Pretending To Be A Boss

"I don't know; I'm not the kind of person who... who thinks about so much in their head."

Song Que said with embarrassment, "It's a shame. I didn't even get to say anything."

Li Zheng had never seen the Song Family's eldest son like this, flustered, but he actually felt kind of happy about it.

"Although my sister doesn't talk much, she has a wild temper. I was worried that after marrying into your Song Family, she would be aggrieved. Hahahaha, now it seems that the one who is aggrieved is not her."

Song Que gave a bitter smile. In his mind, he was still thinking about Li Xiaoyu. He regretted that Li Xiaoyu left too quickly. Continue your journey on empire

"By the way, did Yu ask you to come here for something? I heard that you are not participating in the hunting event," Li Zheng asked Tang Xian.

Tang Xian nodded and said,

"I'm not participating. Consider me a strategist for you. I'm here to observe the competition today."

Song Que noticed that Tang Xian spoke differently from Li Zheng's other subordinates, Li Zheng was unexpectedly courteous to Tang Xian, and Tang Xian showed no flattery to Li Zheng.

"Alright, thanks. Let me introduce you; these are my teammates. They may not be on par with the one in your family, but they are also top-notch. This is Tang Xian, my friend, and also the team leader of Shengtang," Li Zheng began to introduce the four people behind him.

Upon hearing the team leader of Shengtang, the gaze of three of them, except for the doctor, was hostile, even showing quite a bit of animosity.

The one at the forefront had a crew cut, a square face, a beard around his mouth, and callused hands. Tang Xian could tell at a glance that this man had trained.

The Guest Elders within the Li family, unlike hunters, mostly have a very strong sense of community and honor. They act much like soldiers but don't follow discipline as strictly as the regular army, basically only taking orders from the Li family.

Tang Xian quickly understood why the others were unfriendly towards him.

It must be because of Akasi. The decision Li Zheng made this morning to request an external aid from Shengtang's hunting team meant one of the six in a team had to be replaced by a newcomer, which naturally would squeeze out an old member.

The arrival of Shengtang's external aid disrupted their sense of community and their sense of honor because if the Li family scored a position, those replaced from the team would not be able to share in this honor.

The square-faced man extended his hand and said,

"Mr. Tang, nice to meet you. I'm Xie Jiang."

"Oh, hello." Tang Xian also extended his hand courteously.

A handshake is the most basic act of etiquette, but it is also a way for many martial artists to show dominance.

Tang Xian could not feel any aggressive force in the grip, so he was somewhat puzzled as to why Xie An kept holding his hand.

Xie An was inwardly surprised; this young man didn't look like a muscular type, so why were his bones so hard?

He had thought that even if he was punished by the young master, he would need to put this little Shengtang man in his place.

But unexpectedly, the guy was really tough, and judging by his expression, it was as if nothing had happened.

Because Tang Xian's face was too calm, neither Li Zheng nor Song Que noticed anything unusual.

At this moment, Li Zheng asked,

"Speaking of which, you came here with my sister; did you observe anything?"

Tang Xian was about to respond and turned to withdraw his hand.

Xie An was suddenly flung into the air.

Lin Jue, holding a lacrosse stick, shouted excitedly,

"Damn, this guy is flying up to the sky!"

Li Zheng was shocked; he didn't see what had just happened and couldn't understand how someone shaking hands was suddenly airborne.

Xie An only felt an indescribable force pulling and flinging his entire body.

Then there was the feeling of his feet leaving the ground, and a strong sensation of weightlessness followed.

He reacted quickly, hugged his knees, rolled in the air, and after flipping twice, landed steadily.

Song Que had observed the whole process and was inwardly amazed at Tang Xian's frightening strength.

He had heard that some powerful individuals possessed strength beyond ordinary people even within the Pyramid, and now he had witnessed it.

Xie An's face felt hot with embarrassment, some didn't see clearly what happened, but he himself knew it very well.

Tang Xian said apologetically, "Sorry, I was about to talk and forgot we were still shaking hands."

Xie An shook his head. He was inwardly shocked but also knew that Tang Xian had held back.

The seemingly casual pull had flung him into the air… He felt a little scared now, grateful that Tang had been generous, not taking his slight action during the handshake too seriously.

Xie An admitted defeat and said,

"Thank you for your leniency, Mr. Tang. I was too impolite just now."

Li Zheng truly didn't see what had happened and asked,

"What just happened?"

Tang Xian replied, "Nothing much, just a friendship blossoming between two men."

Song Que found it amusing and felt Tang Xian was interesting.

Tang Xian stopped dwelling on the incident and said,

"I've told Yu everything I observed. You can ask her later."

Tang Xian felt it was time to leave. Although he found Song Que somewhat interesting, ultimately, they couldn't become friends, and there was not much to talk about with Li Zheng, so he said,

"Please continue; I have some matters to attend to and must leave."

Li Zheng nodded and said,

"Take care, and come visit the Li family when you're free."

Tang Xian walked away.

Watching Tang Xian's retreating figure, Song Que said,

"This person is really interesting. Zheng, how did you find him?"

"What do you find interesting about him?"

"He's very smart."

"How can you tell?"

"Yu asked him to observe, which shows his observation skills are strong. And just now, the way he looked at our teammates, he was very deliberate about where he looked."

"What do you mean?" Li Zheng was genuinely unaware of these subtleties.

"He could immediately locate the most prominent part of these hunters' training, whether it was legs, knees, or fingers."