"Ahem, sorry, we’ll have to put our grudges on hold for now. We’ve got no ti recently."
Han Shan responded awkwardly.
"Put it on hold? This ti it’s not standing you up, it’s you refusing my challenge, so don’t bla for breaking our appointnt later."
Tang Ming’s strange voice rang out.
"Who is it?"
Dong Changxing asked Han Shan suspiciously.
"Tang Ming."
Han Shan mouthed the words to explain.
"That bastard... huh, didn’t he say he needed to join the raid on the assassin last night? Why didn’t he show up?"
Dong Changxing looked at Han Shan in confusion.
"Relax, it’s just a minor thing between us, just a friendly sparring."
Han Shan nodded, then changed the topic: "You said yesterday that you missed the appointnt because you were going to help with the raid on the assassin, but why didn’t we see you there?"
"Well... you guys were there too?"
Tang Ming beca suspicious.
"Yes! We fought the assassin, where were you then?"
Han Shan asked again.
"Ahem, actually, I just went for fun, as a mber of the Dark Group to monitor, hiding in the surveillance van all the ti. After waiting a long while without seeing the assassin appear, I went back to the dorm to sleep."
Tang Ming cleared his throat and declared seriously, "I swear I wasn’t deliberately avoiding negotiations with Dong Changxing."
Upon hearing this, Han Shan felt disdain, as if Tang Ming was hiding sothing, and concluded that Tang Ming must have wanted to avoid direct confrontation with Dong Changxing, so he excused himself to catch the assassin but ended up disappearing when it was ti to take action.
"Alright then! If there’s nothing else, I’ll hang up, I have things to do here."
Han Shan replied, then promptly hung up the phone.
"What did he say?"
Dong Changxing looked at Han Shan, puzzled.
"He said he participated in the raid as part of the Dark Group, stayed in the surveillance van, and left when the assassin didn’t appear."
Han Shan reported truthfully.
"Shaless! That’s definitely an excuse."
Dong Changxing cursed discontentedly.
"Alliance Hierarch, shouldn’t we accept Tang Ming’s challenge? Isn’t it improper to refuse like this?"
Tie Longzhan looked at Dong Changxing with concern.
"In the current situation, our focus should be on investigating the Huaxia Secret Technique. We don’t have ti to fuss with a kid like Tang Ming."
Dong Changxing shook his head, "I’ve reported the situation to the family, and they’ll soon send people to investigate. You guys should be doing the sa, right?"
"Yes."
Everyone nodded in agreent with Yang Jin.
"Our grudges with Tang Ming are minor. Plus, we’re all injured now. Even the Alliance Hierarch might not benefit much from a fight with him."
The Dragon Lady reminded with a peculiar tone.
"Hmph, don’t ntion him again, gather resources quickly and focus on investigating last night’s assassin and the mysterious person."
Dong Changxing snorted coldly, making his final conclusions.
Just like that, the grudges between Tang Ming and the Little Martial Arts World were inexplicably shelved. It seed that in an instant, the major forces were all pointing their fingers at the mysterious person using the Huaxia Secret Technique, and Tang Ming found an unusual calm on his side.
For the next few days, Tang Ming honestly stayed at the school, hardly stepping outside the school gates. He spent his days with Lu Xiaolu, Liu ngting, and Li Xiaoli, living a very pleasant life.
In the dormitory, Shao Wuyou and ng Xianjun were busy gathering information and receiving friends from the martial arts world, while Hua Yingjie focused on his studies, living a fulfilling life.
One midday, in the cafeteria’s Fried Departnt.
"Aiya, what’s up with brother Tang Ming these days?"
Li Xiaoli reluctantly looked at Tang Ming, "You’ve been busy since the sester started, but why have you been so free these days, always wanting us to eat with you?"
"Exactly, being overly attentive ans there’s a hidden agenda."
Liu ngting looked at Tang Ming warily.
"I’m not as sneaky as you think."
Tang Ming said while eating and looking at Li Xiaoli and Liu ngting in confusion, "I just thought I should spend more ti with you. After all, you’re my fiancée, right? But it’s you who always said I never spent ti with you, so why are you rejecting these days?"
Previously, because of his busy schedule, he didn’t have ti for these two young ladies, but now that he’s free, he noticed that Liu ngting and Li Xiaoli had beco mysterious, sotis not taking his calls or replying to ssages, and often declining al invitations.
"Haha, so you do rember I’m your fiancée?"
Liu ngting coldly laughed and looked at Tang Ming uncertainly, "Did you find out sothing?"
"What do you an?"
Hearing this, Tang Ming was puzzled.
"Shush!"
Li Xiaoli’s face changed slightly, and she quickly signaled to Liu ngting.
"Ahem, nothing."
Liu ngting smiled, continued eating, and said no more.
"What’s going on?"
Tang Ming frowned, continuously glancing between Liu ngting and Li Xiaoli, feeling they were hiding sothing from him but couldn’t figure out the situation.
"Just eat, eat, brother Tang Ming, eat more."
Li Xiaoli cheerfully picked food for Tang Ming.
With doubt, Tang Ming ate lunch gloomily, and Liu ngting and Li Xiaoli hurriedly left afterward.
"What are these girls up to?"
Tang Ming watched the backs of the two girls in frustration, but couldn’t fathom why they were acting this way, so he put it aside in his mind.
No matter how much Tang Ming thought, he couldn’t figure it out and decided not to think too much about it, but things beca stranger in the following days.
Liu ngting and Li Xiaoli seed to be deliberately avoiding Tang Ming, blocking him on their social dia.
In the following days, Tang Ming beca more and more frustrated because the two girls paid less and less attention to him, making excuses of being too busy and leaving him aside.
At night, Tang Ming and three others sat around the table in the dorm, drinking beer and eating peanuts, boasting as usual.
"Tang Ming, what’s wrong, why have you been so down these past few days?"
Shao Wuyou asked Tang Ming curiously.
"I can’t really say, just feel that Liu ngting and Li Xiaoli’s attitude towards has changed."
Tang Ming took a sip of beer, shaking his head in frustration.
"Changed how? Aren’t they all your girls? They should be trying to please you, right?"
ng Xianjun beca interested, looking at Tang Ming curiously.
"Ha, I’ve never experienced them trying to please ."
Tang Ming pouted, sighed in frustration, "Recently, the two of them have been avoiding , and whenever I invite them to als or walks, they refuse, which feels uncomfortable."
"Maybe they’re just busy?"
Hua Yingjie suggested uncertainly.
Shao Wuyou and ng Xianjun exchanged glances, their expressions becoming peculiar.
"Can’t be! What could first-year students be busy with? No matter how busy, they still have to eat, right?"
Tang Ming furrowed his brows in distress.
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