Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 41

Xie Yongye was keeping watch outside the small building.

He was not from the main branch of the Fufeng Xie family, but rather from the Chenjun branch.

To be precise, he was a descendant of a Fufeng Xie ancestor with poor innate talents who had married into the Chenjun branch. Due to a reversion to the ancestral bloodline, he had attained fourth-grade strength.

In his youth, Xie Yongye was proud and ambitious. Believing he bore the responsibility of bringing honor to his family, he chose not to join the main Fufeng Xie family but instead pledged loyalty to Wang Chuzhong in exchange for algorithms and cultivation resources.

When Wang Chuzhong rebelled, Xie Yongye secretly collaborated with some members of the Fufeng Xie family. As Jiankang City was about to fall, he arranged for the potential young talents of the Xie family to be secretly taken to the Longxiang Army for protection, to avoid casualties in the military conflict.

However, when he was about to pick up Xie Lingjiang, he encountered tge Iron Giant and was punched into a building, losing half his life on the spot.

Later, Wang Chuzhong died of illness, the Longxiang Army was defeated, and his subordinates were either captured or killed while fleeing. Xie Yongye’s life was spared only due to the Fufeng Xie family’s strenuous efforts, convincing the late emperor to agree to “punish the main culprit” only.

Surviving this ordeal, Xie Yongye was deeply grateful to the Fufeng Xie family. After recovering from his injuries, he lowered his status to serve as a hidden guard for the Xie family, staying in the clan’s territory to repay his debt. This time, he came with Xie Anshi with the mission to secretly protect the Xie family members.

This task seemed peculiar. The Taiyuan Wang family and the Fufeng Xie family had a good relationship, and Wang Maohong frequently praised Xie Anshi. The two families had many intermarriages in recent years. It was hard to imagine any danger while the Xie family members were visiting the Wang family estate.

As he was pondering this, he suddenly heard Xie Qiudu’s angry voice from inside:

“Insult my family, and we are mortal enemies!”

Frowning slightly, Xie Yongye quickly walked towards the small building.

The Fufeng Xie family had two leaders: the clan head, Xie Wanshi, and his brother, Xie Anshi. Xie Wanshi was the official clan head due to a higher potential in his bloodline, but Xie Anshi was superior in intelligence and strategy, handling most of the clan’s affairs.

Unfortunately, Xie Anshi’s two sons seemed to have inherited none of his wisdom. The eldest, Xie Qiudu, and the second son, Xie Yuandu, were both frivolous and boastful.

Hearing Xie Qiudu arguing with someone inside was no surprise. Xie Yongye intended to step in as a servant to prevent the young master from getting into a conflict with the Wang family members.

As he reached the door, a short scream came from inside, and he saw Xie Qiudu thrown to the ground.

“Stop!” Xie Yongye charged forward in anger, activating his air pressure ability to blast the opponent away.

Cheng Jinyang, without even looking, dodged the high-pressure air cannon and countered with a “Weaving Net.”

Xie Yongye suddenly felt dizzy, realizing what had happened.

Damn, it’s gravity manipulation!

The Cheng family’s gravity manipulation was nearly unrivaled in military and assassination contexts. Humans naturally orient themselves according to gravity, considering the direction of gravitational pull as “down.”

Once gravity changes, the brain’s perception of “up” and “down” gets disrupted, severely impacting calculations. As Xie Yongye was hit by the Weaving Net, his initial stance was upright on the ground but instantly shifted to being “vertically on the wall,” causing him to “fall” towards Cheng Jinyang.

However, Xie Yongye, a battle-hardened veteran, knew that facing a gravity manipulator required quickly abandoning reliance on gravity and finding another way to stabilize himself. Otherwise, being thrown around by gravity would leave him disoriented and vulnerable.

He quickly calculated, using compressed air to form two transparent “air arms” to brace against the walls.

Yet, Cheng Jinyang shifted his thoughts, causing Xie Yongye, who had not yet stabilized, to start spinning abruptly.

The seventh-grade algorithm, Gyro Spin, caused the target’s left side to experience backward gravity and the right side forward gravity, forcing the opponent to spin around their vertical axis.

Most supernaturals establish a coordinate system based on themselves to lock onto their opponents. When hit by Gyro Spin, the differing gravitational pulls on each side cause the target to spin, making their coordinate system rotate as well, preventing them from locking onto their opponent.

Floating and disoriented, Xie Yongye was alarmed. As a fourth-grade supernatural, he could unleash a wide-range “air pressure explosion” to disrupt the opponent’s calculations forcefully.

However, Xie Qiudu, the Xie family’s eldest son, was still on the ground! If hit by the air pressure explosion, he could be further injured. Given his already poor intelligence, further harm would be disastrous. How could Xie Yongye face Xie Anshi if that happened?

Feeling constrained and unable to fight back, Xie Yongye decided to give up the struggle. He urgently shouted:

“Misunderstanding! It’s all a misunderstanding! I am Xie Qiudu’s personal guard…”

“Jinyang!” Wang Xinzhi also reacted by now and called out.

Cheng Jinyang snapped his fingers, releasing the Gyro Spin and restoring normal gravity to his opponent.

Thus, Xie Yongye spun and was violently slammed into the ground by gravity.

On the other side, Xie Qiudu, who had been thrown over the shoulder, endured the pain and got up, only to see his personal guard also down.

He was about to curse, but the words caught in his throat as a horrifying thought suddenly struck him:

He knew Xie Yongye’s strength well. A fourth-grade supernatural with rich combat experience. If even he was defeated in less than half a minute…

How could Wang Wanrou’s “boyfriend” be an ordinary person? Could it be that the Taiyuan Wang family came prepared to ambush the Xie family here?! How else to explain why even a fourth-grade supernatural was quickly defeated without any chance to fight back!!!

Thinking of this, he scrambled up and ran out, crying and screaming for his life.

Cheng Jinyang: ?

Wang Xinzhi: ?

The two looked at the fallen Xie Yongye, then at the fleeing Xie Qiudu, both momentarily bewildered.

“I’ll go after him!” Wang Xinzhi finally reacted after a moment’s hesitation. If Xie Qiudu reached the venue and told his father Xie Anshi some alarming nonsense, it would surely cause a serious misunderstanding between the two families!

“Stop!” Wang Wanrou quickly called out, “Brother, no need to say more, let him go.”

“But…” Wang Xinzhi, who was about to chase out, hesitated for a moment before turning back with an expression that said, “You owe me an explanation,” staring intently at his sister.

“Father will know what to do.” Wang Wanrou said calmly.

“Even if Father believes you, Xie Anshi might believe his son!” Wang Xinzhi said sternly, “Don’t cause an unnecessary conflict between the Shendu Cheng family and the Fufeng Xie family because of your trouble!”

“Ahem.” Cheng Jinyang awkwardly cleared his throat.

His aggressive move just now wasn’t entirely because of Miss Wang’s orders. The other party had started the fight; was he supposed to stand still and get beaten? But it seemed the brother-in-law misunderstood, making Miss Wang take the blame for his actions was indeed embarrassing.

So he cleared his throat and explained:

“Brother Xinzhi, actually it was me…”

“…Jinyang and the Xie family’s young master were sparring, getting to know each other through a fight. How about that as an explanation?” Wang Wanrou sneered.

Wang Xinzhi stood there in shock.

Wait, if she said that…

“Father had anticipated this?” he asked in amazement.