Unparalleled Duo
Chapter 55 - 55 37 Lei Buji

55: Chapter 37 Lei Buji 55: Chapter 37 Lei Buji “Compete in martial arts?” Huang Donglai heard this and sized up the dark-faced man again, doubtful, “Who are you?

Do I know you?”

Brother Huang was also cunning; he didn’t deny his identity as Sun Yixie immediately but instead asked questions to gather information from the other.

Unexpectedly, the dark-faced man was straightforward and immediately replied, “My name is Lei Buji, you don’t know me, but I’ve heard of you.” He paused, then added, “I just asked the shopkeeper which room you’re staying in, so there’s no use pretending.

You are Sun Yixie from Hangzhou, right?”

“Heh…” Huang Donglai neither admitted nor denied, simply chuckling, “Even if I am… why would I need to compete in martial arts?”

“Uh…” Stumped by that question, Lei Buji was taken aback for a moment, then finally mustered, “Because I want to participate in the Youth Hero Conference.”

“What?” Huang Donglai raised an eyebrow, stepped back half a step, and stared at the man’s face that looked to be in his thirties, then said, “Brother, how old are you?”

…

**Knock knock knock—**

Moments later, loud knocking woke Sun Yixie from his sleep.

Enduring a hangover headache, he groggily staggered to the door and opened it.

As soon as the door opened, Huang Donglai walked in unapologetically, passing by Sun Yixie while casually saying, “Brother Sun, you have a visitor.”

Sun Yixie was still processing when Huang Donglai had already sat down inside, and the dark-faced man also followed Huang Donglai in.

“Hey, hey…

what’s this early in the morning?

Just walking into my room like that?” Sun Yixie turned to look at both of them, then glanced at Huang Donglai and pointing at Lei Buji, asked, “And…

who is this?”

“First of all…” After settling down, Huang Donglai picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a cup, while responding, “…it’s almost noon now; secondly, Brother Sun, you see, this is my room, yours is next door; thirdly… this brother here is Lei Buji, I ran into him by your door earlier, he said he wants to challenge you.

If you lose, he wants you to give him your spot in the Youth Hero Conference.”

“What?” Having heard this, Sun Yixie narrowed his eyes at Lei Buji and then asked him the same question Huang Donglai had asked earlier, “Brother, how old are you?”

Lei Buji hadn’t answered when Huang Donglai interjected, “Sixteen.”

The number shocked Sun Yixie into jumping back, eyes widening, “He’s ‘sixteen’?”

“Yeah.” Lei Buji, unusually straightforward, thought the remark was an actual question and immediately answered, “I just turned sixteen this spring, just the right age to participate in the Youth Hero Conference.”

“Wow,” Sun Yixie looked at him incredulously and quipped, “Brother, you aged pretty fast, eh?

Skipped right from puberty to menopause…”

Lei Buji, not understanding what menopause was, didn’t care and circled back to his point, “You are Sun Yixie, right?

Well, then come, compete in martial arts with me.

If I win, you let me take your place.”

“Heh,” Sun Yixie found him amusing and laughed, replying, “Brother, let’s not even talk about that competition.

Step back a moment… even if I willingly gave you my spot, the organizers might not agree to let you participate.”

“I already told him that—” Huang Donglai interjected at this point, “I said the invitations were decided by all major sects together, that even if someone on the list doesn’t show up, they would simply be considered as forfeiting, no replacements allowed; but he said, you Sun Yixie were ‘specially invited’ by Master Shen, not on the original list.

He just has to defeat you to prove he’s more qualified.”

“Exactly!” Lei Buji added, “That’s the reasoning.”

“Bullshit!” Sun Yixie blurted out as he thought how to counter, “By your logic, if I slept with your bride on your wedding night, does that mean I’m more entitled to marry her?”

His analogy was quite rogue, and a deliberate distortion, but it was enough to bamboozle Lei Buji.

“Uh…

well…” Lei Buji, caught off guard, was speechless.

Sun Yixie, seeing him baffled, smirked inwardly and pressed further: “Besides, does being a ‘hero’ only concern martial prowess?

Does winning against you make one more qualified to be called a hero?

If that’s the case, any villain with good martial arts could participate in the Youth Hero Conference, right?”

Lei Buji was rendered speechless, his dark face turning purple from embarrassment.

“I… I… well, I’ll leave then…” Lei Buji hesitated for a while, having no clue what to say, and turned to leave.

“Hold on!” But Sun Yixie stopped him, “Don’t rush, I have another question for you.”

In that instant, Lei Buji had almost reached the door, but he couldn’t pretend not to hear and run away… So, with his head bowed, back to Sun Yixie, he murmured, “What…

what else do you want to ask?”

In that moment, a severe expression flickered across the smiling face of Sun Yixie: “Who told you that I was ‘specially invited’ by Master Shen?”

Although Sun Yixie usually didn’t seem serious, on matters that might jeopardize his interests, he was quite shrewd—according to Huang Donglai’s earlier account, it was Lei Buji himself who revealed the special invitation by Master Shen.

But how could such confidential information reach someone as obtuse as Lei Buji?