Listening to Gu Zhiqi’s words, and looking at the smartphone and yellow talisman she pulled out, Xu Qing and Xie Yann both fell silent.
This just didn’t seem reliable no matter how they looked at it.
Seeing that Xie Yann didn’t move, Gu Zhiqi raised her eyebrow slightly, "What? Not buying anymore?"
"Buy! Of course, I’m buying!" Xie Yann said, while taking out his phone to transfer the money to Gu Zhiqi.
As he made the transfer, he casually asked, "Master, if I buy this Talisman Paper from you, can you take me as a disciple and teach me martial arts?"
As Xie Yann’s voice trailed off, the screen of Gu Zhiqi’s smartphone suddenly dimmed.
Xie Yann hadn’t finished entering Gu Zhiqi’s account information when her phone screen went dark, and his eyes, which were somewhat bright, took on a questioning look as he turned to Gu Zhiqi, "Master, your phone..."
Before Xie Yann could finish speaking, he saw Gu Zhiqi put both the phone and the Yellow Paper back into her pocket.
"Master, I haven’t finished entering the account," Xie Yann said, looking at Gu Zhiqi.
"Oh, not selling anymore."
"Huh? Why?" Xie Yann, with a head full of question marks, looked at Gu Zhiqi, not understanding.
"Oh, I don’t want to take on another hopeless disciple," Gu Zhiqi said, looking at Xie Yann with a hint of disdain.
Was this, being looked down upon?
Xie Yann felt discouraged, and Xu Qing, who was following alongside, was outright stunned.
Brother Yann was looked down upon?
Brother Yann was actually looked down upon?!
Brother Yann was indeed looked down upon by the Little Fairy, right?
If Brother Yann, the former president of their school’s Martial Arts Club, was a hopeless case, what did that make them? Trash?
Xie Yann felt discouraged, and Xu Qing, who was more useless than Xie Yann, also felt discouraged.
Watching the two of them looking like they were questioning their life choices, Chubby Chiu in Gu Zhiqi’s mind fell silent.
"Zhizhi, let’s be a bit more subtle; look how you’ve discouraged the kids," warned Chubby Chiu, fearing that Xie Yann and Xu Qing would become disheartened forever after Gu Zhiqi’s discouragement.
Gu Zhiqi, after listening to Chubby Chiu, was silent for a while and then replied very bluntly, "He was pretty useless to begin with."
Chubby Chiu "...Maybe, just a bit more subtle, so you don’t discourage them so much they never recover."
Gu Zhiqi and Chubby Chiu gossiped, "Kids these days really can’t take a hit."
Gossip aside, Gu Zhiqi still said a comforting word to Xie Yann on the surface, "Well, you’re not that useless. Diligence can compensate for incompetence. If you work hard, you can still achieve something."
Xie Yann, sensing the perfunctoriness in Gu Zhiqi’s words, "..."
Thanks for the comfort, but it’s not needed.
After comforting Xie Yann, Gu Zhiqi continued walking forward. Although Xie Yann and Xu Qing were discouraged, their admiration for a master still made them follow Gu Zhiqi’s footsteps.
"Master, please sell me that talisman," Xie Yann said, following alongside Gu Zhiqi.
Gu Zhiqi’s brows lifted slightly as she glanced at Xie Yann.
Meeting Gu Zhiqi’s meaningful gaze and not waiting for her to speak, Xie Yann quickly added, "Just, not the disciple kind."
Xie Yann was quite aware of his own abilities, admitting that he was indeed useless was not wrong at all.
In the eyes of his classmates, he was the president of the Martial Arts Club, the strongest person in the club, but within his family, he truly was a useless existence.
Being called useless was not new to him; his sister and mother often looked down on him, and so did the other members of his family. Xie Yann was used to it.
The malicious mockery from his family members never affected him, and as for the pure disdain from Gu Zhiqi without any malice, Xie Yann cared even less.