Chapter 105 - Bodhi Root (1/2)
The Dong siblings waited nervously while Zhuo Fan looked calmer than ever.
The lady soon returned and spoke in a frightened tone, “The Overseer shall see you!”
“Oh, great! Thank you!”
Dong Tianba bowed then rushed inside dragging his sister. Zhuo Fan swaggered in in the slowest and most languid way, smirking at the ladies and giving them the middle finger as he passed.
The ladies stepped back in fright, and only gained some semblance of reassurance when he was gone.
“Hey, did you also report how vulgar that punk is?” The other lady asked.
The first one was sullen, “Sister, I did, repeatedly!”
“Then why is the Overseer letting them in? She should’ve sent someone to put him in his place!”
The other lady was on the verge of crying, “Sister, don’t say it, it’s useless. Do you know what the Overseer said when I mentioned his obscene behavior?”
“What?”
“Four words: ‘don’t provoke the lunatic!’”
“What?!”
The other lady was scared now, her eyes wide as saucers. She didn’t know Zhuo Fan’s identity but their Overseer actually went as far as to recommend not offending him?
[Is he from the seven houses?]
[That can’t be. The invitation clearly states Dong and Song clans. The Dong clan is a second rate clan, and the Song a third rate clan. It doesn’t make sense to let him go unrestrained!]
This was the thinking of people who had yet to witness the sheer brutality and savagery of the infamous Zhuo Fan.
A madman wasn’t scary, but a pig headed madman was.
Zhuo Fan dolled up as Song Yu when he came to Drifting Flowers City, but his demeanor was as frivolous and whimsical as ever. In any case, the trouble would fall on the Song clan. So, he was free to be brasher than ever.
With this incentive, he plunged the Merry Woods’ disciple into a world of hurt, spicing up the show by humiliating the Peony Edifice’s disciple, and then trashing of Pill King Hall’s disciple as the curtains fell. He showed no leniency to any of them, despite them hailing from the seven houses.
Yet, with all the trouble pilling up on his head, he wasn’t in the least bit interested regarding the danger he was bringing the Song clan. Even Iris Overseer was not willing to mess with such a lunatic, who had no mind of the repercussions.
It was fine if he didn’t care about his life, but others close to him?
This was a fact made obvious when he clobbered Yan Fu. Qin Caiqing thus warned the disciple to avoid something she would clearly regret.
The two though were unaware of the whole story, so they thought Zhuo Fan was someone of immense power with a deep background that affected even their Overseer.
Zhuo Fan had long foreseen such a possibility. The one truly frightening people were those stubborn and hardheaded people that were willing to forsake even their lives.
In the eyes of those who watched his battle with Yan Fu, he was a man who had died once. And this only worked to boost his egotistical behavior instead of putting a damp on it, further removing many troubles.
Bulling the weak and fearing the strong, along with self-preservation was a law adhered by all, be it strong or weak. Even the seven houses had to think twice when messing with this stubborn mule, even if they thought he was beneath them.
With a dastardly grin on his face, Zhuo Fan cackled in his heart. He was met with no obstruction as he walked with the pair of siblings to Iris Overseer’s receiving room. She was already sitting there and watched in awe Zhuo Fan strutting in, “Please, sit!”
“I wouldn’t dare!”
Dong Tianba dragged his sister into a bow while Zhuo Fan slumped into a chair, “Much obliged.”
Dong Tianba was scared witless, on the verge of crying.
[Blast it all to hell! You’re in someone else’s house! If you piss her off, it won’t be just the Song clan that gets buried!]
[I pleaded with you all this time to behave. If I knew you this impudent I would’ve never had brought you.]
Dong Tianba lamented in his mind as he rushed to make amends, “Please ignore him Floor Keeper. My brother is rash and uncivilized. Please don’t blame him.”
“Ha-ha-ha, young master Song is true to himself, why would I ever blame him? Also, you two can dispense the courtesy and sit.” Qin Caiqing said with a smile.
Dong Tianba wiped his forehead and pulled his sister into a seat, while not forgetting to send Zhuo Fan a glare.
Zhuo Fan ignored it, of course, since he didn’t even see it.
Dong Tianba sighed, his feature tenses as if at a funeral!
Qin Caiqing giggled, her eyes drifting over them, “Young master Dong, this isn’t the underworld. Relax! Try to be like young master Song!”
Dong Tianba right then noticed Zhuo Fan taking a bite out of a random fruit he picked off the table.
Dong Tianba’s eyelids were twitching, [He’s too comfortable. This isn’t your home, you know?]
But he only kept it to himself when he saw Qin Caiqing’s calm state.
They said Iris Overseer was an amiable person, but he didn’t think it was to this extent. [She’s so friendly that it should be easy to handle our problem!]
Dong Tianba bowed once again and spoke in a grave tone, “Overseer, the three of us have come with a request.”