Danny put his hand on the table filled with food and champagne tower the size of a man. The tall tower and it immediately came tumbling down. Every single glass happened to fall on Danny and he was drenched from head to toe. Qiao Chen's feet were also soaked from the champagne.
Danny fell to the ground and looked at Qiao Chen with an innocent and confused look on his face. This made it seem as though Qiao Chen knocked over the champagne tower to humiliate him even though this was someone else's party.
Everyone at the party heard the sound of crashing cups and looked over.
"Are you okay, Danny?" Chad immediately ran over and picked Danny up.
"You've gone too far Qiao An. You're honestly getting worse and worse. When will you be satisfied and stop targeting Danny already?" Benji angrily said to Qiao Chen.
Chad confirmed that nothing was wrong with Danny. The nhe turned his attention to Qiao Chen and reproached, "You can even play these tricks on Danny even on such an occasion. To think that you'd be that excessive towards him… You've really changed, Qiao An"
Chad and Benji were once Qiao An's best friends. They were the closest to him besides his family members. One held feelings for him, while the other was his confidant. They also hate Danny with him, but after Danny's multiple schemes, they all ended up on Danny's side.
Qiao An would have never thought that his beloved best friends would end up to be the ones who accused him first whenever Danny had an accident.
"Can't you understand the time and the place, Qiao An? This is the Lex family's party, how can you be so impulsive?" Chad's mother frowned and looked at Qiao Chen. She and Qiao Chen's mother were childhood friends who grew up together. So even though she didn't like Danny much, he original love and care for Qiao An lessened and lessened due to his impulsive behavior. It nearly disappeared once she watched Qiao An standing at the center of the crowd's attention. Qiao Chen calmly took his handkerchief out, wiped the champagne off his face, and held the wet cloth in his hand. Danny's mechanical shield fell from his waist and landed askew on the floor.
Danny immediately bent over to pick it up, but Qiao Chen reached the mechanical shield that clattered in front of him first. After a quick glance, he held it high up, showed the screen to the crowd, and said, "Your mechanical shield shows that you used a low grade weakening ability exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds ago."
Qiao Chen took off his coat and said, "I don't even have a mechanical shield on me. So pray tell, how was I able to make the entire champagne tower fall on you, and only you? Don't tell me, did I do all of that using your mechanical shield?"
"I…." Danny couldn't come up with an excuse for himself immediately. He never thought that the second he was about to clear the usage log that the mechanical shield would suddenly fall to the floor.
Chad, Benji, and the crowd looked at Danny doubtfully. Almost everyone here knew that Qiao An was an unstable ability user with an F rank. No one knew that Qiao Chen was able to use his ability without a mechanical shield. Qiao Chen took advantage of this and used his ability to cause Danny's mechanical shield to fall.
"I may have accidentally pressed it, so…" Danny finally said. He took too long to come up with an excuse, so he could only use this weak one.
"Accidentally pressed it? Then why didn't you say that it was your mechanical shield that caused the champagne tower fall down?" Qiao Chen replied and threw Danny back his mechanical shield.
"What's the matter?" A very beautiful and noble looking lady came over and asked.
"Lady Natalie." Chad and the others respectfully greeted.
Qiao Chen looked over at her. This was Ao Luo's mother. She was the most famous lady of the Lex family name.
"You should be Qiao An, right?" Lady Natalie looked at Qiao Chen and asked. She had some matters to attend and left the party room for a while, so she didn't see what happened. She rushed over once she hear the servant's report.
"Yes, ma'am." Qiao Chen replied.
"Arthur just sent me a message and asked me to look after you. He would blame me for not taking care of you well if he saw you like this. " Lady Natalie reached out to Qiao Chen and said, "Come, I'll take you to change your clothes."
Even though Qiao Chen wasn't used to being babied by an elder he never met, he still held Lady Natalie's hand.
"This is…..?" Lady Natalie looked at Danny and asked before leaving. Of course she knew Danny, but neither he nor his parents were invited guests. However, he still appeared at her party, and it was beneath her to recognize him.
"I…." Danny looked at Chad, overwhelmed, and hoped that he could help him out.
"This is Danny. He came with me, Lady Natalie." Chad explained immediately.
"Really?" Lady Natalie looked at a servant behind her and said, "Go and take this young master Danny to change his clothes."
Lady Natalie personally took Qiao Chen to a guest room and had a servant bring him a set of new clothes. Qiao Chen's face and chest were sticky, so he felt uncomfortable. He used the room's shower and cleaned up while he waited for the change of clothes.
Qiao Chen walked out of the bathroom naked. Immediately after he reached the bed and wore his underwear, someone pushed him onto the bed from behind. Qiao Chen reflexively resisted, but the person behind him was even stronger and suppressed his attempts.
"Let me go." Qiao Chen wanted to use his ability and shock the person behind him. However, his ability was suppressed before he even had the time to release it. Qiao Chen was surprised. The system enhanced his abilities to a very high level, but it was still suppressed very easily.
"So we meet again." Au Luo moved his face, so Qiao Chen could see him.
"You…" Qiao Chen was almost speechless. He had no choice but to accept being suppressed by this man. Qiao Chen struggled a bit more and said, "Can you let go me, so we can talk?"
Au Luo didn't release Qiao Chen. Instead, he quickly moved his hand from Qiao Chen's shoulder to his wrist and pulled him up.
"Ow!" Qiao Chen yelled. He felt like his arms and waist were on the verge of breaking.
"Muscles are weak and the physical agility is insufficient." Au Luo said. Then he moved one hand down and kneaded Qiao Chen's thighs a few times. Lastly, he lifted Qiao Chen's leg and pulled it back. "Loose bones means poor joints. Your foundation is unstable."
"Agh!" Qiao Chen yelled again. "You- This- Asshole!"
Au Luo turned Qiao Chen over. He pushed Qiao Chen's chin up and said, "What have you been doing for four years at the School of Military Combat? Wasting away? A body like this doesn't deserve the abilities you have now."
"Do you really want to know what I've been doing in school all these years?" Qiao Chen panted and waited for the pain to subside before asking.
"Do tell. If you have a good enough reason, then I'll let you go. If not…" Au Luo trailed off and smiled darkly.
"Then I'll tell you. Listen carefully and you'll understand." Qiao Chen enunciated word by word, "Let. Go. Of. Me. You. Bastard."
Au Luo smiled. Then he pressed and pinched hard at Qiao Chen's lower waist's acupoint.
"Ow! Ow!" Qiao Chen's vision went dark and he almost fainted from the paint. His heart turned cold now that he wanted to kill Au Luo. He thought to himself, 'If I hadn't loved you for a few lifetimes not, then I'd kill you immediately.'
Qiao Chen lay on the the bed. The pain was gone, but now he regretted coming to the party. He wanted to meet his man. Who knew that his man would torture him like this once he saw him and even look down on him like this? Qiao Chen came to the conclusion that his love life in this lifetime would be rough. He didn't want to fall in love with an asshole! Aaagghhhhh!
Au Luo pulled Qiao Chen up from the bed. Then he wrapped his arms around Qiao Chen and massaged the waist he attacked. He rubbed his face against Qiao Chen's and said, "Train well. I'm looking forward to your improved performance in the near future. If not, then I'll personally remold your body for you."
Au Luo released Qiao Chen back to the bed in a sitting position. He quickly reached under Qiao Chen's underwear and pinched those two butt cheeks putting him down. Then he disappeared out the door like he was never there.
Qiao Chen sat on the bed and stared at the door in a daze. What did this mean? Was this just the carrot and the stick method?
After Qiao Chen came back to his senses, he quickly put his clothes on, and left the room. The entire time, he was grumbling inwardly, 'Au Luo, you asshole. Just you wait and see. You better not fall in love with me in this lifetime or I'll strangle you to death.'
Once Qiao Chen returned home, he barely left it for the rest of the break. He trained rigorously in the training room daily. Even though he couldn't defeat Au Luo in such a short amount of time, if he raised his abilities too much, then his body would fall apart. However, he couldn't resign himself to being unable to even resist for a bit the next time that big bully attacked.
After the half-month break, all the cadets returned to school. Each semester's classes were assigned according to the rankings from the previous semester. Qiao Chen ranked first last semester, so he should be assigned to Class A.
However, Theresa, the Class A teacher, refused to accept Qiao Chen who was a cadet with unstable abilities. Theresa seemed to believe that Qiao Chen only won first place due to luck.
It just so happened that Qiao Chen also didn't want to be in Class A. He was going to graduate at the end of the semester. He didn't want to see those annoying faces during such a critical period. Moreover, even if he didn't go to Class A, he'd still be able to rip off Danny's fake face.
For Qiao Chen and the other students in his grade, the most important thing in the last semester was where they were applying and gaining a position after graduation. For students of the School for Military Combat, the best place would of course be one of the major military divisions.
Among the four major armies of the capital, the strongest one was the Lion Corps. This was the division that nearly every single combat cadet wanted to join. However, very few people were able to enter the Lion Corps each year. The Lion Corps' entry assessment was notoriously difficult to pass.
Soon, the school issued a notice and notified all the combat cadets that the Lion Corps was going to visit the school to select candidates for their special operations team. The students were surprised and extremely excited.
This time around, the Lion Corps changed their methods for selecting students. The selection wasn't based on their past achievements. Instead, they were selecting candidates based on those who they think were suitable. They were going to conduct a special training instance and those who scored the highest had a greater chance to enter the Lion Corps.
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A/N: The author talked about how it was the first day of school. Their nephew even started his first day of kindergarten. They urged the readers to not feel sad just because summer break ended. They told them to start the countdown for winter break and laughed.
They encouraged everyone to cherish their time as students. They know it's hard to study, especially high schoolers. They have to wake up earlier than birds, but go to sleep later than even the dogs do.
They said that hope is at the end of the tunnel. Then they said that the readers would understand that when you're an adult, you don't get summer and winter off. Finally, they hoped that everyone would study hard and improve themselves, one step at a time.