Chapter 320: A Lean Camel Was Bigger Than a Horse

"Sever all ties." The words exploded in Hao Ren's head.

Sever all ties meant that he would no longer be the Fuma of the East Ocean Dragon Clan, Zhao Yanzi's fiancé, and he wouldn't be able to visit Zhao Yanzi's home anymore.

Once all ties were severed, destroying the West Ocean Dragon Palace wouldn't be connected to East Ocean anymore.

"Dad!" Zhao Yanzi shouted after being stunned for several seconds.

"What do you mean by Sever all ties! I don't agree! I strongly disagree!" she shouted as her face turned red.

Hao Ren stared at Zhao Yanzi, not expecting her to react this way.

A moment ago, he thought that she would love a decision like that.

Zhao Yanzi pouted angrily, and she suddenly placed her hands on the table and stood up.

"Dad! Who the hell are those elders! They can't tell you to Sever all ties! They never said anything when Hao Ren did good things for East Ocean, and now they want to kick him away as soon as he caused some trouble? Our East Ocean Dragon Clan can't be this ungrateful!" she said

Her chest moved up and down rapidly as she held on to her chopsticks. Her eyes were wide open, and she continued, "Which elder suggested it? I'll burn his house down tonight!"

Zhao Yanzi turned to Zhao Hongyu after getting no reaction from Zhao Guang, "Mom, you said that we dragons need to be virtuous. Hao Ren had never maltreated me; he doesn't deserve this!"

Obviously, the remark of 'sever all ties' touched her most sensitive nerve.

She knocked on the table and shouted for a while until she realized that Hao Ren, Zhao Hongyu, and Zhao Guang were all still sitting calmly at the table. Her face suddenly turned even redder, and she peeked at Zhao Guang, feeling like a deflated balloon and slowly sat down.

"I think Zi is right. Hao Ren never maltreated Zi or the East Ocean Dragon Tribe. If we simply deal with this by getting rid of Hao Ren, it would be inappropriate," Zhao Hongyu said.

She was on Hao Ren's side. In other words, she was on Zhao Yanzi's side. The current situation was giving them a headache, but she was opposed to sacrificing Hao Ren.

Zhao Yanzi looked at Hao Ren after she sat down. She bit her lip and looked down while blushing.

She even dared to shout at Zhao Guang for Hao Ren, who she had always found annoying. As a matter of fact, Zhao Yanzi didn't even dare to speak loudly in front of the king of the clan.

"We'll put more thought into it," Zhao Guang picked up his chopsticks without stating his point of view right away. "Let's eat."

Zhao Hongyu pouted reluctantly and picked up her chopsticks.

Tens of millions of lives of the East Ocean Dragon Clan were in Zhao Guang's control, and his decision would affect the clan's future decades and even centuries down the road. Therefore, he couldn't decide on his own and ignore the elders.

Even if he wanted to protect Hao Ren with all his effort, he had to convince the elders in the dragon palace. Otherwise, different points of views might lead to internal disorder. There wasn't only their family of three in the East Ocean Dragon Clan; he had to be responsible for millions of cultivators and tens of millions of clan members within their territories.

The dishes were a bit cold already and weren't as tasty as before.

None of the four spoke anymore. All they could hear was the sound made by the utensils hitting the plates and bowls.

Zhao Hongyu said to Hao Ren after dinner, "Ren, you can go tutor Zi upstairs."

"Um, ok," Hao Ren stood up and put the dishes together.

Zhao Yanzi walked silently to the staircase, pouting.

As Zhao Hongyu started to clean up, she glimpsed at Zhao Guang. They obviously had something else to talk about.

Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi quietly entered her room one by one.

Zhao Yanzi closed the door and walked to her desk before taking out her homework from her bag.

Hao Ren also took out the tutoring materials.

He then pulled over a chair beside her.

"Let me tell you. Whatever they say, don't listen to them," Zhao Yanzi suddenly turned to Hao Ren and said.

Hao Ren laughed.

"What are you laughing about!" Zhao Yanzi got mad all of a sudden. "I'll sever ties with them if they sever ties with you!"

"Where will you live then?" Hao Ren asked.

"I'll live...live in your home!" Zhao Yanzi said after hesitating for half a second.

She knew that Hao Ren's grandma was very fond of her, and so were Hao Ren's parents. She could go to Grandma for shelter if she had nowhere to go.

She felt weird about this herself. If it were before, she would be more than happy for the East Ocean Dragon Clan to sever ties with Hao Ren. However, she got so furious today and sided with Hao Ren firmly...

"Is it because... Hao Ren is my... fiancé?" She wondered to herself.

Zhao Yanzi was a little confused.

She was not in the mood for doing homework at all. Her mind was in a mess since she had just realized that everything was so unreliable. She could not understand why Zhao Guang chose not to protect Hao Ren and why Zhao Hongyu's attitude was not that firm.

She could not understand why her parents, who used to spoil her and protect her, were now standing on the opposite side.

Anyways, she would be the first one to reject the plan if East Ocean were to sever ties with Hao Ren.

A thought appeared in her mind, "I'll be Hao Ren's wife if Hao Ren can't become East Ocean's Fuma!"

Hao Ren nudged her with his hand when he saw her facial expression change quickly like TV channels.

"Hey, hey, let's get to work."

"You are still in the mood for this?!" Zhao Yanzi lifted her eyebrows.

"Severing all ties and tutoring are two different things. Your final is on the way, right?" Hao Ren stated.

Zhao Yanzi lost her spirit at the sound of the final.

Yes, the final exams were something that had been giving her a headache. She promised herself that she would top Xie Yujia's record in LingZhao Middle School.

"Our main subject is math today, and I have six geometry questions and six algebra questions ready for you. You will be done as soon as you finish these," Hao Ren put two pieces of paper in front of Zhao Yanzi.

He stuffed the questions to Zhao Yanzi regardless of her emotions as if he was made of wood.

Zhao Yanzi rolled her eyes harshly at Hao Ren, feeling like severing ties with Hao Ren might not be the worst idea.

However, she only pouted to express her dissatisfaction. She threw herself on the desk and took a ball-point pen out of the container. Then, she flipped out a blank piece of paper and started to work hard on the questions.

Hao Ren started to consider his own situation when Zhao Yanzi focused on the questions.

He had definitely gone too far by destroying half of the West Ocean Dragon Palace. The West Ocean Dragon Clan didn't dare to do anything about Zhen Congming, but they sure would take this as an opportunity to point their arrows at the East Ocean Dragon Clan.

When he tore down the West Ocean Dragon Palace's gate and destroyed the buildings, he felt good about venting all of the piled-up grudges. He didn't think much at all since he was too busy revenging for the East Ocean Dragon Clan and himself.

As a matter of fact, if Zhen Congming and Hao Ren escaped as soon as Oldman Zeng dashed out of the back mountain, the West Ocean Dragon Clan wouldn't have any evidence. The entire thing could have been avoided if the East Ocean Dragon Palace chose to not admit to it no matter what.

However, Zhen Congming was too stubborn to run away. On the contrary, he even harshly punished Oldman Zeng by forcing him to hand over treasures. This had obviously set the West Ocean Dragon Clan off, which led to their decision of dragging the East Ocean Dragon Clan down with them.

As the saying went, a lean camel was bigger than a horse, and a cornered beast would do desperate things. It was a natural strategy for the West Ocean Dragon Clan not to let the East Ocean Dragon Clan go. Hao Ren did feel like it was his lack of consideration that put the East Ocean Dragon Clan in this awkward position.

"Hey!" Zhao Yanzi nudged Hao Ren with her arm, "I'm done!"

Hao Ren was so focused on thinking that he had no idea an hour had passed already, and Zhao Yanzi had finished all 12 questions during this time.

"Let me take a look," Hao Ren took over the paper and started to grade the questions.

"Correct, correct, correct..." Hao Ren was just about to feel happy for her when he realized the latter questions were incorrect, incorrect, incorrect...

She only got four out of 12 questions right. With the total mark being 100, that was 33.3. Even if there were only eight questions, she barely passed.

Zhao Yanzi's face looked gloomy when she saw the red crosses on her paper. She pouted. "I made mistakes because I wasn't in a good mood..."

She couldn't even convince herself by using this lame excuse. She only got four out of 12 questions correct within an hour. On top of that, the questions weren't tough.

Instead of blaming her, Hao Ren put the paper on the table and said, "I won't go over the first four which you got right. In the fifth question, in triangle ABC, angle ACB is a right angle. Connect DE and analyze the relationship between DF and EF. For a proofing problem like this, you need to figure out the relationship between the angles first..."

Hao Ren did not make fun of her. On the contrary, he started to analyze the questions for her patiently.

Zhao Yanzi was a bit surprised, and she listened carefully with her eyes wide open.

Hao Ren went through the questions with a pencil. He never really considered himself Zhao Yanzi's fiancé nor thought about the East Ocean Dragon Clan's issues when he tutored her.

However, Zhao Yanzi was not as focused as Hao Ren. She looked up at Hao Ren's serious face from time to time while she looked at the questions.

In fact, although Hao Ren wasn't that handsome, he looked particularly attractive to her when he was entirely focused on something.

Same as when he concentrated on cultivating... and the same went to when he studied the blueprints in Zhao Hongyu's studio...

Hao Ren suddenly realized that Zhao Yanzi was staring at him when he was explaining the questions. He was surprised for a bit before asking her, "Um?"

Zhao Yanzi turned around nervously as her heart started to race like crazy.

"Then, question number 12, which is this equation: 1/a+a/x=1/b+b/x. For questions like this, you need to combine the two parts on each side. Then, you do the diagonal multiplication and division. After rearranging the equation, you can take the x out..." Hao Ren wrote quickly as he explained.

"I know! You talk so much... I know how to do this. I was just a little careless!" she hit Hao Ren's shoulder.

"So, the answer is x=(abb-aab)/(b-a)." Hao Ren put the pencil down and rubbed his shoulder.

"I know!" Zhao Yanzi couldn't help but emphasis once more.

"How come you got it wrong if you knew it." Hao Ren smiled. He opened the little door to the balcony and said to her, "It's late; I'm leaving."

He didn't want to go through the living room where he had to talk with Zhao Yanzi's parents again. Therefore, he got on Little White's back and flew into the sky!

Zhao Yanzi ran onto the balcony, and all she could see was Hao Ren dashing away like a shooting star surrounded by the red energy sphere.