Chapter 3342 — Revenge or Not

"It's nothing—I just meant I've transferred a pile of foreign currency to your bank card as well. The orphanage has grown so much, and you receive so many more donations now, that foreign currency hardly stands out anymore." Wei Zhao covered for himself offhandedly.

It was not that Wei Zhao was careless; rather, the notion simply did not exist in his mind. After all, the person back then had been Wei Zhao too, and after so long, it was only natural that Wei Zhao had gotten things mixed up.

"Just hold on to it for now. A second-grade automatic medicinal cauldron—that matter is still up in the air. I'm afraid the business on Liu Jinghan's and Lai the Fatty's side will shrink, and by then there won't be much spare money to support you." Wei Zhao said.

"Oh, but I can't very well carry that much money around with me!" Yu Xiaoke was swayed by Wei Zhao's words, but with that much money, how was she supposed to carry it?

"Oh, then I'll give it to you when we get back." With that, Wei Zhao tossed the bag of money back into the jade pendant's space.

If Yu Xiaoke had not seen clearly a moment ago, now she was truly shocked. Where had the money gone? Yu Xiaoke stared wide-eyed, but no matter how she looked, she could not figure out where Wei Zhao had hidden the money. Was this some kind of magic trick? Even magic tricks were not this impressive, were they?

After all, those close-up magic acts all relied on props and a planted assistant working together, but Wei Zhao was different—her own brother was driving, and Yu Xiaoke had watched with her own eyes as that whole bag of money vanished. The car had only so much space, with nowhere at all to hide money. This defied the laws of spatial science!

"Where did your money go?" Yu Xiaoke asked in astonishment.

"Not telling you," Wei Zhao said, wanting to tease her.

In truth, Yu Dake was also quite puzzled. Wei Zhao had simply turned his hand, so how had the money disappeared? Had a ghost done it? But Yu Dake could hardly ask about such things; in any case, he knew Wei Zhao had extraordinary abilities.

As for Yu Xiaoke, hearing Wei Zhao say this, she was briefly taken aback, then asked curiously, "Where on earth did it go? That's impossible!"

As she spoke, Yu Xiaoke looked toward the passenger seat again. Indeed, the bag of money from before was nowhere to be seen, which made her all the more baffled.

"Heh, I only tell my own people. If you become my girlfriend, I'll tell you," Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"Hmph!" Yu Xiaoke's expression changed. "I don't want to know anymore!"

Wei Zhao smiled faintly and said nothing more. After all, the matter of the jade pendant's space could not be told to anyone else—not even if Wei Zhao trusted Yu Xiaoke. So he used this excuse, and Yu Xiaoke let the matter drop.

The car moved slowly forward. Yu Dake's driving skills were good, and he knew the roads, so the journey along the way proceeded in uneventful fashion. Yu Xiaoke clearly did not want to talk much with Wei Zhao, and fell asleep as soon as they set off. For one thing, she really was tired—she had been busy with orphanage matters nonstop during this period, and now that she could finally relax, she naturally wanted to rest. For another, she truly did not know what she could say to Wei Zhao.

Thank Wei Zhao? She was indeed very grateful, but what if Wei Zhao asked her to repay him with her body?

About this, Yu Dake was also helpless, but he knew he could not dictate his sister's thoughts, nor did he dare offend Wei Zhao, so he could only drive quietly.

"Dake, is your family from over by the Hakunamata Great Desert?" Wei Zhao asked.

"That's right. I grew up over there as a child." At this point, Yu Dake sighed softly, recalling the events of those years with a touch of wistfulness. Back then, he had been the young master of a cultivation family. The family could not be called especially large, but it was at least stronger than the current hidden families, and could even stand shoulder to shoulder with the ancient families.

It was only because they had offended a certain group of people that his entire family had been exterminated! Fortunately, at the time, Yu Dake had been out playing while carrying his little sister and had not been at home, and so escaped the calamity. But when he returned home carrying his sleeping sister, he saw with his own eyes, from afar, that group of people cutting down his parents, his family, his uncles, his brothers and sisters—every last one of them, sparing none!

The Yu Dake of that time was filled with indignation, yet also profoundly helpless. He clenched his fists tight, but did not dare make the slightest move. Though he longed to rush over and stop these people's atrocities, he also knew that with his own meager strength, he was utterly incapable of stopping them.

He was nothing but a child who had just begun to set foot in cultivation, barely old enough to understand the world—how could he contend with such people? So all he could do was memorize their faces and bury that hatred deep in his heart.

In those years, he had secretly sworn that one day he would have his revenge. But as he grew older, Yu Dake came to understand one truth deeply: his own strength was simply far too meager!

After all these years, he was still merely an Earth-rank expert, and his achievement amounted to no more than being a guest retainer of the hidden You family. He was not even as powerful as an ordinary secular family. With only this, how was he to take revenge? For all these years, he had not even known who his enemies were, let alone how to seek revenge.

People sometimes have no choice but to face reality. When one's abilities are severely lacking, one can only abandon certain notions in one's heart. That was once the case for Yu Dake. He knew that if he kept muddling along in the You family, he might never be able to take revenge in his lifetime—and that was also why, when he had been gravely injured back then, he had wanted to kill himself.

But after he met Wei Zhao, hope was reignited! If the rumors in the martial world over this period were true—that Wei Zhao could instantly kill an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank—then Wei Zhao stood at the very summit of the entire cultivation world. Even a great-perfection expert would not dare boast that he could instantly kill an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank in one blow!

Still, Yu Dake also knew that Wei Zhao regarded him merely as an ordinary friend on fairly good terms—and that only because of Yu Xiaoke. Otherwise, he and Wei Zhao would likely have had little to do with each other.

So, deep in Yu Dake's heart, he actually leaned toward letting Yu Xiaoke stay with Wei Zhao. For one thing, Wei Zhao was the savior of their family; for another, Wei Zhao had the power to avenge their family.

But the key problem was that his sister did not like Wei Zhao! (To be continued)