Reborn as a Mortal Heiress Pampered by Big Shots
Chapter 176 - 172 kicked the iron plate!

Chapter 176: 172 kicked the iron plate!

Tang Shiji’s eyebrows twisted suddenly when he saw him slowly point towards the three people outside the arena.

"Hall Master Lei, you’re mistaken, those are not my disciples!"

Lei Tianhu was unflustered, "I know."

Upon hearing this, Tang Shiji’s frown deepened, "Don’t forget the rules of challenging a hall. If you want to challenge, you can only choose from among my disciples!"

Lei Tianhu smiled sarcastically, "Rules are made by people. We have just agreed on the rules for this time, Hall Master Tang. Let me remind you, I clearly said to choose anyone from your hall, and I didn’t specify choosing from among your disciples. There are so many ears listening and so many eyes watching here, is Hall Master Tang really going to deny it?"

Tang Shiji felt his blood boiling, "You!"

The disciples also protested one after another, "You’re too despicable! Who challenges a hall and doesn’t choose from among the disciples? Does this even need to be said?"

"Aren’t you afraid of being embarrassed when this gets out?"

"A great hall master fighting a girl? Are you proud of yourself? Spit! You shameless wretch!"

The crowd inside the arena was seething with righteous indignation, while the three outsiders remained surprisingly calm.

Tang Tianjiao stepped forward with her arms crossed, sneering first, "Well, I actually can’t wait. I say, you’re not Juying Hall, you’re Giant Baby Hall! You barely have a full set of brains and all you know is to bite everywhere. Come on, let daddy teach you a lesson in humanity!"

She deliberately provoked Lei Tianhu, hoping he would choose her.

Tang Shiji saw through his granddaughter’s intentions and went with the flow, "Good girl, go and practice with Hall Master Lei."

But Lei Tianhu wasn’t fooled at all.

The more they said that, the less he wanted to choose Tang Tianjiao.

When it came to cunning and trickery, no one could beat him.

He had heard that Tang Shiji had a granddaughter who was the future successor of the Swordsmanship Hall. Seeing her so full of confidence now, she most certainly had some trump card waiting for him.

Lei Tianhu excluded her first and with the remaining two, a man and a woman, he shamelessly prepared to point at Xia Ye.

This young lady was tall and slim, looked like she didn’t have an ounce of muscle on her, and was pretty. It would be somewhat pleasing to the eye to scare her into losing her color later.

Tang Shiji squinted his eyes. He, of course, knew about Xia Ye’s capabilities.

But just as Lei Tianhu’s hand was about to drop, Red Hair and Green Hair simultaneously grabbed the finger he was pointing out, their faces full of rejection and their heads shaking like rattle-drums.

"Big brother, you absolutely can’t choose her!"

"Big brother is right, we were beaten by this damn girl last time. Don’t be fooled by her weak appearance; she jumped off a third-story building and didn’t get hurt at all. She beat both me and the third brother black and blue, and then played innocent at the police station!"

Jiang Xuan looked at Xia Ye with an emotionless expression, "Are they the two who went with you to the police station last time?"

Xia Ye raised an eyebrow in confusion, "How did you know I went to the police station?"

Jiang Xuan had nothing to say.

Fortunately, Tang Tianjiao suddenly spoke up, inadvertently saving the situation, "Brother Ye, so it was them? No wonder. You listen, Green Hair calling Red Hair third brother, and they both calling that hall master big brother. No wonder they’re all so shameless, birds of a feather indeed."

Xia Ye nodded her head.

As the discussion went on, Lei Tianhu’s voice fell, and after a process of elimination, he finally made a choice from the three people that pleased him.

"I choose him!"

His finger passed over the two formidable women, Tang Tianjiao and Xia Ye, and pointed directly at the genteel CEO—Jiang Xuan.

"Picking a man, that should be acceptable now, right? Saves you from thinking I’m bullying the weaker sex!"

Lei Tianhu’s words sounded noble, but everyone present knew how this choice was made!

Xia Ye paused for a moment.

She had been very calm all along, and indifferent to Lei Tianhu’s choice. But at this moment, when she heard Lei Tianhu had actually chosen her fellow Daoist, she immediately stepped forward and stood in front of Jiang Xuan, "You can’t choose him."

Even though the swords used in a swordsmanship competition are not sharpened, someone who does not know how to fight could easily get injured.

Jiang Xuan lowered his eyes to look at the young girl standing in front of him, his eyes and brows lifting with tenderness.

Lei Tianhu was pleased with Xia Ye’s reaction; it proved he had picked the right person, "Oh, protecting him already? Too bad..." he said in a leisurely voice, "I insist on choosing him."

Tang Tianjiao knew her Brother Ye best; if such an attractive and pleasing CEO like him got hurt by swords, her Brother Ye would definitely be heartbroken!

Tang Tianjiao, "What kind of status does CEO Jiang have? Is he someone you can challenge whenever you want?"

The disciples also became restless, outraged by Lei Tianhu’s despicable shamelessness.

Xia Ye frowned slightly, "No need to waste words with him, let’s go straight out."

After speaking, she cracked her knuckles, ready to step right in.

There was no point in letting him choose. They were giving him too much face.

Lei Tianhu instinctively took a step back, "What are you doing? This is against martial ethics! We agreed that I’d get to choose!"

Seeing the situation, Red Hair and Green Hair quickly hid behind their big brother, trembling.

Xia Ye, "I never talk about that crap."

Tang Tianjiao, "I’ll join you!"

The disciples also drew their swords in unison, "I think so too. Let’s just do it! Boot him out!"

Lei Tianhu started to panic, "If you really dare to bully the few with the many today, I will let the whole Capital City know of your villainy tomorrow! I’ll make sure your Aihua Swordsmanship Hall is utterly disgraced!"

Just as a group battle was about to erupt, a large hand rested on Xia Ye’s shoulder.

Turning her head, it was Jiang Xuan.

Jiang Xuan held Xia Ye back and then looked at Lei Tianhu, "Are you sure you’re choosing me? Not changing your mind?"

His smile seemed gentle, with a touch of scholarly elegance.

Lei Tianhu hurriedly said, "I won’t change, I won’t change, I choose you!"

Tang Tianjiao said, "Mr. Jiang, you’re not really going to fight him, are you?"

Jiang Xuan curved his lips, "I practiced a bit in the past, I might not necessarily lose."

Although Xia Ye’s reaction pleased him, he still wanted to clarify the matter of being the old man practicing swordsmanship in the park.

The disciples looked at each other in bewilderment, feeling that Mr. Jiang, who could still say such things for their Swordsmanship Hall at this moment... was truly great!

Seeing him volunteer, Xia Ye thought for a moment and said nothing more.

Just now, when he pressed down on her shoulder, it reminded her that on several occasions, she had indeed noticed Jiang Xuan’s hand strength seemed to be quite strong.

Although normally, swordsmanship competitions are not about strength but speed.

But having such strength, he should also not get hurt.

A vase, too, requires dignity.

She decided to stay out of it.

With no objections from either party, the area was cleared, the disciples surrounded them, and Jiang Xuan and Lei Tianhu took off their shoes and stood at opposite ends of the arena.

When Tang Tianjiao saw Lei Tianhu take his shoes off and he became much shorter than Jiang Xuan, she leaned over to peek at his shoes...

Whoa, there must be insoles at least five centimeters high, right??

Tang Tianjiao chuckled.

Lei Tianhu clenched his teeth and sent Red Hair and Green Hair back to the hall to fetch his most prized sword.

Tang Shiji hadn’t expected Lei Tianhu to be such a selective opponent, only picking the soft targets to squeeze.

Feeling apologetic, he approached Jiang Xuan, "Our hall’s issue has unfortunately involved Mr. Jiang, you can just make a token effort against him, please don’t hurt him. It’s okay if you lose, if worst comes to worst, I’ll just close the hall for a month. The Tang Family has been running the Swordsmanship Hall in Capital City for a hundred years, the disciples won’t run to someone else’s hall just because of this one month, Mr. Jiang, rest assured."

Lei Tianhu, seeing Jiang Xuan dressed so stylishly, looked him up and down; even though he could not recognize the brands of those clothes, they were definitely not cheap. Plus, seeing the disciples and Tang Shiji calling him Mr. Jiang, his eyes spun, and he added with a bit of jest: "Our challenge is a challenge, the matters of the Swordsmanship Hall should be resolved within the dojo, and should not involve the outside, that wouldn’t look good."

Jiang Xuan smiled ambiguously, saying nothing.

His gaze fixed unblinkingly on Lei Tianhu, he pulled off his tie with one hand, along with his suit jacket, tossing both to Xia Ye who was outside the arena.

Xia Ye caught them, draping them on her arms, carrying the cold fragrance of her comrade’s body.

Tang Tianjiao nudged her, whispering, "Sister Ye, don’t worry too much, Red Hair and Green Hair are so weak; their boss can’t be much better."

Xia Ye smiled, "Hmm~"

Anyways, if anyone dares to harm her friend’s face, their boss is done for.

Red Hair and Green Hair brought back their boss’s treasured weapon.

It was a five-foot-long curved Eastern Wild Tachi.

Lei Tianhu respectfully bowed to the sword before gripping it firmly with both hands.

Jiang Xuan casually picked up a sword from the nearby rack.

The cold blade was unsheathed, and the scabbard was tossed aside without a care.

His unsheathing was extremely fast, crisp, and clean, yet without injuring himself.

He was no novice.

Moreover, he was holding the sword with one hand.

The man, having removed his suit jacket, revealed a tailored waistcoat underneath.

With broad shoulders and long legs, his figure, restrained by the waistcoat, showed a beautiful sense of power.

The good physique hidden under his tall and slim appearance was not at all the frail scholarly presence Lei Tianhu had imagined.

His shirt sleeves were rolled up to his forearms, faintly revealing the mark of a tattoo that had been removed.

He stood sideways, his posture straight, the sword hanging in his hand.

His way of holding the sword was skilled, seemingly casual, yet his lean wrist displayed two clearly tensed tendons.

Lei Tianhu’s brows twitched, suddenly feeling that something was off...

Meanwhile, Shen Jing and Dong Mao, who were also working overtime on the weekend at Jiang’s company, were discussing the same matter.

Shen Jing said, "The CEO finally has a chance for a date with Miss Xia, why go to the Swordsmanship Hall? People usually show off in their own field of expertise; shouldn’t the CEO take Miss Xia to high-end clubs or places like that?"

Dong Mao scoffed, "You couldn’t be more wrong."

Shen Jing asked, "How so?"

Dong Mao spoke mysteriously, "It’s best not to let the boss take up a sword because when it comes to using swords, nobody can beat the boss, for he... is an originator."

On Lei Tianhu’s side, he tightened his grip on the sword and swallowed involuntarily.

Hall Master Tang Shiji stood between the two men, his stance stable as a pine.

After signaling both sides, he announced the start of the match.

The moment his voice fell, Jiang Xuan’s wrist pressed downward, and the blade snapped upright.

Lei Tianhu saw clearly that the man, who was scholarly and elegant just one second before, had a sudden shift in his gaze the next moment.

A shock ran through his heart: how did it suddenly feel like... he had picked the wrong person?!