When Wang Qiang revealed the disgusting things Shen Mengyu had done, Si Hanche felt nothing but nausea and contempt!
But when he saw him push Jiang Mingyan down and start tearing at her clothes, a surge of fury shot straight through his skull.
“Bastard! Don’t touch her!”
Si Hanche kicked the man who was holding the chainsaw and preparing to cut open his head, causing the man to clutch his crotch in pain.
When the chainsaw slipped from his hands and came flying toward them, the two henchmen holding him down quickly scrambled aside in fear.
Seizing the opportunity, Si Hanche used the idling chainsaw on the ground to cut through the ropes binding his hands.
By the time Wang Qiang’s henchmen regained their composure and tried to grab him, Si Hanche had picked up the chainsaw and brandished it, scaring them all away. Wang Qiang immediately fell to his knees and begged for mercy.
When Si Hanche reached out to pull Jiang Mingyan up, her legs were too weak from fear to support her.
He tightened his arm around her shoulders, shielding her completely in his embrace.
“Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”
The chainsaw in Si Hanche’s hand kept Wang Qiang and his men at bay. Just as the two of them were making their way down from the warehouse’s second floor, Wang Qiang quietly pulled out his phone…
The two henchmen guarding the door received the call and immediately rushed in, blocking the staircase where the two stood.
Taking advantage of Si Hanche’s distraction, a henchman from behind lifted a chair and hurled it at him and Jiang Mingyan.
At the critical moment, Si Hanche shielded Jiang Mingyan tightly in front of him, and the chair struck him alone with a heavy thud!
As his protective embrace loosened, Jiang Mingyan, pale-faced, tried to hold onto him, but Wang Qiang grabbed her by the hair and dragged her back!
Watching Si Hanche tumble down the stairs, blood obscuring his handsome face, a pool of blood rapidly spread beneath his head.
Jiang Mingyan went mad, scratching and clawing, screaming hysterically,
“You killed him! You killed him!!”
As Si Hanche’s blood continued to flow, staining his white shirt a shocking red, the henchmen fled in terror. Seeing the situation, Wang Qiang also prepared to run. Just as the warehouse door swung open, the Si family’s black-clad bodyguards stormed in!
As Jiang Mingyan staggered down from upstairs, a momentary darkness before her eyes caused her legs to buckle, and she lunged headfirst toward a section of exposed rebar in the wall!
Just as her chin was about to slam violently into the rebar, Jiang Jincheng, who had just arrived, caught her in his arms.
“Mingyan, don’t be afraid, Dad is here!”
Si Hanche faintly heard many people rushing in—it seemed someone had come to rescue them.
Due to blood loss, his consciousness began to blur, yet certain images grew increasingly vivid…
While studying abroad, his teacher had taken him to a Jade Carving Exhibition. None of the exquisite artworks crafted by her hands compared to how she had captivated him at first sight.
Since childhood, his focus had been solely on academics and medical research, but after falling in love with her, he had done every crazy thing imaginable.
They had set off fireworks together, gone skydiving, watched the starry river at sunrise, and journeyed to the ends of the earth to see the most beautiful auroras.
They had kissed by the Seine and pledged their lives to each other in the most solemn and sacred of churches.
Before returning to his country, he had held her reluctantly and promised that once she finished her studies abroad and returned home, they would marry…
When Yan Zheng regained consciousness after being knocked out, she saw a well-dressed, refined man squatting on the ground, diligently tying stones to her feet.
She was tightly bound, the roaring waves of the sea crashing behind her.
Shen Mengyu looked at Yan Zheng with a smug expression,
“What, were you just trying to run off and tip someone off?”
As she spoke, her expression changed, and she slapped Yan Zheng hard across the face!
“You meddlesome, damn mute! If it weren’t for you repeatedly ruining my plans, I would have already gouged out that bitch Jiang Mingyan’s eyes! Si Hanche wouldn’t have despised me and abandoned me either!”
Having been slapped for the first time in her life, Yan Zheng’s eyes blazed with fury.
[Who told you and Si Hanche have a karmic tie? If I didn’t help Jiang Mingyan, I’d be the one dead next! Once I get back, I’ll make sure Si Hanche compensates me for this slap in cash!]
Shen Mengyu’s eyes were bloodshot, her entire demeanor bordering on madness.
“Why is it that the poor are only meant to be bullied and trampled upon?
Back then, my aunt couldn’t bear a son and was afraid my uncle would divorce her. After adopting me, she treated me like a plaything and handed me over to him!
You all laugh at me for being a technical school student, but even that chance to study was something I exchanged with my body!
My aunt abused me, my uncle degraded me, and they still expected me to marry into the Si family and become their personal cash cow—what a delusion!
I’ve always planned to get rid of them after marrying Si Hanche!
A few months ago, my aunt got pregnant, and they say it’s a boy this time.
Today, while she was taking her afternoon nap, I spread oil on her bedroom floor.
When she slips, she’ll go ‘thud’ and turn into a smashed watermelon! Heehee!
As for that beastly uncle of mine, I’ve already handed over evidence of his tax evasion to the police.
And I incited him to kidnap and kill Si Hanche and Jiang Mingyan—he’s just waiting to die now!
Meanwhile, I’ll be off with his secretary, living it up with the money we embezzled from his company accounts.”
Yan Zheng stared coldly at Shen Mengyu.
She had a hard life. But a hard life didn’t justify harming innocent people by any means necessary.
“By now, Si Hanche and Jiang Mingyan should already be dead. That just leaves you.”
Shen Mengyu patted Yan Zheng’s cheek.
“A mute’s life isn’t worth much anyway. I’ll send you off to be reborn, so you can come back as a normal person in your next life.”
Kicked into the sea, Yan Zheng felt both excitement and anticipation:
[It’s happening, it’s happening! To think the potent medicine I’ve been waiting for all this time would come from Shen Mengyu!]
[After all that acupuncture, it’s finally time to test the medicine’s effects!]
Bitter, salty seawater rushed into her nose and mouth, her lungs burning and aching from the choking.
The suffocating lack of oxygen made her instinctively twist her body, struggling to break free.
As her body neared its limit, primal fear took over her mind. Her wide, staring eyes began to lose focus.
The halo of light above her gradually faded. Choked unconscious by the water, she released a stream of bubbles from her mouth and sank toward the seabed.
Before Shen Mengyu and her accomplices could flee, Si Yueting’s bodyguards knocked them to the ground.
When the car had stopped earlier, Si Yueting had watched helplessly as Yan Zheng was swallowed by the sea, his heart plummeting!
Qin Zhao immediately directed the bodyguards to rescue her.
Si Yueting’s handsome face was cold as he ordered,
“Qin Zhao, you go in and save her!”
Qin Zhao had once taken second place in the city swimming competition—he could definitely get her out in the shortest time.
The first-place winner had been Si Yueting himself, but now he could only sit in his wheelchair.
Si Yueting’s hands, resting on his knees, clenched tightly.
For the first time, he felt how utterly powerless these legs were in the face of an emergency.
He picked up the fallen “Manyue” on the shore, the broken red thread stirring an inexplicable unease in his heart.
Waiting on the bank, Si Yueting had never felt time pass so slowly.
It wasn’t until Qin Zhao dragged the unconscious Yan Zheng out of the water that the bodyguard quickly lent a hand to pull her ashore.
Lying on the ground, her face was bluish, her lips pale without a trace of color.
The ambulance would take a while to arrive. Qin Zhao checked for breath under Yan Zheng’s nose, then turned to Si Yueting with a tense expression,
“Si Zong, Si Tai Tai has stopped breathing! She might not make it until the ambulance arrives. I need to perform CPR and rescue breathing.”
Saving a life was urgent—he’d just treat Si Tai Tai as a man for now!
Si Yueting tightened his grip on the red jade in his hand and said coldly,
“Step aside!”
Qin Zhao silently moved away, thinking: Si Zong is truly ruthless—forbidding another man from giving Si Tai Tai rescue breathing is practically sentencing her to death!
But then he reconsidered: Si Zong never liked Si Tai Tai anyway.
If Si Tai Tai were to die, wouldn’t that be just what Si Zong wanted…
Si Yueting’s dark eyes fixed heavily on Yan Zheng lying on the ground as he instructed the bodyguard,
“Help me down!”