Lu Xuan turned to look at Liu Hanyan.
“Alright, get up.”
“That’s all for today. I’ll head back now.”
Lu Xuan strode out the door.
Liu Hanyan scrambled up from the ground, not bothering to tidy her disheveled clothes and hair. She simply bowed her head deeply, using all her strength to suppress the tremor in her voice.
“Master, walk slowly.”
“Don’t see me off. Hurry up and tidy the office.”
Lu Xuan’s hand was already on the doorknob. He added without looking back, “Also, remind Sun Hao not to provoke me. I don’t have time to play with people like him.”
With that, Lu Xuan’s figure disappeared behind the door, without the slightest hesitation.
Liu Hanyan stared at the closed door, her entire body feeling as if her bones had been extracted. She leaned weakly against the wall, slowly sliding to the ground.
She let out a long sigh of relief, her taut nerves finally getting a moment of respite.
But then, an even stronger sense of emptiness and loss, like a tide, engulfed her.
She could clearly feel that in Lu Xuan’s eyes, she was nothing more than a dog, a tool that could be used at any time.
Yet, it was this humiliating feeling of being absolutely controlled that gave rise to a pathological, almost twisted, sense of worship and dependence in her.
This feeling even terrified her.
…
Lu Xuan walked out of the teaching building, the afternoon sun a bit dazzling. He squinted slightly.
As soon as he stepped down the stairs, he saw a crowd of people blocking the entrance to the building.
At the forefront was his overly familiar roommate, Liu Ming.
Behind Liu Ming stood nearly ten burly men.
Each of them was broad-shouldered and muscular, their tight T-shirts stretched as if about to burst, their arms adorned with dragon and tiger tattoos. They glared menacingly at the passing students, causing many to take detours.
Lu Xuan frowned. What was Liu Ming up to now?
It turned out that Liu Ming had become increasingly irritated after several attempts to cozy up to Lu Xuan were met with coldness.
He couldn’t understand why Lu Xuan wouldn’t give him face, considering he was a core member of the fitness club, well-known in school, and had many friends, yet he had lowered himself to flatter a lottery winner.
Wasn’t Lu Xuan just relying on a bit of dirty money? Zhao Qin, their roommate, was a genuine rich second-generation heir, and he wasn’t nearly as pretentious!
Little did he know that in the eyes of Zhao Qin and Chen Min, characters like Liu Ming, who desperately tried to climb the social ladder, were the most looked down upon. It was just that those two were too lazy to expose him.
Liu Ming, seething with anger, exaggerated the story in the fitness club’s WeChat group, immediately stirring up righteous indignation among a group of simple-minded “brothers.”
“Damn it! Brother Ming, this guy is too inconsiderate, isn’t he?”
“He just won the lottery, what’s there to be so arrogant about?!”
“Let’s go! Today, we must let him know what brotherhood is, what true loyalty is!”
So, a large group of people marched to the classroom, and after inquiring, they learned that Lu Xuan had been called away by the instructor.
Liu Ming immediately decided to wait for Lu Xuan at the entrance of the teaching building. He had to regain his face in front of his brothers!
At this moment, Liu Ming’s spirits lifted when he saw Lu Xuan emerge.
He first winked at the brothers behind him, then lowered his voice and said, “Watch closely, everyone. I’m not exaggerating. Look at his attitude. You’ll see how I make him yield later!”
After speaking, he immediately put on a warm and enthusiastic smile and scurried over.
“Oh, Brother Xuan! What a coincidence! Are you… just coming out of the instructor’s office?”
Lu Xuan looked at his face, which was plastered with “hypocrisy” and “calculation,” and a hint of annoyance flashed in his eyes.
Such buzzing flies truly held no interest for him.
“What I do here, does it have anything to do with you?”
Lu Xuan’s tone was as indifferent as water. He walked around him, preparing to leave.
What he was thinking about now was whether he should just package Liu Ming’s dark history of pretending to be a female streamer with AI beauty filters online and expose it on the campus forum, putting an end to it once and for all.
Liu Ming’s smile stiffened. He hadn’t expected Lu Xuan to still be so disrespectful in front of so many of his brothers.
If he let Lu Xuan leave like this, how would he ever maintain his standing in the fitness club?
He suddenly stepped sideways, extending his thick arm to block Lu Xuan’s path.
“Hey, Brother Xuan, don’t be in such a hurry to leave!” Liu Ming’s tone carried a hint of threat. “Brother is just saying hello. Your reaction is too hurtful, isn’t it?”
Lu Xuan stopped, his gaze finally turning cold, as if looking at a dead object.
“I’ll say it again, move aside.”
“Oh, really?” A muscular man, nearly 1.9 meters tall, stepped out from behind Liu Ming and shoved Lu Xuan’s shoulder. However, it felt like pushing against a steel plate; Lu Xuan didn’t budge.
Instead, the muscular man himself felt a tingling sensation in his wrist from the impact.
The muscular man’s face fell. He said fiercely, “Kid, how do you talk to our Brother Ming? Are you asking for trouble? If you don’t make things clear today, don’t even think about leaving!”
“Exactly! Apologize to Brother Ming!”
“Do you really think you’re someone important?”
The rest of the group swarmed forward, surrounding Lu Xuan. They clenched their fists, looking menacing.
Lu Xuan suddenly smiled, looking at this group of self-important idiots.
He shook his head and sighed softly.
“Trouble.”
The moment his words fell, he moved.
The muscular man who had pushed him only saw a blur. Before he could even clearly see Lu Xuan’s movements, his wrist, which was reaching for Lu Xuan’s collar, was expertly seized.
The next second, a piercing pain shot through him!
“Crack!”
“Ah—!”
A crisp sound of bone dislocation accompanied a pig-like shriek. The muscular man’s arm twisted at an unnatural angle, and he was thrown out by Lu Xuan like trash, knocking down two companions behind him who hadn’t even reacted yet.
The scene instantly fell silent.
Liu Ming and the remaining brothers were dumbfounded. They hadn’t even seen how Lu Xuan had made his move!
“Everyone, attack! Kill him!”
Someone shouted, and the remaining people, as if waking from a dream, roared and lunged forward simultaneously.
Lu Xuan stood his ground, moving forward instead of retreating.
A massive fist, whistling through the air, aimed for his face. He simply shifted slightly, easily dodging it, while simultaneously delivering a precise elbow strike forcefully into the opponent’s ribs.
The man groaned, arching his back like a cooked shrimp, and collapsed, foaming at the mouth.
Another attacked from the side. Lu Xuan didn’t even look, kicking him in the knee. With another “crack,” the man clutched his leg and began to roll on the ground, wailing.
The entire process was fluid and dazzlingly fast.
In less than thirty seconds, a pile of bodies lay sprawled on the ground, leaving only Liu Ming, standing dumbfounded like a wooden stake.
He looked at his “good brothers” writhing on the ground, then at Lu Xuan, who hadn’t even breathed heavily and whose hair wasn’t even disheveled. A chill shot from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.
This… this was a regular student who won the lottery? This was a special forces king!
Lu Xuan clapped his hands, as if dusting off non-existent dirt, and walked step by step to Liu Ming, whose legs were already weak with fear.
“Now, do you still want me to give you an explanation?”
“No… no, no, no… Brother Xuan! I was wrong! I was really wrong!”
Liu Ming dropped to his knees with a thud, snot and tears streaming down his face. He hugged Lu Xuan’s leg and cried out, “I’m not human! I was blind! Please, you’re a great man, just let me go like a fart!”