10 Chapter 10 - Particular Tastes (2/2)

Gu Fei laughed. He could no longer be bothered insisting with him. By now, the lady had already made her way past a vast portion of the tavern, yet she had still not chosen a seat. She seemed like she was about to leave through the other door. Suddenly, she stopped right beside Sword Demon.

Sword Demon sat at a table with two seats, so there just happened to be a free seat since he was alone.

All held their breath, while many were stumped. The lady sure had very particular tastes! To think she would pick the person who was possibly the ugliest one out of all of them.

Although Sword Demon was an online gaming professional, he was still just an ordinary man. His heart surged a little when he saw the beautiful lady stop beside him. However, the lady did not take a seat and instead patted him on the back with her right hand.

The whole place fell silent again. Did they know each other? Everyone wanted to know the answer to this question. It was Beauty and the Beast! That was probably what a large number of them were thinking, while some had even thought it out as a case of 'a flower betwixt cow dung'.

Sword Demon was flattered, but he obviously knew he was not acquainted with the lady at all. Just as he was about to talk to her, the lady laughed and pointed at his feet, ”You dropped your coin!”

Everyone, including Sword Demon, bent over and looked.

A shiny gold coin lay beside Sword Demon's foot.

”Oh, thanks!” Sword Demon bent over instinctively to pick it up, still pondering inside if this was a good excuse to share a drink with her.

”You're welcome,” the lady replied, leaving toward the exit just as he picked up the gold coin. She smiled as she looked back at him before she left the establishment.

Sword Demon was in a daze. He held onto the gold coin with so much strength that he seemed to have mastered a kung fu technique.

”She has a good figure, beautiful looks, and even her voice is so pleasant! Ahhh! I think I'm in love with her,” Fireball sighed, ”Drunk bro, you—eh?” Fireball had waited until the lady left the tavern before turning to Gu Fei, yet he saw Gu Fei suddenly stand up and run out.

”You really are my idol!” Fireball stared at Gu Fei's back with a look of astonishment.

Gu Fei rushed out of the tavern and looked around. He caught a glimpse of the lady taking a right turn into an alley and immediately gave her the chase.

Sword Demon, you idiot! Gu Fei swore in his heart silently, Did you really fail to notice that the Frost Memories you left on the table had already been stolen as you played with the gold coin?

No one would have suspected a lady like that would do such a thing. Gu Fei would not have believed it either had he not seen it with his eyes.

It was far too despicable. Gu Fei gritted his teeth as this incident had made him recall a dark memory from his childhood.

When he practiced martial arts, every day was very demanding. Gu Fei had to follow a strict diet with minimal food. Whenever he was eating, his second uncle's jinx of a child who would always come, ”Hey, Xiao Fei, you dropped food on the ground again. You better pick it up, or else third uncle is going to beat you.”

”Oh!” the young Gu Fei hurriedly bent down to pick it up, but by the time he got back up again, his bowl of food had already been devoured by that child.

That was not the only time his cousin fooled him. All sorts of tricks, such as telling him that there were flying saucers, his father was looking for him, or even ”Black Cat Detective” was on television, were used on him until Gu Fei finally developed a resistance toward schemes of misdirection. By the time he had learned to deal with the deceptions and violently beat up the cousin, the other had already become tired of eating Gu Fei's meals and stopped playing tricks.

After so many years, Gu Fei would still feel a burning desire to serve justice whenever he thought of those incidents. Today, he was finally given a chance.

It was a pity the target was a lady. No matter what he did, he needed to have some discretion.

Gu Fei pondered as he turned into the alley. He ended up coming face to face with someone else.

The first thing he thought was, Oh. What a smell! He reacted afterward and hurriedly took a step back. The lady observed him with squinted eyes, ”Why are you following me?”

”Return it to me!” Although his face flushed from that close contact just now, Gu Fei suppressed his sudden impulse to do it again and gave her a nasty look instead.

”Return what?” the lady asked innocently.

”Are you trying to play the fool? You just took that dagger from the tavern. Return the Frost Memories!” Gu Fei said.

The lady was stunned. She was not actually playing the fool; she just had not expected Gu Fei to be here, attempting to reclaim the stolen weapon that was not his. She was rather confident in her beauty, so she thought he was some lustful person with nothing better to do than to flirt with her.