The Human Emperor (200-400)

C334: Bai Siling's Insight!

"Ah?" Bai Siling was taken aback. She hadn't expected Xu Gan to ask her about this matter. However, a beautiful smile overflowing with a ravishing charm that few commanded bloomed swiftly in its place, and she replied, "Don't worry, I won't spoil your plans."

"That's good to hear." Xu Gan nodded and fell silent.

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Often, reality wouldn't turn out as one expected it to.

Despite sending a sizeable team of cavalry to observe how Wang Chong managed to bypass the bandits’ defenses, Xu Gan and Huang Yongtu still continued falling for their traps without fail each time.

It was as if they were destined to never master the skill.

The traps set by the bandits came in all shapes and sizes. Each time, something unexpected would leap out at them, foiling their operation. But for some reason, those traps never sprung for Wang Chong.

This left the two of them so frustrated that they could tear their hair out. After all, which prestigious clan would impart their own offspring the lowly and despicable art of trap-setting? As such, Xu Gan and Huang Yongtu had never come into contact with this sort of thing.

On the contrary, it was commonly the humble hunters and peasants who boasted a greater understanding of such skills. As such, Wang Chong's outstanding performance only further reinforced their notion of his lowly birth, and their resentment toward him deepened further.

Of course, that wasn't the only reason for it. What probably played a much greater part would be the fact that they had attacked six bandit dens consecutively, only to uncover nothing at all.

Their greatest gain turned out to be just eighty silver taels.

And as if to rub salt on their wounds, the two dens that Wang Chong attacked in that period of time added further to his wealth, thus hiking his total gain up to three hundred thousand gold taels!

How could the two of them remain calm before this?

Even Xu Gan, who was calm at the start, was beginning to lose his composure. Every time, after the end of of the operation and everyone gathered together, they would feel Wang Chong's contemptuous and disdainful gaze on them.

Well, even though Wang Chong truly couldn't care less about them.

"Allow me to offer you a word of advice. If you continue to look down on him, thinking that he is a mere peasant-born recruit from Kunwu Training Camp, you will have much more to be humiliated over in the future," a slightly cold and proud feminine voice sounded at this point. Without even turning around, they could tell that those words had come from Bai Siling.

After all, she was the only one here who could talk to them with such a proud tone.

"Bai Siling, if you like that brat so much, why don't you go to him? Why are you bothering to waste your words on us?" Huang Yongtu mocked her coldly.

That woman's words were jarring to his ears, he disliked hearing them. If not for her outstanding capability and powerful background, he might have gotten physical with her over them.

Bai Siling gently pushed her hair to the back of her ears as she replied coldly, "Hmph. Huang Yongtu, you sure are a fool! I am offering you advice out of kindness, but you choose to trample on my goodwill for your own pride! It's no wonder why you ended up outmatched by your second brother in your clan."

"YOU…!" Huang Yongtu's eyes widened in fury. This woman was going too far! It was normal for competition over the inheritance of the clan to be rife, and this matter had always been a thorn in his heart. Yet, this woman actually dared to bring it out in public to humiliate him!