Chapter 220: Qi vs Bullet

Shen Yan turned fully.

"Threat?"

"Sniper."

She immediately accepted.

"Go."

Yin Suyi looked toward her daughter.

Shen Yan stared ahead.

"Immediate threat changes the rules."

Su Yue smiled faintly.

"The council has amendments."

Shen Tian laughed.

Then...

His eyes became serious.

"How fast can we get there?"

The driver pressed the accelerator.

. . .

At Qinghe Technologies...

Police were already being contacted.

Security locked down the building.

Zhao Ming restrained the surviving attackers.

Gu Qingya stood near the broken conference room.

Her assistant checked whether everyone was injured.

Lu Chen examined the weapons.

Professional.

Modified serial numbers.

Foreign ammunition.

One attacker carried a small tattoo inside his wrist.

A black crescent.

Lu Chen recognized it.

His expression became colder.

"Desert Moon."

Zhao Ming looked toward him.

"What?"

"Mercenary subcontractors."

"In China?"

"Apparently."

Gu Qingya approached.

"Do you know them?"

Lu Chen looked toward her.

"Not personally."

"That wasn’t my question."

He smiled faintly.

"They’re small."

"Disposable."

"Usually hired when someone wants plausible distance."

She looked toward the injured men.

"Who hired them?"

"I’ll ask."

The way he said it made Zhao Ming uncomfortable.

Gu Qingya noticed too.

"No torture."

Lu Chen looked amused.

"You think they’ll answer politely?"

"I think the police will question them."

"The police will receive names."

"Fake accounts."

"Dead intermediaries."

"Empty companies."

He stepped closer.

"People who arrange attacks like this don’t leave a path for ordinary investigators."

Gu Qingya’s expression hardened.

"And you aren’t ordinary."

"No."

There was no humility.

No hesitation.

He genuinely believed it.

Worse...

He had just proven it.

Gu Qingya hated that.

She hated owing him.

Hated that her grandfather would now use this attack as proof that Lu Chen belonged beside her.

Hated that when the gunfire began...

Lu Chen had moved toward it without hesitation.

A contradiction formed inside her.

Gratitude.

Discomfort.

Respect.

Resentment.

Exactly the emotional confusion Fate wanted.

Xu Ning’s panel increased.

Relationship Event Progress: 76%

Lu Chen looked toward the broken window.

Then...

His expression changed.

A small glint.

Far across the street.

Rooftop.

His eyes narrowed.

He moved.

Gu Qingya noticed.

"What?"

"Down."

She froze.

Lu Chen lunged toward her.

At that exact moment...

The sniper fired.

CRACK!

The distant rifle flashed.

The bullet crossed the street.

Toward Gu Qingya’s chest.

Lu Chen reached for her.

But...

Something else moved first.

A golden streak.

The conference window exploded inward.

Not from the bullet.

From an arrow.

An arrow wrapped in condensed Qi crossed the gap from an impossible angle.

It struck the sniper round in midair.

CLANG!

The bullet shattered.

Fragments embedded in the wall.

Silence.

Lu Chen froze.

Gu Qingya stared.

Zhao Ming’s eyes widened.

An arrow had intercepted a sniper bullet.

From somewhere outside.

Lu Chen turned toward the opposite rooftop.

The sniper reacted instantly.

He rose.

Retreated.

Then...

A second arrow appeared.

It pierced the rifle scope.

The weapon exploded from the sniper’s hands.

The assassin disappeared behind the rooftop structure.

Lu Chen’s eyes became sharp.

Very sharp.

Someone had stolen his save.

He had sensed the sniper.

He had moved.

He would have protected Gu Qingya.

But someone else had interfered.

Someone faster.

His gaze moved downward.

A black convoy had stopped near the building entrance.

One rear door opened.

Shen Tian stepped out.

. . .

Shen Tian looked toward the rooftop.

Dragonfall wasn’t physically in his hands.

This was reality.

But his cultivation had advanced.

His understanding of archery remained.

He had taken an emergency compound bow from the security compartment of the vehicle.

The first arrow had carried Domain Initiation Qi.

The second destroyed the weapon.

Shen Yan exited the front.

Yin Suyi remained inside with Chi Lingxi and Su Yue, protected by additional guards.

Xu Ning floated beside Shen Tian.

[Host.]

A system notification flashed.

[Ding!]

Critical Relationship Event interrupted.

Lu Chen failed to personally shield Gu Qingya from sniper attack.

Fate stolen: 8,000

Lu Chen Current Fate Value: 612,000

Shen Tian smiled.

First contact.

Eight thousand.

Efficient.

Xu Ning stared toward the rooftop.

[The sniper is escaping.]

Shen Tian handed the bow to a guard.

"Big Sis."

Shen Yan disappeared.

No questions.

No hesitation.

Her body blurred toward the neighboring building.

Shen Tian walked into Qinghe Technologies.

Security attempted to stop him.

Then recognized him.

"Young Master Shen?"

"Move."

They moved.

. . .

Inside the executive floor...

Gu Qingya stared at the shattered bullet fragments.

Her heartbeat finally accelerated.

The first attackers had been close.

Immediate.

Visible.

She had understood the danger.

But the sniper...

She hadn’t seen.

Hadn’t heard until after the shot.

She would have died without knowing.

Lu Chen stood several feet away.

His expression was no longer amused.

He looked toward the elevators.

The doors opened.

Shen Tian stepped out.

For a moment...

The two men saw one another.

Neither spoke.

Lu Chen assessed automatically.

Young.

Tall.

Blond hair.

Green eyes.

Expensive clothing.

No visible weapon.

Calm breathing.

Cultivation concealed.

Dangerous.

Shen Tian saw something else.

Golden Fate.

Enormous.

It wrapped around Lu Chen like a raging storm.

More Fate than Jiang Feng had ever possessed.

More than Ye Chen.

More than Yun Wanhe.

A protagonist protected by an entire world of coincidences.

Xu Ning appeared beside Shen Tian.

[Host.]

I see it.

Lu Chen’s expression shifted.

He couldn’t see Xu Ning.

But...

He sensed something strange near Shen Tian.

A fluctuation.

Something outside normal Qi.

He frowned.

Shen Tian walked closer.

His eyes moved toward Gu Qingya.

"Are you hurt?"

She stared.

They had met before.

Briefly.

Business functions.

Family events.

Never spoken personally.

She knew exactly who he was.

Shen Tian.

The Shen Family’s young master.

The man whose name had recently dominated gaming news.

The person connected to Ling Shuangxue and several major corporate groups.

Gu Qingya shook her head.

"No."

"Good."

She looked toward the broken window.

"Was that you?"

Shen Tian smiled faintly.

"Yes."

Silence.

Zhao Ming looked toward him.

"That distance..."

"Good bow."

Lu Chen’s eyes narrowed.

"That wasn’t the bow."

Shen Tian looked toward him.

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