Seeing her hesitation, the man deliberately darkened his expression and waved for her to get in the car quickly.
An Ruo gave him a deep look, then was escorted into the car by several bodyguards.
Before she could even get in, the bodyguards were all shot and fell to the ground.
The girl had never encountered such a bloody scene before; the smell of blood was everywhere. She quickly scrambled into the car…
A bodyguard, shot in the abdomen, used his last ounce of strength to pull the car door shut. This was a bulletproof vehicle—as long as she stayed inside and didn’t come out, her life wouldn’t be in danger.
An Ruo stared blankly at the bodyguards, more than half of them dead or wounded. Under the dim streetlights, a sea of red spread out. The once peaceful park had descended into a heart-pounding gunfight.
She pressed against the window, watching the man sitting in his wheelchair with a cold expression, raising his arm to shoot at a charging figure in black—
The attackers had come prepared, lying in ambush around them for days. They had followed them to this remote park, waiting for the right moment to strike.
Another man in black charged forward. An Ruo’s beautiful eyes widened, and without thinking, she pushed open the car door and shouted at the man, “Watch out behind you!”
They were far apart, and the gunfire around them was like a string of firecrackers…
Biting her lip, she lifted her skirt and ran down.
Shen Xiaoxing, stuck in his wheelchair, couldn’t maneuver well. He couldn’t turn around quickly to see what was happening behind him or around him.
Seeing the girl running down from the car, he barked sternly, “Don’t come over!”
The girl acted as if she hadn’t heard him, lifting her skirt and stubbornly running toward him. Shen Xiaoxing had no choice but to shoot the man in black charging at her side.
A sniper had been trying to find an angle, aiming at the man’s head through the scope. Just as he pulled the trigger, Ye Feng rushed in, swinging a fist the size of a sandbag, sending the sniper flying several meters away!
But the bullet had already been fired…
Because Ye Feng had suddenly burst in, the bullet veered off its intended path, hitting the man’s arm and knocking the gun from his hand.
An Ruo, her eyes slightly red, ran over: “Shen Xiaoxing, are you okay?”
“Idiot, who told you to get out of the car!” His thick brows furrowed. Blood dripped from his injured arm through the sleeve of his suit, slowly staining the ground. “Go back!”
This wasn’t the time to argue with him. Seeing he was hurt, An Ruo instinctively grabbed the edge of her skirt, tore off a strip of cloth, and roughly bandaged his arm.
Taking advantage of the brief lull in danger, she tried to push him back to the car, but then noticed another man in black charging at them from behind with a dagger. Without a second thought, her body almost uncontrollably rose to block him.
Before Shen Xiaoxing could even react, he pressed a hand to his injured arm, blood dripping onto his chest. He turned his head abruptly to see the girl standing behind him, taking the knife squarely.
The dagger plunged into her shoulder, and her goose-yellow dress instantly bloomed with a red flower…
The man in black pulled out the dagger and shoved her aside. The girl fell to the ground. Seeing him about to attack the man, she gritted her teeth against the pain and reached out, grabbing his pant leg with all her might.
The man in black stopped in his tracks. He viciously kicked her away, and Shen Xiaoxing’s heart suddenly ached. When the man lunged at him again, the girl once again clung to his leg. He reached out and yanked, pulling the man down from the wheelchair.
For a split second, Shen Xiaoxing almost instinctively stood up to strangle the man in black in front of him, but… he couldn’t reveal himself!
The man in black grabbed An Ruo by the collar. Her black hair was plastered messily against her face, and a vivid red bloomed on her chest. She was stunningly beautiful, even in her injury, captivating to the core!
The dagger in his hand had been knocked away when An Ruo grabbed his pant leg and struggled, so he had to use both hands to choke her, pressing her to the ground—
Shen Xiaoxing completely lost his composure. He stood up to rush over, but then another man in black appeared behind him, wrapping a rope around his neck from behind. This attacker was covered in wounds, determined to use his last breath to kill him.
The girl’s face was flushed red. Struggling to breathe, she clawed at the man’s hands. Glancing over, she saw Shen Xiaoxing also being strangled. Han Chong and Ye Feng were nowhere to be seen, and all the bodyguards around were down. No one could save them.
Just as An Ruo was about to give up, her hand brushed against the dagger the man in black had dropped earlier. A voice inside her screamed.
Kill the one in front of you, save Shen Xiaoxing!
The man couldn’t die!
She hardened her heart, gripped the dagger tightly, and plunged it into the neck of the man in black in front of her. Blood gushed out instantly. He clutched his neck, struggled for a few moments, then fell to the ground, lifeless.
An Ruo was free, gasping for fresh air. But having killed for the first time, her uninjured hand trembled uncontrollably.
She staggered to her feet, clutching the dagger, ready to charge at the man strangling Shen Xiaoxing. But her strength was failing, and the pain in her shoulder made her unsteady…
Just as she collapsed, a gunshot rang out. The man strangling Shen Xiaoxing fell to the ground. They were finally saved.
Seeing he was unharmed, An Ruo felt all her strength drain away. She slowly closed her eyes.
As she lost consciousness, the man rushed over frantically, his eyes bloodshot, pulling her into his arms. His heart felt like it had been torn open.
He shouted hoarsely, “Hospital! Get to the hospital! Now!”
His arm was injured, so Ye Feng had to take over, carrying her into the car.
Looking at her pale, paper-like face, still smeared with fresh blood, her hair matted together—she was so soft and beautiful, always drawing everyone’s gaze.
He couldn’t believe the girl had recklessly rushed over to take that knife for him. Even now, Shen Xiaoxing felt a lingering fear.
If that knife had pierced her heart, she would have lost her life!
The man held her close with one arm, pressing his cool, thin lips to her forehead. His voice was hoarse: “It’s okay… I won’t let anything happen to you. Ruo Ruo, you’ll be fine!”
All the way to the hospital, he kept repeating these words, holding her. He didn’t know if he was comforting the unconscious girl or soothing his own creeping fear.
…
At the hospital, the girl was rushed into the operating room for emergency treatment. The man was persuaded by Ye Feng to go to a ward to have his arm wound bandaged.
At first, he refused, sitting outside the operating room, staring at the closed door. In his panic, Ye Feng knocked him unconscious and carried him to the ward.
When he woke up, the bullet had already been removed from his arm, and the wound was wrapped in bandages. The first thing he did upon opening his eyes was ask about An Ruo’s condition.
Before Ye Feng could answer, a nurse rushed in urgently.
“Excuse me, who is An Ruo’s family?”
Hearing her name, the man snapped back to reality.
“I’m her husband.” Seeing the nurse rush in so frantically, it couldn’t be good news. His heart clenched painfully. “How is she?”
Shen Xiaoxing, burning with anxiety, jumped out of bed and grabbed the nurse by the collar. “Tell me, how is she?!”
The nurse’s face went pale. She had never seen such a handsome man, and being glared at so ferociously, she forgot to answer for a moment.
Ye Feng was stunned too. Wasn’t the young master usually calm and composed? Why was he so panicked over a woman now?
From the moment he had held the injured An Ruo, his terrified gaze looked like he had lost the whole world.
Under the man’s fierce interrogation, the nurse snapped out of her daze: “She’s fine… she’s out of danger…”
Hearing this, the man’s tightly wound heart finally relaxed.
But the nurse’s next words hit him like a thunderbolt.
“She’s pregnant. Didn’t you family members know?”