Chapter 272 Hong Ye!
Five minutes later,
"So how did it go?" Sitting inside the room, Noah asked Wu Han, who was sitting beside him.
They were not alone; Song Liu was sitting with the madam and guard in front of them. She had already calmed down.
But now she was looking at Noah and Wu Han with fear and wariness in her eyes. She did not know who was responsible for her previous state.
"She is now my third direct disciple," Wu Han announced with a proud look on his face.
"So you only had two before, how sad," Noah pegged the flaunting Wu Han with a single sentence.
"Her situation is nothing to fear, but it's highly risky to tell someone other than her about this," Noah turned his face towards the two women accompanying Song Liu and explained with a serious look on his face.
"As long as young miss is fine with it, I am fine with it," the guard announced with conviction, while the madam just nodded.
"Sure, you can stay in the sect with her and also act as an elder there," Wu Han agreed to her proposition. A Golden Core Realm Elder was really tempting, even for a high-ranking sect.
"Young Miss, are you sure your family will be okay with this?" she looked at Song Liu for a second. When she saw her nodding confidently, she became a little shocked.
"Very well." Looking at Wu Han with curiosity, she agreed without hesitation.
*Creak*
Before they could continue their talk, the door of the room snapped open, and one of the courtesans rushed inside.
"Madam!" She staggered and looked for the old woman. Her face had a look of panic, and her voice quivered.
"What is wrong with you?" The madam asked with a hint of impatience.
"The young master of the Hong Family is demanding to see young Miss," she stammered while looking at Song Liu. "He even brought a guard in the Core Formation Realm along with him."
The madam sighed and rubbed her head in annoyance.
"I will go kill that man!" The guard, covered in black clothes similar to that of an assassin, got up from her seat in anger. "They think that a little Hong Family can dare to do something to our young Miss!"
Wu Han chuckled dryly hearing those words. She was talking about the family that had a Soul Formation Realm cultivator backing them like they were not even worth mentioning.
"You cannot be hasty with this. Everyone knows that the emperor is backing us. The Hong Family does not dare to make an enemy out of the Emperor," the madam stopped the woman and stood up.
"Take me to meet him; I will deal with them." With a professional look on her face, the madam got up and walked out of the room with the girl following behind her.
"Wanna go and watch?" Noah asked Wu Han with a playful glint in his eyes.
"You better not make any trouble; it's the Hong family," Wu Han looked at Noah with a suspicious look in his eyes. Ever since he had met him, Noah had been causing trouble for him.
"Do you think I like to cause trouble?" Noah rolled his eyes and got up. Song Liu looked at the two of them with a confused look in her eyes.
"Besides, what's the difference between four and three, they are all the same," Noah added under his breath while walking out of the room.
Wu Han, who barely heard Noah's words, looked at his disappearing back with mixed feelings.
'How did he know about her illness that even I could not tell till now? Even when I stood in front of her, I could not tell.'
"Shouldn't we follow after your disciple? What if he does something idiotic?" The guard suppressed her fear and spoke up.
"He is not my disciple," Wu Han spoke in a strained tone. It would be good to have Noah as a disciple after all. That was the first thought he had when he saw Noah for the first time.
But now… after spending time with Noah, he could not help but get a feeling that he would not even be able to act like a senior to him and guide him.
He did not know what it was about him that made it compelling for him to treat the boy as an equal.
"Let's follow him anyway. He is a handful after all." Not wanting to think about his complex feelings, Wu Han decided to follow after Noah. The three of them walked out of the room and made their way in the same direction the boy left.
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"Madam, why are you not understanding what I am saying? I just want to meet Miss Song privately. I definitely won't do anything to her." On the empty ground floor of the pavilion, the same boy who insisted on throwing Noah and Wu Han out of the pavilion was arguing with the madam with an impatient look on his face.
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On the second floor, Noah, who was watching the drama unfold, turned around hearing footsteps coming in his direction.
Seeing the familiar set of faces, he turned back towards the lower floor.
"He doesn't know when to quit." Wu Han raised his eyes, seeing one old man and 6 other men in the Foundation Establishment Stage standing behind him.
"And they all think he would fear the emperor," the female guard standing beside Song Liu muttered under her breath.
"No one fears the Emperor; they fear the power," Noah commented without moving his eyes from the scene.
"And as I have already said several times, young master Hong Yu, she is resting. She gets tired after playing for hours. She is not a cultivator like us," Madam replied without any change in emotions on her face.
"What's the big deal about this girl!" Hong Yu finally snapped. He had been sick and tired of being treated like this.
No one in the whole empire who was below him in status had the guts to reject him. He was even ridiculed by his peers for making a fool of himself.
In his frustration, he started yelling, "She is just a whore like the rest of you. I pay; you dance! Bring her here. I will buy her off of you if you plan to raise her value!"
He had already made preparations to get the girl today one way or another. He turned towards the old man who was standing behind him respectfully.
"Guard Wen, if they don't bring the girl here, I want you to make a move."