Chapter 1833: Rising Fame (30)

The real business was considered done.

Zhao Chi: 【Where are you right now?】

Li Ruanyu: 【I'm currently in the meeting room over at Binghe County, waiting for the regiment commander and the others. We're about to start an all-night meeting.】

Zhao Chi: 【Alright, go ahead and get busy. We'll talk when we meet later.】

Li Ruanyu: 【What's the rush? There's still some time. Let me ask you — have you been hiding a lot of combat power from the very start? Is it because you have some very strong talent or skill? And you don't want anyone else to know?】

Zhao Chi: 【... This】

Li Ruanyu: 【Don't worry, I've blocked off the outside. Nobody knows about our conversation.】

Zhao Chi: 【I guess so.】

Li Ruanyu: 【You still don't want anyone else to know now? You're afraid of being treated as a test subject, of being captured for research?】

Zhao Chi:... Mm.

Li Ruanyu: 【Oh... so it really is like that. So your combat power is at 100,000 now?】

Zhao Chi: 【It's not that high. I actually don't really know how much combat power I have either. I estimate it's around 70,000.】

Li Ruanyu: 【Got the rough picture. This battle wasn't just me — the other squadron leaders could see it too, including our brigade commander. Do you want to keep hiding?】

Zhao Chi: 【Yes. For now I still don't really want to expose myself.】

Li Ruanyu: 【If you show your strength, you could actually form your own squad. It would only be a weaker one, but you'd still qualify. I can bump your rank up to quasi-Colonel level, and all your benefits through the Quandou Society will go up too. Would you like to think it over?】

Zhao Chi: 【Not considering it.】

Li Ruanyu: 【Heh, you say it so firmly. Then I get it. The parts you've exposed — I'll handle them for you.】

Zhao Chi: 【That's great. Thanks, sis.】

Li Ruanyu: 【Heh, no need to thank me. As long as you're obedient, I can take care of anything for you. But right now we're still missing an identity relationship. If it's only superior and subordinate, or a former student and instructor, I actually can't help you handle too many things.】

Zhao Chi: 【Oh...】

Li Ruanyu: 【So...】

Zhao Chi: 【You want to go public with the relationship between the two of us?】

Li Ruanyu: 【How could I? Then you'd become a target for everyone — a lot of people would come looking for trouble with you.】

That was for certain.

Whether openly or secretly, Li Ruanyu had attracted a large number of male lords — this was common knowledge.

But Li Ruanyu kept a polite distance with all of them when she dealt with them — this was also common knowledge.

If the relationship with Zhao Chi were made public, it would do neither Li Ruanyu nor Zhao Chi any good.

Li Ruanyu wasn't trying to maintain the information that she was single on the outside — after all, she hadn't used that to gain any benefits.

The main thing was to avoid making enemies for Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi had never wanted to draw anyone's attention in the first place. If it were made public like this, it would be no different from turning Zhao Chi into a flash-bang — it would draw everyone's notice.

Zhao Chi figured this out in an instant too.

Zhao Chi: 【Then... what relationship are you talking about?】

Li Ruanyu: 【You become my disciple.】

Zhao Chi: 【... You want to play something this forbidden? It's not allowed, sis.】

Li Ruanyu: 【I can't really treat you as my actual brother, can I? Little thing.】

Zhao Chi: 【Being a disciple isn't much better either, is it?】

Li Ruanyu: 【Then... then forget it. Anyway, everyone already knows my relationship with the Zhao family, and you're Zhao Chi... we naturally already have a very close relationship. We really don't need any extra identity relationship.】

Zhao Chi: 【Then the disciple thing is off, right?】

Li Ruanyu: 【It's off, but why do I get the feeling you don't want to be my disciple? What's your resistance? Weren't you the one following me around every day before, calling me 'Instructor, instructor'?】

Zhao Chi: 【Before was before. After all, things are different now.】

Li Ruanyu: 【Fine. You've grown wings and gotten tough — you don't even listen to what I say anymore.】