Peerless Bodyguard of a Stunning Beauty

When Zhao Rong found himself surrounded by more than a dozen masked individuals, he suddenly burst into laughter. His assistant and the three beauties, seeing him laugh in such a perilous situation, were utterly bewildered.

The assistant clenched his fists, glaring at the masked men. ”Brother Zhao Rong,” he said, ”these guys clearly aren’t here to play nice. Why are you laughing in the face of such danger?”

Zhao Rong found a stool, sat down, and crossed his legs. ”Assistant,” he said, ”aren’t you furious that the weightlifter girl toyed with your emotions? Now you have more than a dozen punching bags standing right in front of you. It’s the perfect chance to vent your frustrations.”

Realization dawned on the assistant’s face, which lit up with delight. ”You’re right, Brother Zhao Rong! Why didn’t I think of that?”

With that, the assistant struck a combat pose and snarled at the masked men, ”You all came at the perfect time! I’ve been itching for a brawl. Get over here and let me beat the crap out of you!”

The assistant was ready for battle.

Seeing him poised to attack, the three beauties were not to be outdone. They also assumed fighting stances. ”It’s been a while since we three had a good fight,” one of them declared. ”You villains are perfect for some target practice!”

With that, the three beauties charged into the group of masked individuals, and the fight began. Miss Lili drew a long knife from her waist and began swinging it wildly. Xue Lianmei took out a revolver she had prepared and fired shot after shot. Not stopping there, she then lit a stick of dynamite and hurled it toward a masked man not far away.

When the assistant saw the three beauties fighting so spectacularly, he performed a front flip into the fray and roared, ”You masked scoundrels, time to die!”

Meanwhile, Zhao Rong sat nearby, casually sipping tea with his legs crossed. He pulled out his phone and started a livestream. ”Greetings, fans! Take a look, take a look! Today, I’m bringing you a live broadcast of our fantastic Zhao Rong Dream Team, showing you how just four of us teach a lesson to over a dozen masked men!”

Before he could even finish his sentence, his stream was flooded with viewers, and donations poured in.

While Zhao Rong was busy with his broadcast, it didn’t take long for the assistant and the three beauties to knock all the masked individuals to the ground. The assistant straddled one of them and said fiercely, ”Now I’m going to rip these black cloths off your faces and expose you villains to the light of day!”

The three beauties were already tearing at the masked men’s clothing. However, when they ripped the black cloths off and revealed their true faces, they were shocked. The masked individuals were none other than the 18 Bronzemen from the martial arts club.

What was truly astonishing, however, was that these 18 Bronzemen seemed to be under some kind of spell. They were expressionless and extremely bloodthirsty. Seeing that something was wrong, Zhao Rong immediately placed his phone on the table to continue the stream and rushed over.

After a quick inspection, he concluded that the 18 Bronzemen must have been drugged with some kind of zombie poison or placed under a curse, turning them into robotic henchmen for the villains. Zhao Rong mentally scanned his alchemy manual, searching for an antidote. In no time, he found an elixir called the ”Awakening Elixir.”

Once he had the formula, he immediately took out a pressure cooker, summoned a fierce fire, and began the refinement process on the spot. Within moments, he had produced more than a dozen elixirs. Under his orders, the assistant and the three beauties worked together, administering the elixirs to the 18 Bronzemen lying on the ground.

Miraculously, after consuming the elixirs, the 18 Bronzemen slowly began to wake up.

An elderly Bronzeman sat up and looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings in a daze. ”What happened? I remember chasing after Club President He Yanming, demanding my final payment at the martial arts club. How did I suddenly end up in the school library? And I have a cut on my lip...”

An adult Bronzeman sat up, feeling as if he’d just awoken from a dream. ”That’s strange. I was just at home cutting grass for the old sow. I blinked, and now I’m in the school library. Was I sleepwalking?”

A woman with buck teeth let out a burp and wiped her mouth. ”Didn’t I just get a 500-dollar severance payment from He Yanming? I was at the lamb stew restaurant. How did I get here? What’s going on?”

As the revived 18 Bronzemen were trying to make sense of the bizarre situation, Zhao Rong explained everything. ”You were poisoned by Huang Xiaojuan’s criminal gang. That’s why you were acting like robots and fighting for them.”

Hearing Zhao Rong’s words, they all understood.

Miss Lili stepped forward. ”You should all be thanking Brother Zhao Rong right now! If he hadn’t created the antidote to save you from that terrible fate, you’d still be like mindless zombies, doing Huang Xiaojuan’s dirty work!”

At Miss Lili’s words, the 18 Bronzemen fully grasped the situation. They knelt and kowtowed to Zhao Rong. ”Thank you for saving our lives, Brother Zhao Rong! We will surely repay this kindness a thousandfold in the future!”

Zhao Rong looked at the poor souls who had dressed up as Bronzemen just to earn a little money. He took out 180,000 dollars from his Magic Ring and gave 10,000 to each of them. ”Alright, you’re all safe now. Hurry home and get back to your lives. Don’t ever work as 18 Bronzemen again.”

Receiving the 10,000 dollars, the Bronzemen were moved to tears. ”When He Yanming first hired us, he promised that if the group ever disbanded, we’d each get a severance of one thousand dollars. But that liar cheated us! Just when we thought we’d never get our wages, you gave us each ten thousand dollars, Brother Zhao Rong! This money is a lifesaver for us!”

Saying this, the 18 Bronzemen knelt once more to thank him.

Zhao Rong helped them to their feet and said reassuringly, ”Go home and live well. Don’t get involved with Huang Xiaojuan’s criminal gang again. Sooner or later, those criminals will be brought to justice.”

Just as Zhao Rong was speaking, a shadow flickered in a corner of the library.

In a flash, Zhao Rong roared, ”Huang Xiaojuan, don’t even think about escaping!”

When the assistant and the three beauties heard that the figure was Huang Xiaojuan, they immediately gave chase.

As Huang Xiaojuan fled from the corner, she cursed internally, These 18 Bronzemen are a bunch of useless idiots, completely worthless!

But before she could finish her thought, Zhao Rong lunged forward, grabbed her by her clothes, and yanked her to the ground. Pinning her down, he pointed at her nose and demanded, ”Huang Xiaojuan, drop the act. You’re actually Lu Xiaoqiang’s accomplice, Lu Xiaogang!”

Pinned to the floor, Huang Xiaojuan put on a pitiful expression. ”Brother Zhao Rong, it’s been so long. Don’t you remember we were once lovers?”

Hearing this, Zhao Rong punched him squarely in the nose. ”You bastard! Disguising yourself as a woman to deceive me? You’re asking for death!”

With that, Zhao Rong grabbed Huang Xiaojuan’s face and ripped off the Human Skin Mask he was wearing.

When the mask came off, a horrifying sight was revealed. The Huang Xiaojuan with large eyes, a high nose bridge, fair skin, and perfect red lips was gone. In his place was an ugly man with small, single-lidded eyes, dark skin, large nostrils, and a mouth full of rotten teeth.

Looking at the man’s true face, Zhao Rong retched twice. He then hauled him up and began beating him senseless. ”Damn it! I’ve seen ugly men disguised as women before, but I’ve never seen someone *this* ugly trying to pass as a woman! It’s so disgusting it makes me want to vomit!”

After finishing the beating, Zhao Rong sat down nearby and lit a cigarette to calm his nerves.

Huang Xiaojuan sat on the ground, touching the blood streaming from his nose and thinking with relief, Thank goodness Brother Zhao Rong went easy on me. Otherwise, I’d definitely be dead by now...

But before he could finish the thought, the three beauties charged over.

SLAP! Miss Lili landed a resounding slap across his face. ”Huang Xiaojuan, you ugly bastard! How dare you compete with us three beauties for Brother Zhao Rong? You even considered yourself our rival in love? You’re a shameless man!”

Xue Lianmei rushed in and kicked him in the face, pointing at his head as she scolded him. ”The three of us have adored Brother Zhao Rong every single moment since we met him! We’ve had rivals before, but they were all women! To think that our rival at the sports academy would turn out to be a man! What a freak! It’s just unbelievable!”

Xue Lianmei then pulled a stick of dynamite from her waist and tossed it into Huang Xiaojuan’s lap. ”You want to fight us three beauties over a man? Today, you’ll get a taste of this dynamite’s power!”

As the three beauties were laying into Huang Xiaojuan, the assistant’s gaze sharpened. In another corner, he saw the weightlifter woman frantically trying to escape. The assistant knew that she was also a man in disguise—a man who, while pretending to be a woman, had dated him and even gone to a hotel with him.

When the assistant remembered what had happened between them at the hotel, he was consumed by rage. He snatched a brick from the floor and bolted after the fleeing figure.