Chapter 1289 - 1293: Public Revenge for Private Grievances
Just as Su Zi was about to drag Lin Feng out for a reprimand in a fit of rage, the more clear-headed Ning Aoxue tugged at her clothes.
Su Zi instinctively turned back, seeing Ning Aoxue subtly shake her head at her.
At first, Su Zi didn’t grasp Ning Aoxue’s meaning, but she was quite familiar with Ning Aoxue and understood that Ning Aoxue was reminding her not to make a mistake... Su Zi trusted Ning Aoxue, so she kept her mouth shut, merely glaring at Lin Feng with anger, her eyes filled with murderous intent, as she wanted to see what else Lin Feng had to say for himself.
Lin Feng didn’t explain, just quietly looked at Lu Lu, and said lightly, "Stop pretending to be innocent, do you think everyone else is a fool?"
There was no anger or shame, only a cold disappointment mixed with a hint of disdain; this was Lin Feng’s attitude, cold enough to treat as an enemy.
Only then did Su Zi believe that Lin Feng hadn’t lied. She knew Lin Feng’s character; if Lin Feng were genuinely interested in Lu Lu, he would never speak such heartless words...
Lu Lu was slightly taken aback, then looked at Ning Aoxue and Su Zi, noticing that Ning Aoxue’s gaze was already filled with vigilance, and Su Zi was half-believing and doubtful; knowing her lie couldn’t continue, she forced a smile and explained lightly, "Alright, alright, I was just joking with Lin Feng; everyone doesn’t need to take it too seriously... Younger Brother Lin Feng never mentioned sharing a room with me; I only said that to tease him..."
"How can you be like this?" Su Zi’s face turned exceedingly awkward upon hearing Lu Lu’s explanation, angrily shouting, then awkwardly glancing at Lin Feng, seeing Lin Feng looking at her with a smile, her heart felt even more embarrassed, her face burning hot.
Su Zi vaguely felt ashamed; she originally trusted Lin Feng greatly, but today, inexplicably bewitched, she actually believed Lu Lu’s nonsense, simply unforgivable!
"Ahem... We agreed to go out and buy something; let’s not waste time here, let’s set off quickly!" Ning Aoxue, seeing the atmosphere was awkward, casually offered a resolution.
"Let’s go! You can all sit in my car!" Lin Feng didn’t want to drag on, grabbing the car keys, he casually said.
Thus, the three women silently followed Lin Feng to the car, without exchanging words; Ning Aoxue was curious about Lu Lu’s background, Su Zi was self-reproaching, while Lu Lu felt triumphant...
Lin Feng, whose mood wasn’t so bright, didn’t drive the car very far, directly dropping the three women off at several shops specializing in women’s clothing near Jiangzhou University...
Ning Aoxue and Su Zi, seeing Lin Feng had brought them to such a place to buy clothes, instantly showed displeasure! After all, these shops targeted nearby university students, selling low-end clothes costing 100 or so bucks, offering neither design nor quality; even if presented on a silver platter, Ning Aoxue and Su Zi wouldn’t casually try them on, let alone buy them...
Almost simultaneously, Ning Aoxue and Su Zi glared hatefully at Lin Feng; they knew this was intentional on Lin Feng’s part, a blatant act of personal revenge!
Lin Feng acted as if he didn’t notice Ning Aoxue and Su Zi’s looks, instead focusing on Lu Lu... Anyway, this outing wasn’t to buy clothes for Su Zi and Ning Aoxue; Lin Feng wasn’t afraid of offending this woman!
As a master of online shopping, though Lu Lu didn’t usually buy clothes at physical stores, she glanced at the prices and knew the nearby women’s clothing stores were of low quality...
However, as a cultivator, Lu Lu had the advantage of not possessing an excessive vanity towards external things; for her, as long as she had a few sets of comfortable, changeable clothes, it was sufficient.
So, surprisingly to Lin Feng, Su Zi, and Ning Aoxue, Lu Lu took less than five minutes to pick out three sets of inner and outer clothes from a shop and directly bought them at the counter...
"Well... Lin Feng, isn’t she your senior? How can you let her wear such low-grade clothes?" Su Zi frowned slightly, disregarding her embarrassment, and said to Lin Feng with some reluctance.
Not that Su Zi was high-minded, but the clothes Lu Lu had chosen were truly tasteless, and the combined price of those clothes probably didn’t even match what Su Zi usually spent on a pair of shoes. Lin Feng was not short on money, and Lu Lu was, after all, a guest; how could he treat a guest so poorly...
But Lin Feng, who knew how terrifying Lu Lu was, felt nothing... He was lazy to contemplate what kind of taste a woman who kills without batting an eye might like in clothing.
"That should do, she won’t stay long anyways, she should head back to the capital before the end of the year." Lin Feng said lightly.
"Oh..." Su Zi nodded thoughtfully.
Ning Aoxue was very puzzled; she noticed Lin Feng’s extreme dislike for Lu Lu, even vague disgust, but why was that?
Su Zi and Lin Feng’s conversation couldn’t escape Lu Lu’s ears as a fellow innate cultivator; her expression didn’t change, but she felt some dissatisfaction inside, thinking how unfeeling this guy was. Did he think the Forbidden Breaking Pill was just mistakenly given to him? She didn’t take it intentionally, seeing he was stuck at the quasi-innate stage for too long, his meridians nearly shattered due to excess Inner Strength, she deliberately took a pill - gifted as a courtesy from her grandfather - to help him break through. If she’d known this guy liked to repay kindness with malice, she wouldn’t have bothered!
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After Lu Lu bought clothes, Lin Feng took the three women to a nearby small restaurant, ate a little, and then drove them back to the Jincheng residential area.
Returning to the villa, the three women immediately clattered upstairs.
Lin Feng watched the women enter the same room and shut the door with a thud, not pondering further as he went back to his room to begin cultivation.
Previously, when cultivation made little progress, Lin Feng wasn’t enthusiastic about it; every effort felt directionless and frustrating; however, now it was different...
Upon entering the Innate Realm, Lin Feng found the last Yinwei pulse, which couldn’t conduct Inner Strength circulation, gradually becoming his concern, hence he stubbornly confronted this Yinwei pulse like a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"Perhaps once the Yinwei pulse allows external Inner Strength circulation, my cultivation could advance further?" With such a thought, Lin Feng, increasingly yearning for power, began meditating and attempted breaching the last pulse’s restrictions.
The cultivation time passed quickly; when Lin Feng awakened from meditation, it was already late at night.
"No effect whatsoever..." Lin Feng sighed, walked out of the room intending to take a hot shower before sleeping well, but upon opening the door, he saw Lu Lu standing at the doorway, smiling brightly at him.