The Return of the God Level Assassin

LUO YAN hugged his father's arm who just walked inside the house.  "Welcome home, Dad!"

Luo Wei Tian laughed happily with his second son's warm welcome.  He gently tapped Luo Yan's nose.  "I'm back."

"Did everything go well with work today?" Luo Yan asked.

"Of course.  With your father there, how could something go wrong?" Luo Wei Tian responded, giving his suitcase to one of the maids.  "How about you and your brothers?  Ah Ren also played that game you and Xiao Jin are playing, right?"

"Yes.  But we didn't really play with Brother because Ah Jin and I participated in a contest sponsored by the game and we actually managed to be in the finals," Luo Yan said, explaining the Rookie Carnival in the simplest way possible.

"That's great.  Then shouldn't we celebrate?"

Luo Yan chuckled.  "No, let's wait until one of us becomes the champion.  The finals will be on the last week of the month.  So, we still wouldn't know until then."

"You seem extremely confident."

"Of course.  I'm very good at this game, Dad.  I'm confident I'll win the championship.  Well, I feel a bit sorry for Ah Jin but I can't go easy on him just because we're brothers."

Luo Wei Tian let out a boisterous laugh.  He liked seeing this confident appearance on Luo Yan.  It suited him quite well.  "As well you should.  So, when will this championship be so your father could watch and cheer on you and Xiao Jin."

He wasn't sure what this so-called contest entailed.  But it must be some kind of friendly game.  Since Luo Yan seemed to be very excited and enthusiastic about this, he wanted to at least be supportive.

Luo Yan stopped when he heard that, but then quickly smiled again.  "It will be broadcasted live.  I will send the link to Dad on that day so you can watch."

If this was before, he would probably make up some excuse just to prevent his father from watching the tournament.  Heck, he would probably not even mention it in the first place.  But after that conversation he had this afternoon with his brothers, he decided to be more honest with his family.

Although he still couldn't tell his father about Shen Ji Yun and their feelings for each other, at least this was a start.  Truthfully, he was kind of dreading the day he had to tell his father about it.  That would definitely be chaotic.  His father might even beat the crap out of Shen Ji Yun.

He should probably slowly instill the idea of how good Shen Ji Yun was to him on his father.  That way, he wouldn't react so violently once the relationship of the two of them became official.

He hoped.

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While Luo Yan was worrying about that, a topic on Weibo had been brewing for some time now.  The topic in question was about the just held preliminary round of Arcadia's Rookie Carnival.

[The theme of this year's preliminary was pretty intense, right?]

[Yes!  I really had fun watching the game.  From the ship until the battle royale.]

[Who do you think would win?]

[My bet is on Noctis.  He had the most exemplary performance during the preliminary.]

[True.  He's not only strong.  He's also very smart.  That thing he did during the second trial of the ship round was very witty.  Immediately finding out that the mermaids were the enemies and then quickly thinking of a way to deal with them, no wonder he was the MVP of that round.]

[His skills as an Assassin are also pretty incredible as he had shown during the battle royale.  That one-on-one fight he had with Dragnar was so thrilling, I was on the edge of my seat while watching it.]

[I also feel the same way.  Not to mention, that thing he did with Raphael and his cronies.  If not for the things he said, I, myself wouldn't realize that the guy was actually such a white lotus little twerp.]

[I agree!  I was actually feeling sorry for him for being targeted by Noctis like that.  But then when I heard Noctis say those things about Raphael, I realized that he was indeed right.  That ambush that happened to Dragnar was most likely orchestrated by him.]

[It's kind of chilling, really.  And he thought he could win the Carnival that way?]

[True.  Even if managed to pass that round and reach the finals, what will he do during tournament?  Scheme his way up?]

[No, maybe he would cry his way up.  Didn't you see how good he was at acting?]

[Hahaha!  'Cry his way up', I could actually see him doing that.]

[When someone attacks him, he would pretend to fall and then look up at his opponent with tears in his eyes.  Then he'll say, 'oh, please, don't hurt me, I really didn't want to be here at all'.]

[Then he'd proceed on secretly attacking his opponent.  After that he'd say, acting all innocent-like, 'ah, what could be the problem?  How could he fall like that?']

[If he really does that and people still believed him, they definitely have a screw loose in their head.]

[Or maybe they were seduced by that face.]

[What seduce?  Noctis definitely has more beautiful face.  If anyone is seduced by him when there's Noctis as comparison, then they definitely have a screw loose.]

[Let's not talk about that lying angel.  It's really making me want to throw up.]

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Lan Yu threw his phone when he read all those comments.  How dare they?  How dare they say these… things about him?

It's all that Noctis' fault.  Now that the preliminary round was over, he finally found out who was that invisible player who meddled with him and his plans at the island.

[Damn you, Noctis.  I won't let you get away with this!]

He took a deep breath and calmed himself down before picking up his phone and calling someone.

"Hey, it's me.  I have a job for you.  I'll pay you 5,000 RMB.  Buy a water army to blacken someone online.  Yes.  It's a player in Arcadia named Noctis."