Chapter 44 - The Shocked Brother Sang
The three that Rose mentioned in her taunt, were obviously the redhead Su Shi from the Martial Su Family, the little Queen Feng Mei of the Royal Feng, and the beautiful girl look-alike Yan who was from the 2nd City.
'What is this luck?'
Si Chen thought while looking at Zhao Luo and the three behind him.
'These three are beautiful but in a different sense. If it had to be described then Su Shi would belong to the exotic beauty group. With her red hair adding brightness to her persona, she looks hot. She is blinding my eyes.'
Si Chen's mind was working as an engine as he would pass glances between Su Shi and Feng Mei. He was dissecting them with his eyes.
'As for Feng Mei, she is little and developing still she isn't any less than Su Shi. She has qualities that make her look so innocent that one would die protecting her. She is extraordinarily cute too. Thus making her an enchanting beauty.'
Si Chen was rubbing his index finger on his lips and his hand at the chin while he differentiated between Feng Mei and Su Shi.
Feng Mei felt weird as she grabbed Zhao Luo's robe.
"Who is he, big brother?"
She asked Zhao Luo as the stares from Si Chen were getting annoying.
"He is a XXX of the Chen's."
Su Shi replied instead of Zhao Luo as she added swear words while introducing Si Chen.
"Little miss, have you still not forgiven me?"
Si Chen asked Su Shi while smiling. As both of them belonged to martial families and were from the 3rd City so they obviously knew each other.
'Hmph.'
Su Shi turned her face away. Even though she was ignoring Si Chen but she kept on looking at him from time to time as Rose was standing with him.
'Who is She? Such beautiful eyes.'
Su Shi thought while looking at the veiled Rose.
"These are my friends. We have traveled together before. I guess they are also our seniors from now on."
Zhao Luo gave a small introduction of Si Chen and Rose to Feng Mei, Su Shi, and Yan.
"I am Rose. I joined the sect after passing the last entrance test."
Rose kept it short and introduced herself while nodding. Even though she had joined half a year earlier than them she was still their senior.
They still didn't know the real identity of Rose.
"I am Si Chen. Don't hide if you are interested in me. I am your senior and also on the third level at that."
Si Chen took his turn to introduce himself and he couldn't have done it any worse than this. He pointed at his black badge which had three marks on it showing his seniority and his strength to the three beauties.
"Heh, you are still the same. Is your wound okay?"
Zhao Luo asked Si Chen as he was acting insane maybe because he had never seen so many beauties together before. So to get him back to his sane self Zhao Luo made him remember the wound he had gotten from the sand lion.
"Ah yes, I am fine. Look."
Si Chen stretched his back while showing his back muscles to Zhao Luo.
'Slap.'
"Awoooo."
Zhao Luo slapped his back in a joking manner but the power behind the slap was terrifying.
"Yep, you look fine now."
Zhao Luo said with a smirk while Si Chen nodded with a grin. He could feel the stinging got feeling from his back.
After that Su Shi and Feng Mei took their turns to introduce themselves.
"Oh my, forgive my rudeness from before. It's my pleasure to meet the Little Queen of the Feng's."
Si Chen said to Feng Mei. He was sweating as he remembered his previous words.
"Please don't take my joke seriously. You can hide the fact if you ever like me."
Si Chen continued with his talk.
'I guess the injury went to his head.'
Zhao Luo thought.
"Ahem."
He then interrupted Si Chen's nonsense and waved his hand at Yan as to tell him to introduce himself.
Yan looked a little shy as everyone was focused on him.
'Hehe. What a shy girl.'
Si Chen grinned while looking at the shy Yan.
"I am 2nd City. I am from Yan."
Yan mixed his words as he looked embarrassed while they were looking at him.
"Haha."
Feng Mei broke out with cute laughter.
Zhao Luo and Su Shi were smiling too. Yan's silly introduction caused Rose to chuckle too as a beautiful sound of small laughter was heard from behind her veil.
"I mean I am Yan from the 2nd City."
Yan quickly corrected himself.
"It's okay. No need to be embarrassed. We all understood you it the first time."
Zhao Luo said while tapping Yan's shoulder. This caused Yan to blush.
Zhao Luo remembered his past as he would be feeling so awkward to introduce himself during interviews or when he would meet new people. So he comforted Yan as nothing was wrong with making mistakes during an introduction.
While everyone was enjoying the moment, only Si Chen had a different look on his face.
He looked devastated with black lines on his face.
It looked like someone had broken him, destroyed his world right in front of his eyes.
'Her voice, why is her voice so manly?'
Si Chen thought while others were laughing because of Yan's introduction.
"Are you sick? You sound like a man."
Si Chen asked Yan looking all worried.
'Yes, she can't be a man. She looks like the perfect girl. So enchanting. It must be some kind of sickness.'
Si Chen had already confirmed in his mind that Yan wasn't a man. As for how could a man be so enchanting with these girly features.
"Mhmm."
Yan was silent for some reason. It was as if he wanted to say something but it just wouldn't come out of his mouth.
"I know what you are going through."
Zhao Luo interrupted and placed his hand on Yan's head while looking at him.
"He looks so beautiful that it was hard for me too but Yan is a man."
Zhao Luo told Si Chen. He still remembered when Yan had entered the building in the 2nd City before he joined them.
Except for the girl-like appearance and the beauty of the kid, he was still a man.
'Yep.'
Zhao Luo nodded as he told about Yan to Si Chen.
'My heart....'
Si Chen looked disappointed. He wasn't in the mood for talking anymore. So he just simply nodded at Yan.
Zhao Luo looked at Si Chen and he could somewhat understand what Si Chen was going through.
"Let's get along guys."
Zhao Luo said as he placed his arms over Si Chen's and Yan's shoulders as only they were the guys there. He brought their heads closer and they couldn't go against Zhao Luo's strength and they wouldn't even try as it felt nice being dragged around by a handsome guy.
'So Close.'
Yan thought as he blushed while his face was close to Zhao Luo.
Si Chen didn't look at Yan's eyes and even though he knew that Yan was a guy, just being so close to him, face to face made him feel a little embarrassed.
'What's wrong with me?'
He thought.
Zhao Luo was just smiling all this time. While doing this he glanced at Rose.
Rose was starting at only him too.
So when Zhao Luo looked at her, their eyes met and they both turned away.
"Let's Go."
Rose said as they didn't have anything to do here anymore.
"Yeah. Brother Sang may still be waiting for us."
Zhao Luo agreed with Rose and remembered that he had come here with Brother Sang.
So they started going down.
Main Hall of the Sect building.
"Where are they?"
Brother Sag had been eating for quite some while.
It had already been more than 10 minutes since the other examinees had already returned from the first floor.
He didn't ask about Zhao Luo from anyone as some looked sad while others looked normal.
'What if they failed?'
It wouldn't be fun for them to answer his questions as they may have failed this important entrance test.
So he just waited and waited.
People started leaving the Sect's building.
Only then did he saw a group of 6 people coming down.
"There they are. Hmm, little Chen and rose are with them too."
Brother Sang saw Zhao Luo's group and also found his juniors with him too.
'Hmm, who is the redhead?'
Brother Sang noticed that there was one extra person with them. It was Su Shi.
"Oh, he is still here. Let's go."
Zhao Luo looked at Brother Sang and told everyone as he hurried down the stairs.
"We passed the exam."
As he reached Brother Sang, he told him about the exam and the two tests that they all had to take.
He also told him about how he scored the highest point in the second test.
"What? The Master of riddles was the one leading the exam? And Brother Luo you scored the highest? Amazing. As expected from you."
Brother Sang had it hard to believe that the second elder, himself, came here to take the entrance exam. He was shocked.
Nevertheless, he knew that Zhao Luo would shine as Zhao Luo was someone that he was born to serve.
"It's nice that everyone passed."
Brother Sang said while looking at them.
After that the two subordinates of Feng Mei came to her and one of them whispered something in her ears.