My Arrogant Young Lady

I've never practiced martial arts, so I couldn't possibly perform such a difficult move. But he forced me to, and I did. However, this caused me immense damage. I felt like my back was about to break, and the tendons in my thighs made a snapping sound.

"Master, my back is about to break. The tendons in my legs are about to snap too. Let go, quick, I can't take it anymore..." Soon, I began to feel unbearable pain. I didn't even have the strength to speak, and sweat poured down my face.

But Leng Yan still didn't let go. He just kept holding me down until I was really about to give up before he finally let go.

Next, Leng Yan used various methods to make me stretch and press my legs, almost every movement made me feel like I was in excruciating pain. Then Leng Yan led me through basic training. His training methods were even harsher than An Yao's. He directly lifted me upside down and lit a circle of flames around me. If I couldn't hold on and fell, I would be burned by those flames. And while I was upside down, those flames were so scorching that sweat dripped down my face.

By the time the handstand was finished, my clothes were soaked with sweat. Leng Yan pulled off my shirt and took out a bottle to rub a lot of medicinal wine on my body.

I asked, "Master, is that medicinal wine you're rubbing on me? Why are you putting so much medicinal wine on me?"

"Fighting is the best way to improve physical fitness, but do you know what an even better way to improve physical fitness is?" Leng Yan kept rubbing my body vigorously until my whole body turned red, as if I were on fire.

"I don't know..." I said.

“It’s being beaten,” Leng Yan said coldly.

"what?"

Before I could even let out a surprised cry, Leng Yan had already dragged me to the very center of the building. Then he pulled out a wooden stick as thick as an arm and sneered at me, "Tense every muscle in your body!"

Being with Leng Yan is not like being with An Yao. An Yao is my own sister, and we have a very good relationship. I didn't dare to be naughty with Leng Yan, so I quickly tensed all the muscles in my body.

At that moment, a loud cracking sound came from my body.

That blow nearly tore my skin open. But because he had applied medicated wine beforehand, my whole body was burning hot, and I was able to endure it by tensing all my muscles.

"One hundred hits in total, grit your teeth and bear it!" Leng Yan's eyes turned cold, and she slapped me hard again.

By the time Leng Yan struck me for the third time, I was already on the verge of collapse. But... when I thought of An Yao, Wang Che, Tian Lei, and Di Huo, all highly skilled in martial arts, I knew they must have put in just as much effort as I had. If Wang Che and An Yao could endure it, why couldn't I? I had promised Wang Che that I would become the head of the family and help her annul her engagement; I absolutely couldn't break my promise!

I was being hit by Leng Yan again and again. After a hundred hits, I was covered in bruises. And then, I saw that Leng Yan's eyes were no longer cold.

He gently took out another bottle of medicinal wine and applied it to my body. As he applied it, he said to me, "Xi'er, do you know what kind of feelings I have for you?"

"Master?" I asked.

“No, I love you like my own son. When I found you, I thought you were an orphan, and I thought I could be with you forever. It wasn't until your mother found me that I learned you were a child of the Wang family. At that time, your father and I were sworn enemies. Because of you, I gave up my hatred and chose to protect your Wang family. In this world, I love you just as much as your parents do. But if you're useless, you will die. You have to put in ten times the effort of others to save your health.” Leng Yan said, looking at my wounds with heartache.

"Thank you..." I knew he was a good person, and he would never hurt me. Looking into his concerned eyes, I nodded gently.

"Work hard. Only when you become stronger can you protect yourself. Only when you become stronger can you protect the people around you," Leng Yan said.

"Master, I will definitely work hard." Thinking of Zhang Xuan, An Yao, and Wang Che, I gently clenched my fist.

"In the great battle at the pharmaceutical factory, even experts like Tianlei and Dihuo were injured. Yet you were unharmed?" Leng Yan looked at me in surprise, her eyes filled with astonishment.

"Because they've been protecting me, that's why I didn't get hurt..." I thought for a moment and said.

“No, even if they protected you, you would still get hurt in that situation. But you seem very agile. You are more talented than them.” Leng Yan’s eyes lit up as he looked at me.

"It was luck, I guess. There were quite a few knives that tried to cut me, but I dodged them all..." I thought nervously.

After listening to my words, Leng Yan pondered deeply. Gradually, he began to smile. Staring at my intact body, he smiled and said, "Perhaps you will be more successful than your father. Perhaps you can even learn a better martial art..."

"What kind of martial arts?" I asked.

"Movement technique. Perhaps you can develop a movement technique that makes you immune to being hit..."

"Master, is it really possible to learn a movement technique that makes you immune to attacks?" In the blink of an eye, I found myself standing in front of a white wall. Looking at Leng Yan before me, I asked, trembling.

"I don't know, but I've blindfolded myself. Don't blame your master for being heartless if you get hurt." Leng Yan had already blindfolded herself with a black cloth in front of me. Suddenly, she kicked a row of soccer balls fiercely towards me.

"Holy crap!" I saw a bunch of soccer balls flying haphazardly towards me and I quickly dodged in all directions in fright.

"Xi'er, you're actually really agile." He kicked the soccer balls at me hard, and when they bounced back, he kicked them at me again.

"Not bad, after all, I'm a good support player." I said smugly, when suddenly a soccer ball hit me hard in the eye.

"Very good, then I'll speed up!" Seeing the soccer balls bounce back one by one, Leng Yan kicked countless soccer balls back again and again.

Suddenly, a soccer ball slammed into my back with a loud bang. I glanced at Leng Yan in surprise, then, startled, frantically dodged again…

After all the training was over, I was covered in bruises from the soccer ball kicked by Leng Yan. Leng Yan counted the wounds on my body, then nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, you only got hit forty-odd times on the first day. Starting tomorrow, you can count them yourself. Every day you get one less wound, it means your agility has improved by one level. When you are no longer injured, I can take you to more advanced training."

"Hmm..." His face was swollen so badly, I gave him a disgruntled look.

"By the way, why were you thirty minutes late tonight?" Leng Yan suddenly remembered something and asked me.

"I don't have any money on me, I walked all the way from school..." I said, feeling wronged.

"..." Hearing my words, Leng Yan gave an awkward grin. Then she looked at me intently, handed me a wad of cash, and said, "Here, this is your allowance from your master..."

Chapter 82 The Fourth Son of the Wang Family

Bang, bang—a series of loud sounds echoed through the building, interspersed with occasional explosions that hurt the ears. A young man, shirtless, dodged the blows. His body was covered in wounds, his skin glistening with sweat and medicine.

When the last football exploded and was completely destroyed, the young man bent over, panting heavily. The white wall behind him was now a scene of devastation, and on it were several figures of various shapes and sizes.

Seven or eight days have passed in the blink of an eye, and I've been tormented by Leng Yan every day. These past few days, with the school on holiday for New Year's Day, Leng Yan has been making the most of every moment to train me.

Removing the blindfold from my eyes, Leng Yan frowned as she looked at the wounds on my body. "Xi'er, you've been practicing for seven or eight days, and you haven't made any progress at all? You still have over forty wounds on your body?"

Seeing Leng Yan's furrowed brows, I really wanted to rush up and beat him up. So I lifted my legs a little, then pointed to the soccer balls he had kicked and popped on the ground and said, "Master, it's not that I haven't improved at all, okay? It's just that you're kicking the soccer balls faster and faster every day. On the first day, you only popped three soccer balls, and then you made up for it. On the second day, you popped eight. Today, there were twice as many soccer balls as usual, and you were even faster than usual. You popped all eighty-odd soccer balls."

"And another thing, you've wrapped a ten-pound sandbag around each of my legs. How am I supposed to dodge? If you keep playing like this, I'm going to get kicked to death!" I said.

"Really? But I'm switching to softball tomorrow," Leng Yan said after thinking for a moment.

"What? Softball? That ball is so small, wouldn't it be even harder to dodge? Master, we've already practiced this three times today. I've been here since this morning and have been training until now. I only have about ten days left before winter break, so could you let me rest for one day tomorrow? Just one day. Please…!" I said.

"You're going on vacation?" Leng Yan asked me in surprise.

Hearing Leng Yan's words, I felt a pang of bitterness in my heart. Ever since Zhang Xuan agreed to be with me, I haven't had a chance to take advantage of her. First, Wang Che tried to assassinate me, and with her in class every day, I didn't have time for anything sweet with Zhang Xuan. Then, Leng Yan started teaching me martial arts, and the intensity of his training was too high. I was exhausted every day afterward, and in the morning I had to run with An Yao. During the day, because I didn't get any rest, I felt terrible and had no desire to take advantage of Zhang Xuan at all.

I finally got a three-day holiday for New Year's Day, but Leng Yan made me practice for two whole days. Zhang Xuan is already angry, and if I don't have time to spend with her tomorrow, we might break up.

"Master, how about you give me a day off? I've really worked hard these past few days. You hit me three hundred times today and I didn't even complain. Just let me rest for a day." Seeing Leng Yan deep in thought, I pleaded with him with a pained expression.

"How many days have I been training you in martial arts?" Leng Yan asked after thinking for a moment after hearing my words.

"Seven or eight days?" I asked.

"How many days exactly?" Leng Yan asked me.

"Today is the seventh day..." I said somewhat hesitantly.

“Alright then, you really should rest. Seven or eight days is a small cycle. After you rest, your muscles will develop memory, and you'll become stronger. I'll apply some medicated wine to your skin later, and then you can go back and take a nice hot bath. You'll feel very tired and relaxed tomorrow morning, but by the day after tomorrow, you'll notice some new changes in your body. But remember, you can't do *that* kind of thing!” Leng Yan said.

"Thank you, Master!" I was overjoyed upon hearing Leng Yan's words.

The next morning, as I was going to sleep, I heard An Yao's alarm clock suddenly go off. Full of confidence, I picked up her phone and immediately turned off the alarm.

"What are you doing?" An Yao looked at me in surprise.

"My master gave me a day off today and told me I don't need to train." I glanced at An Yao smugly, then hugged her petite body and fell asleep again.

When I woke up again, I found myself just as exhausted as Leng Yan had said. I was not only exhausted, but so weak that I didn't even have the strength to get out of bed.

I picked up my phone and saw that it was almost noon. Remembering my date with Zhang Xuan today, and how I was going to take advantage of her, I suddenly sat up.

I came out of the bedroom and found the house completely empty. It had been a while since we'd stayed at the Tang family's house, and An Yao had been here for a while too; we'd gotten used to this life.

During this time, because I had to practice martial arts with Leng Yan every night, I was too tired during the day to talk, so An Yao just played by herself. Tian Lei, Di Huo, Bao Shao Ye, and Lu Zhi Cheng played together, and the group of them often skipped class to go to internet cafes. However, Lu Zhi Cheng and Tian Lei were good at studying, and I heard that Bao Shao Ye recently got the lowest score in his class.

Leng Yan told me that studying was also very useful, and that he would teach me some of his unique skills in the future. He said that some of his unique skills included Qimen Dunjia, which required a strong foundation in science to learn. If I didn't study well, it would be difficult for me to grasp his abilities. Therefore, when I was in school, he never took up my study time during the day and even had An Yao teach me instead.

With An Yao tutoring me, I've improved a lot lately, especially in English. I used to score in the 20s or 30s, but now I can get over 70. Because of martial arts training, my mind is also much clearer than before, and I can grasp a lot of knowledge quickly.

I grabbed something to eat at home and then took out my phone to call Zhang Xuan. As soon as the call connected, I heard Zhang Xuan coldly say, "What?"

"Wife, I miss you." Hearing Zhang Xuan's sweet voice, I immediately grinned mischievously.

"Oh, is there anything I can do for you? If not, I'll hang up now!" Zhang Xuan said, about to hang up.

I called Zhang Xuan "wife" and she didn't refuse, which made me very happy. However, I was quickly alarmed because I felt she was angry, which was why she didn't bother to refuse. Thinking of this, I quickly said to Zhang Xuan, "Wife, don't hang up! I need to talk to you about something, something very important."

"What is it? You... ptooey, ptooey, what is it? Tell me," Zhang Xuan asked me in a haughty tone.

"Oh, it's like this. I recently saw a Louis Vuitton bag that I really liked. I wanted to show it to you," I said to Zhang Xuan.

“No need!” Zhang Xuan said coldly.

Hearing Zhang Xuan's words, I immediately breathed a sigh of relief. I'd gone too far with my boasting, and I regretted it as soon as I said it. I only had a few thousand yuan on me, the allowance Leng Yan had given me on the first day. If she wasn't angry anymore, I didn't know how I'd manage to buy her anything. Then, after thinking for a moment, I said to her with a serious face, "How about I buy her a dog-brand bag?"

"Stop bragging, you can't even afford a dog-branded bag," Zhang Xuan said coldly.

"Hehe, then I'll buy a pig-brand bag. Honey, don't be angry. It's not that I'm ignoring you at school or not replying to your messages. It's just that my master has been training me lately, and he's been beating me to death every day. He gave me a day off today, so I finally had time to talk to you. Honey, don't be angry. Let's cherish this precious time together. If you don't believe me, come out here, I'll show you my bruises. There are so many, I'd be a fool to lie to you," I said.

"Fine, I'll only give you half an hour to come pick me up downstairs at my place," Zhang Xuan said coldly.

"Great!" I immediately laughed.

Afraid that Zhang Xuan would be angry again if I arrived late, I quickly took a shower and changed my clothes. While putting on my shoes, I checked that I had fifteen minutes left and thought I should be able to get a taxi in time. But just then, I felt something flash across the street. It was very bright. I couldn't help but look at the window across the street. I saw a red mirror facing my house, which made me feel really uneasy.

Thinking back to the time Young Master Bao promised to treat me to dinner, but I left my keys at home and couldn't come up with the money, and also about the recent argument with Zhang Xuan, I wondered if it was because of that mirror. My luck has been pretty bad lately. But because I was in a hurry, I didn't think too much about it. I figured they'd get the mirror back by the time I got there, and if not, I'd talk to them about it.

It's not that I'm being nosy, it's just that there's a saying here that you shouldn't point a mirror at someone else's house; it's considered impolite and can bring bad luck to that person.

Then I went downstairs and tried to find a taxi to Zhang Xuan's house. But for some reason, I waited for ages and couldn't find a single taxi. With the time I'd agreed to meet Zhang Xuan approaching, I started to panic. I started running towards the main road, but there wasn't a single taxi there either. I was almost at Zhang Xuan's house when I finally saw an empty taxi. I was almost there by then. Thinking I shouldn't bother hailing a taxi, I hurried along. As I neared Zhang Xuan's house, I saw a pretty girl standing downstairs, waiting for me for who knows how long.

"Zhang Xuan, were you getting impatient?" I quickly walked over and apologized to Zhang Xuan.

"Heh." Zhang Xuan just looked at me coldly. Her expression was unusually unpleasant.

"I'm sorry..." Seeing her expression made me even more scared.

"What are you doing? I've been waiting for you for almost an hour! If I had known you would take this long, I wouldn't have come down to wait for you!" Zhang Xuan angrily hit me.

"I couldn't find a taxi, and all I could find were people sitting down. I'm so sorry. I really didn't mean to. And you, why did you come downstairs to wait for me? It's so cold, you should have stayed home a little longer," I said.

"Hehe, don't you know I'm a punctual person? Besides, my mom is starting to suspect our relationship, and she's keeping a close eye on me now. I lied to my mom about having tutoring so I could come out. How am I supposed to go home now that you haven't come for so long?" Zhang Xuan asked me angrily.

"Aunt, she knows?" I asked after thinking for a moment after hearing Zhang Xuan's words.

“Yes, and she was firmly against it,” Zhang Xuan said.

"Sigh, it must be that shaky mirror across from Tang Ning's house that's making my luck so bad lately," I sighed.

"What does my mom's opposition to us have to do with the mirror across from Tang Ning's house? You're really something else. You were late and you blame the mirror for making you unlucky. How did you suddenly become so superstitious?" Zhang Xuan glared at me fiercely.

"It's not superstition, it's a real saying. You don't know how disgusted I felt seeing that mirror across the street today," I said.

"Come on, you're just a country bumpkin from Northeast China!" Zhang Xuan started her sarcastic remarks again.

Hearing Zhang Xuan mock me, I didn't get angry with her. Looking around to make sure no one was watching, I secretly hugged her and pinched her. Then, pressing my body close to hers, I grinned mischievously and said, "I'm just a country bumpkin, so do you like being insulted by a country bumpkin like me?"