It was hard to imagine how many lifetimes in prison someone would get for smashing, looting, and burning a shop in a town where speaking a little roughly to a local earned six months behind bars.
So seeing Xing'er wrecking a shop came as an enormous shock to Yue Wen.
"Boss, you're here too?" Zhao Xing'er spotted Yue Wen as well and smiled. "What a coincidence."
"Let's leave the crime scene before we chat. Talking to you here makes me look like your accomplice," Yue Wen said guiltily.
Even an accessory would probably get eight or ten years.
"Relax." Zhao Xing'er burned the entire general store into a sea of flames, then swaggered out and told the shopkeeper lying on the ground, "From now on, learn who you can and can't mess with in Nightmare Town!"
Only then did she pull Yue Wen away. Passersby kept looking over along the way, but whenever Xing'er swept her gaze across them, not one dared meet her eyes.
Only after they reached the outskirts did Yue Wen get a chance to ask, "How can you act so brazenly?"
That woman buying groceries had shouted for help earlier, and the Public Security Team Captain had arrived in under three seconds. Xing'er had been smashing things for ages, yet no one had come?
He really couldn't understand it.
"Because this was a task I accepted," Zhao Xing'er said. "I'd just stepped outside when a poor old man came up to me. He said... 'Beautiful young lady, could you do me a favor?'"
"He looked so pitiful, so I said, 'Sure, sir. What do you need?' He said he'd been cheated while shopping at a general store in town. The owner told him he was selling the bathwater of the lady from the flower shop next