Outside the Uesugi family's gate at night, a girl dressed in a black and white striped tracksuit was waiting.

Feeling a bit anxious, she paced back and forth, occasionally tiptoeing to peek inside the Uesugi family's house.

The young aunt who received her earlier left a very gentle impression on her.

Despite the aunt's earnest invitation for her to come inside and sit down, she declined considering her own position.

The gentle impression also made her immediately realize that the news of the boy's lack of blood relation to this family should be true and accurate.

Someone who is so cold and heartless could not have grown up in such a household.

As the girl pondered over these things, the door opened again.

The bright light coming from inside immediately caught the girl's attention.

"Good evening, classmate Bai Xuyu."

Ziong MingDe walked out with a smile. He just greeted her casually and appeared to be an ordinary boy, but his presence made Bai Xuyu immediately tense up and unconsciously clench her fists.

That incident in the warehouse that day was still vivid in Bai Xuyu's mind.

At first, Bai Xuyu didn't understand why her father went through so much trouble for a potential attack.

He mobilized all available personnel, including herself, and the two decoys he had recruited over the years... even so, her father still didn't dare to appear on the scene personally.

In Bai Xuyu's opinion, all of this could only be understood as her father's usual cowardice.

It wasn't until the attack happened that the boy among the attackers, the boy she had encountered before, showed his strength at a critical moment, that Bai Xuyu understood her father's concerns and cowardice were not groundless.

Bai Xuyu didn't know if the boy had used his full strength at the time or if he still had some left, because she was completely stunned and couldn't keep up with his movements at that moment.

After that, Bai Xuyu didn't know what kind of battle her father had fought against Souren Manranyama at the Manlan Mountain family, but she knew the outcome was her father's victory, because Souren Manranyama was expelled from the Manlan Mountain family.

Including the incident of defeat in the warehouse in the mountains, her father's calculations were all spot-on, step by step, leaving only Uminari Manranyama and her father in the upper echelons of the Manlan Mountain family's power structure.

Bai Xuyu was not interested in these things. She was a martial artist and was not good at or willing to get involved in these strategies.

She agreed to help with the warehouse incident only because her father said a highly skilled foreign boy would appear and she was willing to assist.

But now, the development of the situation has completely deviated from her expectations.

She originally thought it would be a wonderful thing to meet someone her age whom she could spar with.

However, reality showed her the strength of her peers on a different level, so powerful that it made her question her own talent and whether she should continue to study martial arts.

That's why she appeared here tonight.

She came to seek answers and her future.

"What's wrong? Do you have something to say while staring at me in a daze?"

Bai Xuyu had been thinking about a lot of things, but to Ziong MingDe, it seemed like she was just daydreaming, so he spoke while walking towards her.

Bai Xuyu snapped out of it, adjusted her emotions, carefully studied the young boy in front of her, and then seriously made the request that she had decided on before coming.

"Can you seriously spar with me?"