I Can Replicate Martial Arts-Chapter 43 - 35: Starting School Early, Planning to Rent

Chapter 43: Chapter 35: Starting School Early, Planning to Rent

The bespectacled young man’s seat was right between Zhao Rui and the girl. The moment he sat down, he smiled and started trying to chat her up.

"Hi, are you also going to school in Jeju?"

The girl tucked a few loose strands of hair behind her ear and smiled faintly. "I am!"

"What a coincidence, me too! Let me introduce myself. Jeju University, Cui Yuan!"

"Hi there, Cui Yuan. Could you do me a favor?"

The girl blinked her beautiful eyes, her long lashes fluttering like a soft breeze, full of the brightness of spring.

"No problem, just name it!"

Hearing that the beautiful girl needed something, Cui Yuan figured she must not see him as a stranger. His face lit up, and he eagerly agreed.

"Can I switch seats with you?"

the girl said in a soft, delicate voice.

Cui Yuan was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and replied, "You don’t like sitting on the aisle? No worries, I can take the aisle seat." 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

With that, he magnanimously stood up and swapped seats with the girl.

As they passed each other, the young woman’s sweet fragrance wafted into his nostrils, making his heart pound.

His mind was already fantasizing about the wonderful scenario of them having a great conversation throughout the trip, exchanging contact information after getting off, and gradually becoming a couple.

Once they had switched places, the girl lowered her gaze and murmured, "Thank you!"

"You’re welcome! You’re welcome!"

Hearing her soft, gentle voice, Cui Yuan couldn’t help but scratch the back of his head, a rare look of bashfulness on his face.

The girl flashed a radiant smile, as beautiful as a snow plum blossom braving the frost to bloom in the early spring wind!

Cui Yuan’s heart thrilled. Just as he was about to pick a topic to heat things up on this chance encounter, he saw the girl actually turn slightly and gaze affectionately at the young man by the window.

"..."

Cui Yuan instantly felt his world turn to chaos.

"Don’t you think we’re quite fated to meet?"

The girl looked at Zhao Rui with a half-smile, her words laced with hidden meaning.

"Do we know each other? I’ve been too busy with exams lately, I forgot! You are?"

Zhao Rui replied, playing dumb.

"You men really are all pigs, forgetting me so quickly!!"

The girl’s willow-leaf brows furrowed with a trace of sorrow, and her clear, limpid eyes looked as if they were about to spill tears, evoking a feeling of pity.

Hearing these words, Cui Yuan felt as if he’d been struck by lightning, his face a mask of dejection.

"Oh, now that you’re acting all cute and pouty, I remember. You’re my girlfriend! My bad!"

Zhao Rui’s sharp brows raised slightly, a smile playing on his lips as his right hand reached for the delicate little hand resting at her side.

The girl couldn’t help but roll her eyes at his words. ’This guy is as shameless as ever.’

"Didn’t we break up? See, you forgot again!"

Before her words had even faded, her left hand formed a sign and, quick as a flash, chopped at his wrist.

Zhao Rui bent his elbow to dodge. He was about to counterattack when, unexpectedly, she moved even faster, her five fingers forming a claw and striking toward his thigh.

Zhao Rui quickly formed a sword-finger, aiming for the vital point on her wrist to force her to retreat.

The girl twisted her wrist to evade. After her first strike failed, she didn’t attack again. Her Claw Skill, which had been brimming with menacing Evil Qi, instantly reverted to a delicate, soft hand.

"Right, we broke up!"

Zhao Rui hadn’t expected that after just three months, the woman’s Martial Arts had also progressed so rapidly, not losing out to his own in the slightest.

The girl also seemed surprised, a flash of astonishment flickering in her eyes as she looked at Zhao Rui.

Their exchange of blows had taken place silently in the blink of an eye, but the resentful Cui Yuan, sitting in the aisle seat, had been eavesdropping the whole time.

When he heard Zhao Rui so casually say that he’d forgotten his girlfriend,

he immediately shot them a bewildered look.

That one look was all it took. He happened to see the girl’s fair, jade-like hand reaching for Zhao Rui’s thigh, and all his hopes instantly turned to ash.

He cursed inwardly, ’That bitch!’

Full of frustration, he twisted his body away, no longer in the mood to pay any attention to the "public display of affection" from his two neighbors.

"What are you going to Jeju for? School? Freshman?"

Since a couple of moves weren’t enough to determine a winner, the girl naturally wasn’t going to have a real "sparring match" with Zhao Rui in public. Instead, like an old friend, she leaned in slightly and began to chat idly with him in a soft, gentle voice.

"Yeah, freshman. You? What are you going for?"

"If I told you, would you want to hear it?"

"Never mind, I don’t want to hear it!"

Zhao Rui immediately shook his head.

The girl’s alluring eyes crinkled with amusement as she said, "Good, you know what’s best for you."

Zhao Rui gave a faint smile and said nothing more.

This girl was none other than the "Urological Hardening Specialist" he had met in the alley before—the beautiful woman who could use the Netherworld Ghost Claw.

Several months had passed in a flash, and he never expected to run into her here.

"Give me your WeChat!"

Although Zhao Rui was ignoring her, the girl still seemed to be in the mood to talk. She pulled her phone out of her shoulder bag and opened WeChat.

"Miss, we’re just strangers who met by chance. There’s no need for this. Once we get off the bus, we’ll go our separate ways..."

"You’re overthinking it. I just think you have a really punchable face and want to beat you up!"

"..."

Zhao Rui’s cheek twitched. He readily opened his WeChat and added her as a friend.

’Whether I get beaten up or not is a problem for later,’ he thought. ’At least her Netherworld Ghost Claw is pretty tempting.’

It was a legitimate Evil Sect Martial Art, a high-level Cultivation Technique passed down through a Sect.

"Alright, you’ve got guts. Once you’re settled in, I’ll come find you! Get ready for a beating!"

A series of messages came through on WeChat from a user named Youyou, accompanied by an animated sticker that said, "My respects, you’re a real one."

"Heh."

Zhao Rui was speechless. He sent a perfunctory reply, "Heh," then turned his head to look out the window.

Seeing this, the girl didn’t waste any more words either. She leaned her slender body back slightly and closed her eyes to rest.