Chapter 38 - Developments

When both Gu Yue and Huang Yu finally left the room, it had been almost an hour since they had entered it.

They opened the room door, only to see something they didn't expect to see.

Xu Xiaoyan was standing at the doorway with her hands cupping one ear.

Xu Xiaoyan, who was Gu Yue's roommate, had deigned not to enter the hotel room, knowing that it wasn't good for her to barge in during that time. However, she being a gossipy person by nature, tried to listen in to their conversation.

Unfortunately for her, when she had tried to listen in, the main conversation had already been done so she didn't hear anything.

Xu Xiaoyan, noticing that the door had been opened and the two people standing in front of her, let out a nervous chuckle as she stiffly turned her head to the both of them.

When the both of them raised their eyebrows at the same time from her action, Xu Xiaoyan couldn't handle it any more and just bolted.

Watching her run away, Huang Yu couldn't help but laugh. "Is she always like this?"

"Most of the time." Gu Yue laughed softly as well.

Huang Yu shifted his gaze from where Xu Xiaoyan had gone before turning back to Gu Yue. "I'll be going back to my room now ok?"

"Mm." Her voice was soft and gentle as she replied.

"There's still a few more days before the competition ends. Let's hang out for a bit during that time ok?"

"Of course."

– – – –

Meanwhile, Xu Xiaoyan, who had run away from the two strongest students of class zero, ran into Xie Xie as she made her escape.

Xie Xie, seeing her distress couldn't help but ask her aloud, "Hey, what's wrong? Why are you running?"

"I offended Huang Yu and Gu Yue!!" she replied frantically.

Xie Xie's eyes widened, "How?! And why did you do something so dumb?! Even though I dare to offend Gu Yue sometimes, Huang Yu's a completely different beast! You idiot!"

Xu Xiaoyan clasped both sides of her head. "I couldn't help it! The two of them were in a room together alone, and you know what happens when two people, especially a boy and a girl, get together in a room!"

A look of astonishment appeared on Xie Xie's face. Wasn't this girl a bit too imaginative.

"You do know that we're like ten right? I don't think any of us can even get it up right now…"

"Eh?" Xu Xiaoyan seemed dumbfounded at Xie Xie's words. "What do you mean, get it up?"

"Huh? Wait, if that wasn't what you were talking about, then what did you mean when you said the two of them together in a room?"

Xu Xiaoyan looked at him weirdly. "I meant that they would– wait a minute…" A mischievous smile suddenly appeared on her face, "Were you thinking that…"

Xie Xie blushed slightly.

"BIG SIS GU YUE WAS RIGHT! YOU ARE A PERVERT!" Xu Xiaoyan shouted loudly!

Her loud voice travelled through the air as more or less everyone in the surroundings heard it.

All the women in the area seemed to throw a disdainful look at Xie Xie hearing this.

'It's not my fault you spoke so ambiguously…'

– – – –

Over the next few days, everyone from class zero noticed a stark difference in the way Gu Yue treated Huang Yu.

The two of them seemed almost inseparable, hanging out whenever they had free time. The two of them seemed to have not only returned to how their relationship was in the past, but also progressed it as well.

When Wu Zhangkong found out about this, he felt a sense of relief fill his body. He had been worried quite a bit for the past few days that Huang Yu would become a lone wolf if Gu Yue, his only friend, stopped involving herself with him. However, everything was solved now and even better than before.

'Every cloud has a silver lining then…' Wu Zhangkong thought as he watched Huang Yu and Gu Yue window shopping together in the streets from a rooftop.

With a smile, he turned around and left.

– – – –

On the soul bus back to Eastsea Academy, Gu Yue sat next to Huang Yu on the ride home.

"I wonder why the tournament was cancelled. Was it that they didn't want to give you the prize for winning this year?" Gu Yue said slightly grumpily. Huang Yu had steamrolled over the competition in the Junior section, but before the finals, the tournament was cancelled!

How could she not feel that an injustice had happened to her friend?

Huang Yu laughed. "I don't think Skysea City will be that shameless. I heard that they had some problems behind the scenes so they had to cancel the tournament."

"Those are rumours! Don't you think it's strange that the tournament was cancelled the moment you beat the favourites from their city?"

"It's fine. The prize isn't that much anyways. I don't particularly care about it." he replied with a smile.

In reality, Huang Yu's words weren't just rumours. They were the truth.

The real reason why Skysea City had cancelled the Skysea Alliance Tournament was because they were facing an internal political crisis.

It turned out that Guang Biao, as capable as he was, had converted a lot of people in the government to Nox's cause. Cancelling the tournament was the last ditch effort of the officials still opposing Nox to retain resources to fight back.

Guang Biao, had really done an amazing job at selling vital energy as a 'divine panacea' to brainwash. However, not all of it was Guang Biao's efforts. Vital energy itself was also a very capable energy.

There seemed to be no limit to the power of vital energy, and it actually made Huang Yu quite curious. How could he control vital energy?

It wasn't from the King's Wisdom, that much he could tell. The ability to use vital energy had come naturally to him during the intense torture at the gates.

This was something that Huang Yu knew he had to investigate.

Nonetheless, that was for later. Right now, Nox was taking over Skysea City, and it would most likely become Nox City in a few years.

Although some people were still resisting, like the ones from the Blacksmith Association, Huang Yu was sure that he could make them see reason…

Whether it be diplomatically, or via force in the future.

"Hey Huang Yu, are you listening?"

"Oh, sorry, I got lost in thought haha."

"I was talking about Xu Xiaoyan. Do you know what she said?"

"Oh? What?"

"She said that....."

Unknowingly to Huang Yu, his own inhibitions towards Gu Yue was disappearing as well.