TBIP: Chapter 12

Even the voice was perfect!

Lou Xingyao sighed in his heart, but he quickly recovered from the beauty attack and asked instead, “Young Master Zhou doesn’t seem surprised?”

Yes, from Zhou Hanshan’s expression and movements when he entered the door and even the slightly playful tone when he asked the question just now, it could be seen that he seemed to have anticipated the situation in front of him.

“I’m just useless, not blind. I can tell whether the person standing next to me is a man or a woman.” Zhou Hanshan sneered. The hidden breath pendant could indeed hide the breath, but it was just the breath.

Other people were far away and could only observe the bride through the breath and spiritual sense. They were concerned about the identity of the bride and were afraid of offending her, so even if they observed her, they only glanced at her quickly. Naturally, they couldn’t find anything strange.

Meanwhile, Zhou Hanshan came into close contact with Lou Xingyao, not to mention that they were only a few feet apart during the wedding ceremony. If he couldn’t find anything unusual, then he might as well be blind.

“Then why did you still…” Lou Xingyao was sure that Zhou Hanshan’s pause and hesitation when they made the contract weren’t his illusion. If so, why didn’t Zhou Hanshan expose it directly?

Unexpectedly, Zhou Hanshan sneered again. “Why should I expose it? This is what the Zhou family brought upon themselves.”

The loopholes that Mrs. He could see were naturally seen by the Zhou family. It could even be said that the so-called loophole was left intentionally by the Zhou family.

Seeing that Mrs. He was isolated and helpless in the He Mansion at the beginning, they were afraid that something would happen. Therefore, they left room to choose the He family’s dual spiritual roots genius at will when making the contract.

Unexpectedly, the He family didn’t have any accidents, but he had problems. Now that such a thing happened, it was just shooting themselves in the foot.

Lou Xingyao was speechless for a while as he saw Zhou Hanshan’s undisguised mockery of the Zhou family.

Everyone in Canglan City said that since Zhou Hanshan’s injury, his relationship with the Zhou family had become increasingly bad. It was even to the point of being as incompatible as fire and water.

At this time, Lou Xingyao thought it was an exaggeration. Now it seemed that it wasn’t groundless.

But wasn’t Zhou Hanshan’s reaction a bit problematic?

Shouldn’t he be the biggest victim of the substitute marriage?

Based on his current reaction, Lou Xingyao felt that he was gloating. If he didn’t know better, he would think that the other protagonist of the substitute marriage wasn’t this person.

Zhou Hanshan didn’t care about Lou Xingyao’s thoughts at all, and pulled the topic back. “So can you answer my question now?”

“My name is Lou Xingyao.” Lou Xingyao found for the first time that introducing himself was actually a technical job.

Zhou Hanshan wasn’t annoyed by only getting a name. “Lou? You aren’t from Canglan City?”

“Huh?” Lou Xingyao nodded before looking at Zhou Hanshan in a puzzled manner.

“I haven’t heard of anyone with dual spiritual roots in Canglan City named Lou Xingyao.” Single spiritual roots were rare, and dual spiritual roots were equally difficult to find. Every dual spiritual roots cultivator in Canglan City was exposed.

Not to mention that Zhou Hanshan was the eldest son of the Zhou family; even ordinary people in Canglan City knew the situation of those people very well.

Now that Lou Xingyao had appeared, he didn’t think about anything other than being from outside Canglan City.

“I’m from Pingyang County.” Lou Xingyao didn’t hide it and honestly explained his origins.

“Pingyang County?” A small county town in the east of the mainland? 15 years ago, the He family seemed to have married a girl there.” Zhou Hanshan only pondered on it for a moment before getting the answer.

15 years ago, Zhou Hanshan was only 4 years old. He could still remember such trivial things clearly. Was this the memory of a cultivator?

Lou Xingyao looked at Zhou Hanshan with a trace of admiration and envy.

Zhou Hanshan also got the answer from his expression. “It is hard for Mrs. He. to find you from such a remote place.”

Was he being polite?

Lou Xingyao finally understood why Zhou Hanshan’s reputation was so bad. This mouth really couldn’t speak!

In front of Lou Xingyao, he could say that Pingyang County was a remote place. However, Lou Xingyao had no way to refute it. After all, compared with Canglan City, Pingyang County was more than a remote place. It could be called an inhospitable place.

He understood it rationally, but Lou Xingyao had obtained Lou Xiaowu’s memories and had an inexplicable feeling for Pingyang County, the place where he was born. He couldn’t help clenching his fists.

Zhou Hanshan seemed to be unaware of Lou Xingyao’s emotions and continued to ask, “Shouldn’t a small place like that value geniuses more? How could they bear to push you over to your death?”

To be able to say such things, it seemed that Zhou Hanshan still had some idea of his reputation.

He complained in his heart, but Lou Xingyao didn’t forget to answer his question. “Dual spiritual roots that can’t be cultivated can’t be considered geniuses.”

“Huh?” Zhou Hanshan’s eyes flashed with a hint of surprise. He raised his hand to pinch Lou Xingyao’s wrist.

Everyone said that Zhou Hanshan was now useless, but he was still a cultivator at the eighth level of qi condensation. It was easy for him to control Lou Xingyao, a mortal who hadn’t yet entered qi into his body.

Lou Xingyao didn’t have time to react before Zhou Hanshan pinched his lifeline. The next moment, Lou Xingyao felt a very subtle force entering his body and wandering around. Then he saw a look of understanding on Zhou Hanshan’s face.

“Your meridians and mine are now in the same boat.” The problem with Lou Xingyao’s meridians was very obvious. Zhou Hanshan found the root cause in a few breaths.

The fingers pinching Lou Xingyao’s wrist tightened slightly, and Zhou Hanshan’s tone became a bit subtle. “I don’t know if your body can withstand the hard work in the future.”

This was the first time that Lou Xingyao’s body was examined since he transmigrated here.

Before he could feel lucky that he hadn’t found an opportunity to use the well water to regulate his meridians, so that he didn’t reveal anything at this moment. Then he heard Zhou Hanshan’s fierce words and immediately looked at him in a horrified manner.

What did he mean by being able to bear it or not? Did he hear what shameful nonsense he was saying?

“What are you thinking about?” Zhou Hanshan saw through what Lou Xingyao was thinking at a glance and laughed in anger. He raised his hand and hit Lou Xingyao directly on the head. “I mean, I don’t know if you can survive after leaving the Zhou family.”

“Are you willing to let me go?” Lou Xingyao’s eyes lit up, and he didn’t care about the pain on the top of his head. For a moment, he couldn’t believe that things were going so smoothly.

As long as Zhou Hanshan was willing to let him go, he would definitely leave Canglan City as quickly as possible. From then on, the sky would be high, and the earth would be vast…

“You are thinking too beautifully.” Zhou Hanshan interrupted Lou Xingyao’s dream unhappily. “We will go together.”

“What do you mean?” Lou Xingyao instinctively asked.

“I regret to inform you that I’ve been kicked out of the house.” Zhou Hanshan took off his wedding clothes. Under the bright red coat, he was wearing a dark robe. “You, as my wife, are being kicked out with me.”

After saying that, Zhou Hanshan walked to the closet beside him and rummaged around in it for a long time before he finally found a moon-white robe in the corner. He threw it into Lou Xingyao’s arms without looking back.

“Is it because of me?” Lou Xingyao’s voice was a bit hoarse.

“What are you thinking about? Those old men have long disliked me.” Unexpectedly, Zhou Hanshan denied Lou Xingyao’s guess without even thinking about it.

But Lou Xingyao didn’t believe it.

The relationship between Zhou Hanshan and the Zhou family was so bad that it was known to everyone in Canglan City, but before that, the Zhou family had never expressed the intention of giving up on Zhou Hanshan.

What’s more, they didn’t give up earlier or later but gave up on the wedding day. If he said there was no connection, he was afraid that even a three year old child wouldn’t believe it.

“Well… it is indeed a bit related.” Seeing that Lou Xingyao seemed like he wouldn’t give up until he got an answer, Zhou Hanshan no longer concealed it.

If he said that this matter was related to Lou Xingyao, well, it’s not entirely unrelated. But if you say it was unrelated, there’s definitely some connection.

The Zhou family had been able to tolerate his misdeeds for many years. One reason was that they still had a slightly unrealistic fantasy that he could recover. However, such a fantasy was completely shattered when his realm fell last year.

The second reason was due to the marriage contract with the He family. The contract had been signed. No matter how reluctant the He family was, they had to send a dual spiritual root genius to marry him.

The big families in Canglan City had always believed that a child’s talent would be affected by the talents of their parents. The more talented the parents, the higher the probability of giving birth to a genius.

Zhou Hanshan himself was a rare single spiritual root genius in a thousand years. Even if he was now useless, his spiritual root was still real. If it could be combined with a dual spiritual root, his offspring would most likely inherit his single spiritual root talent.

It didn’t matter if Zhou Hanshan was useless. As long as he could give birth to a child who inherited his talent, it wouldn’t be a loss for the Zhou family. Sooner or later, they would have another single spiritual root genius.

At this point, Zhou Hanshan couldn’t help commenting again. “Mrs. He’s movement of finding someone to marry in place of her daughter wasn’t small. Do you really think the Zhou family had no idea about this?”

The status of the Zhou family in Canglan City was much higher than the He family. How could Mrs. He’s little tricks escape the eyes of the Zhou family?

It was just having dual spiritual roots. Even if it wasn’t He Wanqing, it was fine as long as the person could give birth to a single spiritual root genius for the Zhou family.

Who knew that Mrs. He would actually cut off the source of the matter and directly select a man who couldn’t have children?

Their calculations fell through. Zhou Hanshan couldn’t help laughing when he thought about the expressions of the people in the Zhou family after they learned the truth.

With his current reputation, a decent woman with three spiritual roots wouldn’t be willing to marry him, let alone dual spiritual roots. If he lost his only value, wouldn’t he be kicked out by the elders who had long disliked him?

At this moment, Lou Xingyao finally understood why Zhou Hanshan, the victim, looked so gloating when it came to the matter of marriage.

Did the Zhou family always treat Zhou Hanshan as a stud before?

Forget about Zhou Hanshan. If it was Lou Xingyao in such a situation, he would probably be more of a villain than Zhou Hanshan.

Perhaps he realized that he was showing too much of his emotions at this moment. Zhou Hanshan suppressed the curve of his lips and urged, “Why don’t you change your clothes quickly? We don’t have much time. Or do you want to leave in your wedding dress?”

In order to make a complete show, the wedding dress that Mrs. He prepared for Lou Xingyao was a female one. He would be crazy to willingly wander around in this wedding dress.

He didn’t hesitate any longer and took off his wedding dress in no time.

A female wedding dress was complicated, and the layers piled on Lou Xingyao looked a bit complicated. Now that he took off his wedding dress, Zhou Hanshan found that the bride sent by the He family seemed to be thinner than he had imagined.

Looking at the very prominent shoulder blades under Lou Xingyao’s inner shirt, and the waist that seemed like it could be broken directly with a bit of force, Zhou Hanshan’s expression suddenly became a bit ugly. “How old are you this year?”

“15 years old.” Lou Xingyao sorted out the clothes that Zhou Hand handed over and answered without raising his head.

He had a premonition in his heart, but Zhou Hanshan still couldn’t help cursing after he got a definite answer. “What on earth is Xu Xiangya doing?”

15 years old?

If Lou Xingyao had been 16, even if today was his 16th birthday, he wouldn’t be so angry.

“Huh?” Lou Xingyao looked at Zhou Hanshan with a bit of doubt. Then he reacted. “The wedding date was set too soon, and Mrs. He was forced into a corner.”

As for the time when Lou Shaohui lied about his age… Lou Xingyao didn’t believe that Mrs. He, who was able to manage the entire He family in an orderly manner when isolated and helpless, didn’t see the little quarrel between Lou Shaohui and him.

In the final analysis, there wasn’t much of a difference between 15 and 16 years old. Age was just an insignificant detail in this contract.

How could Zhou Hanshan not know?

The anger in his heart came and went quickly. In the end, he just sighed slightly. “Forget it… In any case, we are just a couple in name.”

Lou Xingyao paused. He and Zhou Hanshan were both victims in the matter of the marriage substitution, but he was indeed more at fault than Zhou Hanshan.

Now that Zhou Hanshan took the initiative to propose to be a couple in name only, Lou Xingyao couldn’t help sighing with relief. “Thank you.”

“I’m not hungry enough to touch a bean sprout.” Zhou Hanshen looked Lou Xingyao up and down and said doubtfully, “Are you really 15 years old?”

The clothes thrown to Lou Xingyao were already the smallest in his wardrobe. In Zhou Hanshan’s excellent memory, this dress was already a bit too small when he was 12 years old.

It hadn’t been thrown away only because he used storage bags more often and rarely organized his wardrobe. This caused it to be left behind.

But even such an outfit that was too small when he was 12 years old was a bit too big for Lou Xingyao at this moment.

“I didn’t have a good life at home before, so I look younger than my peers.” Lou Xingyao adjusted his slightly long cuffs and answered lightly.

He didn’t like to tell others about his suffering, not to mention that he wasn’t the one who suffered.

Lou Xingyao didn’t say how bad his life was in the past, but it was clear from the fact that he couldn’t cultivate and that he was pushed out to marry at the age of 15.

Zhou Hanshan also knew that Lou Xingyao’s attitude meant he didn’t need sympathy. In the end, he only said two words, “Let’s go.”