Ye Bufan returned to the villa and wanted to ask Ji Feiyang to stay for a while. However, Ji Feiyang had to rush back to Japan, so he quickly drove away from Ye Bufan's villa.
Wang Xinyan and Chu Mengyao ran out of the villa.
"Ye Bufan, you're incredible, you're truly the pride of our Great Xia," Wang Xinyan gave Ye Bufan a thumbs up.
Chu Mengyao walked up to Ye Bufan, looked at him, and asked with concern, "Are you injured?"
"No," Ye Bufan replied, "Only we could hurt them. If they want to hurt me, they'd probably need to train for several hundred years."
Ye Bufan scratched his head with a silly smile, and everyone returned to the villa.
"Those Japanese people were really too arrogant," Wang Xinyan chattered on, recounting what she saw during the live broadcast.
"Xin Yan and I were watching the live broadcast the whole time. Your feat of fighting three at once has already spread across the internet. You're probably famous by now," Chu Mengyao said.
"Speaking of which, you should thank Chu Chu," Wang Xinyan said to Ye Bufan. "After you were safe, we immediately had people block all your information that could be found online, especially your address."
Ye Bufan looked at Chu Mengyao and thanked her.
Chu Mengyao nodded and said, "Do you remember about me treating you to dinner in a couple of days?"
"I remember, how could I not remember?" Ye Bufan said, his face immediately blushing.
Wang Xinyan looked at Chu Mengyao and Ye Bufan, and secretly smiled. "If you two keep being so shy, I'm going to be embarrassed for you."
With the martial arts tournament concluded, the next major event in Jinhe City was the auction of the Marrow Cleansing Pill.
Before the auction, it was the time Ye Bufan and Chu Mengyao had arranged to have dinner together.
After a brief gathering at the villa, Chu Mengyao inquired about the matters of the Chu family's enterprise. Calls kept coming in, forcing Chu Mengyao to leave and handle them.
This way, both Ye Bufan and Chu Mengyao felt a slight sense of anticipation for their date two days later.
For the next two days, Ye Bufan cultivated in the villa. Jin Yuchen sent word that the news of Yue Zhengyun, Yue Zhuoying, and Yue Yangshuo's deaths had been transmitted back.
Immediately after, the Chu family announced they had no further relation to Ye Bufan.
The Yue family, having just publicly declared their intention to seek revenge against Ye Bufan, saw their stock price plummet after the market opened on the same day due to the deaths of their family head and elder, leading to a series of severe blows to the enterprise.
However, due to Ye Bufan's heroic intervention at the martial arts tournament, the situation had been reversed, and the Ye family's protection faced considerable obstruction from various parties.
According to the explanations from Ye Bufan and Jin Yuchen, the Yue family would not be able to cause any significant trouble in the short term.
As the Jinhe Jin Fang auction drew nearer, more and more people arrived in Jinhe, even from the capital. All parties attached great importance to this Marrow Cleansing Pill.
While Ye Bufan was cultivating, the day before the auction arrived, which was also the day of his date with Chu Mengyao.
They had agreed to meet at a popular hotel under the Chu family's enterprise.
Seated in the hotel, Chu Mengyao clapped her hands, and a waiter approached to pour red wine for Chu Mengyao and Ye Bufan.
"Look, isn't that Ye Bufan who turned the tide at the martial arts tournament a few days ago?"
Outside the hotel, someone spotted Ye Bufan, took out their phone to compare, and then secretly took a photo of Ye Bufan.
Chu Mengyao said somewhat bashfully, "You're a celebrity in our Great Xia now. In the future, you'll probably have the same treatment as male celebrities when you go out."
Ye Bufan smiled helplessly and replied, "This isn't something I wanted."
"Miss Chu, thank you for your care during this time," Ye Bufan raised his wine glass and clinked it with Chu Mengyao's.
After Ye Bufan came down from the mountain, if he hadn't met Chu Mengyao, he didn't know what his situation would be now. Would he have his current status? Or would he have returned to the mountains to cultivate again? All these were possibilities.
"I should be thanking you," Chu Mengyao smiled faintly. "Please don't call me Miss Chu anymore, it sounds too distant. Just like Xin Yan, call me Chu Chu. Besides Xin Yan, only you can call me that."
After saying this, Chu Mengyao's face instantly turned red. She didn't know why she had said that.
"Sir... Sir... You can't go in. This place has been booked by our CEO tonight."
The two chatted casually, their conversation becoming smoother and smoother, when they suddenly heard a waiter seemingly trying to stop someone from entering the restaurant.
"Slap—"
A crisp slap echoed, and the waitress was sent flying.
"You scoundrel, do you know who I am to dare block me? Do you believe I'll cripple you?" The man cursed at the waitress and raised his right hand, ready to strike her face.
"Stop!" Chu Mengyao shouted, and the man halted his action.
Ye Bufan, following behind Chu Mengyao, was in the middle of an engaging conversation when it was abruptly interrupted.
"Mengyao!" The man's face lit up immediately upon seeing Ye Bufan.
"Your waitress's attitude is terrible. I told you I was looking for you, and you still blocked me."
The man was wearing casual Western-style clothing. Standing outside the door was an elder whose aura was restrained, revealing him to be a peak Great Martial Venerable.
Ye Bufan immediately knew these two were together.
"Deng Lang?" Chu Mengyao recognized the man and appeared surprised.
"Allow me to introduce myself formally. My name is Jin Dalang, the young master of the Jin family in the capital." Jin Dalang extended his hand, intending to shake Chu Mengyao's, but she hesitated to reach out.
Ye Bufan sensed Chu Mengyao's emotional fluctuation. It seemed this person's identity was quite significant.
"What are you doing here?" Chu Mengyao asked.
"My elder brothers and I are here in Jinhe to participate in the Jin Fang auction," Jin Dalang said. "I happened to hear that your Chu family has recently become a prominent family in Jinhe, so I thought I'd come congratulate you."
"But I don't want to see you," Chu Mengyao said sternly.
Jin Dalang froze for a moment and retorted, "Did you not hear me clearly? I said I'm from the Jin family in the capital."
Chu Mengyao turned her head to look at Ye Bufan. Ye Bufan then noticed that Chu Mengyao's eyes were red, which immediately stirred a strong protective instinct within him.
"Let's go, let's find another place," Chu Mengyao said to Ye Bufan.
"Alright!" Ye Bufan took Chu Mengyao's hand and walked past Jin Dalang, heading for the exit. However, their path was blocked by the elder standing at the door.
"Did I say you could leave?" Jin Dalang first roared, then walked up to Chu Mengyao with a grin...