Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

Gu Xiqiao dragged Brother Lu and was about to throw him off to Gu Estate, but she quickly changed her mind.

She threw Brother Lu to an abandoned warehouse before glancing at the robot by her legs. Knowing what she wanted, the system spirit nodded and pointed towards the air, and a semi-transparent map of N City appeared in the air in front of them along with several red dots on them.

Gu Xiqiao checked on the coordinates before the air around her rippled and she disappeared.

She still hadn’t forgotten the time the system spirit sent her to the wrong coordinates.

Lil’ System: “…” Could she have more faith? Like Zi Wei trusted Er Kang?*

It was right around the time when school would let out for First City high.

A bunch of students flocked out from the gates, and Gu Xiqiao quickly spotted Li Yanmei from the crowd.

There were a lot of people there at the time, but Li Yanmei saw Gu Xiqiao immediately because of her distinct aura, and honestly, all she had to do was just follow the distracted gazes of everyone else around her.

“Little Gu!” Li Yanmei waved excitedly at Gu Xiqiao before jogging over.

Gu Xiqiao kept her phone and smiled. “Sister Mei.”

“Little Gu, when did you come back?” Li Yanmei smiled and greeted.

“Just a while ago, here to check on some things.” Gu Xiqiao looked at the reference books that the other held in her hands. “How has studying been going?”

“Those notes of yours worked like a charm!” Li Yanmei’s eyes brightened. The teachers in First City High were all top-notch, and they had already started their revision sessions for the final year students with terribly difficult composite questions, and Li Yanmei didn’t even have a clue what they were teaching because she came in halfway.

Thankfully, she had the notes that Gu Xiqiao had given her, and the notes given were easy to understand and had a very gentle difficulty curve with questions and examples, and after using them, Li Yanmei could catch up with what the teachers were saying.

This was further proven when she got into the top fifty in school during their exams, and this greatly shocked her teachers to the point where they thought she cheated, but their attitude made a complete one-eighty after they found out that she knew Gu Xiqiao and even had custom made notes from her.

It was quite unavoidable that Li Yanmei was subject to a lot of neglect and cold shoulders, coming from a village to the big city, and even though she wasn’t bullied or ostracized by her classmates, she wasn’t particularly well-accepted either as everyone was too busy with their studies.

Gu Xiqiao wasn’t in school anymore, but there were still many rumors about her at school, and almost every teacher would say, “If Student Gu was here…”

This sentence was said at such frequency that almost every student in the school had heard of her name.

After it was known that she knew Gu Xiqiao, there was an incredibly noticeable difference in how her classmates treated her.

“Hey, don’t ignore me, pretty lady!” The system spirit bounced indignantly on the ground upon being ignored by everyone that passed by.

Such an excellently made robot such as itself would have become the center of attention wherever it went, but the moment it was placed next to Gu Xiqiao, no one noticed it after their attention was solely held by her.

Li Yanmei lowered her head, and her eyes widened slightly upon seeing the robot that was on the ground. “Little Gu, what is this?”

“This is Lil’ System.” Gu Xiqiao pat the metal head affectionately. “Lil’ System, greet Sister Mei!”

The system spirit immediately waved its robot arms. “Hullo, Sister Mei!”

Li Yanmei: “…” Was this robot a yaoguai?

And so the two girls chatted with each other as they walked away from the gates.

At that moment, a voice called out behind them, “Ah Mei, wait for me! Ah Mei!”

Then, a pure-looking boy sprinted over before stuffing something into Li Yanmei’s hands, and Gu Xiqiao smiled mirthfully upon seeing that it was a red, ripe apple.

“I told you not to come looking for me anymore, Ying Qi!” Li Yanmei stuffed the apple back into his hands expressionlessly before dragging Gu Xiqiao away.

Ying Qi looked on helplessly as the two girls left, and before he could react a bunch of people in black suits came towards him. “Young Master, Third Young Master is asking that you return immediately!”

Ying Qi was quiet for a moment before he shouted in Li Yanmei’s direction, “Ah Mei, I’ll be back!”

“Pfft.” Gu Xiqiao couldn’t help but laugh. “Sister Mei, I think this kid is pretty nice!”

Li Yanmei glared at Gu Xiqiao weakly. “This kid? He’s the same age as I am…Fine, let’s go back home yes? I haven’t finished eating the stuff my mom sent me, so let me cook them up for you!”

Gu Xiqiao stopped walking and looked back at the direction where Ying Qi’s car left, and she shook her head. “Maybe not now.”

At the same time, a system notification rung in her head.

[Ding! Random mission activated: Rescue the mission objective.]

[Mission completion reward: 100 points]

[Mission failure punishment: None]

Gu Xiqiao cracked her knuckles, her lips curling slightly.

Seeing her smile, Li Yanmei suddenly felt cold and made a mental note to wear a jacket when she got home!

***

Meanwhile, the black car had become a bunch of scrap metal in an alleyway near First City High.

A bunch of people were battling with each other, but it was just a one-sided beat-down.

Ten strong, burly men were fighting with the men in black suits, and with a single blow, one of the men in black suits was flying into the walls with such force that it cracked. The others knew that they were no match for these monsters, so they did all they could to delay them. “Run, Young Master! Go find Third Young Master!”

Upon seeing this scene, Ying Qi bit his lip hesitantly and ran away.

“Young Master Ying, do you think you can run?” A bald man chased after him with an expression akin to a cat chasing after a mouse.

Upon seeing that he couldn’t leave, Ying Qi threw away his bag and swung his fist towards him. He had stayed in the army for a while so he was quite physically fit and strong, but he couldn’t even make the bald man stagger.

The bald man looked at Ying Qi with a sneer. “All of the special ops squads in N City have died in my hands, and you won’t be an exception!”

“So it was you!” Ying Qi suddenly remembered what happened lately in N City in shock. He had heard his third brother say that the ones that were stirring trouble in N City weren’t regular people, but he never expected to meet them on that day. The members of the special ops squads were all the cream of the crop in China, but they weren’t even a match for these people.

The bald man ignored his exclamation and swung a pole towards his head.

Ying Qi closed his eyes and curled defensively, knowing that he couldn’t do anything to fight back against them. Third Brother was right, not even the top special forces in the world could fight against them, lest himself.

Unexpectedly, he didn’t feel any pain.

Ying Qi squeezed open his eyes to see a scene that he would remember for the rest of his life. In front of him was a girl in a sky blue jacket, and the girl held the man by his neck as if the man was just a helpless chicken.

Gu Xiqiao smiled and looked up at the man that was looking at her in horror, before curling the fingers of her spare hand into a fist.

Bop! Bop! Bop!

The burly men with mysterious powers were all like sandbags in front of Gu Xiqiao, and Ying Qi finally recognized her as the girl that was standing by Li Yanmei. His attention was completely attracted by Li Yanmei so he didn’t quite note her presence, but he hadn’t expected her to be so strong.

These ten men were the insanely strong, or else the higher-ups wouldn’t have sent his third brother to check on this incident. In the hands of these men was the blood of countless special ops members, and this group was a calamity to N City!

His brother had even reported this, and they were in the middle of preparations to evacuate the civilians and list N City as a hazard zone.

They hadn’t expected these ten people to have been taken care of so easily!

“Thank you for rescuing us, Miss.” Ying Qi stood up straight and thanked. “My name is Ying Qi, I’m Ah… Student Li’s deskmate.”

Gu Xiqiao only smiled politely before taking out her phone to call the police, walking out the alleyway as she did.

“Young Master, that was…” One of the black-suited bodyguards coughed up blood before he looked over in Gu Xiqiao’s direction with belated shock.

“A master! That was a master!” Ying Qi immediately took out his phone and called his brother. “Third Brother, I’m okay! But no that’s not the point, I was saved by a master! Tch, it’s hard to explain, just come here!”

After a single afternoon and half a night, all of the superpowered people that were stirring the pot in N City disappeared.

The next morning, they were all sent to the police station.

***

In the ancient martial arts world.

“The crisis has been averted” One of the elders in the council immediately stood up at the news. “Was it the Peace Squad again?!”

Other than this monstrous team, they couldn’t think of anyone else that could clear things up in such a violent fashion, but did they set their sights on N City too?!

“No, reports say that it was the work of a single person.” The person that reported this was in disbelief himself as he said this. “Apparently those people were all whisked away without a trace.”

The ancient martial arts world had actually sent out a team themself, but it seemed that they only got there to hear this news.

“Whisked away? By a single person?!” All the elders were shocked.

The appearance of the Peace Squad had been enough of a hit to their confidence, but they had been able to breathe a sigh of relief later on because they knew that the Peace Squad wasn’t against the ancient martial arts world.

They had barely been able to breathe before this news came, and what was going on in this world?? Was there a factory that produced masters out of thin air somewhere??

“Alright, don’t be too shocked.” Elder Jiang put down the Buddhist scripture book that he had been looking through recently in an effort to stop himself from having a heart attack due to the Peace Squad, and said, “I hear that Yi Tong and Miss Cecillia are in N City right as we speak.”

As soon as he said this, all the other elders breathed a collective sigh of relief. “If it was Miss Cecillia, then it would be understandable.”

“It seems that she has become much stronger! I wonder if Miss Jiang Tong can catch up to her…”

Elder Jiang picked up his scripture book again, not caring about the conversation that was going on as he thought back to that Miss Gu that saved him that night.

Could Miss Cecillia and Miss Jiang Tong beat her? He doubted it.

Elder Jiang sighed. She caused so many waves without even officially stepping into the ancient martial arts world, and what would happen the day she did? The more he thought of it, he felt his head ache again.

***

Meanwhile, at Yao Jiamu’s training arena.

Tang Qinghong stood at the entrance of the cave and looked at the dragon made of purple lightning, breathing deeply before he dragged Yin Shaoyuan.

“What?” Yin Shaoyuan had just come out to rest after getting through one level, and he was stuffed into a car before he even had time to react. “Where are we going?”

“We’re going to find Xiao Yun.” Tang Qinghong’s brows furrowed slightly.

Xiao Yun? Yin Shaoyuan was a little confused. It was around the time that Xiao Yun left work after filming, but what was he looking for her for? “Hey Qinghong, let me tell you. There are a lot of good girls in this world, why do you have to fall for her? She’s…”

Tang Qinghong glanced at him. “The elders know.”

“What?!” Yin Shaoyuan’s expression changed. “Is there something wrong with those old farts? Do they have to stick their fingers into everything? Drive faster! If anything happens to Xiao Yun, Qiao Qiao is going to kill me!”

Tang Qingqiu would probably kill him too!

And so the two drove there full speed, and upon reaching Studio City, they were met with a jaw-dropping scene.

Xiao Yun kicked the last person away before flipping her hair gracefully and returning to her usual aloof self as she looked at the duo. “Why are you two here?”

Yin Shaoyuan & Tang Qinghong: “…”

The elders were definitely going to cry! Who had she learned this violence from?