182 Comprehensive Chinese Couplets (1/2)

Chapter 182: Comprehensive Chinese Couplets

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Tyrant?

Screw your sister! You are the tyrant! Your entire family are tyrants!

Xu Que had fled immediately after acting tough and heard the system beeps within his head when his face contorted in anger. He couldn’t stomach the offensive new title and raged out at the system. Afterall, ”Act Tough Tyrant” wasn’t half as nice sounding as Act Tough Criminal!

But… Since this new title enabled him to purchase items from the system store at 80% reduction of the original price, he didn’t argue for long and sunk into silence soon after.

(T/N : Apologies for the unclear ‘eightfold’ price reduction in the previous chapter.)

The lines which he had uttered earlier, ‘”These drops of rain were born of the heavens but died here on earth. Their lives spanned the entire duration it took for the raindrops to land.”’ wasn’t actually original.

In fact, these lines were taken from the main character of a popular story. He had decided to use them at this opportune timing to great effect. Truth be told, a person of his nature wouldn’t have been able to be so deep and eloquent sounding ever!

All this were done just to act tough and gain points. As for not deriving true understanding and comprehension of the phrase and its context, Xu Que didn’t even care. After all, the way for him to become stronger and gain levels was through points and didn’t require him to attain enlightenment or knowledge!

He walked past a wall and stood at the corner before calling out his system and entering the store.

Indeed, the prices of all the items in his sight had drastic changes. The prices had been significantly reduced and there were many more new additions too.

The first thing Xu Que’s eyes caught sight of was the new educational and learning segment of the store. This section was new and was extremely comprehensive. It even included all the works of Confucius and his disciples along with other renowned philosophers.

However, the thing which made Xu Que the most excited was the availability of the book .

Seeing this filled him with immense joy!

”A book on couplets! Hahah! Looks like I can act tough once again! System, I wish to purchase the book !”

Xu Que thus purchased it without further hesitation and used it immediately.

Later on during the banquet, there would be a couplet competition. Xu Que knew that he was rather poor with couplets and thus had decided to flee earlier in order to save him the inevitable embarrassment. Now, however, he was filled with confidence.

Whoosh!

In that instant, the bookvanished from his system inventory as it transformed into a ray of white light and swirled around his mind. Once again, his knowledge on the subject had increased many folds.

Along with the , thisgave him many poetic lines and phrases. However, the most important aspect about this was that it also equipped him with the skill of writing poems and forming correct replies to couplets.

Additionally, Xu Que recalled the classes he was made to attend in his previous life and how he was forced to memorize poems as a child. Hence when he looked at these lines now, he didn’t find them too strange or foreign to him.

After he had purchased thebook, knowledge started to fill Xu Que’s mind. His lips curled into a smile. At this point, he still wasn’t particularly anxious to return and thus continued standing by the corner of the wall, exploring the other items within the system store.

Apart from this new educational segment, there were many other new items added to the system store.

For example, there were many strange spells manuals added which caused Xu Que to feel extremely bewildered. There was this strangeand also .

Xu Que, who admits to have the purest of hearts and was the most innocent, was startled. He took mental notes on several of these books and their prices before checking out other items.

When he next explored the food section, he was stumped!

There were many other new items added into the food section. However, the prices of these items were very high. In fact, they were unreasonably high!

When Xu Que saw these prices, he was enraged, ”System, explain to me something. Why did the smelly tofu and other food items cost me only 1 act tough points in the past and yet the new food items release are being sold at such an exorbitant price? You’re actually selling a single item for 100 act tough points now? Why don’t you rob the bank or something?”