Peerless Martial Expert in the City
Chapter 703 - 699: Enemies Meet on a Narrow Path

Chapter 703: Chapter 699: Enemies Meet on a Narrow Path

Chapter 699: Enemies on a Narrow Road

At the sight of Xiao Yi’s leisurely demeanour, a surge of rage uncontrollably welled up within him, impossible to restrain.

"Young Master, what shall we do now?"

Uncle Hua naturally saw Xiao Yi up ahead as well as his glance back. Looking at Xiao Yi’s expression and then at Li Zhengyi’s beside him, a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes as his gaze met Li Zhengyi’s with implicit understanding.

"Don’t bother with him."

Li Zhengyi took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the anger and spoke in the calmest voice he could muster.

"Yes."

Uncle Hua nodded and cast a cold glance at Xiao Yi ahead, slowly pressing down on the accelerator and steering the car around Xiao Yi towards their destination.

Xiao Yi had thought that Li Zhengyi would get out of the car to scold him or even ram the car into him as the Four Young Evil Masters had done before, provoking him. To his surprise, Li Zhengyi didn’t even stop, but simply drove past him.

It seemed that this guy was indeed a notch above the Four Young Evil Masters.

After a brief moment of astonishment, Xiao Yi touched his nose, watching the car drive away with a hint of contemplation in his eyes, then resumed walking towards his own destination.

There’s a saying, "Enemies often cross each other’s path."

When Xiao Yi saw Li Zhengyi again, he couldn’t help but utter such an exclamation in his heart. He found that with all the enemies he had made at University Z, the paths were often so narrow, there was no avoiding them.

He had just "bumped" into him at the school gate, and now, to his surprise, within a few short minutes, they ran into each other again.

Li Zhengyi also saw Xiao Yi, but he pretended not to or rather, forcibly suppressed his own feelings, pretending he hadn’t seen him. Before encountering Xiao Yi, he never thought there would be such a despised person in the world, someone whom just one extra glance would increase his loathing, making him feel an overwhelming urge to burst forth, to give him a thrashing.

He certainly hadn’t expected today’s school path to be so crowded, forcing him to park his car at a spot on the side and walk to the administration building with Uncle Hua.

What he had even less expected was that Xiao Yi would also head for the administration building instead of going to class.

While he wanted to pretend not to see Xiao Yi, whom he found mutually repellent, wishing everyone would just ignore each other, Xiao Yi thought that such fate shouldn’t go unacknowledged without a greeting and deliberately quickened his pace to join him.

"Young Master Li, isn’t this Young Master Li? How come you have time to come to school today?"

Xiao Yi appeared extremely enthusiastic, his smile radiantly bright, but in Li Zhengyi’s view, it was so irritating he wished he could slam his mouth flat with a slap.

"Hmph."

Suppressing the rage within him, Li Zhengyi snorted coldly and turned his head away as if he hadn’t seen him at all.

"Young Master Li, I know there have been some misunderstandings and displeasures between us, and I know you’re a basketball star, way out of my league for friendship."

Xiao Yi looked at Li Zhengyi and sighed.

Hmph, at least you know your place, kid, with some self-awareness. Who do you think you are, trying to cozy up? Now that you know, why don’t you scram?

Li Zhengyi snorted coldly in his heart.

But just as he was about to feel smug to himself, he heard Xiao Yi’s voice continue to ring out, "But, Young Master Li, all this is because you were trying to steal my girl, huh? Chasing after my girlfriend is one thing, but to flirt with her right in front of me, could I not slap you? Even if you are the globally famous basketball star Li Zhengyi, Young Master Li, you can’t bully people like that, right?"

Xiao Yi’s voice at the beginning was not very loud, but the latter part of his speech was extremely loud. Almost all the teachers and students walking back and forth around them heard everything very clearly, and all of their gazes suddenly turned and focused on Li Zhengyi, who was wearing a pair of large sunglasses.

"It’s Li Zhengyi!"

"It’s him, I’m absolutely sure of it!"

"Wow, I really didn’t expect him to still be here and not back in M country, still at Z University, aaaah, I can actually see him up close, my idol..."

"Idol, my ass, did you hit your head on a wall? A scumbag like that, and you call him an idol? Didn’t you see the reports from a little while ago? He’s brought shame to Z University, and he still has the audacity to waltz into our university? I could kill him with a stinky shoe!"

"Yeah, did you not hear what that brother said just now? This guy is the scum of the earth, a total disgrace. I can’t believe he even dares to show up here trying to prey on our female students. He’s a super beast!"

".............."

Some people who were previously die-hard fans of Li Zhengyi recognized him on the spot, and they immediately surrounded him, crowding in until he couldn’t escape, starting to point and murmur among themselves.

Someone had just mentioned they liked Li Zhengyi and nearly drowned in the spit of those around, forced to admit he wasn’t an idol, but rather a "spit-toon."

Listening to the students’ discussions and facing some pointing and scornful gazes, Li Zhengyi’s complexion turned ashen, cycling from anger to paleness, his nostrils nearly smoking with rage.

At this moment, he almost wished he could flay Xiao Yi alive. He was certain that Xiao Yi, this bastard, yokel, must have done it on purpose, intended to humiliate him. But when he turned to look for the instigator, he found that Xiao Yi had somehow slipped into the crowd and was now flashing a smiling grin at him.

At the sight of Xiao Yi’s smiling face, Li Zhengyi felt his brain flood with blood, all his reason and calmness evaporating, and he lost control, rushing toward him with a single thought: to smack the bastard dead on the spot.

But as soon as he moved, he was grabbed by Uncle Hua, whose gaze swept over Xiao Yi like a cold venomous snake before he stood firmly in front of Li Zhengyi. He knew that at this moment, at this scene, they absolutely could not afford to cause a scene, or they might attract unnecessary troubles.

Xiao Yi did not stick around to relish Li Zhengyi’s embarrassment. After smiling at Li Zhengyi and seeing him go mad, he turned and headed towards his destination—the School of Mathematics office.

In fact, he knew that if it were only Li Zhengyi here today, maybe the situation could have been more humiliating for him, but with Uncle Hua present, it was unlikely that anything serious would happen today. Those students probably wouldn’t dare to mess with Uncle Hua, and Xiao Yi did what he did just to disgust this guy.

Perhaps it was because he had repressed his feelings for too long, or maybe it was because of that run he had let loose for a while, but gradually his suppressed nature as a passionate young man was unearthed. He found himself becoming more and more impulsive, seemingly more and more willful.

He couldn’t help but want to set straight the people he found unpleasant, the things that irked him. In short, if you disgust me, I’ll make you even more uncomfortable! Like just now, feeling the stares from Li Zhengyi and Uncle Hua, he couldn’t help it and approached them impulsively... He would have never done that before.

As Xiao Yi had anticipated, with Uncle Hua’s strong protection, Li Zhengyi did not have to exert much effort to escape the crowd that was pointing and gawking at him. However, it was not as easy as Xiao Yi thought, as the courage of Z University’s students far exceeded his expectation. Somewhere in the crowd, someone took the lead and threw a shoe at Li Zhengyi, which triggered more people to follow suit, throwing books, shoes, pens...

When he burst out of the crowd, Li Zhengyi’s face was somewhat distressed, and even Uncle Hua’s lips twitched violently, his hair splattered with stains.

"Xiao... Yi!"

Li Zhengyi wiped a splash of milk tea from his hair not knowing who had thrown it and then cleaned a shoe mark off his face, clenching his fists tightly. His expression was so dark it nearly matched the color of ink, and his eyes appeared ravenous.

He mouthed those two words tightly.

Being inexplicably mobbed and looked down upon by so many people, all because of Xiao Yi’s shout earlier, his heart was now filled with the desire to devour Xiao Yi.

Hearing Li Zhengyi utter that name, Uncle Hua’s lips twitched violently again, and if he had had no ill feelings towards Xiao Yi before, feeling only a shared hatred with Li Zhengyi, now, he truly felt an urge to viciously smack that kid from the bottom of his heart.

He could finally understand why every time Li Zhengyi mentioned this kid, it was with such deep-seated hatred, such detest. Because this damned kid, this stinking boy, truly deserved a beating. (To be continued. If you like this story, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)