Eternal Life: My Talent Increases by 1 Point Every Day

Chapter 265: Chapter 182: Exchange

"You’re here again?"

Fang Yue, who had just arrived at his doorstep, frowned at the red-clad figure walking toward him.

"I’m here to see my godmother," Hong Ling said with a slight smile.

She paid Fang Yue no mind, walking right past him and into the courtyard. Moments later, the sound of cheerful chatter drifted out.

Seeing this, Fang Yue felt a tinge of helplessness.

This woman, Hong Ling, was clearly skilled in martial arts; she was no girl from an ordinary family.

She also seemed to be a local, but he had no idea why she had latched onto his family.

He had his suspicions about her motives, but from start to finish, he hadn’t found a single clue.

And with Ms. Chen’s ’favoritism,’ Fang Yue couldn’t exactly use force. He could only wait and see.

In any case, it seemed for now that the woman had simply hit it off with his mother.

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Another day passed. Fang Yue was scheduled to leave tomorrow.

Hui Hengwu had sent someone to inform him yesterday that Wen Tailai had already taken a liking to him. Tomorrow, he could go to the Wenyuan Pavilion to meet the woman from the Wen Family’s marriage selection.

Although Wen Tailai could make the decision with a single word, he wouldn’t force a match. He would simply select a few eligible men of suitable age and let the women from the Wen Family’s branch lines take a look.

This would allow them to make the final decision.

「The next day.」

Fang Yue left early in the morning, quickly exiting Earth City and heading toward the central Yujing City.

Strictly speaking, Yujing City encompassed four cities in the north, south, east, and west. In reality, the distance from Earth City to the central Yujing City was nearly a hundred li.

However, for a Martial Artist with cultivation, this distance was nothing. If Fang Yue ran at full speed, he could cross it in the time it took to burn a stick of incense.

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Meanwhile, on a small hill between Earth City and Central Yujing City, Luo Wei lay in wait.

’Wu Wende’s message said the man will pass by here today. He’ll be wearing a black combat suit, has a slender build, looks to be in his mid-twenties, and his surname is Fang...’

Luo Wei mentally reviewed the characteristics of today’s target, which Wu Wende had given him.

But he couldn’t shake the feeling that he had seen this person Wu Wende wanted him to kill somewhere before. There was an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Yet, for the life of him, he couldn’t remember where.

Before long, a black figure finally appeared in Luo Wei’s line of sight.

As the person drew closer, Luo Wei mentally compared him to the description.

Sure enough, he met every condition.

’That’s him!’

Seeing his target getting closer and closer, Luo Wei was about to make his move, but at that moment, he got a clear look at the man’s face.

"What?! How is it him? It’s Fang Yue!"

Luo Wei now saw clearly that the person Wu Wende wanted him to kill was, of all people, Fang Yue.

What a coincidence! Too much of a coincidence!

He never imagined that the person Wu Wende wanted dead was the same person he was supposed to kill. And it seemed their respective employers had even hired each other to kill this very man.

’What kind of mess is this?’

’After going around in circles, they find out the person they’re both targeting is Fang Yue!’

’And to top it off, they made helping each other get rid of Fang Yue a condition of their deal.’

It was truly beyond words.

But this was no time to get bogged down by that question.

Luo Wei, of course, wasn’t actually going to make a move. He turned and immediately left the hill, vanishing at the end of the road in an instant.

If it had been convenient for him to strike, he would have killed Fang Yue long ago.

But he was wary of the man’s identity and didn’t dare to act. After all, Fang Yue was an Inspector for the Observatory. Doing it in another Prefecture Mansion might have been one thing.

But to kill an Observatory Inspector within the bounds of Yujing City, right in the Observatory’s own den? Even with his status, he would surely be investigated.

When the time came to face the Observatory’s punishment, he feared his fate would be grim.

By this time, Fang Yue had reached the foot of the hill. A few moments later, he was already halfway across it.

’I felt a hint of killing intent from here just now. Was there a wild beast lurking around?’

Fang Yue didn’t spot any sign of human activity. He shook his head, thinking the killing intent he’d felt might have come from some beast that had wandered into the area.

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"He’s here. The target is finally here."

He had been waiting for almost the entire morning, and now the target had finally arrived. Though he had the appearance of a twelve or thirteen-year-old, the Wen Family’s Scholar’s Attendant couldn’t hide the hint of joy in his aged voice.

Although he felt that this assassination exchange between Wu Wende and Luo Wei was a needless complication, he had accepted it as the most untraceable method to ensure his young master’s success.

Wu Wende must have wanted this exchange because he was afraid the Wen Family would discover something if his own people made a move.

If the Wen Family found out he was using such underhanded methods to compete, they would certainly never marry their daughter to him.

Hence, the assassination exchange.

By using an uninvolved party to do the deed, the lack of connection would make it difficult to trace back. Even if it were investigated, it would likely be attributed to a revenge killing or something similar. What would that have to do with the true beneficiaries?

"It’s him? The person Luo Wei is supposed to kill is also Fang Yue!" The Wen Family Scholar’s Attendant’s aged voice held a note of confusion and faint shock.

He had considered many possibilities, but he had never imagined that the targets they had exchanged were the very same person.

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