Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

Before the crisp sound of shattering glass had completely faded in the coffee shop, a dozen burly men in black pounced on them like wolves.

They carried black batons, their eyes fierce, and their teamwork was impeccable. This group was clearly not ordinary street thugs, but professional thugs hired by the Green Dragon Society at great expense. Each of them had several lives on their hands and were elite fighters who had fought their way up from the underground boxing ring.

"Don't hurt his face! I want him alive!"

Long Xiaoyun proudly retreated to a safe corner, arms crossed, like a queen watching a hunting performance. A hint of expectant blush even lingered on her delicate, doll-like face, as if she could already see the humiliating scene of Lu Jingyan having his legs broken and crawling at her feet like a puppy.

Unfortunately, what awaited her was not humiliation, but a one-sided crushing defeat with no suspense whatsoever.

Lu Jingyan didn't even blink as batons came flying from all directions.

Behind his gold-rimmed glasses, his deep eyes showed no panic, only pure calculation and cold scrutiny. In his retina, enhanced to the pinnacle of human capabilities by the system, the speed and strength these thugs prided themselves on appeared as slow as an old man practicing Tai Chi in a park.

"Go! Cripple his arms and legs!" the scarred leader roared, raising his steel baton high and bringing a sharp gust of wind as it struck Lu Jingyan's shoulder.

Lu Jingyan made a move.

He didn't take a step back, but instead gripped the edge of the heavy solid wood round table in front of him with both hands.

His arm muscles tensed instantly, and terrifying power erupted from beneath his pure white shirt. He effortlessly lifted a solid wood round table weighing several hundred pounds from the ground, using it as a giant shield to smash it down on the group of burly men!

"Bang--!"

A dull thud was followed by a tooth-grinding cracking sound as bones snapped open.

The three burly men at the front didn't even have time to scream before they were struck in the chest by the heavy solid wood table. They were sent flying like kites with broken strings, crashing into four or five coffee tables before finally coming to a stop, collapsing amidst shattered glass and vomiting blood.

A huge gap was instantly torn open in the encirclement.

Lu Jingyan gave them no chance to catch their breath. He took a step forward, his figure disappearing into the crowd like a ghost.

There were no fancy moves, nor the unrealistic external projection of inner energy found in martial arts novels. What he used was a top-tier military and police combat technique, honed through countless trials and designed to disarm the enemy in the shortest possible time.

"First, gang fighting."

Lu Jingyan's voice was as calm as if he were reading a court verdict. With his left hand, he precisely caught a baton that came flying from the side, and with his right hand, he transformed his palm into a knife, slashing hard at the carotid artery in the burly man's neck.

The big man rolled his eyes and collapsed to the ground, limp and lifeless.

"Second, assaulting police officers with weapons."

Lu Jingyan slightly turned his body to avoid the sneak attack from behind, and his right leg kicked back like a steel whip, hitting another thug's knee joint with perfect accuracy.

"Snap!"

The man's knees bent backward at an eerie angle, and a pig-like scream instantly pierced the roof of the café.

"Third, they attempted to kidnap state public officials."

Lu Jingyan caught the scarred man's swinging fist and executed a perfectly executed over-the-shoulder throw, slamming the burly man, who weighed at least 200 pounds, onto the hard marble floor. He then followed with a karate chop, completely severing the man's ability to resist.

The entire process was smooth and efficient to the extreme.

With each strike, a man in black fell. He was like a precise killing machine, executing a ruthless, one-sided purge within the cramped café.

Less than thirty seconds.

In less than thirty seconds, the dozen or so elite thugs of the Azure Dragon Society who had been so menacing just moments before were now all lying on the ground, either clutching their severed arms and legs and howling in pain, or completely unconscious.

The ground was in mess.

The café fell into a deathly silence once again, with only the painful groans of the burly men echoing in the air.

Long Xiaoyun stood in the corner, her smile completely frozen.

Her trump card, the violence she relied on for survival, proved so fragile in front of this bespectacled, seemingly refined policeman that it couldn't even last a minute!

How is this possible?!

This young lady from the Green Dragon Society, who had grown up in the mire of the underworld and prided herself on being used to bloodshed, finally lost her mind completely as she watched her subordinates rolling on the ground. A chilling fear, unlike anything she had ever felt before, crept up her spine.

"Are you... are you even human?"

Long Xiaoyun looked at the man who stepped over a pile of "corpses" and was wiping his finger bones with a clean white handkerchief, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

Lu Jingyan casually tossed the dusty handkerchief onto Scarface's face, then strode towards Long Xiaoyun.

His breathing remained steady, without even a slight deviation from the rhythm. His crisp white shirt was still spotless, with only the collar slightly open, exuding a deadly blend of wildness and asceticism.

"Forcibly abducting a man?"

Lu Jingyan walked up to Long Xiaoyun, looking down at the trembling "underworld princess" with a cold, mocking smile.

"Miss Long, your knowledge of criminal law is truly appalling."

"Don't come any closer! I'm warning you, don't touch me!"

Long Xiaoyun finally panicked. She screamed and backed away until her back hit the cold wall. She grabbed a coffee cup from the table next to her and threw it at Lu Jingyan like a mad wildcat.

"My dad is Long Xiaotian! If you dare lay a finger on me, I guarantee you'll die a horrible death!"

Faced with the flying coffee cup, Lu Jingyan merely tilted his head slightly. The cup grazed past his ear and shattered into countless pieces against the wall behind him.

Even his attempts to dodge were extremely perfunctory.

"Yeah?"

Lu Jingyan was too lazy to waste any more words with her. He suddenly stretched out his right hand and grabbed Long Xiaoyun's Lolita dress by the collar, like an eagle catching a chick.

Without any effort, he lifted the arrogant and domineering gangster heiress up with one hand.

The feeling of weightlessness as her feet dangled in the air drove Long Xiaoyun completely mad.

"Let me go! You bastard! Let me go right now!" She kicked and struggled desperately at the legs clad in small leather boots, and frantically scratched at Lu Jingyan's arms, but she couldn't budge those iron-like hands an inch.

"Save your energy, Long Xiaoyun."

Lu Jingyan pulled her in front of him, his cold eyes fixed on her.

"Attempted illegal detention, organizing and leading a mafia-style organization, plus the assault on a police officer just now. These charges against you are enough to keep you comfortably in the provincial women's prison until you go through menopause."

"If you want to be the boss, there are plenty of opportunities for you to show your skills."

As he spoke, Lu Jingyan's free left hand reached down to his lower back with practiced ease and pulled out a pair of police handcuffs that gleamed with a cold metallic sheen.

He looked at Long Xiaoyun's baby face, which had turned deathly pale with fear, and spoke in a calm tone as if he were dealing with an illegally parked vehicle.

"The game is over."

"You're under arrest."

Just as the handcuffs were about to fall.

The once quiet street outside the coffee shop was suddenly filled with a series of extremely piercing, continuous screechs of brakes!

"Crunch—Squeak—!!!"

Dozens of black Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedans, like a black torrent of steel, blocked the entire street in an instant with utter ruthlessness. Several cars even drove onto the sidewalk, smashing the police tape that had been put up.

The car doors opened in unison.

Hundreds of gangsters dressed in identical black suits, carrying gleaming machetes and steel pipes, swarmed around the entire café like a swarm of wasps.

A path was forcibly parted in the dense crowd.

A middle-aged man dressed in a dark red Tang suit, holding two jade beads in his hands, strode into the dilapidated coffee shop, surrounded by a group of bodyguards and exuding an overwhelming aura of menace.

The middle-aged man glanced at the elite thugs groaning on the ground, then looked at his daughter, who was being held in mid-air like a chick by Lu Jingyan.

A terrifying killing intent suddenly erupted in his sinister eyes, and the jade gall in his hand was squeezed so hard that it made an extremely grating friction sound.

"Let go of my daughter!"

Long Xiaotian roared, like a lion that had been completely enraged, causing the surrounding glass shards to tremble.

He stared intently at Lu Jingyan, his voice carrying an undeniable threat of death.

"Kid, I don't care which department's police you're from."

"If you dare put those handcuffs on my daughter's wrists today, I guarantee the entire provincial department won't be able to save your life!"