City: I Started As A Rich Second Generation Villain - Chapter 40: Confrontation
Murong Wan and Luo Ningyu watched as Su Chen’s face darkened, clearly looking as though he was about to make a move.
Startled, they quickly hid behind Gu Junqing. After all, they were delicate women, and having seen Gu Junqing’s abilities before, they felt completely at ease with him.
[Ding, female lead Murong Wan develops disgust toward protagonist Su Chen. Favorability decreases by 20, earning 2000 Villain Points.]
Gu Junqing also prepared himself to give Su Chen a beating.
Just then, someone tactlessly stepped forward.
“Su Chen, what are you doing? Aren’t they right? If you’re not a country bumpkin, then what are you? A turtle?”
“Why are you being so sarcastic toward Gu Junqing? Are you some kind of two-faced person?”
Li Xixue suddenly stepped forward and began berating Su Chen without holding back.
Although Su Chen was nominally her fiancé, she had never agreed to it.
She absolutely detested him and inwardly complained that her grandfather and father must be going senile.
Gu Junqing, on the other hand, was different—not only was he her childhood friend, but now also her close male confidant.
How could Su Chen be so clueless? A country bumpkin like him dared to mock her confidant?
Su Chen suppressed his urge to act.
He was utterly exasperated. The woman before him was supposed to be his fiancée, so why was she helping Gu Junqing insult him?
Moreover, just moments ago she had been arguing with Murong Wan, yet now she had shifted her focus entirely onto attacking him.
Su Chen felt so frustrated he could vomit blood. Already enraged, Li Xixue’s provocation made him consider whether he should simply abandon the engagement.
Although he valued Li Xixue’s beauty, he cared even more about the Li family’s influence.
Becoming the Li family’s son-in-law would help him establish himself in the city—he couldn’t remain a country bumpkin forever. Flames of ambition burned fiercely in Su Chen’s eyes.
After spending several days in the city, even his originally indifferent nature had begun to change. He had been captivated by urban prosperity and the abundance of beautiful women. He no longer wished to return to the secluded tranquility of mountain life.
Once he rose to power, he would make Gu Junqing kneel and call him “Daddy”!
For now, however, he had no choice but to endure Li Xixue’s scolding and refrain from laying a hand on her.
He knew that if Li Xixue’s father and grandfather discovered he had struck her, even his master’s reputation wouldn’t save the engagement—it would certainly be canceled.
Seeing that a fight might not break out after all, Murong Wan and Luo Ningyu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Su Chen with faintly provocative expressions.
Then, watching Li Xixue continue to scold him, they suddenly felt she might actually make a good close friend.
They had been confused earlier when Su Chen confronted Gu Junqing.
But hearing Su Chen mock Gu Junqing and even suggest that Murong Wan accompany him for a day had infuriated them. The more Li Xixue scolded him, the happier they felt.
Li Xixue, relieved to see that Su Chen had abandoned his intention to fight, quietly let out a sigh.
She had witnessed Su Chen’s abilities firsthand—even several of her family’s bodyguards working together couldn’t defeat him.
As long as Su Chen still wanted to become the Li family’s son-in-law, he wouldn’t dare lay a hand on her. To protect Gu Junqing and the others, she had stepped forward immediately to give Su Chen a thorough dressing-down.
Su Chen narrowed his eyes at Gu Junqing, a silver needle suddenly appearing in his hand, hidden within his sleeve.
Li Xixue’s words did not affect him in the slightest; he had already grown somewhat accustomed to her scolding over the past few days.
He wanted to find an opportunity to give Gu Junqing an acupuncture treatment—one that would make him lose his male capabilities and successfully become the “Invincible East.”
However, after careful consideration, he restrained himself.
If Gu Junqing later discovered he had truly lost his abilities, public scrutiny would likely trace the matter back to him.
He had not yet accumulated enough strength to withstand retaliation from such a powerful family.
Although his martial arts were exceptional, he was still far from matching his master.
Even his master had once been severely injured, proving that many hidden experts existed in the world.
His current strength was not enough to allow reckless action.
During his stay with the Li family alone, he had already sensed several auras no weaker than his own. He could not afford impulsiveness.
Gu Junqing noticed the movement inside Su Chen’s sleeve and immediately understood what he intended.
In the original story, Su Chen had used this very method to cripple many young masters from prominent families.
Now he wanted to do the same to Gu Junqing—but what he didn’t know was that Gu Junqing’s medical skills had already reached the Divine level.
Su Chen’s silver-needle techniques—blocking meridians and reversing the flow of qi and blood—were nothing more than child’s play to him.
He didn’t even need medical techniques to resist them; the powerful qi and blood strengthened by the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon were enough to break through such methods.
Gu Junqing also knew this move well.
But for medical experts of Su Chen and Gu Junqing’s caliber, such tricks were elementary.
Silver needles alone might not completely sever kidney meridians—but if combined with medicinal methods, that would be another matter.
Gu Junqing couldn’t help recalling Water Margin from his past life.
“Dalang, it’s time to get up and take your medicine.”
That line had inspired countless sighs across generations.
Even now, Gu Junqing found himself reflecting on it.
In solemn commemoration of the thousandth anniversary of the tragic death of the renowned private entrepreneur, Mr. Wu Dalang.
To be honest, that scene had made many men wary. Seeing their wives pour powder into food, they would accuse them of malice—only to discover it was merely salt.
And Gu Junqing planned to do the same to Su Chen—repaying him in kind.
No one could be more vicious than Su Chen, who constantly sought to sever others’ meridians. Could a man who lost his masculinity even be considered a man?
After all, when referring to eunuchs, using “he” feels strange, and using “she” feels even stranger—so nowadays people simply say “it.”
Somehow, it felt perfectly fitting.
Su Chen had no medical ethics, always so quick to use acupuncture. Didn’t he realize some people were afraid of needles?
Gu Junqing silently complained. He hadn’t fully set his plans in motion yet, so he wasn’t ready to act.
After all, Su Chen posed no real threat to him at present. Su Chen might grow stronger, but Gu Junqing would progress even faster.
Once he extracted a bit more value from Su Chen, he would crush him effortlessly—though he could already do so now.
“Gu Junqing, I don’t know how strong you are, but you’d better not provoke me again!”
Su Chen threw down this threat and left.
Gu Junqing felt somewhat speechless. Wasn’t it usually the villains who said lines like that?
Li Xixue breathed a sigh of relief after Su Chen left and hurried over to Gu Junqing to claim credit.
“Gu Junqing, wasn’t it satisfying to see me scold him? I’ve been cursing him out every day these past few days, and he still acts like a turtle—so annoying!”
Li Xixue poured out her grievances to her close male friend.
Murong Wan and Luo Ningyu quickly walked over as well, wanting to keep an eye on Gu Junqing and prevent him from flirting around.
Although they both understood that Gu Junqing couldn’t possibly have only the two of them as women, they still believed the fewer rivals, the better.
Especially when it came to a seductress like Li Xixue, who wanted men to be her “close girlfriends.”