Chapter 1336

"What's going on here?"

Two people walked out from the crowd — it was Xiao Han and Miss Hongxiu, who had been nowhere to be seen all afternoon.

Miss Hongxiu looked at the woman sprawled on the ground not far away, unable to get up, then looked at Gu Yanqi, whom Ning Chen was holding protectively in his arms. Her head was full of question marks — what on earth was going on?

Lin Yi gave a highly embellished account of what had just happened, and at the end even stomped hard on the floor to express his anger.

Hearing that the girl had almost hurt Gu Yanqi, Miss Hongxiu immediately looked at her with concern: "Yanqi, are you alright?!"

Until now, apart from Guizhi — that is, the wife of Geng Zhong, a guard of the Demon Realm — Miss Hongxiu had only ever had one female friend; every other woman either bore her hostility or had some ulterior motive.

Only Gu Yanqi, the very first time they met, had looked at her without sizing her up, without scheming — only with curiosity and an equal gaze.

And through their time together, Miss Hongxiu had discovered that Gu Yanqi was sometimes as shy as a little rabbit, sometimes as bold as a little fox — whichever side she showed, she was utterly delightful.

So she really did like such a "little sister." When she had publicly declared in the teahouse, in front of everyone, that Gu Yanqi was her sister, Miss Hongxiu still felt to this day that it had been the absolutely right thing to do.

Miss Hongxiu came to Gu Yanqi's side, pulled her out from Ning Chen's embrace, and looked her over carefully from top to bottom and left to right. Only after confirming Gu Yanqi was fine did she finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Whose people are these, to have such nerve — daring to bully mine!"

Gongsun Ze at the side immediately recognized Miss Hongxiu; after all, in this Immortal Town, who wouldn't know Miss Hongxiu?

Seeing how familiar Ning Chen and the others were with Miss Hongxiu, Gongsun Ze suddenly recalled that someone had indeed mentioned before that Miss Hongxiu seemed to have a sister, and that sister had even come to find her recently.

Could it be that this young lady was Boss Hong's sister?!

Thinking of this, Gongsun Ze felt terrible all over. This would also explain why this group, no matter what happened, always looked as if they had nothing to fear.

At the same time he was shocked — he had actually almost flirted with Boss Hong's sister.

Suddenly, Gongsun Ze was especially grateful to Ning Chen. If he had really managed to flirt with her just now, the consequences for him would have been unimaginable.

Suddenly receiving Gongsun Ze's grateful gaze, Ning Chen swept a glance at him, finding it rather baffling.

But on second thought, he figured this guy was probably imagining things again.

Ning Chen withdrew his gaze and looked at Miss Hongxiu: "He probably knows something."

As he spoke, Ning Chen pointed at Gongsun Ze nearby.

Suddenly being called out, Gongsun Ze was still a bit dazed, not having reacted to what was happening: "Ah? What's going on? I — I have no improper thoughts about Miss Gu!"

Hearing these words, Miss Hongxiu cast him a slightly suspicious look. Why did she feel as if the other party had a sense of confessing without being pressed?

Lin Yi was already covering his face, unable to hold back his laughter. He had to say, this Gongsun Ze really did have a kind of clear-headed stupidity about him.

Realizing that what he had said seemed a little off, Gongsun Ze also gave an awkward chuckle.

"So, do you know her identity?" Miss Hongxiu pointed at the woman on the ground who was still recovering and asked.

"Let me take a look."

Gongsun Ze immediately went to a spot not far from the woman, carefully examined her appearance, and then matched the person in front of him against identities in his mind.

"This should be the second young lady of the Liu household."

The moment Gongsun Ze finished speaking, several people suddenly pushed through the crowd and walked in.

"Out of the way, all of you, out of the way! Young Lady, are you alright?!"

A maidservant rushed out, hurriedly helped the woman to her feet, and checked on her condition.

By now the woman had recovered considerably, though her head was still a bit dizzy and her body ached.

If the woman were in the modern world now and went to a hospital, she would be diagnosed with a concussion.

Once the woman came to her senses and saw her family's guards, she immediately became arrogant again.

"I'd like to see just who it is that bullied my precious daughter!"

An old man's voice rang out, and then the crowd automatically parted. A middle-aged man wearing a golden robe and a thick gold chain walked over, followed by several people.

Seeing this, the woman hurriedly ran to the middle-aged man's side and acted coquettishly: "Father, it's those people who bullied me, and that one — he's the one who just kicked me flying!"

The woman pointed at Ning Chen, speaking with a gnashing-teeth tone, as if she wanted to tear him into a thousand pieces.

Ning Chen swept a glance at the woman and said nothing — there was no need for him to waste his breath on this.

However, the woman's way of cutting off the head and tail, completely omitting anything she herself had done — Lin Yi simply could not stand for it.

"Ohh, listen to you talk. Then why don't you mention how you deliberately came to hurt our little sister Yanqi?"

The woman seemed to have found her backing, and her whole person was now brimming with bravado. She looked at Lin Yi as if it were perfectly reasonable: "So what? What's wrong with that? Who told her to be so shameless — she already has someone, yet still goes around flirting with Mr. Gongsun!"

Who was actually interested in whom was crystal clear to everyone around. It was plainly Gongsun Ze who was interested in Gu Yanqi, while Gu Yanqi had never given Gongsun Ze the time of day.

Suddenly transformed from melon-eater to melon-owner, Gongsun Ze felt terrible all over, and was on the verge of tears. No way, big sister — if you want to seek death, don't drag him down with you. Is this the trouble of being too popular?

The middle-aged man patted the woman's shoulder, seemingly comforting her, then looked at Ning Chen, his eyes full of utter contempt.

"I don't know where some beast like you crawled out from, daring to lay a hand on my daughter here? If I don't break your legs today, then I, Liu Neng, don't deserve to stand here!"

No one had expected the head of the Liu household to be capable of such outrageous bluster — and that too with Miss Hongxiu present. The people around all stepped back a little, ready to watch a good show.

The reason Liu Neng was being so arrogant was mainly that Miss Hongxiu had been completely blocked from his view by Lin Yi, Huo Jinglin, and Xu Chenchen — he hadn't seen her at all.

And when the woman had been on the ground earlier, her ears had been ringing, so she also didn't know Miss Hongxiu was there.

Miss Hongxiu frowned, wanting to step forward and settle the matter, but she was held back by Xiao Han.

It turned out Ning Chen had given Xiao Han a look, signaling him to stop Miss Hongxiu.

To be honest, being questioned again and again had made Ning Chen more or less unhappy. They were naturally going to make their way in this world, so they certainly couldn't keep letting Miss Hongxiu solve every problem — otherwise others would more or less be unconvinced.

Since that was the case, it was perfect — there were plenty of people here, and word would spread widely.

Ning Chen had Gu Yanqi stand beside Lin Yi and the others, then stepped forward, exposing himself, and looked at the head of the Liu household with a provocative gaze.