Chapter 278 - Chapter 278: 221. The New King is Crowned (10,000-character mega chapter as an additional update for Golden League)
Chapter 278: 221. The New King is Crowned (10,000-character mega chapter as an additional update for Golden League)
In the quiet private room, no one spoke.
All eyes were unanimously fixed on the outside of the room, recalling the information Qing Shi had just revealed.
Even Li Yinuo was visibly shocked.
It seemed like everyone was struggling to accept this fact, but only Li Yinuo knew that her shock was on a different level from the others.
What Li Yinuo cared about was that she saw the look in Qing Shi’s eyes when she looked at Qing Chen, and it was clearly a bit off.
Although she was a sturdy girl, she was still a girl, so she knew very well what that look in Qing Shi’s eyes meant…
From a very young age, everyone had heard that Qing’s shadow was unscrupulous, ready to employ a myriad of methods to achieve their goals.
Back then, Li Yinuo thought she understood the meaning of this sentence, but now she felt she had still underestimated it.
While she was busy contacting Shadow Candidates for Qing Chen, the other party had already taken care of one through online romance!
This was just too unscrupulous!
It was said that she had heard many stories about Shadow Candidates backstabbing each other, employing a wide variety of tactics.
But even as worldly as Li Yinuo was, she still thought that using online romance as a way to eliminate a rival was showing off too much.
At this moment,
Nan Gengchen muttered under his breath, “Is the ID ‘Cute and Lovely’ serious?”
As he mocked the ID, he didn’t notice the invisible hand silently deleting apps from his phone. With every word he mocked, an app was deleted as retaliation.
Yino was like a little dinosaur hiding in the network, secretly exacting revenge on those who mocked it.
Honestly, if Qing Chen knew his ID was discovered, he might die of embarrassment, but he wouldn’t feel too ashamed inside, since his ID wasn’t really ‘Cute and Lovely.’
But Yino’s ID really was ‘Cute and Lovely.’
Qing Shi looked at the big screen and suddenly asked Li Yinuo with curiosity, “So his real name is Qing Xiaotu, huh? Sister Yinuo, do you know him as well?”
“Ah, yes,” Li Yinuo said: “He’s a boxer at Begonia Boxing Gym. We often come to watch his matches, but we didn’t know his online name.”
“Hmm,” Qing Shi nodded, “I didn’t know he was a boxer before either.”
Suddenly, Nan Gengchen probed, “You didn’t know he was a boxer? So what did he tell you he does for a living?”
“He said he was a wandering poet,” Qing Shi earnestly said, “the kind that’s really dashing, with no fixed abode, roaming from The First District to the Ninth District.”
Wandering… poet…
Nan Gengchen pondered, isn’t that just like roaming from Haicheng’s ‘Qingpu District’ to ‘Pudong District’?
He remarked, “Doesn’t seem all that dashing to me.”
Unconsciously, several more apps had disappeared from his phone.
Yino was getting a little angry.
However, what everyone was most concerned about at that moment was the word ‘poet.’
When Qing Shi mentioned the identity of the wandering poet, everyone looked at the emotionless, fiercely determined Qing Chen on the big screen outside the room.
Then they looked at the earnest-faced Qing Shi.
Li Tongyun pondered, saying he’s beaten up a wandering poet, I’d believe that, but him being a wandering poet, that’s hard to convince anyone…
However, she blinked her large eyes and asked, “Sister Qing Shi, could you recite some of his poetry?”
“Of course, I can,” Qing Shi said with a smile, “Let me recite a poem he wrote before…”
Before Qing Shi could start reciting, Nan Gengchen’s phone suddenly blared a recording: “Yinuo, I swear to be your cute and lovely for the rest of my life…”
Nan Gengchen’s face turned green. He fumbled to take out his phone and shut it off, then turned to Li Tongyun and Qing Shi with an awkward laugh, “Hahaha, if I said it was just a recording from the internet, would you believe me? It wasn’t me.”
He wondered why his phone had suddenly interrupted Qing Shi’s poetry recitation.
Could it be some mysterious force preventing Brother Chen from social death?
Li Yinuo turned to Qing Shi to change the subject, “Wouldn’t you be disappointed to find out that Qing Xiaotu is an underground boxer?”
Only to hear Qing Shi laugh, “I don’t mind. Making friends doesn’t depend on the other person’s identity or status. Looking good is enough.”
For a moment, Li Yinuo didn’t know whether to say Qing Shi’s values were correct or not.
Before they could say more, cheers had already begun to erupt in the boxing arena.
Qing Shi asked, “Are they going to compete in that black octagon cage below? What are the rules of this match?”
“The rules of underground boxing are that there are no rules,” Li Yinuo explained, “It’s a no-holds-barred fight to the death. When the iron door of the octagon cage opens, it’s like opening Pandora’s Magic Box.”
“Why Pandora’s Magic Box?” Qing Shi didn’t understand.
Li Yinuo pointed to the frenzied gamblers and spectators in the stands, “For the boxer, in that octagon cage, how much effort you have put in the past, how much talent you have, every punch is a truth. For the spectators, you can see the desire in their eyes, the desire for you to fight like a beast in the octagon cage and determine life or death. It is the most primitive human desire.”
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As Xiao Taibao began his intimidating speech on stage, Qing Chen was still in the locker room making his final preparations.
Jiang Xiaotang called over the best doctor from Begonia Boxing Gym for his examination, testing his vision, hearing, and heart rate, while he silently underwent the check-up.
“You’re quite compliant during the medical exam,” Jiang Xiaotang said with a smile, “Many boxers are extremely confident about their health, so they often tell the doctor there’s no need for an exam.”