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Chapter 177: The Major Event in Liu Zheng’s Life

Chapter 177: Chapter 177: The Major Event in Liu Zheng’s Life

That’s her.

Liu Zheng, holding his somewhat overheated phone, dialed Nightingale’s number.

"What a coincidence, I was just about to call you, and you beat me to it. Is this what they call telepathy?"

Nightingale teased.

"What do you want from me?"

He was not at all moved by Nightingale’s words.

Ever since he saw her using a sea girl as a cannon with her crotch, Liu Zheng lost any interest in her.

Not that he had any before that.

"What did you add to my bomb? Why was it so powerful?"

Nightingale asked.

"Oh? You noticed?"

Liu Zheng said, surprised.

"Nonsense, with such a commotion, half the people in Metropolis could feel it."

Nightingale said impatiently.

"It was nothing, just had someone make a button that increases the explosive power by tenfold."

He spoke as if it was no big deal.

"Tsk, sometimes I really have to admire your ability to mess with things."

Nightingale remarked.

A board game led him to an Invincible Book, fishing got him balls from the sewer, and even her trump card of a super bomb was taken by him.

"Maybe I was a hero in a previous life."

Liu Zheng shrugged his shoulders.

"What?"

"Nothing. I called to ask you, how are your academic grades?"

He changed the subject.

"What academic grades?"

Nightingale asked back.

"Huh? Don’t tell me you’ve never been to school?"

"No, I haven’t."

Nightingale said.

"Finished, and here I thought with your noble air you would be a top student, and you turn out to be illiterate."

Liu Zheng sighed.

"Who told you not going to school makes someone illiterate?"

"So you had a home tutor?"

Hope flared up in him again.

Thinking about it, it made sense; aren’t those things depicted in palace dramas?

A noble girl and her home tutor sparking a forbidden romance.

"No."

"Isn’t that still illiterate?"

Liu Zheng was disappointed again.

"Who told you no teacher means illiterate?"

Nightingale was almost amused by him.

"Hmm?"

"I knew all the knowledge at the time of my birth, no need to learn."

Nightingale said proudly.

"Blowing smoke, if your family was that amazing, City Hall would be under your control."

Liu Zheng curled his lip.

"The wording might be an exaggeration, but I’m more than qualified to be a professor at the best university in Metropolis."

Nightingale said.

"Which is the best university in Metropolis?"

"Of course, it’s City University."

Nightingale replied.

"Never heard of it, forget it, it’s not important."

There was no need for Nightingale to boast to him, since she could teach college students, teaching elementary and middle school students should be no problem either.

"I have a task for you."

Liu Zheng said.

"What task?"

"To tutor someone, a middle school student, one student, both are dead last in their class."

He said.

"Pfft! Where did you dig up this pair of prodigies?"

Nightingale couldn’t help but laugh.

"My connections are beyond your imagination. Just tell me, are you in or out?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"What’s in it for me?"

Nightingale asked with a laugh.

"How about having a godfather-like bodyguard next time you and Sea Girl go to the Garbage Processing Plant, is that a benefit?"

"Can you get the Fisherman out of the sewer?"

Nightingale asked in astonishment.

With her insight, she naturally noticed that something was off about the Fisherman.

"It’s not him."

Liu Zheng didn’t know if he could get the Fisherman out, and even if he could, he wasn’t sure the Fisherman would want to.

He suspected that the Fisherman had reached some agreement with City Hall; otherwise, how could Sea Girl carry her mother’s "legacy" and live and work normally outside?

"Then who is it? Niu Ma’s strength is not enough."

"Fire Mage."

Liu Zheng didn’t hold back anymore.

"You actually got involved with that person. How did you convince him to help you?"

Nightingale was shocked.

"I helped him get rid of the City Hall’s arrest warrant, in exchange, he takes us into the Garbage Processing Plant."

"Lift an arrest warrant? Aren’t you being too presumptuous? You’re just a delivery guy for Bloody Restaurant, not the director of City Hall."

Nightingale said with a mix of annoyance and amusement.

Even her family wouldn’t dare say they could lift an arrest warrant; how could this human dare make such a promise.

Did he not know, in Metropolis, if you don’t fulfill a promise, there will be trouble?

Even if the Fire Mage was extremely patient, he would still have to punish this unreliable behavior.

This is the rule of Metropolis, regardless of both parties’ wishes.

"Don’t rush to criticize me, let me explain my plan."

Liu Zheng told Nightingale the details of his discussion with the Fisherman.

"So the one who died was a council member of the Jordan family, no wonder fewer young people from their family have been showing up."

Nightingale realized.

"You don’t even know this kind of intelligence and yet aspire to be the sole heir."

He took the opportunity to scorn her.

"I didn’t want to be the sole heir in the first place, they just pissed me off,"

Nightingale snorted.

She was always unconventional, otherwise, she wouldn’t have fallen for Sea Girl.

Her original plan was to open her own board game bar, and she was actually not interested in family affairs.

It was the behavior of her siblings, kicking her when she was down, that pushed her onto this path.

Of course, Nightingale could somewhat understand their behavior.

The attention her father invested in her truly surpassed what he had put into all of them combined.

But understanding was one thing, and it did not prevent Nightingale from killing them all without sparing a single one.

"Since you’ve taken on the role, then adopt the attitude of the sole heir and get clear on the current situation of the Jordan family,"

"Especially their underground clinics, drug factories, and such places, size, manpower—get a hold of all this intelligence."

Liu Zheng said.

"So are you asking me to be a tutor, or to gather intelligence?"

Nightingale rolled her eyes.

"Tutoring and intelligence gathering aren’t in conflict. You aren’t restricted in your movements like I am."

"Who says I’m not restricted? My siblings are all secretly watching me,"

Nightingale retorted.

"Then move through the sewers. Call the Fisherman and have him protect you—if that’s not enough, add the Fire Mage. I guarantee whoever comes at you will die."

"Have the Fisherman protect me? It’s hard to say who is more likely to kill me between him and my siblings."

Nightingale curled her lip.

"At least until the sea girl has finished at the Garbage Processing Plant, he won’t let you die. If he causes trouble, just tell me and I’ll call and scold him, okay?"

Liu Zheng was getting impatient.

"You’re a mere human, and you talk big."

Nightingale mocked, but said no more.

"Call this number to contact that person and say I referred you. Call me back after you’ve got an agreement."

He gave her Wang Manni’s number.

"Got it."

After hanging up, Liu Zheng exhaled deeply.

Now there should be no one else to contact—just wait for Nightingale’s call.

If she fails the job interview, then I’ll call the novelist.

Only that he really didn’t want to ask the novelist for help unless absolutely necessary.

So far, the deal between them was utterly unequal.

Though the novelist claimed it didn’t matter, Liu Zheng had a feeling it did.

He felt like an insect lured by honey, stepping into a web woven just for it.

"What are you brooding over there for?"

Niu Ma pushed the door open, looking at him with a peculiar expression.

"I’m pondering a major issue in my life,"

Liu Zheng said offhandedly.

"What, are you getting married? With who?"

Niu Ma immediately perked up.

Though the bets were on who would be the first to sleep with Liu Zheng, marrying him could also count, in a pinch.

"I mean, if I don’t handle this right, I won’t have a life at all."

He said expressionlessly.

"Tsch. Here’s the alcohol you wanted."

Niu Ma put down the bag, disappointed.

As before, there were three boxes.

Pirate Head rum, Holy Fool Crossbone vodka, and Five Lady Liquid.

"That’ll be thirty thousand."

Niu Ma extended its hoof.

"Why is it ten thousand more expensive than last time?"

Liu Zheng furrowed his brow.

He did have money to burn, but not like this.

"Hmph, that bottle of Holy Fool Crossbone vodka alone is priced at twenty-five thousand on the market. This time I took no kickback, even haggled for you, be content already."

Niu Ma gave him a ’you don’t know what’s good for you’ look.

"Suddenly so generous? There must be a catch."

Liu Zheng eyed it skeptically.

Generosity might be among Niu Ma’s qualities, but certainly not one of them.

"Cough, get me some new magazines on your way out,"

Niu Ma said, looking away.

"Oh. Where should I buy them?"

He asked.

"Turn left when you go out, walk straight to the first newsstand, and tell the owner I sent you,"

Niu Ma said smoothly.

"Which kind should I get?"

"Just see what you can find. If it’s not good, give me my kickback money back,"

Niu Ma threatened.

"Heh."

Liu Zheng couldn’t be bothered to argue.

Given the residents’ weird and complex nature, he, a newcomer to this madness, would be lucky to make a decent choice.

If they had what Niu Ma wanted, fine, otherwise, just grab anything.

Give the kickback money if it comes to it; it wasn’t like he was short of cash.

After securing the fine liquor, he continued to wait for the call.

After a while, his phone finally rang.

But it wasn’t Nightingale; it was Wang Manni calling.

"You’re truly amazing!"

She said earnestly.

"The deputy director interviewed Miss Nightingale over the phone at your recommendation, and she won him over in just ten minutes. He agreed to hire her as his son’s tutor."

"That’s good to hear. But you tell that deputy director I have a condition,"

Liu Zheng stated.

"Go ahead."

"There’s a grade school student in apartment 303, block 2 of his complex, also last in age. I want Nightingale to tutor both kids together."

He said.

"That request, I fear the deputy director won’t consent."

Wang Manni said with difficulty.

"Then let him find someone else. Nightingale is, after all, a scion of nobility; it was only because of my face that she agreed to be his son’s tutor."

"He won’t find another chance like this. I assure you, scour the entire Metropolis and he’d fail to find a better tutor,"

Liu Zheng confidently claimed.

Nobody had a higher level of education than Nightingale while matching her status.

And nobody of higher status than Nightingale had her level of education.

And anyone with both a higher education and status than Nightingale wouldn’t bother tutoring a little director’s son, let alone a deputy one.

"Okay, I’ll communicate that to the deputy director."

Wang Manni reluctantly agreed.

Hanging up, she felt secretly alarmed.

Just who is this delivery man with the clout to convince a noble lady to become a tutor? Could he himself be part of high society, being a delivery man just to experience life?

If Liu Zheng knew what Wang Manni was thinking, he’d likely advise her to watch less low-brow TV shows.

Someone from high society working at Bloody Restaurant as a delivery man—did she look down on high society or Bloody Restaurant?

Besides, was that ’experiencing life’? That was Hell.

He had barely put the phone down when it rang again.

Could Wang Manni be that efficient?

Surprised, Liu Zheng picked up the phone. When he saw the number, his eyebrows immediately knitted into a "川".

There it was, what he feared would happen.

He wasn’t seeking the novelist, but the novelist was seeking him.

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