The Girlboss Begs for Remarriage by Chu

Helen was perplexed. "But what?"

Chaz glanced at the other apprentices training around the dojo and leaned in to whisper into Helen's ear, "But you see... as a member of Southstream's Four Families and the chief of the Seaham Martial Artist Association, I naturally have some techniques I don't teach others."

Seeing Helen's bemusement, he flashed a mysterious grin. "You'll only improve after years if you stick to the regiment that the other apprentices are taking. Can you afford to wait that long?"

Helen looked around to see the many apprentices undergoing basic training as well and realized that she was no better.

Chaz then added, "You're always busy with work—surely you can't stick to basic training for years? Come on, there's a sealed room here. I'll teach you my family's secret technique."

Chaz certainly spoke reason, but Helen was not that ignorant.

herself for a while and said, "It's your

We're childhood friends, and you're weighing that against

too well why she wanted to learn martial

was more than

other hand, Chaz could not wait and kept spouting nonsense just to assure Helen. "It's alright— there's no reason to hesitate. It's

naive, though it would be apt to say she really hated losing

not think that her childhood friend would try to harm her, especially since Chaz kept up with his nice

at the sealed room, Chaz

took a box of acupuncture needles from

in consent, and he went to work, his eyes

as needles pierced her skin, but Chaz