LOT – Chapter 228 Master Yang’s Unusual View on Romance

Lin Mo watched the Grand Master throw a punch with astonishing precision, almost unable to hold back a cheer.

“Xiao Bai, look, look! I can’t believe this old Grand Master still has that kind of explosive power. He actually knocked out his disciple’s front tooth! That disciple was already missing one tooth, and now another one is gone. If he meets a certain female confidante in the future, how embarrassing would Master Yang be!”

“She looks so glamorous, and he doesn’t even dare smile at her—because every smile would show two missing teeth.”

Master Yang: …It seems to make sense… Wait, didn’t he have a female confidante in the capital? And I heard she’s already got a whole family by now.

Peacock Flower and Silly Beauty both touched their own front teeth, already determined to take good care of them.

Losing two front teeth made a person feel a little silly. They had heard of Master Yang, of course, but seeing him with two missing teeth made him look somewhat… less sharp.

Lin Mo kept on joking: “Look at them! They’re both so old, and they still go to find their teacher to fight. Who’s their teacher anyway? The Grand Master just said their teacher is over 80—an impressive age!”

Bai Xiao checked: “Their teacher is the Old National Master. Back when the previous emperor was alive, the whole court was basically held up by him. Without the Old National Master, the emperor would have lost the country long ago.”

“Now, the Old National Master is retired on Wàngyōu Mountain outside the capital.”

Wow, what a national hero! Truly admirable!

The Grand Master looked at his disciple in front of him, itching to strike. “You’d better stay put in the capital. At your age, you still want to go flirt around?”

Master Yang: “Senior Brother, that’s a bit harsh. What do you mean by flirting around? Everything with those girls was mutual. And we parted ways amicably.”

Lin Mo: “You probably shouldn’t call them ‘girls’ anymore. They’re all little grandmas now, and everything with them was still by mutual consent.”

Master Yang: …Can you just not talk?

The duel between these two old men ended with the Grand Master’s complete victory. Master Yang suffered a serious injury (losing a front tooth).

Lin Mo remained very curious about Master Yang, especially about those female confidantes.

“Xiao Bai, were any of those female confidantes particularly impressive, especially the ones who had children?”

Not only Lin Mo, but Peacock Flower, Silly Beauty, the Grand Master, and even Master Yang himself were curious.

After parting ways with those female confidantes, he hadn’t paid much attention to them and didn’t know how they fared later. But when he was with them, he was sincere and even helped them prosper using his abilities.

So now he was quite curious about how they were doing.

Bai Xiao checked and said admiringly: “Most of his female confidantes were quite remarkable. The one in the capital? She’s the matriarch of the Minister of Works’ family, the family’s elder ancestor.”

Master Yang: …#@&@#

The matriarch of the Minister of Works’ family! How am I supposed to face her now!

Bai Xiao, cheerful as ever, added: “The one in the capital was the earliest. Master Yang met her when he was young and stationed in the capital. They were very sweet at the time.”

Lin Mo asked curiously: “If it was so sweet, why did they end up parting?”

Master Yang prayed silently for Xiao Bai to shut up: Peaceful breakup, peaceful breakup, no other reason!

But his prayers went unheard.

Bai Xiao laughed heartily: “Because when they quarreled, he never hit her. She loved hitting people, and he couldn’t win. He was even made to cry three times, and in the end, they reported it to the Old National Master, who told them to separate.”

Master Yang heard this and felt utterly hopeless. What does “couldn’t win” mean? He simply doesn’t hit women! Going to the teacher wasn’t snitching; it was venting emotions!

The Grand Master looked at his hopeless disciple, his expression complex, his thoughts even more so. He had no idea about this. He had been heavily relied upon by the teacher since childhood, always busy studying this and that, with no time to focus on other things.

He never expected his disciple to have such a past in the capital. Could this be a reason he didn’t serve as an official there?

Lin Mo laughed even more exaggeratedly than Bai Xiao: Wow, the matriarch of the Minister of Works’ family is impressive. Anyone daring enough to marry her must have been tough.

“Since then, Master Yang only looked for girls interested in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. He would never go for a martial girl. That must have hurt him too much back then.”

Peacock Flower and Silly Beauty laughed until their muscles cramped. Who would have thought the older generation’s stories were so entertaining?

They had met the matriarch of the Minister of Works’ family too—a stern lady whose gaze alone could make legs go weak. No wonder Master Yang got beaten.

Bai Xiao continued to introduce the others: “After leaving the capital, he first arrived in Jingyun, met a young lady from a wealthy merchant family, dated her for three months, then got dumped.”

Lin Mo: “I thought all breakups with female confidantes were amicable? How come he got dumped?”

The Grand Master looked at his disciple in confusion. Master Yang smiled awkwardly, unsure how to respond.

Peaceful breakup—yes, as long as no force was used, it counts as peaceful.

Bai Xiao clarified: “Our understanding of a peaceful breakup differs slightly from Master Yang’s. For him, as long as no force was used, it’s peaceful. Except for a few cases, his relationships with other girls were also ‘peaceful’ by his definition.”

Lin Mo: …This old man keeps surprising me. I guess he got scared by the matriarch of the Minister of Works’ family.

“That young lady initially liked Master Yang. Later, she found him boring and dumped him. But she gave him a large sum of money, which he happily accepted. She even introduced him to another sister, Master Yang’s third female confidante, the daughter of a prefect.”

Lin Mo squinted while listening. Something felt off—why did Master Yang seem like a male companion or… a kept man?

Master Yang smugly lifted his chin toward his senior: “See? My charm is just that great!”

The Grand Master nearly wanted to disappear from shame. Clearly, she treated you like a toy! She played with you, gave you money, introduced you to another, and you still think it’s all because of your ‘charm’? You old rascal!