Chapter 9 ["Interruption Technique"]
Chen Yan was willing to pay for the medical expenses, which was originally about five hundred yuan.
Chen Yan proactively increased the medical compensation to two thousand yuan, the extra being compensation for emotional distress.
He also apologized to the victim in person.
Chen Yan understood that the cute girl was quite innocent.
She didn't know she was having bad luck, and even less that she would drag down an entire plane of people.
The girl was just peacefully sitting on the plane, sleeping, when a man came over and punched her out of the blue.
It was indeed quite unfair, right?
Regardless of whether or not it could be resolved, Chen Yan's first priority was to show his attitude.
Of course, it also depended on the victim's wishes.
If the victim refused to forgive him... well, the severity of the situation would then be unpredictable.
If faced with someone looking to stir up trouble, who refused to mediate, the whole process including injury evaluation would be significant.
Reaching further, he might even end up in detention. And the compensation would certainly not be small.
However, moments later, the police gave Chen Yan an unexpected result.
The girl he punched surprisingly... expressed her willingness to forgive Chen Yan.
Hmm, a kind-hearted and soft-tempered girl?
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The two parties met in the mediation room under police supervision.
The other party signed the forgiveness letter on the spot, and Chen Yan transferred the two thousand yuan in compensation right then and there.
"Miss Lu Sisi... because of me... I sincerely apologize to you... I am willing to pay... compensation..."
After Chen Yan sincerely apologized, the girl named Lu Sisi still looked at Chen Yan with some fear, and finally nodded in a low voice, "I... I accept your apology."
The girl was still very cute, clearly one of those soft and gentle kinds.
Indeed, she was the type that would probably cry for a long time after being punched.
Moreover... it wasn't until Chen Yan got to the police office that he found out:
The girl...
had just turned eighteen this year.
How sinful!
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When the matter was resolved, the girl left first.
Chen Yan still had to receive a lecture from a young policeman.
Actually, the police had a specific intention for this: to protect the girl, ensuring she wouldn't leave together with him. What if something dangerous happened again?
So they used the lecture to make Chen Yan stay a bit longer.
Chen Yan's attitude was very good. From the surface, it was all his fault, and only an idiot would argue with the police.
After receiving the lecture, Chen Yan was about to leave.
The young policeman who had been lecturing him suddenly remembered something and asked, "Huh? You said earlier that your ex-girlfriend swindled the rent money you saved up...
Then how come you could afford to sit in first class? I saw your flight details; you sat in first class, right?"
Chen Yan answered without changing his expression: "After the breakup, I found a new girlfriend. The new girlfriend is rich."
The young policeman gave Chen Yan an unfriendly look.
Glancing at the already signed forgiveness letter and report in his hand...
Suppressing his inner dissatisfaction, he harshly told Chen Yan to get out of there.
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Actually, as Chen Yan walked out, he looked around outside the airport hall for that cute girl, but unfortunately, there was no sign of her; she probably already left.
It wasn't that Chen Yan had any bad intentions.
It was just that... with his Celestial Eye open, he noticed that the black aura of bad luck over Lu Sisi's head seemed unusual.
And his [Yingjie] method might not entirely dispel her bad luck.
The girl was quite kind-hearted, and he had hoped to find her and help her take a good look.
What a pity.
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After graduation, Chen Yan had a place to stay in Jinling Prefecture. The house he had found after graduation, where he had been living during his internship.
Close to University City in the east of the city, in an urban village, a rental house that was very cheap.
The monthly rent was 800, a single room, paid with a three-month deposit and one month in advance.
The landlord was a stingy and mean person; he had divided an old three-room apartment into four single rooms. And even placed a bed for rent in the living room.
A few dozen square meters living space for five different tenants.
And there was no damn air-conditioning!
But recently, these days, there were only Chen Yan and the someone else living in the adjacent room. The other three tenants were either working overtime or on business trips.
Back at his place, the exhausted Chen Yan threw himself onto the bed as soon as he came in, but didn't immediately fall asleep.
Forcing himself to stay awake, he sat cross-legged on the bed, channeling his Primordial Qi.
Moments later, Chen Yan confirmed his suspicion.
The Primordial Qi inside his body had increased a bit more compared to before he boarded the plane!
The increase wasn't huge but was noticeably more than his daily increase from normal practice.
According to Chen Yan's estimation, this single incident had equaled three days of his cultivation growth!
This surprise was indeed significant.
Chen Yan immediately flipped through his Secret Manual, but after searching back and forth, he couldn't find any description of this strange phenomenon in the manual.
Frowning while sitting on the bed, Chen Yan pondered for a moment, then reluctantly decided to give up thinking about it for now.
Since he couldn't figure it out and the manual didn't explain it, he decided to temporarily stop thinking about it.
Ultimately, an increase in power was never a bad thing, right?
With that in mind, he turned back to the Miracle Art section of the manual.
Skimming through the spells in the manual.
Previously, with his meager Primordial Qi, he could only use the simplest Miracle Art[Open Celestial Eye].
And now...
Chen Yan decided to try something a bit more advanced.
Remembering how the cute girl's bad luck seemed overwhelming on the plane, Chen Yan got an idea.
"Luck? That's kind of interesting."
Hmm, this Miracle Art seemed worth a try... Chen Yan looked at a particular section of the manual in front of him...
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At around three in the morning, there were swearing sounds coming from the next room.
The noise directly woke up Chen Yan, who was meditating with his eyes closed.
Frowning, Chen Yan looked in the direction of the wall. Swearing so loudly in the middle of the night, it was probably someone playing a game and trash-talking their opponent?
Chen Yan didn't go to negotiate... for one, he was actually well-rested and wasn't really angry.
Second, he had tried negotiating in similar situations before, but it didn't work.
The person wouldn't listen to reason—someone with manners wouldn't make noise in the middle of the night anyway.
Beating them up... Chen Yan had seriously considered it before, but at that time he had just graduated and found a job, not wanting to cause trouble and let news reach back home, worrying his grandma.
Moreover, dealing with such people, you either do it right and make them fear you in one go, or do it in a way that leaves no trouble for yourself.
If you can't achieve that, then don't waste time on such people for now—you can choose to endure it first.
This was Chen Yan's approach: either don't do it, or do it properly!
His college classmates had a saying for him: a dog that bites doesn't bark.
Hmm, so he had an alias in school: Chen Xiao...
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Chen Yan put on his slippers, went to the kitchen, and made himself a bowl of instant noodles, thinking about the millions he had in his bank account...
Chen Yan generously added two eggs!
After eating and drinking his fill, he started calculating the first thing he wanted to do.
Looking at the cramped and shabby rental room, he thought: I should find a new place to live first.
With money in hand, there was no need to stay in such a miserable place.
The 8 square meters single room barely had enough space for a bed and a desk. There was no air-conditioning, and even the water heater was unreliable, and it was almost winter.
Chen Yan wasn't into taking cold showers in the freezing weather.
Also, he planned to practice the Secret Manual his grandma left behind properly, which required some private space.
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Going back home was the first option he ruled out.
Rural life was inconvenient, especially for someone like Chen Yan who had lived in the city for several years.
He had all the dependency symptoms of young urbanites: the WIFI + takeout syndrome.
There was no takeout in the countryside, and setting up WIFI was a hassle.
And, most importantly: the countryside wasn't private.
In the city, interpersonal relationships were indifferent, people usually shut their doors, and neighbors could live without bothering each other.
But not in the countryside.
In the countryside, the population density might seem low, but in a strict sense, more than half of the villagers are related.
Families wouldn't close their doors during the day, and anyone could just step into the hall anytime.
If you had someone at home and kept your door shut all day long, it would actually draw attention.
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"Not going to endure it anymore! With money, I should make myself comfortable."
Chen Yan made up his mind: he would look for a house today!
Thinking of this, Chen Yan walked back to the kitchen with his bowl. Standing in the kitchen, he could still hear the loud swearing from the next room.
Chen Yan thought for a moment... if he was moving out, maybe he wouldn't have to put up with it?
Should he do something now?
Just as he was thinking, there was a bang, the door to the next room opened, and a tenant, a man around thirty years old, came out swearing, went to the kitchen to get a drink, and then glared at Chen Yan with hostility.
"What are you looking at!"
After saying that, the guy stood there drinking water angrily.
Chen Yan smiled, showing no sign of anger.
Using the [Destiny Cycle] + Celestial Eye, Chen Yan looked at the guy.
Hmm, it seemed his luck was pretty good lately.
Chen Yan walked over with a smile, "Brother Wang."
As he spoke, he extended his hand, his fingertips exuding a tiny bit of invisible Primordial Qi, forming a peculiar fingerprint and lightly patted the guy's shoulder three times.
"What the hell?" the guy raised an eyebrow.
"Nothing, you had some ash on your shoulder." Chen Yan answered with a smile.
The guy suspiciously glanced at Chen Yan, saw nothing out of the ordinary, turned around, and headed back to his room.
With a bang, the door closed.
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The Interruption Technique!
Chen Yan had spent two hours tonight successfully trying out a new Miracle Art.
Forming a specific fingerprint, infusing Primordial Qi into the fingertips, he could swipe away someone's good luck, turning fortune into misfortune.
The benefit was causing trouble for others without them realizing it.
The downside was that it wasn't very powerful and could only be used when the other person's luck was good, meaning it could only turn good fortune into misfortune.
If the other person's luck was as bad as the cute girl on the plane, surrounded by dark clouds of bad luck...
It would be useless.
The cost was: it consumed about three times the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi needed to open the Celestial Eye.
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Chen Yan walked back to his room satisfied.
That guy next door should have some bad luck coming in the next few days.
Nothing major, but losing some money or getting slightly hurt was unavoidable.
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