Helping Out, a Mysterious Beautiful Girl

"You..."

"You grown women are forcing a young girl to smoke cigars. Isn't that wrong?"

Xiao Changge directly pulled out the Heavy Profound Ruler, already prepared to fight.

Xiao Changge recalled his past life.

Under the laws of his homeland in his previous life, this kind of behavior was extremely serious in nature. It was not as simple as "encouraging someone to smoke cigars or tobacco products." Upon encountering it, ordinary passersby had no legal obligation to forcibly report it to the authorities, but they had the right and ample reason to intervene, call the police, and report it. From the perspectives of morality and protecting minors, helping was strongly encouraged.

Why was forcing a girl to smoke tobacco products so vile?

This was a serious violation of personal rights—a civil tort!

Legally speaking:

Forcing someone to smoke went against their will and infringed upon their bodily rights, right to health, and personal dignity. If the target was a minor, the harm was even greater. Under the XX Code, the coercer had to bear civil liability for ceasing the infringement, apologizing, and paying compensation.

It violated the XXX Protection Act.

That XXX Protection Act explicitly prohibited indulging, instigating, or luring minors into smoking, including e-cigarettes. It was illegal for guardians to do so. Anyone who discovered circumstances harmful to a minor's physical or mental health, or involving infringement, had the right to dissuade, stop, and report it.

There was even the risk of public security violations or criminal charges:

If it was accompanied by slapping, threats, surrounding the victim, or filming videos, it would be handled as provoking trouble.

In Xiao Changge's homeland in his previous life, a thirteen-year-old girl had been forced by several female students to smoke and had been slapped. Five girls involved were summoned by the police on suspicion of provoking trouble. There had also been several students who forced a classmate to smoke, threatened them, and made them fight each other. They were detained for five days, though the punishment was not carried out because they were minors.

If adults or guardians living with a minor repeatedly forced them to smoke and beat them, it could constitute the crime of abuse. In a typical Supreme Court case, a live-in boyfriend who forced a two-year-old child to smoke and drink was convicted of abuse and intentional injury, receiving a combined sentence of three years. The biological mother was also convicted of abuse for allowing it, receiving one year.

Simply offering someone a cigarette and urging them to smoke, without violence, generally resulted in administrative penalties such as reprimands or fines. But once the word "force" was involved—violence or coercion—the matter escalated.

Additional circumstances would further magnify the severity:

If the "delinquent women" were school dropouts from society who preyed on students, filmed humiliating videos, funneled offline victims into online exposure, or used sexually suggestive control, they might be implicated in more serious crimes such as bullying, molestation, inducing drug use, disseminating obscene materials, or trafficking and controlling minors. It would absolutely not be merely a smoking issue.

Simply put: forcing an adult to smoke equaled infringement plus possible public security violations; forcing a young girl—a minor—to smoke equaled violations of minor protection laws plus bullying or provoking trouble. If it occurred over a long period while living together, abuse charges could also apply.

That was why this kind of evil act was so serious.

On Douluo Continent, only the Sun Moon Empire currently prohibited minors from smoking. The Douluo Three Kingdoms basically had no regulations prohibiting minors from smoking.

However, the Douluo Three Kingdoms all basically had one provision: boys and girls could not smoke during their youth.

Although the Douluo Three Kingdoms were not as strict as the Sun Moon Empire, they understood that tobacco products were harmful to health. Therefore, boys and girls could not smoke, at least not until they were older.

That was the view of the Douluo Three Kingdoms. The Sun Moon Empire, meanwhile, was stricter, just like Xiao Changge's homeland in his previous life.

The Sun Moon Empire directly prohibited minors from smoking, and Xiao Changge strongly agreed with that.

Even though this was the Heaven Dou Empire rather than the Sun Moon Empire, the Heaven Dou Empire also had laws. Its laws stipulated that because smoking was harmful to health, boys and girls were prohibited from smoking.

This was the same as the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

Could these delinquent women force a young girl to smoke? And this girl was clearly from a respectable family.

Otherwise, why would she go to a tavern and order only a glass of milk? She was obviously just trying something new. She had not broken any laws or committed any crimes. Clearly, she was a girl from a respectable family.

So it was obvious that a beautiful girl from a respectable family was being forced to smoke by a group of delinquent women.

Although Xiao Changge did not have much of a relationship with this beautiful girl and had only met her once just now, there were some things he could not simply stand by and ignore.

For example, if he saw someone selling prohibited drugs or forcibly harming children, boys, or girls, he could not just watch without intervening.

"Kid, are you asking for a beating?" At this moment, the delinquent woman wore a strange expression that gave off the feeling of a gang leader. Then, without saying anything more, they released their martial souls. Beast martial souls and qi martial souls appeared around and in the hands of those delinquent women.

"Fine, let's see how strong you really are."

Then, they revealed three and four soul rings. Clearly, they were a group of Soul Elders and Soul Ancestors. Their strength was nothing impressive by the standards of Douluo Continent's upper echelons, but to some small families, they were already quite formidable.

Especially in backward little towns, they were considered powerful figures, practically big shots.

"Watch my first soul skill, High Speed!"

The delinquent woman with the first beast martial soul immediately activated her martial soul and attacked with a soul skill, but Xiao Changge was no pushover.

With one hand, he grabbed the delinquent woman by the neck, easily knocked her unconscious, and threw her to the ground. After all, she had not committed any overly serious crime. Teaching her a lesson was enough.

"What?! He beat her without even activating his martial soul or using a soul skill? Is this kid a Soul Emperor or a Soul Sage?"

The delinquent women were somewhat frightened now, but they did not retreat.

"Everyone, attack together! Even if he's a Soul Emperor or Soul Sage, there are so many of us. Are we supposed to fear him alone?"

The delinquent women charged forward, but Xiao Changge was no longer going easy on them.

"Explosive Step!" Xiao Changge directly used a speed-type movement combat technique, charging into them at an extremely fast speed.

"First Soul Skill! Frenzied Flurry!"

"Second Soul Skill! Dash Kill!"

"Third Soul Skill! Flame Jet!"

"Fourth Soul Skill! Light Acceleration!"

The support-system soul masters among the delinquent women all made their moves at this moment.

But Xiao Changge was not afraid of them either. At incredible speed, he easily knocked every one of them unconscious.

After all, after so much training and hard work, teaching a few street thugs a lesson was easy for him.

At this moment, the beautiful girl looked at Xiao Changge, looked at all those people lying defeated on the ground, and then looked at Xiao Changge again.

"Little sister, Big Brother has already beaten these bad people. Hurry and leave. These delinquent women forced you to smoke, so you need to be more careful in the future.

"You're still a minor, so you can't smoke. I'll give you a medicinal pill. It's used to treat injuries and regulate your body. If you've smoked, you can use it to offset the side effects of smoking.

"Remember, don't smoke. If anyone forces you to smoke next time, make sure to ask someone for help. You must be careful."

After Xiao Changge finished speaking, he left. After giving the medicinal pill to the beautiful girl, he also gave her a milk candy before departing.

The beautiful girl watched Xiao Changge leave, a yandere smile appearing on her face.

"An interesting man."