“Little sister, what brings you here?”
Yu Jian’an was genuinely surprised. His little sister rarely came to his school. As far as she was concerned, it was simply too far away, and making the trip was too much trouble.
“Third Brother, you’ve finished your exams, haven’t you? Why haven’t you gone home yet? Mom and Dad are worried about you.”
“I just finished them. Some students caused trouble a while back, so the exams had to be postponed. I’ll head home in a couple of days.” Yu Jian’an was rather helpless about the situation.
“Fine. I’ll tell Mom and Dad when I get back. Here, take this braised pork.”
Seeing that her third brother was perfectly fine, Yu Huan didn’t say anything more. She simply took out a lunchbox and handed it to him.
“Little sister, did you buy this from the state-run restaurant?”
Yu Jian’an opened the lunchbox and immediately grabbed a piece of meat, stuffing it into his mouth.
“Mmm… Delicious!”
Yu Huan rolled her eyes.
“Third Brother, haven’t you eaten?”
“I have, but I’m still hungry.”
Yu Huan took out a ten-yuan bill and several ration coupons, then stuffed them into the pocket of his shirt.
“Here, take this and spend it. I’m leaving now. I still have to hurry back.”
“Hey, Little Sister! I don’t need your money. Your third brother has money of his own!”
With the lunchbox in his hands, Yu Jian’an couldn’t exactly reach out to stop her.
Yu Huan simply waved her hand and walked away.
Only after his little sister had gone some distance did he head upstairs to his dormitory.
“Jian’an, was that your girlfriend? She’s really beautiful!”
“Don’t talk nonsense. That’s my younger sister—my real, biological sister.”
Yu Jian’an placed the lunchbox on his desk and answered smugly.
His roommates immediately became excited.
“Jian’an, look, your buddy here isn’t bad-looking. How about making me your brother-in-law?”
“Get lost! With that short, stubby figure of yours?”
“Jian’an, what about me?”
His roommates all started talking over one another, and the dormitory quickly descended into chaos.
“Enough! Stop arguing. My little sister is a fairy. None of you ordinary mortals stand a chance!”
Yu Jian’an grinned triumphantly, looking so smug that he practically begged to be beaten up.
The roommates exchanged glances before immediately pouncing on him and tickling him mercilessly.
Yu Huan had no idea what kind of commotion was going on in her third brother’s dormitory.
She had just left the county town and was passing the small grove she had gone by that morning when a group of people suddenly rushed out.
“What are you doing?”
Yu Huan looked at the nearly ten men in front of her and demanded coldly.
A man who looked to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight stepped out from the group.
Wang Yong approached Yu Huan. Looking at her face up close, he found her more and more attractive.
After seeing her the previous time, he had sent his underlings to investigate her.
As it turned out, there was no one like her in the county town. It was only a couple of days ago that he had learned from a student that she came from a village nearby. He hadn’t yet had the chance to visit that village and look for her when, unexpectedly, he ran into her here.
Today, he had received word that someone was conducting a transaction in the woods outside the county town. He had brought a group of his men, intending to rob the traders. Unfortunately, the people involved had already left.
They had searched the area several times but found absolutely nothing.
After throwing a fit of impotent rage, he had been preparing to lead his men back to town when one of his sharp-eyed underlings spotted Yu Huan riding toward them on her bicycle.
Well, wasn’t this a case of searching high and low, only to find what he wanted without even trying?
“Little girl, we really are fated to meet!” Wang Yong chuckled.
“What kind of fate? An unfortunate one? I’ve never even seen you before.”
“Little girl, that’s no problem. You may not have seen me, but I saw you the last time you came to the county town. And now we’ve run into each other again by such a coincidence. Isn’t that a tremendous stroke of fate?”
“Cut the nonsense. Just tell me what you want.”
“Since we’re so fated to meet, it would be rude not to get acquainted and become friends.”
“But I don’t want to be friends with you. So what are you going to do about it?”
“Now you’re putting me in a difficult position. I sincerely want to be your friend,” Wang Yong said, pretending to look troubled.
“Little girl, you’re refusing a friendly offer and choosing to take the hard way!”
“Miss, there’s still time to apologize to our boss. Otherwise, if we accidentally hurt you with our rough hands, things might get ugly.”
“Our boss has taken a liking to you, which is why he’s been talking to you for so long. Do you believe we couldn’t just drag you away? There’s no one around to come to your rescue!”
Several of his underlings chimed in, taking turns threatening and intimidating her.
“Oh, I’m so scared!” Yu Huan said, pretending to be frightened, though her face was full of mockery.
Seeing that Yu Huan wouldn’t give in, no matter whether he tried to reason with her or threaten her, Wang Yong decided that this little girl needed to be taught a lesson.
“Drag her into the woods!”
Several of his underlings immediately became excited. Their boss was finally getting rough. That meant they might get a piece of the action too!
The lecherous men, each hoping to take advantage of her, immediately reached out toward different parts of Yu Huan’s body.
Disgusting!
Yu Huan instantly launched a 360-degree spinning kick, sending several of them flying. They crashed straight onto the dusty dirt road, raising a cloud of yellow dust.
The men lay sprawled on the ground, groaning in pain.
“Well, well! Not bad, little girl. You’ve got some skills! In that case, we won’t hold back. Everyone, get her!”
So that was why she had refused to show him any respect. She was relying on her fighting skills!
Wang Yong had brought twelve underlings with him. Three were already on the ground, leaving nine.
Several grown men charged toward a seemingly delicate young girl. Anyone watching would have thought that she was bound to be seriously injured, if not killed.
Five minutes later, the fight was over.
Every single one of them was lying on the ground.
Only one person remained standing.
Yu Huan crouched beside Wang Yong and looked down at him.
“Judging by what your men said, you have quite a bit of influence in town. That means you’ll probably come looking for trouble with me again in the future, won’t you?”
“N-No, I wouldn’t dare! I absolutely won’t bother you again!” Wang Yong stammered, his face deathly pale and cold sweat pouring down his forehead.
His leg was broken.
“Swallow this.”
Yu Huan took out a pill.
“W-What is this?”
“Whatever it is, it won’t kill you. But if you don’t swallow it, I’ll make you take it myself.”
Wang Yong didn’t want to eat it, but he was in no position to fight her now.
Only after confirming that he had swallowed the pill did Yu Huan speak again.
“From now on, do more good deeds. Stop thinking about hurting people. Otherwise, although this pill won’t kill you, it’ll make you wish you were dead.”
It was only after Yu Huan had walked some distance away that his underlings finally scrambled to their feet and helped carry their boss to the hospital.
Wang Yong insisted that he had swallowed poison. However, after a thorough examination, the doctors found nothing wrong with his body apart from his broken leg.
At first, Wang Yong thought the woman had merely been bluffing. He even planned to get revenge once his leg had healed and settle the score with her.
But whenever he entertained that thought, a sharp, agonizing pain would suddenly shoot through his chest.
The doctors examined him repeatedly but couldn’t find anything wrong.
After experiencing this several times, he finally realized that whenever he thought about taking revenge on that woman, his heart would hurt terribly. Only when he forced himself to forget about her and stopped thinking about revenge would the pain disappear.
He had no choice but to swallow his pride and put the woman out of his mind.
After being discharged from the hospital, he took a liking to another pretty young woman. But just as he began making a few suggestive remarks, that damn chest pain struck again!
After similar incidents happened several times, he secretly sought out monks, Taoist priests, and even traditional Chinese medicine practitioners who worked as toilet cleaners, hoping someone could help him.
He went through all sorts of trouble, but everyone told him there was nothing wrong with his body. Some were practically suggesting that the problem was all in his head.
So that woman had been telling the truth!
As the leader of a gang of hooligans, he had hardly ever done anything good. But now, whenever his heart started hurting, he couldn’t go through with whatever wrongdoing he had planned.
He was forced to become a rather unusual kind of gangster—not quite respectable, but no longer completely lawless either.
When the campaign against criminal activities eventually began, he was actually grateful that he had managed to save his own skin.
After all that had happened, it was completely dark by the time Yu Huan finally rode her bicycle home.
When she reached the entrance to the village, she noticed a dark figure standing beneath the large banyan tree.