"Uncle, you're so incredible, is that even a human stomach?"
Qin Shiyao's face was full of excitement as she poked Ye Chen's belly curiously.
Ye Chen almost spat out the beer in his stomach when he heard that.
"If it's not a human stomach, what kind of stomach is it? You really have a way with words," Ye Chen teased.
The girls who had been watching the drinking competition were too shocked to speak. Su Jinglong and his crew were considered heavy drinkers at school, but none of them could outdrink Ye Chen alone.
Girls always worship the strong, and if it weren't for Qin Shiyao's protection, they would have already thrown themselves at Ye Chen.
After the drinking, the atmosphere in the private room became somewhat eerie. Ye Chen was chatting with a few girls on one end of the sofa, while several guys were lying on the other end.
A few of the guys wanted to join them, but seeing Ye Chen talking with confidence, they didn't dare to interrupt.
The atmosphere became extremely awkward.
After a while, someone suggested going out to the dance floor.
"Sounds good." Everyone agreed unanimously; the dance floor outside was livelier and made it easier to let loose. Besides, it was truly awkward in the private room.
So, a large group of people made their way to the dance floor outside.
"I'm going to smoke a cigarette first. You go ahead and have fun with your classmates," Ye Chen said.
Qin Shiyao nodded and joined her classmates, frolicking in groups on the dance floor.
Just then, a group of people appeared at the entrance of the bar, led by the lackey of the bald man who had tried to drug Qin Shiyao that other day.
"Scar, the guy who beat up our big brother that day is in there, and that girl too," the lackey said with respectful fervor to a burly man with a scar on his face.
"Daring to hit my brother is simply courting death; even if the King of Heaven came today, he couldn't save him," Scar said arrogantly, snorting coldly.
A hesitant underling spoke up, "But the women from Nightclub won't make a move, will they? If they do, we might not have enough people."
"They can barely save themselves so I doubt they'd dare interfere with this," Scar replied disdainfully.
The group had just entered Nightclub when a young man approached and whispered something, gesturing at Qin Shiyao and her friends in the crowd.
"That's the girl there, but the kid is gone."
The bald man's lackey immediately recognized Qin Shiyao and then scanned the crowd, but he did not see Ye Chen.
"What a gorgeous chick, the bald kid has good taste. That girl is mine, the rest are up for grabs," Scar said as he stared at Qin Shiyao's pretty face, swallowing hard with greed in his eyes.
"Thanks, Scar," the underlings behind him said quickly, their eyes also flashing with greed.
Even though the other girls didn't compare to Qin Shiyao in looks, they were of a much higher caliber than the women they were used to.
The group made their way into the dance floor, approaching Qin Shiyao and her friends.
An impatient blond-haired underling reached out and slapped one of Qin Shiyao's classmates.
"Who touched me?"
The girl turned around in anger and cursed.
"It's your big brother, what about it, hmm, smells nice."
The blond underling sniffed his hand next to his nose and said with a blissful expression on his face.
"Pervert, disgusting" the girl spat, looking disgusted.
"Little sister, we really do have a connection, you knew at a glance we're perverts," he retorted.
At the blond's words, the whole group burst into laughter.
"Ah Rui, stop talking. Who are you guys?" Qin Shiyao intervened.
Qin Shiyao reached out to stop Ah Rui, who was about to burst into curses, and asked with a frown.
Scar Brother looked at Qin Shiyao with a smile and said, "Little sister, where's that boy who was with you yesterday? He even dared to touch my Scar Brother's people; he's simply asking for death."
As soon as the crowd heard Scar Brother, they all stepped back in fear.
Scar Brother was the boss of this territory, with a massive backing. It was said that his own boss was the legendary Tiger, with over a hundred brothers under him, looking after quite a few establishments, and rumor had it that he'd even opened a company.
Not long ago, someone who hit one of Scar Brother's underlings ended up chopped up and in the hospital the next day on the streets. Ordinary people simply couldn't afford to mess with him.
The commotion here didn't go unnoticed, Su Jinglong and a few other boys sensed something was off and walked over.
"Who are you guys? What do you want to do?"
After drinking some beer, they had become braver, and despite facing hooligans, they resolutely stood in front of the girls.
"Who are these students? What, you want to play hero and save the beauty?"
The blond underling said with disdain.
"I'm telling you, if you keep messing around, I'm going to call the police."
Qin Shiyao looked around, didn't see Ye Chen, and didn't know where the uncle was. No matter, she thought, just stall for time first.
"Still want to call the police?"
A red-haired underling from behind grabbed a girl's phone and smashed it to the ground.
"Damn it, it's just a fight, who's afraid of whom."
Drinking had fired up the boys; seeing a bunch of people bullying the girls made their blood race, and they stepped forward to fight.
The boys had taken only a few steps forward when they suddenly stopped, their bodies stiff, rooted to the spot.
They saw the blond pull out a machete from behind, and the others also reached behind their backs; Su Jinglong and the others were instantly petrified.
They dared to fight and, at worst, get beaten up. Who hadn't been beaten up before?
But when someone suddenly pulled out a knife, that wasn't fair.
No one wants to die, especially since they were students, and being asked to risk their lives empty-handed against a gang of thugs who lived on the edge of life and death each day was too much, and they immediately backed down.
Seeing the thugs pulling out machetes, the girls screamed in fear, and Qin Shiyao's complexion turned slightly pale, while the surrounding crowd retreated even further.
At that moment, hidden in a corner smoking, Ye Chen faintly heard a scream and, frowning, walked over to the crowd gathering by the dance floor.
The thug holding the machete savored the fear in the people's faces, as Scar Brother said to Su Jinglong and his group, "You think you're so tough? You wanted to fight?"
"All come here and kneel for me, sing 'Conquer'."
"Did you hear that? Come kneel for Scar Brother, and sing 'Conquer'."
"Even if you kill me, I won't kneel. If you dare to touch me, I'll have my dad take you down tomorrow."
Su Jinglong, his blood boiling, roared with eyes reddened.
As someone with some influence at school, who had always lived in luxury, he couldn't bring himself to kneel and sing "Conquer" in front of his classmates.
"Ah, listen to this, he still wants to take us down at this point, quite the courage."
Upon hearing Su Jinglong's words, Scar Brother burst into laughter, walked up to Su Jinglong, his expression suddenly twisted, and slapped Su Jinglong across the face.
With a crisp sound, Su Jinglong was sent flying by the slap, his face swollen greatly, and blood spilling from his mouth.
"Jinglong."
The boys, disregarding their fear, rushed forward to help Su Jinglong up.
The girls, seeing Su Jinglong being slapped in the face right there, all showed a look of fear in their eyes.
"Now do you still want to take us down?"
Scar Brother's face was ferocious as he looked at Su Jinglong and the others, bellowing loudly.
Qin Shiyao bit her lip, ready to step forward to stop them; everything had started because of her, there was no need to involve the other students.
"These days, there are even people begging others to kill them? People nowadays are just cheap."
Just as Qin Shiyao took a step forward, a voice rang out from the side of the scene.
Ye Chen walked out from the crowd.