Chapter 252: An Accident on the Lake (4)
Murong Xue pretended to hear nothing and kept rowing her canoe ahead.
The ugly man turned livid with rage and snapped at the villains, “What are you waiting for? Go get her now!”
“Yes!.” Upon nodding in panic, the villains scrambled onto a canoe and chased Murong Xue in a hurry.
The man strode to Cang Ying and lift her up, grabbing her by the collar, “Got you, you reckless twat!”
Upon raising his hand, he slapped her face so hard that it deflected. In an instant, a palm-shaped red mark appeared on her fair cheek, along with sharp pain and blood trickling down from the corner of her mouth.
Cang Ying stared at the man with anger blazing in her eyes. “You slapped me!”
“So what? You’re the one who let go of my wife. Don’t you deserve that?” the man said maliciously and kept slapping her face one side after another.
Cang struggled desperately to free herself from the man, but she failed and let out a cry with anguish, “Help… Help…”
As the sun declined to the west, it glinted over the ripples on the clear lake under the breeze.
Murong Xue rowed the canoe leisurely from the lotus clump to the pleasure boat.
The villains were right after her.
Standing against the rail on the boat, Duan Wuluo looked at the malicious villains and said with a frown, “Heir Ouyang, I think Miss Murong needs help down there.”
Duan turned slightly sullen and ran to the rail in a blink of an eye. As he watched Murong Xue seated leisurely in the canoe, a touch of pride glittered in his obsidian-like eyes. “I don’t think so. She can handle it.”
“Seriously?” Duan was concerned that she was too weak to defeat a dozen strong villains by herself.
On the clear lake, the villains caught up with Murong’s canoe, reached out for one side of it and was about to jump into it.
Suddenly, Murong Xue’s gaze turned sharp, and she hit the villains fiercely as she swept across the sides with a paddle. They all fell into the water, and their canoe was turned upside down, which couldn’t look more awkward.
Duan Wuluo twitched the corner of his mouth and no longer worried about Murong Xue, who was actually even stronger than men.
“Wuluo, help me… Help me…” Following the miserable cry, Duan saw the big boat sailing out of the lotus clump, on which an ugly hulk lifted a lady in a crimson dress with messy hair. The pathetic-looking lady with red and swollen cheeks turned out to be the heiress of the prime minister, Cang Ying.
“Yingying!” Duan shouted with his cold eyes fixed on the man, “Let go of her!”
“No way. She’s got to make it up to me because she let go of my wife,” the man shouted maliciously, looking at Duan arrogantly.
Duan turned a bit sullen. Tapping the ground with his tiptoe, he flew to the man as fast as lightning to grab Cang Ying from the man and give the man a kick on the chest. The kick pushed the man several meters away till he fell into the lake with a splash.
Cang gradually calmed down with the presence of Duan and cried in anguish, holding Duan’s arm, “Wuluo, I thought I would never see you again…”
She couldn’t look more aggrieved with crystal tears running down her cheeks.
Duan heaved a sigh and comforted her gently, patting her back, “It’s okay… Did you not go to pick flowers in the clump? Why did you provoke them?”
“Murong Xue… She pushed me to that man’s boat…” Cang’s eyes blazed with anger. She looked up at Murong maliciously and continued saying, “You shameless, selfish bastard…”
“Yes, I’m shameless and selfish. I should have taken all the punishment for you as you implied by pushing me to the man, and in no way should I have run away.” Raising her eyebrows with contempt, Murong said leisurely as she looked at Cang.
Cang said in a choked voice, glowering at Murong, “The man liked you, so I did that in order to buy us some time…”
“So did I,” Murong sneered at Cang without disguise. Raising her eyebrows, she added, “Miss Justice, you released the man’s wife and the adulterer. Simply stabbing you to death wasn’t enough to vent the man’s anger. So I thought I had enough time to get help.”
“Shut up. The man hated me. Do you think I could still be safe and sound when he caught me? On the contrary, he liked you and definitely wouldn’t hurt you. So, you could have bought us some time simply by entertaining him. But you didn’t do that and left me there. What were you thinking?”
Cang asked Murong with a glower, looking as if she could devour Murong alive.
Murong laughed coldly. It was so ridiculous that Cang dared to expect Murong to sacrifice and tie up the loose ends for her!
“I’m sorry I never whore myself out like you do, because I’ve been a person of good morality and manners since I was young.”
“I beg your pardon?” Cang Ying retorted with a flicker of fierceness in her dark eyes.
“What you meant by “entertaining him” was that I should prostitute myself, right? You made an understatement as if it was nothing new to you. I guess you’ve done that a lot…” Murong looked at Cang with undisguised contempt in her cold eyes.
Cang was choked with anger, gnashing her teeth and pointing at Murong. “You…”
“Enough of that,” Duan interrupted Cang because he already figured out what had happened: Cang got in the middle of the man’s business due to her false judgement, and was thus hit by the man out of rage…
Duan looked up at Cang with his dark eyes glittering. “Yingying, you didn’t ask what had happened before you upheld justice?”
“Well…” Cang Ying blinked unnaturally. The man had tied the couple and abused them maliciously, which made him a willful bully. What was the point of asking that?