Little Bodyguard(GL) 7

Chapter 7

Go to sleep with me.

If Li Qinyue’s tone had been softer, Zhuo Zhi would have thought it was a drunk girl acting cute.

But Li Qinyue was clinging to her arm, her entire body limp except for her fingers which were gripping tightly, her brows furrowed, clearly indicating that it was an order.

“Okay,” Zhuo Zhi agreed. After all, accompanying someone to sleep was much easier than being shut out.

Aijia looked at the two of them, hesitated for a moment, and asked, “President Li, where do you want to sleep?”

She was indeed someone closer to Li Qinyue. Li Qinyue patted Zhuo Zhi’s head, “Home.”

“Uh, okay.” Zhuo Zhi half-carried Li Qinyue downstairs. The stairs in the bar were narrow and steep, with hollow iron railings.

Li Qinyue had only taken one step down when Zhuo Zhi suddenly steadied her, quickly taking another step down, “Here, I’ll carry you on my back.”

Aijia’s eyes widened slightly behind them. She quickly took a step forward, “I’ll help…”

She didn’t get to help. In an instant, Li Qinyue was already on Zhuo Zhi’s back. Zhuo Zhi adjusted her grip on Li Qinyue’s legs, carrying her as steadily as if she were a backpack.

Aijia withdrew her outstretched hand and took out her phone, “I’ll call a car for you.”

Zhuo Zhi walked downstairs steadily, her breathing even, “Thank you.”

The car was the bar’s private car. The heater was blasting inside, making Li Qinyue even more drowsy.

Zhuo Zhi didn’t sit in the front passenger seat this time. She sat close to Li Qinyue, acting as her pillow.

Li Qinyue slumped down, resting her head on Zhuo Zhi’s shoulder.

The car was silent. As they approached the intersection, Zhuo Zhi asked softly, “Sister Qinyue, which home are we going to?”

She thought that when a person is vulnerable, they wouldn’t want to return to the empty and cold villa in the resort. But this seemingly thoughtful question didn’t elicit any gratitude from Li Qinyue. As if a switch had been flipped, she suddenly stared at Zhuo Zhi and said, “Which home do you think we’re going to?”

Zhuo Zhi had met Li Qinyue’s grandfather. It was an even more luxurious house, and she remembered the address.

But she didn’t dare to say it, just pursed her lips and said, “The villa complex?”

Li Qinyue’s eyes flickered, and she turned to tell the driver an address.

It was completely unfamiliar to Zhuo Zhi.

After the car turned the corner, Li Qinyue moved away from Zhuo Zhi’s shoulder and leaned towards the other side.

She looked out the window, lost in thought, just like when they were going down the mountain this morning.

Zhuo Zhi felt a little troubled. For the first time, she truly felt that this job was indeed not easy.

The car drove through the bustling city center and gradually headed towards the outskirts.

Finally, it stopped at the entrance of an alley. This was as far as the address Li Qinyue had given could take them.

Before Zhuo Zhi could react, Li Qinyue had already opened the car door and gotten out, on the side closer to the road, startling Zhuo Zhi.

Fortunately, the road here was deserted. On a winter night, there were few cars and few people.

Li Qinyue’s steps were unsteady, her walk resembling a catwalk.

Zhuo Zhi went to support her, but she was pushed away.

So, she could only stretch out her hands to form a semi-circle around Li Qinyue, keeping her eyes on the ground, afraid that something might trip her up.

The two of them stumbled into the dimly lit alley.

On both sides of the narrow road were low, old shops. Few of them were open at this time, and most of the peeling signs were swaying in the wind.

As someone approached them, Zhuo Zhi only looked up when their elongated shadow entered her line of sight.

Upon seeing them, she immediately became alert.

Three sleazy-looking men were standing in front of them. One was leaning against the closed door of a shop, smoking, another was squatting by the roadside, staring at them with dead fish eyes.

The other one was standing in the middle of the road, clearly blocking their way, his hand in his pocket. He suddenly grinned at Zhuo Zhi.

His teeth were really yellow. Zhuo Zhi frowned in disgust.

She grabbed Li Qinyue’s arm. Li Qinyue tried to shake her off, but failed.

Zhuo Zhi lowered her voice, “President Li, it’s time to wake up.”

Li Qinyue’s eyes focused, and after two seconds of silence, she said, “There’s a dog blocking the way?”

Zhuo Zhi: “…”

Yellow Teeth took the label for himself and raised his chin, “Little sister, what’s with that attitude?”

Li Qinyue also raised her chin and smiled, “Grandson, have you forgotten what your grandpa looks like?”

Zhuo Zhi: “…”

“Oh wow, this girl is interesting,” Yellow Teeth beckoned, calling over the squatting and leaning men, “Little sister, do you know where this is?”

Zhuo Zhi looked around. The squatting man said, “Don’t bother, no one will hear you even if you scream your lungs out.”

Li Qinyue: “That line is as old and stupid as you are.”

Zhuo Zhi sighed almost inaudibly and said to Li Qinyue, “Sister, there’s surveillance here.”

The squatting man said, “The surveillance is broken, no one will know even if we beat you to death.”

Li Qinyue pouted at Zhuo Zhi, “See, he’s really an idiot.”

Zhuo Zhi pulled her back and said to the three men in front of them, “Let’s talk somewhere else.”

Yellow Teeth pointed backwards, “This little sister is understanding. Just around the corner is my place, you can do whatever you want.”

The leaning man said, “I like that one.”

He was referring to Li Qinyue.

Li Qinyue smiled, her body limp from alcohol, but still pretending to stretch her limbs.

The squatting man wasn’t to be outdone, “I like both of them.”

Zhuo Zhi thought these three men were really long-winded. As Li Qinyue was about to move forward, she pulled her back again.

Li Qinyue was a little dissatisfied. Zhuo Zhi asked the three men, “Are you robbing us for money or for fun?”

Li Qinyue stared at Zhuo Zhi, “Why are you asking that? You should be asking them how they like it cooked.”

Yellow Teeth said, “That depends on how you ladies like it cooked.”

“Disgusting,” Zhuo Zhi looked down at her hands and muttered to herself, “Let’s just count both then.”

“Go ahead! Little dinosaur!!!” Li Qinyue patted Zhuo Zhi’s shoulder hard, looking excited.

Zhuo Zhi glanced at Li Qinyue before rushing forward. Li Qinyue’s eyes were shining, her smile genuine and carefree.

It was like how she had said goodnight last night. Even though she had given Zhuo Zhi the cold shoulder for more than ten hours today, Zhuo Zhi felt that this smile was incredibly precious and long-awaited.

Li Qinyue enjoyed watching her fight. Zhuo Zhi had noticed this during their first encounter.

And Zhuo Zhi enjoyed fighting. In the past, she always had to find excuses and opportunities, and afterwards, she had to think about how to explain it to her master. Now, she didn’t have to consider any of these problems.

This was her job, she was here to fight for Li Qinyue.

“Woohoo!” Zhuo Zhi couldn’t help but let out a low cheer.

Before Yellow Teeth could even react, he received a hard punch to his chin.

His limited brain cells were only enough to wonder how this person had pounced on him, how she had punched him, and was it really this seemingly weak girl who had hit him? She was only up to his chest…

Then he received a second punch, landing on his waist, as heavy as a thousand-pound stone, sending waves of pain through him.

Yellow Teeth fell to the ground, tears welling up, his vision spinning.

In his blurry and upside-down vision, he saw his buddies receiving the same treatment as him. His other buddy was standing there dumbfounded, not helping, and even forgetting to run.

Silent punches, silent falls. Yellow Teeth’s cry of pain was choked in his throat, as if he had been poisoned and muted. Only the wind whistling through the alley amplified the sound.

Suddenly, the sound of passionate music blasted through the wind. Yellow Teeth couldn’t understand the lyrics, but the uplifting emotion in the music infected him, making him cry even harder.

Soon, his buddies were either lying or kneeling on the ground with him, all crying their hearts out.

Zhuo Zhi shook her fist and looked back at Li Qinyue, speechless.

Li Qinyue was holding her phone, swaying to the rhythm of the music with passion, like she was at a concert.

The theme song of Slam Dunk(basketball anime) was playing on her phone. The scene was beautiful, but paired with the current situation, it was strange and childish.

Zhuo Zhi asked her, “What are you doing?”

Li Qinyue shouted, “Giving you some background music!”

“You think I’m playing basketball?!”

“Playing hooligans!” Li Qinyue responded smoothly.

“Hooligans” was a dialect term in Nanhai City, used to describe idiots and troublemakers.

She wasn’t wrong. Zhuo Zhi wanted to laugh, but she felt that laughing right after beating people up would affect her aura.

Especially with Li Qinyue playing background music for her.

Zhuo Zhi took two steps back, looked down at the three hooligans lying on the ground, cleared her throat, and said solemnly, “Do you know what you did wrong?”

The only reply she got was the singing of “Sekai ga owaru made wa hanareru koto mo nai” (Until the world ends, we will never be apart).*

“Do you know what you did wrong?!” Zhuo Zhi raised her voice, sounding imposing along with the music.

“Are you done?” Li Qinyue asked from two meters away.

“Huh?” Zhuo Zhi looked back at her.

“Are you done fighting?” Li Qinyue clarified.

“Yes, I am,” Zhuo Zhi pointed at the three men, “I slapped them for robbery, and hit their kidneys for attempted assault. None of them fought back, and they’re all down.”

“My song just reached the climax!” Li Qinyue swung her phone, unhappy.

Although Zhuo Zhi had never owned a phone like Miss Li’s, she had seen many advertisements online. The price was astonishing, and she was really afraid that Li Qinyue would smash it in anger.

“Then what should we do?!” she quickly asked.

“Keep fighting!” Li Qinyue pointed and walked over aggressively, “You guys! What about all the crap you were talking about earlier? Did your arms and legs degenerate when it came to actually fighting? Even embryos are tougher than you! Even if you were reborn ten thousand times, you wouldn’t be this weak!”

“Get up!” Li Qinyue kicked them, “If you don’t fight now, when you get to the police station, watch your asses!!!”

The three men panicked. The squatting one shouted, “The surveillance is working!!!”

What a quick-witted little guy.

“So what if it’s working!!!” Li Qinyue roared back, “Are you stupid, providing evidence to get your asses kicked?!”

Zhuo Zhi grabbed her arm and pulled her back, “President Li, President Li…”

“What!!!” Li Qinyue was drunk and turned her head to yell, an indiscriminate attack that made Zhuo Zhi’s head hurt.

But for the sake of the bigger picture, Zhuo Zhi tiptoed closer and whispered in Li Qinyue’s ear, “The surveillance only captured them blocking our way, we were the ones who attacked first.”

“So what!” Li Qinyue said, “If I want to put these bastards in jail, they’ll never get out…”

The squatting one suddenly lunged forward, kneeling in a particularly pitiful posture, “Sister, sister, we were wrong, we weren’t really going to rob you, we were just playing…”

Li Qinyue glared at him, “Playing with me?”

Yellow Hair also reacted, crying out repeatedly, “Grandpa, grandpa, we were wrong, we were blind, please have mercy on us…”

Li Qinyue looked at Zhuo Zhi, “Did they change the person who’s reciting the old lines?”

“Yes,” the sober Zhuo Zhi replied.

Li Qinyue suddenly smiled, “You’re my little bodyguard who’s full of righteousness and morality.”

“Yes,” Zhuo Zhi was almost amused by her.

“Now be moral, quick,” Li Qinyue urged her, “Find me an excuse to keep beating them up.”

Zhuo Zhi: “…”

The three men on the ground: “…”

“Then I’ll find one myself,” Li Qinyue frowned and said seriously, “You think you’re just playing, have you considered the consequences of your actions? How many girls would be traumatized by you, afraid to go out…”

At this point, Li Qinyue paused, unable to continue the act, and shouted, “What the fuck are you playing at, if you had the chance, wouldn’t you do those disgusting things you’re thinking about?! Wouldn’t you!!!”

Zhuo Zhi took a deep breath.

Li Qinyue suddenly seemed to have sobered up, her voice cold as she ordered, “Hit them.”

Zhuo Zhi asked, “How badly?”

Li Qinyue raised her hand, “Keep up with the rhythm, hit them until the song ends.”

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T/N: The original text was in Japanese, so I left it as is.

世界が终わるまでは 离れる事もない-Sekai ga owaru made wa hanareru koto mo nai: (Until the world ends, we will never be apart)