A Failure's hopeful Journey

Chapter 16: The Argument.

The surrounding people gradually fell silent. You Zhichi turned her head to look towards the guy who approached her and she said with a poker face: "Mister, I do not dance with strangers. Please look for another partner." her words were clear and did not sound insulting at all, but the young man was not quite satisfied with this answer and said: "It's just a dance, do you have to act all high and mighty over it?"

The atmosphere became tense, but You Zhichi did not reply to the young man and turned to leave, her action caused the young man to burst into fury and he grabbed towards her shoulder but before his hand could reach her it was stooped by You Xi Wang who was looking at the young man with cold eyes, his gaze scared the young man and he took a step back.

You Xi Wang asked with an innocent-looking smile: "May I know your name?"

The young man replied with a heavy voice: "Xue Jingshen son of council official Xue."

You Xi Wang understood his implication and smiled as he said: "Robert, please invite council elder Xue to our table"

Everyone in the banquet wanted to see how he would deal with this matter. Soon, council elder Xue arrived at their table and saw You Xi Wang holding his son's arm. He knew his son's vicious nature and understood it must be his fault, usually powerful people support their own people, but council officials were bound to oaths, he cautiously approached You Xi Wang and asked, "Young master You is there any misunderstanding between you and my son?"

Before You Xi Wang could speak Emily spoke up as she also moved to stand behind him: "Council official Xue, It's master You now, You Xi Wang has succeeded You family throne."

The council official understood his mistake and hurriedly replied: "I apologize for the way I addressed master You."

You Xi Wang smiled and waved his free hand and said in a respectful tone: "Council official Xue, I prefer being called Young master You as I am used to it, plus I am not old enough to be called Master, please relax and you should not apologize to me, you are an elder to me, plus mistakes can be forgiven if they are made unknowingly and are not harmful, just like now. Your son did something for which I would have flayed him alive and made him beg me to kill him if he was not your son. Do you know what he did?"

His voice was soft yet the authority it carried was undistinguished. The council official looked around, he was embarrassed, but You Xi Wang gave him face when he called him an elder and spared his son for something he disliked very much. This was enough face and respect for him anymore and it will make him seem like a tyrant who used the Council's powers for oppressing others, which resulted in the erasure of his whole family by the council.

Council official Xue looked at his son in fury as he was the reason of him being in a bind now and angrily asked: "What did you do?"

Xue Jingshen answered with a shiver in his voice: "I invited lady You Zhichi for a dance," he was afraid of his father ever since he was a kid but it was his mother who spoiled him rotten.

You Xi Wang snorted: "Are you going to say it all or should I? But if I am the one who needs to explain your deeds, what use does your tongue have?"

You Xi Wang's words were torturing and Xue Jingshen blurted out everything truthfully from how he got drunk and how She Congming encouraged him to ask You Zhichi for a dance to how he was enraged at her refusal.

Council official Xue lost his temper and slapped his son so hard that he fell down on the ground spitting blood. This slap shocked every one guest they did not expect Council official Xue to be this fiery. Council official Xue was a respected person, and he hated people being disrespected towards women, he said in a cold voice: "You waste of space apologize to lady You and I might lessen your punishment when you get home, if Young master You allow you to."

Xue Jingshen did as he was told and apologized to You Zhichi, but You Xi Wang has still not decided if to let him go. You Naixin came and stood next to him and whispered something in his ear which made a smile form and he nodded to her, he walked up to the kneeling Xue Jingshen and helped him up and said in a friendly tone: "Xue Jingshen, my sister is my life and if someone has schemes against her, I will make them feel the torment they cannot imagine, but this time you were only used by She Congming as a borrowed knife. I will let you go, be careful whom to befriend and whom to fall out with."

Xue Jingshen departed with his father and sincerely thanked You Xi Wang, who asked Council official to end this matter here. You Xi Wang asked You Naixin to make She Congming a eunuch with tools, which means he will have a dick and balls but they won't serve the purpose. It was sinister but was necessary as this snake has tried to sting You Xi Wang a lot many times, but this time he tried to use You Zhichi, this made You Xi Wang furious.

The banquet was only halfway through and a group of people arrived at You family mansion gates wanted to enter but were stopped by the guards, as the guards were new and did not know them, the group made no fuss and simply called You Xi Wang himself and waited for him to come, the guards asked the group to sit in the guest reception area as they waited. Two minutes later You Xi Wang arrived and happily met the group of three people, his classmates and his best friends, the class stud and second strongest Neo Paul, the class princess and first strongest Ushijima Yuki and last but not the least the equipment queen and seventh strongest Fenny Salah.

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