Andrew had already left Nova Fight Club. He exited the same way he came, calm and unbothered.

No one even dared to stop him.

Liliana said angrily, "Joe, why? With your personality, there's no way you'd tolerate such an insignificant bug acting so arrogantly! You could have crushed him with a single slap!"

Joe's eyes were deep and thoughtful as he shook his head. "Liliana, none of you really understand me. Everyone thinks I'm the Driscoll family heir, a peerless genius, an untouchable golden boy!

"Maybe the old me enjoyed all that vanity and those titles. But my excellence and talent don't need other people's applause to validate them. My path in life doesn't need my family's background to prop me up so I can bully others and lord over them."

He added, "Andrew has every right to compete with me for Lauren. So I'll defeat him fair and square, openly and honestly, and tear him apart! I won't look down on him just because he's a nobody. This is the insight my recent martial arts