Chapter 23

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Mrs. Su sighed quietly and said, “We’re fine with Su Xue’er making friends since she likes doing that. But I’m definitely not going to allow a poor student like you near my daughter since you actually wanted to confess in public and dreamt of latching onto Xue’er.”

Gu Qingshan looked up and said, “That was Zhang Ye—”

Mrs. Su cut him off. “The Bais were the ones who arranged that incident with Zhang Ye, but so what? The Bai family was annoyed with you long ago since you were always hanging around Su Xue’er all day.”

She continued in a more severe tone, “I had thought of allowing Xue’er to mix around with people from all walks of life so that she could get to see different sorts of people, but now, even I can’t stand it anymore.”

Gu Qingshan asked, “What is it that you cannot stand?”

Mrs. Su looked at Gu Qingshan with a completely calm face.

“It’s my daughter’s birthday next week. Bai Hongyu has given her a resort island worth more than 80,000,000 credit points. And you? That pitiful mecha model?”

Her voice was flat and stable, without even a tinge of emotion.

“You eavesdropped on our conversation?” Gu Qingshan narrowed his eyes for the first time but still tried to explain himself, “That’s not a mecha mode—”

“Enough. It doesn’t matter what stunts you pull, and whatever you’re giving her isn’t important anymore,” Mrs. Su cut him off with an expressionless face.

She stood up and looked down at the young man in front of her.

“I forgot to mention, my daughter has already discovered she has one of the Peculiar Five Elements and will develop the Spirit Power of Wind.”

Gu Qingshan looked up with a start and he was pleasantly surprised.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth were the Positive Five Elements, while Wind, Thunder, Light, Darkness, Sound were the Peculiar Five Elements.

The Spirit Power of Wind was not bad at all and very useful. It was a superpower that many people dreamt of having.

In his previous life, Su Xue’er had eventually discovered and developed the Spirit Power of Wind, but that only happened two years later.

This time she had actually discovered it earlier, so it was a good thing.

Because the earlier someone with Extraordinary Elemental Arts discovered their ability, the greater their potential to mature and develop their element became.

Mrs. Su leaned forward a little and looked at Gu Qingshan as she asked, “What are you happy about? Don’t you feel that the difference between the two of you is even greater now?”

“If you don’t have any comparable ability, then don’t go after something that you shouldn’t get. That would cause you to fall from a greater height, and you might even lose your life in the process.”

“This is a piece of advice I will give you as the mistress of the Su Family, and this will also serve as a warning.”

She didn’t look at Gu Qingshan anymore. She elegantly turned and started to walk out of the pavilion with quick steps.

After settling this small matter, she had to rush to attend the banquet. This was a banquet hosted by the Su family, after all, and the mistress of the house had to go and host it.

“Mrs. Su, wait a moment.”

Gu Qingshan’s voice came from behind her.

Mrs. Su turned and looked at him coldly.

Gu Qingshan stood up and said, “I have to tell you something.”

“Say it.”

Gu Qingshan started, “I respect some of the opinions that you have.”

Mrs. Su looked at him, and there was a faint smile on her face.

So this young fellow was going to back off?

So he was a clever boy who knew how to behave at the right time after all.

That wasn’t a bad thing.

Those were Mrs. Su’s thoughts, but Gu Qingshan cleared his throat and spoke seriously, “Since the ancient days, besides the Extraordinary Elemental Arts, Martial Artists and Chosen Ones have also been considered heroes of this world.”

He touched a part of his body and pulled out a bow from nowhere.

Then, an arrow appeared in his hand seemingly out of nowhere too.

Mrs. Su’s heart tightened when she saw this.

Someone had already searched him secretly several times before this young fellow could reach the island and had confirmed that he didn’t bring any weapons with him.

But he had actually managed to pull a bow and arrow out from the air.

He couldn’t be faking it; what sort of power was this?

Was he a Chosen One who could materialize things?

If that was so, then he was rarer than most others now.

Mrs. Su slowly went through these thoughts as her heart suddenly tightened even more.

There were people guarding her from afar, but since this boy had materialized a bow and arrow at such a close distance to her, he could just kill her right now.

“What are you trying to say?” Mrs. Su asked in a low voice.

Before she could finish her question, she suddenly saw a blur in front of her as a sharp and shrill noise rang out.

That was the sound of an arrow rubbing against the air at an extremely high speed.

What a fast arrow!

As the wife of the Su family’s eldest son, Mrs. Su wasn’t an ordinary person either, and she could see that the arrow had flown out from Gu Qingshan’s hand.

She watched as the arrow flew out in an arc, went one round around the pavilion, and then finally landed back neatly in Gu Qingshan’s hand.

It was a perfect shot!

What sort of archery technique was this?!

All the guards who had come rushing over from around Mrs. Su were all stunned by what they saw.

Gu Qingshan shook his hands gently, and the longbow and arrow disappeared together.

He placed his hands behind his back and quietly said, “Mrs. Su, I think there are some things that you could reconsider.”

“I take my leave.”

He turned and left the pavilion.

Mrs. Su watched him from the back for a while, and her gaze grew deeper and more and more distant.

This boy was a really an outstanding young man.

That materialization technique was one thing, but that curved archery technique was something that Mrs. Su had never seen before.

This young man had just graduated from high school!

Mrs. Su sighed quietly.

It was a pity…

Su Xue’er’s fate was already sealed.

Even with this thought in mind, Mrs. Su finally had to clap her hands quietly to call her subordinate.

“Go,” she said with some coldness in her eyes, “and tell the Bai family and the Nie family that Gu Qingshan is going to leave the island soon.”

“Yes, Madam.”

“Also, I don’t care what they do; just make sure it doesn’t happen around this island.”

“Yes, Madam.”

After she had given these instructions, Mrs. Su’s mood finally improved.

She shook her head and murmured to herself, “It wouldn’t have mattered if you wanted to be with any of the other girls in the Su family. But just not Xue’er. Definitely not Xue’er…”

The sky grew dark quickly.

Gu Qingshan returned to the slum to find that his old house had been sealed off with police tape.

Even though the Nie family had covered up what exactly had happened with Ferocious Tiger, an apartment on the 22nd floor with one wall missing was definitely too conspicuous.

Gu Qingshan stood where he was for a while.

Since he had lost his position at Changning Steel Mecha Tech’s Research and Development Department, he didn’t seem to have anywhere he could go.

He searched himself and found that the key that his assassin, Wang Ming, had given him was still around. He then turned and walked toward the residential estate where this house was.

After he had walked into a smaller and lesser-used alley, Gu Qingshan suddenly looked down at his own shadow.

The shadow waved at him, then left his feet and ran toward another small alley.

“A skill of a Chosen One…”

Gu Qingshan immediately recognized this sort of strange skill.

This method of saying hello was considered very polite. Since the other party had already revealed his skill, then he probably didn’t have any ill intentions.

Regardless of the situation, it was good to have a look.

Gu Qingshan followed the shadow out of the alley and walked into a bar at the corner of the street.

The moment he walked in, the door of the bar closed behind him and a “Temporarily Closed” sign was put on it.

There was low and quiet music in this dimly lit bar, filled with the faint smell of tobacco.

There were two people seated on one side of the bar.

One of them was a muscular and large-built man wearing sunglasses who had his hair slicked back.

The other was a tall and slim, beautiful lady with long hair that was fiery red, and she didn’t have a disguise on.

The two of them looked at Gu Qingshan and smiled kindly at him.

“Oh? It’s you,” said Gu Qingshan in surprise.

These words caught the other two by surprise. They exchanged glances and thought it strange of Gu Qingshan to say this.

“Oh, no it’s nothing. I just feel like I’ve seen you somewhere.”

Gu Qingshan explained it away without changing his expression.

When he said this, the other two suddenly understood what was going on.

The beautiful lady with red hair stood up, stretched a hand out, and said confidently, “Hello, I’m the eldest princess of Saint Olanka Empire, Princess Anna. You must have seen me in the news.”

She was still that straight-talking person who said whatever she wanted directly.

Gu Qingshan’s lips twitched as he stretched a hand out, shook it quickly, and took his hand back.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Gu Qingshan,” he said.

In his memory, she had was a germaphobe and hated other people touching her skin.

Anna raised an eyebrow in surprise, and the smile on her face was even more sincere now. “Mr. Gu, please have a seat.”

Gu Qingshan sat across from the two of them.

He looked at her again.

He hadn’t thought that he would see her again after so many years. And this time, she was still a young lady.

Gu Qingshan sighed in his heart.

This lady was the eldest princess of Saint Olanka Empire, Anna Medici. She was known as the Rose of Thorns of Sacred Religion, Grim Reaper in Flames. She was an Elemental Arts Expert, naturally born with the Spirit Power of Fire, and also had that famous nickname.

World Annihilation Queen.

She was part of the resistance that had met with a terrible end—a beautiful soul that was lost in the midst of fighting despair.

When Gu Qingshan had first entered the other world in his previous life, she’d already been a legend in both worlds.

There was one time when she’d happened to save his life.

To her, it was just something she’d happened to do, but Gu Qingshan had always remembered this favor.

Many years later, after Gu Qingshan had become equally legendary, he’d found her and wanted to repay this favor. “I don’t want to owe anyone favors, so if there’s anything I can do for you, please tell me.”

But she had only burst out laughing and replied, “Sure! If you want to do me a favor, why don’t you make me a really good glass of alcohol?”

He really had gone looking for those rare recipes and become an excellent brewmaster and barista, intending to look for her once more.

But she had already fallen to the enemy by then.