Chapter 612: Reaching the Peak 21
On this group outing, the effects were excellent. After three days of fun, everyone planned to head back because Shuangshuang had already paid. Later on, if they want to come, all they need is the identity token and they can come anytime without needing to act as a group.
Some people even secretly calculated in their hearts, planning to chase after their romantic interest first, then come here for a little two-person world, enjoy some romance.
As they were leaving, Shuangshuang was thinking that they probably wouldn't run into Hua Qingcheng this time. In the past life, when the Liang Family came, Shuangshuang and Feiyu didn't have any money, so it was naturally impossible to come and enjoy Heavenly Snow extravagantly.
In the past life, it was half a year later that Shuangshuang's grandfather gave her money to bring the young ones of both families to Heavenly Snow, and that was when Liang Ziqian first encountered Hua Qingcheng.
At that time, Liang Ziqian was a nobleman, while Hua Qingcheng was only a regular employee working at Heavenly Snow, not even a martial artist, just a small martial arts apprentice. When Liang Ziqian encountered her, Hua Qingcheng was being harassed by a guest who wanted to keep Hua Qingcheng as a mistress, but she refused no matter what.
Though Hua Qingcheng had the looks to turn a city upside down, she was beautifully pure without any hint of gaudiness. Her clean demeanor made people genuinely like her. At that time, Shuangshuang happened to be bringing Liang Ziqian to Heavenly Snow for the first time, and naturally, she couldn't sit back and do nothing about this.
Shuangshuang stepped forward to meddle, and at that time, Liang Ziqian, whom Shuangshuang was already pursuing, naturally couldn't ignore the situation either. The two helped out together, and the martial artist who wanted to keep Hua Qingcheng, being merely from a regular wealthy family, obviously didn't dare to go against Shuangshuang and Liang Ziqian and snuck away foolishly.
That was the first time Liang Ziqian saw Hua Qingcheng; after that, she disappeared from Heavenly Snow without a trace. The second time the two met was at the Bishui Sect, where Hua Qingcheng, with her exceptional talents, had suddenly become Liang Ziqian's junior sister.
Shuangshuang's feelings toward Hua Qingcheng were very complex. Hua Qingcheng was the one who intruded as a third party, yet it was Liang Ziqian who pursued first. Moreover, Shuangshuang remembered Hua Qingcheng's shock and disdain in her eyes when she saw Shuangshuang appear in the capacity of Liang Ziqian's maid.
Someone like Hua Qingcheng, who is focused only on climbing upwards, likely could never understand why anyone would willingly give up a position of equality and a great future to become someone else's maid, just to stay by that person's side!
Well, in truth, Shuangshuang herself couldn't understand why she was so contemptible back then. Thinking back to everything she did in her past life, Shuangshuang only felt two emotions: one, the desire to find a crack in the ground to dive into, feeling ashamed; and the other, the urge to go back in time and slap that endlessly contemptible self awake.
While Shuangshuang was feeling ashamed of her past self, she suddenly heard a commotion not far away. The voice was noisy and chaotic; listening carefully, she could make out that it was a group of men jeering, along with a woman's voice calling for help.
This woman's voice pleading for help was all too familiar to Shuangshuang; it was Hua Qingcheng's voice! Shuangshuang couldn't help but look in the direction of the voice and saw a group of men dressed as guards surrounding an incomparably beautiful girl.
That girl was Hua Qingcheng. Although Hua Qingcheng was still young, she already had the elegance that would make her besiege a city in the future. Those guards surrounding Hua Qingcheng were taking orders from the young man in the middle who was tugging at her.
Outside this group of guards, several young people were stirring up trouble. They seemed to be urging that young man to confess quickly, some even shouting things like not to be played by a woman.
The young man pulling at Hua Qingcheng looked fair and handsome himself, but at this moment, he was angrily clutching Hua Qingcheng's hand, saying something in rage.
But Hua Qingcheng was unwilling to listen, only shouting for help incessantly. Especially when she saw the group that included Shuangshuang appear, Hua Qingcheng's eyes filled with pleading as she continuously shouted for help in this direction.
When Shuangshuang saw the young man pulling at Hua Qingcheng, she was even more surprised than by Hua Qingcheng herself, since this young man was someone Shuangshuang knew—Lu Tianyi, who would become one of Hua Qingcheng's trusted aides. Nearly every important matter, Hua Qingcheng would leave for Lu Tianyi to handle.
Lu Tianyi was also wholeheartedly loyal to Hua Qingcheng, almost without any second thoughts. Because of things between Liang Ziqian and Hua Qingcheng in the past life, Lu Tianyi never missed an opportunity to give Shuangshuang a hard time. She never expected that there was such a past between Lu Tianyi and Hua Qingcheng!
Shuangshuang was genuinely surprised; in the past life, because Lu Tianyi always caused her trouble, she had taken the time to understand his relationship with Hua Qingcheng. It was said that Hua Qingcheng had done Lu Tianyi a great favor, which made him so devoted to her.
Looking at it now, obviously, Hua Qingcheng hadn't yet done Lu Tianyi that favor, as Lu Tianyi in the past life wouldn't dare to speak so disrespectfully while pulling at Hua Qingcheng, let alone surrounding her with guards.
Shuangshuang found it quite surprising, but she wasn't intending to delve into the complicated past between Lu Tianyi and Hua Qingcheng. She knew that Lu Tianyi wouldn't harm Hua Qingcheng, so she didn't plan to intervene like she did in her past life.
In her past life, Shuangshuang had helped Hua Qingcheng, but she never saw Hua Qingcheng being grateful toward her. The second time they met, all gratitude vanished, and Hua Qingcheng remembered only the favors Liang Ziqian did for her, entangled in gratitude with him daily, completely forgetting it was Shuangshuang who extended a helping hand first.
However, just because Shuangshuang didn't intervene doesn't mean others wouldn't. The first to step in to help was Tan Feiyu, then Liang Ziqian also went over, and since Feiyu had already gone, Shuangshuang could only helplessly follow along.
Seeing Feiyu and Liang Ziqian approach, before the two could ask anything, Hua Qingcheng, who was being pulled by Lu Tianyi, fiercely managed to free herself from his grip, intending to escape but was stopped by the guards. She could only look pitifully at Feiyu and Liang Ziqian and plead.
"Gentlemen, please help me. This person wants to forcibly take me to their house. I don't want to go. He won't let me leave. Please help me." Hua Qingcheng's tears hung at the tips of her eyelashes, about to fall, matched with her pure and absolutely beautiful face, drawing considerable pity.
Feiyu himself looked as beautiful as a lady, so he never found women to be particularly beautiful because he saw himself as more beautiful than them. Sometimes, it's more pleasurable to look in the mirror at his own face than at other beauties.
Yet, at this moment, he saw a girl prettier than himself for the first time, and suddenly blushed, unable to speak clearly, "This... this young lady, what's the grudge... between you and this person?"
Shuangshuang was wordless in shock at Feiyu's shy demeanor, wondering if this kid was having the first stirrings of love with Hua Qingcheng! It could be troublesome if that happened because Hua Qingcheng was not someone Feiyu, with his straightforward nature, could handle.
Moreover, Hua Qingcheng's demeanor today disgusted Shuangshuang a bit. In her past life, the Hua Qingcheng she remembered was someone who didn't love crying and could endure hardships. Why was she acting like a fragile little woman when encountered this time around?