Chapter 991 - 941: The Lady Knight Overflowing with Justice

Bright Square.

On the third floor, inside a women’s luxury clothing brand store.

"Ruanqin, are you sure it’s okay to talk like that?"

As Du Ruanqing hung up the phone and turned around, Ou Mingsi nervously tugged at the hem of her clothes and asked worriedly.

"Okay? It couldn’t be more okay! So she gets to set fires just because she’s some caged canary, but I, a pure little maiden, can’t even light a candle? What the hell. Talking about calling people? Once Brother Fan shows up, he’ll insta-crush all those scumbags on the spot! Didn’t Miss Canary just call for backup? I’d really like to see how heavyweight they are!" Du Ruanqing snapped back, full-on heroine mode.

However, that badass tomboy vibe was completely at odds with her face and figure.

The onlooking melon-eating crowd couldn’t help secretly clicking their tongues.

If this girl could just be a little more ladylike and reserved, she’d definitely be goddess-level!

It’s just that Lord Du had no idea what these rubberneckers were thinking, otherwise she’d definitely toss out a line like: shouldn’t a real "goddess" be the kind that never poops or farts?

"Who are you calling a canary?"

Right as Du Ruanqing’s words fell.

A lightly made-up woman with quite a pretty face glared coldly and snapped.

"Talking about you, so what? What the hell, just because you’re kept and caged you think you get to act like you’re somehow above everyone else? Screw you. The girl just accidentally stepped on your foot, and you want her on her knees apologizing to your shoes? I’m just... ha. Did your nine years of compulsory education all happen on some guy’s bed? ’Why make things hard for another woman’—is that principle really that hard to understand? Such a tiny thing and you want to force her that far?"

Du Ruanqing snorted, completely unimpressed, and shot back.

Honestly, this had nothing to do with her. She was just letting her sense of justice explode and playing hero for once.

After leaving Cangqiong Restaurant, she had the Lincoln driver drop the two of them off halfway, then went shopping. Coming up to the third-floor luxury brand store at Bright Square was really just to feast her eyes and see what was so special about clothes that cost tens of thousands a piece. She didn’t expect to see some canary decked out in rich-lady gear, towering over a girl about her own age and loudly tearing into her.

After asking around, she found out the other girl had just accidentally stepped on the canary’s foot, and that was enough for the canary to force her to kneel and apologize.

The canary even boasted that an apology was already letting her off easy—after all, the shoes she was wearing were a limited edition that the girl couldn’t afford even if she sold herself!

Once she heard that, how could she let it go?

Her little justice-powered universe went supernova on the spot!

That said, she had to admit: she only dared to go this hard because Qin Fan and Sister Yinuo were her backers.

Otherwise, no matter how much righteous fury she had, she wouldn’t dare to actually play heroine.

She wasn’t stupid; one look and you could tell that woman wasn’t some harmless softie. With her being just a weak little student with no dad to rely on and no sugar daddy to throw around, stepping up like this was basically asking to die.

She was at least that self-aware.

It’s just that, with Qin Fan and Jiang Yino as her backing, she didn’t care anymore.

Heroine? She was doing this.

Can’t deny it—that was very Du Ruanqing.

"Sis, don’t do this! I’ll kneel to her, okay? This has nothing to do with you, I can’t drag you down!"

Right after Du Ruanqing finished speaking.

Next to her, a plainly dressed girl looked at Du Ruanqing with teary eyes, speaking in a terrified whisper.

She was panicking, really panicking.

Just entering this luxury brand store took all the courage she had.

Because she was afraid of getting dirty looks, afraid of being mocked by the sales staff.

But she still pushed herself to walk in, to dream and imagine that one day she might also get to wear clothes like these. She just didn’t expect that, instead of being mocked by the salespeople, she’d accidentally step on someone’s foot and trigger this whole mess.

As for kneeling or not kneeling, she didn’t have that much lofty talk about "dignity." Coming out of the mountains, living alone in this flashy city, she knew she didn’t have much dignity to speak of anyway—at the end of the day she was just a rural girl making a little over two thousand a month!

Dignity?

In this world where money is god, dignity isn’t something she can easily defend!

After all, she was the one who stepped on someone else’s shoe.

Pay for the damage? She couldn’t afford it.

Fight back? She had no way to fight.

So where did she get the right to talk about defending dignity?

So just kneel—that was the first thought that popped into her head.

It wasn’t that she chose to throw away her dignity; it was that she knew full well that, in front of that woman, she had no dignity to begin with.

But she never expected that just as she was about to kneel, someone would pull her back up.

And drag all the aggro onto themselves in an instant!

Under those circumstances, how could she bear to drag an innocent good Samaritan down with her?

"No, no, no, I’m still in school, you’re definitely older than me, you’re the sis here! Sis, it’s not just men whose knees are worth their weight in Gold. Sure, our knees as women might not be Gold, but they’re at least a stack of silver! How can you kneel to her? And apologize to her shoes? She’s clearly not treating us like people! Sis, relax, I’ll settle this for you! What the hell, this is straight-up bullying! If I hadn’t seen it, fine, but now that I’ve seen it there’s no way I’m just standing by!" Du Ruanqing hurriedly pulled the girl to her side, speaking righteously.

"Hah, settle it? You think you can settle this? Bitch, since you want to stick your nose in, I’ll play with you. Now it’s not about whether she kneels or not—it’s you that’s in trouble. If you’re not kneeling in front of me begging for mercy later, I, Cui Jiayi, will write my name backward! The price of meddling is not as simple as you think!"

The woman folded her arms, the coldness on her face growing stronger.

If earlier she’d just been high and mighty, looking down on the girl who stepped on her shoe—

Now she was outright furious.

Ever since she was little, Cui Jiayi had always been the Princess surrounded by stars.

On Jinling turf, who dared to talk to her like that?

"Relax, I won’t need you to kneel later! As long as you bow to her and say you’re sorry, I’ll be too lazy to bother with you any further!"

In direct contrast to Cui Jiayi’s sharp tone, Du Ruanqing snorted daintily.

She was calling Qin Fan and Jiang Yino purely to have someone backing her up and boosting her momentum.

As for crushing the other side or whatever, that had never crossed her mind.

She gave a cold little snort and shook her head.

Cui Jiayi lifted her wrist and checked the time.

She didn’t say anything more.

Her people should be about here.

If she couldn’t vent this anger today, she’d never swallow it!

"Ladies, could I trouble you to take this outside? How are we supposed to do business like this? Please try to understand, okay? I’m just an employee too!"

With the tension crackling like a drawn bowstring, the store manager finally had no choice but to muster some courage and step forward.

"Ah, okay, sorry, my bad!"

Very politely, Du Ruanqing scratched her head and apologized.

Then she grabbed the girl and hurried outside.

Seeing this, the woman called Cui Jiayi silently followed them out as well.

At this moment, all the fury and hatred in her eyes were focused solely on Du Ruanqing. Otherwise, just based on what the manager had said, there’s no way that manager would’ve gotten off easy.

....

"Qin Fan, it’s just the two of us going?"

After hanging up on Du Ruanqing, Jiang Yino immediately said goodbye to her family.

She grabbed Qin Fan and rushed out.

On the way, she explained the situation while asking the driver to head for Bright Square as fast as possible.

Now, in the back seat of the Bentley, she tightened her grip on Qin Fan’s hand.

To be honest, that last part of Du Ruanqing’s call had really scared her.

Sure, Du Ruanqing was usually all jokes and no filter, so her words weren’t always reliable.

But what if this time it was real? What if something really bad happened?

She didn’t dare imagine it.

"Call Qiuze, have him bring some guys over." Qin Fan patted the back of Yinuo’s hand with his other hand to calm her, smiling casually.

"Okay!"

With that,

Jiang Yino anxiously pulled out her phone and dialed Li Qiuzhe’s number.

"Qiuze, it’s Yino. Ruanqin said she’s being bullied, on the third floor of Bright Square. Old Qin and I are heading there now! Old Qin wants you to bring some people over!"