Chapter 45: Grand Spring Tower Summit

Lu Xuan carried a vegetable basket and walked to the entrance of Grand Spring Tower.

Grand Spring Tower was the largest restaurant in Azure Sun City, with three floors. Usually, only the wealthy and powerful frequented it, and he had never been inside.

He wasn't here to eat today either.

Shen Yuyan had asked him to buy some green vegetables, but the shop at the street corner was sold out, so he had detoured to Grand Spring Tower to try his luck.

Several carriages were parked at the entrance, two of which he recognized.

One belonged to the Lu Family, while the other belonged to the Shen Family.

Lu Xuan didn't think much of it and walked forward with his head down.

"Yo, isn't this our Lu Family's useless young master?"

A voice came from behind him.

Lu Xuan paused but didn't turn around.

Two servants came out of the side door of Grand Spring Tower. The one speaking was named Peng Hu, who used to bully him frequently in the Lu Family, while the other was called Sun Xiaoqi and followed behind with a chuckle.

Peng Hu walked over and looked Lu Xuan up and down, his gaze landing on the vegetable basket in his hand.

"Tsk tsk, buying groceries? How many silver coins do you make a month? Is it enough to buy two stalks of green onion?"

Sun Xiaoqi laughed from behind.

"Brother Peng, he is the Eldest Young Master of the Lu Family after all, don't say that."

"Eldest Young Master?"

Peng Hu spat.

"An Eldest Young Master who was kicked out of the house? An Eldest Young Master who acts as a gatekeeper? An Eldest Young Master who married an ugly freak?"

Lu Xuan said nothing.

He glanced at Peng Hu and then at the second-floor window of Grand Spring Tower.

Upstairs, Lu Tianhe and Shen Zhenghai were discussing matters.

"What are you looking at? The Family Head is discussing business with the Shen Family head."

Sun Xiaoqi leaned in and whispered, "Brother Peng, let's let him go for today. They're discussing serious business upstairs!"

Peng Hu thought for a moment, then looked at Lu Xuan with a smug expression.

"Fine. Crawl between my legs, and I'll spare you a beating today!"

Peng Hu stood with his legs apart, pointed between them, and laughed, the fat on his face trembling.

Lu Xuan kept his head down and didn't move.

Crawl between your legs? The last person who asked me that lost both his.

"What? Don't want to crawl?" Peng Hu took a step forward. "That's fine too. I'll beat you until you do."

He raised his hand and swung a slap at him, but Lu Xuan crouched down, It wasn't to crawl, he held his head and crouched on the ground like a startled quail.

Peng Hu's slap missed, and he froze for a moment before laughing, "Hahaha... look at this trash! He's so scared he's crouching on the ground!"

Sun Xiaoqi followed suit, laughing from behind, "Brother Peng, forget it. Don't lower yourself to a loser's level!"

"Forget it, my ass!"

Peng Hu raised his foot and kicked toward Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan crouched on the ground, holding his head and trembling, but no one saw his hand.

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His hand slid out of his sleeve, with a small pebble pinched between his fingertips.

Just as Peng Hu's foot was raised, Lu Xuan flicked his finger, the pebble flew out, swift and accurate.

"Awooo—!!!"

Before Peng Hu's foot could land, he suddenly arched his body as if struck by lightning, clutching his crotch with both hands as his face turned the color of pig liver.

Thud—

He fell to his knees, he didn't choose to kneel; he was forced down by the pain.

"Ah—! Ah—! My— my—"

Peng Hu's screams, sounding like a slaughtered pig, echoed at the entrance of Grand Spring Tower.

He curled up on the ground, shivering all over, while veins popped out on his forehead and tears and snot flowed together, the onlookers were stunned for a moment, but then erupted into a commotion.

"What happened?"

"I don't know! He just suddenly knelt!"

"Did he kick something himself?"

"I didn't see anything..."

Sun Xiaoqi was also dazed and hurriedly crouched down to help Peng Hu.

"Brother Peng! Brother Peng, what's wrong?"

Peng Hu couldn't speak. He covered his face, which had already turned purple from pain.

He gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, while sweat poured down his forehead like rain.

"He... he..."

Peng Hu raised his hand and pointed at Lu Xuan, who was still crouching on the ground.

Sun Xiaoqi looked in the direction he was pointing.

Lu Xuan was still crouching on the ground, holding his head and trembling like a coward who had been scared out of his wits.

Sun Xiaoqi frowned, "Brother Peng, you mean... him?"

Peng Hu couldn't speak; he just stared fixedly at Lu Xuan.

The onlookers were stunned for a moment, but then someone burst out laughing.

"Hahaha, did this fool kick his own balls?"

"Serves him right! That's what he gets for bullying people!"

"He was just making someone crawl through his legs, and now he's the one kneeling!"

Laughter surged from all directions, stabbing into Peng Hu's ears like knives, Peng Hu's face turned from red to purple.

He tried to stand up, but his crotch hurt as if it were being gouged by a knife, and his legs went weak, causing him to kneel again.

Sun Xiaoqi stood up and walked toward Lu Xuan, "Hey! You motherfucker..."

He hadn't finished his sentence.

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BOOM—!!!

A loud crash rang out as a window on the second floor of Grand Spring Tower exploded, and splinters of wood and glass fell from above, crashing onto the ground with a loud clatter.

Everyone looked up as a person flew out of the window.

He didn't fly out on his own; he was thrown out, tracing an arc in the air before hitting the ground with a thud, rolling twice, and becoming still.

Everyone looked down to see.

It was a servant of the Lu Family, whose clothes were covered in footprints, whose face was swollen like a pig's head, and from whose mouth blood trickled as he lay unconscious.

The sounds of fighting, overturning tables and chairs, and shattering dishes came from upstairs, and then Shen Zhenghai's voice came from above like a clap of thunder.

"Lu Tianhe... you've gone too far!"

"Shen Zhenghai... stop your baseless accusations!" Lu Tianhe's voice also drifted down, bone-chillingly cold.

"Baseless accusations? You sent people to spy on my Shen Family, do you think I don't know?"

"Your Shen Family killed five people from my Lu Family and hung them at the city gate. Do you think I don't know?"

"Never mind five people; my Shen Family would do it even if it were fifty or five hundred."

"Good, good, good! Just you wait to go back and collect the corpses of your Shen Family members!"

Another round of fighting sounds erupted upstairs, leaving the people downstairs completely dumbfounded because the Shen Family and the Lu Family were fighting in Grand Spring Tower.

Lu Xuan, still crouching, allowed himself a small, invisible smile.

Took you long enough.

Sun Xiaoqi couldn't care about Peng Hu anymore, so he turned and ran upstairs, while the other servants also rushed inside.

The people on the street retreated one after another because they feared they would be caught in the crossfire, while Lu Xuan remained crouching on the ground and holding his head.

No one was looking at him, so he slowly stood up, brushed the dust off his clothes, and bent down to pick up his vegetable basket.

The basket was still there, and although the tofu was smashed, the green vegetables were fine.

He glanced at the broken window upstairs, then at the unconscious servant on the ground, and finally at Peng Hu, who was still curled up and screaming.

You wanted me to crawl between your legs. Now you can't even stand on yours.

Then he turned around, carrying his vegetable basket, and walked away slowly, while the fight in Grand Spring Tower continued behind him.

No one noticed him, and as Lu Xuan walked home, he thought to himself that the Lu Family and the Shen Family were finally at each other's throats.

His steps were steady, and he thought, No one should have seen that pebble. The tofu is smashed; how should I tell Yuyan when I get back? I'll just say I tripped on the way.

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He pushed open the door to his home, and Shen Yuyan, who was cooking at the stove, turned around when she heard the movement.

"Husband, what took you so long?"

"I tripped on the way."

Lu Xuan placed the vegetable basket on the table and said, "The tofu is smashed."

Shen Yuyan glanced at the smashed tofu, then at Lu Xuan.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Shen Yuyan didn't ask further, so she took the basket, removed the vegetables, and poured the smashed tofu into a bowl.

"If it's smashed, then it's smashed. It's the same for making tofu soup."

Lu Xuan sat on the threshold and looked at the persimmon tree as sunlight filtered through the leaves and fell on his face.

He closed his eyes, while behind him, Shen Yuyan chopped vegetables, and the knife struck the cutting board with a rhythmic sound.

This... This is what I'm fighting for.

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After the two of them finished dinner, they enjoyed the cool air in the courtyard for a while, and Shen Yuyan had returned to her original appearance.

At this time, her skin was fair, and her beautiful eyes were full of desire, so Lu Xuan no longer hesitated and picked her up, holding her in his arms.

Shen Yuyan gave a bashful cry and buried herself in Lu Xuan's embrace, her face flushed with shame, and then the bedroom door closed as another storm of passion ensued.