Liang Shan’s involuntary words made Su Rong, who was brewing tea, pause her movements. Her beautiful eyes turned toward Ye Chu. She too felt some curiosity. This time meeting Ye Chu was very different from before. She also wanted to know what experiences Ye Chu had gone through in these three years!
“Travelled ten thousand li across the world, making doing good deeds my lifelong pursuit! I rush to help those in need, assist where help is required. Doing good is my motto, eliminating evil is my life creed. In these three years, I have been doing good deeds without seeking recognition!” Ye Chu spoke with utmost seriousness.
“Pfft…”
The words not only made Pang Shao unable to hold back, even Su Rong and the others could not restrain themselves. Wine and tea sprayed from their mouths. Their bodies shuddered involuntarily. Everyone stared at Ye Chu in stunned silence, wanting to see if his face showed any blush. But they were disappointed. Ye Chu’s skin was thick enough that not a trace of abnormality appeared.
Liang Shan could no longer listen. A person whose reputation in Yao City was so infamous he was practically a street rat actually dared declare that doing good deeds was his lifelong pursuit. If the people of Yao City heard such shameless, lightning-inviting words, would they not drown Ye Chu in spit?
Pang Shao spat loudly. He had followed Ye Chu and done several things with him. He had long witnessed Ye Chu’s despicableness. Yet Ye Chu could utter such shameless words about three years of only doing good in front of him, someone who had accompanied him. Pang Shao felt the saintess treated him differently for good reason. After all, he could never reach such a level of shamelessness.
Su Rong and Zhang Su’er exchanged a glance. Both held back until their faces turned red, glowing like rosy clouds and adding a few intoxicating touches of charm. Their cherry lips curved delicately, slightly full, enhancing their allure. Yet disgust showed in their soul-searing eyes. Such lewd words had never been spoken in their presence before.
“Still as vulgar and shameless as ever!” Pang Shao thought anyone who could say such a thing was no less filthy than himself. Yet laughably, people had always thought he was the more vulgar one. Pang Shao saw an empty seat beside Su Rong and Zhang Su’er. He was just about to sit there when Ye Chu plopped down right between the two women.
“Bloody hell!” Pang Shao cursed inwardly. He thought he could never match Ye Chu’s shamelessness. He had only wanted to sit near Zhang Su’er, but Ye Chu directly sat between the two women, embracing left and right.
“In the end, I still cannot compare to this bastard Ye Chu. He is bold enough and shameless enough!” Pang Shao cursed inwardly. He could only sit across the table with Liang Shan.
With someone suddenly squeezing between them, Su Rong and Zhang Su’er found themselves almost pressed against Ye Chu’s body. They could not help shifting slightly to the sides. Their gazes turned to Ye Chu. Seeing him completely at ease and ignoring their looks, they felt secret resentment yet could do nothing.
“Su Xiaorong! I remember you were quite good at making tea back then! How about it? Brew a few cups for me?” Sitting close to the two women, Ye Chu could almost smell the faint fragrance coming from them. It made his heart race a little. He glanced sideways at Su Rong. Her face was peerlessly beautiful, her skin as white as snow and jade.
“Tea again? Bloody hell, can you not drink wine for once!” Pang Shao was about to go mad. He had known Ye Chu for so long, yet every time they drank, this fellow turned it into tea. A grown man drinking tea like a woman, how could he stand it? Yet Ye Chu always enjoyed it. Back then, to make Ye Chu drink alcohol, they had tried every threat and bribe imaginable. They even told Ye Chu that if he drank, they would find him an empire-famous beauty renowned for her allure to accompany him.
That bribe had worked. Ye Chu agreed that if there was a beauty to accompany him, he would consider drinking. But when they spent great effort and cost to find a beauty to join him, Ye Chu completely forgot his words. He drank tea with that seductive, alluring beauty instead.
The most shameless part was when Pang Shao and the others questioned Ye Chu for breaking his promise, Ye Chu shrugged it off casually. “Do you not know that ‘consider’ is actually a polite way of refusing? Never mind, it is your fault for being born too stupid and not understanding human affairs! How pitiful!”
With those words, Ye Chu left behind a group of stunned people and walked away triumphantly with the seductive beauty, leaving Pang Shao and the others grinding their teeth in frustration yet powerless.
Pang Shao had originally thought that meeting an old friend in a foreign place, and since Ye Chu suggested drinking, he would at least touch some alcohol this time. Yet unexpectedly this fellow was still drinking his damn tea.
“Not even daring to touch wine, how can you call yourself a man!” Pang Shao could not resist provoking Ye Chu.
Ye Chu ignored Pang Shao’s taunt completely. Such a low-grade provocation could never affect him. As for not touching alcohol, it was a lingering effect from his previous life. In his past life he had drunk too much and died an untimely death, causing Ye Chu to lose all interest in alcohol. Thinking back to his previous life of debauchery and frequenting nightclubs, he never imagined he could go three years without a drop.
Su Rong was equally surprised to see Ye Chu refuse alcohol. She clearly remembered that three years ago Ye Chu loved drinking and causing trouble when drunk. Many of his heinous acts were done while intoxicated. How could someone like that now drink tea for self-cultivation?
Knowing he could not force Ye Chu, Pang Shao could only pull Liang Shan to drink with him. Liang Shan, invited by Pang Shao, felt greatly honoured and kept clinking cups with him.
He was also shocked by Ye Chu’s relationship with Pang Shao. Pang Shao’s friendliness toward him was clearly because of Ye Chu.
Liang Shan turned to look at Ye Chu, only to see him just then receiving the tea Su Rong had brewed. Yao City’s pearl Su Rong personally brewing tea to accompany him, Liang Shan felt his blood boil at the thought. This was something he had never dared imagine before.
Reaching out to take the teacup, Ye Chu’s fingers brushed Su Rong’s slender jade-like ones, feeling as smooth as silk. Su Rong reflexively pulled her hand back.
Pang Shao saw this scene and felt indescribable jealousy. “Back in the empire, a princess brewed tea for you. Now here you have beauties accompanying you!”
These words made everyone’s gazes shoot toward Ye Chu. Including Su Rong, several people showed surprise and doubt.
A princess?! What princess?! Anyone called “princess” in the empire must hold no low status! Could it be a princess? But if it truly was a princess, such a lofty and noble figure, how could she brew tea for Ye Chu? They looked at Ye Chu with suspicion, feeling more and more that layers of mystery surrounded him.
Pang Shao saw Ye Chu ignore his jealousy. He suddenly thought of something and grinned slyly. “If the princess knew you were in Yao City, I wonder if she would come charging over?”
“Bloody hell!” Ye Chu finally cursed loudly. “If you dare tell that little vixen where I am, you can forget about touching a woman for the rest of your life!”
“I will tell her anyway!” Pang Shao was furious now, his fat face turning iron-blue. Back in the imperial capital, Ye Chu had gone to peep at the saintess bathing and nearly been caught. He escaped quickly. But that was not all. This bastard tricked him by saying, “There is a beauty with curves in all the right places in the hot spring pool.” Without thinking too much, he rushed over and ran straight into the furious saintess who had just come ashore. Thus began his tragic fate. For that entire month, the saintess’s attendants beat him daily. Not a single part of his body remained intact!
Pang Shao kept explaining that he had been tricked by Ye Chu, but the saintess would not believe it. In the end, Pang Shao had to swear a vicious oath: “If I am lying, may I never touch a woman again for the rest of my life!”
Only after seeing him swear such a poisonous oath did the saintess reluctantly let him go. Afterwards she began searching everywhere for Ye Chu, wanting to confirm the truth.
But Ye Chu was clever. By the time she searched, he had long disappeared to who knows where, leaving the saintess helpless.
“This time, I must tell the saintess. Otherwise, who knows how she will deal with me.” Pang Shao shuddered at the memory of those days tormented by the saintess.
Ye Chu suddenly laughed. Looking at Pang Shao, he said, “Go ahead and tell her if you want. But after that, whenever there is something fun, you will have no part in it!”
“Why not?” Pang Shao grew even angrier.
“Because of the rule that ‘during activities, you must listen to me’!” Ye Chu shrugged and smiled. At these words, though Pang Shao was furious, he fell silent and gritted his teeth.
Pang Shao’s silence made Su Rong and Liang Shan widen their eyes. Their minds felt as if struck by lightning. They stared at Ye Chu in disbelief. Liang Shan’s lips trembled as he asked in a shaky voice, “Ye… Ye Chu! What exactly did you do in these three years?”