"Shen Jinxiao...
"Has he lost his mind?"
Li Luo decided to speak his thoughts out loud. Mentor Chi Chan was on his side.
Li Luo would sleep more soundly if Shen Jinxiao fell off a cliff. Although his actions were very strange, Li Luo was not about to assume any kindness.
"Not at all. But you're right—he's doing you no service either. Rather, he's delaying you from getting the 12 Step Weave."
"Huh?"
"I heard that Jiang Qing'e went to the Bank of Points yesterday. She also thought of getting you the 12 Step Weave and went to buy it.
"But she was a step too late. Shen Jinxiao had already taken it, and he left a note saying that anyone who needed it could look for him."
Well, that was a nasty move.
So Shen Jinxiao had planned it all. Take the 12 Step Weave away as hostage to force Jiang Qing'e to go to him?
"She did not go to him. Instead, she went to Vice Principal Su Xin to impeach him.
"Shen Jinxiao thought of a good reply to her mediation, which was to offer it up as a prize for the monthly battle. He is indeed allowed to do such a thing, and Vice Principal Su Xin could find no fault with his conduct.
"Which means that his hand was forced when he made it the prize. However, his goal was achieved—to deny you the 12 Step Weave for a while."
She shook her head in disapproval. "Shen Jinxiao is obsessed with Jiang Qing'e, the only one who can soothe his inner fire. And yet she doesn't care for anyone but you."
Li Luo's face was absent of his usual, light-hearted attitude, and Chi Chan sensed a dark anger bubbling within him.
Ffff.
Li Luo let out a long hissing breath. "I better start collecting mud and making joss sticks. The day Shen Jinxiao is buried, I'll stick a big one on his gravestone."
Chi Chan did not chastise him for his extremely insolent remark. Shen Jinxiao did not conduct himself as a mentor should, anyway. He deserved what he had coming.
Li Luo was currently in no position to do anything about Shen Jinxiao, but the enmity between them was rapidly deepening to the point of no return.
"Brazen, aren't you? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the son of Li Taixuan and Tan Tailan would declare a Duke expert as an enemy."
He grinned. "I'm just daydreaming. I can't really cross him now. I beg for Mentor to protect me."
There was a glint in her eyes and a flutter of her veil that he had come to recognize as an amused snort. She clapped him on the shoulder.
"Don't worry." She reassured him.
"I want to put a joss stick on his grave too."
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