Tang Jingjing was stunned by the scene, then spoke angrily, "How dare you!"
"Oh?" Tang Xing turned to look at Tang Jingjing, his eyes narrowing. "Mei, what do you want?" He was about to reach out to pull Mo Fei to his side when his wrist was grabbed by an icy hand.
Tang Xing clearly felt a chilling aura coming from behind him.
"Let go of the young master!" "What kind of monster are you!" "Let go!"
Tang Xing heard the angry voices of the bodyguards beside him, seemed to understand something, his legs trembled slightly, and he slowly turned his head.
He saw a pair of cold green eyes calmly looking at him.
"Li... what is Li..."
"I am your ancestor!"
Mo Chuan punched Tang Xing directly, shattering his glasses. His bruised, swollen eye flashed with stars as he fell to the ground.
"Young Master!"
The bald bodyguards swarmed forward. Some helped Tang Xing up to check his condition, while others surrounded Mo Chuan, summoning their abilities with knives and clubs, ready to beat Mo Chuan.
Mo Chuan fiercely protected Mo Fei behind him, his grappling hook already in hand.
As the two sides confronted each other, Tang Jingjing couldn't hold back and shouted, "All of you, get out!"
The bald bodyguards looked at each other with evident difficulty. Just as they were about to ask Tang Xing what to do, they saw Tang Xing shouting and crying, clutching his eye socket filled with resin fragments.
"Do I have to say it a second time!? Get out!"
Tang Jingjing finally lost it. She directly summoned her Thousand Mechanism Umbrella. The crimson umbrella surface reflected red on the faces of several people around her.
The bald bodyguards looked at each other, then helped Tang Xing up and took him out of the ward to see a doctor.
The ward suddenly became quiet.
Tang Jingjing sat on the bed like a deflated ball. The Thousand Mechanism Umbrella disappeared from her hand, and her arms hung limply on her legs.
Mo Chuan and Mo Fei exchanged a glance. Mo Fei slowly walked towards Tang Jingjing, hugging her from behind and asking, "Jingjing jie, you can cry if you want to."
Tang Jingjing could no longer hold back. She turned and hugged Mo Fei, bursting into tears.
...
"Tang Xing is my second brother," Tang Jingjing said slowly after a long time, rubbing her swollen red eyes.
"We are the Tang family of Shuzhong. In my generation, there are four sisters and five brothers. But I only have my eldest sister Tang Yueying and second brother Tang Xing who share the same mother and father."
"Before the old family head passed away, he gave an order for my father to send the three of us to a place outside the family's sphere of influence to study and grow independently."
"Whoever returns home alive and earns a third-class military merit before the age of twenty-five will receive their own inheritance."
"My eldest sister has exceptional talent and is naturally proud. She has been staying on the front lines and has not returned home, to prevent herself from becoming a sacrifice for the family."
"My second brother, relying on his mother's preference for sons, has always acted recklessly. My eldest sister and I basically relied on ourselves, but he was idle all day, spending the money his mother secretly gave him on lavish living, playing with women, and it's said he even killed one."
"My father is on the front lines all day, so he knows nothing about this, and my mother takes the opportunity to try and acquire the Tang family's assets."
"But Tang Xing is also uneducated and cannot see through his mother's schemes. He doesn't realize that for every piece of money he takes from his mother, his mother takes three pieces from the Tang family. He also helps his mother try to seize the inheritance rights of my eldest sister and me."
"He picks quarrels here today and causes trouble there tomorrow. He's disgusting, like a clown."
"Now, several of my sisters are also manipulated by my mother, either married off or given away. I fear that when I return, I will also be married off to some rich young master to earn some gold and silver for the Tang family."
... Mo Chuan and Mo Fei fell silent after listening.
Although they only had each other and their aunt far away as family, they had never experienced such internal strife and fratricide.
A long silence fell over the ward.
...
Meanwhile, in the emergency department.
Tang Xing, ignoring his freshly bandaged head, took out his phone and began to curse Tang Jingjing and Mo Chuan to his mother with exaggerated details, as if Tang Jingjing were not his sister at all.
"Mom! Just tell me what to do about this!"
"..." There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line before she said, "I'll come to Qingzhou in a few days. You just need to recover from your injuries and don't cause me any trouble. I'm going to use this opportunity to kick Tang Jingjing out of the Tang family directly. Don't you go after her, understand?"
"Okay, okay! As long as I can get rid of that bitch, I'll do anything!"
Tang Xing hung up the phone. He pondered for a long time and felt that enduring it made him more angry, and backing down made him feel more wronged. Finally, he slammed the bedside table and said, "Someone!"
"Young Master."
"Find an opportunity to tie up that woman from the ward earlier, and give her some immortal pills, understand?"
"Yes!"
"Be quick, don't let that man encounter you. Strike when you see the chance."
"Yes!"
...
Bang bang bang—
Mo Chuan was startled by the knock on the door and got up to open it.
A tall, thin man appeared. He adjusted his glasses and asked, "Are you student Mo Chuan?"
"I am. May I ask who you are..."
"Hello, I am a visitor from Qingzhou University. Do you have some time? I'd like to ask you some questions."
"Alright. Please follow me."
Mo Chuan led the man to the stairwell. The man said kindly, "Student Mo Chuan, do you have any thoughts about our Qingzhou University?"
Mo Chuan replied truthfully, "It's under consideration."
In the north, Qingzhou University was indeed one of the top universities, with a high overall academic quality. It often achieved academic success in various fields and cultivated a large number of outstanding talents in various areas. (More importantly, Qingzhou University was very close to Jibei, basically a three-hour round trip.)
"This is why we at Qingzhou University sent you an invitation. We hope you can participate in the upcoming Global Collegiate League and provide support for our designated players."
"I can," Mo Chuan nodded. "May I ask if my support target has been decided?"
"It's one of your seniors." The tall, thin man took out a document and handed it to Mo Chuan. "His name is Tang Xing, and his ability is..."
Before the tall, thin man could finish, Mo Chuan directly returned the document to him and said, "I'm sorry, I refuse."
"Why? Student Mo Chuan, Tang Xing's ability..."
"I have a personal grudge against him. I wouldn't even assist a dog, let alone him," Mo Chuan stated plainly, without any hesitation.
The tall, thin man frowned and said, "Alright then, please return the invitation to me. Our school does not welcome students who do not comply with adjustments."
"Is this Qingzhou University's attitude? Are you recruiting students or slaves?" Mo Chuan frowned. "You sent me an invitation, and I can go or not as I please, but now you're talking about these ambiguous contracts and even threatening to withdraw the invitation. Are your actions legal? Do they have legal effect?"
The tall, thin man sneered, "Our operating policies do not need to be explained to a rude person like you, who lacks discipline and behavioral norms."
Upon hearing this, Mo Chuan retorted directly, "So I'm a rude person? Do you think I'm uneducated? If your teachers and classmates are as arrogant and stubborn as you, then I really don't need to pursue higher education at such a university!"
With that, Mo Chuan turned off his phone's recording and walked straight out of the stairwell, leaving the tall, thin man standing alone.