“Do you have any conflicts with Mu Chen?” Xie Qiong asked with a long face, looking at Xie Danyan with a bad tone.
Xie Danyan nodded and said: “Yes!”
Xie Qiong sighed helplessly, and complained: “Didn’t I tell you? Mu Chen is very talented. He is a rare genius, and he is likely to soar into the sky in the future. Why did you choose him?”
Xie Danyan rolled her eyes and said hatefully: “Grandpa, you were tricked by Mu Chen. That man is a stupid liar, not a genius at all, not even talented.”
“You said he’s a liar?” Xie Qiong asked with a frown.
Xie Danyan nodded and swore: “Yes! Grandpa, I have discovered Mu Chen’s background. Before he was twelve years old, he was fooling around all day, making trouble, playing games, and doing everything but real business. A year ago, he suddenly changed overnight, made progress, and became the first level-one alchemist. Three months ago, he was certified as a level two alchemist. His time is very short, his foundation is very weak, and he can’t answer our association’s questions at all. He must have cheated.”
Xie Qiong frowned and thought to himself: ‘Could what Xie Danyan said be true? Mu Chen chose not to take part and bought it, which seems to prove this point…’
“Forget it, Mu Chen has moved on. Let it go.” Xie Qiong said indifferently. There are many geniuses in this world, but only a few can grow up. Xie Danyan is Xie Qiong’s proud granddaughter, but Mu Chen is a smart outsider. Compared to the two, Xie Danyan was more important.
“That’s right, Grandpa. If people know that you take liars so seriously, people will laugh at you.” Xie Danyan pouted.
Xie Qiong sighed and said: “Okay, stop talking.”
……
“Mu Chen, you have so many spirit stones now. What do you want to do?” Ye Shi asked enthusiastically.
Mu Chen raised his hand and said: “Let’s change the space ring first. This one is small.”
Ye Shi couldn’t help frowning and said: “What a waste. This one can work…”
Mu Chen said disapprovingly: “How can it? This is a necessary investment. When we are in the wild, because our ring is not big enough, we can’t put many things in there, and we waste a lot of things.”
Ye Shi lowered his head and said in his heart: ‘Although we threw away a lot, those things are not worthless.’
“Let’s go. When I buy a bigger ring, I’ll leave this to you.” Mu Chen said while holding Ye Shi’s hand.
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Ye Shi couldn’t help but be surprised when he heard Mu Chen’s words: “Really? Mu Chen, you are very kind.”
Items in the imperial capital were expensive, but not all items were expensive. For example, the space ring was a rare item in Mo City, and it was difficult to buy there, but it was a common thing in the imperial capital, available in larger stores. Mu Chen spent 100,000 spirit stones to buy a space ring with six cubic meters of space. It cost twice as much as the original one, but the space was five times larger.
After purchasing the space ring, Mu Chen bought a lot of spiritual herbs. Some time ago, in order to speed up the journey, Mu Chen had not done alchemy for a long time. Now that he had time, Mu Chen planned to practice again.
……
“Shadow Moon Shop.” Ye Shi stood in front of a shop and stopped, a strange aura flashed in his eyes.
Mu Chen looked at Ye Shi and asked in confusion: “What’s wrong?”
Ye Shi frowned and said: “It’s nothing, I just think there’s something inside that attracts me.”
Mu Chen’s brain was running fast. In the book, Ye Shi once favored an inconspicuous inkstone in a shop. Zhuang Yu was there at the time. When she saw the ink stone, she also liked it. The two said almost at the same time that they would buy it. Conflict immediately broke out. Zhuang Yu’s combat power might not have been very good, but back then, he was accompanied by Lu Yao.
Lu Yao helped Zhuang Yu fight Ye Shi. Ye Shi was not the opponent of the two protagonists. The shopkeeper came out and arranged for the one with the highest price to win. Lu Yao was rich, and Ye Shi quickly lost.
It was later proved that the ink stone was actually weathered from the demon core of a level five demon beast. What was rare was that after a long time, most of the energy in this demon core had been lost, but the remaining energy became very soft and easily absorbed. Zhuang Yu and Lu Yao took turns using the demon core, allowing their strength to increase a lot.
“Then come in and have a look. Buy whatever you like. We have no shortage of spirit stones now.” Mu Chen said lightly.
Ye Shi nodded and said: “Okay.”
Mu Chen and Ye Shi walked into the store. As Mu Chen expected, Ye Shi really liked the black ink stone: “That’s it. 30,000 spirit stones are so expensive!”
“It’s not expensive. Only 30,000 spirit stones.” Mu Chen bought three pieces of inkstone without hesitation. In fact, Ye Shi only liked one of them. Mu Cheen bought all three ink stones just in case.
As Mu Chen spent money like water, Ye Shi was worried: “Mu Chen, are you sure about this? I might be wrong. I don’t even know what these ink stones are used for.”
Mu Chen smiled and said: “It’s fine.” For the demon core of a level five monster, it is worth taking risks. That level five monster is equivalent to a martial king-level master! There are only a few martial king-level masters in the Xuanfeng Empire. The true value of this thing is no less than several million spirit stones.
“Master Mu, this is yours.” The manager in the store handed the ink stone to Mu Chen.
As soon as Mu Chen received the items, familiar footsteps sounded.
“Mu Chen, what did you buy?” Zhuang Yu’s voice came from behind.
Mu Chen secretly rejoiced. Even if the items in the store were clearly priced, there was still room for bargaining. But, afraid of Zhuang Yu suddenly coming over, Mu Chen didn’t waste time haggling at all. It has now been proven that his choice was correct.
“It’s nothing.” Mu Chen wanted to keep the inkstone, but Zhuang Yu was still looking at what was inside the box.
“What a beautiful inkstone! Brother Mu Chen, can you give me the inkstone in the center!” Zhuang Yu said softly.
Zhuang Yu opened his big eyes and looked at Mu Chen expectantly. He didn’t know what was going on with him, but when he saw the ink stone, he wanted it badly.
Mu Chen frowned and said: “No, I bought this thing with a lot of money, so I can’t give it to you.”
Zhuang Yu looked at Mu Chen: “Brother Mu Chen, what’s wrong with you? You said earlier that you can give me anything. But now you won’t give me a mere stone.”
Mu Chen threw the thing into the space ring and insisted: “It’s impossible anyway.”
Zhuang Yu looked at Mu Chen with tears in his eyes, and Mu Chen got goosebumps when Zhuang Yu looked at him.
“Mu Chen, let’s go.” Ye Shi said while holding Mu Chen’s hand.
Lan Ruofeng stopped Mu Chen: “Mu Chen, after all, you loved Zhuang Yu so much before. Do you really think that doing this is right?”
Mu Chen gritted his teeth and said: “That was all in the past. I have nothing to do with him now.”
“Mu Chen, if you really love him, you don’t need to be with him. When it comes to true love, as long as you see the person you like, you will be happy. You hate Zhuang Yu because he doesn’t like you back. This is not true love.” Lan Ruofeng said.
Mu Chen raised his eyes and said impatiently: “Young Master Lan, you’re right. It turns out that I don’t really love him.”
“How can you do this?” Lan Ruofeng looked at Mu Chen with dissatisfaction.
Mu Chen said indifferently: “That’s me.”
“You… why are you so rude?!” Xie Danyan, who was originally watching, interjected after seeing Mu Chen’s unkind attitude towards Lan Ruofeng.
Mu Chen didn’t want to talk to them, so he left without saying anything more.
Xie Danyan stared at Mu Chen’s back, and frowned in disgust: “He has moved away from our association. I think he knows his true level has been exposed, and he’s embarrassed to stay in our association. It’s strange that Grandpa actually likes such an incompetent and rude person.”
Lan Ruofeng stared at Mu Chen’s back in thought. He stopped Mu Chen earlier, not just to defend Zhuang Yu.
Zhuang Yu’s natural eyes were able to see many treasures that seemed ordinary but were actually very precious. Zhuang Yu himself didn’t know that he had such an ability. Under Zhuang Yu’s guidance, Lan Ruofeng bought some treasures.
Lan Ruofeng clenched his fists. The feeling of something very useful being snatched away by Mu Chen surged again. If it weren’t for the powerful guards of the imperial capital, the strength of the Lan family in the imperial capital was very weak, Lan Ruofeng would have made his senior rob Mu Chen.
Looking at Mu Chen’s back, Zhuang Yu felt a void in his heart.
Zhuang Yu lowered his head sadly: “Why did Ye Shi take something from me?”
Lan Ruofeng consoled: “It’s okay, Yu, don’t be sad, it’s just a stone.”
Xie Danyan frowned, looking at Zhuang Yu. Zhuang Yu was really strange. Obviously, Mu Chen didn’t want to give him a stone, but he blamed Ye Shi. Lan Ruofeng was also strange. He was a smart guy but he made no sense when he was with Zhuang Yu. Zhuang Yu was really a vixen.
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Yuxing Tianrui, “You’re merely a stand-in!”
Du Chuxuan, “…” He figured already?
In fact, I have already translated like 24 chapters of this and let me tell you our ML is soooo funny he’s not your stereotypical cold tyrant (although he tries to act like one) very much acts like a little maiden honestly don’t know whos shou and whos gong lol.
Brooo I am with you like, Zhuang Yu doesn’t like Mu Chen, but whenever Mu Chen’s attention isn’t on him he whines and acts like a child! Then, if Zhuang Yu wants something of Mu Chen’s Lan Ruofeng is like, you loved him, why didn’t you give it to him, when like??? Boy if Mu Chen was together with Zhuang Yu you’d still be mad!! Cuz you “love” Zhuang Yu,!!!
Even that horrible girl Xie Danyan can see the stupidity of these two! How come her out of all people has more braincells than the “protagonists”!
This was very Peerless Cucumber of me lol
Mu Chen HAS A FIANCE, HELLO? And Zhuang Yu is in an ambiguous relationship with you, Lan Ruofeng, so on what basis is Mu Chen supposed to give him gifts? In what quality is Mu Chen supposed to “love” him? A bitch for sale?
Thank you for the chapter. How do you tolerate that! It’s a miracle!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
On one hand, I question Mu Chen’s taste in novels.
On the other hand, it is interesting to peer into the underlying motivations of the former protagonists and see they aren’t really the heroes they pretend to be. But my brain wants to melt every time someone uses word backwards logic to force Mu Chen into liking and pampering Zhuang Yu again. 🥴
yeah thats why I like reading transmigration stories because you get to find out that the hero of the original novel isn’t what they seem like or the villain isn’t what they seem like.