Chapter 539
“Do you even know what you’re saying? Are you crazy? How could you come up with something like this?”
Xiao Si looked at the young man with blonde hair with an unfamiliar gaze, and covered the parts of his body that were still faintly aching, slowly widening the distance between himself and the young man.
“Xiao Liu, don’t be like this; you’re becoming really frightening.” Xiao Si stared straight at Xiao Liu, seeing that Xiao Liu still had no intention of giving up, he couldn’t help but speak up again.
“What’s so frightening about it? Isn’t this just a normal thing? It’s not like we haven’t found replacements before. Why the act now? Don’t make that face, as if I’m scum and you’re all so clean.” Xiao Liu looked down at his already twisted and swollen index finger, speaking in a gloomy tone.
“It’s not the same; what we used to do didn’t involve taking lives.” As the pain on the Boss’s body gradually faded away, his back, which he had been unable to straighten, now stood up straight.
“Just because we haven’t done it before doesn’t mean we can’t do it now.” Xiao Liu cast a dark glance at everyone in the room.
Ariel glanced at the box’s door and saw that it had long been closed by someone unknown, and his eyes instantly lit up.
Xu Ke was standing right beside Ariel, and none of Ariel’s reactions escaped Xu Ke’s eyes. As soon as Ariel’s glasses lit up, Xu Ke knew what Ariel had in mind. Just as Ariel was about to make a move, Xu Ke grabbed Ariel’s hand, forcefully interlacing his fingers with Ariel’s, holding tightly.
Meanwhile, Xiao Liu continued to energetically persuade his brothers.
“Haven’t we always ridden high and low together from a young age, only to get stomped on by this no-name kid and take this humiliation from all these people in Yunzhou? How can we not do something today, let these two walk out unharmed from this place, and later on in Yunzhou, who’s going to laugh at us? Who’s going to respect us?”
Xiao Liu threw out question after question, hoping to gain his brothers’ support.
Although they usually played around together and did plenty of unruly things, when it came to matters of life and death, not everyone could be as ruthless as Xiao Liu.
Xiao Si took a step back, “If my dad finds out I’ve killed someone outside, he’d kill me; I don’t agree with this. If you want to rough him up, I can help, but killing is a no-go.” Xiao Si waved his hands repeatedly, expressing his refusal.
The Boss furrowed his brow tightly. Although he didn’t speak, his expressions and retreat already indicated a problem, “Xiao Liu, you’re still young; don’t do anything foolish.”
“How is this foolish? I’m thinking about our reputation here; I’m thinking of all of us. Of course, if you don’t want to participate, I won’t blame you, but I just have one request: don’t hold me back. This man who has humiliated me must pay the price today.” Xiao Liu looked at Xu Ke’s glasses, with a wicked and obsessive smile forming at the corner of his mouth.
“Xiao Liu, you are truly mad.” The Boss looked at Xiao Liu with a complicated expression.
Among the brothers, the Boss and Xiao Si disapproved of Xiao Liu’s approach.
But coincidentally, the remaining three stood beside Xiao Liu.
The red-haired young man covered his nose, his expression towards the Boss filled with disappointment and resentment, “Boss, you weren’t like this before. How did you become so timid? What right do you have to be our Boss like this?”
The purple-haired young man also stared intently at the Boss and Xiao Si, saying, “I’m really disappointed in you two. We are brothers; shouldn’t we advance and retreat together? Yet now you’ve become cowards; you’re not like the ones I knew when we first met.”
Xiao Si and the Boss’s expressions changed again and again, and finally, Xiao Si gritted his teeth and said, “Moving together requires discernment; I can support anything else, but not this.”
With this, the small group was completely split in half.
“Are you done discussing? Our food is getting cold. Please hurry up, cold roast chicken doesn’t taste good.”
Ariel didn’t realize that he had again made himself a target of hatred. Seeing several young men look at him, she tilted her head good-naturedly and gave them a smile.
For a moment, the sight was like vibrant peach blossoms, dazzling the young men’s eyes.
“Xiao Liu, I’m in for this, but with one condition: the woman stays with me.” The red-haired young man, holding his swollen nose, said in a muffled voice.
“Having someone so exquisite to oneself is no fun. Good brothers share the good and the bad. Naturally, this woman shouldn’t be only yours.” The purple-haired young man licked his sharp teeth, squinting his eyes slightly, eyeing Ariel with a suggestive gleam.
The red-haired young man was reluctantly convinced, but thinking of Ariel kicking him during the chaos, he gave in.
If this woman brought him pain, then he wanted her to share in it too.
As he thought about Ariel being toyed with by his brothers, Xiao Liu felt a sinister pleasure inside.
“Alright, I agree with you.” Realizing his unique excitement, Xiao Si didn’t show any panic but instead grew more enthusiastic, his eyes gleaming green.
“Your idea isn’t bad, kid.” Xiao Liu looked at Ariel’s face and spoke.
“How do you feel deciding someone else’s fate so casually? Have you asked the involved party’s opinion?”
Xu Ke had been listening to their conversation on the side, and as it derailed more and more, plus having his woman in their minds, his face turned increasingly grim.
His face went from white to green, then from green to black.
“I’m not interested in yellow-haired brats like you. Barely out of puberty and you dare have designs on me? What a big joke, ha.”
Ariel’s final chuckle was like a landmine exploding in the ears of the young men, dragging them out of their fantasy.
Ariel’s ridicule twisted Xiao Liu’s face further, making him look like a demon crawling out of Hell, terribly frightening.
“How do you know if we’ve grown or not? Have you secretly looked?” Xiao Liu’s lips moved slightly, opening his mouth with a fake smile.
“Some things are evident with just basic schooling. If you don’t know this, it only shows you’re an illiterate, not even up to middle school level.” Ariel sarcastically replied.
“You! Ha, I’m not going to waste words with you here. We’ll see. Yunzhou is big; you’ll be alone sometime.” The purple-haired young man warned Ariel with a glance.
“That’s what I say to you too,” Xu Ke said sternly, word by word slowly.
“Then let’s see which of us rises to the top and shows their skill. Just don’t sob too hard. Actually, you might not even find a place to cry then.”
If it weren’t for his nose, swollen like a carrot, he would’ve looked more intimidating. As it was, it only appeared ridiculous.