Chapter 9: Hong Yushi at the Alley Entrance

Chu Muyue patted the dust off her body, left the thugs lying on the ground behind her, and headed toward the road home.

However, just as Chu Muyue stepped out of the narrow alley, her footsteps faltered slightly, and she slowly looked up at the exit.

It was at this moment that three figures appeared at the exit. Hearing the footsteps coming from inside the alley, an excited cry from a girl rang out, "Red-Hair, did you catch..."

However, before she could finish her sentence, she saw Chu Muyue standing before her. The voice came to an abrupt halt, and the three of them stood at the exit, motionless, as if they had been struck by a freezing spell.

Chu Muyue swept a glance over the three of them and walked slowly toward them, greeting them as if they were old acquaintances, "Yo, Hong Yushi, Xie Jiarong, Huang Yaru, you guys are here too!"

Seeing that Chu Muyue was standing before them completely unscathed, and that the thugs were nowhere to be seen, expressions of disbelief appeared on the faces of Hong Yushi and the others.

"Y-you... how are you..." Hong Yushi pointed a finger at Chu Muyue, unable to believe that she was standing there safe and sound.

Chu Muyue stopped three steps away from them, tilted her head slightly, and said, "You mean, why am I fine, while the thugs you arranged are nowhere to be seen, right?"

Having her inner thoughts exposed, Hong Yushi’s pupils constricted instantly. Her feet retreated involuntarily, bumping into Xie Jiarong and Huang Yaru who were standing behind her, causing all three of them to stumble back a few more steps in shock.

Chu Muyue shrugged and said with a smile, "I can only say that the people you found are a bunch of cowards. I just waved my hand, and they all went down!"

Upon hearing this, terror appeared in the eyes of Hong Yushi and her companions, mixed with a sense of incredulity.

Yes, it was incredulity.

The current Chu Muyue gave them a feeling of being as elegant as an orchid, fresh and indifferent, as if she were detached from the world and merged with nature.

Compared to the silent, somewhat timid and cowardly girl from before, she seemed like a completely different person, save for the identical appearance.

"Y-you are not Chu Muyue!" Huang Yaru looked at Chu Muyue in horror, shaking her head and screaming, already somewhat incoherent, "You are a devil from hell, you are not Chu Muyue!"

Chu Muyue couldn't help but feel amused; she hadn't expected Huang Yaru's imagination to be so vivid. "I am Chu Muyue!"

"No! You are not Chu Muyue!" Hong Yushi shook her head. Recalling the events of the morning, she shouted with certainty, "How could you possibly have such good skills to take down Red-Hair and his men!"

Even if Chu Muyue hadn't wanted to hold a grudge against her in the past, it was impossible for her to have acquired such skills in just over a month, to the point where even Red-Hair and his gang couldn't handle her and couldn't even touch a single hair on her head.

"That's because you don't know me!" Chu Muyue smiled lightly, looking at Hong Yushi with mockery. "Have you forgotten? My father studied combat techniques. I've been learning some combat skills from him since I was a child. Do you really think those losers could be my match?"

Chu Muyue didn't intend to let Hong Yushi know yet that she had become a disciple of Dongfang Sheng, letting her believe instead that it was just combat moves she had learned from her father.

Having been classmates with Chu Muyue for a year or two, they naturally knew about that, but they hadn't expected that she had actually learned her father's combat techniques.

Of course, this was only because they hadn't seen Chu Muyue in action and didn't know what real combat was like, which led to this misunderstanding.