"I'm a good person, a really good person. If you don't believe me, ask her!" Zhao Chunxue pointed at a scantily clad woman not far away.
She was the same woman who had gotten him into trouble for heroically rescuing her.
The woman heard Zhao Chunxue's voice and immediately walked over, face darkened, "Brother, please stop gloating, stop being self-righteous.
Do you know how hard it is for me to land such a big client? It's all because of you, ruining my big opportunity, and tonight will be wasted again!"
After speaking, the woman picked up her bag and left in a fury.
Zhao Chunxue clasped his hands together, shook his head, and said helplessly, "Alas, Buddha says to help all living beings, even if I've suffered, I must hold firm in my belief."
Ye Qiu was speechless.
After all the fuss, Zhao Chunxue's heroic rescue was for a lady of the night.
Got nothing better to do?
At least Ye Qiu wouldn't stoop to such things.
Ye Qiu gave Zhao Chunxue a bland look and said, "Rescuing a lady of the night is one thing, but you just tried to shift the blame to me. Do you know what could happen to me if I were just an ordinary person?"
"Of course I know you're not an ordinary person. If you were, I wouldn't have come to find you. It's precisely because you're not ordinary that I came. If you were ordinary, I wouldn't come even if you begged me. If you..."
Zhao Chunxue kept talking incessantly, making Ye Qiu more helpless, wishing he could find some tape to seal his mouth.
"Stop, stop, stop, I know, I know!" Ye Qiu made a gesture to stop.
If Zhao Chunxue kept speaking like this, his ears would get calloused.
"I'm just trying to explain it in a way you can understand better," Zhao Chunxue pursed his lips, then straightened his body confidently, "Actually, whether you're an ordinary person or not isn't the point.
The key is, what happened just now can be described with a story: it's like a good horse meeting a good rider. I tried to shift the blame, though wrong, it was giving you a display opportunity. Honestly, I'm the world's best talent spotter."
"..." Ye Qiu was completely speechless.
He used to think he was thick-skinned enough, but meeting Zhao Chunxue today, he realized he was far from it.
Even shifting the blame could be said so confidently.
He's seen thick-skinned people, but never this thick-skinned!
Ye Qiu didn't want to talk to such a person anymore, holding White Rose's hand and walking away.
Zhao Chunxue immediately chased after him, relentless, "Don't leave, don't leave in such a hurry, I haven't finished talking yet, it's rare to meet a genius like me, why leave."
"I can be the one to help you!" Zhao Chunxue added.
"Ha, help me with what?" Ye Qiu said indifferently. If it weren't for finding this person intriguing, he wouldn't have spoken another word.
"Do you believe that I know what you need most right now?"
Zhao Chunxue looked at Ye Qiu meaningfully, with a hint of pride in his eyes.
"Oh? Then tell me, what's the thing I need to do most now?" Ye Qiu found the matter somewhat interesting.
Zhao Chunxue didn't waste words, immediately started calculating, "One plus one is one, two twos are four, three sevens are twenty-one. Yesterday I observed the stars, today I calculate, I know you've come to Chang City to find someone."
"Moreover, the person you're looking for is a European, very tall, quite skilled. That person has committed unforgivable errors, and I, Zhao Chunxue, definitely won't tell you that person's name is Fell!"
"What?" Ye Qiu was stunned!
You must know that the conflict between him and Fell was something he hadn't told anyone about.
Not even White Rose knew.
Yet, this man named Zhao Chunxue actually described that person's complete features.
Even gave out the name!
Ye Qiu didn't think this man had been stalking him; he was confident in his anti-tracking skills.
In that case, how did Zhao Chunxue know these things?
"Could it really be calculated?"
Ye Qiu secretly wondered, feeling a bit incredulous, as it was too outlandish.
Normally, fortune-telling only speaks in general terms, about general people, how did this guy calculate even the name?
"You calculated quite accurately." Ye Qiu nodded slightly and continued, "Since that's the case, calculate again for me, what kind of people are my parents? What's their situation now?"
Since Ye Qiu could remember, he had been an orphan. Throughout his life, he knew nothing about his parents.
He never enjoyed parental affection, nor did he expect it.
He only asked out of curiosity now.
"I can't calculate that." Zhao Chunxue shook his head continuously, hands behind his back, posing like a master, "Don't you know calculating such matters is revealing the Celestial Secret? Once a day is the rule."
However, Zhao Chunxue felt a wave of tension in his heart. He thought after revealing Fell's affair, Ye Qiu would be convinced; he didn't expect Ye Qiu to counter-question about his parents.
This left him flustered, because Fell's information wasn't calculated by him, it was his master who calculated it...
Not that he feared Ye Qiu discovering the truth, but he didn't want to be seen as a fraud.
"I can help you find Fell soon!" Worried about exposure, Zhao Chunxue quickly added.
"How long will it take to find him?" Ye Qiu asked in a deep voice.
He did suspect Zhao Chunxue, but thinking about Fell, he decided to trust him.
After all, with White Rose still by his side, Ye Qiu was truly worried that Fell would use the same trick to abduct White Rose.
If the same thing happened a second time, it would really be troublesome.
"I'll calculate it again tomorrow and then let you know." Zhao Chunxue said.
Before Ye Qiu could respond, White Rose suddenly spoke with curiosity, "Zhao Chunxue, Zhao Chunxue, I've been thinking for a long time just now, but still can't understand why you chose a woman's name?"
"A woman? No, no! I'm a man! A man!" Instantly, Zhao Chunxue collapsed, sighing longingly, "It isn't my fault, blame that damned old man who adopted me.
Damn, when I was a baby, he picked me up by a ditch, looked at it, got poetic, saying 'The rising fragrance of the incense burner, the river flowing in spring,' and thus named me Zhao Chunxue."
"Then you should have been named Zhao Chunshui?" White Rose pressed.
"The old man said it snowed that day, so he changed 'water' to 'snow'..."
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
At Fell's hideout.
"You've been observing Ye Qiu for a while now. Is there any useful information?" Fell asked coldly, not even glancing at Lv Zuowei.
"Yes!" Lv Zuowei shivered and replied, "Ye Qiu has a girl with him named White Rose, seems to be his sister, very important to him. If we can control her, dealing with Ye Qiu would be much easier."