Quick Wear: The Beautiful, Strong and Tragic Path of a Swordsman

The melodious violin melody flowed like silk in the courtyard with a small bridge and flowing water, and the lingering sound drifted into the distance, making passers-by stop and listen. Even those who didn't understand music showed expressions of enjoyment.

"Only wealthy families like the Xu family can afford to play these foreign musical instruments." Someone sighed.

"Of course, I heard that a guitar string can be worth several months' salary for us!" The companion's tone was full of envy.

A pretty girl in a dress was also attracted by the beautiful melody and stopped outside the high courtyard wall. Next to her was a handsome young man in a suit who looked sunny and friendly.

"Mr. Tang, is this the childhood sweetheart you haven't seen for a while?" the girl asked expectantly.

"Ms. Kaori, it's been a long time, not days." The young man corrected seriously.

"Hi! I understand, teacher!" The girl stuck out her pink tongue playfully.

The young man smiled helplessly, then led the girl into the Xu family's gate.

After the two men revealed their identities, the servant led them to the direction where the piano sound came from. The music continued, and the emotions conveyed in it made it easy to feel the performer's love for the violin.

After walking along a long corridor and passing through several courtyard doors, the two finally saw the true face of the performer.

A young man in a plain white gown stood with his eyes closed under a blossoming peach tree beside a pond. The breeze, carrying peach-colored petals and fragrance, lifted the corners of his clothes. The long sleeve of his right hand was rolled up, revealing his strong white forearm. His slender fingers with distinct joints were flying around the bow, and the fingertips of his other hand were dancing on the strings like elves.

The young man exudes a cold and aloof temperament, but when he plays the violin, he is as gentle as the wind. His elegant and handsome eyebrows are relaxed and enjoying, and his soft short hair flies with his movements, which is somewhat cute.

The servants had already quietly retreated, and only the three of them were left in the poetic and picturesque courtyard.

When the last note fell, Xu Yan stopped, turned to look at the two seal guests who were applauding, and gave them a proper smile.

Looking at the young man who was as pure as an immortal, Tang Ze's heart beat out of control.

When he was young, he fell in love with the excellent and perfect Xu Yan, but due to the old-fashioned social atmosphere, he was unwilling and dared not express his feelings.

Now, after meeting again after many years, he, who had received overseas education, could no longer suppress his admiration for this person. If there had not been a distinguished guest standing next to him, he would have been unable to suppress his feelings and confessed his love immediately.

"Xiao Luo, long time no see." A cold and gentle voice sounded, and Xu Yan put down the piano and walked in front of him without knowing when.

The faint scent of jasmine tea lingered around his nose. It turned out that Xu Yan gave him a hug after a long separation.

The hug was light and short, and by the time Tang Ze reacted, Xu Yan had already let go of him.

"Long time no see, Ayan." Tang Ze's voice was a little hoarse, his eyes were vague, and he didn't dare to look Xu Yan in the eye.

"Mr. Tang, isn't your name Tang Ze? Is Luo your nickname?" The girl who had been staring at Xu Yan with sparkling eyes was finally diverted by curiosity.

Tang Ze smiled and answered, "That's my courtesy name, Luo Yu."

"Wow, what a beautiful name!" Whenever the girl gets excited, she mixes her native language into her voice, and her tone is soft and cute.

"Xiao Luo, won't you introduce this beautiful lady to me?" Xu Yan suddenly spoke, and the smile on his face faded a little.

Tang Ze's mind, which had been confused by Xu Yan, finally came to its senses after Xu Yan's reminder, and he introduced, "This is Miss Maeda Kaori, the daughter of Maeda Company."

Kaori lifted the hem of her skirt, smiled shyly, and bowed.

Then Tang Ze put his arm around Xu Yan's shoulders in a friendly manner, and Xu Yan also raised his hand and gently put his arm around his waist.

Tang Ze's ears blushed slightly, and he smiled and said to Xiangzhi, "This is my childhood sweetheart, the eldest son of the Xu family, Xu Yan, who I talked to you about on the way here."

……

How could I remember these things that happened so long ago?

Tang Ze's mind couldn't help but emerge with those images that were so long ago that they were almost blurred. That figure was like a rotten and rusty iron thorn that was still deeply embedded in his heart. Every time he thought of it, he felt so painful that he almost died.

How many years have passed since that reunion?

He doesn't remember.

He is now the captain of a top Raiders team.

He was so outstanding and special that no one knew how many resources he had earned for Dragon Mansion in this strange game that enveloped the entire Blue Star. He became a person respected and worshipped by countless people in Dragon Mansion.

But he could not feel any happiness, only endless loneliness always accompanied him.

He is cursed by an ancient immortal. Anyone who lives with him for a long time will suffer misfortune.

He doesn't want to kill others, and he can't die.

He can only be lonely forever.

This is the viciousness of this curse.

"Xiao Luo~"

The man's cold and gentle voice seemed to ring in his ears again, making him frown deeply.

"team leader!"

Tang Ze came back to his senses, looked at the worried teammates, and said calmly, "Let's proceed according to this plan. After all, this is the highest level S-level copy, and everything depends on successfully surviving."

"Yes!"

After watching the stern and handsome captain leave, the girls in the team started to go crazy again.

"The captain is so handsome!" Wen Jing said madly.

"Oh, if it weren't for the curse, I would have found a way to make it a fait accompli with the captain..." She said madly.

"I wonder if the captain has any suggestions on gender?" Paperclip said madly.

Yang Susu silently watched the set performances performed by everyone, with her eyes curved with a smile.

"Deputy Captain." The young man sitting next to Yang Susu called her.

"What's wrong?" Yang Susu turned her head and asked puzzledly.

"Aren't you angry when they do this?" Zhao Hao said with a frown.

"Why are you angry? Isn't it good that they like the captain?"

"But you are the best match for the captain." Zhao Hao said with a firm expression.

Yang Susu rubbed the boy's head helplessly, "Little brother, you're just an adult and you're already thinking about arranging a marriage for your sister?"

Zhao Hao smiled shyly, "A captain as good as him is only suitable to be with an equally good vice-captain!"

is it?

Seeing Zhao Hao seeming to be obsessed with their couple, Yang Susu could only smile bitterly.

Is she really worthy of Tang Ze?

……

{Executive Officer...Your...mission...}

{Listen...to me...}

{Wake up...Quick...Executive...}

The sound of an old TV with snowflakes on it kept ringing in my ears.

The young man, whose face was so pale that it seemed transparent, frowned impatiently. His pair of blood-red eyes opened in the darkness. Beneath the vague clarity was a surge of screaming pain, as if it would get out of control at any moment.

'I heard...'

{Signal...Not...Not Wendy...}

"It's okay. We won't need you this time. You won't get paid this time."

{No....wuwuwu....ah....}

Xu Yan cut off the sizzling howling from the other end, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, because he heard several mechanical prompt sounds coming to his ears.

[Because player XX brought a key plot item, the level ▉ main quest: The Truth was triggered. ]

[The S-level copy "Old Customs of the People's Government" has been changed to the...▉-level copy "Sacrificial Refining". ]

[《Ji Lian》All NPCs are awakening... All have been awakened successfully. 】

[The dungeon BOSS Xu Yan is being awakened... an error has occurred... ▉▉ has interfered... the agreement has been signed successfully... the authority has been transferred successfully... I wish you a happy game. ]

It's really interesting. It seems that I have a lot of fun. I have to do it myself.

......

At the same time, everyone fell into deathly silence when they heard that the copy had been changed into a new copy of an unknown level.

As the strongest player in this game, Tang Ze closed his eyes and turned to look at his three teammates and many other players behind him.

The voice was calm and cold. "I hope that the players who carry key plot items will take the initiative to step forward and share the item information. Otherwise, everyone present, including me, will die."

After hearing Tang Ze's words, everyone's faces showed a look of astonishment, and then deep panic.

No one doubted his words because Tang Ze was so famous. He was the captain of the top-ranked attack team in Longfu and his strength was recognized as being in the top ten. Most importantly, he had an ability that he had made public a long time ago - crisis warning: he could sense the crisis of death, and the closer death was, the stronger and more accurate the premonition would be.

Everyone has seen how powerful this ability is in the official live broadcast of the game. It has saved Tang Ze's life more than once when he was weak.

It can even be said that no one can outwit or assassinate Tang Ze who possesses this ability. As long as you have ill intentions towards him, he will be able to detect it immediately.

However, he is too powerful now, and this ability is just a decoration most of the time. But once this ability takes effect, it means that a huge crisis will occur that he cannot escape.

How can this not make people panic?

"You...you must be trying to scare us, right? You...you just want to force me...the person who possesses the key plot item to hand over the item!" A pot-bellied middle-aged man shouted tremblingly, and the more he shouted, the more confident he became, as if he had convinced himself.

Tang Ze looked at him coldly. The middle-aged man was frightened by his eyes and tried to hide in the crowd. However, he was kicked out by a smiling girl and fell face down in front of Tang Ze.

"Master Tang will give you a chance, but I won't. Hand it over obediently, or I will kill you. Plot items will definitely drop anyway~" The girl's smile was very strange, her eyes and mouth were curved, and her expression hardly changed even when she spoke, like a doll with a smiling face painted on it, and could only maintain this expression forever.

"Ah!" The middle-aged man turned his head and saw the girl's appearance clearly and let out a short scream. Then he rolled and crawled to hide behind Tang Ze, took out a wooden box from the system space and handed it to Tang Ze with both hands.

Seeing this, the girl muttered, "You're smart," and then took no other action.

Tang Ze frowned and looked at the wooden box in his hand. Was it his illusion? He felt that it looked very familiar.

Gently opening the lock of the wooden box, and after seeing clearly what was inside, Tang Ze's pupils trembled, and his hands holding the wooden box were shaking slightly.

{The branches of the weeping willows on both sides of the river were gently swaying in the breeze. The cold and aloof young man, standing upright and resolute, looked softly at the bustling market across the river. The candlelight of the lotus lanterns on the river was reflected in his clear pupils, like jumping sparks.

However, the young man's expensive custom-made suit hurt his eyes and even more so his heart. He now felt deeply disappointed in the young man.

"Xu Yan, what do you want from me?"

The young man turned his head, and his eyes lit up when he saw me for the first time, but dimmed again when he heard my unfamiliar tone.

He forced a smile and took out a small box from his arms, "This is your birthday present."

"Heh." He sneered, raised his hand and knocked the obviously exquisite and expensive wooden box with mortise and tenon joints away. He knocked it with such great force that the small wooden box fell straight into the river and disappeared into the dark river surface with a splash.

The young man anxiously took a few steps toward the river, as if he wanted to rush into the river to pick up the wooden box, but he was grabbed by the arm.

He looked at the young man with disappointment and said sarcastically, "It's expensive, right? Are you heartbroken? How much? I'll compensate you."

The young man lowered his eyes and broke free from his hand. "You don't have to pay for it. It was originally a gift to you. You can do whatever you want with it."

After saying this, the young man turned around and left, but his upright spine seemed to bend a little, and he looked a little decadent. }

Tang Ze stroked the white jade ring in the small wooden box. There was a small word "Ze" on the inner circle. He took it out involuntarily and tried to put it on the ring finger of his left hand. The size was just right.

[Player Tang Ze, please note that a certain existence has noticed you. Please be cautious in all your subsequent choices. ]

At the same time, the system prompt sounded in the ears of other players, [Player Tang Ze has been selected by the quest item and will play an important role in the plot. ]

[Main quest: The truth is officially launched. ]

[Since the danger level is unknown, please explore with caution. 】

The prompt sound stopped, and Tang Ze, who was originally standing in front of everyone, disappeared without a trace.

"Captain!?" Lin Susu immediately rushed to where Tang Ze was originally located to check.

Zhao Hao and Chen Zhenyu followed anxiously.

......

"Aikawa-kun, what are you daydreaming about?"

Tang Ze frowned and ducked to avoid the attack from behind.

"Wow~ Your skills have improved a lot. You are worthy of being Maeda-kun's regular partner~" The person who attacked him praised with a smile and put his arm around his shoulder in a familiar manner.

Realizing that he was just playing a role in the plot, Tang Ze suppressed his instinct to throw the man out, smiled and shook his head modestly, "It's still a long way to go."

"Don't compare yourself with that pervert Maeda-kun! I saw him climbing walls with my own eyes last time! He stepped on the wall to gain leverage, and it was almost a three-meter-high wall! He jumped over it in a flash! And in yesterday's shooting test, every shot hit the ten rings! He was the only one who got full marks!" The young man, who was half a head shorter than him, gestured exaggeratedly with admiration on his face.

Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he shrank like an eggplant hit by frost. "What a pity."

"What a pity?" Tang Ze asked tentatively.

"It's a pity that Maeda-kun is from Longfu, otherwise he would have been at least a captain after graduating with this grade. But now he can only be a lieutenant like the annoying Yamashima-kun." The young man puffed up his still somewhat childish face and complained, "Why isn't Maeda-kun from our Yingfu?"

Maeda...from Longfu...could it be?

Tang Ze covered his heart with his hands, his soul trembling.