C4 Chapter 4

Duu Luo blinked, then nodded, signaling she wouldn’t make a sound.

Just then, Jiuyou’s voice surfaced in her mind.

“Boyan, sixteen. Right now, he’s an apprentice at an inn. Current situation: he got into a fight and injured the Lin family’s eldest son. What you need to do now is save Boyan, make sure those people never dare bully him again. The system reminds the Player that you can use your status to make them back off, and keep Boyan by your side for three years. This is the first mission. Do your best.”

So her identity was actually that badass?

Duu Luo couldn’t help thinking to herself.

“Hey. Take the knife off my throat, and I can guarantee you’ll be fine. Those people won’t come after you anymore,” Duu Luo said, eyeing the blade in Boyan’s hand. She was still scared—sure, she had every kind of cheat code in the world, but when someone’s holding a knife to your neck, being afraid is only natural. “Our family is way above some Lin family. Nobody’s going to lay a hand on someone we decide to protect.”

“You’re... Duu Luo?” Boyan had heard of her—the troublemaking little devil everyone whispered about. The Duu family carried serious weight around here. They were supposedly just some fancy old-money household, but that title alone was enough to make people wary, like no one could quite figure out how they’d become so untouchable.

“If I want to scare them off, I don’t need to hide behind my family name.”

Only after hearing him speak did Duu Luo really study Boyan—the leading man she was supposed to win over.

She’d braced herself for Boyan, this made-up character, to look like that NPC from Jiuyou. But seeing him up close, she suddenly felt like the NPC version had been better—because this face was a little different from Jiuyou’s.

And it made things awkward.

Jiuyou was her own NPC mentor. Pulling something like this on your mentor was seriously thrilling.

When Boyan heard Duu Luo say that, he lowered the dagger in his hand. Around here, nobody would dare casually pretend to be that little devil, Duu Luo.

But seeing her today, she didn’t seem quite like the rumors.

Duu Luo watched Boyan put the dagger away, took a deep breath, then strode to the entrance and shoved the door open. It immediately drew everyone’s attention, and they started moving toward her.

“What are you staring at? The lady of the house is here—move it and clear the way!”

The way Duu Luo said it was so commanding that even those hard-looking men felt a chill down to their bones. That alone showed just how intimidating the “lady of the house” reputation really was.

Ever since Duu Luo started playing Glory, she’d wanted to shout that line at the top of her lungs.

And saying it today felt incredible.

Sure, it had that “borrowing someone else’s power” vibe, but it was still ridiculously satisfying.

For once, she got to be the heroine. When you’ve got a Goldfinger, you use it when it counts.

Who knew when that Goldfinger might stop working? Duu Luo still wasn’t completely convinced it was reliable.

“Miss Duu, this is between us and him. I hope you won’t get involved.” The man in front forced down the anger in his chest and spoke to Duu Luo with careful respect. After all, the Duu family name—and Duu Luo’s master’s name—were the kind that made people think twice just hearing them. “Please hand him over to us. He hurt someone he never should have touched, and he has to face the punishment he deserves.”