Chapter 152: The Man Chosen By The Young Mistress Has Some Skill

Yan Zuo could only feel his position in the family plummeting straight down, and of all people his elder sister kept indulging and pampering Qin Jiang.

No wonder this household was about to be turned upside down.

He even carried traces of Yan Liang, his sister.

But in this world, there could never be a second Young Mistress Yan Liang like her.

Even Young Mistress Qi Yuan could not compare to his sister.

Otherwise she wouldn’t have come up with such a clumsy plan to try to find weaknesses in her.

“Yan Zuo, do you not understand your brother-in-law’s orders?”

Yan Liang parted her red lips slightly, and a severity he knew all too well colored her eyes.

Fine, fine… You want me to be the only one suffering, right?

Hmph, I’ll be the target then!!

Anyway, apart from the real risk that Qin Jiang’s poor marksmanship might accidentally wound him, the fellow Young Mistress Qi was showing off with certainly didn’t have the guts to lay a hand on him.

Over the years, Young Master Yan’s reputation hadn’t been built for nothing.

He was only cowardly in front of his sister and brother-in-law.

“Sister… no, these are brother-in-law’s orders, Yan Zuo naturally wouldn’t dare disobey!”

Sitting in his wheelchair, Yan Zuo covered his face, feeling that his fucked-up life really clashed with his brother-in-law!

“Tsk tsk, Little Young Master Zuo is all about excitement.”

“Go ahead.”

“Let’s start the first round with a simple shooting game.”

“There are ten live targets in total, and I’ll place fruits of various sizes on their heads.”

“Hitting a fruit counts as one point.”

“In the first round, each person can get up to ten points!”

“Of course, if you hit the person, two points will be deducted!”

“Mr. Qin, how about it? Would you like to try?”

Young Mistress Qi spoke, and many of the high-society big shots who’d been watching the spectacle unconsciously gathered around.

Of course, this time everyone carefully avoided getting too close to Young Mistress Yan.

One had just been taken away, and the Young Mistress’s bad temper was obvious to all.

More importantly, Young Mistress Yan was establishing Qin Jiang’s authority.

So Young Mistress Qi, the only one who could still use Qin Jiang as leverage against Yan Liang, was showing everyone just how stubborn she was.

“Yup.”

“Since I promised, I won’t back down.”

“Yanyan, do you trust me?”

Qin Jiang wasn’t blindly confident. These past few days Yan Liang had been training him at the professional shooting range in Liangyue Manor.

Qin Jiang had a certain talent in this area.

Qin Jiang had long noticed that he learned things very quickly.

And now was the time to test that talent.

“I trust you.”

“My Jiang is the most capable.”

“In every way…”

Young Mistress Yan’s praise and approval of Qin Jiang made Young Mistress Qi listen with sour jealousy bubbling up.

“Yan Liang, you weren’t like this before!”

“Why are you so… clingy now~~”

Miss Qi Yuan, fuming, glanced at the “useless” Jiang Heng beside her, angrily grabbed his collar, pulled him down and planted a fierce kiss on his lips.

Young Mistress Qi’s kiss was domineering and conquering, devoid of gentleness.

But she was beautiful enough, hot enough.

Even such a fierce kiss caused many to show envy in their eyes.

“Hmph, I have one too!!”

Miss Qi Yuan showed she wouldn’t admit defeat.

But just after she kissed him, a certain young man surnamed Jiang wore a straight face and tremulously said, “Two million!!”

“You stuck… out your tongue! That’s… way over the line!”

Jiang Heng didn’t much like this lion-like proud Young Mistress, but he couldn’t resist her willingness to spend money.

He just happened to really need money.

His father’s illness was a bottomless pit, so he had to obediently play the “toy” Miss Qi liked enough at her side.

In short, it was said Young Mistress Qi was always fickle with her “male pets.”

She’d probably replace him before long.

Of course he wanted to take advantage of his current favor… and make a big killing!!

Miss Qi Yuan’s face flickered with an expression like swearing, clearly cursing under her breath.

“Alright, alright, alright.”

“Charge it! Charge it!”

“It’s just money. As long as you make me happy, I will give you anything, baby~~”

Young Mistress Qi was uninhibited. When her beautiful eyes narrowed she was boundlessly alluring.

Meanwhile at the training ground.

After the two Young Mistresses spoke, the live targets that had been prepared early were quickly brought to the scene.

Their eyes were covered, and various fruits of different sizes were balanced on their heads.

Qin Jiang saw a very familiar face.

The very person who had smashed his ring… the top of his head was surprisingly bare.

Qin Jiang couldn’t help but ask the question in his mind.

Qin Jiang thought, t**he living little devil is still Yanyan~

But he quite liked that idea.

“Mr. Jiang, you first?”

Qin Jiang and Jiang Heng took positions at the shooting range representing Young Mistress Yan Liang and Young Mistress Qi Yuan respectively.

The onlookers couldn’t help but feel curious.

“Ahem… brother, you shouldn’t say that!”

Qin Jiang had never appeared in Yan Liang’s circle before. Now everyone’s curiosity about him had naturally reached a peak.

But suspicion had likewise reached its peak.

They had looked up to the flawless, even ruthlessly cold Young Mistress Yan for so long that they desperately hoped to find flaws in her.

In everyone’s eyes, Qin Jiang was that flaw.

If Qin Jiang lost this time, it would mean Young Mistress Yan was no longer untouchable, no longer isolated on her pedestal.

Qin Jiang was a little nervous.

Yan Liang, however, was not at all concerned.

“Jiang, just do as I taught you.”

Whatever the outcome, she had the ability to back him up.

Qin Jiang stood on the shooting platform and, a bit modestly, let Jiang Heng go first.

Jiang Heng was a retired mercenary. He really didn’t take this little exercise seriously.

He wasn’t modest either.

He briskly pulled the trigger. The dark muzzle spit a bullet that cut through the air and sped through a live target who had an apple on his head.

There was clearly a live target with the largest fruit, a watermelon, on his head, yet he chose to shoot the apple first.

This was a provocation, and an invisible attempt to crush Qin Jiang’s morale!!

Qin Jiang was stunned for a moment.

There were only ten live targets in total, and Jiang Heng had already seized the initiative.

“Young Mistress Qi Yuan, one point recorded!”

Indeed, the target Jiang Heng hit was recorded under Qi Yuan’s name.

And he, at this moment, was no longer representing himself, but Yanyan’s husband!

She doted on him so much, loved him.

How could he let her lose.

Qin Jiang grit his teeth and didn’t try to show off. He raised his hand and carefully aimed at the largest target with a watermelon on his head.

Acting tough and contending recklessly was something only a fool would do.

He needed to be steady and sure now!

Don’t kill his own morale first.

So he neatly pulled the trigger, his gaze coldly fixed on that watermelon.

Treating it as his Old Master Yan in his sight!

Bang!!

The gunshot cracked through the air.

The crowd sucked in a breath of cold air…

“Gasp…”

“Missed~~”

Qi Yuan, casually fanning herself with a Su-embroidered round fan, couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

“Isn’t it… Ms. Liang’s new favorite really quite cute~”

“At least the way he holds the gun is handsome and slick.”

Qi Yuan was gloating, not showing any of the embarrassment or insecurity of having hired a professional to crush a beginner.

“Jiang is indeed very handsome.”

“In my view, he’s already great.”

“The watermelon moved. In live-target shooting, the target themselves can flinch in panic and cause deviation, which was indeed beyond Jiang’s expectations.”

“That shot just now, I approve of Jiang.”

“Jiang, you can keep improving!”

Having missed the morale-boosting opportunity with the first shot, Qin Jiang thought the Young Mistress might at least question him if she didn’t blame him.

But in fact, the Young Mistress’s mental core was too strong.

She didn’t care about anyone’s judgment.

She only cared about Qin Jiang’s feelings and his progress.

The more she did that, the less Qin Jiang wanted to disappoint her…

“Yanyan, I can hit it!”

His words, before scoring any points, were indeed pale and weak.

Soon, with another gunshot.

Jiang Heng, brimming with confidence, fired his second shot.

This time, he hit a jujube.

It was still extremely crisp marksmanship, worlds apart from a novice like Qin Jiang.

Qin Jiang raised his hand and this time didn’t insist on the obvious, deliberately swaying watermelon target.

He chose a pear target.

That man looked to be tightly bound.

But his averted muzzle quickly drew ridicule.

“Mr. Qin, why don’t you first hit the big watermelon?”

“Mr. Qin, what did Young Mistress Yan see in you? Why don’t you teach me so I can learn to serve Young Mistress Qi too.”

Jiang Heng was different from Qin Jiang. He seemed worldly and upright, but at his core he had the kind of flawed nature that attracted Qi Yuan.

He looked down on Qin Jiang.

Qin Jiang, a perceptive man, saw this as well.

“I’m not like you.”

“Yanyan and I are husband and wife, we are one!”

“But you are really just a pretty boy selling his body and soul. I despise you!”

Qin Jiang, the pure-love warrior, expressed his disdain for Jiang Heng, unsurprisingly shaking Jiang Heng’s already wavering heart.

And in the next moment, Qin Jiang neatly pulled the trigger for the second time.

Bang!

The pear was hit and burst open atop that man’s head.

This time everyone gaped with wide eyes!!

Ah… wait a minute??

Qin Jiang actually had some real skill?

“Qin Jiang, you… you actually can hit it?”

Jiang Heng couldn’t believe it.

You have to know, Qin Jiang’s way of holding the gun just now was even merely a beginner’s posture.

Progress so fast… was he going to take the graduate entrance exam?

“The man chosen by Young Mistress Yan truly has ability.”

But she also showed appreciation in her gaze for Qin Jiang’s performance.

With her status and power, winning or losing didn’t matter much to her.

She was merely using this opportunity to take a good look at whether Young Mistress Yan truly had a weakness.

But in fact… why did she feel a bit stunned?

“Shoots so accurately!”

Qi Yuan laughed casually.

“Young Mistress Yan Liang, one point recorded!”

When this sentence came out, Qin Jiang felt a surge of hot blood in his head.

That’s right, the meaning of his effort.

Was to imprint his achievements on the Young Mistress.

He didn’t want to hold her back.

He wanted to become his wife’s glory.

“Tsk, consider yourself lucky.”

“Hope you can keep being lucky.”

After Jiang Heng’s initial shock, his expression darkened too.

From his experience.

Qin Jiang really was a moldable talent.

But this moldable talent was blocking his path now, and he wouldn’t let it go.

In a few words, Jiang Heng dismissed Qin Jiang’s achievement as mere “luck.”

Qin Jiang didn’t care at all.

Only those with unstable cores and fragile hearts would have their state affected by others’ words.

And Qin Jiang was not that kind of person.

Having experienced a previous life, his state was steady as an old dog!

Bang!

Jiang Heng pulled the trigger again, seemingly intent on proving he was better than Qin Jiang and seeking a steady victory, he aimed at the watermelon.

Unexpectedly, the unexpected happened…

The watermelon target swayed as the person beneath it moved and dodged Jiang Heng’s shot.

Such a big watermelon!!

Such a big watermelon!!

And it didn’t get hit just like that?

Young Mistress Qi’s face turned ugly, while Yan Liang casually sipped her red wine, elegant and composed.

“See, my Jiang’s accuracy is more than enough.”

“As for your pretty boy… seems not so accurate.”

These words were clearly a double entendre.

Yet Young Mistress Qi Yuan couldn’t retort.

She could only swallow the loss and fume.

Qin Jiang knew very well that this missed shot also had to do with him disturbing Jiang Heng’s mindset.

But Jiang Heng was a professional after all. He could only tolerate making such a mistake once!

Soon, Qin Jiang’s marksmanship got into a groove.

He really learned things very quickly.

His marksmanship had been taught step by step by Young Mistress Yan. Once he got the hang of it he was invincible.

But in the end, he was still one shot behind Jiang Heng in points.

Soon, it came down to the contest for the final point.

“Young Mistress Yan Liang, currently 4 points.”

“Young Mistress Qi Yuan, currently 5 points.”

“The final shot will decide the outcome of the first round…”

Qin Jiang raised his eyes, his gaze fixed tightly on a live target with yellow hair and a tiny sesame seed on top…

A gunshot rang through the air, and a distant live target let out a wail……