After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

Mi Qing shook her head with an awkward smile.

"No, it's nothing. I, I just suddenly, well, girls always have a few days when it's inconvenient."

The teachers and students around him immediately showed knowing expressions, and one of the older teachers even gave Bai Lin a meaningful look.

Bai Lin understood the meaning behind that look and stood up.

"Xiaoqing, please sit down. I'll go buy you some brown sugar and hot water."

There are milk tea drinks sold at the front desk of Zhongzhou Gymnasium. Most places that sell milk tea also have brown sugar and hot water.

The remaining teachers and students then looked at Mu Yuan and his opponent on the field. This opponent was no match for Mu Yuan. Under Mu Yuan's miraculous illusion, he was already struggling and at a disadvantage.

The strongest gibbon, Mo Yu, addressed Mu Yuan, who was on the field, and spoke to the classmate beside him.

"This opponent is no good. He has a lot of brute strength but doesn't know how to throw punches. Mu Yuan's illusions can distort reality. I was thinking of seeing the new skills Mu Yuan had been practicing for a year, but all I saw was Mu Yuan bullying novices."

"Everyone, take a good look at where Mu Yuan is right now. I can guarantee that Mu Yuan is definitely not in that position..."

Sweating profusely, Mi Qing kept glancing at her ex-boyfriend across from her. He was with a girl, and the two seemed rather reserved in their conversation.

It seemed that the girl kept getting close to Zhou Yan, and Zhou Yan was a little embarrassed, his every move exuding the awkwardness of a virgin.

Zhou Yan isn't that kind of person. Mi Qing remembers that when they were dating, Zhou Yan was always quite proactive and knew how to pick topics to talk about.

Could it be that the series of disasters over the past six months have changed this guy's personality?

Mi Qing's heart softened suddenly. She remembered the days when she dated Zhou Yan. Back then, Zhou Yan was eloquent and kind to her. He would tutor her and buy her all sorts of snacks she liked.

Mi Qing felt very happy at that time.

"Your hot brown sugar water."

A cup of dark red hot water was handed to Mi Qing. Lost in her memories, Mi Qing instinctively looked up and vaguely saw Zhou Yan's face. In the past, when she was still an ordinary person, Zhou Yan would go to the school store to buy milk tea and drinks during breaks, and return before class to take out a drink or snack from her desk and hand it to her.

However, things are not like they used to be, and the current environment is no longer the classroom of Cihe City High School.

Then, Zhou Yan's dazed features slowly transformed into those of his current boyfriend, Bai Lin. Bai Lin smiled gently at Mi Qing and shook the hot brown sugar water in his hand, which was in a large plastic milk tea bottle.

Mi Qing snapped out of her reverie and took the hot brown sugar water.

Bai Lin sat down next to Mi Qing and said warmly.

"If you're still feeling unwell, shall I take you to a hotel to rest?"

The teacher next to them also turned around and comforted them.

"If you're really not feeling well, go back to the hotel and rest."

The gibbon said without turning its head.

"I will record this match and then explain it to you."

Mi Qing glanced at Zhou Yan across from her again.

Absolutely, absolutely not, can Zhou Yan find out that I'm here. Does Mi Qing still remember telling Zhou Yan that she owes him a favor and that he can come to her anytime to repay it?

Mi Qing was afraid that Zhou Yansheng was in dire straits and would immediately come over to hug her leg and beg for her help when he saw her.

Just like Chen Sheng's fellow villagers, Zhou Yan was not necessarily any dumber than them. He would spread the emperor's dark history everywhere, but his relationship with Zhou Yan could not withstand scrutiny.

"OK, all right."

Mi Qing stood up.

"I, I, I still want to go back to the hotel to rest."

The red-bottomed macaque Bai Lin also got up.

"I'll take you back."

Mi Qing simply collapsed into the red-bottomed macaque's arms, burying her face in it, afraid that Zhou Yan would see her and embarrass her in front of these superiors.

The red-bottomed macaque helped Mi Qing, who was nestled in his arms, and a hint of doubt crossed his mind.

This woman is at least a Demon-level Awakened One, why is she using such a posture that makes it difficult to walk?

Mi Qing's physical condition at this moment is at least a hundred times better than that of a normal person.

Of course, in a relationship, men should pretend to know what they don't, and women should pretend not to know what they do. Chi-ba-ma-hou wisely didn't ask Mi-qing why she was in that position. He simply helped Mi-qing out of the stands, to the front door of the Zhongzhou Gymnasium, and then they went out together to the hotel rented by the First Academy.

Bai Lin gently led Mi Qing to the hotel room key and to the deluxe suite on the third floor.

Upon arriving at the door, Bai Lin intended to go in with Mi Qing to take care of her. However, after Bai Lin swiped Mi Qing's room card to open the door, Mi Qing suddenly spoke.

"I... I'm really not feeling well. I want to go inside and take a nap. Xiaolin, you can go do your own thing."

Bai Lin understood what Mi Qing meant, and the red-bottomed macaque nodded in agreement.

"Okay, Xiaoqing, you should get some rest. If there's anything you want to do, just give me a call. Don't be shy, I'll be there whenever you need me."

"Yes, Kobayashi, you're the best to me, I know that."

Mi Qing looked troubled.

Bai Lin waved and went to his room. Now that he was back from the Zhongzhou City Gymnasium, he was going to play games and duo queue with his friends to climb the ranks.

the other side.

Mi Qing went into her room, closed the door, and then sat down in her bedroom.

After taking a few breaths, Mi Qing gradually released the pressure in her heart, then took out her phone. No matter what, Zhou Yan's matter had to be resolved.

If Zhou Yan hadn't appeared in front of him, he could have pretended that Zhou Yan was dead and let him go. But now that Zhou Yan was in front of him...

Then we can't just leave it unattended.

Having learned from Chen Sheng's example, I cannot let a little kindness lead me astray.

Mi Qing was about to call her teacher and ask her to take care of Zhou Yan, but after thinking about it, she realized that given the current situation and environment, her teachers might not be willing to kill someone under such strict military control and with all four divine beasts guarding the area.

Putting aside the potential consequences if the murder fails, even if it succeeds, the high-level awakened beings under the Four Divine Beasts could easily find him and expose him. In the current environment, even the Azure Dragon might not dare to bail out his own misbehaving subordinates.

and so……

Mi Qing held her breath for a few seconds, then made a call on her phone. No one answered the first time, but the call was answered on the second time.

A familiar voice came out.

"Miss Mi Qing?"

Mi Qing pressed her hand to her chest, then opened the call function and pressed the record button.

"Yes, it's me, Senior Mu Yuan. It's been a long time."

Mu Yuan, on the other end of the phone, was breathing heavily and speaking in a somewhat urgent tone.

"Yes, it's been a long time. Sorry, I just finished a competition and got back."

Mi Qing licked her lips.

"Senior Muyuan, you want me to provide you with information on the students at our school, right?"

Three months ago, when the plague had just begun, Mi Qing encountered Mu Yuan, who had been waiting for her, while shopping during a holiday. Mu Yuan offered Mi Qing an exorbitant price to purchase information on the top students of the First Academy.

On the surface, Mi Qing agreed, but upon returning, she reported Mu Yuan to Qinglong. Qinglong, being the kind of person he was, couldn't possibly say anything to a junior who was collecting information about his own student. He simply told Mi Qing that since Mu Yuan had been offered a price, she could try to tell him some unimportant information.

Qinglong casually mentioned some seemingly important but actually useless information about his top students, suggesting that Mi Qing could exchange it with Mu Yuan later.

Mi Qing listened, but since she had no shortage of resources, she did not immediately share this information.

She planned to sell this intelligence when needed, and now was the perfect time to do so.

A sound of drinking water came from the other end of the phone. After finishing the water, Mu Yuan responded.

"Yes, I need it. What do you want in exchange, junior?"

Mi Qing closed her eyes with some unease.

"I want you to... kill someone..."

Mu Yuan's breath caught in his throat.

Mi Qing hurriedly said.

"He's an ordinary person, not an awakened one. He might even be from a poor family now, like a beggar."

Previously at the Zhongzhou City Gymnasium, Zhou Yan was noticeably more reserved. Mi Qing guessed that Zhou Yan must have suffered a setback in his life and his current living conditions must be very difficult.

Most feelings of inferiority stem from poverty.

"Fine, who do you want me to kill?"

Mu Yuan's tone softened, as if he thought the matter was quite ordinary and nothing serious.

Mi Qing wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"His name is Zhou Yan. He's in the stands at Zhongzhou City Gymnasium right now, in section C, third row. There's only him and one woman there. You should be able to see him if you go there now, senior."

“Zhou Yan…”

Mu Yuan, on the other end of the phone, paused in his breathing again.

Mi Qing waited anxiously. She had previously communicated with Mu Yuan and investigated him. Mu Yuan was a top student at Xuanwu Academy and the fourth-place winner in the previous four-school competition. His father was a monopoly capitalist, his mother was a member of the House of Representatives, and several of his uncles were state representatives in several states.

The phrase "born to be superior" couldn't be more fitting for Mu Yuan.

It would be perfectly reasonable for someone of that status to kill Zhou Yan, who was living in dire poverty and was practically a beggar. No one would bother arguing with members of Congress over a homeless man.

Besides, Mu Yuan might become aware of the relationship between herself and Zhou Yan.

When she made the phone call earlier, Mi Qing had considered that if Mu Yuan did as she wished and had someone kill Zhou Yan, he could easily find out about her past relationship with Zhou Yan after a simple investigation. But now she had recorded the conversation.

Mi Qing knew very well that Mu Yuan wanted to become a member of Congress and to be part of the core power circle of the Eastern Xia United States. Therefore, if Zhou Yan died after this phone call was made, then this phone call would become a stain on Mu Yuan's reputation.

At that time, Mu Yuan will have dirt on Mi Qing, and so will Mi Qing. Both sides can use their dirt to control each other, so Mi Qing won't lose the initiative.

"Heh... junior, I just checked the security footage, and the person you wanted me to kill..."

"I'm afraid that won't work."

Mu Yuan's words startled Mi Qing.

"why?"

Mi Qing asked in confusion.

"He's just an ordinary person, and his family isn't well-off."

Mi Qing had seen too many awakened individuals escape legal punishment, such as having their sentences reduced because the defendant was a highly skilled person, being unable to be sentenced due to the loss of key evidence, or being acquitted by bribing judges. So why would Mu Yuan not dare to take action against Zhou Yan, a guy who couldn't even afford a lawyer even after death and could be manipulated at will by someone like Mu Yuan?

Mi Qing even felt that if she were ruthless enough to put on a trench coat, a mask, and shoot Zhou Yan, who was sleeping among newspapers and garbage, in a corner of the park where Zhou Yan lived, the police wouldn't care who killed this homeless citizen the next day.

Even now, gangsters are struggling to survive in every corner of society.

"Because Junior Zhou is a student at Suzaku Academy."

Mu Yuan's tone was sarcastic.

"If I were to kill Junior Brother Zhou, Lord Xuanwu would have to drag me to confess to Zhuque the next day, and Lord Zhuque would skin me alive."

Mi Qing's pupils contracted.

Students of Suzaku Academy...

"Senior, are you...you must have made a mistake?"

Mi Qing's voice trembled slightly.

"How could Zhou Yan be a student of the Vermilion Bird Academy?"

That's right, Zhou Yan couldn't possibly be an Awakened One, much less a student of the Vermilion Bird Academy.

It must be that after I left, Zhou Yan also left, and then students from the Vermilion Bird Academy sat in that place again. Mu Yuan had mistaken someone. Mi Qing remembered very clearly that Zhou Yan was just an ordinary person before I left, so how could he have the identity of a student from the Vermilion Bird Academy?

Besides, with Zhou Yan's status, why doesn't he come looking for me?

Mu Yuan hung up the phone on the other end, and a short while later, Mi Qing received a multimedia message.

The MMS contained a photo of Zhou Yan in casual clothes and Chu Daoyun wearing a mask. The photo was high-resolution, perfectly showcasing Zhou Yan's features, which is why Mi Qing immediately recognized him as Zhou Yan.

A sentence is listed below the photo.

"You mean this junior Zhou Yan you're talking about? If so, he's a student from Vermilion Bird Academy."

Mi Qing's hand trembled, and her phone fell to the ground.

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