Dual Cultivation God Returns

Young Lady Shan was extremely pleased when she heard that a young man from a certain Wu Family visited the mansion of the Shan Family, “Hah! Of course he came! Playing hard to get so unnecessarily! Hmm~ should I refuse him a few times?”

She saw a glimpse of that man before on the Beast of Burden, and would lie if she said she didn’t care about his looks. But what stroked her ego the most, was the fact that she saw the women the man had by his side.

The fact he came here despite having such women felt like a major win, she even imagined he was ready to forsake all of them for her.

Not to mention the way he rejected every Young Master on that Beast of Burden, but came to see her with his hat in hands.

She spent an hour preparing her looks. Meticulously getting ready, but also deliberately making him wait.

But then…

“He what?!”, the makeup brush she held fell from her slightly trembling fingers onto the dressing table as her shocked eyes looked at herself in full parade in the mirror.

“T-The… the guest met the Patriarch in his study and left after the meeting”, the young servant nervously repeated what she said.

A few minutes after, with badly-wiped off makeup that made her face look uneven with patches of different color skin and awkward shapes, she stormed into the study of the Shan Family’s Patriarch.

“Father!”, the doors flew open.

“Aiya!!!”, the man sitting in the study grabbed his chest from the sudden intrusion and then widened his eyes with horror at the sight, for a second thinking his daughter had horribly injured her face, “H-Heavens! W-What hap-…”

“That Young Master Wu! What were you talking about?!”, the daughter didn’t listen, demanding answers.

“A-Ah…”, the man sighed with relief as he simultaneously realized it was just a badly undone makeup and also what was the thing that made his daughter so agitated, signaling the panicking in the background secretary that it was fine and to leave the room with one hand, while wiping away sweat from the side of his face with a napkin held in another, “Haha… you already heard about that? Just as always, nothing really gets past you, does it?

“Hurry up and tell me already!”, the girl sat down on one of the sofas with a sulking look, continuing to wipe off the makeup with the napkin she still held in her hand from her room.

“Hahaha, to be honest, the question of your marriage came up”, her father spoke in a delighted tone, as it seemed that the talk went quite well.

“My marriage?!”, she brightened up, stopping to wipe the makeup again and looked at her father, who made a slightly awkward look trying to not look at her directly, as he signaled her to continue what she was doing with his hand.

“Tsk, if he came to ask for a woman’s hand, why wouldn’t he wait to meet her? Talk about arrogant… or is he just shy?”, she mumbled under her nose as her father was tracing his short beard with a look of satisfaction on his face.

“The man made an excellent point, that at times when our Wei Dynasty is so peaceful and prosperous, there is too little room for whole five families of weapon makers focusing on practical weaponry and armor…”, her father started, making her slightly surprised but deciding it was all just talk to show off business skills to be a son-in-law she let him speak, his voice fading into background as she focused on removing her makeup.

“…It is actually why those fools of the Kai Family are struggling… at first it made sense to take them as our in-laws and take over their share of the market and part of their businesses. We would obviously have to cut off some parts, but I thought what they brought to the table was quite substantial… However, when I think about it now, examining it closely, isn’t it just taking on additional burden? It’s not like we can’t meet the expanded demands if they fall without taking them in? And it’s not like the market for arms will be growing”, as her father was talking, the daughter nodded along as she was not particularly fond of Young Master Kai, her impression especially worsening in the last hunting trip.

“That young man, however, he proposed a genius solution! To expand to a new market of luxury goods! Beautiful jewelry-like weapons and armor to decorate the homes of nobles! It would be a massive success!!!”, the father continued, as the daughter thought it was actually a decent idea.

“And for that, making a union with experts in jewelry and jade carving is key!”, the father spoke as a smug smile appeared on his daughter’s lips.

“The Rou Family have long been famous for thei-…”

“The Rou Family?! What do you mean, Rou Family?”, the daughter suddenly interrupted, standing up from the sofa.

“T-The Rou Family, you know, the ones dealing in jewelr-“

“I know who the Rou Family are, what about the Wu Family?!”

“A-ah… haha, that young man came here on behalf of the Rou Family. I also… was… surpri~…”, her father chuckled, but his words started slowly trailing off as he saw his daughter’s reaction.

The Shan Family Mansion was never quiet after that visit of Wu Long, as scandals and verbal spats between the father and daughter filled the lives of everyone there. And yet, her opinion, much like the opinion of Young Master Kai for his family, mattered little when the question stood about family business.

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Meanwhile, Wu Long visited the 9th prince’s palace to give the Imperial Heir a bit of sword training.

While he did not plan to support him for the throne, he didn’t plan to distance himself from him either. Rather, their relationship started resembling something like a temporary instructor and student.

“Haa~ haa~… I-I think I’m improving”, Wei Yuanjie, the 9th prince, sprawled on the training field.

“You have, though a little bit more training in my absence would go a long way, Your Highness”, Wu Long chuckled.

“I don’t improve as fast when I train alone”

“You can always ask your mother for an instructor”

“Hah, as if she’d agree. Me raising any skill is a threat to my brother”, the prince retorted with a tone that told Wu Long he already tried.

“I see. Then I suppose you’ll have to learn to train alone after all. Come next month, maybe a bit later, maybe slightly earlier, I will be leaving the city”, Wu Long nodded, causing the prince to sit up with his legs still sprawled straight.

“You’re leaving? Wait, why?”

“I have things to do”

“Can’t you do them here?”

“I can’t, that’s why I’m leaving”, Wu Long replied with a light tone, moving his sword slowly as he looked at the light reflecting off of it, “I was never planning to stay here long-term”

“Tsk, it’s going to become boring again, huh”, Wei Yuanjie clicked his tongue in frustration, his eyes still following the trajectory of Wu Long’s sword regardless.

“Boring… I’m afraid that word won’t be exactly how I’d describe it, Your Highness”, Wu Long spoke as he made a step and changed the movement pattern of the blade.

“You think it is finally going to heat up? What makes you think so? I was watching the whole thing sizzling for years, I even thought I was part of it at one point”, Wei Yuanjie asked, showing he realized way more than he initially let on. Though it wasn’t surprising for Wu Long.

“The smoke is rising more heavily from that ‘sizzling’, so I’d say yes. And even if it wasn’t going to, someone’s going to pour oil all over the thing”, Wu Long replied, and then added seeing that Wei Yuanjie made a cautious look to Wu Long to mind the bodyguard, “Don’t worry, Your Highness, our conversation sounds completely different to him. Though I’d make sure to keep your head turned the way it was before, to the blade of the sword”

“But you didn’t… I don’t see any array disks or talismans…”, the prince remarked realizing Wu Long’s deliberate positioning.

“Not all talismans have to be visible to be active, Your Highness. But that’s not what’s important. What is, thought, is that I want to make a deal with you”

“A deal? I don’t have any power, remember? I can’t even get a sword instructor. Or what? Do you want me to go annoy one of my brothers?”

“Hahaha, no, nothing that requires you to do anything big. For start, I just want to have a chance meeting with the Princess Wei Zhenhui”

“Hah! Didn’t realize you were after her as well!”, a wry, knowing smile along with genuine surprise appeared on Wei Yuanjie’s face.

“I told you I was going to pour oil”

“Wait…! Are you-…?! You’re insane!!!”, a sudden realization made Wei Yuanjie exclaim louder, and then almost gasp.

“Don’t worry, it’s fine”, Wu Long chuckled, as to the bodyguard it simply sounded like the prince was excited about the shifting sword styles in which his blade moved.

“You… are playing a very dangerous game, Mr. God of Pleasure”, Wei Yuanjie spoke, still not changing the playful nickname with which he called Wu Long from time to time, which was a sign he wasn’t spooked off by the dangerous talk, rather, it was exciting, as a grin appeared on his face, “But if it’s a deal, I get something in return don’t I? What do I get?”

“A sword technique, and an adventure”

“A sword technique I can understand, what is it about an adventure?”, Wei Yuanjie raised his eyebrow.

“You were quite disappointed with me leaving the city, but it doesn’t mean you can’t leave it yourself. You will get to see the outer world”

“That’s impossible, Mother would never-…”

“It is possible if Princess Wei Zhenhui manages to convince the Emperor with my help. Rather, the Emperor would jump at this chance to weaken the Empress”, Wu Long spoke calmly as if seeing the things he was saying happening as his blade painted a picture.

The 9th prince lowered his head in thought for the first time, and with a lighthearted move to make a cut in the air, Wu Long took out the sheathe and sheathed the sword.

“Alright, deal, but I hope you will honor your word. If you don’t I now have sufficient amount of arrows to point at you, and I would rather not use them as they are quite deadly”, the prince spoke.

“Of course, don’t you remember who I am?”, Wu Long chuckled.

“Hahaha! The word of Mr. God of Pleasure sure has value! Hahaha!!!”, Wei Yuanjie began laughing, reminded of why he liked talking to Wu Long yet again.

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