Chapter 1224: Treating You to Big Lobster
What Wang Kun said wasn’t wrong. His personality is the type that’s a bit too steady and lacking in drive—he’d rather stay put than dare to charge forward.
If he were the core of a team, he wouldn’t make the team grow much. Aside from muddling through some simple, peaceful days, there would be zero progress.
In other words, he’s suited to be a big brother, but not a boss.
A big brother is someone who hangs out and plays around with a few close brothers, while a boss is someone who leads his brothers out to conquer the world. The meaning is completely different!
Liu Zixuan took a sip of tea and smiled lightly. "So in the end, what made you decide to come back to the country to find me?"
Wang Kun gave a bitter smile and spread his hands. "Being a boss is really exhausting. Not just physically—your heart’s even more tired. You’ve got to consider whether your people are reliable, whether they can take on certain positions, whether they can complete the tasks you assign, and after they complete them, what then? What if they get hurt? What if they die?"
"Just thinking about all that gives me a headache. Honestly, there are very few people at my side right now. I didn’t follow my father’s wishes and spend big to recruit a bunch of foreign Martial Artists. I’ve only been using the old Dragon Spirit members who got disbanded back then, because I know these people, and I dare to trust them."
"Holding Dragon Spirit’s supreme treasure, holding all those goodies my father left me, I thought I could be a boss. But when it really came time to put it into practice, I realized I couldn’t. Sending those three Martial Artists to Star Sea to chase Sword Demon—that was the first order I gave as a boss. And the result? You killed one, and captured two."
Liu Zixuan curled his lips. "The first step is always the hardest."
Truth was, Wang Kun just had bad timing. If the opponent he’d run into hadn’t been Liu Zixuan, but someone else, or if it had happened at a different time, odds are Wang Kun could have found his footing. Even if he couldn’t become a legendary overlord, at least with the wealth in his hands, he could have become a local big shot.
"I’m not afraid of hardship. Really not." Wang Kun shook his head. "But I really don’t want to watch Dragon Spirit’s old crew die one by one under my command. When those two Martial Artists were captured by you, that’s when I started thinking about coming back. At that moment, I thought, as long as I return and come to you myself, you’d probably let them go. That way I wouldn’t owe them."
"You really aren’t suited to be a boss." Liu Zixuan said with a smile.
"Yeah. What truly made up my mind to return was that you didn’t kill them, and even let them go. I felt... maybe that was you giving me a chance." Wang Kun said.
"I was indeed giving you a chance back then, but it wasn’t for you to come back. It was for you not to go against Star Sea, and not to hand the key over to foreign Martial Artists." Liu Zixuan didn’t hide anything and simply spoke his mind.
Wang Kun shook his head. "None of that matters anymore. I’m back, which means I’ve let go—let go of Dragon Spirit, let go of hatred, let go of the chase for fame and fortune."
As he spoke, Wang Kun pulled a wooden box out from under the table and pushed it to Liu Zixuan. "This is Dragon Spirit’s supreme treasure, one of the Yudou Treasure Keys that countless people dream of. I’m handing it over to you now."
"Just like that? Handing it to me, you don’t feel unwilling?" Liu Zixuan didn’t rush to take it.
"Willing or not, what difference does it make? What can I control?" Wang Kun laughed wistfully. "I’m tired. There’s no way to settle every hatred. They drove my father to his death, then I killed them. Then their friends and families will come kill me. Kill and kill and kill—so what?"
"Looks like you really have seen through it and figured it out." Liu Zixuan slid the wooden box off to the side. "Dragon Spirit’s structure still exists. According to the Jiang Family old master’s wishes, it’ll all be handed over directly to the authorities. If you still have any ideas, I can help you."
"No need. All these years I’ve been worried about enemies, worried about people around me plotting against me, always hiding my wife and kids away. Now that everything is put down, I feel like I should take my wife and child and live a normal life."
Wang Kun paused for a moment. "Dragon Spirit has accumulated quite a bit of foundation over the years. I split it into three parts. One part was donated to the mountain areas. One part was sent to the Jiang Family through special means. The remaining part I had people deliver to Lingxiu Village, as a way of thanking you."
"You’re not keeping some for your wife and kid?" Liu Zixuan frowned.
He suddenly felt like Wang Kun was about to shave his head and become a monk.
Wang Kun smiled and spread his hands. "It’s all stuff you can’t take with you when you’re born and can’t bring with you when you die. Besides, Ruo Yu and I still have this tea house. That’s enough to support our lives. Honestly, living a bit more plain isn’t a bad thing at all. At least there’s no scheming and backstabbing every day."
Liu Zixuan took a deep breath. "I thought you were just joking. Didn’t expect you’d see things this clearly. If you didn’t have a wife and kid, I’d think you were heading to some monastery to be a monk."
Wang Kun snorted. "No way. I’m a chill, Buddha-minded guy, but I’m not actually going into Buddhism."
"Hahahahaha!"
The two looked at each other and laughed, then went back to tasting tea.
Close to noon, Liu Zixuan, together with Luo Xi and Qiqi, said their goodbyes to Wang Kun.
Watching Wang Kun and Ruo Yu, the loving couple standing at the door, Luo Xi sighed. "Some things really are hard to predict. After hearing you talk about Dragon Spirit before, I thought the next time we saw Wang Kun it’d be as a life-and-death enemy. Didn’t expect it to end like this."
Liu Zixuan took a drag on his cigarette and smiled faintly. "That’s fate. And honestly, for Wang Kun, isn’t this a good thing in its own way?"
"I heard from Ruo Yu they’re going to stay here and run this tea house. Since we know them, should we help them out a bit?" Luo Xi asked.
"Help how?" Liu Zixuan shot back.
"Star Pavilion Alliance is in Qian Nan, and your Xiumei Group has quite some influence in the south. If you want to help him, it’d be easy." Luo Xi thought about it and spread her hands.
Liu Zixuan shook his head with a smile. "He really has stepped out of this Jianghu. If I keep using Jianghu people or Jianghu resources to help him, that’s not helping—it’s harming. This tea house’s location is pretty good. If they just keep running it, it’s enough for the three of them to live a comfortable, peaceful life."
"But..."
"From today on, there will no longer be Wang Kun of Dragon Spirit in this world—only Wang Kun, the tea house owner, who has a virtuous, gentle wife."
Liu Zixuan gave a mysterious smile, took the hands of the two beauties—one big, one little—and got into the car.
"Where to?"
"Treat you two to a feast!"
"I suddenly feel like eating crayfish and hotpot."
"I’ll treat you to giant lobsters and water-pot."
"You’re annoying..."
That’s right—Liu Zixuan and Luo Xi successfully showed off a wave of PDA in front of Qiqi, and also successfully forgot that back home there was still a Sword Demon healing his injuries, stomach empty, waiting bitterly.
ps: Fourth update. Good night...