Chapter 458: Chapter 128: The Imperial Music Bureau’s New Courtesan! A Decade-Old Grudge

",,,"

It’s exactly because you say stuff like that that I can’t relax!

But looking at Guan Bao’s face, swearing guarantees like that...

Yun Hu finally just nodded, didn’t say anything else.

Instead, he started thinking about how to talk next, how to take over this kind of thing without making Wei Hongfang suspicious.

Of course.

The most important thing is to improve my strength.

Among the Martial Artists I’m going to challenge, there’ll still be Innate Martial Artists showing up—if I can’t beat them and get killed instead, now that’d really be a joke.

,,,

Night falls at the Imperial Music Bureau.

It’s still blazing with lights, lively as ever.

The Courtesan is playing music on stage, surrounded by dancing girls—the whole thing is an absolute feast for the eyes.

Inside the private room, Ye Liuyun’s lounging comfortably in his chair, admiring the dancers, with ladies constantly refilling his cup!

"Sir, what have you all been busy with lately?"

Shi Sheng and the others know that Ye Liuyun’s been up to something these days.

But since he only went to Si Nan, not them, and to avoid interfering with Ye Liuyun’s plans, they just kept their questions tucked away, not daring to ask anything on the surface.

Anyway, from the looks of things, Ye Liuyun’s clearly wrapped things up.

Shi Sheng and the rest finally asked their burning questions.

"Nothing much, just some little scheming!"

Not that he minds sharing.

But this is a brothel after all, with crowds and lots of eyes—shouting about your plans here is just asking for trouble.

"Sir, you can come to me for that sort of thing too, you know! Scheme-stuff isn’t Si Nan’s monopoly!"

Shi Sheng didn’t push for details, but he couldn’t help an indignant remark.

Ye Liuyun only went to Si Nan this round.

He clearly thought only Si Nan could pull it off.

Shi Sheng was pretty dissatisfied.

What, I’m worse than Si Nan?

"Save it, will you!"

This time, Ye Liuyun didn’t even have to respond—Si Nan was already giving Shi Sheng a deadpan look as he spoke.

"If it were you, you’d just use your fists for everything. What else do you know?"

Not that Shi Sheng’s brainless, but almost every time, his first instinct is to solve things with fists. Even his "scheming" is always super straightforward.

"Bullshit!"

He could take it from anyone else—

—but Si Nan saying that? No way. Shi Sheng instantly got pissed and yelled out loud.

"Come on, let’s go outside and have a match! I’ll show you if I only know fists!"

",,,"

Aren’t you literally trying to solve this by fighting now?

Si Nan didn’t respond, just looked at Shi Sheng with even more exasperation in his eyes.

Jiang Jing and Feng Feiyi, seeing all this, both burst out laughing. After spending so much time together, their relationships had all gotten pretty tight.

Their constant banter and scuffling never affected the bond between Shi Sheng, Si Nan, and the others.

"Sparring’s fine, just not right now!"

Normally, Si Nan would never accept—First-class going up against Postnatal Realm? That’s like being brainless, pure and simple. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Si Nan isn’t some showoff wandering swordsman, after all.

But this time was obviously different.

"Relax, two or three days will be enough!"

Si Nan didn’t make Shi Sheng wait for nothing—he even gave him a two or three day deadline.

"Hm?"

As soon as he said that, Ye Liuyun and the rest all looked over with surprised eyes.

"You’re about to break through?"

They hadn’t really noticed before, but now looking closely, the surges of Inner Strength swirling wildly around Si Nan showed he was on the verge of a breakthrough.

Just like Si Nan described: the way things were going, two or three days really should be enough for him to officially cross into the Postnatal Realm.

"Not bad!"

Jiang Jing and the others started praising him too.

They’d seen how hard Si Nan pushed himself lately, driven by a sense of urgency, so this achievement definitely did justice to his efforts.

"Haha, that’s all thanks to the sir!"

Ever since joining Ye Liuyun, Si Nan’s already reached Lord Thousand Households rank, plus with all that cash, getting a decent Cultivation Technique, or even tapping into Embroidered Uniform Guard resources,

has become totally easy.

Plus Si Nan’s own talent’s nothing to scoff at—breaking through to Postnatal Realm was totally within reason.

"So, how about it!"

As he spoke,

Si Nan looked back at Shi Sheng, eyebrow cocked.

"If you’re scared, you can still surrender now!"

"Heh!"

Hearing Si Nan say that, Shi Sheng couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

"Scared? Me, scared of you?"

What a joke—even if Si Nan is about to break through, that doesn’t scare Shi Sheng; he’s not exactly some coward.

"You said it yourself! I’ll give you a few days, but don’t say I bullied you. Watch how I put you in your place this time!"

Shi Sheng’s been looking to beat up Si Nan for ages.

Not that he hates Si Nan or anything.

It’s just itchy hands, wanting to smack Si Nan, nothing personal at all.