Chapter 115: To Be the Lesser Wife or the Greater Wife

The bustling noise at the new student registration area fell dead silent at this moment, gaze after gaze staring at Li Luo and Duze Duze Honglian in utter shock, unable for a moment to imagine what they had just heard.

Duze Duze Honglian likes this Li Luo?

And she even agreed to be the lesser wife?

Has she lost her mind?

If anyone else had said such a thing, probably no one present would have believed it, and would have laughed instead—but Li Luo's appearance was simply too outstanding, which forced people to wonder whether Duze Duze Honglian had truly taken a fancy to his looks.

"That damn pretty-boy Young Lord!" A male student's eyes turned red as he glared at Li Luo, wishing he could swallow him whole. Duze Duze Honglian was also a student of the Three-Star Court at the Sacred Mystic Star Academy; though in terms of fame and charm she had always been overshadowed by Jiang Qing'e, that did not diminish her excellence.

Within the Sacred Mystic Star Academy, Duze Duze Honglian also had no shortage of suitors.

But now, had even this Duze Duze Honglian been captured by Li Luo's damnably handsome face?

This bastard—not only does he have a fiancée like Jiang Qing'e, but he can also win Duze Duze Honglian's favor?

Amid the shocked gazes around her, the smile on Duze Duze Honglian's pretty face stiffened, froze, and then flames of fury shot from her beautiful eyes. She had not expected that this Li Luo before her would be so shameless, spouting nonsense to slander her innocence!

What "likes you"?! What "willing to be the lesser wife"?!

What do you even count as?!

"Li Luo, you're seeking death!" Duze Duze Honglian's voice was trembling, fury pushed to the extreme.

Li Luo hurriedly stepped back two paces and said painfully, "Duze Honglian, forcing it won't get you the result you want. Let it go."

Yet within his gaze at Duze Duze Honglian, there was a faint, indifferent smile. You wanted to draw hatred onto me? Then I'll just dump a whole pot of filth on your head. Though this is also wounding the enemy a thousand while hurting myself eight hundred, since you dared to come, don't blame me for being ruthless.

"Li Luo, what dog-fart are you spouting?!" Duze Duze Beixuan beside her also flew into a rage. He hadn't expected Li Luo's counterattack to be so vicious. Though no rational person would believe his words, in this world rumors never carry brains—when the time comes and it really spreads that his sister and Jiang Qing'e are fighting over a husband, that would simply be infuriating enough to make people explode.

"Duze Beixuan, this matter of me becoming your uncle-by-marriage—we both really need to think it through carefully." Li Luo sighed and said.

Boom!

But the instant his voice fell, a terrifying surge of Xiangli erupted violently from within Duze Duze Honglian's body, crimson-red Xiangli like raging flames, wrapping her entirely.

"Li Luo, you're seeking death!"

Duze Duze Honglian's red hair streamed, killing intent surging in her beautiful eyes, and she shot straight out, palm-wind wrapped in fierce crimson Xiangli, slamming viciously down at Li Luo.

"Duze Duze Honglian, you dare!"

Yan Yan Lingqing saw this, her pretty face changed instantly, and she hurriedly stepped forward, placing herself in front of Li Luo. Water-attribute power rose around her whole body as she poured out everything to meet Duze Duze Honglian's palm head-on.

Bang!

The two surges of Xiangli clashed, but Duze Duze Honglian clearly held the upper hand. Yan Yan Lingqing's delicate frame trembled, and she was blasted flying backward, her pretty face going slightly pale.

After all, she was only at the third stage of the Xiangshi realm; compared to Duze Duze Honglian, there was clearly still a huge gap.

"Yan Yan Lingqing, get out of the way. You can't protect him!" Duze Duze Honglian said coldly.

"Today I'm going to tear that mouth of his apart!"

As her voice fell, her figure shot out once more, the blazing violent palm-wind enveloping both Li Luo and Yan Yan Lingqing.

Hum!

But this time, just as her scorching palm-wind was about to fall, a pillar of light suddenly came crashing down from the sky like a god's sword, pointing straight at Duze Duze Honglian.

The sudden attack made Duze Duze Honglian's pupils contract slightly, because she could clearly sense the domineering power contained within that pillar of light.

That power was not unfamiliar... because she had clashed with it too many times already.

Jiang Qing'e!

Duze Duze Honglian's gaze flickered, and in the end she still did not dare take a direct hit from Jiang Qing'e's attack. She brought her hands together, and crimson Xiangli erupted, seemingly forming a burning red lotus that wrapped her delicate frame.

Boom!

The domineering pillar of light-attribute Xiangli whistled down, slamming into that burning red lotus. Violent Xiangli swept outward, blasting the nearby students into a messy retreat.

When they looked again, they saw Duze Duze Honglian's figure also retreating several steps in a somewhat disheveled manner, the burning red lotus covering her body gradually fading away at this moment.

Her face alternated between green and red, and finally she suppressed the churning qi and blood and the trembling Xiangli.

"She can't protect him—what about me?"

An icy voice rang out faintly at this moment. Light spread before Li Luo and Yan Yan Lingqing, and in the next instant, Jiang Qing'e's figure appeared.

She held a greatsword, her short azure cape fluttering in the wind, her golden pupils carrying a cold, piercing intent as she stared at Duze Duze Honglian ahead.

"Duze Duze Honglian, after losing to me so many times, have you finally lost the courage to come at me again? Started shifting your target to a new student?" Jiang Qing'e said lightly.

"If you really want to fight, come with me to the Arena. Today I'll beat you until you can't get off the stage." Her gaze at Duze Duze Honglian carried a touch of coldness—clearly, Duze Duze Honglian's targeting of Li Luo today had also angered her.

"As if I'm afraid of you!" Duze Duze Honglian laughed angrily.

The two women faced off, and the atmosphere instantly became tense as a drawn bow.

The surrounding students were stunned. Jiang Qing'e had actually fought with Duze Duze Honglian—and the target of their contest was clearly that Li Luo!

Is this news trying to blow up the entire Sacred Mystic Star Academy?

But just then, the surrounding crowd was suddenly pushed apart as a squad wearing robes adorned with interlocked gold and silver leaves rushed in. Some senior students at the edges, seeing this, stepped back one after another—this was the Enforcement Squad of the Sacred Mystic Star Academy, generally composed of students from the Three-Star Court and Four-Star Court, tasked with maintaining order within the Academy.

At the front of this Enforcement Squad, a handsome-looking youth with greasy green hair looked somewhat helplessly at the two women facing off and said, "Jiang Qing'e, Duze Duze Honglian, today is the day for new student registration. If you two fight here, people will think our Sacred Mystic Star Academy has poor conduct."

This person was precisely Si Qiying's elder brother, Si Si Tianming.

Jiang Qing'e glanced at Si Si Tianming. The Enforcement Squad had arrived, so fighting was clearly impossible, and so she gradually dispersed the light-attribute Xiangli surging around her.

Duze Duze Honglian was still somewhat indignant and said to Si Si Tianming, "This Li Luo has slandered my innocence—he must be punished!"

Li Luo heard this and said sorrowfully, "Duze Honglian, if you insist on making trouble out of nothing, I'm willing to accept punishment for you."

The very picture of "this whole thing is my fault, I'm willing to bear all of it."

But it was precisely this act that instead made Duze Duze Honglian so angry her chest was heaving—Li Luo was determined to drag her through the mud to the very end.

Si Si Tianming rubbed his brow with some headache. Actually, he had already learned the whole story on his way here. Clearly, the Duze Duze Honglian siblings had come for Li Luo, wanting to give him some trouble, but no one had expected that this Li Luo was no pushover either—he'd bitten back directly, and instead left Duze Duze Honglian covered in scandal.

"Alright, this matter ends here. You two, leave." Si Si Tianming said to Duze Duze Honglian and Duze Duze Beixuan.

Then he looked at Li Luo and warned, "You too, know when to stop."

Li Luo smiled. If this Duze Duze Honglian hadn't come looking for trouble, who would want to stir up this mess? But since it had been stirred up, then let's make a scene of it and see who can't hold out.

Duze Duze Honglian clenched her silver teeth, her beautiful eyes blazing with fury as she stared at Li Luo, but she also knew she couldn't do anything to him right now, so she could only say: "Stinky brat, remember this—I won't let you off!"

Li Luo heaved a sorrowful sigh, about to speak again.

But Si Si Tianming hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Alright, alright, hurry up and leave."

This Li Luo was clearly about to open his mouth and slander people again—better not let Duze Duze Honglian get so angry she explodes and truly goes berserk, no longer caring about anything.

Duze Duze Honglian turned and left in a fury, but judging by her posture, she seemed to wish she could escape this place as fast as possible—that Li Luo was truly too vicious.

Duze Duze Beixuan cast a dark, sullen glance at Li Luo, saying nothing harsh, but anyone familiar with his temperament knew this one had been noted down.

With the departure of the Duze Duze Honglian siblings, the atmosphere here gradually recovered.

But some of the gazes directed at Li Luo were still filled with strangeness.

Jiang Jiang Qinge tilted her head to look at Li Luo and said: "After this stunt of yours, things might not just be a hellish start from now on."

Li Luo said helplessly: "This time I really was forced into it."

Who could have known this Duze Duze Honglian would come looking for trouble? Right now he couldn't beat her either, so he could only resort to this vicious move that hurt the enemy eight hundred while costing himself a thousand.

"Li Luo, that move of yours was way too ruthless, hahaha—she must be furious." Yan Yan Lingqing laughed until she shook all over, her gaze at Li Luo full of admiration.

She then turned to Jiang Jiang Qinge with a teasing tone: "Would you be willing to let Duze Duze Honglian be the concubine?"

Jiang Jiang Qinge's red lips curved slightly upward, then counterattacked: "Duze Duze Honglian as a concubine won't do, but you could."

Yan Yan Lingqing's fair cheeks flushed red, and she waved her arms about, lunging to scratch Jiang Jiang Qinge: "You sure dream big."

"Ahem."

At this moment Si Si Tianming walked over, saw the two girls roughhousing, coughed once, then said to Li Luo: "Junior Li Luo, the moment you arrived at the Sacred Mystic Star Academy, you went and caused trouble."

"Oh right, I forgot to introduce myself—I'm Si Si Tianming, Si Si Qiuying's older brother."

Li Luo glanced at Si Si Tianming's greasy green hair and said softly: "Actually, I already guessed."

Si Si Tianming paused—why did he suddenly not feel like talking to him anymore?

He shook his head helplessly, not bothering to argue with Li Luo, and said: "Although Duze Duze Honglian came to provoke you first, sullying her innocence like this is still too ruthless. She still has quite a few pursuers within the Sacred Mystic Star Academy—doing this will only bring you more trouble."

Li Luo smiled—this Si Si Tianming was rather reasonable, much better than his sister.

"I didn't want to provoke her either, but clearly there's no avoiding it." Li Luo said.

"Then in the future, even more people will come looking for trouble with you." Si Si Tianming said.

Li Luo sighed, then consciously stepped behind Jiang Jiang Qinge and said: "I have a thigh to cling to."

Si Si Tianming was choked up once again, and could only offer Jiang Jiang Qinge a bitter smile in the end.

"Your House Luolan Mansion's young mansion master here is indeed a bit special, isn't he."

(Tomorrow on the public WeChat paid chapter, a picture of Lv Qing'er will be released—white stockings, hehehe. For those who haven't followed the WeChat, you can search for Tiancantudou's public account on WeChat.)