*GROAN*
Groaning in displeasure, Chang Hua slovenly got up from the couch and went towards her garden.
"Hai, please come with me." She paused at the door before saying.
"Ok. I will come back later." Hai bid a short goodbye to his group before following his aunt.
They walked a different path from the one Hai took to arrive at his aunt's office and after a few seconds, they arrived at an open garden with a vast diversity of flora present in there.
However, what caught Hai's attention wasn't the flora or the garden itself, but a man in daoist's robes floating above the garden.
'No...' Hai instantly thought when his eyes landed on the man.
'Don't you dare…' Hai eyes narrowed and his mood took a sudden turn from his previous relaxed one.
"What do you want, Lin Feng?" Chang Hua didn't even bother in calling him by his title of elder and this didn't go unnoticed by everyone.
Lin Feng didn't come alone but seemed to have brought his students with him.
There were 14 young men flying in the air either with a sword, a spear or another mean.
A vein snapped on Lin Feng's forehead but he didn't lose his composure.
"Elder Chang Hua, remember that I'm also an elder and as such, deserve to be treated as one." He stated with his eyes dangerously narrowed.
Chang Hua however, wasn't bothered in the slightest with him.
"If you want to be treated as an elder, act as one, you f*cking simp." She nonchalantly replied to his words.
"Pfft-! *COUGH*" Some of his students, probably newer ones, nearly laughed hearing elder Chang Hua's words but instantly stopped with a single cold glance from their master.
Turning back to this hot woman with a poisonous tongue, Lin Feng stood in silence before his gaze wandered to Hai.
Lin Feng's eyes narrowed when he saw Hai, someone who clearly didn't belong to this city standing here without any prior warning. He didn't remember Chang Hua mentioning to the elders responsible for allowing visitors in.
"Elder Chang Hua, you know that outsiders are not allowed here, in our palace, right?" Although he tried to keep an aloof tone, his small smirk gave away that he was happy with this 'blunder' of hers.
Chang Hua obviously knew about it already but she also knew about her rights.
"You must also know that an elder can bring guests in here without prior warning as long as the guests have no beef with the palace and stays in the host's estate, right?" She was starting to consider if she should ask the palace master to ban Lin Feng from entering her estate.
Lin Feng gritted his teeth but he showed nothing on the outside.
With a proper smile and righteous posture, he continued:
"It's an elder's duty to assure that no bad seed enters our sacred pal-"
"Are you saying my nephew is a 'bad seed'? Do you mean it? Because if yes, forget courtesy, I'll teach you to not talk bad about others, you wuss." Chang Hua interrupted his hypocrite speech in a cold voice and murderous gaze.
One thing to note is that no matter how much she jokes, teases and even "bullies" Hai, he is someone irreplaceable to her.
Hai has such a place in her heart that it wouldn't be wrong to call him her reverse scale. If someone messes with him, she is equal to Elena in how crazy she can get over it.
She won't take such an insult towards him lightly, even less if the one who insulted him is an elder of the same palace.
Looking at her giving such a serious expression, Lin Feng understood he ended touching her reverse scale and felt confused for a moment.
He literally picked on a junior still wet behind his ears and she went full hostile against him?
However, he smiled in the next instant when he saw this chance of getting back at her.
"Your nephew? You should know that as an elder you can't-"
*SWOOSH*
Lin Feng hastily vanished from where he was and appeared a few meters way before he looked with wide eyes towards his sleeve and saw it torn in a terrible way.
Even though he just avoided Chang Hua's attack, he still lost his sleeve.
He looked back at her who hadn't moved a single inch from where she was and heard her cold words.
"Do NOT, change the topic. I asked you a question and if you don't want to get kicked out of here, answer it." The more time passed, the colder her words became and the lower the temperature dropped.
Hai watched his aunt with raised eyebrows.
She is a martial artist and as such, she focuses more on building her body to be her best weapon.
Now, her simple mood is slightly affecting the surroundings?
How strong is she?
Although Hai can see that she isn't really THAT strong, or maybe his sense to someone's strength broke after fighting against a higher being, he is still curious about her aura manipulation as she seems better than most of the martial artists he met so far.
Lin Feng felt another vein snapping on his forehead and this time he couldn't stop his expression from contorting.
"I asked you for an answer, not for your ugly face." Chang Hua stated after a few seconds of waiting and seeing no response from him.
Lin Feng felt his blood pressure rising and he wanted to curse her.
Chang Hua could clearly read his intention as an open book and decided to end this farse.
"If you have nothing useful to say, begone." She swatted her hand as if gesturing a fly to go away.
"…" Lin Feng gritted his teeth hard enough to everyone hear.
"Chang Hua, you are courting death." He stated looking dead in her eyes.
Hai put his hand on his face when he heard those words.
'He really said it…' Hai didn't know if he should feel awed that someone was brainless like that or praise Lin Feng for such a loyal cosplay.
Lin Feng of course, didn't miss Hai's reaction and decided to use him as he couldn't do much with Chang Hua.
"Kid, are you aware that you shouldn't be here?" He laced his voice with intent as to inspire guilt, anxiety and a bit of fear on Hai.
However, Hai just looked at it with a bored face.
"Old man. Do you know I could beat you for trying to use intent for suggesting on an elder's guest?" Hai asked while looking at him with a bored gaze.
"Also, your talk is with my aunt. Don't change your target to me just because you don't have balls to keep a conversation with her." He added before sitting on one of the several benches present in the garden.
"…" Lin Feng's brain stopped working for a minute but he was quickly woken up with a loud laugher.
"Pfftt-! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Chang Hua burst out in laugh when she heard Hai's words.
He basically slapped Lin Feng in his face with the facts that no one aside from elders could point out due to his position.
And without surprise, he didn't take it well.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Feng calmed down and looked coldly at Hai.
"Elder Chang Hua, it seems your nephew has no respect for the elders. I will personally teach him a lesson as for this unacceptable behavior to not repeat itself." He said before coming down to the ground.
Hai looked at him with faint interest in his eyes and gestured to his aunt that it was okay.
Chang Hua looked at Hai and nodded. Although uneasy and wanting to beat the shit out of Lin Feng, she still respected Hai's decisions.
After seeing that Chang Hua wasn't going to intervene, Lin Feng smiled inwardly and arrived before Hai.
He stopped a few centimeters away from him, directly intruding his personal space before looking down at him contemptuously.
"Brat, get up." Lin Feng stated while increasingly his aura.
"Why should I?" Hai asked back, crossed his right leg over his left one and rested his chin on his left hand.
Lin Feng narrowed his eyes at his attitude and increased his aura.
"I said g-"
"I heard what you said. And I asked: 'why should I?'. Are you going to give me something in exchange for this 'lesson' you are talking about? I only do things if they offer me something back. No gains, no deal." Hai cut him off giving no respect or face whatsoever to Lin Feng.
Lin Feng shut his mouth and a puff of hot air escaped his nostrils.
"I see." Was all he said.
*SWOOSH*
He swung his fist at Hai's relaxed face while coating it with aura as to make sure Hai felt the impact.
Hai who was still tired from the battle against Ye Chen earlier, looked boredly at his attack.
After his fight with that higher being, he had some unexpected gains.
Although he is still absorbing those gains, he already knows enough to mess with this guy without wasting more mana than what he can recover.
*FUUSH*
Lin Feng widened his eyes when he saw that his punch was going to miss Hai, not because he aimed it wrong, but because he suddenly started to go towards the right and away from Hai.
He tried to adjust his trajectory but only managed to see a shadow covering his face catch a glimpse of something.
He looked up and couldn't even make out what was that before he started to lose consciousness.
*THUD*
Hai looked at the unconscious elder laying on the ground a few centimeters away from him and then turned back to said elder's disciples.
"Are you all just going to watch? Take your master out of here. Go, go, go. Chop chop." Hai motioned for them to get out of here while getting up from the bench.
Although the disciples wanted to berate Hai for his behavior, they dared not.
So they simply picked their master and went away without saying anything.
Hai arrived near his aunt who was looking at him with raised eyebrows before hearing her already expected question.
"What did you do?" She asked genuinely curious at what he did against Lin Feng.
All she saw was him freezing the other party's foot, making it slid and then look at him while he was falling.
Nothing else.
Hai simply smiled.
"Secret~" He playfully answered her.
His answer gained a snort from her but she didn't probe further.
"Let's go back." Hai nodded at her words and both went back to her office.
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After some brief hours of discussion about some important topics, it was decided that Hai and his group would stay in Chang Hua's state as her guests until further notice.
Hai thanked her for all her support and then excused himself.
He was planning on simply sleeping, but his situation was anything but he simply laying on the bed and waiting for sleep come.
He looked at the ceiling with a plain expression while feeling some movements around him.
On his right side, hugging his arm was Elena as usual.
Until here, everything was like always.
However, every other side was not normal.
At his left, his aunt was sandwiching his arm between her breasts while laying down beside him.
On top of him, was Kryn laying down with Chilly.
And a bit further to both his left and right were Stella and Hong Li-Wei respectively.
Hai couldn't understand for the life of him how it came to this situation.
He had simply come to this room with Elena and when he heard the door opening after laying down, everyone else also came in and made themselves comfortable.
Hong Li-Wei was too shy to be intimate with Hai in front of so many people and as such, she limited herself to staying in the same bed only.
Stella wasn't faring much better.
She was quiet this whole time and didn't express anything aside from the wish of staying in this room.
She was NEVER going to tell anyone the reason for that.
After Hai got busy with his things back on Hong Kong, Stella thought she was going to feel happy as to not having to serve him and do those shameful things like walking around dressed like that and etc.
She was mistaken.
Severely so.
After a few hours, Stella noticed that her body was behaving strangely.
She got relentless, slight anxious and a bit stressed. And no matter what she did, those feelings didn't go away.
It didn't take Stella much time to figure out what was happening. And she couldn't believe the answer.
She was showing withdrawal symptoms.
She was already somewhat addicted to the pleasure she was denying.
When she concluded this, no matter how much she wanted to deny, she couldn't do so anymore. She was a M and a huge one it seems.
Although she was trying to figure out what to do now that she discovered it, she tried to remain the same.
She can only hope that she figures out an answer soon.
Kryn's reason for staying in the room is rather simple.
She liked to spend time with Hai.
Aside from Laila, he was the only one who she ever interacted with and as such, she had a certain affection for him.
Aside from liking to spend time with him in the brief time they have known each other for, she also started to unconsciously think of him as some short of parental figure, thus making her like to stay with him even more.
Chang Hua's reason for staying here is even more straightforward.
She wanted to spend time with Hai.
She didn't deny it and readily admitted it when he asked her the reason.
"It's not like I'm complaining but there are other rooms too, you know?" Hai commented while still looking at the ceiling.
"Nope, there are not." Chang Hua answered while lying down.
Hai raised an eyebrow and turned to her.
"Aside from the ones which your staff are using, I destroyed the other ones. Oh, your maid there helped me in this mission." She admitted without any shame.
Hai blinked his eyes and turned to the other side just to see Elena cutely sticking out her tongue with closed eyes.
He looked towards the ceiling again and said nothing.
"I got it. I will spend time with everyone. Happy?" He knows that there are more reasons than the ones they just stated for them to be doing this and he already knew one.
"Hum." They all except Stella and Chilly hummed in agreement.
'I should enjoy those vacations.' Hai thought before closing his eyes.
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