Chapter 181 - I Know

Wei Liuying put down her chopstick. "How foolish."

"Yes?"

"If they want to make a move, they should have done that using a completely different method," Wei Liuying replied. This way, Wei Xiao Hua's suspicion would fall on them if something were to happen.

"Can't you say something nicer?" Du Min asked. 'They did this for you.'

Even though Du Min didn't say the latter half of his sentence, he was looking at Wei Liuying with a clear expression. Wei Liuying naturally knew that, but she merely smiled and stood up.

There was no need for her to explain so much because that small gesture already answered everything that Du Min wanted to know. He opened his mouth again, but in the end, no words came out.

The faint smile on the corner of Wei Liuying's mouth and also her clear eyes showed that she understood. She felt grateful, but she didn't really approve their way of handling things. Because of that, she would be the one to meddle and made sure that it couldn't be traced back to them.

That was what Wei Liuying's current expression told him.

"They're too naïve." Wei Liuying chuckled a bit.

Hearing that, Du Min could only force a smile on his lips. Well, he had to agree with Wei Liuying that both Gao Ling and Shi Lu Wen were a bit naïve if they thought that Wei Xiao Hua was easy to deal with.

From Prince Ji Shu, he knew that Wei Liuying had already experienced some troubles because of Wei Xiao Hua in the past. It was to the point that Wei Liuying's plan was shattered into pieces even before it could be done.

Pretty much, it was the same with Prince Ji Shao Yang.

Before they could even start to enact their plan, their opponent had already made the move to push them to the bottom abyss. For Prince Ji Shao Yang, it was both Prince Ji Tian and Prince Ji Shu. While for Wei Liuying, it was Wei Xiao Hua and Prince Ji Shu.

Somehow, those two managed to grasp the right time to attack when their opponent was unprepared.

"Come on, we need to follow them."

"Yes."

The four ladies didn't go too far and only headed straight to the field where Gao Ling trained this morning. The place was simply unattended because it was an empty field that was mostly used for exercise if they ever needed it.

"Let's have a competition," Gao Ling said while taking out her bow. She grinned. "Can you do that, Miss Wei? I heard that the third miss is really good at martial art."

Wei Xiao Hua was dumbfounded with this development. Based on what she knew; Gao Ling was supposed to be challenging her to poetry or music as it was something normal for ladies. But now, they were being challenged for martial arts?

She couldn't do martial arts.

In the modern world, she was nothing more than an ordinary office lady. She mostly worked as a secretary and certainly would not touch the bow nor any other weapon. As for here, she had to learn the arts, so she had no other time to learn others because the arts were already hard enough.

As for the fake Wei Liuying… 

She was even worse. Prince Ji Shu didn't think that there would be anyone who knew about Wei Liuying's capability in martial arts. Besides, finding a young girl who was capable of martial arts and have the same beautiful face like Wei Liuying would be extremely hard.

The best that he could do was to find a beautiful young lady from a brothel. And the one he found clearly can't do martial arts.

"What are you talking about?" The fake Wei Liuying laughed. "How can it be possible for me to learn martial arts?"

"Oh? Really?"

"Yes."

"But I heard from some rumors that the third young miss from Wei Household often seen practicing with the second young master. Is that rumor not true?" Gao Ling asked in menacing tone.

The fake Wei Liuying's face turned red in embarrassment and shame. Of course, that rumor was true, but it was only for the real Wei Liuying. How could she possibly do martial arts when all she had learned in her entire life was how to seduce men with her charms and arts?

Prince Ji Shu had already explained to her the real situation regarding the real Wei Liuying so that she would be able to match the story. However, the fact that she couldn't do martial art was not something that one could easily change.

Learning martial arts required years of studying and dedication.

Someone who spent her time donning herself in beautiful attire in order to attract men wouldn't have the time to learn that.

"That's untrue," Wei Xiao Hua was quick to reply. "It's impossible for us to use martial arts because we're only ladies. How about changing the content of the challenge to something different that we all can do?"

"Are you sure that there's no young lady who can do martial arts?"

"There might be some." Wei Xiao Hua racked her brains. There were a lot of people in this era and there might be some young ladies who learned martial arts just like Gao Ling. However, she clearly didn't know any of them.

"But I don't know any aside from you, Miss Gao."

Gao Ling passed a glance at Wei Xiao Hua and sneered lightly. This Wei Xiao Hua truly knew how to talk. If only this young girl was a little more foolish, she would be easy to deal with.

But then again, even Wei Liuying lost in the past against Wei Xiao Hua.

Though, it was quite an unfair battle since Wei Xiao Hua used Prince Ji Shu's help. But if Gao Ling ever mentioned the matter, Wei Liuying would readily admit that Wei Xiao Hua won. 

Because in war, everything is fair.

"You flatter me."

Wei Xiao Hua laughed lightly. "With that said, do you still want to have martial arts competition, Miss Gao?"

Gao Ling looked at Wei Xiao Hua for a moment. Wei Xiao Hua's built and demeanor clearly told her that this young girl had never learned martial arts in the past. After all, most women's battle was inside and not outside.

Turning her head to the side, Gao LIng raised her bow and docked her arrow to the place. Despite wearing dresses since she had changed her clothes after the training this morning, she didn't have any problem to prepare the arrow properly.

Dzing! Jleb!

The arrow hit the tree at the end of the field.

"What a shame. I was thinking that I finally found someone else who can do martial arts. In that case, shall we go and have formal competition?"

Wei Xiao Hua formed a forced smile on her face. That kind of power that Gao Ling showed clearly told them that the rumor about Gao Ling being an archer in the battlefield was completely true. If the target was no tree but human, there was no telling what would happen in the end.

The person would surely die thanks to the sheer power from the arrow.

Thinking about that frightened Wei Xiao Hua. 

For the nth time inside her mind, Wei Xiao Hua felt that her transmigration was nothing more than a joke. For her to contend against someone like Gao Ling was clearly an overestimation of her skill. The real Wei Xiao Hua didn't fear Gao Ling, but the current Wei Xiao Hua felt trepidation.

She didn't want to die again.

Even though she didn't know how she ended up in the novel like this, she didn't want to experience death. 

In fact, she didn't know whether she had died back then in the modern world or not. The last memory she had was that she was reading the novel in WN app after she had finished her work.

There was no pain, no death, nothing.

All that she knew, when she opened her eyes was that everything had changed. She had entered the novel in the place of the real transmigrator who should have been here and faced these things.

"Indeed, that's a shame," Wei Xiao Hua forced herself to speak with a bitter smile on her face. 

Internally, she was screaming loudly, 'What in the world I ever do to you, Lady Gao to the point that you wish to shame me? Also, how in the world you know about the real Wei Liuying's capabilities when there's supposed to be no one who knew?'

There were many questions inside Wei Xiao Hua's head, but she had no other choice but to push everything to the back of her mind. She felt as if she would only make the situation worse if she tried to find out the real answer right now. This was not the right time as she had to make sure that she diffused the situation properly.