Transmigrated as the fake young master, I'll beat up the scumbags and b*tches-Chapter 291Vol. 1 - - You’re not ready

The rumors surrounding HuMing at school vanished overnight. The key turning point came during morning exercises, when the principal publicly exposed the boy and girl behind the whole incident—and expelled them on the spot.

The fallout was pretty serious, but thankfully, HuMing himself wasn’t much affected.

Once the gossip died down, things around him seemed to return to normal, like nothing had happened.

Xia Chen, however, was curious about what had been going through HuMing’s mind at the time. Even though he had acted completely unfazed, was he really that calm inside?

"HuMing, were you the one who exposed those two?"

Xia Chen could already guess that HuMing was the one who rooted them out. What he really wanted to know was—how did he do it?

More importantly, how was HuMing always so accurate when picking out the culprits?

"Yeah, their intentions were too obvious. A lot of rumors don't just appear out of nowhere—you’ve got to think about who benefits, and what kind of situation they’re trying to trap you in." HuMing replied, serious as ever.

He was explaining the whole thing to Xia Chen with a rare kind of earnestness.

After all, this was something Xia GaoWu had entrusted him with. He couldn’t exactly walk away from it.

Fortunately, things hadn’t reached the point of no return. In HuMing’s eyes, the real cancer in the capital was the Bai family.

Right now, they were just barely clinging on—surviving under the cover of this so-called “Blizzard”.

"Xia Chen, you can’t always look at things on the surface, a lot of the time, what’s going on underneath is completely different. You have to try and understand the hidden currents too. The future of the Xia family is going to depend on you."

Xia Chen frowned a little. Something about HuMing’s words felt... off.

Ever since HuMing had talked with his dad, he’d started sounding more and more like a private tutor whenever they spoke.

"Wait, HuMing, did my dad say something to you? You've been sounding like my cram school teacher lately..."

"Not really. But you’re the future head of the Xia family. Are you planning to sit back and do nothing? Or do you want Xia XiaoXi to handle all this on her own?"

Xia Chen opened his mouth, but had no idea how to respond.

Of course he didn’t want to dump all that responsibility on his sister—but accepting it himself, now? That felt like the end of his happy life.

He was still a student! He didn’t want to be burdened with this stuff so soon!

HuMing looked at Xia Chen’s distressed expression and found it hard to imagine what the guy would be like once he lost all support.

No wonder Xia GaoWu had asked him to look after the kid.

With a personality like Xia Chen’s, there was no way the old man could rest easily.

Still, the fact that Xia GaoWu had entrusted Xia Chen to him showed he had confidence in HuMing.

That kind of trust—built from just a single meeting—was something HuMing had never experienced before.

He thought it over carefully, then turned to stare at Xia Chen, a serious look in his eyes.

Xia Chen squirmed under the stare and rubbed his arm nervously. "What? Say it already if you’ve got something to say."

"I was just thinking..." HuMing said slowly, "Should I take you with me tonight? But then I remembered—you’re not ready to shoulder the Xia family yet. So maybe there's no need."

There was a teasing tone hidden in his words, but Xia Chen’s gossip-loving instincts immediately picked up on the fact that something big was going down.

Before he could press further, HuMing shook his head and turned away.

At the same time, Gu YunZhou glanced over—clearly having heard HuMing’s remark too.

Lately, HuMing had been wrapped up in all kinds of mysterious business. As his cousin, Gu YunZhou didn’t have the faintest idea what he was up to.

But whatever it was, he definitely wanted in.

He opened his mouth to ask—but that clingy Xia Chen beat him to it.

"HuMing, take me with you!"

"No," HuMing replied firmly. "This is complicated. It’ll drag the Xia family into it. You’re not ready yet."

His tone brooked no argument—he clearly wasn’t planning on letting Xia Chen get involved.

Gu YunZhou swallowed the words he had been about to say.

If HuMing had already turned down Xia Chen, then there was no way he’d let him join either.

After class, HuMing slung on his backpack and left the classroom.

Unlike usual, he left completely alone.

Gu YunZhou glanced ahead at Kang Xin, a short distance away. Now that he thought about it, it had been a while since she and HuMing had spoken.

They were rumored to be close, but back at the Gu residence, they barely exchanged a word.

Still, what really bothered Gu YunZhou was whatever it was that HuMing was about to do.

Maybe he’d caught Xia Chen’s gossip bug, but lately he felt a lot more nosy than usual.

He turned and looked at the two now-empty seats beside him. It was one thing for HuMing to leave early—but what about Xia Chen?

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Someone had to tail him and keep him from screwing things up for his cousin.

Gu YunZhou wasn’t sure if that excuse made any real sense, or if he was just trying to convince himself—but he grabbed his backpack and hurried out of school.

Kang Xin quietly packed away her homework, then stood up and looked out the window.

She could clearly see two shadows following behind HuMing.

Shaking her head, she turned and left the classroom.

She had something important to do.

…

HuMing had walked quite a long way—he hadn’t even bothered grabbing one of the shared bikes by the roadside.

Of course he knew he was being followed. In fact, he had lured those two on purpose.

Sometimes, your true identity should be kept as a trump card.

But right now, he needed to solidify his footing—and for that, the Xia family and Gu family were both excellent candidates.

People said the Shi family ran wild in the capital—but that only applied when dealing with regular folks.

Against the Xia family? Maybe Shi Dan could still put up a front.

But what about when the Gu family joined in?

Anyone with half a brain would realize—it’d be insane for the Shi family to offend both families at once.

Not even Shi Dan himself could justify that.

He had promised to help Ye QiuXue solve her problems, and he meant to follow through.

And the best way to make Shi Dan back off—was to make him afraid of Ye QiuXue.

Of course, HuMing knew full well that Shi Dan hated him to the bone.

But what could he do? He just loved seeing people seething with the desire to destroy him... only to realize they couldn’t.

He walked calmly toward JingDu, pretending not to notice anything behind him.

Meanwhile, in a nearby alley behind him—

"My cousin literally said not to get involved!"

"Shut up, Gu YunZhou! HuMing’s about to disappear again!"

"...Wait for me!"

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