37 Housewarming party 1 (1/2)

CHAOYANG- MAO LU'S HOME

\”Is it not cold? You should put a shirt on.\” Fei Bing Bing said, feeling a bit overly-sensitive around the shirtless Chàng Bo.

\”I'm fine.\” Chàng Bo curtly replied.

If he put his robes on he was sure it would lead to all kinds of questions. His clothes were from his Star Realm, they were enchanted. Just by looking at the outfits these mortals wore, Chàng Bo knew his robes would seem very strange, hence why he politely refused.

\”Ah, I see.\” Fei Bing Bing replied weakly as she tried to gaze at anything else besides Chàng Bo's chest. Secretly wishing Zhao Detong had muscles like that.

\”Who's your personal trainer? Or do you train by yourself, your body is super impressive.\” Frank Wang praised.

Chàng Bo smiled a bit, he was sure that to mortals who had never practised and expelled their bodies of impurities, his body must look surreal to them.

\”Thank you. I don't have a personal trainer. I train by myself.\”

\”Wow really. Do you practice martial arts, Zhao Detong is a Wing Chun expert, what about you. Do you specialise in anything?\” Frank was extremely curious.

Tanaka interrupted, \”Why do you care about his muscles so much, we should be asking the important questions!\” Tanaka turned to Chàng Bo, \”So you're living with Mao Lu because you can't go home, why can't you go home?\”

Chàng Bo smiled and said, \”That's a personal matter, I don't need to tell you that.\”

\”You said you met Lu through work, what work? What is his mysterious new job?\”

Chàng Bo smiled again and said, \”If he hasn't told you about it, it isn't my place to tell you about it.\”

\”God, you are no fun at all!!! Come on give us the answers, is there some special reason that we can't know!\” Tanaka yelled.

They were all sitting on the sofa set in Mao Lu's spacious living room. They'd cracked open the beers and were drinking.

Chàng Bo had been curious and decided to sit with them, drinking with them, which led up to this conversation.

\”There isn't a special reason you can't know.\” Chàng Bo lied, \”I just feel that you're better hearing it from him rather than from me.\”

\”Now it's my turn to ask questions. How do you all know Mao Lu?\” Chàng Bo changed the flow of the conversation, he was tired of their interrogation.

Tanaka answered \”Mao Lu and I met at Café Eclair as part-timers three years ago. We became instant friends.\”

\”I only know him through Tanaka, we met when Tanaka asked me to give Mao Lu a ride home from work three years ago,\” Bei Lao said as he pushed up his glasses.

\”Mao Lu and I met when he first started working at Roaring Tiger. Wow, now that I think about it it's nearly been four years since Lu and I met, time goes fast.\”Fang Kai said nostalgically.

\”Hahah\” Bing Bing laughed, \”you're so proud of that Frank. Then I guess I should be more proud since Detong and I have known Mao Lu almost all our lives. We all met at the same daycare before we were even one years old, and we became friends straight away.\”

Zhao Detong, nodded in agreement at her words, holding her hand and squeezing it gently as she spoke.

Chàng Bo noticed this small romantic gesture between the two. He easily knew who all the couples were in the group.

Tanaka was with Bei Lao. Fei Bing Bing was with Zhao Detong.

Even though they hadn't said it, it was pretty obvious due to their body language and actions.

And that little Witch seemed to be flirting with Frank Wang.

Chàng Bo narrowed his eyes at Qi Zhou, \”You probably made connections with this mortal group so that you could get closer to Gatekeeper Lu right? Not a bad way in trying to approach him, but don't you think he'll be angered if he realises you're using his friends to get to him. You might just piss him off.\”

He said this in the Universal Realm Tongue.

Qi Zhou stiffened slightly before replying, \”Thank you for your concern, but I think I can handle it.\”

\”I wasn't concerned about you. I'm telling you to back off.\”

Chàng Bo said coldly, he didn't want this witch near Mao Lu.

He needed Mao Lu. When their bond deepened that meant he would have unlimited fate points. He didn't need this Witch interrupting his plans. The only reason he hadn't forcefully kicked her out was because of the mortals around them.

\”While you have the chance I suggest you leave Mao Lu's mortal friends alone and go elsewhere. If you don't I'll have to make you leave, and there are many ways I can make you disappear.\” He casually threatened.

The atmosphere in the room grew cold and Qi Zhou glared at him. This was so unfair. She'd gone through so much effort to make Frank Wang like her, all so she could meet the Gatekeeper and become his servant, and now she was been pushed out by a Dao Stage practitioner. So unfair. How terribly unlucky.

And she could tell from his gaze that he wasn't kidding around. If she didn't leave on her own free will, he would make her.

Qi Zhou knew Chàng Bo's reputation for being very unstable.

Sometimes Chàng Bo would help the poor, cure illnesses, build schools or reunite those who were separated from their loved ones by war.

But Chàng Bo was also known for wantonly murdering those that stood in his way, for destroying entire clans and sects if he deemed them unnecessary. It was like he had two split personalities.

Qi Zhou was aware that Chàng Bo was a dangerous, powerful and unstable genius. If she kept pushing his buttons he might very well kill her here.

Chàng Bo did indeed have that sort reputation. And he was well aware that behind his back people called him all kinds of names.

Chàng Bo's actions, however, weren't because he had a split personality. It was because he had to gain fate points for the Sovereign System.

Over the years he'd done anything to gain fate points. Whether that was saving people from tragedies or murdering them in cold blood. As long as Chàng Bo thought he was in the right and it could get him points then he would do it.

Chàng Bo never killed people he thought were innocent, he only destroyed evil clans or sects. But of course, rumours had spiralled out of proportion making it out like he was insane and killed randomly.

\”Umm, is everything okay?\” Frank asked, \”What are you two talking about?\”

Qi Zhou instantly put on a fake smile and laughed, \”Oh nothing. He was just asking me how I knew Mao Lu, and I was telling him I didn't. Since I haven't met him yet. Then he was asking me how I learnt his language and we started talking about the political circumstances in Nepal. It made us pretty serious for a bit.\” Qi Zhou said this lie rather confidently, but even she was aware that her lie sounded like crap.