A Clash of Gods - Chapter 191

Chapter 191 Thunderous Fury

Yang Ning looked back, and surprisingly saw the pretty Xiao Yao standing right behind him. He said joyfully, “Xiao Yao, you’re here? I am looking for you.”

Xiao Yao’s cheeks reddened slightly as she asked, “Your excellency, what were you looking for me for?” She obviously didn’t know that Yang Ning had already inherited the title of Marquis of Honor. But her addressing him like this made Yang Ning feel quite a bit affectionate.

“Well…” Yang Ning slightly paused. It’s strange that he felt some disappointed seeing Xiao Yao wasn’t beside the pool. But now that he saw Xiao Yao and felt inexplicably happy. He failed to think of what to say. Luckily, he was swift in reaction. He said with a smile after only a pause, “I want to ask you when you have time, we can go to the flower market again. You know flowers well. Help me pick some then.”

Xiao Yao was natural and graceful and smiled sweetly, which looked beautiful. She nodded, “All right.” After a pause, she then asked, “Your excellency, you… What you said earlier were learnt from books?”

Yang Ning laughed, “Why would you say I learned it from books?”

“Don’t get me wrong, Your excellency.” Xiao Yao was a little anxious, “I didn’t mean anything else. It’s just that… It’s just that the three astral bodies you introduced are distant and boundless. How can we small human beings see them? So…”

“That’s why you think I learnt it from books?”

Xiao Yao nodded.

Yang Ning said, “In fact, you didn’t guess it wrong. I didn’t read it from books but be told by a sage. He knew a lot and told me a lot.”

“ So, there are such experts like that.” Xiao Yao’s watery eyes shone with brilliance, “Your excellency, you… Do you believe what he said? Are there really as many stars as ants in the universe?”

“I believe and I am convinced.” Yang Ning looked up, then saying, “Xiao Yao, have you ever seen the stars?”

Xiao Yao smiled sweetly, “When I was little, Mother took me to count the stars. Mother said that each star in the sky represents a person, and everyone has his own protective star. Mother also found me my own protective star. Your excellency, you… Did your mother help you find your protective star?”

Yang Ning was frozen for a moment. He had wanted to explain the truth about the stars in the sky. But hearing Xiao Yao say this, it would shatter Xiao Yao’s dream if he explained that those stars are all stellar stars spread across the universe. Putting on a gentle smile, he said, “Then your mother treated you really well. There are so many stars in the sky, it must have taken her a lot of effort to find you a protective star.”

Xiao Yao nodded, “My mother is the best person under the sky. She can take over any hardship for me.” When she said this, she seemed to feel that what she said was a bit inappropriate. She slightly lowered her head and said softly, “Your excellency, I shouldn’t have said this.”

“I like to hear these.” Yang Ning smiled, “Xiao Yao, do you love reading?”

Xiao Yao blinked and said, “Yes, there are many things inside the book that I can’t see in normal time. It teaches me many things and shows me many beautiful things.”

Yang Ning laughed, “Then you must not be reading history books.”

Xiao Yao asked, “Your excellency, what kind of books have these persons like Aristotle, Socrates, Plato and Aeschylus that you mentioned written? They were people from overseas, and can we read their books? You were with great respect when speaking of them. They must be very learned men.”

“Yes, they are all very great people.” Yang Ning was really surprised at Xiao Yao’s memory. She remembered every word of these awkward-sounding names. He nodded and said, “Xiao Yao, when we read, it’s not just to know what’s in the book, but to savor the meaning hidden behind the words, like…” Before he finished, he saw Xiao Yao’s pair of beautiful bending eyebrows suddenly tighten up. When he just thought if he had said something wrong, he heard footsteps behind him.

He couldn’t help but look back, and after just one look, his face deepened.

The ghosts didn’t go away!

Su Zixuan was coming this way with a few people unexpectedly, the pretty face of whom now like a cold frost.

Yang Ning was a little bit annoyed, secretly thinking that this woman really didn’t know what is good for her. Seeing that she was coming straight to him, obviously, she was to look for trouble again.

Although Yang Ning sneered at her several times before, he remained polite. Now he thought that if she acted rude again this time, he would be unsparing.

Su Zixuan came closer. Yang Ning sneered, “What are you going to get mad about again?”

Su Zixuan glanced at Yang Ning but ignored him. She walked up to Xiao Yao, raising her hand and pointing at Xiao Yao’s nose. She asked indifferently, “What were you talking with him?”

Xiao Yao’s smile disappeared, and just said nonchalantly, “Nothing.”

“Nothing?” Su Zixuan sneered, “It is obviously that you were talking and laughing with him here. Do you think I’m blind? It’s true that like mother, like daughter. Your mother is a bitch, you are the same as her, flirting with men…”

“Don’t talk about my mother!” Xiao Yao’s eyes were getting red, and her delicate body trembled.

“What, don’t let me say?” Su Zixuan laughed even louder, “Did I say it wrong? The truth is just like that. Since you liked to hook up with men, why do you stay in the academy? There are plenty of men along the Qinhuai River. You can get whatever kind of men just following your mother’s example back then.”

“You… You shut up!” Xiao Yao’s face changed into pale, she was so angry that her body trembled.

Yang Ning was appalled. He suddenly understood why Xiao Yao’s attitude changed dramatically and turned around and left after he said there was no clean women along the Qinhuai River last time in the flower market. Only at this moment did he realize that his casual words had hit Xiao Yao’s most sensitive place.

Su Zixuan’s words clearly hinted that Xiao Yao’s mother came from the Qinhuai River.

“You dare to make me shut up?” Su Zixuan said coldly and sternly, “You bitch has really grown guts. Do you have some flirtatious man to back you up?” Lifting her hand fiercely, she slapped down on Xiao Yao’s face.

“Slap!”

Su Zixuan hit extremely hard. Yang Ning didn’t even realize that Su Zixuan dared to hit someone in the academy. He wanted to stop it, but it was already too late.

“Not only would I scold you, but also hit you, you shameless slut,” Su Zixuan spoke vulgarly, without little reserve and self-respect of a noble lady.

Yang Ning didn’t say anything but pulled Su Zixuan’s arm, raised his hand and gave Su Zixuan a slap before Su Zixuan could realize it.

Su Zixuan hit Xiao Yao quite hard, but Yang Ning’s slap could only be harder. The slap sounded clear. The girls who stood behind Su Zixuan, previously laughing at Xiao Yao, now were stunned with frozen expressions in a moment.

Su Zixuan touched her beaten face, only to feel hot as if on fire.

The physical pain was unbearable for her, but being slapped by Yang Ning in full view of the public even made her lose face. For a while, she even forgot about the pain on her face and looked at Yang Ning in horror.

Until the burning pain on her face spread, Su Zixuan shouted herself hoarse, “You… You dare to hit me?”

Yang Ning sneered, lifted his hand and slapped down again on the other half of Su Zixuan’s face before her second sentence. It was no lighter than the first slap.

Those girls’ expressions all changed into horror and couldn’t help but take a few steps backward.

“Normally, I never hit a woman, but you are no longer considered a woman like this.” Yang Ning sneered, “The grand lady of the Marquis of Martial Arts was spilling her guts here like a wild dog. Who are you trying to scare? Do you know that by acting like a shrew here, you are not losing your face, but the face of your father who is a marquis? Su Zixuan, I might as well tell you, if I see you acting recklessly in front of me in the future, I will slap you once I see you until you don’t dare to see me again.”

Su Zixuan can’t help bursting into tears and said with a stern voice, “You…good, you…”

“You’re not to evaluate whether I am good or not. You don’t need to shed tears to pretend to be delicate and show grievance. This trick doesn’t work for me.” Yang Ning glanced at Xiao Yao, only to see Xiao Yao was dumbfounded, looking at Su Zixuan who had been beaten. He also seemed to be frozen and continued saying in a cold voice, “Not only can’t you be reckless in front of me, if I see you bullying others, I also won’t spare you.”

“Who are you to beat me?” Su Zixuan roared, “What does it have to do with you that I taught the bitch a lesson?”

“You say one more word, bitch!” Yang Ning’s gaze was cold.

Su Zixuan couldn’t help but take two steps back and raised her hand to point at Xiao Yao, “You… Good, how dare you collude with an outsider and let him beat me? I… I will tell my father, you… You and your mother shall beg for mercy from now on.”

Xiao Yao swayed, seemingly unable to stand. Seeing her swaying to fall, Yang Ning didn’t care about the etiquette of men and women, reaching out to hold her and asked urgently, “Xiao Yao, you… What’s wrong with you?”

Xiao Yao barely stood up, smiled sadly, and said, “Your excellency, you…” However, she failed to utter but dropped tears.

Seeing Su Zixuan turn to run, Yang Ning sternly said, “Stop!”

His shout was quite loud and cold. Su Zixuan was stunned and stood still, but she didn’t turn back. Yang Ning said with a cold voice, “You, now, hurry, immediately come here and apologize to Xiao Yao.”

Su Zixuan turned over suddenly. Her originally snow-white face now turned red and swollen, with tears streaming down. Angry and terrified, she screaming, “Qi Ning, let’s wait and see. It’s not over. You dare to hit me. I won’t let you go.”

“I told you to get over here and apologize. Are you deaf?” Yang Ning never had have hit a woman in his two lives. He always felt that a man who hit a woman is really feckless and intolerant. Today he realized that was only because he hadn’t met such a person.

He would be sorry to be a man if he didn’t hit some women.

Xiao Yao shook her head with a bitter smile and said, “Your Excellency, you… Don’t make things difficult for her, I… I don’t blame her.”

“Xiao Yao, you don’t have to worry about her retaliation, and you don’t have to be afraid of her.” Yang Ning sneered, “I just can’t believe that the daughter of a marquis is arrogant to such an extent, and his father doesn’t even care. The Marquis of Martial Arts, so what? If he’s brutal and unreasonable, I’ll even beat him up together.”

“You can’t!” Xiao Yao looked very weak and hurriedly said, “Your Excellency, you… You can’t hit my father!”

“Don’t be afraid, I’ll beat him…” Yang Ning suddenly stopped saying only after he said a few words.He was shocked and almost lost his voice, “What? Xiao Yao, you mean… You mean the Marquis of Martial Arts, Su Zhen, is your father?” Only to think it was unbelievable, he was stunned in a moment.