Chapter 41: Awareness of being a shield (1/2)
Chapter 41: Awareness of being a shield
“Learning martial arts originated from the predecessors trying to understand life itself. This is what sis Chen first taught me when I was learning the horse stance. It seems that any particular detail in life can be used to understand Chinese boxing. This is the true attitude towards learning martial arts and its true meaning.”
Just as Wang Chao was comparing the Presence from Transforming Jin to Zhu Tianglang’s might, an inharmonious sound suddenly made its way into Wang Chao’s ears.
“Jia Jia, so you came here. I just came back here from Beijing and tried calling your phone, why haven’t you picked up my calls?”
It turned out that there was a single 25 year old youth that was accompanying Zhu Tianlang. The moment when he had seen Zhu Jia, his eyes lit up and crossed over the distance to talk to her.
Wang Chao couldn’t help but to cast an eye over at him to measure the youth. The youth was dressed in a westerns suit made to match his tall form. His skin was fair and his facial features flawless. On his aquiline nose, there was a pair of gold frame glasses that did nothing to hide his face.
But sometimes his eyes had shifted downwards for a brief moment. There was also a quick flash in his eyes that Wang Chao felt to be both sinister and dark.
After this first impression, Wang Chao began to compare him to Zhu Tianlang before immediately concluding, “This is a man who has lived like a prince and is both elegant and refined. However, his personality is not at all perfected yet and lacks the shrewd but ruthlessness of an upper class individual.”
“Zhao Jun, in the future, please do not always call me when I’m working. Right now I have plenty of work. Also, please pay attention to how you call me, this is a public place.” The moment when Zhu Jia saw this man, her previously cheerful demeanor had instantly soured and transformed into a cold gaze.
After seeing such a change, Wang Chao had felt shocked. From the look of things, there was a sour relationship between Zhu Jia and this man.
“Jia Jia, don’t complain so much.” Zhao Jun seemed as if he was already accustomed to Zhu Jia’s cold words. He had a helpless look on his face, but when he saw Wang Chao who was next to her, his eyes flashed with suspicion, “Who might this person be?”
“This is my friend!” Zhu Jia rushed to answer with a smile on her face as she inched closer to him. The word for friend had been stressed in such a way that anyone that heard it would have thought it to sound very vague.
“What?” When Zhao Jun saw her actions, his eye had involuntarily twitched before a flash of frost could be seen.
“Could Zhu Jia really be using me as a shield, is she an idiot?” Wang Chao had a sharp eye and was an expert in reading body language. He had clearly seen a vein on Zhao Jun’s neck pulsate; this was a sign of anger and when blood would begin to flow at an accelerated rate because of the heart.
In the case this were to go on, then the face would turn red and the eyes would become bloodshot.
However, this youth named Zhao Jun was great at covering up his emotions and instantly stifled his body. Yet, in that instant, Wang Chao had already seen enough to deduce that he was angry.
“Just who is this Zhao Jun? Why didn’t Zhu Jia mention this person at all while talking yesterday? Seeing how closely they talk and how close the two are, was there a reason for her not to? Does she hate him? It seems that this convention will be quite messy.”
He had seeked her out for business originally but was then dragged into this by her. To Wang Chao, he couldn’t accept this and so he turned to give Zhu Jia a quick look.
When Zhu Jia saw the look, she had instantly took notice of the rebuking meaning behind it. Promptly giving a pitiful look for help, she secretly pulled at his clothes.
But when Zhao Jun saw the conduct between the two, he had mistaken it for the amorous eyes of a couple. Aso Wang Chao immediately took notice of the bulge that swelled up in Zhao Jun’s neck before transforming his entire face with a slight red hue.
“Jia Jia, I heard you were out interviewing last night? A news reporter with a concealed firearm, what a troublesome act!” Just at that moment, a deep voice had broken the awkward atmosphere.
It was Zhu Tianlang that had broken the silence.
Zhu Tianglang was the focal point of everyone’s eyes, so when he came over, everyone in the room had looked over as well and began to talk amongst themselves.
Wang Chao’s ears had picked up the slight murmuring of people trying to guess his identity, “Just who is that youth?”
“He seems to be quite close with the niece of secretary Zhu.”
“I have no idea what background he’s from, but I hope it’s nothing minor. I haven’t seen the young son of governor Zhao look so deflated before…”
Yao Xiaoxue and the other three females were huddled together. When they heard the chatter regarding Wang Chao, even they began to feel that there was a mysterious question to him.
“An overseer of the Taekwondo dojo with great skill and has some sort of relationship with the niece of the municipal secretary. He’s even friends with the public safety bureau chief….Could he be the son of some big official and is trying to pass off as a lower class person? Or did he see someone he liked in our group and wanted to get with us?”
Although Wang Chao had formed a partnership with them, he had rarely gone to see the company so the four of them hadn’t a single detail on his life. But, these females had read many romantic novels and seen many Taiwan and Hong Kong dramas so their minds had instantly drawn out a picture regarding Wang Chao’s true identity.
“En, uncle Zhu.” Seeing Zhu Tianlang, Zhao Jun instantly restrained his emotions. “I heard that Jia Jia had came across some dangers while chasing an interview yesterday before coming today. Who might this be?”