Chapter 0004 – Eating Gui San Noodles for the First Time in Decades – Absolute Returns

Back at my place, I went to the bronze mirror and quietly examined myself.

I look young and vibrant in the mirror, as if I have inexhaustible energy. Even if I were to look in the mirror for a whole day, I wouldn’t get tired of it.

After admiring my youthful appearance for half a day, I suddenly remembered Hua Wuji.

Where could he be now?

And what is it doing?

It would be easy to find him and kill him before he got stronger.

But the problem is, how easy is it to find him?

It was as if he had descended from the sky, suddenly appearing in the jianghu, stirring up a storm of bloodshed, and then disappearing, no one knew where he came from or where he was going.

Trying to find him in a sea of people is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

It seems that I can only make myself stronger, strong enough to defeat him!

Fortunately, God gave me enough time.

I’m going to use this time to train hard and improve my strength!

Perhaps it was because of the thought of Hua’s martial art, the true qi within my dantian began to stir.

After the match, the dispersal poison in my body had disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

It seems that Gupyeong-ho has gone to great lengths to please me by getting such a rare poison.

No wonder, how dare he really poison the son of the Heavenly Devil?

I shook my head off the nagging thoughts and opened my mouth to call out, “Lee Ann.”

“Subordinate is here.” A familiar voice came from outside the door.

“Come in.”

The door to the room opened and a tall woman walked in. She was dressed in a black power suit, revealing her strong body, and the term “big waist” was the most appropriate way to describe her.

Her name is Lee Ann. She’s my personal escort.

I didn’t realize at the time that I was the reason she was the way she was.

She practiced a secret art called “Whole Body Petrification Skill”, which could make the skin and muscles of her whole body as hard as rock. The price is that her body will become bloated.

“When do I look best?” I asked, looking at myself in the mirror.

“Of course it looks best now.” Liam replied without thinking.

“How boring.”

“The subordinate is paid a monthly salary, so of course I have to pick up what you like to hear.”

Her voice, surprisingly, was so melodious, like heavenly music.

“You ……” I looked at her in surprise, “Did you used to talk and sound like this?”

“What is wrong with you today?” Liam asked suspiciously.

The only reason I survived was because she laid down her life to save me.

At that time, when Hua Wuji stabbed me in the heart with a sword, she was the one who defiantly stood in front of me.

Although her “Whole Body Petrification Kung Fu” could not withstand Hua Wuji’s fatal blow, it still made his sword blade deviate a little, which allowed me to save my life.

“Thank you, Lee Ann.” I said sincerely as I looked at her.

She didn’t have to, but she chose to sacrifice herself for me without hesitation.

I, on the other hand, had always treated her like a common escort, a dispensable tool.

“What is the matter with you today? Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?” Liam looked at me in disbelief.

“Nothing, I just suddenly figured something out.”

I turned and looked at her, my mind going back to when she was a child.

At that time, she was clear-eyed, delicate and cute, and when she smiled, she was like a delicate porcelain doll. Everyone said that when she grew up, she would definitely become a beautiful woman.

However, I don’t know when she started to get fatter and stronger, and her originally delicate features were squeezed out of shape by the fat.

I don’t know how many tears she has shed over this, how much ridicule and blank stares she has endured.

All I remember is that she looked at me with an unmistakable look of determination and said, “I will protect you, young master.”

What kind of feelings did she have at that time, when she said those words?

What’s wrong with her?

She was simply born into the Demon Cult and raised as a tool from a young age, her life, from the very beginning, was doomed to tragedy.

In order to protect me, she gave up the chance to become a great beauty, and I, what have I ever done for her?

I didn’t even care about her feelings, and even started distancing myself from her, consciously or unconsciously, after she gained weight.

I was filled with guilt, for her.

“We can’t get too close.” I said suddenly.

“Why?” Liam was even more puzzled.

“I can’t get attached to my own guards, that would be taking advantage of your loyalty, it would be forcing you to die for me, and I can’t do that.”

“What are you talking about? It is my duty to protect you.”

“Where is the sacrifice that can be taken for granted? You have to remember that no matter what, you have to protect yourself first, then your family, and lastly the person you are protecting. I don’t want my guard to be someone who has no ego.”

“But …… I don’t have any family, only you.” Li An’s eyes, slightly reddened.

This silly woman, doesn’t she understand what a heavy burden her loyalty is to me?

“You are really strange today.”

“Want to see weirder? Follow me.”

“Where to?”

“Go set the table.”

I walked out without looking back, heading straight for the kitchen.

I called everyone in the kitchen, including the chef who was at the helm, and the helpers who were in charge of the odd jobs.

Then, pointing to a helper who had been in the kitchen for three years, I asked coldly, “Why did you do that?”

“What …… are you talking about?” The helper went pale with fear.

“Why did you poison my meal?”

Everyone was taken aback by this statement.

“No …… not me! I didn’t!” The helper fell to his knees in a hurry, desperately kowtowing and begging for mercy.

The good thing about going back in time is that I don’t need to investigate the truth anymore because, well, I already know everything.

I knew that this helper had lost all his money even from his parents and friends because of the huge debts he owed from gambling, and he was desperate to take a bribe from Gupyeong-ho.

“You collected three thousand taels of silver and went gambling again, didn’t you?” I asked coldly.

“Puff!”

The helper was paralyzed with fear and trembling.