Chapter 117: No End to Learning

Zhuang Qing and Fu Li’s Lunar New Year was spent with an abundance of happiness and bliss, but the other people from the management bureau had to withstand the curious questions from their sectmates or good friends on a daily basis. For instance, how exactly had Dragon Emperor Zhuang and Fu daoyou gotten together? As the sole remaining dragon of the golden dragon clan, could the other aquatic yao accept him being with a male rabbit yao?

Even more yao felt that this was an injustice to Zhuang Qing. After a difficult period of suffering, he had passed a major tribulation to become the Dragon Emperor and received the worship of all aquatic races. But in the end, he got together with a male rabbit yao. How would the other aquatic races perceive him?

When Zhuang Qing wasn’t yet the Dragon Emperor and wasn’t openly together with Fu Li, all the cultivators felt that it would be quite good for them to get together. But after Zhuang Qing became the Dragon Emperor and confirmed his relationship with Fu Li, several meddlesome yao started to nitpick here and there. Some would say that Fu Li’s background was too poor and that he wasn’t worthy of the emperor of the aquatic races, while others would say that Zhuang Qing’s actions were a disappointment to the aquatic clans and so on and so forth.

Or perhaps they were simply agitated from boredom and merely wanted a gossiping target to kill time.

Certain yao who took on human form a very long time ago would gradually acquire some bad human habits, for instance vices such as greed, lust, jealousy, talkativeness, and so on.

Such voices gradually appeared on the cultivation world’s forum, claiming that Fu Li behaved snobbishly by originally looking down on Zhuang Qing, but immediately choosing to be with him the moment he saw that Zhuang Qing had undergone his transformation and became the emperor of the aquatic races. There were even yao who, under the cover of sockpuppets, deliberately fabricated short paragraphs implicitly targeting Fu Li and Zhuang Qing.

“These yao must be sick in the head,” The first day they returned to work, everyone in the management bureau was in a situation where their body was in the office but their heart was someplace else. Zhang Ke surreptitiously took out his phone to scroll through the forum. He didn’t scroll for long when his entire person flared up, shocking his other drowsy colleagues.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing how irate Zhang Ke was, Xu Yuan said teasingly, “Your period’s here?”

“What period, someone’s talking nonsense on the cultivators’ forum,” Zhang Ke replied moodily. “What trouble has the boss and Fu ge brought them by being together for them to spout rubbish?” Incensed beyond compare, he switched on his computer and tapped on the keyboard, starting a quarrel with the other party.

“Their IP address shows that they’re outside the country,” Xu Yuan checked the IP address. “Seems like this yao cultivator isn’t lacking in intelligence and still knew to get themselves a proxy IP before speaking nonsense. We’ll have to invite a computer expert if we want to look into it further, I can’t do it.”

“Look into what?” Fu Li walked into the office, a bag of spiritual fruits in hand. Kang Gu had given them to him to share with his colleagues.

“Look into last year’s criminal records,” Xu Yuan immediately closed the webpage. “Fu ge, congratulations on finally achieving a happy ever after with the boss.”

“Thank you,” Fu Li distributed the spiritual fruits to everyone with a wide smile. Taking out his phone, he posed a question to Zhang Ke, “Zhang Ke, you mentioned last year that our cultivation world has a forum, how can I register?”

“Ah?!” Zhang Ke looked up. Seeing that all his colleagues were staring at him, he responded somewhat guiltily, “Today won’t do, the forum’s server is under maintenance, so you won’t be able to log in.”

“Oh,” Fu Li didn’t take this matter to heart. He placed his phone on the desk in passing.

Zhang Ke and the other colleagues secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

“I’m heading to the communications department to see if there’s any web data to transfer,” Xu Yuan stood up, determined to get the communications department to delete the nonsensical posts.

“I’ll go,” Fu Li took out a bag of fruits from his Qiankun pouch. “It just so happens I’m going over to give them fruits.”

“Oh,” Fu Li stuffed the fruits into Xu Yuan’s arms. “Then help me to distribute them.”

“Sure, sure,” Xu Yuan agreed in a haste. At this point in time, she would be willing even if she had to dig into her own pockets to buy fruits to distribute, let alone distribute fruits on his behalf.

Zhuang Qing glanced at Xu Yuan. “If the communications department has something going on, settle it quickly, understand?”

“Understood, understood, understood,” Xu Yuan nodded hurriedly. It seemed the boss also knew about those comments on the forum. Only Fu ge was still completely in the dark.

“Wait,” Fu Li remembered that he hadn’t taken his phone. Turning, he moved to pick his phone up. In the end, he bumped into Zhang Ke by accident, knocking his phone to the floor.

“Sorry,” As Fu Li was stooping over and picking up the phone, he accidentally caught sight of a passage of words on the screen.

I Just Can’t Bear to Watch: This Fu Li yao is both snobbish and scheming. The other employees of the management bureau must have encountered a few lifetimes’ worth of bad luck to be working in the same place as him.

Shadow: Isn’t it just him taking a fancy to Chief Zhuang’s Dragon Emperor status and therefore impatiently promoting it on the forum, itching to let the entire world know that he got together with Chief Zhuang?

No, It’s Me Who Can’t Bear to Watch: The pitiful Chief Zhuang is such a good dragon, but was lied to by this sort of scheming yao.

“Fu ge, this…”

Fu Li returned the phone to Zhang Ke.

“All this on the internet is just nonsense, don’t take them to heart,” Zhang Ke was afraid that these internet comments would affect Fu Li and Zhuang Qing’s relationship. He stammered out, “You and the boss are getting along perfectly fine. We all know what kind of yao you are, and so does the boss. You must not make yourself unhappy just because of this little bit of stuff online.”

Fu Li silently furrowed his brows. Raising his head, he looked at Zhuang Qing, who had already made his way over to him. There was no worry to be seen on Zhuang Qing’s face. Fu Li very seriously said, “These people are jealous of me for obtaining you, right?”

Who had obtained who?

The hearts of the other colleagues were in a perilous situation with unlimited undulations, yet it was all sunshine on their faces.

Ah, they really hadn’t expected this. It seemed like the mighty, majestic boss was actually…

Ah, love. What a grand and fascinating thing it was. It could actually let the Dragon Emperor give himself wholly to a rabbit, and with steadfast loyalty and their hearts joined as one. How miraculous.

“They’re all boring people, there’s no need to pay any heed to them,” Zhuang Qing cast a glance at the employees surrounding them who had their ears pricked up in preparation to listen to the excitement. After bringing Fu Li into his office, he closed the door before saying, “I can clean up the online comments by today, it’s not a major issue. Take the time now to think about what you want to eat tonight.”

Fu Li shook his head. “No, I want to show off my wealth now.”

“What?” Zhuang Qing thought he had misheard.

“Didn’t you say those things of mine are very rare in the cultivation world?” Fu Li asked. “They can’t beat me in combat, don’t have as many treasures as me, nor do they have as capable and good-looking a partner as me. Won’t they be angered to death if I flaunt my wealth?”

Zhuang Qing: …

Faced with Fu Li’s exhilarated gaze, he gave a slow nod. “As long as you’re happy.”

“Then tell me how I can log into the cultivators’ forum,” Injected with energy, Fu Li drifted to Zhuang Qing with phone in hand. What part of him was distressed by the forum comments?

“Open the website, then use spiritual qi as the conductor…” Seeing that Fu Li had already set his heart on this, Zhuang Qing could only resign himself to it and give Fu Li a meticulous explanation on the method to enter the forum.

“Thank you, dear,” Understanding the method, Fu Li pecked Zhuang Qing on the chin, nestled on the chair with a turn of his head, and started fiddling with his phone.

Zhuang Qing touched his chin. Logging into his forum account, he left a verified comment under the post with the most curses.

Zhuang Qing: I just like losing money to him instead of being paid. Many thanks for the concern, we’re doing very well.

“Hahahaha,” Hidden in his house, the crested ibis slapped his thigh in laughter. This Zhuang Qing was vicious and ruthless in the way he killed those evil yao that year, but when it came to emotions, he was still pretty serious. Wouldn’t this one sentence of his anger those parasites deliberately sowing discord to death?

In a moment of excitement, he left a comment at the bottom egging Zhuang Qing on.

Only after he made the comment did he regain his wits and start suspecting whether he had been too impulsive. Unexpectedly, when he refreshed the webpage, there were actually quite a few yao cultivators cheering Zhuang Qing on, and they were all verified replies too.

The leader and elder of the Fields Sect, the various high-ranking staff of the management bureau, and the elders of the Qing Xiao Sect and Wanyue Sect all emerged in rapid succession.

“Are the people from the famous orthodox sects all this idle?” The crested ibis looked at how these big bosses of the cultivation world had actually all secretly paid close attention to this post, and felt that these famous orthodox sects… might just be that sort.

Just as he was thinking that things would end like this, a daoyou claiming to be from the dragon clan spoke out.

Big Red Dragon: Who are all of you to represent us aquatic races and look down on Fu Li daojun. Did you shameless lot ask about the opinions of us aquatic races? Let me tell you, us aquatic races follow the orders of Chief Zhuang Qing. We are all supportive and understanding towards whoever he likes. Those muddying the waters can scram to the side.

The other cultivators watching the show were shocked. The dragon clan was now so united on the inside? Wasn’t there a dragon just a few months ago who nearly turned into their original form after being beaten black and blue by Chief Zhuang? Why were they running out now to speak up for Chief Zhuang? And even heavily imply that the entire dragon race would abide by Chief Zhuang’s orders at any time?

“Zhuang little dragon, this forum design is too shameless – it even wants information like my phone address book and bank account. They might as well just snatch my phone?” Fu Li rolled his eyes.

Zhuang Qing replied evenly, “This is us integrating with the humans and following the rules and regulations of major human applications. This is already the simplified version where there’s no request for access to internal storage or the photo album.”

“All human applications are this shameless?”

“Most applications are this shameless, there are even some that are even more shameless than this,” Zhuang Qing responded after a moment of contemplation.

Understanding suddenly struck Fu Li. There was truly no end to learning about the human world. One had to either keep forging ahead or fall behind.

After this lamentation, Fu Li started fishing things out of his Qiankun pouch. Which should he take a picture of and post on the forum to better provoke the yao?

Would the various divine-level magic devices be too provocative? But he didn’t have low grade magic devices.

What about medicinal pills?

Or gold, silver, and jewels?

Ilyz: someone tell me whether I should laugh or cry…