“However, you don’t need to worry. Shang Jing Academy’s students are all top students. Unlike me, even if they fail the trial, the academy would have made arrangements for them. I know that there is no girl called Yue Bing among all the guides over here.” The man was very intelligent and saw through the anxiousness in Yue Yang’s heart.
“How about this? If you help me to find her quickly, I’ll give you a high payment as remuneration. If you’re able to find her for me in one day, I’ll give you 10 gold. Each additional day you take, I will deduct 1 gold from it. I don’t care how you go about doing it or what methods you use, but I just want to see her quickly.” Yue Yang was silent for a while, before deciding to use a great amount of gold to open the path. Besides, he would only think about these things after Yue Bing was found.
“I will try my best… However, could you give me some money in advance? I’m not scared of seeing you mock me, but I haven’t eaten anything for days. Even a few coppers will do. I’m too hungry to even move.” The man looked at Yue Yang expectantly. Yue Yang had seen the same look in Hui Tai Lang’s face when Yue Yang was about to stone him to death.
This was a desire to survive.
It was such a great desire to survive that even in such a desperate situation and even if he had no strength left to struggle, in his heart, he still hoped for a miracle to appear.
Yue Yang’s heart was slightly moved and he nodded. He did not give the man just one copper, but rather took out a purse with 100 coppers and gave it to him. “This is your remuneration for today. Go take care of your matters first. I’ll wait here for half an hour.”
After the man received the heavy purse, his eyes started to redden. He did not utter a single word, but nodded forcefully after grabbing the purse tightly in his hands.
He did not even speak a single word before leaving quickly.
If one looked closely, an uneven line of tears dotted the path that this man’s feet trod.
Seeing the back of this man, Yue Yang sighed lightly. This was one who was called a genius… Perhaps this fallen genius had once been a wildly spirited genius carrying the hopes of his clan. However, after losing his beasts, he became trash who had absolutely nothing, not even a place for him to call home. This skinny guy and the tragic guy who had plunged himself into the river also had some commonalities between them… The tragic guy, although born in one of the four Major Clans – the Yue clan, was unable to contract a grimoire. He did not possess a beast and became the clan’s greatest trash. Eventually succumbing to the clan’s pressure and the blow from his broken engagement, he chose to end his life by drowning in the river. Wasn’t it similar to the skinny guy waiting here to die, a kind of helplessness that weaklings faced?
Before the tragic guy jumped into the river, could his eyes have been shining with a strong, burning hope to live?
Had he also been expecting a miracle to occur to him?
However, nobody could save him in the end… Before he died, Yue Yang himself took over his identity to some degree and this trash of the Yue clan could be said to have been reborn. But, the one who was reborn in his place, was Yue Yang himself, a dimension traveller who just happened to be luckier than that tragic guy. He inherited everything that had belonged to the tragic guy, like the beautiful woman and her clan’s affection and warmth. At the same time, he had also obtained what the tragic guy was never able to. He contracted a grimoire and received a Guardian Beast, the Twin Star Innate Skill, the little loli snake and much more.
“Alright! I may not be able to help you with what happened in the past, but I will definitely take care of Yue Bing and the others in your place. I will let them be proud of you, and honour your name, even if you were trash. I will help you to make the truth known. You were not useless, just not lucky enough.”
As Yue Yang looked towards the sky, he seemed to see a man that looked like him, smiling like the sun and waving goodbye.
Perhaps, he came due to the wishes of the tragic guy.
The tragic guy must have hoped that someone as lucky as him would substitute with him to complete his unfulfilled wishes…