Can a System Have Bad Intentions? - Chapter 8

Lu Deren, afraid that Madam Qiao would play tricks, had people keep a close watch on her throughout the process.

Madam Qiao remained calm and didn’t pay him any attention.

Aside from the initial conflict, the entire process of sending off the bride went smoothly without a hitch.

After the bridal meal, Lu Tang carried Lu Shuqing, who was covered with a red veil, to the bridal sedan chair.

Stepping over the large fire basin at the door, Lu Tang saw Liang Cheng leaning lazily against the large stone lion at the entrance. When he saw her coming out, Liang Cheng straightened up with a smile.

Placing Lu Shuqing into the sedan chair, Lu Tang mounted her horse.

As the leader of the escort team, with Gu Changming absent, she rode at the front.

“What are you doing here?” she asked.

Liang Cheng, riding half a horse-length behind her, replied, “I was worried the mountain bandits might kidnap you to be their little lord!”

“Get lost! We have exactly eight people, having you makes it unlucky!” They still had to deal with the “bandits” later; Lu Tang didn’t want this fool following them.

“I’ll follow at the back!” Liang Cheng said, and moved to the rear of the team on his own accord.

Since he wouldn’t leave, Lu Tang had no choice but to let him follow.

The Gu family, fearing trouble on the road, under the guise of valuing Lu Shuqing, had their servants set off fireworks and firecrackers every few meters along the route from the Lu residence to the Gu residence.

Lu Tang was uneasy the entire way.

When would the “bandits” arranged by her mother appear?

Would the Gu family’s people gain the upper hand?

If this plan failed, what should she do?

Moreover, why had the system been silent since issuing the task?

Had she completed the task or not?

“Brother Shan, they are coming!”

In a patch of grass outside Qingshui Town, a man in his twenties peered out and called to a man lying with his legs crossed nearby.

The man called Brother Shan was Feng Chunshan. He spat out the grass stem in his mouth and quickly got up to look ahead.

A red procession moved like a dragon towards him.

“Brothers, grab your weapons!”

Shaking his face with a scar, Feng Chunshan shouted. The men hiding in the grass leapt up and charged at the procession, yelling.

The Gu family, afraid that Madam Qiao might play tricks on the road, had been on high alert the whole way.

When they suddenly saw men with large knives charging at them, the firecracker men immediately engaged them.

The procession was instantly thrown into chaos.

“Protect Miss Lu!”

“Protect the dowry!”

“Report to the authorities!”

“Kill these bandits!”

Liang Cheng spurred his horse to Lu Tang’s side, holding a long sword, ready for battle. “Didn’t I tell you? Good thing I came!”

Lu Tang looked at the vigilant Liang Cheng with a complicated expression, not knowing what to say. Could she ask him to go easy on the bandits?

The Gu family’s men fiercely engaged!

Since you’re playing the role of bandits, don’t blame us for fighting hard!

Then…

Defeat!

Retreat!

Run away!

The fierce bandits chased and beat the Gu family like mad dogs!

It was like tigers pouncing on chickens.

Gu family: Where did Madam Qiao find these people, wah wah wah…

In the midst of their chaos, they watched as Lu Tang was struck on the back of her neck.

Her eyes rolled back, and she lost consciousness.

Gu family: !

To make the act convincing, you even hit your own people this hard?

When Lu Tang opened her eyes again.

She was tied up, with a rag stuffed in her mouth, thrown in a shabby room.

The roof had a large hole, allowing her to see the stars and moon above. The only light in the room was from the moonlight and starlight coming through the hole.

Stars?

It was night!

Lu Tang’s heart sank, her mind snapping back to reality.

Was she really kidnapped by mountain bandits?

Where was her sister?

Lu Tang anxiously looked around. The dim room held only her.

“Matchmaking task failed. Host must complete the punishment task.”

“System is detecting, please wait.”

“Due to the double punishment prize drawn yesterday, the host must say to the bandit leader: You are my father!”

Lu Tang: !

“Are you lacking fatherly love? Why is it always ‘father’!” Her fear instantly vanished, replaced by anger. “And how did I fail the task? Didn’t I force the marriage successfully?”

“Nonsense! What was the task I gave you? It was to complete the matchmaking task and win first place.”

“Did you win first place? Winning first place requires someone to compete against! You were just performing a monologue. None of the Gu family said a word!”

Lu Tang: !

Damn you!

Just then, footsteps approached outside, and Lu Tang held her breath, looking towards the door.

“She’s been tied up.”

Voices came from the doorway, and then the door was pushed open.

Someone holding a torch entered, lighting up the room, and Lu Tang stared at the man before her.

He was a scholar-like man in a stone-blue robe, clean and fair-skinned.

She had seen this man just yesterday in the first floor of Fortune Tea House!

Seeing her, he paused, then a faint smile appeared on his lips.

Lu Tang: !

“Don’t worry, I would save anyone, even if it was a pig.”

His words echoed in her ears. So, he recognized her as the person who fell down yesterday?

Looking at his faint smile, Lu Tang felt a mix of fear and anger.

The man glanced at Lu Tang, then turned to the torch bearer, “Wrong person.”

His voice was low and pleasant.

The torch bearer moved the torch closer to Lu Tang, squatting to examine her, then stood up and said, “Wrong? Impossible! Brother Shan led us himself!”

The man, with a gentle voice, said, “This is the young master of the Lu family, not Gu Changming.”

Lu Tang: !

So they mistook her for Gu Changming.

Wu wu wu wu.

Lu Tang immediately started to hum through the gag.

The man approached, squatting on one knee, “Sorry, they mistook you. Apologies for the inconvenience.”

As he spoke, he pulled the rag from her mouth and extended his hand back, “Knife.”

Realizing they had the wrong person, the other man reluctantly handed over a knife.

The man cut the ropes binding Lu Tang, then stood up and stepped back.

Lu Tang shook off the ropes and got up, looking between the torch bearer and the scholar-like man. Finally, she asked, “Where is my sister?”

The scholar-like man looked at the torch bearer.

The torch bearer shook his head, “We are professional bandits. If we say we are kidnapping Gu Changming, we do not take additional captives!”

Lu Tang: So if you had taken my sister, it would cost extra?

“Rest assured, young master Lu. Your sister was not brought up the mountain,” the scholar-like man said to Lu Tang.

“Did my sister get married?” Lu Tang was now most concerned about this.

Her mother had arranged fake bandits to disrupt the wedding.

But she was kidnapped by real bandits.

What happened to the wedding?

The scholar-like man looked at the torch bearer.

The torch bearer, stunned, blinked in confusion, “Brother Zhan, no one invited me to the wedding banquet, how would I know.”

Lu Tang: That question was too difficult for you, wasn’t it!