It's Not Easy To Be a Man 210+

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223: Natural Born Rogue!

Translator: ryuxenji  Editor: H2dH2mr

“In their eyes, we already are one group. Or, are you saying you want to be separate from us?” Ling Lan glanced at Li Yingjie coldly, her piercing and frosty gaze causing Li Yingjie’s initial disgruntlement to disappear instantly. Still, he turned to look unhappily at Qi Long and said, “Qi Long is stronger than me. Wouldn’t it be better for him to go?”

Ling Lan’s slender fingers gripped Qi Long’s lower jaw abruptly, pulling him forward to let Li Yingjie take a good look at that affable face with its honest grin. She asked calmly, “This face. Do you think it looks like a domineering and unreasonable, arrogant face which would bully others?”

Li Yingjie choked, and seeing Qi Long grinning guilelessly at him, his eyelid began twitching violently. This face of Qi Long’s was the exemplar of ‘I am an honest man; I am a good person’. If he stepped forward … let alone suppressing the other party, he would most definitely end up raising the other party’s morale. Even if they managed to defeat the other in the end, the other side would still have doubts whether the result was due to their own carelessness. It would have no deterrent effect whatsoever …

Just as when he had first lost to Qi Long, that feeling of not being convinced, thinking that it was all his own carelessness … No, even now, he still wasn’t convinced by the other. Even though he knew very well that Qi Long was indeed stronger than him by a hair, he just could not muster up true deference for Qi Long.

Li Yingjie subconsciously peeked at Ling Lan, and then looked again at the silly grin on Qi Long’s face. He suddenly understood why he could not defer to Qi Long — because Qi Long lacked the type of nature-defying domineering air that Ling Lan exuded! Although Boss Lan had tucked away that domineering air very cleanly at the moment, when he unleashed it during confrontations, that air was enough to make him quake in his boots. This fear had slowly seeped into his bones with the passage of time, causing him to no longer be able to even conceive the notion of resisting.

“Our group cannot only have one image to present to the public. Our amicable and reasonable side can be assigned to Qi Long.” Ling Lan released Qi Long’s jaw, retracting her right hand.

Seated beside Ling Lan, Luo Lang took a wet wipe out from his backpack with an expression of disgust. Lifting up Ling Lan’s right hand, he carefully and meticulously wiped Ling Lan’s slender jade fingers clean. Fine, he admits that he thinks Qi Long’s oily face would really sully Boss Lan’s graceful and beautiful fair hand — he needed to serve his boss well by cleaning his hand up.

This scene rendered Qi Long speechless. Hells, was he being viewed as a virus right now?

As one of the parties involved, green veins popped up on both of Ling Lan’s temples, twitching. However, seeing Luo Lang’s serious expression, Ling Lan decided to just ignore this and let him do what he wanted. After all, she was just temporarily giving up her right hand and there really wasn’t any harm in this. At the very least, it was hygienic — she would not have to go wash her hands specially after this.

Ling Lan studiously ignored the others’ side-eyes, and continued to say, “Being cocky is equally important — this can deter some minor villains from crossing us simply. We also need to be domineering sometimes. At times, acting right away is much more effective than arguing back and forth with people.” Ling Lan clearly stated her opinion. In order to thrive in the First Men’s Military Academy, constantly compromising and being accommodating was not the best plan.

Wu Jiong nodded thoughtfully while Han Jijyun stared blankly. Then, like a window had been opened, his gaze grew brighter and brighter — did Boss Lan mean to use both soft and hard tactics simultaneously? Being forceful on both fronts?