Tao Fei never expected his luck to be so bad today. Letting his guard down for just a split second, he had been scratched by a completely unreasonable little punk, leaving a series of claw marks right across his right cheek.
Zhang Yun and Tao Fei had been on their guard beforehand. While guarding the doorway, the two of them took turns scouting outside to check for any suspicious activity. Who could have foreseen that despite all their precautions—watching out for every single bald-headed monk—they would fail to reckon with a punk with a full head of hair, whom they had simply mistaken for an ordinary villager coming to the temple to collect Laba porridge.
This hotheaded brat was none other than Xu Jian from Qingzhou Village, a vagrant youth specially groomed by Zixiu, loyal only to him. Despite his tender age of seventeen, Xu Jian possessed a slick and worldly-wise demeanor, alongside one defining trait: absolute, unwavering loyalty to Zixiu. To Zixiu, this was of the utmost importance, which was why he gradually showered Xu Jian with all manner of favors, even spoiling him both overtly and covertly.
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