Gu Jiaojiao had originally wanted to wait for Si Jinghao to wake up before heading back, but Su Shuochi had so firmly said he would wait for her to come home.

She couldn’t find it in her heart to make him wait, so Gu Jiaojiao could only bid Xia Qiuming farewell and immediately rush back.

The entire Si Family was keeping watch by the hospital bed. Half an hour later, Si Jinghao truly woke up.

Xia Qiuming personally examined him and confirmed there were no major issues, finally remarking with envy, "You’re one lucky guy. If you hadn’t taken Jiaojiao’s medicine, you definitely wouldn’t have woken up this fast."

"Was it the young lady who saved me?" Si Jinghao’s voice was very weak, but his mind was still clear.

"Yes, it was. You get some good rest. I’ll come see you again tomorrow, and Master Jiaojiao will come see you tomorrow, too."

Xia Qiuming knew patients feel insecure at times like this, but he had to get home to be with his new bride.

So he could only offer some comforting words to his childhood friend. Just a short while ago, he’d been afraid he wasn’t going to make it!

After Xia Qiuming left, Grandma Si took her daughter-in-law and left as well. Only Elder Si, his son, and a surgeon remained in the hospital room.

Si Jinghao couldn’t help but say, "Grandpa, Dad, why are you all here? I really thought I was a goner this time!"

"What are you talking about? A fortune-teller once said you’re too stubborn to die," Elder Si chided with a laugh.

Si Jinghao then gave Elder Si and the Si Family Master his analysis of the criminal organization. In that moment, they were not just family, but also his superiors.

Listening to his grandson’s account, Elder Si frowned. "They know your usual movements and locations very well. It seems we have a mole."

"Then could they have an informant in the hospital as well?"

"I think it’s likely. They thought I was unconscious and completely oblivious, so they weren’t very careful about what they said. They let some things slip while they were beating me."

Si Jinghao took a sip of water and continued to haltingly relay the information he had gathered.

"Oh no. Jiaojiao is riding back on her motorcycle by herself. What if she runs into an ambush from them?"

"Dad, you didn’t arrange for a driver to take her?" the Si Family Master asked, suddenly frantic.

"I thought you would handle it!" Elder Si was beside himself with regret.

"I saw how badly Jinghao was injured, I wasn’t in any state of mind to think about it..." Now, all three generations of the Si family began to worry about Gu Jiaojiao.

The Si Family Master immediately dispatched several of his most capable aides to drive out and find Gu Jiaojiao, with special instructions to look out for any fights along the route.

But the Si Family had no idea that the ones who needed worrying about were not Gu Jiaojiao, but those very same thugs.

Riding her motorcycle, Gu Jiaojiao was herded into a deserted alley by several cars. This was, of course, by her own design.

Otherwise, with her riding skills, no one could possibly have caught up to her, let alone cornered her.

Because among the cars pursuing her, she recognized one she had been in a gunfight with before.

Now this was interesting. She casually parked her motorcycle, swinging a long, slender leg off the seat with an incredibly suave motion.

"Alright, talk. Why were you following me?" Gu Jiaojiao made a fist with her left hand and pressed on it with her right, making her knuckles crack loudly. POP. POP.

The sound was especially sinister in the dead of night, but the dozen or so thugs didn’t take her seriously in the slightest.

"Heh heh... What other reason could there be? You’re a looker, and I just so happen to need a wife."

"Haha, Boss, why are you wasting your breath on a broad? Let me take care of her." The burly, fleshy-faced man lunged at Gu Jiaojiao as he spoke.

"Then let me send you on your way." Gu Jiaojiao’s long leg shot out, sending the two-hundred-pound man flying with a single kick.

She was wearing stretchy skinny jeans that made her legs look even longer, and the move was impossibly cool.

The man flew into the air before crashing down, landing squarely on five of his companions. It all happened in an instant.

One of the thugs was just about to draw a weapon when one of Gu Jiaojiao’s silver needles flew out and struck him, freezing him in place.

Within minutes, Gu Jiaojiao had taken down all dozen-plus men. She planted her foot on the back of the leader.

She said arrogantly, "You guys came to rob me without even doing your homework? I, Divine Doctor Su Gu, am a successor of an Ancient Martial Family."

’Although I’m not the descendant of any Ancient Martial Family, I have real skills, so it’s not technically a lie.’

The thugs on the ground were scared half to death by her words. An Ancient Martial Family... just the name alone sounded incredibly powerful.

"Spare our lives, heroine! Spare us!"

"Spare us, brave hero..."

"..."

Instantly, cries for mercy echoed throughout the alley.

"’Brave hero?’ How interesting. I never thought I’d live to see the day someone called this old lady a ’brave hero’! Ha ha!" Gu Jiaojiao laughed triumphantly.

The leader of the thugs lay prone beneath Gu Jiaojiao’s foot. He opened his eyes, his fleshy face scrunching up in a way that was an absolute eyesore, though he seemed completely oblivious to it.

He whimpered and begged, "Ma’am, Ancestor, please let us go! We were just trying to rob some money and, while we were at it, maybe score a beauty."

His whimpering face, with every crease showing his miserable state, looked utterly ridiculous.

Gu Jiaojiao ground her foot into his face and said disdainfully, "Hmph. A pathetic bunch like you thinks you can rob people of their money and their women?"

The thugs: ...

’A bunch like us?’

’What’s wrong with a bunch like us?’

’We’re tough as nails, okay?’

But no one dared to talk back. They could only lie there dejectedly, silently cursing her in their minds.

Because they had all been hit by Gu Jiaojiao’s Soft Muscle Powder and were covered in injuries.

Only they could appreciate the exquisite agony of being both pained and powerless. How could they possibly dare to provoke this demon again?

She looked as harmless as an angel, but after clashing with her, they realized she was more terrifying than a demon!

The side of the leader’s face pressed to the alley floor was scraped bloody by the grit, the pain making his scalp tingle.

Yet he didn’t dare show the slightest hint of discomfort. The woman before him was his organization’s number one assassination target.

A formidable figure that even the most powerful leader of their organization was wary of!

"What’s your name? And why were you tracking this Divine Doctor?" Gu Jiaojiao pressed down harder with her foot.

"We... we really were... just trying to get some money. Usually, we’ll nab a pretty girl on the side, too..." His lips trembled, and his voice shook violently.

Gu Jiaojiao used the toe of her shoe to tilt his chin up, deliberately intimidating him. "Oh? So you really do go after women, do you?"

The man gulped. ’I’m panicking,’ he thought. ’I can’t tell the truth, or I’m dead for sure.’

"W-we’ve never actually succeeded... After all, an immortal as beautiful as you is a rare sight." 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"You think I believe that?" Gu Jiaojiao scoffed, moving the toe of her shoe to his throat.

With the toe of her shoe pressed against his throat, the man could barely breathe. He felt his chest tighten as the air was choked out of him.

He was about to black out!

’But I can’t give in!’

’After all, I’m one of the most capable lieutenants in the organization. It’s a position I fought tooth and nail to reach—I can’t just die here!’

"We... we really are just ordinary street punks."

Gu Jiaojiao’s eyes grew cold. "It seems you won’t understand the gravity of your actions until I teach you a proper lesson."

The thug leader’s eyes widened in terror.

’But the pressure this damn woman was applying to his throat didn’t lessen in the slightest...’