The first word that came to Zhang Fengxi’s mind was "shameless".
It was followed by "cheap" and "debauched".
None of them made it out of his lips, because he was too stunned to talk.
Dual cultivation?
Xie Jianyu and Jiang Muchen?
They were only seventeen and nineteen years old respectively!
Also, one of them was an omega and the other was an alpha...
Oh, heavens.
The nine layers of heaven seemed to fall on top of Zhang Fengxi at the moment.
No way.
No way...
Zhang Fengxi grabbed Xie Jianyu’s wrist and pulled him away from Jiang Muchen.
"You, come with me."
His action did not sit right with Jiang Muchen, who unsheathed his sword and placed the blade just above Zhang Fengxi’s arm.
"Take your filthy hands off my Uncle!" Jiang Muchen cried out.
Before Jiang Muchen and Zhang Fengxi started to fight, Xie Jianyu pinched Jiang Muchen’s blade between his two fingers and moved it away.
"Muchen, wait for me for a while. I will have a talk with Prince Zhang Fengxi."
"But, Little Uncle!!!" Jiang Muchen protested loudly.
Xie Jianyu shook his head at his nephew. "Be good, listen to me."
Between these two, Jiang Muchen was older by two years but Xie Jianyu lived up to his role as his uncle. That only meant one thing -- Jiang Muchen was such a pathetic baby.
Zhang Fengxi scoffed in disdain. He pulled at Xie Jianyu’s wrist and dragged him away from Jiang Muchen.
"What were you thinking?" Zhang Fengxi pinned Xie Jianyu with a look.
The omega did not understand the reason for Zhang Fengxi’s behavior.
"What am I thinking, what?"
"Dual cultivation? Really? And your big brother acted like I took your virginity from under his nose!!!"
Understanding slowly spread on Xie Jianyu’s face, but it was quickly replaced by disgust.
"You have a dirty mind," he decided.
Zhang Fengxi’s jaw dropped open. "What do you mean, dirty mind???"
"There are many ways to carry out dual cultivation. It doesn’t necessarily mean sexual intercourse."
"..."
Oh.
Okay, so Zhang Fengxi was not wise enough to know that. Was he to blame? Every time someone said something about dual cultivation, it usually referred to -- that -- ! And they always treated it like it was something dirty!
Zhang Fengxi took a lungful of deep breaths to calm down. It was good that Xie Jianyu did not go and sleep with Jiang Muchen. It would be rather disturbing.
"Why did you dual-cultivate with him?"
Xie Jianyu furrowed his brows at Zhang Fengxi when he heard this question.
"It is not your business, is it?"
"Just tell me," Zhang Fengxi was dying to know.
Xie Jianyu sighed.
"Muchen is having a particularly serious bottleneck. I am helping him to achieve a breakthrough to the next level."
"Wow. How kind of you," Zhang Fengxi sneered.
Xie Jianyu shot Zhang Fengxi a cold stare.
"An uncle helping out his nephew, it is nothing extraordinary. If we are done here, I will go back."
Xie Jianyu flicked his sleeves and turned to go. In Zhang Fengxi’s mind, Xie Jianyu was leaving to go back with Jiang Muchen.
An inexplicable sour feeling arose in his heart.
"Wait!"
Zhang Fengxi yanked at Xie Jianyu’s wrist, pulling him backward.
"In that case, why don’t you help me as well?"
"...."
"..."
Xie Jianyu looked Zhang Fengxi up and down a few times as if the latter was one of the exotic animals that the hunters caught and presented in front of the Heavenly Emperor.
"Zhang Fengxi, do you think that I do dual cultivation with just anyone?" Xie Jianyu asked slowly.
"..."
"What are you to me that I need to do you this favor?"
I was the father of your only child, Zhang Fengxi wanted to say.
In the past.
But wait.
Judging from what happened in the past, it was Zhang Fengxi who owed Xie Jianyu.
In order to repay the favor, Xie Jianyu should be the one begging Zhang Fengxi for dual cultivation and not the other way around!
Zhang Fengxi knew that he made zero sense with his request. In the first place, Xie Jianyu didn’t need any help to advance his cultivation. But if Zhang Fengxi did nothing, Xie Jianyu was going to spend a lot of time with Jiang Muchen.
Zhang Fengxi had to prevent that at all costs!
"I am just worried about your safety," Zhang Fengxi said. "Does he know?"
Xie Jianyu shook his head.
"Muchen is not a curious child."
"... Child? That guy is the same age as me, and older than you!"
"... Age is just a number."
Zhang Fengxi blinked at Xie Jianyu in disbelief.
"Why are you speaking like an old man???"
Xie Jianyu scoffed.
"Are we done? I want to go home."
"We are not!"
"What else do you want, Zhang Fengxi???"
All manners were dropped when Xie Jianyu was angry. Anger boiled in the depth of his eyes.
"Prove it," Zhang Fengxi said. "Prove that you can win against an alpha in a physical confrontation, then I will let you go."
A sneer appeared on Xie Jianyu’s face. "Oh? Well, you better not regret your words."
Meanwhile, following his Little Uncle’s order, Jiang Muchen sat by the lake and waited. He craned his neck from time to time to see what Zhang Fengxi and Xie Jianyu were doing some distance away. By the looks of it, they were just talking.
But why did Zhang Fengxi look so angry?
His poor Little Uncle was getting bullied again. Jiang Muchen tightened his fingers into fists. He was about to march over there to protect Xie Jianyu, when a series of quick actions happened one after another.
First, Xie Jianyu grabbed Zhang Fengxi’s shoulder and kneed his stomach. Zhang Fengxi doubled up and groaned from the pain. And then, Xie Jianyu landed one mighty blow on his opponent’s back by using his elbow.
He finished by kicking Zhang Fengxi into the lake.
"..."
Jiang Muchen gulped.
He had never seen this side of Xie Jianyu before.
And then, as if he did not do anything out-of-ordinary, Xie Jianyu walked over with his usual smile on his face.
"Let’s go back home."
Jiang Muchen nodded in fright, too afraid to ask.
After they left, Zhang Fengxi managed to climb out of the water with a lot of agony. Once he reached the dry land and saw that Xie Jianyu had already left with Jiang Muchen, he tossed out a cry into the sky, "XIE JIANYU, YOU JERKKKK!!!"
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Mini theater :
Jiang Muchen before witnessing Xie Jianyu beating up Zhang Fengxi : Little Uncle is the gentlest creature in the world! He is the most beautiful pearl at the bottom of seven oceans! I must protect him from bullies!!!
Jiang Muchen after witnessing Xie Jianyu beating up Zhang Fengxi : Little Uncle is my idol. My hero. The brightest star in the universe. Little Uncle, please protect me~