After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 504: The Overall Situation Is What Matters

Chapter 504: Chapter 504: The Overall Situation Is What Matters

Quan Jinbei really didn’t want to be alone with him, so he stepped back.

Any normal person should be able to discern his attitude from this.

Alas, Shang Minghao...

Was not a normal person.

Even having realized that Quan Jinbei was unwilling to interact with him, he shamelessly moved closer.

"Instructor Quan."

Shang Minghao’s face was smiling, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes.

Quan Jinbei glared at him, barely stopping short of writing "Don’t touch me" across his face.

Shang Minghao took his shamelessness to the extreme, talking to himself, "Instructor Quan, I do wonder if I have the honor to invite you for a cup of tea."

Quan Jinbei: "No."

A crisp and direct refusal.

Shang Minghao hadn’t expected him to leave no room for maneuver.

But he quickly adjusted himself, adopting a regretful stance: "What a pity, then."

Quan Jinbei wouldn’t ask what he found regrettable. His gaze was searching amid the running students for Shi Yaoguang’s figure.

Shang Minghao mimicked his action, looking towards the crowd.

While watching, he spoke again.

"Instructor Quan, how much do you know about Shi Yaoguang?"

Quan Jinbei’s eyes didn’t waver, "How much I know about her, what’s it to you?"

Shang Minghao chuckled lightly, "It indeed should have nothing to do with me how much you know about her, however... there’s something I think I should remind you of."

He said this, pausing as if expecting Quan Jinbei to ask of his own accord.

Unfortunately, Quan Jinbei didn’t play by the rules.

Shang Minghao said he’d listen.

Shang Minghao didn’t speak, and he wouldn’t ask.

He just embodied the standard of a scumbag to the fullest: "Don’t initiate, don’t refuse, don’t take responsibility."

Shang Minghao’s face showed a moment of collapse, but he quickly adjusted his emotions.

There still seemed to be a tinge of regret on his face: "I genuinely wanted to have a chat with you."

Quan Jinbei still didn’t speak.

It was pointless for Shang Minghao to talk to himself, so he reluctantly got to the point.

"I came to you to tell you something."

Quan Jinbei’s eyebrows lifted slightly, surprisingly initiating the conversation: "If you’ve come to smear her, there’s no need."

Shang Minghao was choked.

He did have that intention, but...

How could Quan Jinbei know his thoughts?

Shang Minghao was on the verge of mental collapse.

Why did Quan Jinbei, a disposable character, have an even stronger attitude than him?

Who was the real Heavenly Dao?

Quan Jinbei didn’t care whether his mental state collapsed or not.

He tilted his head back, looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.

"What are you looking at?" Shang Minghao also raised his head, asking curiously.

Quan Jinbei: "The sun is very bright."

Shang Minghao was very confused by his nonsensical response.

What did that mean?

After a while, Quan Jinbei finally said: "The sunlight is too dazzling, so Heavenly Dao is blind."

Shang Minghao: "..."

He had just realized what Quan Jinbei meant by that, when he continued, "It’s understandable."

Meaning, it was understandable that Heavenly Dao was blind.

The actual Heavenly Dao: "..."

He was really angry now.

If it weren’t for not daring to be reckless, he would definitely have a showdown with this human who dared to challenge him!

Unfortunately, there were no ifs.

Shang Minghao was just asking for trouble by tangling with Quan Jinbei.

And regrettably, this was a trouble he had to swallow.

Shang Minghao struggled to suppress the urge to go all out against Quan Jinbei, forcibly pulling his rationality back.

"I don’t want to argue with you," Shang Minghao said.

Quan Jinbei gave him an eye that said "immature."

Shang Minghao: "..."

At this moment, he greatly doubted Quan Jinbei’s identity as a disposable character.

Is such a person really just cannon fodder in the small world he controls?

Cannon fodder that wild?

This world was originally made up of hopeless romantics, as long as everything moves according to the predetermined trajectory, there shouldn’t be any issues.

But now...

Shi Yaoguang, that freak, appeared.

Not only did she suppress the daughters of the Heavenly Dao and change many stepping stones’ destined paths.

That’s not all.

She even managed to turn Quan Jinbei against us.

And...

The world’s structure also changed.

The Heavenly Dao was only later to realize that the central hopeless romantics of the world had already begun to slowly stray off course.

After Shi Yaoguang devoured two of his avatars, he remembered her unusual abilities and after careful investigation found out that Shi Yaoguang was actually cultivating!

Not just her, but Quan Jinbei was cultivating too.

In addition, Shi Yaoguang took on disciples.

She even tricked An Xiaoya away.

An Xiaoya wasn’t exactly his creation, but...

She was greatly connected to him.

As soon as Shi Yaoguang made her move, she overshadowed the Chosen Daughters without a shred of glory.

And she casually recruited another Chosen Daughter...

This crap, she’s living a life even more comfortable than me, the Heavenly Dao.

If you talk about it, Shi Yaoguang seems more like the Heavenly Dao than I do.

A smile.

It’s incredibly frustrating.

Shang Minghao felt aggrieved for quite a while.

Every day when he woke up, he thought about one thing.

Regret.

If he had known Shi Yaoguang was such a promising seedling, he wouldn’t have been so blind and chosen Shi Yiqing instead.

Now look, I’ve been slapped in the face.

The Chosen Daughter is like a joke.

And annoyingly enough, he hasn’t found a way to send this joke packing; it’s like he’s asking for punishment.

How sad and frustrated he is, only he knows.

Especially now, with the support of Quan Jinbei.

Compared to the relationship between Shi Yaoguang and Quan Jinbei, the love between Shi Yiqing and Quan Sicheng is fragile and easily shattered.

Leaving aside the far-off matters, he himself has realized it.

Shi Yiqing’s feelings for Quan Sicheng aren’t the undying love he thought they were.

To put it more pragmatically, there’s not even love between them.

Without love, how can the world of hopeless romantics continue?

Every day feels like vomiting blood.

It’s too late for regrets, Shang Minghao could only think of other methods.

Besides contacting Miao Jingjing, he made other preparations.

The marriage between Shi Yiqing and Quan Sicheng was decreed by fate.

Yet their love is as flimsy as plastic.

This just goes to show, love is but the most deceitful lie.

As long as he finds the right angle, he is not worried about not being able to break through this façade of false prosperity.

Shang Minghao was all set with his plan, even eager to seek out Quan Jinbei.

Who knew that Quan Jinbei would not cooperate with him at all?

When he talked, Quan Jinbei would respond if he was in a good mood; otherwise, he simply ignored him.

How was he supposed to carry on with his plan?

And slapping a warm face on a cold butt wasn’t his style anyway.

Shang Minghao was beyond frustrated, looking at Quan Jinbei with eyes that seemed they might punch holes in him.

Quan Jinbei ignored him for quite a while before he finally spoke up.

The tone of his voice carried an inexplicable sense of charity.

"You came to see me, you must have something you want to discuss, let’s hear it."

Listening to his almost commanding tone, Shang Minghao clenched his fists.

Hold back, hold back.

The bigger picture is what’s important.

After composing himself internally, he finally spoke up, "I do have something to discuss with you, I want to make a deal."