218 Chapter 218 - Two Hundred Forty-one Letters (2/2)

”Two hundred forty-one letters!” Gu Fei put the stack onto the table as he announced this, scattering letters all across its surface.

”That's a really enthusiastic response!” Young Master Han chuckled, guessing that most of these letters were the result of Gu Fei's identity being exposed by them. All those leaders who could not add him as a friend had no choice but to resort to writing letters to contact him, after all.

The content of each letter was pretty much similar to one another. Gu Fei very quickly read through three of them and a look of disappointment could be seen on his face, ”Why is it all about this matter?”

Knowing that Gu Fei was currently reading the letters, Young Master Han smiled gaily, ”What else are you expecting?”

”Does no one among them feel resentful about my action yesterday and wish to fight with me?” Gu Fei replied with a question as he continued to lightly read the letters.

Young Master Han was stunned. Did this guy reveal his identity in his hopes of achieving such an outcome? How did he come up with such a thought like that?

Gu Fei was on his fifth letter when he flashed Young Master Han a mischievous smile who had been sitting there in a daze all this while and said, ”Since you don't seem to have anything on right now, help me tear through all these letters!”

Young Master Han did indeed have nothing to do at the moment, so he did not reject his request. With a swig of his liquor, he took a letter, tore it open, glanced at the content, and tossed it away. A swig, a letter, a tear, a glance, throw… He repeated this process mechanically with greater efficiency than Gu Fei.

”Hey! Be more attentive! Make sure not to miss anything,” Gu Fei was quite dissatisfied with Young Master Han's perfunctory actions.

Following his request, Young Master Han paid more attention to the matter and gave the letters two glances before tossing them over. Finally, a certain letter that was substantially well-written compared to the others earned Young Master Han's three glances. He even casually flipped over the envelope itself and saw the sender's name: Youthful Reflection.

This name caused Young Master Han to pause slightly. He then decided to read the letter carefully and immediately discerned Youthful Reflection's intention for writing the letter: He wanted Gu Fei to defect from Young Master's Elite before the match to lower the danger in the upcoming fight.

Young Master Han tried his hardest to stifle the laughter that came to him. It seemed that his plan had actually borne fruit so splendidly that their opponents were completely stumped on how to handle them. For a one-hundred-man mercenary group to resort into using such an underhanded method against a six-man mercenary group, it was simply too comical.

Originally, Young Master Han was not treating their upcoming match seriously, but since Youthful Reflection's letter had very kindly given him a chance to gain an advantage for his group, Young Master Han resolved to not waste it. Conceiving a script in his mind, he then took out a quill and paper and tossed them over to Gu Fei.

”What are these for?” Gu Fei, who was going through the stack in hopes of encountering a letter of challenge, asked Young Master Han this after receiving the items.

”You should write a reply,” Young Master Han suggested.

”Why… Why do I have to?” Gu Fei asked.

”Don't you know what courtesy is? These men politely wrote you letters, so how could you not have the decency to reply to them even once? Plus, I doubt this will end if you don't give them a proper reply,” Young Master Han explained.

”Oh!” Gu Fei nodded his head in agreement to Young Master Han's explanation. Quite a few of the senders of the letters had actually repeatedly mailed him two or three letters of the same matter; evidently, they had mailed him another letter when they had not received a reply for the first letter. They were probably hoping to garner his attention by continuously pestering him.

”Reply it is, then!” Gu Fei sighed as he picked up the quill and took a sheet of paper.

”Mhm. I'll help you, too,” Young Master Han took a piece of paper as well.

Gu Fei felt surprised that Young Master Han actually volunteered to help him on this matter, as the effort required to reply to all these letters was higher than just reading through them.

”What should we write? Hmm… Let's keep it simple. A few words should do,” Young Master Han told Gu Fei.

”Yeah. I'm just gonna write: 'I thank you for your offer, but I refuse.'” After carefully thinking it over, Gu Fei came up with this.

”Oh, that's very good. Clear and concise,” Young Master Han nodded his head in agreement and quickly busied himself with writing a letter of response on Gu Fei's behalf. Unbeknownst to Gu Fei, the content of the letter Young Master Han was composing vastly differed from what they had agreed on. Gu Fei was too busy on his end that he did not notice what Young Master Han was doing at all.