Chapter 32
Chapter 32: If Someone Doesn’t Like You, Beat Them Until They Do
Jiang Tea Tea listened to Jiang Yi Cheng and could not help snorting with laughter: “Jiang Yi Cheng, should I say you are weirdly confident, or that you don’t know your own limits?”
“You’re a Level S water element ability user. The water columns you control can only help people rinse their mouths and wash their feet, or make other people’s clothes a little wet. What kind of attack power is that?”
“With that, how do you have the nerve to say you’ll help me win first place in this Thirty Military Academies Supremacy Tournament?”
If she had known, she would have skipped dinner tonight and gone outside to eat all the bragging he blew up into the sky. It would be enough to stuff her to death.
Jiang Yi Cheng pressed down the flash of vicious dislike in his eyes: “My Level S water element ability doesn’t have strong offensive power, but the rest of my team members are strong.”
“They are from the Combat Department, the Command Faculty…”
“Wait.” Jiang Tea Tea raised her hand and cut him off.
Jiang Yi Cheng’s tone changed at once. He blurted out: “You agreed to team up with me?”
Jiang Tea Tea ignored his question. She turned her head to look at Huang Da Zhuang beside her: “Big Dog Huang, if you had a supernatural ability, would you choose someone whose parents and younger sister committed crimes in front of His Highness Chong Ming to be the teammate you trust with your back?”
Huang Da Zhuang’s voice was loud, and he did not bother to hide his contempt for Jiang Yi Cheng: “I don’t even have a supernatural ability and I still wouldn’t pick him. Isn’t my life a life? Isn’t my future a future?”
“I’d be scared he’d stab me in the middle of the night, and also scared his brain would cramp one day and he’d copy his younger sister, go commit a crime in front of His Highness Chong Ming, and drag me down with him.”
Jiang Tea Tea got the answer she wanted. Her gaze fell back on Jiang Yi Cheng’s not-so-handsome, now dark and ugly face: “Did you hear that, my good older brother? That is what a normal way of thinking looks like.”
The fact that his dad, mother, and younger sister committed crimes was already set. The only reason there was no sentence yet was that their case hadn’t been fully investigated.
The only reason he could still stay safely in the Academy was because what they had found so far showed it had nothing to do with him. They just gave him a major demerit as a warning and did not touch him otherwise.
As long as he did not cause trouble, he could spend the last two years here in peace. But after graduation, he would definitely not be able to enter any part of the Army Corps or any department related to the Imperial Authorities.
No matter if they were male or female, everyone who got into a Military Academy dreamed about joining the Army Corps. They all swore to protect their home and their country. To team up with a human firecracker who might become a stain on their record at any time, were they crazy or insane?
Jiang Yi Cheng clenched the hand on his leg into a fist and stopped acting, glaring at Jiang Tea Tea with open malice: “You know no one is willing to form a team with me. The Jiang Family raised you for more than ten years, and you’re not willing to help me at all? Help me get a ranking in the Supremacy Tournament and change His Highness Chong Ming’s impression of me?”
His parents and younger sister had dragged him down. He urgently needed an excellent result or some explosive merit to prove himself and make others change the way they looked at him.
Jiang Tea Tea tossed her used napkin onto the table and spoke straight to the point: “Jiang Yi Cheng, you want someone with no supernatural ability to help you. How should I help you? Let you kill me on the Supremacy Tournament field?”
Jiang Yi Cheng’s pupils shrank: “That’s not what I meant…”
Jiang Tea Tea stood up: “Whether that’s what you meant, you know very well. If I were you, I wouldn’t be this anxious.”
He was in such a hurry to get in the same team as her so that in the chaos of the Supremacy Tournament he could ‘accidentally’ injure her, get rid of her, kill her, and step on her body to climb up.
He never thought she would be this stubborn, and that her pair of black eyes would see right through the filth and schemes in his heart at a glance.
Jiang Tea Tea gave Jiang Yi Cheng a look that said she understood everything. Then she turned and walked out of the school cafeteria.
Huang Da Zhuang hurried after her. Once they were out of the school cafeteria, he sighed: “Sister Tea, that cheap older brother of yours is really sick in the head.”
Jiang Tea Tea laughed: “Don’t learn from him.”
Huang Da Zhuang patted his chest: “I’m not dumb, you know!”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Good. We’ve eaten and drunk our fill. Let’s go back to the dorm and sleep.”
Huang Da Zhuang: “…”
She ate so much, yet her stomach did not bulge and she was not fat at all. And she could still sleep?
[She really is worthy of being my Sister Tea. She’s special. The Supremacy Tournament definitely needs her there. I just have to stick close and ride her coattails.]
On the way back, Jiang Tea Tea did not take a hovercar. She strolled along, enjoying the bright, youthful energy of the students, and went back to the dorm.
She did not expect that as soon as she pushed the door open, she would see Sui Xuan Chu in big shorts, bare upper body, hair still wet, holding a cup of water and on a call.
The young man’s lean muscles were clearly defined, beads of water still clung to his skin, and there were a few black scales that had not yet disappeared.
[The flesh and blood of a big golden dragon holds so much energy. He’s a red-black dragon, so he should be almost the same. I should find a chance to taste him later.]
Jiang Tea Tea waved at him as a greeting, then went back into her room and closed the door with a bang.
In Sui Xuan Chu’s ear, a low, flat voice came from the call: “Xuan Chu, as a man who is sharing a dorm with a woman, dressing properly is the most basic respect and manners.”
Sui Xuan Chu took a big swallow of water and answered the owner of that deep voice: “Got it, I’ll pay attention next time.”
His roommate used to leave early and come back late. In the last half year, he could count on one hand how many times he had seen her. They had spoken no more than three sentences. The dorm had basically been his alone.
Forget walking around the dorm in big shorts. Sometimes he only wore small shorts and swung his dragon tail, and still couldn’t meet her.
He hadn’t expected her to come back today, and even bump into him like that. His uncle saw it on the call. His uncle was the type who said one and no one dared say two, a rigid old stick who did not allow people to go against him.
The deep voice spoke again: “Since you know, why are you still standing there and not going back to your room to put on your clothes?”
[What a control freak.]
Sui Xuan Chu didn’t dare say that out loud, only muttered it in his heart. He went back to his own room and pulled on a dark blue T-shirt.
The owner of the deep voice continued: “There are a few matters that need you to handle. After we hang up, I will ask my secretary to send them to you. Before you leave the Academy for the Supremacy Tournament, deal with them and send the results back to me.”
Sui Xuan Chu dragged a hand through his hair: “Can’t you handle them for me? I’m still a student who hasn’t even had my adulthood ceremony.”
The deep voice said: “Mm, and then what? You’re not going to deal with them?”
Sui Xuan Chu deflated at once: “I’ll do it, I’ll do it.”
The deep voice: “Stay safe. Goodbye.”
Sui Xuan Chu: “Goodbye!”
The encrypted call ended. All the signal records of their conversation were wiped clean without a trace.
At the Imperial Military Headquarters office, Chong Ming pressed the internal line: “Secretary Wen. Send those six urgent government files I just read to the Crown Prince. Remind him that I need his results before the Supremacy Tournament.”
Secretary Wen answered at once: “Yes, yes, Your Highness.”
Chong Ming picked up the thick, detailed file on Jiang Tea Tea from childhood to now, put it into his desk drawer, and then began handling other government work.
After hanging up, Sui Xuan Chu left his room right away, went to Jiang Tea Tea’s door, knocked, and asked: “Roommate, for the Thirty Military Academies Supremacy Tournament, do you need teammates?”
Jiang Tea Tea blinked: “You want to be my teammate?”
Sui Xuan Chu asked in return: “Can’t I?”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled: “You can. We already have one teammate, his name is Huang Da Zhuang.”
Sui Xuan Chu was not surprised that Huang Da Zhuang was her teammate: “Any other teammates?”
Jiang Tea Tea shook her head: “No.”
Sui Xuan Chu fell silent for a moment: “Okay. I’ll go find a few more teammates. We’ll make a team of six to eight people.”
Jiang Tea Tea did not care whether the team had many people or few: “Do as you like. But I’ll say the ugly words first. I have a bad temper.”
Sui Xuan Chu grinned, wild and sharp: “What a coincidence, I have a bad temper too. If any teammate is not happy with you or hard to get along with, it’s simple. Just beat them until they are happy with you and easy to get along with.”