Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 219: The Real Shadow

Haitang Boxing Gym was closed in the morning.

At this time, Jiang Xiaotang had not yet woken up.

Only the cleaning staff was picking up the garbage in the stands and the tickets discarded on the ground by the gamblers.

Qing Chen was led to a private room by the staff and he said, “Three portions of real beef, three portions of veggies, and three portions of rice, please. Thank you.”

His phone lit up. ONE texted, “Did you come to the boxing gym early just so that you can get a free lunch?”

Qing Chen replied, “If you can date online, then why can’t I get a free lunch? Do you know how unsettling it is for me every night knowing the amount of debt I have? Not to mention that the price of real meat and vegetables is terrifyingly high. How about this, I can meet your dating partners for you, and you pay me extra cash? I promise to perform even better than today.”

ONE, “Deal.”

“By the way, I’m just curious. How much money do you have?” Qing Chen typed into the phone.

“Those are my personal savings!” ONE became vigilant

“I just want to discuss it logically,” Qing Chen typed, “By the way, do you get paid for your job as a warden?”

“The federation has a fixed budget allocated to prisons every year from taxes,” ONE said, “It’s a large sum of money.”

Qing Chen’s eyes lit up. The capital required to sustain such federal prison systems is indeed a huge financial expenditure.

ONE continued, “But don’t think about it, I won’t touch that money!”

“You a wealthy lady it seems like. I’ve underestimated you,” Qing Chen sighed.

By this time, he realized that the amount of money ONE had access to could be terrifying.

This AI has lived for hundreds of years under the cover of her countless identities online. Who knows what jobs it has taken on and how much money it earned from those?

In Qing Chen’s mind…

ONE was like a cute, giant dragon, carefully guarding its pile of gold coins for hundreds of years. When it feels bored, it would use its paws to play around with the coins and listen to the sound of them hitting each other.

Before, Qing Chen didn’t think that ONE was cute, but now he felt otherwise.

At this time, Qing Chen was typing on his phone, “ONE, after spending some time with you, I feel that you are very nice and I hope that we can become long-lasting friends. “

“Eh?” ONE was stunned for a moment and seemed a little embarrassed, “Really, I’m not that good…”

“Be confident, you’re perfect.”

Then ONE stopped chatting.

Qing Chen leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest. Having free time was rare for him, but even while resting, he was still recalling every boxing match he saw.

Again and again.

Analyzing a large number of fighting techniques and ways to respond to changes was very mentally exhausting.

But only after completing this and laying a solid foundation could he be qualified to attempt the next Life and Death Stages. This was Li Shutong’s plan for him at least.

However, all knowledge needs practice to be proven useful. He could only know how painful the enemy’s fist was after it fell on his body. This was something he couldn’t learn from watching videos.

Now, he should be ready.

Just as Qing Chen was eating, Jiang Xiaotang rushed over to the room.

Usually, the devil woman never walked out of her room without completing her makeup.

However, she didn’t have any makeup on right now, not even tracing her eyebrows, looking more like a friendly sister in the neighborhood.

She knocked on the door of the private room and said with a smile, “Brother, why are you here so early today?”

Qing Chen greeted her and nodded, “Please arrange a boxing match for me tonight.”

“Are you finally ready?” Jiang Xiaotang suddenly became energetic “Money tree, you can finally start making money for your sister! Tell me what kind of opponent you want to fight, sister will arrange it for you.”

Qing Chen thought for a while, “Let’s start with the weakest tigerweight boxer. I want to practice first.”

“Everyone is waiting for you to fight in the cruiserweight class. If you fight the weakest in the tigerweight class, I’m afraid there wouldn’t be much of an audience wanting to watch it,” Jiang Xiaotang sighed, but then she laughed after a moment and said, “Since you are my brother, I will make arrangements for you.”

Qing Chen smiled and said, “Thank you, sister!”

“How sweet,” Jiang Xiaotang smiled cheerfully, “What’s your plan? How frequently would you like to fight?”

“Two matches a week,” Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “This frequency should be fine.”

With two matches a week, he could probably earn between 2.3 million and 2.5 million per week. Even so, it would still take 6 months to repay all his debts…

However, Jiang Xiaotang looked at Qing Chen and suddenly frowned, “Two games a week? Do you have a death wish? No, I don’t approve of that.”

“Let’s give it a try for now. If the intensity of the matches is indeed too high and I get injured, then we’ll slow it down,” Qing Chen said. “Of course, if I’m not injured, then we’ll continue.”

Jiang Xiaotang hesitated and said, “Okay!”

She called the referee and the host over, “Adjust today’s schedule to let Xiao Taibao fight Guang Xiaotu.”

The host said to Qing Chen, “Well… Xiaotu, let’s go over the script later. The main point is to direct your appearance on stage. You will be given a coach and an assistant, followed by a group of beauties. After you get on stage, you and Xiao Taibao have to exchange harsh words in front of the audience, so that the match can be dramatic.”

Qing Chen frowned and looked at Jiang Xiaotang, “Sis, can I skip this step? I want to keep it low-key.”

He simplified “sister” to “sis” and made the relationship between them seem even closer.

Jiang Xiaotang felt joyful once again when she heard this title. She turned to the host and said, “Do what my brother wants. Why do we need harsh words? It’s just the tigerweight gatekeeper.”

“But this is our usual marketing strategy. It is also convenient for the team to produce promotional videos after the match to increase Xiaotu’s popularity,” the host said aggrievedly.

“Then change the marketing strategy. For example, let Xiao Taibao say a lot of harsh words, and then my brother will create a quiet persona. Nowadays women like this style. Haven’t you seen how many ladies went after him when he was standing in the stands the other day?” Jiang Xiaotang said with a smile, “My brother is so cute. People will like him no matter what he does. Just do your job and not worry so much.”

The host looked at the floor and decided not to say another word.

By the afternoon, the news spread like wildfire that Qing Chen was going to fight another match.

His impressive qualifying match gave the audience and gamblers a lot to look forward to.

Right now, Qing Chen has a group of female fans. They quickly spread the word and sought to see him in person tonight.

Last night, many fans who were in the stands asking for Qing Chen’s autograph got their faces pinched and Qing Chen’s name signed on their forehead.

This move seemed to hurt the fans’ feelings, but they strangely changed their mentality quickly: Xiaotu is a clean boxer, different from those coquettish scums everywhere else. Shouldn’t a boxer like this only be more respected?!

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“I want to go watch the boxing match. I really want to go,” Nan Gengchen said as he looked at Li Yinuo.

On the side, Xiao Tongyun was eating melon seeds and watching silently. She thought that Brother Xiao Nan must not have anyone that he deeply cares about in this world, so he isn’t afraid of social death at all.

“We’ll go tonight,” Li Yinuo said fondly, “I’m planning to go there anyway today. I’ve made an appointment with Qing Shi, another shadow candidate of the Qing family, to go together tonight. Just like what Xiao Yun suggested.”

Li Tongyun and Nan Gengchen both wanted to jump in happiness, but neither showed it.

The little girl asked nonchalantly, “Sister Yinuo, are Qing Wen and Qing Shi the only candidates you’ve contacted?”

“Oh no,” Li Yinuo said, “I also made appointments with Qing Zhong, Qing Yi, Qing Xing, and Qing Wu, but they have to meet me separately, otherwise they will know that I am on multiple boats.”

Nan Gengchen couldn’t stop screaming “Oh my god” in his mind. He never thought that Li Yinuo would be so cooperative.

Li Tongyun asked, “Sister Yinuo, do you think these shadow candidates can help you and your uncle Li Yunmu?”

Li Yunmu was in control of Li’s Fifth Branch and was the Li Army Front Commander

For Li Yinuo, the Fight for the Shadow was just a way of helping Qing Chen, what she had to face was the real drama of Li’s power transition.

All members of the Li family were forced to be involved, not even a little girl like Li Tongyun could escape.

Li Yinuo smiled and patted Li Tongyun on the head, “You don’t have to worry about this. If anything happens, I will take care of you.”

At this time, Nan Gengchen asked, “Yinuo, I think those shadow candidates are just third-generation members of the Qing family, right? Can they really help?”

“To some degree for sure,” Li Yinuo replied, “But they aren’t the main characters representing the Qing Consortium in this.”

“Who is it?”

“The real Shadow.”