A Young Woman's Heart

An Ruosu, the only one not carrying a schoolbag and who was just out for a meal, cautiously asked, "Do they have weapons?"

“Yes.” Although Li Wanyan only glanced at it, she still remembered many details. “There are weapons similar to batons.”

"Then use this, the extra basketball club recruitment posters." An Ruosu distributed the posters that she originally planned to put up at the school gate to the others. The posters were rolled into tubes and tied with red rope, making them very sturdy and perfectly usable as sticks.

"Everyone, be careful and make your move before they pull out their weapons," Li Hongran instructed, seemingly quite experienced in fighting.

"Mo Xueyao! Get me the basketball!" Li Hongran gently tossed the basketball over.

Mo Xueyao grabbed him and found several black marks on her hand.

How long has it been since this basketball was washed?

She thought to herself silently, but was quickly replaced by feelings of tension and unease.

Two minutes later, the group returned to the alley.

Li Hongran stopped at a distance, discussing tactics with the others, while Mo Xueyao and Li Wanyan hid behind a corner, peeking out their heads.

"Fuck your mother!" Chen Cheng seemed to have had a direct conflict with the gang leader opposite him. He spat in the other man's face, making Mo Xueyao sweat for him.

Moreover, the other boys around him seemed to be too afraid to resist.

If Mo Xueyao and Li Wanyan hadn't called for backup, he probably would have been beaten up by the group of people on the other side.

Young and vigorous...

Mo Xueyao sighed inwardly, completely forgetting that she had almost impulsively jumped out to help earlier.

Meanwhile, Li Hongran and the others had finished discussing their tactics. Jia Qixue and An Ruosu were arranged to circle around to the back of those people from another direction, while the other two, along with Li Hongran, charged directly at them from the front.

Then, Li Hongran deliberately walked out slowly, actually to buy time and cover for the two who had circled around.

It seems he wasn't the simple-minded guy with all brawn and no brains that Mo Xueyao had imagined...

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Chapter 156 Should we hit him or his mother?

"Get the hell out of here!" Tiger roared furiously, charging forward first.

Chen Cheng's smoking buddies panicked and ran away, completely unaware of the other boys who came to help from behind.

Only Chen Cheng went to meet them.

Fortunately, he wasn't fighting alone. Li Hongran, who was like a little giant, blocked Tiger Brother's path with her, using a stick made from a rolled-up poster to knock the nunchucks out of his hand.

"If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences!" The other thugs drew their weapons, not believing they would be at a disadvantage.

Because, as things stand, their numbers are still greater than those of Li Hongran's side.

"Drink up!" Li Hongran assumed a standard boxing stance, placing his left fist under his chin and his right fist slightly forward. He took a half-step back with his right leg, swaying back and forth as he delivered a right punch directly to Tiger's face.

Tiger, who only knows how to fight with brute force and wild punches, has never seen such standard boxing moves.

Before they could even defend themselves, they were completely overwhelmed.

Blinded by rage, Chen Cheng also rushed forward and started punching and kicking Tiger.

The other underlings rushed forward, but were stopped by two other boys.

"Damn it!" Tiger, who was beaten so badly he could only roll on the ground covering his face, roared, "What are you doing! Hitting the hell out of here!"

A thug carrying a fruit knife rushed over. Li Hongran quickly pushed Chen Cheng away, then kicked the thug in the chest, sending him flying.

Tiger, who had been in many fights before, quickly got up to fight back, but his punch missed.

Li Hongran suddenly lowered his body, followed by a right uppercut, a left uppercut, two consecutive jabs, and a powerful straight punch.

When throwing a straight punch, Li Hongran intentionally deviated from her original position and hit Tiger in the chest.

Even so, the latter was almost out of breath from this combination of punches.

Jia Qixue and An Ruosu, who had circled around, seized the opportunity and suddenly appeared. They abruptly grabbed two thugs who were holding crowbars and fruit knives, and struck their wrists hard, causing them to drop their weapons and fall to the ground. They were then thrown far away.

Chen Cheng, panting heavily, got up from the ground and saw the thug holding a fruit knife rushing towards him, the knife aimed without hesitation at his shoulder.

Just then, the thug suddenly felt a pair of soft little hands touch his shoulder, and then he felt his legs being tripped, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the ground.

The fruit knife didn't stab him, but it did cut a large gash in Chen Cheng's clothes, breaking a piece of skin underneath, from which a little blood seeped.

Ignoring the pain in his chest, Chen Cheng quickly bent down and pinned the thug to the ground, then proceeded to punch and kick him as if venting his anger.

As for the knife, it was confiscated by Mo Xueyao, who was squatting to the side.

That's right, she was the one who helped just now.

Now she has collected all the weapons and set them aside.

Without their weapons, the thugs were like toothless dogs, no match for Li Hongran and her group of boys.

Even An Ruosu, who usually appears very gentle and shy, is quite skilled at fighting. He can use joint locks to immobilize his opponent, leaving the thug completely unable to move.

This was exactly six people against six people. Although the other side resisted and fought back, they were eventually subdued by the group.

Tiger is the most troublesome one. Although he doesn't have the professional fighting skills of Li Hongran, he keeps looking for an opportunity to fight back by relying on his physical resilience.

He was even willing to suffer more injuries to drag Li Hongran along with him, using his usual underhanded and thuggish tactics to retaliate.

Later, Li Hongran was also forced to wrestle with him, and the two rolled around on the ground, their struggles far more intense than those of the others.

As the fight progressed, Li Hongran's temper flared up. Since his opponent kept attacking him by grabbing his groin and slapping his face, he didn't hold back either, throwing punch after punch at Tiger.

Although he was hit several times, he dodged attacks aimed at vital points and powerful blows.

"Fuck you! Your mother!" Li Hongran cursed, spitting all over Tiger Brother. "Hit him, keep hitting him, keep hitting his mother! Huh? Do you want to hit him, or his mother?"

Tiger's resistance diminished, and eventually it became Li Hongran unilaterally beating him severely.

"You like robbing, you like being a petty thug, you like doing inhuman things! Huh? You're having a blast, aren't you? You want to be the boss, don't you?" Li Hongran pinched Tiger's mouth, looking at him with his face already bruised and swollen, and roared, "You're kidding me! Believe me or not, I'll be sending you to your grave tomorrow!"

"You've got guts..." Tiger mumbled through gritted teeth, "If you're so capable, don't be alone next time..."

"What? Still want revenge?" Li Hongran punched Tiger Brother, knocking out one of his teeth. She grabbed him by the collar, stood up, and slammed him against the wall. "Want revenge? I'm ready anytime. I'll beat you up every time, until your own mother won't recognize you!"

Then, Li Hongran suddenly threw him into a nearby trash can, then grabbed the subdued thugs, punched each of them a few times, and threw them all next to the trash can as if they were garbage.

Other passersby fell silent, not daring to say anything, and all took detours.

"Phew." Li Hongran touched her clothes, which were wrinkled from the fight, and said to the frightened people, "Don't be afraid, everyone. These people are just thugs. They tried to rob us just now. If you pass by here often, you should know them."

He touched his nose, pulled An Ruosu, who was drenched in sweat after using joint locks to subdue a thug for several minutes, to his feet, patted him on the shoulder, and continued:

"When dealing with these people, we should not be afraid or back down."

"The more afraid you are, the more you avoid them, the more arrogant they become."

"What? We're all just starting out as human beings. Why should we give in to this kind of scum?"

"Anyway, these kinds of people don't contribute anything to society, so why go along with them?"

There has never been a savior; we must learn to resist on our own.

"Yes, these people have definitely become more and more arrogant lately," a passerby whispered.

"Yes... After this, they probably won't dare to be so arrogant anymore."

"Sigh, I used to be just as hot-blooded when I was a student..." someone sighed softly. "When exactly did I get my edges smoothed out...?"

Mo Xueyao then walked up to the group of boys who had been trying to run away with their heads in their hands, but who were now watching from afar as if it had nothing to do with them, now that their helpers had arrived.

"Pah!" She spat mercilessly at her feet. "You guys are such cowards! You outnumbered them, yet you didn't dare fight back and just let yourselves be bullied? Are you even men?"

"Only by living can I have the chance to report them..." The thin boy lowered his head in shame and defended himself.

“If reporting them were effective, these people wouldn’t be able to run rampant.” Mo Xueyao tilted her head and looked at the boys. “Besides, you just stood by and watched your friends get beaten up without lifting a finger. You have no sense of loyalty at all. I hate people like you the most. Ugh.”

To express her disgust, Mo Xueyao even deliberately made a vomiting motion.

"Alright, Yaoyao," Li Wanyan pulled her away. "Not everyone has a strong heart."

"Tch, if a man doesn't dare to resist, what kind of man is he!" Mo Xueyao muttered in exasperation, before being pulled aside by Li Wanyan.

"Ahem, alright." Li Hongran glanced at the boys after hearing Mo Xueyao's words. "The class monitor is right. Not everyone has a strong heart, which is why the strong are needed to protect the weak."

Mo Xueyao almost couldn't tell whether he was agreeing or being sarcastic at first.

"Let's go, let's go." Chen Cheng didn't even look at those people, just tossed a cigarette to the skinny boy who had spoken up for him earlier, and turned to leave.

Seeing this, the others also left.

As for the thugs who scurried around the trash cans like maggots, they were naturally ignored.

"Thank you." After leaving, Chen Cheng suddenly felt how reassuring the bustling traffic on the street was. He smiled at Li Hongran and the others, nodding to everyone, including Li Wanyan and Mo Xueyao. "Let me treat you to dinner."

"Why are you asking me to come? We're all friends, helping each other is the right thing to do." Li Hongran shook her head. "Chen Cheng, don't be so formal."

"Since we're all friends, it's only right that I treat you to a meal," Chen Cheng said earnestly.

"Come on, kid." Li Hongran patted his shoulder irritably. "We need to go home for dinner, and you should go home too, right? Don't linger outside all the time, especially smoking in places like that. Sigh, I really don't know what's so great about smoking."

"Now you know why smoking is harmful to your health, right?" Mo Xueyao teased playfully.

"Ha...it really is bad for your health." Chen Cheng blinked and looked at An Ruosu. "An Ruosu, you live on campus, right? How about I treat you to a meal?"

"No need." An Ruosu shook her head and refused, pushing away Li Hongran's hand that was around her shoulder. "I'll just eat something."

“…Thank you all.” Chen Cheng could only thank them again, then turned to Mo Xueyao, “Mo Xueyao, thank you, you helped me last time too.”

"It's nothing, I just did a little bit of work." Mo Xueyao scratched her head sheepishly. "Li Hongran and the others helped with the fighting, it had little to do with me."

“But they wouldn’t have come without you.” Chen Cheng knew perfectly well, “You’re the one who called them here, right?”

"Yeah, I thought you might not be able to beat him, so I ran back to school to call for help..." When Mo Xueyao said this, she suddenly didn't know how to explain that she had just witnessed Chen Cheng being robbed.

"Thank you, squad leader." Chen Cheng looked at the squad leader again, threw the cigarette in his pocket into the trash can, and said, "I'll try not to smoke next time."

The class monitor raised an eyebrow, neither confirming nor denying.

It can only be said that Chen Cheng realized why Li Wanyan and Mo Xueyao were following him.

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