,
"The wine looks a little cloudy, as if the medicine powder hasn't dissolved properly."
Lin Zhuyue had already realized why they drugged her and asked:
"Does their family have a grudge against the Ling family?"
They took the elevator to the tarmac.
Shi Chan took a breath of the slightly salty sea breeze and replied:
"The Xiao family has no grudge against yours, at least not on the surface. Otherwise, Ye Yangjia wouldn't be able to remain neutral. The one that has a grudge against your family is the Kunlun branch. They probably persuaded them to attack you in exchange for supporting the Xiao family."
Shi Can relaxed his tense nerves a little, and said to Lin Zhuyue, who was even more nervous than him, in a coaxing tone:
"Go to the helicopter first and don't come out."
Shi Can pushes Lin Zhuyue towards the helicopter.
The next moment, he summoned the spiritual weapon blade.
Shi Can, holding the knife in his left hand, turned around to meet the incoming pale green blade. The two blades collided, but Shi Can had an absolute advantage, whether due to his own spiritual power or the characteristics and sharpness of the Lingwu Jue Blade. The blade of the Jue Blade was embedded in the blade of the pale green long sword.
Lin Zhuyue exclaimed in surprise: "Shican, behind you——!"
The battle axe chopped towards Shican's back.
The battle axe was too huge. When Lin Zhuyue saw it, he subconsciously felt that it was going to split Shi Can in half.
Shi Can stretched his right hand behind him, and a blade emitting a faint purple glow appeared in an instant, blocking the battle axe that was only inches away from his back.
Qiao Xun was surprised: "How is it possible...?"
What Shi Can was holding in his right hand was undoubtedly the Lingwu Absolute Blade.
But the absolute blade in his left hand did not disappear.
"Didn't you say he was a one-handed sword?"
Qiao Xun asked Xiao Zixuan who was holding a green long knife,
"Why are there two swords?"
Xiao Zixuan was a little horrified: "I don't know either!"
He stared at Shi Can and asked:
"Why are you a dual-spiritual warrior?"
"Only your brother is allowed to have dual spiritual martial arts, but not others?"
Shi Can pointed the blade at Xiao Zixuan,
"Cousin, you've experienced the power of the Absolute Blade. Back then, I only used one blade, and you couldn't hold it back. Guess how fast I would be with two blades?"
Xiao Zixuan already wanted to retreat.
As someone who had been beaten before, Xiao Zixuan knew exactly how good Shi Can was at fighting. He also knew that the Absolute Blade was a very powerful spiritual weapon. As long as the person holding the blade had enough spiritual power, the Absolute Blade could cut through anything.
"You guys seem to be having a lot of fun."
Wen Miyan walked out of the elevator and summoned the war halberd.
"How should I evaluate the two of you? You didn't even realize you were being tricked. Are you acting foolishly? You two idiots—"
Xiao Zixuan asked: "A trap?"
"Informed consent might not have been granted."
Wen Miyan lifted her hair and said,
"But after what you've done today, the higher-ups can't just turn a blind eye. To ensure Lin Zhuyue's safety, the Spiritual Master Mansion will definitely reveal more or less everything about the Ling family to her."
"I didn't want to set a trap. After all, I'm not a demon. Why would I use my partner's life as bait? But someone insisted on putting their head in the loop and handed the rope to me."
Shi Chan asked,
"Where's Ye Yangjia?"
Wen Miyan said, "He was guarding the elevator door. He would shoot anyone who dared to come out of the banquet hall."
Although he knew Ye Yangjia didn't mean it, Shi Can was still very angry. He nodded and said:
"Okay, if he can't hold on, I'll kill him."
"Lin Zhuyue."
Shi Chan said with his back to the helicopter,
"I actually like you quite a bit. I've always wanted a ranged teammate with explosive attack power. It would be hard for you to find a melee teammate stronger than me. We can at least be partners until graduation."
Lin Zhuyue stuck his head out and said:
"I am indeed from Yuancheng."
Shi Chan's addiction to arguing with others came back:
"Do you think you're funny?"
Lin Zhuyue was assembling a magic broom, which was the only thing she had taken out of the helicopter that looked like it could be used for fighting. While assembling it, she was thinking about whose head to blow off first.
But Shi Can was too fast, and he approached Xiao Zixuan with his Absolute Blade. Xiao Zixuan subconsciously held his knife to block. But Shi Can had no intention of relying on the Absolute Blade to win, and kicked him five meters away.
Shi Can didn't even look at Xiao Zixuan who was unable to get up. He turned to face Qiao Xun with the knife in his hand.
Qiao Xun raised his hands.
Lin Zhuyue believed it. Shi Can was really strong in close combat.
There was no big commotion in the banquet hall below, because the Xiao family didn't dare to touch Ye Yangjia, and Wen Miyan had already reported the matter to the Spiritual Master's Mansion, and the people from the Spiritual Master's Mansion were on their way -
If we stop now, maybe there is still time.
Half an hour later, the helicopter from the Spiritual Master's Mansion landed on the cruise ship.
Ye Yangjia received the message and took the elevator to the helipad.
"teacher."
Ye Yangjia said to Fu Xingwei,
"Sorry to interrupt your weekend."
"It's okay, it's not your fault."
Fu Xingwei confirmed the safety of his four students, breathed a sigh of relief, and went to see Xiao Zixuan again and asked,
"Is there a doctor on board? Check him out, don't die."
Lin Zhuyue quietly took off the ear clip from her ear. Her earlobes were thin and short, the kind of earlobes that people often call "unlucky", and they hurt a lot when they were pinched by the ear clip.
Shi Chan took a bottle of water from the helicopter, unscrewed the cap and began to drink. He was furious tonight, thirsty and drank more than half the bottle before stopping.
"Most of the time, I didn't feel any real connection to the Ling family, nor did I consider revenge. My biological father had little presence in my life, and it was difficult for me to develop any feelings for him, including hatred."
Lin Zhuyue stood beside Shi Can and whispered,
"I don't hate anyone, but some people hate me and want me dead. It's a weird feeling to be targeted."
"Whether you have any real feelings or not, the Ling family's affairs will be exposed. You have the Ling family's blood flowing in your veins, so you are destined to be at the center of the storm."
Shi Can opened a coat and put it on Lin Zhuyue's thin shoulders, saying,
"As a spiritual master, I have always firmly believed that the existence of everything has meaning. Your spiritual power, your spiritual weapon, your birth, your appearance—perhaps you truly carry the destiny of heaven, the only remaining hope for this world of yin and yang. And precisely because of this, all evildoers and debtors fear you."
Lin Zhuyue put on his coat, looked towards the sea, and said:
"I heard that the ship he was on was wrecked."
Shi Chan nodded and replied:
"Well, one boat, forty-seven people, all sank, and the fish devoured their bodies until nothing was left. The other forty-six people were all ordinary people, victims of the struggle."
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