Chapter 175: Status
Anger and impatience had almost made him lose this chance. If he had killed Yao Shao, he would only be giving him an easy death. Lu Chen was going to make the man slowly die.
Thank god, Feng Meifeng stopped me. Sighing, Lu Chen felt that he owes Feng Meifeng another one now.
While Lu Chen is thankful, Yao Shao instantly kept his mouth shut. He finally understood the severity of his actions. With Lu Chen's influence, Lu Chen could easily make all of his family's assets disappear. All the smug and pride that Yao Shao had before is now down the drain.
Seeing Yao Shao silent now, Lu Chen glances at Feng Meifeng and back to him. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. Lu Chen smirks, "So you finally know your place now. Heh, you're nothing more than just a rat. Remember that."
Yao Shao's face looks so dark that it can assimilate with the night! Lu Chen had thrown back the exact words Yao Shao had said to Feng Meifeng right back at him. Yao Shao grits his teeth like he was going to lose his mind. It sounds like his teeth are about to crack from gritting too much.
I cannot let this go! Pure ignorance was on Yao Shao's mind as he was about to curse at him again. However, before Yao Shao could say anything, he caught Luo Ai scowling behind Lu Chen.
You better keep that mouth of your shut. Or I'm going to tear it off. Luo Ai knows the situation could have been much worse if Feng Meifeng didn't step in. The looks she saw on Lu Chen weren't something that was even remotely normal.
Pure rage and killing intent were directed at Yao Shao from before. Even ordinary people like Feng Meifeng realize the thick killing intent. Yet, the fatty doesn't notice it until Lu Chen had to spell it out for him.
Right now, the situation isn't as tense as it was before. Lu Chen isn't on instant kill mode. But that doesn't mean Lu Chen can't go back to that state. And Luo Ai wasn't going to let that happen.
Seeing the scowl, Yao Shao instantly got the message and kept his mouth shut. Even if he didn't fear Lu Chen somewhat, it's a whole different story for Luo Ai. The scene of slaughtering the five pigs is still fresh in his mind like Tang Weimin.
Lu Chen glances back at Feng Meifeng as he puts his thumbs up to her. When Feng Mefieng saw that, she couldn't help but chuckle. Dummy.
While both groups are beginning to die down against each other physically, mentally, on the other hand, some are having thoughts. Especially Liu Fei Fei. The girl has a stiff expression on her face.
The situation is still too strange tho. Liu Fei Fei's mind focuses on the incident. Even though he is useless, what Yao Shao said has some validity to them.
For them to know the exact location where Long Shen was, she knew it had to be somebody from the school. The other thing the culprit needed to have is;
Status.
Whoever the person was, they weren't afraid of offending her. The logical choice would be Lu Chen. Even she has doubts about believing the two.
However, she couldn't refute what Zhang Jian had said as well. Lu Chen has too many wounds on his body to say he has a connection with the thugs. Even if she wants to believe it's him, it's hard to force herself to believe that Lu Chen is the culprit from his body.
Before the tense atmosphere could arise between the two groups, the nurse didn't allow it as she suddenly said, "Alright, for now, we should treat the two of you. The ambulance should be coming anytime soon. So for now, rest up." Saying that to Long Shen and Yao Shao, she turns to Lu Chen and Zhang Jian, "And that goes for the two of you as well."
The nurse chose to speak up now. The kids in front of her are people that shouldn't be messed with. She didn't want to lose her job either from pissing off one of them.
Lu Chen didn't say anything else as he fell onto the bed heavily. And Feng Meifeng went back to treating his wounds. The nurse started to treat Yao Shao, who had the most injury. While Liu Fei Fei went to treat Long Shen.
Hmmm.... I wonder how Yao is going to react watching the videos of Lu going demon on people.... still don’t like Ai, and probably like her less now. With so much power, never tried to publicly stop people from bullying Lu.
It's obvious from her choice ... She chose her best friend and remember that Lu Chen is far from begin bullied ... don't mix it his classmates look at him with destined and loathing but they can never bully him ... Firstly, his background is not joke maybe not enough to make Liu Fei Fei give up on her love but it's more than enough to make any other students think twice before bullying him physically ... Secondly, his best friend Zhang Jian is not a paper tiger and even with the foolishness of Lu Chen and his blind love for Liu Fei Fei he don't give up on him and do everything to make him wake up until Lu Chen choose to abandoned him for his "wife" ... Thirdly, His previous personality is just trashy like any generic third generation young master so Luo Ai choice is actually normal and more logical because she want the best for her best frind not the best for Long Shen ... Finally, don't forget that his trashy reputation is his doing most of the time with blind love and arrogance and mostly cloudy mind most of the time he becomes a laughing stock for everyone.
So again She didn't actually do anything deserve dislike or anything like that. The one who did wrong things for him is Liu Fei Fei and Long Shen.
@H-GO She consistently saw what fei fei said to him and how fei fei tricked him into doing lots of stupid things. She never stopped that, only thinking it was “extreme treatment.” He deserves the scorn he got from his classmates for acting like a fool, but childhood friends should be better to each other. Maybe she tried to help more, and we find out later, but right now she only secretly text him. You do make good points about Lu’s choices, and maybe that did shape Ai’s interactions with Lu. Still don’t like Ai, though.
@Coheed27 Will It's not like I like her that much afterall if nothing bad happened to her in Lu Chen's frist life then she should be aware of many things and should have do something if she care that much about him ... But still he was a lost case in his previous life and only when he die he realised that he was a fool. Also she could have helped in making Liu Fei Fei less aggressive and stop her from humiliating him that much ... So your dislike is also justified. Afterall she look like bossy woman with iron fist not some fragile young miss and could beat that fatty without much of efforts.
Luo Ai and that bit*h should both go to hell.
Liu Fei Fei went back to being an innocent girl taking care of the MC!
But Liu FeiFei is taking care of Long Shen? And she hasn't done much for Lu Chen other than not jump against him immediately.
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Sorry its sarcasm about her just getting away with green hating him in his face.
Mr. Author can you remind me if he ask for investigation about Long Shen or not?
Mr.author... did you cross the 2000 words in chapter or It's less than that?
I wish that this whole conversation was recorded, so that Lu Chen could use Yao Shao's statement to help facilitate the breakup. (1) She was with Long Shen, and very defensive of him... apparently didn't give a @#$% that her "fiancé" was beaten (2) Yao Shao made a statement about how she has been green-hatting him for a long time, in the presence of Fei Fei, Luo Ai, the class president, the nurse and a teacher... and there was no denial from Fei Fei or any of her associates. (3) Lu Chen was accused repeatedly by Fei Fei of attacking Long Shen, without and contrary to evidence (he was also a victim and ...well... he didn't initiate, premeditate, or pay for it, nor did he exactly target Long Shen with his distraction, just good looking guys on the 2nd floor generally).
I still think that Lu Chen is a beta-puss for not responding to Luo Ai (her comments a couple chapters ago) with a face-slapping response. ... this drawdown from violence is very unsatisfying. He says he has power, but will he actually do anything to YaoShao? We shall see (my bet is no, because he has only acted as a passive beta cuck who can run and shadowbox thus far, but maybe author will allow him to grow a pair).
I'm okay with Lu Chen not responding to the taunt about Fei Fei, because it is true and he, supposedly, doesn't really care about that any more.
Did you forget that he don't want to attract the attention of the one who cause the death of his family ... and Long Shen is big clue to the hidden enemy and if he alert him enough to be more caution or be more proactive then he will face many problems to discover the mastermind behind him ... Also he can kill him and just bring endless troubles for everyone just for moment of relief is not worth it ... It's true that fatty had no true power to cause him any big problem but Liu Fei Fei and Long Shen can use this against him in many ways ... as for green hate? She already betrayed him and stole everything from him and make him lose all his family and even coupled with his mortal enemy and maybe even had s*x with Long Shen in Lu Chen's house on his bed and even killed him while she nestling in the embrace of Long Shen to play with her body like whatever he want so can you seriously consider her as even his frind now? Even if she coupled with Long Shen in the bed to ease his pain he should not feels anything more than loathing and despising. In short Liu Fei Fei did every bad thing she can do to him so he can care less about her affairs other than his revenge on Long Shen. . .
@H-GO ... Didn't forget. Just doesn't seem to be of any importance to him. He didn't even tip off his family that they might be in danger. Or, ask his protector to look DEEPLY into Long Shen's background (would have been totally in character). ... Really, I want him to do anything proactive because I hate slice of life and slooooooooooooooooooow developing stories.
I'm sure excuses can be made for why he isn't doing anything, but those are just excuses. At the end of the day we are reading to see the protagonist take risks, not to read about how he calmly butters toast and obtusely overlook romantic subplots.
Also, note that I said "supposedly" to indicate sarcasm, if he lives this life without taking revenge for what occurred, even in this timeline, even during those years before the do-over... If he doesn't take revenge, he is more of a simpering beta cuck then I previously presumed. His humiliation is real and did happen in this timeline.
@TDM He is going to take revenge that what the author said and the MC is not taking it easy ... his family is more important than his revenge and he is trying hard to make them safe from any danger before he start his revenge (You know.. If he take his revenge but his family gone because his carelessness then he wasted his second chance) from the start of the novel until this chapter is just few days (novel time) and he is not strong enough for frontal fight because it's 100% loss ... As for the slow pace of the novel and slice of life It's just a preference and I don't have any thing to say about this ... even me who love slice of life novels has to admit that the author take his time away to much ... but I don't have any real problem with this ... as for the MC becoming Beta? I don't see why, he is already planning to divorce her before taking his revenge and it's not like he can force her to do whatever he want ... At the end of the day her background is much stronger and any wrong move on his part can be used against him when he declare her divorce ... Besides this point I don't see what make him a cowrd or dense?
@TDM Also he actually ask his protector to look deeply in Long Shen background.
@H-GO ... I don't recall which chapter he asked anyone to look into Long Shen. Could you remind me please? (I don't recall that being in the original version of this story either.)
@TDM I also don't recall which chapter he asked him about Long Shen.
@TDM Sorry about that ... It's look like I am in wrong ... I rechecked the chapters that give me that impression (62-63-64) Lu Chen was talking with Elder Wu about the how dangerous their situation is and Elder Wu mentioned that he don't find anything worth his attention in Long Shen background but Lu Chen remaind him about how stange this information and how possible for him (Long Shen) to be alive until know if he is just a normal person then they speak about his engagement and why they need to be careful with it ... So in short : he mentioned that there more to Long Shen that what they know but don't ask for any further investigations on him ... I don't know if there is any behind-the-scene events that is not mentioned but anyway I am still in wrong ... sorry about that.
@H-GO ... no problem. You aren’t wrong that he SHOULD have asked, and the moment would have been perfect. But then, the story would move quickly and the author wouldn’t be able to focus on cake shops or writing about schoolgirls snapping photos and dreaming of boy-love scenarios (do any normal girls actually do this?! Seems like bi wish fulfillment).