A Catfight Between Young Girls (Bonus Chapter for the Boss)

"Brother Yu, I..."

Xiao Yu wanted to say something else, but Xue Ni quietly slipped up behind her at that moment, then...

Get them hugging already!

Xue Ni gave Xiao Yu a hard shove from behind, sending her crashing straight into Qin Yu's arms.

Mm, that looked much better!

Lovers should just get together already and let me keep shipping you, understand?!

Qin Yu froze for a moment, but quickly recovered and naturally wrapped an arm around Xiao Yu's waist.

"Ooh~"

Faced with such a scene, the onlookers tacitly unleashed their gossip-loving instincts.

As for Xiao Yu, once Qin Yu held her, her entire body seemed to lose its strength, and she went limp in his arms.

Her mind was completely blank.

Who was she? Where was she? What was she doing?

It was not until Qin Yu gave her a little push that she finally came back to her senses. Seeing the knowing smiles on her classmates' faces, her pretty face instantly went from pale to crimson.

Especially when she spotted Xue Ni hiding behind the crowd, grinning with an incredibly... lecherous look, Xiao Yu felt like she was about to explode from embarrassment.

"Xue Ni! I'm going to kill you!"

Burning with rage, Xiao Yu erupted with astonishing speed. If Xue Ni had not fled early, the students present would probably have gotten an even better show.

A catfight between two young girls...

Tsk, tsk. Just thinking about it was exciting, wasn't it?

"Student Qin Yu, the points from your victory in this battle, as well as the reward points for placing first in the freshman assessment, have all been recorded."

Just then, Instructor Ruo Lin walked over and handed Qin Yu a small booklet.

"You now have six hundred points. You can already exchange them for some things that suit you."

"Keep it up. Your teacher has faith in you."

After saying that, Instructor Ruo Lin lightly tapped Qin Yu on the forehead before turning and leaving.

Hm? Why had a staircase suddenly appeared in front of him?

Oh~

So this was the road to his promotion.

Qin Yu opened the booklet. Inside, his point changes were recorded clearly and plainly.

Everyone started with one hundred points. Since he had taken first place in the assessment and defeated Zhao Yuan, a two-star Battle Master, his total had shot up to six hundred.

The rankings in the point competition were calculated according to the total cumulative points earned. They could only increase, never decrease, and were reset once every school year.

If someone challenged an opponent ranked far above them, they would receive additional points upon winning.

Six hundred points were already enough to exchange for some second-grade medicinal pills.

However, Qin Yu was not particularly interested in second-grade pills right now.

He wanted to try out his earlier idea of combining earth-attribute and water-attribute battle qi in cultivation.

"Xue Ni! I'm going to kill you!"

Xiao Yu's furious roar echoed through the campus, drawing glances from the surrounding students.

Xue Ni had anticipated this long ago. The moment Xiao Yu came back to her senses, she had already bolted, and by now she had darted dozens of meters away.

"Yu'er, listen to my explanation! I did this for your own good!"

"Get back here!"

Xiao Yu chased relentlessly behind her, her long legs moving in a blur beneath the sunlight, her face so red it looked ready to bleed.

She had never expected Xue Ni, that shameless female hooligan, to dare push her in front of so many people!

And... and Qin Yu had even held her by the waist!

At the thought, Xiao Yu's face reddened even more, and her speed increased several notches.

One in front and one behind, the two raced down the tree-lined path, around the teaching building, and all the way back to the dormitory.

Xiao Yu's legs were longer, after all. Taking the stairs three at a time, she finally intercepted Xue Ni at the dormitory door.

"Run. Go on, run again."

Panting heavily, Xiao Yu grabbed Xue Ni by the back of her collar and dragged her into the dormitory.

Bang!

The door slammed shut.

"Yu'er, calm down! Calm down! Ah—!"

The sounds of tables and chairs being shoved around came from inside the room, mixed with Xue Ni's screams.

"That's for pushing me! That's for making a fool of me in public!"

Xiao Yu pinned Xue Ni to the bed and gave her a thorough roughing-up. No matter how Xue Ni twisted and turned, laughing until tears came out, she could not break free.

"I was wrong, I was wrong! Spare me, Yu'er!"

"You know you were wrong now? Too late!!"

Xiao Yu did not stop until Xue Ni went limp all over, sprawled on the bed and gasping for breath. Only then did she let go and roll aside to sit down.

"Whew... whew..."

Xue Ni lay on the bed with disheveled hair, a wrinkled school uniform, and tears of laughter still hanging from her face.

Yet she did not look angry in the slightest. Instead, she seemed somewhat... unsatisfied?

Xiao Yu truly had no idea what to do with Xue Ni in this state.

"Are you sick? I beat you up, and you're still this happy?"

"Hehe..."

Xue Ni rolled over onto her stomach, propped up her chin, and looked at Xiao Yu with a meaningful smile.

"Yu'er, you have no idea. When Qin Yu held your waist just now, that look in his eyes... tsk, tsk, tsk..."

"Shut up!"

Xiao Yu grabbed a pillow and hurled it at her. Xue Ni caught it easily, then dropped her playful expression and spoke more seriously.

"Yu'er, I'm serious."

"Didn't you always think he was like a stone, impossible to warm up no matter what you did?"

"When he held you today, did you feel it? That stone actually has warmth."

Xiao Yu did not speak. She merely buried her face in her knees.

Of course she had felt it.

At the instant Qin Yu wrapped an arm around her waist, she could clearly feel the warmth of his palm and the rhythm of his heartbeat at that moment.

"Alright, I'll stop teasing you."

Xue Ni sat up and patted Xiao Yu on the shoulder.

Xiao Yu sat on the bed for a while before suddenly getting up, walking to the window, and pushing it open.

The evening breeze drifted in with a hint of chill, dispersing the heat from her face.

She watched the sky outside gradually darken as the scene from that afternoon replayed over and over in her mind. Her fists slowly clenched.

In the end, she was still too weak.

Xiao Yu took a deep breath, turned around, and looked at Xue Ni, who was still lying on the bed.

"Xue Ni, do me a favor."

"What favor?"

"Starting today, cultivate with me every night."

Xue Ni froze for a moment, then sat up and looked Xiao Yu over from head to toe.

Seeing the unprecedented seriousness in her eyes, Xue Ni put away her teasing expression and nodded solemnly.

"Alright."

The next day, the school had not arranged any classes, but Qin Yu still rose early. After washing up simply, he left the dormitory building.

The mountain air in the early morning was fresh, carrying the faint fragrance of grass and trees.

After cultivating in this mountain for so long, Qin Yu felt that, somewhere in the unseen, an indescribable force seemed to have become connected to him.

Barefoot, he stepped onto the damp earth, felt the power of the land rising from beneath his feet, slowly closed his eyes, and began cultivating.

An hour later, Qin Yu finished cultivating and headed down the mountain.

His battle qi had become a little more solid, but he was still some distance away from breaking through to Battle Master.

However, the academy's medicine hall should be open by now.

He wanted to go take a look.