Chapter 67: Scheming Woman…… Criminal? (2 in 1 Chapter)
Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated
Hao Ren stopped walking and turned around to look at her.
Although Su Han was cold, it was worth it to cultivate here as long as he could learn something from her.
This so-called Heavenly Master was also an Inspector in the Dragon Tribe. She should have a decent amount of precious dharma treasures and cultivation techniques.
Hao Ren was very clear about what he wanted. Not only for himself, but he also needed to keep a good relationship with Su Han for the sake of East Ocean Dragon Clan.
Sure enough, Su Han waved at him and said, “Come over. I’ll teach you a technique.”
After Hao Ren walked to her, Su Han pointed at his forehead with her long slim finger and transferred the thoughts into his head. Hao Ren memorized the simple spell that had three sentences easily.
“How can I use it?” Hao Ren asked.
“It must be used with an object, and here it is,” as she said that, two silver bracelets magically appeared in her palm.
She lightly smiled at Hao Ren and said, “Put it on.”
He warily stared at the bracelets in her smooth palm and didn’t reach for them hastily. The necklace Su Han gave him last time was still stuck on his neck.
If she were to put two anklets on him next time, then the five accessories could easily restrain him. All Su Han needed to do was control him with her thoughts if that happened.
Su Han knew what was worrying Hao Ren, so she smiled again and said, “Don’t worry. You will be able to take these off.”
Her light smile was charming; it was as sweet as the glorious flowers of spring. However, it made Hao Ren more worried as he saw the temptation in her smile.
“Hurry up!” the smile on Su Han’s face disappeared as she flipped the silver bracelets on to Hao Ren’s wrists.
At the same time, Hao Ren felt like his arms got as heavy as two giant mountains. Not only did his arms feel like they were almost breaking off, but his legs and feet were also having trouble supporting his body as well.
“The spell I just taught you are for taking these bracelets off. But you may only take them off for two hours each day. Otherwise, the necklace on you will strangle your neck and make you wish you are dead,” Su Han said calmly with her arms folded in front of her.
Hao Ren was in severe pain as well as serious regret.
“Schemer…such a schemer…” Hao Ren cursed at her 100 times in his mind. He blamed himself for being greedy and not leaving decisively; he did think that she was about to teach him some amazing cultivation technique.
“I heard about the fight. On the one hand, these Mount Tai Bracelets can contain your physical force and stop you from hurting people by accident in the future. On the other hand, they can help you cultivate and allow you to control your body more precisely,” Su Han continued.
“Well…then…thank you, Su Han,” Hao Ren gritted his teeth; he tried not to show his negative emotions towards her. The heavy bracelets made it difficult for him to lift his hands up, let alone talking.
“On top of that, the bracelets can sense your emotional state and would get heavier when you are in a bad mood. But if you are in a cheerful frame of mind, they would weigh nearly nothing,” Su Han calmly said to him as she stood beside him.
“Near nothing… how heavy is that?” Hao Ren asked.
“They would probably be around 25 kilograms each given that you are in a good mood,” Su Han mentioned lightly.
“25 kilograms…” Hao Ren almost collapsed.
Hao Ren persuaded himself to believe in Su Han’s “good intentions” as he walked down from her office with difficulty. Each step was a huge task for him.
Maybe it was due to the self-comfort, but the bracelets on his wrists became lighter and lighter as he went down the stairs. Before long, it wasn’t that painful for him to wear them.
However, his arms were still heavy as if they were carrying two bags of rice. Fortunately, he was already on the second level of the Spirit Concentration Scroll, which strengthened his physical body to a large degree. It helped him resist being dragged down to the ground.
“Su Han was trying to be nice to me…she is being considerate…” Hao Ren tried his best to keep up a good mood by lying to himself. He walked to the school gate to take the bus to Zhao Yanzi’s house.
He arrived there on time as usual, and Zhao Hongyu was making dinner. However, it wasn’t only her who was cooking in the kitchen; Grandma was helping out as well this time.
They were chatting while they prepared the dishes as if they had been close friends for years.
Hao Ren was glad to see Grandma and Zhao Hongyu getting along so well. His parents were busy with work, and they always needed to go on business trips abroad. Also, he could only visit Grandma on weekends due to his school, and Uncle Wang wasn’t very good at taking care of others as he wasn’t very talkative and spent lots of time with the plants. Therefore, Grandma was still technically living alone other than the fact that Uncle Wang cooked for her.
It was a good thing for Grandma to become good friends with Zhao Hongyu at her age. They could chat and cook together when she was living here, and they could call each other from time to time once she moved out.
Having seen how well they got along, the bracelets on Hao Ren’s wrists became even lighter.
He pushed open the door and entered the kitchen as he said, “I’m back, Auntie, Grandma.”
“Hehe, you are back. We left the door open knowing it was about time,” Zhao Hongyu laughed softly. She then noticed the silver bracelets on his arm and asked, “Are those little trinkets from Su Han again?”
“Little trinkets? They are nothing good…” Hao Ren secretly found them annoying.
The bracelets got a lot heavier immediately when his mood changed, and Hao Ren almost fell over. He immediately started to recite the phrase, “Su Han is a good person…she is only trying to help me…”
“Who is this Su Han?” Grandma asked out of curiosity when she heard a girl’s name.
“Oh, she is a friend of mine, and she teaches at East Ocean University. She has been taking care of Ren at school,” Zhao Hongyu explained to Grandma.
“Ren is destined to receive help from good people,” Grandma chuckled as she looked at her grandson.
“Yes, she has been pretty good to him. She is not only helping him with his school work but also giving him some of her homemade trinkets from time to time,” Zhao Hongyu said.
Hao Ren began to sweat at the sound of this. Other people would die for something from Su Han, yet he was too scared to get anything from her ever again.
Grandma looked down at Hao Ren’s bracelets and said, “Yeah, these handcrafted items are really beautiful. What a clever and deft girl. This lady must be very beautiful as well.”
Zhao Hongyu laughed and nodded. Then, she said to Hao Ren, “Zi has already come back, and she’s doing her homework upstairs. Go ahead with your tutoring session.”
“Um, ok.” Hao Ren turned around and left the kitchen.
“What do you think about Zi…” Zhao Hongyu carried on chitchatting with Grandma as Hao Ren walked upstairs in heavy steps.
Zhao Yanzi was doing her homework earnestly when Hao Ren walked into her room with some study materials.
“It seems she has been really well-behaved recently…” Hao Ren walked up behind her and coughed slightly.
Zhao Yanzi looked back realizing it was Hao Ren. She didn’t say anything; instead, she dragged her chair more to the right.
Hao Ren grabbed a chair and sat down beside her. “Today, I’m not going to tutor you like usual; we will just solve questions that confuse you before the exam. Ask me if you have any questions,” he said.
“Em,” Zhao Yanzi pouted and pushed her homework to Hao Ren as she said, “I circled the questions I don’t know how to do.”
“Ok, let me take a look.” Hao Ren took over the notebook, picked up a pen and some paper, and carefully started the calculations.
Meanwhile, Zhao Yanzi sat beside Hao Ren, staring at him doing the calculations. She also rolled her eyes and observed him secretly.
“He seems more handsome than usual,” a hazy and beckoning feeling knocked on Zhao Yanzi’s heart.
“Dressed in a white shirt, nothing special but is fairly neat. No scars on his hands, and he doesn’t seem strong…” Zhao Yanzi switched from observing Hao Ren’s face to his body.
All of a sudden, her eyes locked onto the silver bracelets on Hao Ren’s wrists.
“Did Sister Su give you these bracelets?” Zhao Yanzi asked.
“Yeah,” Hao Ren turned around and looked at her. “You know about these bracelets?” he asked.
Zhao Yanzi nodded and replied, “They are Mount Tai Bracelets, and only Inspectors have them. They are the same as the handcuffs normal police use to restrain criminals.”
“Criminals?” Hao Ren felt quite sensitive about this word.
“Em, the Inspector would put these bracelets on the cultivators who made mistakes and broke rules. The purpose is to restrain the strength and the supernatural power so the criminals can’t run away. But it seems that the bracelets given by Sister Su are simply Level 1 Bracelets, which are only used to restrain strength. Moreover, whoever wears it could open it with a secret spell,” Zhao Yanzi explained patiently.
Hao Ren stared at the bracelets in shock. Then, he looked at Zhao Yanzi in surprise. He didn’t know anything about the background of these bracelets, and he didn’t expect Zhao Yanzi to get more and more gentle with him.
Zhao Yanzi was wearing a set of orange pajamas since she was just staying in her own room. The orange pajamas matched with her youthful face, making her as refreshing as a glass of fresh orange juice.
Seeing Hao Ren staring at her in surprise, Zhao Yanzi changed the look on her face and yelled, “Don’t give me that look. After all, these two bracelets are dharma treasures. It is your honor that Sister Su gave them to you.”
“Fine, fine…” Hao Ren turned around to the desk, trying to refocus on the questions.
“Su Han must know about the fight I had on the basketball court. Putting them on me is probably some kind of punishment for me,” Hao Ren wondered at the same time.
Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi were soon immersed in the questions and didn’t even realize it was time for dinner. Zhao Hongyu went upstairs in person to tell them, and both of them left the desk and walked downstairs with Zhao Hongyu side by side.
While walking downstairs, Zhao Hongyu looked back and saw Zhao Yanzi grabbing onto Hao Ren’s sleeve while walking downstairs carefully, and this mother showed a glad smile immediately.
“Mom, what are you smiling about?” Zhao Yanzi yelled.
“Hehe, nothing!” Zhao Hongyu walked to the dining room.
Zhao Guang and Grandma had already sat beside the dinner table, and they were talking about something. They waved at Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi when they saw them walking downstairs together.
The five people started having dinner joyfully like a real family.
During dinner, Zhao Guang unexpectedly brought up a topic. “Ren, your grandma said that your parents would be back this Thursday. How about having dinner together this Thursday night so that we can get to know more about each other?” he asked.
“Huh?” Hao Ren froze for a second. He had expected that both families would meet each other in some way, but he didn’t think it would be this quick and sudden.
“Yeah, Hongyu and her family took such good care of me, and I really hope that your parents could invite them to dinner and meet them as soon as possible,” Grandma followed.
“Em…” Hao Ren looked at Zhao Guang then at Zhao Hongyu, feeling like something extraordinary would happen at the gathering.
Zhao Yanzi stopped eating as well. She stared blankly at the people around the dinner table, waiting for the result. She definitely would have yelled and turned down the family meeting if it was before. However, she had to maintain her “lady” image in front of Grandma.
“Zi will have her midterm exams at school this Friday. So, it will be better for her just to focus on reviewing. We can wait until the weekend and then talk about the meeting,” after thinking for a while, Hao Ren suggested.
“Alright, if that’s what it is…” Grandma felt really puzzled just now. She was wondering why Hao Ren was so hesitant when it was time for him to show his appreciation to Zi’s parents. Now, she knew it was all because he was concerned about Zhao Yanzi’s midterm exams.
“Yeah! Yeah!” Zhao Yanzi nodded in agreement instantly as she didn’t want to go to the next so-called parents-meeting stage so quickly.
“You had never taken exams so seriously before. You even went out during the final exams last time. How come you are so serious about it this time? We’ll see what grades you get,” Zhao Guang said to Zhao Yanzi.
Hearing Zhao Guang’s words, Zhao Yanzi pouted discontentedly.
“Zi has been work really hard on reviewing recently,” Hao Ren interrupted.
“Hum! I don’t need you to put in a good word for me!” Zhao Yanzi suddenly got mad for no reason.
“Fine, fine, there is no rush. Then we will discuss this matter on the weekend,” Grandma tried to mediate the dispute.
After dinner, Zhao Yanzi decided that she didn’t need Hao Ren’s help reviewing. Therefore, Hao Ren had to go back to the university helplessly.
It was really hard to guess what the girl was thinking about. It wouldn’t work out either way if Hao Ren went along or against her.
As a consequence, Hao Ren went back to the dorm earlier than before. Zhao Jiayi, who just got away from a tragedy, was playing cards with Zhou Liren and Cao Ronghua.
Hao Ren put the materials away on his desk and was about to get on his bed to have some rest. However, Zhao Jiayi suddenly grabbed his wrist. “What the hell, where did you get these bracelets?” he asked.
“From some booth on the side of the road, just for fun,” Hao Ren answered exhaustedly.
“Bracelets, are you a girl?” Zhou Liren said immediately.
Hao Ren didn’t know what to say. He knew that if Zhou Liren ever found out that these bracelets were from Su Han, this man would be willing to wear them all over his body.
“But they are nice bracelets,” Cao Ronghua got closer and took a better look at the two bracelets on Hao Ren’s wrist as he commented.
“Seems like they match your necklace,” Zhao Jiayi’s eyes lit up, “don’t tell me they are from Su Han again?”
“They do seem to match!” Zhou Liren finally found out this secret and started screaming.
“Don’t be so gossipy!” pushing Zhou Liren’s face away, Hao Ren jumped onto his bed to rest. However, the bed was bending so much that it almost broke.
“Be mild, be mild!” Zhao Jiayi yelled.
“How can it be mild when you are wearing bracelets that weigh 50 kilograms…” Hao Ren sighed in his mind as he picked up the book beside his pillow.
The Wednesday was as ordinary as usual. What the students talked about most was the discipline announcement posted in the Administrative Building. However, this matter didn’t have any influence on Hao Ren anymore.
He had to tutor Zhao Yanzi at night, and her attitude wasn’t reckless nor passionate; Hao Ren had no idea if he did something that offended her.
Hence, in a flash, it was Thursday again.
Ting! The signal light for text messages lit up on his cell phone.
Hao Ren sleepily opened his phone during class and found out that the message was from Xie Yujia.
“Academician Hao and Academician Yue will be giving lectures on science at eight o’clock tonight. Would you like to go with me?”