Shen Beian looked up and felt that this boxing ring was no different from the boxing ring he had seen in the First World.
"Si Nan, is there any difference between this boxing match and the ones I've seen before?" Shen Bei'an remembered that he had to call Gu Nan'an "Si Nan" here.
Although the question was directed at Gu Nanyan, the other three people present were also pondering the matter.
Xie Yunyu reached out and poked Shen Juanqing's hand. Did she really want Shen Bei'an to know all this?
Shen Juanqing grasped Xie Yunyu's hand in return. Since Ziyan had brought her uncle here, she had already decided to tell him everything.
Originally, Zi Yan was the least willing to reveal these things to his uncle.
But why...?
Shen Juanqing and Xie Yunyu both came wearing masks. One was the Lord of Wind and Clouds—Yu Huo, and the other was the Lord of Yi Shui Han—Yan Nian. Yi Shui Han was a force of the Shen family in the capital of the empire.
Yan Nian was naturally given the surname Shen.
Ning Yao was also unsure whether she should say it or not.
Gu Nanyan peeled a lychee and put it into Shen Beian's mouth. The lychees here were all air-freighted from Hejiang in the Empire. Shen Beian opened his mouth and ate it, then tilted his head and spat the pit into another small dish.
Gu Nanyan peeled the lychee slowly and deliberately, and said slowly, "Unlike other boxing rings, every match here is a life-or-death battle."
The cold, aloof voice carried a hint of bloodlust, making one want to vomit.
Shen Bei'an abruptly stopped chewing the lychee, his peach-blossom eyes looking down in disbelief.
A battle to the death!
This means that you have to kill your opponent in every match to win!
You only win if you beat someone to death!
His gaze involuntarily turned to Xie Yunyu.
In the original book, the Lord of Wind and Cloud also has another identity: the undefeated god of the underground boxing ring!
This is why Fengyun was able to rise rapidly to become the fifth largest power on Fuyun Island.
Xie Yunyu noticed that Shen Bei'an was looking at her, but she wasn't surprised.
The Lord of Wind and Cloud is the undefeated god of the underground boxing ring, as everyone on Fuyun Island knows.
Her and Shen Juanqing's identities were quite clear, so it was normal for Shen Beian to know.
She has indeed killed quite a few people in this area...
She initially came here to vent her emotions. Xie Yunyu was always aware that she had a mental illness, and she used all kinds of stimulating methods to release her feelings.
Racing, bungee jumping, skydiving, boxing...
She never intended to die, and her coming here was premeditated.
She still had so many things to do; how could she so easily face death?
Therefore, even though she was beaten to the point of near death on this stage, she was still alive.
The cell repair devices in the underground boxing ring are always the same as those in the Imperial military. Every winner is sent into a cell repair device, which costs three percent more than the market price.
Every competition involves betting, and without a doubt, the bookmaker wins the most from such betting.
In each competition, the participants would almost always stake all their wealth and would sign a life-or-death agreement in advance.
The winner enters the cell repair device, which is stipulated in the agreement, as is the price.
If you can't afford it, you can only stay here as a boxer or be noticed by the management to become a henchman or mistress.
The world's most advanced cell repair equipment has always been controlled by the Ziya family. Later, Gu Nanyan and Ziya Jingmo established the He Shou Wu Research Institute.
Since then, the Polygonum multiflorum Research Institute has become a place that medical professionals all over the world want to enter.
Xie Yunyu had always suspected whether the dark world of underground boxing rings had any connection with the scions of prominent families in the capital, or rather, with this aloof and noble eldest son of the capital.
Many boxers with no other options come here. If they win, they may be showered with immense wealth; if they lose, they will lose their lives.
Underground boxing rings don't offer any compensation; it's clearly stated in black and white that the ring is not responsible for any deaths.
Many boxers have also taken countless lives from their hands.
For Xie Yunyu, this place was where she could vent her anger, and most of the people who could participate were not good people; they were mostly fierce and menacing, and there were even many international terrorists.
Call her morally corrupt or whatever, but for someone who was abducted as a child and nearly assaulted in her youth, even if she was later adopted and pampered by the Xie family, how can the shadows of her childhood ever disappear?
Xie Yunyu lowered her head to avoid Shen Bei'an's gaze.
Gu Nanyan continued feeding Shen Beian lychees without saying a word, "We'll be watching five matches today, all by world-renowned boxers. There's a betting pool nearby; you can place your bets, darling."
Gu Nanyan wasn't used to calling Shen Bei'an by names like "Abei," so he chose to call him "Baby," a very affectionate term between husband and wife.
Before Shen Bei'an could even react, he had already eaten the lychee that Gu Nan'an handed him. After spitting out the lychee pit, he pinched Gu Nan'an's sleeve and whispered in his ear.
"Did you already know about Xie Yunyu...?"
These were not mentioned in the original book!
Although the original book also includes scenes of the male and female protagonists coming to the underground boxing ring, it never states that every match in the underground boxing ring means the end of a life!
Gu Nanyan nodded gently and continued peeling lychees for Shen Bei'an.
There are no secrets in the world when faced with the Gu family's web of secrets.
Gu Nanyan knew all of Xie Yunyu's identities.
No matter how powerful an individual is, how can they be compared to a powerful family that has been established in the world for many years?
“When she was on Fuyun Island, I had Xiao Qi protect her.” Gu Nanyan leaned close to Shen Bei’an’s ear, his warm breath spraying onto Shen Bei’an’s earlobe.
But at this moment, Shen Bei'an showed no embarrassment whatsoever; his pupils narrowed.
Xie Yunyu's upbringing seems to be inextricably linked to his lover.
"Why?" Shen Bei'an met those phoenix eyes that were always full of tenderness and love when they looked at him.
"Is it because of me?" Shen Bei'an asked himself, answering his own question.
Because he saved Xie Yunyu when he was young, because he mentioned his feelings for Xie Yunyu when he was young, and because he always longed for Xie Yunyu whenever he talked about her when he was young.
No one knew his lover better than Shen Beian.
It appears warm and caring, but in reality, it is cold and indifferent.
If she still harbors some affection for her family and friends.
So she rarely offers help to strangers, mainly because of the education she received from childhood and so-called humanitarianism.
Only with him will I have absolute patience and desire…
Therefore, Shen Bei'an did not believe that Gu Nan'an would extend kindness to a "stranger".
If Gu Nanyan wouldn't do that now, let alone the arrogant and disdainful young man he was back then.
Gu Nanyan reached out and ruffled Shen Bei'an's hair, his eyes full of doting smiles, everything understood without a word.
"Place your bet, baby." Gu Nanyan took out a black gold card with a logo that Shen Bei'an had never seen before.
It's the exclusive logo of underground boxing rings.
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