Stuck in a Chinese novel

"I have no idea." Arlert replied before he added, "Unless they had an idea about us coming here."

"What?" The buff man said before he looked at where Arlert was looking. In the darkness of the hallway, there was a pair of blue jewels shining in the dark. And the most beautiful part of it was that it looked really deadly.

Upon a closer look, it was easy to discover it was a pair of eyes and soon they started to inch closer.

The team hurriedly raised their weapons, a man held a gun, one held a shield and one held a sword. One of them held a staff and Arlert wore a pair of gauntlets.

As the person in the dark came into view under the light of the moonlight that pierced through the windows of the building, the team could see who the person was.

"Strange place for a night stroll, boys." Yan Rong said as she appeared in full view, a black outfit on her body that covered every inch of her body including her neck. Even her face was only visible because she wasn\'t wearing the helmet in her hand.

"You," Arlert said as he recognized the woman from the club. One thing he didn\'t forget about this woman was just one word; strong.

"Me." Yan Rong said with a smile before she put her helmet on.

"You see," Her distorted voice due to the helmet entered the ears of the team, "I was really hoping you all wouldn\'t show up."

"Why? You\'re hesitant to fight us out of the goodness of your heart or were you scared?" The man next to Arlert, the one who held the shield, asked.

"No. Nothing like that." Yan Rong replied, still in a distorted voice, and added, "Because I\'m really mad right now."

A storm of Qi began to threaten everything in the vicinity. The Qi emitting from Yan Rong was so massive and sense, that it made the place around everyone distorted.

And not just the space, the space was distorting as well, breaking down and turning into something else.

And it wasn\'t long before the storm of Qi hit the team, shaking the entire building and breaking everything in the vicinity.

[Shield of honor]

The man with a staff yelled and a blue-colored dome appeared around the team with the symbol of a dark blue shield in the middle.

But…

Crack!

The shield began to crumble and the man with the staff began to vomit blood. The shield was connected to him by mana and when that mana was slammed by the powerful force of Yan Rong\'s Qi, it affected the man as well, and it affected him more than he could have possibly imagined.

His internals shook and his blood vessels ruptured. The mana inside of him was distraught and disruptive, almost as if scared.

Scared of the power in front of them.

"Let go of the shield!" Arlert yelled and just in time because the man would have almost died if his connection with the shield wasn\'t torn off.

As soon as they did though, the shield crumbled as well. The power supply was cut off so the shield was dissipated and it was then that the rest realized what they were dealing with.

The shield was protecting them from the enormous pressure of Yan Rong\'s Qi. As soon as it was gone, the pressure fell on them which weighed like ten tons to them. .net

Of course, given their power, it would have been enough. However, they soon realized that the pressure wasn\'t stopping.

No.

It was increasing by the moment and the chilliness in the air began to increase tenfold.

The air began to freeze, literally. The moisture in the air began to give in to the cold and began to turn into a solid.

"Get ou-!" Arlert yelled to give an order but it was too late. The power accumulating within Yan Rong broke loose, taking everything in their surroundings down.

And that included everything in the vicinity.

Even the Ruan Enterprises building.

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Xia Lu just returned home from practice. She was tired as hell when she arrived at home.

Now Xia Lu would normally go to the apartment Wei Jun had given her because that was close to the office building as well as because of the studio in the basement of the apartment building which she could use without any worry.

However, today she came to her original home. A home that was left empty after her uncle tragically died.

The family of the uncle blamed Xia Lu for his death and many of the elders of the family did as well but everything and everyone went quiet after her relationship with Wei Jun was announced.

Of course, they weren\'t in a relationship officially. They were just rumors but rumors with a good weight behind them couldn\'t be dismissed so easily.

With the position of the Lu family\'s official head and the position of being the possible girlfriend of a giant like Wei Jun Ruan, it was a no-brainer who would have won the battle of inheritance.

Many of the elders fled when Xia Lu took hold of the position along with her aunt and her cousin, who was the next person vying for the patriarch\'s seat.

But today, she had come to her home, the family home for the first time in quite a while. Since she took the position, the family businesses were pretty much being handled by Wei Jun.

The leftover elders didn\'t like that and tried to raise their voices but Xia Lu\'s decision didn\'t change. They still went silent though when they saw that Wei Jun was doing all the work and making more than they were and taking nothing in return for that.

Although Xia Lu offered that he could absorb all the businesses, Wei Jun didn\'t agree and just watched over the businesses without taking a dime.

But since the head of the house didn\'t stay in the house, the servants were positioned at the houses of the elders or Xia Lu\'s apartment for work.

The giant house was left empty for Xia Lu alone who would sometimes come to the house to reminisce about her family\'s past.

Back when her father wasn\'t MIA or his mother wasn\'t in a coma. When she was just a happy little girl with a loving family to hold her.

Now, her father\'s whereabouts were unknown, dead or alive unknown. Her mother was still in a coma but not in the family home anymore but in a hospital run by the Ruan family.

Although there was no improvement in her condition, it was still better since she was receiving care from hundreds of people and thanks to Wei Jun, her life wasn\'t in danger anymore.

Xia Lu smiled when she thought how much Wei Jun had done for her and he wasn\'t even trying to constantly remind her of that fact.

He just treated it as doing everyday work.

Sigh.

The truth was she hadn\'t seen Wei Jun until he got out of the prison, again.

Although he was proven innocent, and the claim of his affair was bogus, even though she knew it was Yan Rong\'s attempt to get back at Wei Jun, she couldn\'t help but be mad about it.

She knew she was the last person to think that since she went after Wei Jun even though he was engaged to someone else.

\'I\'m such a hypocrite,\' She thought inwardly before she sighed again and stood up.

She went to the bathroom and had a good long bath. Dressed herself in her comfortable nightwear and went to the kitchen.

After she made herself a quick easy-to-cook meal, she ate and headed for the bed.

The whole point of this routine was just to enjoy the time at her home. Eat junk and sleep peacefully. That was all she wanted.

She slipped into her bed and just as she was about to close her eyes…

Ding.

The doorbell to the house rang which was strange because even though all the house staff were relocated, the guards weren\'t.

Why would someone ring the doorbell on the main door instead of using the guard\'s comms?

Seeing there was no harm in it, she stood up and made her way out the door while also contacting the watchman on the talkie.

Static…

There was no reply for a while and by the time she reached the door, no one had replied.

Thinking it was a communication issue, she opened the door.

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A blur of wind passed a passerby. But it wasn\'t a blow from the wind. It was a person. Running so fast that normal people couldn\'t even catch him.

[What would you choose?]

[Dear brother of mine]