"This man won't live through tonight."
"Very well. Go and strip his clothes..."
The woman's delicate voice echoed like mist in the tranquil valley, wafting into a smoking black SUV on the mountain road.
The driver in the seat had fainted, and Bao Gucheng in the back seat was also injured, with a deep wound in his chest caused by shattered windshield glass, blood gushing out, staining his noble white shirt red.
With such severe injuries, the man didn't even let out a groan, his spine straight as a pine, naturally exuding an air of nobility. The fresh blood only accentuated the man's ruggedness and aloofness.
And restraint.
Indeed, with such a visage, he had the charm that made girls want to strip his clothes.
Bao Gucheng heard the voice drifting above him, his face turning cold.
"Who goes there!"
Encountering a car accident in the wilderness without calling the police, yet making sarcastic remarks?
Cursing him to die and even wanting to strip his clothes?
Do girls these days act like bandits?
The woman did not answer, instead letting out a light chuckle, as if talking to someone else: "What? You've never stripped a man's clothes before? Did I, Ancestor, ever do such a thing? Hmm, perhaps I did it once ten thousand years ago, but I'm rather rusty now."
"M-Miss, Laowu really can't do it..."
"Xiao Wu, if you wait until he's completely dead to strip him, it will be unlucky. Go on, be good."
"M-Miss, but we're... our car is going to fall, we might be the first to die, wuwuwu!"
Fifty-something driver Wang Laowu looked down at the cliff and finally couldn't hold back, breaking down and crying with tears flowing.
Today he drove this worn-out old Toyota to pick up the Xi family's long-lost daughter, the young lady, from Qingcheng Town back to the city to rush for the college entrance exam.
Who knew the more hurried you are, the more likely something would go wrong.
Not only did the car break down several times on the road, but five minutes ago, there was a loud crash from behind on the mountain road, with a quarry truck smashing into an expensive SUV, and then it came up and hit their worn-out Toyota car, and drove away after the crash.
For reference, the man the young lady said would die tonight was sitting in a car worth at least over a million, very strong against impact and well-protected, so crashing once wouldn't be a big deal.
But their wreck of a car was directly smashed in half, hanging on the cliff, currently teetering!
If he wasn't stepping on the brakes as hard as he could, they would have already fallen off the cliff and turned into a paste.
It's unknown how many seconds this situation can last, yet the young lady doesn't hurry to climb out, instead ordering him to go strip that man, you tell me if this young lady is...
Stupid?
Ah, as expected from the rumor, the young lady had been lost for eighteen years with the Xi family, raised to foolishness by those country people, and is an idiot with the intelligence of a three-and-a-half-year-old.
What to do, what if she gets bullied back at school, what if she can't pass the exam and gets mocked by relatives, what if she can't get married in the future and becomes leftover?
Seeing driver Wang Laowu crying like a child, Xi Zuzi gently sighed in the passenger seat.
Her appearance and voice had the same indescribable lightness and clarity, her skin white as snow, appearing untouched by mortal dust, even in the dark night, seemingly surrounded by faint stars competing to gather around her.
She thought for a moment: "Xiao Wu, you're young and unsophisticated, I don't blame you."
Wang Laowu: "..." Miss, I, this old man, am fifty years old.
Xi Zuzi: "It's my oversight, Ancestor. You're a timid child, can't approach someone who's about to die. I guess I'll go myself."
Wang Laowu: "… Miss, I beg you, don't open the car door… Ah!"
"Boom—!"
With a loud crash.
The half-crushed wreck of a car tumbled headfirst off the cliff, crashing directly onto the expensive SUV below where Bao Gucheng was.
The violent collision drove the glass shards in the man's chest even deeper.
He spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes cold and somber as they looked out the car window at the girl in her white attire, more pristine than snow: "..."
In such a heavy car pileup, she somehow remained immaculate from head to toe.
Moreover, how did she manage to drift out of the car before the crash while simultaneously hanging her driver securely, safely, onto the roadside lamp post?
Bao Gucheng stared at the girl, a hint of danger flashing across his eyes like locking onto prey.
Xi Zuzi, however, approached him with a cheerful smile, as if completely unaware of how esteemed this man's position was within the Empire or how terrifying the consequences could be if she provoked him.
She leaned closer to his chest in her white attire, like a descending goddess, her fingers like jade delicately undoing the buttons on his shirt.
One.
Two.
Three…
Bao Gucheng held his breath, the calluses on his fingertips rubbing harshly in his palm.
For a moment, he thought he could hear her soft breath and his own heart pounding wildly.
However…
Her slender hand briefly searched his waist before pulling away with a smile: "Good boy, no need to thank me."
The man froze!
The sky like ink, with stars stretching across.
This damned woman, boldly leaving him to die without salvaging his life, and still managed to steal his family heirloom, the Jade Pendant!
[The silly author babbles: Little demons, the new book is presented. As always, it's an arrogant and domineering strong female lead, an ultimate guide to tormenting scumbags. The opening features an invincible tweak of a mischievous little Ancestor VS a noble, fearsome, tough-guy uncle, hilarious, pampering, exhilarating. Written seven books with ten million words focusing on doting fans, this hot (sao) author is worth having, cough cough, quickly add to the bookshelf and take Gramps home!]