Chapter 84 – So-Called Sharp And Observant

After exiting the operating room, the girl who had undergone the operation started to chat with several of the girls who were waiting outside the door.

"An Ni, you actually have double eyelids!"

"An Ni, you're so pretty now! You were already pretty before, but now you're even more beautiful."

"This is nothing! Teacher Jie Miya is the one who's truly changed into a completely different person." An Ni said.

Jie Miya was the teacher whom Li Hong took to see Qi Shaorong. There was a birthmark on her face, and because of that birthmark, Jie Miya had become synonymous with horrifying. All the students and teachers at the college would stay away at a respectful distance from this teacher. After Jie Miya got rid of her birthmark, she suddenly became a great beauty, attracting a countless number of suitors.

[T/n: The poor teacher… Those people were so mean to her just because of how she looked? Bruh.]

"Oh, Classmate Qi's craftsmanship is exactly the same as the Ghost Doctor's.���

"Of course it's exactly the same, Classmate Qi is the Ghost Doctor! An Ni, you still don't believe that even now?"

"You can't blame me! I heard that the Ghost Doctor was already in his seventies."

"I just heard the conversation between Classmates Qi Shaorong and Qian Mian, Zhuang Renquan from the Zhuang Family is here, I don't know what he came here for?"

"Does it even need to be said? It must be to reinstate the engagement!"

"I think so too, I heard that Zhuang Hao liked the Ghost Doctor."

"Classmate Qi and Classmate Qian Mian seem to be close with each other. Very, very close." An Ni said with a strange expression.

Qi Shaorong opened the door and saw Hu Feng and Zhuang Renquan happily conversing with each other in the meeting room.

When Hu Feng saw Qi Shaorong enter through the door, he was immediately delighted and said, "Disciple, you're finally here!"

Qi Shaorong's eyes swept over the two people in the meeting room, and he said lightly, "Master and Third Master Zhuang, you two sure get along well together!"

Hu Feng smiled awkwardly, and he couldn't help feel a little embarrassed.

Qi Shaorong nodded at Zhuang Renquan and said, "I've seen Third Master Zhuang, I heard that the Third Master Zhuang wants to give funds to Tianlan College, the Zhuang Family is worthy of being a rich and powerful family."

If it weren't for the sake of gaining Hu Feng's support, then he wouldn't be so careless with giving away his hard-earned money, but the Zhuang Family just easily threw out 10 million gold coins. In the end, he's still too young to compare with those giants at the top!

Zhuang Renquan looked at Qi Shaorong and said, "Fourth Young Master Qi, there's no need to be so polite. We're old friends, speaking of which, I also owe my life to you. I should thank the Fourth Young Master Qi for saving my life and repay you for your kindness."

Qi Shaorong was smiling on the outside but not on the inside and said, "Third Master Zhuang doesn��t have to be polite, you've already settled this account, so there's no need to mention the matter of saving your life anymore."

Zhuang Renquan smiled and said, "I didn't expect that your excellency the Ghost Doctor would be this young, it really puts others to shame!"

Qi Shaorong pulled over a chair and casually sat down, "It's not that I was deliberately trying to make things mysterious, but when I first started my career, I was only 13 or 14 years old. My skin was too tender, and as the saying goes, a man too young to grow a beard cannot be relied upon. People wouldn't trust me enough, so I had to disguise myself as a more imposing figure, so that I'd appear to have more depth to my character."

Zhuang Renquan: "…"

"I heard that Third Master Zhuang came to find me, I don't know, for what reason did the Third Master Zhuang come to talk to me?" Qi Shaorong asked.

"Actually, I came here today to propose a marriage arrangement to Young Master Qi." Zhuang Renquan said.

Qi Shaorong looked at Zhuang Renquan and said, "A marriage! To whom!"

"Qi Shaorong, you know him, it's my good-for-nothing nephewーZhuang Hao," Zhuang Renquan said.

Qi Shaorong snorted and said, "Third Master Zhuang, you really know how to joke. If you know that your nephew is a good-for-nothing, then why even bother introducing him to me. How old is Zhuang Hao that little white face anyway [1]! He's much too young."

Zhuang Renquan: "…"

Hu Feng: "…"

"Young Master Qi, although my nephew may not have… As much depth to his character as you do, but he's really not that bad. Of all the young people in the Imperial Capital, I'm afraid there aren't many who are stronger than my nephew." Zhuang Renquan said .

Qi Shaorong looked at Zhuang Renquan and said, "Third Master Zhuang, as a person of your eminence you really do have a short memory [2]. Don't tell me you've already forgotten that that nephew of yours had already cancelled our previous engagement."

"Regarding the matter of A-Hao cancelling the engagement, I sincerely apologize for it." Zhuang Renquan said awkwardly.

Qi Shaorong looked at Zhuang Renquan and said, "Third Master Zhuang, does Zhuang Hao know about you making this visit here?" Without waiting for Zhuang Renquan to reply, Qi Shaorong already opened his mouth to speak again, "Zhuang Hao probably doesn't know, right? I've asked him once before whether he'd ever regret cancelling the engagement in the future. Zhuang Hao said that there were no feelings between us and he disapproved of such a blind and baseless marriage, and that regardless of whether I was a waste or not, he still would've cancelled the marriage no matter what."

"Your nephew's words really reached my heart! I, Qi Shaorong, am so clever and brilliant, elegant and magnificent. Such a peerless talent such as myself should be able to marry at least eight or ten gorgeous, peerless beauties, and create another generation of peerless, talented little children. How could I, because of a strange, inexplicable contract, just let myself wither away solely at the hands of Zhuang Hao. Third Master Zhuang, don't you think so?"

Zhuang Renquan: "…" Zhuang Hao that idiot, Qi Shaorong must've asked him that when he was dressed as the Ghost Doctor.

The door to the meeting room was suddenly kicked open. Zhuang Hao stood at the door with an ugly expression, and Yi Fan, who was disguised as Qian Mian, followed Zhuang Hao and walked over. When he saw everyone look over at them, Qian Mian helplessly raised his hands and said, "Sorry, I couldn't stop Young Master Zhuang."

Qian Mian's mouth was apologizing, but in his eyes, he seemed to be looking forward to watching a good show.

Zhuang Hao clenched his fists tightly and stared closely at Qi Shaorong.

Qi Shaorong glanced at Zhuang Hao and said, "Young Master Zhuang is here!"

Zhuang Hao's face was ashen and he glared fiercely at Qi Shaorong.

Qi Shaoying couldn't help turning his eyes away, as if he couldn't face Zhuang Hao's sharp gaze.

"Qi Shaorong, good, good, you're very good… Just because I cancelled our engagement, you hate me thoroughly down to the marrow of my bones, right?" Zhuang Hao said irritably.

"Young Master Zhuang, you're overthinking it. I'm just like you, I'm very opposed to a marriage arranged between children. It's really not a good thing to involve two little kids who don't understand anything in these affairs. You cancelling the engagement actually saved me the effort of having to cancel the engagement too, I should thank you." Qi Shaorong turned his head and said.

Zhuang Hao was so angry that his whole body trembled, and the fire in his eyes seemed like it wanted to burn away everything around him.

"Although I don't mind that you cancelled the engagement, but your behaviour of making two young and inexperienced little brats come find me to break the marriage off for you still disgusts me." Qi Shaorong said.

Zhuang Renquan rubbed his forehead. Yi Chuxue was enamored with Zhuang Hao, and in Yi Chuxue's eyes, Qi Shaorong was just a waste. When Yi Chuxue went over to cancel the marriage for Zhuang Hao, she probably didn't say anything nice. This… A moment's error really can bring a lifelong regret.

Zhuang Hao looked at Qi Shaorong and breathed heavily, saying, "Qi Shaorong, I have some bad news to tell you. The contract has already started to develop in the direction of a marriage contract, and I can't get rid of it. What a shame! Maybe this contract will follow you forever."

Qi Shaorong couldn't help but touch the mark on his hand, and he said, "Really? If it can't be removed, then I guess it just can't be removed. I don't believe that a mark can really affect me that much!"

Zhuang Hao turned around angrily and left [3].

Zhuang Renquan smiled awkwardly and said to Qi Shaorong, "Fourth Young Master Qi, I'm so sorry, my nephew can be a little too impulsive sometimes."

Qi Shaorong frowned and said, "I'm fine, Zhuang Hao that guy is just too young! Just because of some slight provocation, he became so agitated and kicked up a huge fuss, going around and randomly snapping at people. Don't worry, I've met many people like that before, I usually won't associate myself with a little kid like him."

Hu Feng: "…"

Zhuang Renquan: "…"

Hu Feng looked at Qi Shaorong and said, "Disciple, you're a little younger than Zhuang Hao."

Qi Shaorong nodded and said, "How is that the same, I have so much depth to my character! I'm so enigmatic and unfathomable! How can that superficial fellow Zhuang Hao ever compare to me?"

Hu Feng: "…"

Zhuang Renquan stood up and said helplessly, "Fourth Young Master Qi, I'll leave first."

Qi Shaorong nodded and said, "Go ahead, Third Master Zhuang."

Hu Feng looked at Qi Shaorong and said, "Disciple, you've annoyed Zhuang Hao. Now I'm afraid that even if he has a way to remove the contract, he won't help you. Let me take a look at the contract on your hand."

Qi Shaorong lifted his sleeve, Hu Feng looked at the pattern on the back of Qi Shaorong's hand and said, "The pattern of the contract seems to have changed a little."

Qi Shaorong nodded and said, "I noticed it too."

"The original contract was only half-formed, now it seems that it's on the path of becoming a complete contract. Once the contract is completed, the connection between you and Zhuang Hao will become a lot closer. In accordance with the original contract mark, there are two directions of transformation that it can follow, one is a master-servant contract, the other is a marriage contract. Fortunately, the contract is developing in the direction of a marriage contract. A marriage contract follows the principle of equality and mutual benefit, and the binding force on you won't be too strong."

Qi Shaorong looked at Hu Feng and said, "Principal, you seem to be very happy."

Hu Feng, "Really?"

Qi Shaorong nodded and said, "Yes."

Hu Feng laughed, then turned his gaze towards Qian Mian, and changed the topic of the conversation, saying, "Student Qian Mian, are you familiar with Yi Fan?"

Yi Fan's heart sank and he said, "Not really."

"Your dormitory isn't far from Yi Fan's, have you found any abnormalities with his dormitory lately?" Hu Feng asked.

Yi Fan shook his head and offhandedly said, "No."

Qi Shaorong rolled his eyes and turned towards Hu Feng, asking, "Principal, did something happen?"

"The people of the Yi Family came to ask around before, but they were sent away by the teachers of the college. It seems that three people had come to the college to look for Yi Fan previously, but they all came covertly, they probably weren't good people. However, those people apparently all disappeared without a trace, and they might've died inside the college." Hu Feng said.

Yi Fan chuckled softly, and said indifferently, "Principal, since it's something so secretive and they had quietly sneaked in, then if they died, they died, why does it matter?"

Hu Feng frowned, "It's really not that big of a deal if those three people died. The problem is, if there's someone in the college who's silently going around killing people, then that would be worrying."

"So what? Principal, isn't killing people in the college allowed anyway?" Qi Shaorong said.

Hu Feng looked at Qi Shaorong and Yi Fan and said, "Yi Fan has disappeared."

Qi Shaorong and Yi Fan looked at each other. Qi Shaorong thought to himself: Wasn't it just because Yi Fan became Qian Mian, so that's why Yi Fan disappeared?

Qi Shaorong glanced at Hu Feng and said, "Principal, it's common for the students from the college to go out occasionally, you don't need to worry too much."

Hu Feng sighed and said, "I suppose. This Yi Fan very likely isn't a simple person either."

Yi Fan raised his eyes and smiled, saying, "Principal, you're overthinking it. Under your sharp and observant gaze, how could he not be simple [4]?"

Hu Feng was very flattered by Yi Fan's compliments, and hurriedly nodded, saying, "That's right, that's right."

Qi Shaorong: "…" Sharp and observant? Hu Feng, this idiot, was practically blind!

Footnote:

Little white face: Attractive young man (usually used as an insult).

As a person of your eminence you really do have a short memory: A person of your eminence has a short memory (said with good-natured sarcasm); important people have short memories.

Angrily: To fly into a rage out of humiliation; to be shamed into anger.

Sharp and observant: To have eyes sharp enough to perceive an animal's autumn down-perceptive down to the minutest detail.