Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 1

A man doesn’t easily shed tears, but when he does, he must drink.

So, Li Fenghe went to a nearby hotel to arrange a banquet, celebrating his daughter’s promotion to the seventh grade.

He originally planned to invite relatives and friends to the event, but was strongly discouraged by Li Qingwan and Cheng Jinyang.

Their reasoning was that her sudden promotion by two grade might be mistaken for a blood explosion by the family, and they might even cut her up for research.

The idea of cutting her up was an exaggeration, but Li Fenghe knew that if this news spread, it would indeed cause trouble.

The seventh grade wasn’t high in the family and wouldn’t bring any status upgrade, but jumping two grade was too conspicuous, like a child flaunting a jade in a bustling market, essentially inviting trouble.

Therefore, Li Fenghe had to suppress his urge to show off and drank alone with Cheng Jinyang in a private room at the hotel.

Cheng Jinyang soon felt dizzy. How could he outdrink his father-in-law, whose superpower was physical revitalization? So, Li Qingwan stepped in to block the drinks for him:

“Dad, stop drinking! You’re just bullying him!”

Li Fenghe still insisted on toasting. Annoyed, Li Qingwan pushed his arm away. Drunk, Li Fenghe claimed he wasn’t using his powers and began downing white liquor to prove his innocence.

Soon, this father-in-law was also dizzy, hitting the table and crying loudly:

“Jinyang, let me tell you.” He mumbled, tears soaking his clothes, “I only have one daughter. You must treat her well. If you dare abuse her after marriage, I’ll break your limbs and hang you in our family’s ancestral land.”

Cheng Jinyang was speechless. When it comes to domestic violence, how could I ever beat Teacher Li?

Wait, Teacher Li seems to have some issues in that regard. If I really hit her, she might not fight back… no, she definitely wouldn’t fight back.

She might even enjoy it!

Seeing him dumbfounded, Li Fenghe, fueled by alcohol, got furious and slammed the table:

“You’re planning domestic violence, aren’t you?”

“Dad, you’re drunk.” Li Qingwan tried to pour him some tea to sober him up.

“I’m not drunk!” Li Fenghe roared.

“What are you saying, sir?” Cheng Jinyang, slightly tipsy, chuckled, “How could I… hic!… abuse Teacher Li?”

“You call her Teacher Li,” Li Fenghe said dizzily, “if you marry her, that’s… defying your teacher and ancestors.”

“What’s defying teacher and ancestors?” Cheng Jinyang laughed. He wanted to mention Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü but felt it was unlucky, so he changed the topic, “We never had a formal master-disciple ceremony, it’s just a respectful title. How is this a teacher-student romance?”

Embarrassed, Li Qingwan quickly poured strong tea for both. Cheng Jinyang refused to drink, suspicious that the tea might be drugged, while Li Fenghe insisted he wasn’t drunk and didn’t need to sober up.

Eventually, Li Qingwan knocked them both out with a punch each.

“Two idiots.” Teacher Li sighed, hands on her hips.

Meanwhile, in the Cheng family’s ancestral land.

After dinner, Xing Yuanzhi took her clothes to the bath but was stopped by Chu Qingqing.

“Yuanzhi,” Qingqing said with a smile, “after you get promoted to the sixth grade in a week, are you planning to return to the Xing family and have your patriarch resume the marriage contract?”

“Of course,” Xing Yuanzhi answered calmly, holding her change of clothes.

“Oh,” Miss Qingqing pondered for a moment and seriously asked, “though I know you probably won’t agree, could you reconsider? There are other excellent men in this world who are worthy of the Xing family’s Qingfeng.”

“If there’s a choice to be made, shouldn’t an unmarried woman from the Yangdi Chu family have the priority?” Xing Yuanzhi coldly looked at her.

“Indeed,” Miss Qingqing nodded, “the Cheng and Xing families are connected by marriage. But the Cheng family is no longer a fifth-grade aristocracy, doesn’t the Hejian Xing family have other thoughts?”

“Even if the Cheng and Xing families’ relationship isn’t as it was, what does that have to do with my engagement with Jinyang?” Xing Yuanzhi retorted.

“Oh, it’s simple,” Chu Qingqing smiled, “because I’m also considering him.”

Xing Yuanzhi: ……………

“Surprised? I think you should have already suspected it,” Miss Qingqing continued to smile. “I was born into a poor family and was lucky enough to enter the Yandi Chu family, a fourth-grade noble family. My living conditions have greatly improved. But like you, I still don’t have much choice in marriage matters.”

“I used to think that I would probably obey the family’s arrangements, marry a man I didn’t like, and spend the rest of my life carelessly. But I didn’t expect to meet him… Jinyang. He is a rare man who I find pleasing, making me ambitious for the first time to seize my future. What’s more, he gave me the chance to quickly become stronger and take control of my life.”

“From now on, I will rise to the fifth grade, one million Ma, in just three months. By then, Jinyang will also have risen to the fifth grade. If I choose him as my husband, my father would have no objections to a young man who reached the fifth grade before the age of twenty.”

“Are you telling me all this just to declare war on me?” Xing Yuanzhi asked indifferently.

“Ah, I’m actually quite conflicted,” Miss Qingqing said with a bright smile. “Yuanzhi, I really don’t want to be enemies with you. Although I enjoy bloodshed and you hate blood, and we have vastly different lifestyles and usually don’t get along, we are teammates after all. Why should we be hostile over such a reason?”

“But considering that Jinyang is only one person, if you could give up and let me have him, that would be the best…”

“First, I will not let you have him,” Xing Yuanzhi said coldly, her pupils seeming to freeze with unmelting frost. “Second, Jinyang is not a commodity that we can exchange.”

“If you are willing to let him go, I naturally have ways to make him like me,” Miss Qingqing smiled. “But since you have answered unwillingly…”

Xing Yuanzhi narrowed her eyes, the algorithm for the mass effect attack rapidly calculating in her mind!

“…then we will each rely on our own means from now on.” Miss Qingqing smiled again, turned around cheerfully, and quickly walked away with her hands behind her back.

Xing Yuanzhi watched her in silence until she disappeared from sight, and only then did the lingering killing intent in her heart slowly dissipate.

Feeling a slight chill of having escaped death, she steadied herself and prepared to leave, only to notice a fine bright line on the ground.

To be precise, it was an extremely thin metal wire, extending straight from where Chu Qingqing had stood, to about 3-4 centimeters from her own feet.

If it had angled upwards and then suddenly extended further.

It would have quickly pierced through her body.