Aren't You Aware That I Have a Bad Temper?

"Agh!" The red-dressed woman screeched as she stumbled backwards, tearing through the boat's canopy and falling into the water as everyone on the boat watched in shock.

All at once, the boat became silent.

Yang Xuan, who had been having a laugh with Su Ye earlier, now fiddled with his fan as he said quietly, "Your temper is terrible, Miss Su."

In the end, Su Ye had been the last to join their pleasure trip, and their group naturally sided with the red-dressed woman who had come with them. From their perspective, Su Ye had obtained the goldseeker herb by coincidence because she had boarded their boat. If not for Su Ye, the herb would have been theirs.

Coincidentally, Su Ye did not like the people on the boat either. She was not deaf, and had heard how they had been mocking her. Su Ye chuckled and smiled mysteriously. "Aren't you all already aware of my temper?"

After all, hadn't this bunch been yapping away about her?

Xue Liang narrowed his eyes at her words. "What do you mean, lady?"

Su Ye lowered her head and smiled faintly. "Trying to steal the herb of someone with low cultivation? My my, it seems that your group holds both pride and accomplishment."

Meanwhile, the red-dressed woman who fell into the moat climbed back onto the boat miserably. Yang Xuan went to the stern to help her, and she glared hatefully at Su Ye. "How dare you hit me?!"

Su Ye shook her head and corrected her, "You were the one trying to hit me; I simply parried your blow."

Those words left the red-robed woman even more furious. "You!" With that, her red whip lashed towards Su Ye once again.

Su Ye raised her hand and caught the whip, her smile slowly fading. She moved incredibly slowly, gripping the whip and coiling it around her hand. Then, she gave it a light tug, and the red-robed woman stumbled forward.

Yang Xuan quickly reached out to grab the woman, his self-indulgent demeanor vanishing as he studied Su Ye from head to toe. This woman named Su Ye had to be tier-one at best. While they had assumed that she had managed to get the drop on their friend earlier, it was clear that she could easily catch that tier-two fire-element whip with her bare hands, looking comfortable as she did.

Could she be hiding her cultivation?

Xue Liang was observing Su Ye as well, and clearly noticed that something was amiss. At the same time, the boat was almost reaching the shore.

Su Ye shook off the whip, intent on jumping onto the shore.

That was when Xue Liang suddenly put up a hand, blocking her way. "Lady, you climbed onto our boat, only to repay us with your foul temper," he coldly said. "It's obvious that you are here to cause trouble and not make friends. Now, you intend to leave without any explanation?"

Su Ye stared at his face then, and remembered that there was indeed such a character in the book. "Xue Liang, a direct descendant of the Xue family, one of the four great families in the imperial city," Su Ye murmured, reciting the information about him from memory, which only made Xue Liang's expression falter.

In the next second, he attacked her.

Su Ye dodged his hits, chuckling at Xue Liang's icy expression. "Are you brave enough to spar without your spiritual roots, Young Master Xue?"

Su Ye's words must have provoked him, because he immediately withdrew the blue light glimmering over his body, resorting to using his bare fists against her instead. However, without his spiritual roots, Xue Liang was much weaker, and certainly not a match for Su Ye when it came to fisticuffs.

In fact, even if Su Ye had only transmigrated recently, her natural superstrength and the muscle memory of the body's original owner meant that she was perfectly at ease in the fight.

Hence, in less than five minutes, Su Ye successfully landed a heavy punch on Xue Liang's shoulder. Already cornered at the edge of the boat, the punch knocked him directly off it. However, he managed to balance himself, keeping the tip of his shoe on the surface of the water while he levitated above it, not a single drop of water touching him.