Chapter 65: Has the Calamity Passed?

In other words, if he hadn’t existed in the original book, the person sitting in the stands today would likely have been Su Fu herself.

Today was already the third day of the martial arts marriage competition. After two days of rest, although Su Fu hadn’t fully recovered, she wasn’t in a state where she couldn’t come out.

However, they had figured that since they had already been faking it for two days, one more day wouldn’t hurt. They decided to just let Su Fu continue resting.

Regardless, the Young Masters most likely to win the competition had already had their portraits painted in color by artists hired by the Su family and shown to Su Fu.

Without him, Su Fu might have been absent for the first two days, but she might very well have gone today.

Therefore, the person who attacked him today would have attacked Su Fu herself in the plot without him.

And Su Fu herself did not possess any ability to resist! Nor did she have as many strange poisons and mechanical gadgets as he did.

So, Su Fu would definitely have been captured and then used to threaten everyone present!

At that time, Yun Huizhou would have had his hands tied. He might have truly been injured and then fallen victim to a sneak attack by that Double-Bladed Steel!

Thinking of this, Lian Li’s hands suddenly clenched. So, would the original plot have gone like that?

Lian Li couldn’t be certain, but he knew the possibility was very high.

Of course, there was another possibility: that Yun Huizhou wouldn’t have come at all.

He had met Yun Huizhou before the Martial Arts Assembly, and it was during that assembly that Yun Huizhou decided to take him back as a Junior Brother.

It was also for the sake of teaching him martial arts that Yun Huizhou stayed on Drunken Dream Island for an entire year without leaving.

That was why he was on the island to receive the mission sent by the East Island Lord to come to the Su family in Fengyi City.

If he hadn’t existed, Yun Huizhou might not have returned to Drunken Dream Island after the Martial Arts Assembly ended; even if he had returned, he wouldn’t have stayed for so long.

In that case, he likely would have missed this entire affair.

But if Yun Huizhou hadn’t been here, and no one had fought Double-Bladed Steel, what would have happened to the Su family and the Young Masters participating in the marriage competition today?

Thinking of the massacre Double-Bladed Steel had committed as mentioned by Young Hero Zheng, Lian Li felt a wave of coldness.

He tied his clothes, pushed the door open, and went out, finding Yun Huizhou practicing with his blade in the courtyard.

Lian Li stood to the side and watched him finish his practice before stepping forward.

Yun Huizhou stood still, waiting for Lian Li to walk over, and asked him, “What’s wrong? Is there something else?”

Lian Li stared into Yun Huizhou’s eyes. The moonlight draped the person before him in a hazy glow.

He asked Yun Huizhou, “I’m just saying ‘if,’ okay? If you hadn’t met me when you went to the Martial Arts Assembly before, would you have gone straight back to Drunken Dream Island after you finished competing?”

Yun Huizhou found the question baffling.

What did he mean, “if he hadn’t met him”?

They had already met, and he had even brought him back as a Junior Brother. A year had passed; why make such a meaningless hypothesis now?

Seeing Yun Huizhou’s confusion, Lian Li acted uncharacteristically forceful and said, “Just say it. Can’t I just have a casual chat? I’m looking for inspiration for a new storybook lately.”

“Oh.” Hearing that it was for inspiration for a new storybook, Yun Huizhou no longer found it strange.

During his year on Drunken Dream Island, Lian Li would still occasionally write short stories to submit to the Honglin Bookstore.

His writing style was easy to understand, so many people loved to read it. In Lian Li’s words, it was very popular in the “mass market.”

Storytellers also loved to tell the stories he wrote because, most of the time, they just had to read them as written, unlike other storybooks that always liked to show off their literary flair.

Those storytellers usually had to expend a lot of energy to simplify those storybooks into common speech.

Therefore, his pen name, “I am Lian Aotian,” was much more famous than his current reputation as Young Master Lian.

If the fame of that pen name could be transferred to his own name, he estimated he could squeeze into the second-class level based on reputation alone.

“Then I probably wouldn’t have returned to Drunken Dream Island. I likely would have taken the money and traveled around, maybe going back once for the New Year, and then heading out again after the New Year was over.”

Lian Li nodded and said, “Alright, I understand.”

He turned around, preparing to leave, but suddenly looked back and asked another question: “If you hadn’t returned, and the Su Mansion wrote a letter to Drunken Dream Island, they probably wouldn’t have let you come, right?”

Yun Huizhou rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, and said, “They probably still would have had me come. Master would have written to the Martial Arts Alliance and asked them to pass the message to me. I likely still would have come over.”

Fine, then it was definitely the first possibility.

“I see.” Lian Li nodded solemnly and said, “I have inspiration for the new storybook now. It’s just that it’s not easy to start writing while we’re out. I’ll write it after I get back and show it to you then. It’ll definitely be the kind you’ve never seen before.”

After saying this, Lian Li didn’t plan to stay outside any longer.

To be honest, he was quite tired today. Compared to the last time he fought the group brought by Su Shan, this time was much more dangerous.

During the incident with Su Shan, it could be said that everything was under Yun Huizhou’s control the entire time. As long as his strength fell short, Yun Huizhou could support him in an instant and save him.

But today, Yun Huizhou was held back by Double-Bladed Steel, and he had to face a genuine second-class level expert alone. For a period in the middle, the opponent was even aiming to kill him.

If he had been even slightly careless, he would have been heavily injured if not dead.

His physical strength, mental energy, and internal energy consumption were unprecedentedly high.

Yun Huizhou also saw his exhaustion, thought for a bit, and said, “It’s almost over. If nothing goes wrong…”

He was only halfway through his sentence when Lian Li, as if startled by something, lunged over in an instant, even using his movement technique.

Yun Huizhou was startled by him, and his voice grew a bit louder: “…then…”

He had only managed to say two more words before his mouth was suddenly covered by Lian Li.

“Don’t just go setting flags!” Lian Li said seriously.

“Setting what?” Yun Huizhou asked, pulling his hand down.

“Setting a flag,” Lian Li explained. “It’s when you set a goal or make a prediction, only to find that things won’t develop the way you expected at all.”

“For example, saying ‘if nothing goes wrong, such-and-such will happen.’ Usually, in that case, something is about to go wrong.”

“Commonly known as: ‘If nothing goes wrong, something is bound to go wrong.'”

“The most classic example is during a war, when a man says to a woman, ‘If I come back alive, I’ll marry you.’ Then that man is eighty percent likely to be a goner.”

After Lian Li finished his explanation, he thought Yun Huizhou wouldn’t take it seriously and might even tease him a bit.

Unexpectedly, Yun Huizhou said to Lian Li very earnestly, “I think what you said makes a lot of sense.”

After stopping Yun Huizhou from setting a flag, Lian Li finally felt at ease returning to his room.

After closing the door, Lian Li thought about the route Yun Huizhou would have taken if they hadn’t met and breathed a sigh of relief.

Since it was the first possibility, it meant there was a high chance that the calamity had been passed, right?