Chapter 613 (1/2)

Chapter 613: The New Upstarts

Translator: Udeze Editor: Udeze

“The more one is afraid of troublesome things, the more they will come knocking on his door.”

Using this sentence to describe Tang Xiu now couldn’t be more suitable, since what he feared the most nowadays was precisely facing the media. While gazing at Chang Hao’s astounded expression, he firmly insisted, “Tell them that I don’t want to be interviewed. If they still protest and are unwilling to step back or send the paparazzi to stalk me, then I will protect my privacy under the law while also rallying a large number of people to judge their wrong conducts!”

Such a great opportunity to get famous, and yet it was thrown away by Tang Xiu. This was quite unexpected to Chang Hao. Moreover, there were even threats in his statement.

But why, then?

Chang Hao couldn’t figure it out at all, yet he didn’t have the courage to question Tang Xiu. If he was to tell who was the person he feared the most in the world, he would firmly say that it was Tang Xiu without any hesitation. He was one of the witnesses and beneficiary of the last incident where Tang Xiu commenced a bloody strike to decimate his enemies.

He respected Tang Xiu but also dreaded him.

“I understand what you want, Mr. Tang. I assure you that I will never let the media disturb you. Please let me know if you have other instructions,” said Chang Hao respectfully.

“Sorry for troubling you!” Tang Xiu nodded.

Chang Hao spoke a few polite words before bidding farewell and leaving.

Tang Xiu then shifted his sight to Long Zhengyu, who wore a strange and puzzled expression. He then spread his hands and said with a wry smile, “It’s not like I really wanted this to happen. I just wanted to act as a sage for once, a good man who does philanthropic stuff, yet it then led to the situation you see at present. Anyways, let’s take our time eating, shall we? I’m going back home after getting my belly full, and I won’t go out for the next few days.”

“What’s this really about?” Asked Long Zhengyu.

Tang Xiu then narrated the event when he followed Long Xueyao to the Bluestar Welfare House. Then he finally concluded, “I’ve decided to adopt Little Blind, but I’m hella sure that people will notice me if I go to Bluestar Welfare House again in this short time, and 90% of these people are definitely from the media. Therefore, I can only ask Long Xueyao’s help to bring Little Blind to South Gate Town.”

A smirk appeared on the corner of Long Zhengyu’s mouth. He gave Tang Xiu a thumbs up and praised, “Sometimes you really are merciless and ruthless, but more often than not you also express your kindness in the most incisive manner. I really don’t understand you at all, but I like this disposition of yours. You should belong to the type of character who is both righteous and evil If you were put in a Wuxia novel.”

His comment made Tang Xiu unable to hold his laughter, and then said, “Leave out the garrulous talk, will you? Anyways, are we gonna order the food here or are we going to the box?”

“Let’s eat here!” Said Long Zhengyu with a smile.

Suddenly, Long Zhengyu’s expression moved. He looked to pondering over something for a short while before he let out a faint smile and said, “Everyone in the whole country surely already knows that you’re in Star City since you’ve made that big sensation. How about going with me to Blue City to play? That kiddo Huang Xu called me a few times recently. He said that he and some of his buddies opened a club in Blue City, and he invited me to join in the fun.”

Tang Xiu gave it a thought before shaking his head and saying, “Forget it! Just in case we come across some annoying things, after all…”

“Stop saying ‘after all this, after all that’ will you?” Long Zhengyu interrupted him and smilingly said. “You sound like an old geezer. Alright, it’s set then. We’ll leave tomorrow… no, we’ll set off to Blue City tonight! I’ll call Huang Xu and make him prepare food and drinks. Worry not, I won’t make you bleed tonight.”

“Really?” Tang Xiu’s eyes lit up and a smile immediately appeared on his face.

Long Zhengyu’s expression turned particularly odd as he looked at Tang Xiu and asked, “The reason you weren’t moved tonight, it couldn’t be because of the dishes, right? Even if a full banquet of Manchurian-Chinese delicacies is indeed comprised of various special dishes, it would probably cost you only a few hundred thousand yuan. You… would not go so far, just for this reason, right?”

A few hundred thousand yuan, ONLY?

Tang Xiu rolled his eyes at Long Zhengyu. Having a meal worth a few hundred thousand yuan? This was so extravagant that it could make one bristle in anger! With his mind full of saving money, Tang Xiu replied, “Well, it would be kind of unreasonable if I refused your kind offer, no? Let’s go now, then! I’ve never been to Blue City, though, but I heard it takes less than two hours to drive there!”

The more Long Zhengyu listened to Tang Xiu’s words, the more certain he was that Tang Xiu was trying to save money. This conclusion made him at a loss between laughter and tears. After all, Tang Xiu now owned at least tens of billions in assets, yet he still cared about hundreds of thousands spent on a meal? This was really… admirable!!

A few minutes later, Tang Xiu and Long Zhengyu had quietly arrived at the underground parking lot and then sat on the BMW X5 SUV Long Zhengyu drove here as they began to drive toward the outside. Yet, Tang Xiu felt quite helpless as several reporters were waiting outside when they left the underground parking lot, rushing over while taking their cameras.

“Speed up!” Tang Xiu didn’t want to deal with the reporters and immediately exclaimed.

Long Zhengyu slightly nodded. Taking the opportunity when the reporters hadn’t had them surrounded, he sped up the car and quickly entered the main road and blended with the traffic on the road toward the highway. Snowflakes were still falling from the sky and the road was much better with the snow being swept, yet it was still tricky to drive on. The duo felt a bit helpless after entering the highway since the road was very slippery. They could only slowly drive on since the car had no anti-skid chains. The originally two hours changed into three hours before the duo finally arrived at Blue City.