Remember, a young man's lofty ambitions once vowed to be the best in the world. Chapter 147: Status in the Martial World-Reborn in the Era of Summer Blossoms(The Crane Returns Alone to Hawthorn Hill)

That night, taking advantage of the deep sleep of everyone around him, Fang Yu quietly pulled open his bedroom door, carrying a large plastic bag in his hand. Naturally, it contained the blood-stained outerwear and other items.

Together with the ashtray he had bought, he took everything outside, found a secluded corner, and pulled out a cigarette lighter to ignite the bag. The ashtray was smashed into pieces. The roaring flames reflected a handsome yet pale face, the corners of his mouth curving into a grim smile.

Having settled all of this, he returned to his bedroom with peace of mind and went to sleep. The next day at noon, shortly after waking up and preparing to head to the internet café, Xia Churan trotted downstairs to his room, phone in hand, acting as if she purposely wanted him to know about this.

"Ugh, how would I know? Can you stop bothering me? Wasn't yesterday enough of a mess? Zhu Wei, I'm warning you, if you dare come to the internet café to cause trouble again, don't blame me for going to the Student Affairs Office and telling Director Guo!"

After hanging up the phone, the young girl looked at him with some worry.

"Fang Yu, Zhu Wei just called me. He said Tai Hongzhou was beaten terribly yesterday and is even losing his mind a bit now."

"Oh? Tsk, that kid can't take a beating at all. And he was acting like a big boss, haha." He waved his hand dismissively.

"But such a big thing happened, aren't you scared?"

"Scared? Sorry, I, Fang Yu, was born without knowing how to write the word 'fear'."

Although Xia Churan was somewhat worried, Tai Hongzhou had indeed suffered a complete and utter defeat.

When his underlings found Tai Hongzhou that night, his entire face was completely swollen. Had it not been for those painful cries, it would have been nearly impossible to recognize him as Tai Hongzhou himself.

Soon, Tai Hongzhou was sent to a small town hospital for treatment. His jaw was shattered, the little fingers and ring fingers of both hands were fractured, and ten of his teeth had been knocked out.

A person like Tai Hongzhou was originally not afraid of getting hurt. They were all graduates of third-tier high schools; he had entered this school a year earlier than Fang Yu, and street brawls were a daily routine for him.

Over the past year, relying on sheer numbers and a ruthless demeanor, Tai Hongzhou had carved out a comfortable niche for himself around the Blue Sea Academy. Otherwise, Zhu Wei would never have sworn allegiance to him.

Speaking of which, Tai Hongzhou even carried two knife scars on his body, both left from fights with other students or local youths.

But this time, he had been beaten into submission by Fang Yu. A person like him was ignorant and fearless, but faced with someone like Fang Yu, who used all his might to smash his teeth with an ashtray blow after blow, he was truly terrified.

That night, Tai Hongzhou could only feel that there was a demon-like man before him, radiating murderous intent, hammering away at his fragile psyche strike after strike.

Therefore, when Tai Hongzhou returned to school to recover, an incident that even alerted the Student Affairs Office, he did not have the courage to recount what happened that night, claiming only that he had been attacked by an unknown male.

The underlings around him also kept their mouths shut. For one thing, they truly hadn't witnessed the scene; for another, their extortion of the one thousand yuan from Fang Yu that day, along with Tai Hongzhou's visit to the shady massage parlor, was hardly glorious. Spilling those details would only invite trouble upon themselves.

Thus, Tai Hongzhou was utterly defeated at the hands of Fang Yu. When his parents came to pick him up to recover at home, he remained silent, his eyes filled with terror. Later, according to one of his underlings, the guy started having nightmares when sleeping at night, frequently waking up in a cold sweat, drenched.

He and Xia Churan walked together toward the snack street. Just as he intended to order takeout on his phone, the door curtain was lifted, and Zhu Wei walked in.

Fang Yu raised an eyebrow, put down his phone, and looked up.

"Oh? What brings Young Master Zhu here? How come you're not with your good big brother?"

Zhu Wei's face turned beet red, and he stood there stammering without a word. After a long while, he lowered his head and took two steps forward.

"Look, Fang Yu, yesterday was my fault. Please don't take it to heart. I didn't take that money; it was all spent by Tai Hongzhou. I'm sorry, I won't dare harass Xia Churan ever again."

Zhu Wei was terrified too. He had seen Tai Hongzhou's fate crystal clear, and only then did he realize that the owner of this internet café was far from as polite as he usually appeared. Xia Churan was indeed pretty, but one needed to have the life to pursue her.

Fang Yu laughed, and Cheng Chen and the others behind him burst into hearty laughter as well.

"Tsk tsk, Young Master Zhu is so polite today. Listen up: in a moment, crawl out of this internet café on your hands and knees. From today on, you are forbidden from stepping foot onto the snack street ever again. Otherwise, your fate will be the same as Tai Hongzhou's. Understand?" He had no intention of letting Zhu Wei off that easily; to destroy a person, one must first break their spirit. For scum like this, one could not afford to let a savior complex run wild.

"Ah? Why?" Zhu Wei raised his head indignantly. Being forced to crawl out was a bit too much for him to accept.

Yet the moment his gaze met Fang Yu's, Zhu Wei instantly lost his nerve. He could genuinely see real murderous intent in the other man's eyes.

"Hehe, alright then, I'll crawl, I'll crawl." With that, he slowly lowered his body onto the ground, ignoring the students watching the spectacle on the side, and inched toward the door bit by bit.

"Churan, take a picture of him. If he steps out of line in the future, upload the video to the school forum." He looked casually toward the girl beside him.

Xia Churan nodded in a daze, took her phone, opened the camera, and accurately captured Zhu Wei's crawling posture.

Having finally crawled out of the internet café, Zhu Wei sprang up with a sense of immense relief and bolted out of the snack street without looking back, leaving only endless mockery in his wake.

"Tsk tsk, isn't that Zhu Wei? I heard his family is quite rich. How did Fang Yu manage to turn him into this?"

"Haven't you heard? Tai Hongzhou got beaten up yesterday, and it apparently has something to do with Fang Yu."

"What? You guys are so behind on the news. I heard that Fang Yu is a gang boss's son, and yesterday he called a whole van full of thugs to beat Tai Hongzhou into the hospital."

"I think this Zhu Wei deserved it anyway, always riding on Tai Hongzhou's coattails and bullying people."

As the curtain of the internet café closed once more, Fang Yu withdrew his gaze and picked up his phone again.

"Alright, alright, back to whatever you were doing. What are we eating for lunch?"

"Aah, just now you looked like you were going to eat someone alive." Xia Churan tugged at his sleeve with some dissatisfaction.

"No way, I've always been this amiable."

Needless to say, with precedents like Zhu Wei and Tai Hongzhou, the hygiene of the internet café improved significantly. As long as Fang Yu was present, students who smoked or spat phlegm became remarkably well-behaved, obediently reaching for tissues with looks of trepidation.

This battle completely cemented his status in the school. Whether it was the underclassmen in the five-year program or the upperclassmen in their second and third years, anyone who knew Fang Yu had to politely put on a smile and address him as "Brother Yu."

Yet Fang Yu was not one to go looking for trouble. Aside from occasionally showing his face at school, he spent almost all his time holled up in the snack street. As a result, quite a few female students actually flocked to the internet café, wanting to try their luck and see if they might catch the eye of the legendary man.