Why is Master Shen so easy to please? Why is Master Shen so agreeable? Why is Master Shen so adorable?
For the rest of the day, Zhan Xinjia's mind was filled with those words as if she were possessed. Sitting by the classroom window with her chin resting on her hand, her eyes were curved, and her mood was visibly bubbly.
Even as she was about to go home in the evening, she was still humming an off-key song, cheerful and lighthearted.
In a quiet corner, Shen Suqing patted her head.
"Ah Zhi, go wait for me outside Andingmen. I have some things to take care of."
Zhan Xinjia nodded like a chick pecking at rice, dimples appearing on her cheeks. She raised her hand high to bid farewell to the young man in the distance—she also had things to do and was just wondering how to come up with an excuse in front of Master Shen.
As soon as the young man's figure disappeared around the corner, her expression changed in an instant.
Her sweet smile vanished instantly. Zhan Xinjia picked a blade of grass from the roadside and habitually put it in her mouth. She strode towards the front yard expressionlessly, her sleeves billowing in the wind, her aura as imposing as a rainbow.
She herself was quite puzzled as to when she developed the habit of always chewing on something.
She pinpointed her target from the crowd with almost no effort.
"Zhan, Zhan Xinjia?! What are you doing? Let go of me!!"
Startled by the sudden grab on the back of his collar, Wang Cheng struggled frantically, but no matter how much he moved, the hand was like an iron clamp, firmly locked on his collar, without any loosening.
Upon seeing the girl's gloomy face, Wang Cheng almost peed himself on the spot.
"Grandma! Grandma!! I was wrong before, I shouldn't have joked with you, I apologize, let's talk this out... Hey! You guys, you saw me being bullied and didn't even come to help?!"
While begging for mercy, Wang Cheng shouted loudly.
The servants and guards he had called out looked at each other, their expressions as if they had eaten shit, and they reluctantly stepped forward.
Just then, the girl who was about to leave turned back.
Her peach blossom eyes narrowed into crescent moons, her pupils as dark as a cold pool, and the corners of her mouth curled up in a half-smile.
"Money can be earned back, but you only have one life. Have you thought this through?"
Upon hearing this, the already trembling guards and servants immediately scratched the back of their heads and pretended to look around at the scenery.
The sky is truly magnificent, and the earth is truly desolate...
Young master, it's not that we don't want to save you, it's just that we're all almost traumatized by this girl!
Seeing that no one dared to stop him, Zhan Xinjia pressed the tip of his tongue against his upper teeth, and leisurely dragged Wang Cheng by the collar with one hand as if he were a dead pig slaughtered for the New Year, continuing to drag him towards the deserted shadows.
Even though Wang Cheng weighed almost three times as much as her, she didn't slow down her pace at all, walking leisurely and gracefully.
After dragging him to the corner, Zhan Xinjia let go of his hand and disgustedly patted the dust off his palm.
"I think I gave you face before."
Zhan Xinjia smiled slightly.
Actually, she could have complained to Lord Shen about being deliberately provoked this morning, but she felt it was unnecessary. Since she could resolve the issue privately, why should she trouble Lord Shen?
She can just pretend to be a gentle and sweet girl normally, no, do you really think she's a pitiful little thing who only knows how to cry?
Having been traumatized by Zhan Xinjia, Wang Cheng instinctively shrank into the corner, his face trembling, his features contorted with fear, and his already narrow eyes now completely invisible.
He knew very well that the reason he hadn't been beaten to death before wasn't because she was afraid of causing trouble, but because she had never even looked at him properly.
Who would deliberately crush an ant on the edge of a shoe?
"Let's talk this out... I was wrong this morning, Grandma, you have to give me a chance to make amends!"
"Changed?"
Zhan Xinjia gave a cold laugh.
She leaned against the wall, her arms crossed over her chest.
A sudden gust of wind ruffled her hair that draped over her shoulders. In the twilight, against the light, her silhouette was nothing more than a blurry gray-black, but her eyes shone like swords.
"Teasing respectable women, abducting girls in the street, forcing women into prostitution, bullying others, setting up gambling traps... It seems you've had a pretty good time while I was away."
This wasn't the first time she had hit him.
Three years ago, when she first enrolled in school, she gave this chubby boy, who bullied men and women everywhere because of his family's power, a lesson in personality correction. Although it didn't cure him completely, after a course of about ten beatings, his condition was finally brought under control.
Today, when she returned to the Imperial College, she casually asked around and, well, her old habit kicked in again, and they started picking fights with her.
As a result, she was caught on the spot by the chief priest and made to stand as punishment, which was even seen by Lord Shen.
Thinking of this, Zhan Xinjia stepped forward and grabbed his hair, still wearing that chilling smile, but with an even deeper grin.
"Come on, choose whether you want to break the left hand or the right hand. Don't worry, I'm very skilled."
Wang Cheng struggled desperately for a few moments but couldn't break free. He then decided to give up and started shouting at people with his neck stiff.
"You dare!! Zhan Xinjia, my grandfather is the current Prime Minister. If you dare to lay a finger on me, my grandfather will not let your family off the hook. Who can protect you then? Your good-for-nothing father?! Come on, although your father has been temporarily reinstated, who in the capital doesn't know that your family's property will be confiscated sooner or later?!"
"Your grandfather?"
Zhan Xinjia stroked her chin, seemingly lost in thought.
"Oh, it was just something I did on the side. Since you miss your grandfather so much, let's go back together and I'll go see him."
Wang Cheng suddenly widened his squinty eyes.
When he was dragged back to his home like a dead pig, his mind was still a complete mess.
How dare she?
Is this even human?!
At the Wang family home, Wang Cheng, who had just returned from an outing, hadn't even had a sip of hot tea when he was met with a sharp slap in the face.
He covered his face in disbelief, the burning pain making him momentarily unable to process what was happening, unsure whether it was reality or a hallucination.
How could someone suddenly get slapped in their own home for no reason?!
Prime Minister Wang looked around blankly. The guards who had been standing nearby had all been knocked unconscious, and his precious son Yaozu was being dragged to the ground by a little girl by the back of his collar.
He was terrified.
"Who are you?! Let go of my Cheng'er!"
His response was another symmetrical slap, which made him dizzy and almost vomit blood.
He held the highest rank of official, and was always the one being flattered and fawned over. He had never suffered such humiliation.
Prime Minister Wang was so angry that the flesh on his old face was twitching, but his personal guards had already been taken down without anyone noticing. His old life was at stake, and for the moment he really didn't dare to provoke her.
Just because he doesn't dare doesn't mean Zhan Xinjia doesn't dare.
Zhan Xinjia pressed Wang Cheng, whose arm had already been broken, to the ground and spat out the grass he was holding in his mouth.
"From now on, keep your dog in check so it doesn't run around biting people like an inhuman beast. If you don't teach it, plenty of others will. If you can't control it, then I'll be its grandfather."
After saying that, she bent down and casually patted Wang Cheng's face a few times with a smile.
"My dear grandson, you better not let me catch you doing something bad next time. You'd better release those girls you stole right away. If you're even a day late, don't even mention your grandfather, not even your ancestors for eighteen generations can save you."
"Greetings! How dare you?! My grandfather is an official of the imperial court. Aren't you afraid we'll report you to the Emperor? Then, not only you, but your father won't be able to keep his head either."
Wang Cheng, trembling with pain, couldn't swallow his anger and tried to use his power to intimidate others, but Zhan Xinjia's face did not show the fear he had imagined.
She didn't even lift her eyelids, shrugged innocently, and spread her hands out generously.
"Go ahead and sue. Just say that a frail sixteen-year-old girl kidnapped you, knocked out all the guards in the Prime Minister's mansion, slapped the Prime Minister twice, and then left unscathed."
Kid, isn't this just asking for trouble?
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