Damn, How could my family be so wealthy?!-Chapter 408 - 407: The Ignorant Are Fearless

The pedestrian street was already bustling with people, but tonight with the fireworks dinner, the crowd was more than double the usual size.

Everyone was enjoying the cool display of a handsome guy on a skateboard.

Suddenly, such discordant noises came from within the crowd, and it looked like a fight was about to erupt.

Naturally, everyone was very displeased.

Wouldn’t this disturb their focused appreciation of the handsome skateboarder?

Besides, what if the noise from these people affected the skateboarder’s performance?

If the handsome guy lost his focus and fell or got hurt, what then?

Everyone thought these women were a nuisance and couldn’t stand it any longer.

"Will you ever stop? Didn’t you see there’s a competition going on here?"

"If you want to watch, then shut your mouths. If you don’t want to watch, go argue somewhere else and don’t disturb others."

A woman dressed to the nines spoke up with an air of authority.

"What’s it to you? We can argue here if we want to, what’s the problem?"

Having her face slapped in public by these remarks, one of the quarreling women wasn’t happy.

"This isn’t a place for arguing, if you want to argue, take it somewhere else."

"Exactly, think arguing makes you big? You don’t even realize how embarrassing this is, strutting around like you’re something special."

"Get lost, get lost."

The words of the quarreling woman immediately stirred up the crowd’s fury, and everyone started to cast blame.

Thinking she only had to face one person, the quarreling woman started out with plenty of boldness.

But just as she spoke up, she was collectively bombarded by those around her.

No matter how fierce she was at arguing, she couldn’t possibly take on ten others.

Realizing she had provoked the crowd’s anger, the woman wisely shut her mouth.

In her heart, she consoled herself: Don’t lower yourself to quarrel with a bunch of troublemakers.

Seeing this unfold, the other two women who had been arguing from the start didn’t dare to come forward as cannon fodder.

However, the three of them did not leave; they simply reduced their presence to the bare minimum.

Kidding aside, they hadn’t had their fill of admiring the handsome guy—how could they possibly leave?

Seeing that the noise had died down, no one really cared whether the three women stayed or left.

For everyone else, if it weren’t for those three disturbing the chance to admire the handsome skateboarder, nobody would bother with these irrelevant people.

The crowd around the event fell quiet again, with occasional cheers, of course, all directed at Su Mu.

"Handsome guy, you got this."

"Go for it, handsome."

Su Mu wasn’t disturbed by these cheers, but Zhou Haoming was sweating bullets as he watched Su Mu pulling further ahead and heard the crowd pumping Su Mu up.

Zhou Haoming wasn’t delusional.

Even though he had the title of Z University’s heartthrob, that was before Su Mu came on the scene.

Before meeting Su Mu, Zhou Haoming was quite confident in his own looks.

But after seeing Su Mu, Zhou Haoming knew that the title of "handsome guy" would never be his when Su Mu was around.

Therefore, Zhou Haoming was crystal clear about who those cheers of "Go handsome guy" were really for.

Zhou Haoming could never have dreamed of it.

He hadn’t made Su Mu lose face in front of Xuanxuan.

Instead, he had dug his own grave and lost a great deal of face.

But the challenge was proposed by Zhou Haoming himself.

Even if it meant crawling, Zhou Haoming had to stick it out to the end.

Watching Su Mu easily fly over the bench, all Zhou Haoming could do was fret internally.

Now Zhou Haoming could no longer care about looking suave; he was somewhat clumsily pushing hard with his left foot on the ground.

Zhou Haoming was holding his breath inside, determined to catch up with Su Mu.

Zhou Haoming didn’t even need to look back now, because Su Mu was right in front of him.

Zhou Haoming’s eyes were fixed on Su Mu.

There’s more than one bench on either side of the pedestrian street.

Unfortunately, Zhou Haoming hadn’t even reached the first bench when he saw Su Mu effortlessly leap over the second bench.

"Good, so cool!"

The crowd erupted into a round of enthusiastic applause due to Su Mu’s leaping maneuver.

"The handsome guy really has guts and skill; he can even fly over such a long bench in one go."

"Of course, just by looking at the handsome guy, one can tell his skills must be out of the ordinary."

"Look at the other young man on the side. If he weren’t being compared to the handsome guy, he’d look pretty decent."

"Just why are his skateboarding skills so poor?"

"Compared to the handsome guy’s skills, it’s not just a little bit worse."

"With that kind of level, he still has the audacity to challenge the handsome guy? I really admire his courage."

"Some people just don’t think before they act, don’t you know that?"

"Hehehe..."

A series of mocking laughter spread throughout the crowd.

The conversations of people nearby were not quiet; Zhou Haoming naturally heard some of it.

Zhou Haoming knew they were laughing at him.

But now, there was nothing Zhou Haoming could do.

The only thing Zhou Haoming could do was to speed up to catch up with Su Mu.

Although it seemed like Zhou Haoming’s idea was merely wishful thinking at this point.

But for Zhou Haoming, who had burnt his bridges, there was no turning back.

Zhou Haoming didn’t care at all about how the onlookers viewed him.

In Zhou Haoming’s eyes, these people were just strangers.

Once Zhou Haoming left Huadong City, who would recognize anyone?

Although Zhou Haoming could disregard everyone, there was one person he could not stop worrying about in his heart.

That was Xuanxuan, who was still standing in the back.

Zhou Haoming had always targeted Su Mu, even proposing this challenge; everything was to leave a good impression in Xuanxuan’s heart.

Desperately sliding forward, Zhou Haoming finally reached the first bench.

With both feet on the skateboard, pressing hard with the left foot at the back, Zhou Haoming jumped up, landing both himself and the skateboard on the bench.

If this were an ordinary day, Zhou Haoming’s move would surely have drawn applause and cheers from a group of girls.

But with Su Mu up front, Zhou Haoming’s move only made his skills look immature.

"Hey, why are you sliding on the bench? Are we still supposed to sit on it?"

"You can tell by the poor quality. Look at the handsome guy; his skateboard didn’t even touch the edge of the bench."

"That’s because he doesn’t have the skills to compare with the handsome guy."

"It’s clearly a performance of being inferior in skill."

"People who aren’t even in the same league, what’s there to compare? Where did this kid get his courage from?"

"Don’t you know that ignorance breeds fearlessness?"

Jeering voices reached Zhou Haoming’s ears, and to say he didn’t care at all was impossible.

Zhou Haoming’s face turned bright red, but he was powerless to do anything.

The competition had to continue, Zhou Haoming surely couldn’t stop to argue with these trivial onlookers, could he?

Already lagging far behind Su Mu, Zhou Haoming truly had no time to waste.

Otherwise, Zhou Haoming would really like to ask these people who enjoy the commotion.

How many of them actually have the skill to leap over a bench over two meters long like Su Mu did?

Zhou Haoming felt that these people couldn’t even play skateboarding and leap over a two-meter-long bench.

Let alone jump onto the bench like he did; most likely, few of them could manage it.

With no time to even glare at those making sarcastic remarks, Zhou Haoming could only focus on catching up to Su Mu.

He managed the first bench with a fair amount of smoothness.

With a jump, the skateboard carried Zhou Haoming down to the ground.

He continued rushing forward and as Zhou Haoming was about to reach the second bench, he realized Su Mu was almost at the circular table at the front.

The height of the circular table was much higher than the benches.

Zhou Haoming had already realized that Su Mu’s skateboarding skills were not inferior to his own.

If he were to be honest, Zhou Haoming knew that Su Mu’s skateboarding skills were leagues beyond his own.

Zhou Haoming found that Su Mu was probably the most skilled skateboarder he had ever seen.

There was no comparison.

Zhou Haoming just couldn’t understand, with such masterful skateboarding skills,

why would Xuanxuan look so worried when Zhou Haoming proposed a skateboarding contest with Su Mu?

To say that Xuanxuan was pretending for Zhou Haoming’s benefit, Zhou Haoming knew there was absolutely no need for that.

After all, it was Zhou Haoming who had challenged the idea himself.

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Su Mu only needed to nod and agree, and Zhou Haoming couldn’t possibly renege on it after that.

The only possibility was that Xuanxuan also didn’t know Su Mu could skateboard.

Much less know that Su Mu’s skateboarding skills had reached an incredible level.

While these messy thoughts flickered through Zhou Haoming’s mind, Su Mu had already effortlessly leaped up with his skateboard.

Su Mu’s form was very stable, and the height of the circular table seemed like it was no big deal for him.

"Wow, that guy is way too cool, isn’t he?"

"Quiet, don’t distract him from performing."

People in the crowd who had wanted to cheer instantly quieted down.

Zhou Haoming could no longer afford to chase Su Mu, and he slowed down noticeably before reaching the second bench.

Zhou Haoming now just wanted to see how Su Mu would get over the circular table.

If Su Mu was going to clear the circular table the same way he did with the benches, Zhou Haoming had a dark thought in his mind.

That was that Su Mu might actually fail.

Because the circular table wasn’t exactly small, and it was about one meter high.

Given how Su Mu leapt over the benches, it would indeed be a challenge.

Zhou Haoming’s hope was now pegged on the possibility of Su Mu’s failure.

Or rather, Zhou Haoming knew that given Su Mu’s technique, failure was unlikely.

But Zhou Haoming now just hoped that Su Mu would make a mistake.

Be it failure or a slip-up, for Zhou Haoming, he just wanted to see Su Mu not succeed in crossing the round table.

That way, Zhou Haoming knew he still had a glimmer of hope to compete with Su Mu in the second half.

Because if Su Mu couldn’t cross the round table in one go, it would mean that he had to back up a bit.

To ensure he could have a second charge, a buffering stage.

Zhou Haoming calculated in his mind the time difference it would take for Su Mu to make a second attempt. It should be enough for him to catch up with Su Mu.

"Awesome, the handsome guy is so amazing."

"The handsome guy can go compete in the Airborne Man contest. With such high skateboarding skills, if he enters a competition, what business do others have?"

"Key is, the handsome guy not only looks good but also has high quality. Look, he didn’t even slide over the round table, he just flew right over it."

"Of course, some people’s quality is a lot lower by comparison."

"Just focus on the handsome guy, why bother with those irrelevant people? At most, we’ll just have him wipe the bench clean later, right?"

"Exactly, exactly, I got it all backwards. Just watch the handsome guy, focus on the handsome guy."

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Zhou Haoming, who had already slowed down, now heard every single word of the bystanders loud and clear.

How did he become someone without quality?

Isn’t sliding over a bench on a skateboard a very normal thing?

Zhou Haoming remembered that when he did this in university, those female students even voluntarily cleared the benches in the campus for him to show off.

Back then, not a single person stepped out to accuse him of dirtying the benches or lacking quality.

Why is the situation so different here?

Could it be that the perception of people in Huadong City and Wudong City is that different?

"The handsome guy is skating so fast. He is about to reach that flight of stairs, right?"

"Soon, soon, the stairs are so high, but the handsome guy doesn’t seem to slow down at all, does he?"

"With the handsome guy’s skills, there shouldn’t be any problem, as there are ramps on both sides of the stairs."

"Yeah, if handsome guy can fly over benches and round tables, could a small ramp possibly be difficult for him?"

Because Su Mu was about to skate near the stairs by the fountain, the onlookers no longer focused on Zhou Haoming to see if he would slide over the second bench.

Everyone’s attention was on the handsome guy.

Since there was some distance, people even took a few steps towards the fountain to get a clearer view.

However, everyone’s minds were at ease, not worried.

In everyone’s minds, it was certain that the handsome guy would slide down from the ramp, so there was nothing to worry about.

A bunch of idiots!

Zhou Haoming finally found an outlet for his frustration because the competition between him and Su Mu was supposed to take place sliding down the stairs.

How could it be just simply sliding down a ramp?

Of course, Zhou Haoming wouldn’t say this out loud. If he caused a frenzy, he knew he was no match for these people.

He could only curse silently in his heart as a way of venting his anger.

Seeing that Su Mu was nearly at the last obstacle, Zhou Haoming didn’t dare delay any further.

Zhou Haoming knew he no longer had any hope of winning, but he didn’t want to be seen as a deserter in front of Xuanxuan.

No matter what, Zhou Haoming felt he had to stick it out until the end.

Even if he was to lose, Zhou Haoming wanted to lose with some dignity.

If he gave up halfway, Zhou Haoming knew this challenge he initiated would be an utter joke.

Although it was already half a joke now.