Chapter 1

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I stood on the balcony, even without looking in the mirror, I knew that my complexion must be very poor. Honestly, who would suddenly look better after feeling uncomfortable?

"With that complexion of yours, if Big Brother sees it at noon, he definitely won't be as lenient," Hisa said.

"Uncle, let me ask you a question. What did you promise my mom?"

Hisa said mysteriously, "It's a secret."

"Come on, what kind of secret is that? The usual routine is that you promised my mom to protect her or the people around her, or specifically mentioned protecting me. What else could it be?"

"I knew you would ask!" Hisa had a smile on his face.

"I just wanted to see if you could say something new and interesting, but who knew it would still be so mundane."

"Do kids even know what's mundane or not..."

I leaned against the stone railing, looking at him disdainfully. "Kid, your brother just called me Demon Dragon during the second half, and you still call me a kid?"

Hisa suddenly burst into laughter. "Haha, rare for you to be Demon Dragon and not Nia's child. The first time I saw you, you were already so tall. And today, if it weren't for my words, could you have resolved it so quickly? Just obediently admit that you're a kid, otherwise you would still want to cut me with a knife."

I remembered that day when I broke Hisa's gate with my first strike. Although it made Hisa quite uncomfortable, I didn't regret it. The nemesis of Nofice was that gate. Those who didn't resolve hardships quickly were Nofice. Anyway, Hisa didn't seem to mind it at all, so let him be uncomfortable.

"To be honest, my mother was right. No matter who I was in the past, now I am his son."

"Huh?"

"What's wrong?"

Hisa seemed to have noticed something wrong. He slowly squatted down and saw a irregular stone sticking out at the bottom of the stone railing. He exerted a little force and pulled it out.

"This stone railing seems a bit old, with cracks from the inside to the outside..." Before Hisa could finish his point, there was a crisp sound. The stone railing I was leaning on broke at the same time. I fell back abruptly, and in my eyes, the world turned upside down. My first reaction was to instinctively cover my head with my hands. With a "smack," I fell into the crowd at the banquet.

"Hey, don't break the floor too!" Hisa leaned out from the smoking platform upstairs and shouted.

"Ah! It hurts! Why did you pull out a stone if there was nothing wrong!" If I hadn't restored some magic power just now and had protection magic, I would definitely have broken ribs from this fall.

I opened my eyes wide and saw that I had just fallen onto the hem of a dress, which was now sweeping across my face. It turned out that I had landed right behind a girl.

The sound just now caused everyone at the banquet to come out and see what had happened. I sat up and brushed off the dust on myself, feeling a little embarrassed in front of the girl in the blue dress.

"I'm sorry, miss. Did I scare you?"

The girl in front of me didn't move at all, she must have been really scared. It was fortunate that a person fell out of nowhere and didn't hit her.

"Kid, as long as you can talk to a beauty, everything's fine, right?" Hisa continued to shout.

"It's alright, the ground seems to be fine!"

"Hey, miss, what's wrong? You shouldn't be that frightened," I said as I stood up. After moving my body a bit, I felt nothing unusual. That uncle, Hisa, was just too handy. It was fine as long as I looked at it. No need to pull something out.

I picked up a piece of stone fragment from the ground and looked at it. How did it suddenly break? The stone was a bit old, but it shouldn't have broken like this just because of a small movement from Hisa.

"Miss, do you think I'm one of the prostitutes you found on Bar Street a few days ago?"

"How did you know I went to Bar Street..." Her voice sounded familiar and not very friendly, and by not friendly, I meant she seemed angry.

"I don't see how I wouldn't know, should I post it on the school bulletin board?" The girl threw a photo at me, showing me walking on Bar Street late at night, with several seductive women beckoning nearby, and behind them, a sign indicating a famous place known to all men in the city.

"I don't remember this, how do you still have the photo?" As the girl turned around to throw the photo, Zi Sirou's face appeared clearly in front of me.

"A journalist can find anything, the moment you fell just now, another journalist captured a series of photos of you."

"Well, I really don't remember this, I just remember going into a bar."

"Oh, are you old enough to drink?"

"You...you didn't say anything about age when you forced me to drink last time?"

More and more people gathered around, and the attendants hurriedly ran over to ask, "Young Master Qin, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, you should go check if there are any other balconies with this problem. If someone else falls down, it won't be as easy to handle as me." I threw the stone to the attendant and asked him to examine the quality. The repairman who would come back later would not have an easy time.

Zi Sirou held onto the hem of her blue dress and stared at me fiercely.

"If you have something to say, this look is not good for everyone to see." I looked around and saw that the guests were forming circles one after another. Falling down was embarrassing enough, and now I was being watched by everyone.

"No, tell me, did you come here alone today?"

"With Li..." I felt like I shouldn't say that, since Zi Sirou had tied me up once because of Elena. Even if Purple Li Liu was her sister, she might still do the same thing. I needed to be cautious with her today. If she dared to drug me, I would hang her up in the forest as revenge for her past binding of me.

"I knew it, otherwise why would you be here!"

"Technically, I am one of the parties involved and have a say in the negotiation. How can you just say, 'otherwise why would you be here!'?"

"Alright then, tonight you will be my dance partner!"

"Why...why?"

Zi Sirou said solemnly, "In the eyes of the outside world, I am your publicly announced fiancee, and you promised me that you would give me a story."

"A story...well, nothing interesting is happening at the moment, is there?" I remembered now, in the last semester, I said such words under a streetlamp. Luckily, my memory was still good. Even after traversing twenty years, I still remembered what happened last semester.

"Why are you hesitating? Have you forgotten what you said! Just tell me honestly!"

"I wasn't hesitating, I was just thinking about how to answer you. I paused for a moment, just one second, without any suspicion of hesitation, just a brief pause."

"I don't care if you hesitated or paused, but today you must be my dance partner, no discussion." Zi Sirou took a step closer to me and pointed at my chest with her finger.

"It's just a party, why do we have to have dance partners?" I thought it would be enough to chat at the party, why did we have to dance?

"If you won't dance with me, you'll dance with Li Liu then!"

"None of us need to dance, how about taking turns dancing with you two?"

Zi Sirou picked up the photo from earlier and said, "If you refuse, this will be on the front page tomorrow."

"You, you, you!" Just because I don't want to dance, why do you have to threaten me! My heart is so tired.