“Drown her!”
Mu Mianmian was pinned down, struggling desperately in the water.
“Let go of Mianmian!”Mei Niang cried as she rushed forward to pull them away—only to be sent flying by a slap.
She lay there groaning, unable to move for a moment. But she quickly struggled back up, rushed over, grabbed Ye Third Uncle’s arm, and bit down hard.
“Let go of Mianmian!”
“Ah! You stupid fool—how dare you bite me! I’ll beat you to death!”
Enraged and humiliated, Ye Third Uncle grabbed Mei Niang by the throat.
Her face instantly turned purple.Her vision went black—and she collapsed unconscious.
“Stop!”
At that moment, Ye Siming could no longer endure it.
Sitting in the carriage, he grabbed whatever he could and hurled it fiercely at the men holding Mu Mianmian down.
“Ah—!”
They were stones Ye Silan had thrown into the carriage earlier. Ye Siming shattered them and fired the fragments like hidden weapons, aiming straight at their arms.
Every throw hit its mark.
The men’s arms and thighs were pierced through by the stones. Screaming in agony, they released Mu Mianmian and collapsed to the ground, clutching their limbs and rolling about, wailing.
“Cough… cough…”
Mu Mianmian finally broke free. She scrambled up and rushed over to Mei Niang, who had been strangled unconscious.
“How is she?! Are you all all right?”Ye Siming’s voice was urgent and tight with anxiety.
“I’m fine…”Mu Mianmian herself was mostly unharmed, but Mei Niang wasn’t so lucky—her face was swollen, her body covered in bruises, and deep, horrifying fingerprints marked her neck.
“Stop it! What are you all doing?!”
At that moment, Ye Siyun arrived with Liu Tao and the others.
Ye Siyun’s forehead was bleeding—she had knocked it open while desperately trying to get help.
“Sister-in-law… Mother…”
Seeing the blood streaming from Ye Siyun’s forehead, Mu Mianmian’s gaze darkened.“I’m fine. Get on the carriage first.”
Together they helped the unconscious Mei Niang onto the carriage.
Watching the battered women, Ye Siming was filled with rage and fury—he wanted nothing more than to kill them all.
Seeing the blood-stained water all over the ground, Liu Tao thought someone had been killed.
“Mu Mianmian!”He shouted toward the carriage, fearing the worst.
“Commander Liu, what instructions do you have?”Mu Mianmian walked over, wiping water from herself. Her attitude toward him was icy as she said,
“Let me be clear first—this wasn’t me looking for trouble. They tried to kill me, steal my carriage, and they injured my mother-in-law.”
Liu Tao: “……”
“I understand,” he finally said. “As long as you’re all alive, that’s what matters. If you didn’t start it, I’ll handle this fairly. Leave the rest to me. Go rest.”
Seeing her drenched in mud and water, her face smeared with filth, Liu Tao felt inexplicably irritated. After saying that, he turned around and lashed the men from the Ye family’s second and third branches mercilessly with his whip.
“Settle the hell down!”
“Officer, spare us!”Madam Shen, Madam Zhou, and Old Madam Ye all rushed forward, kneeling and begging for mercy.
Ye Silan and the others had already been injured by Ye Siming. Another round of beating could have killed them. The women cried and kowtowed nonstop.
Liu Tao was utterly annoyed.“All of you behave yourselves! Get out of my sight!”
With the officers stepping in, the chaos was finally suppressed. The people from the second and third branches finally quieted down.
Only then could Mu Mianmian and the others catch their breath and return to the carriage to treat their injuries.
“Sister-in-law, I’m fine. Treat Mother first,” Ye Siyun said anxiously.
“Mhm.”
“She’ll be all right. I’ve already applied medicine.”Mu Mianmian treated Mei Niang’s injuries, then cleaned Ye Siyun’s forehead wound.“Take care of yours too, or it’ll leave a scar.”
“Silly girl… in the future, don’t go begging people like Liu Tao.”
That man only wanted to watch them be tormented to death. Asking him for help was useless.
With such a huge disturbance, it was impossible that Liu Tao hadn’t known. He had simply chosen not to intervene.
Ye Siyun winced, tears in her eyes.“Mhm.”
After tending to everyone, Mu Mianmian turned around and noticed blood seeping from the man’s leg.
“Didn’t I tell you not to move?”She frowned in displeasure.
Ye Siming’s expression was still dark.“It’s nothing.”
How could he remain calm while watching his family be bullied? He had clenched his leg so hard that the wound reopened. Luckily, he had found a stone.
“Tomorrow, let’s put some small stones in the carriage,”Mu Mianmian said with a smile. “You were amazing—beating them like that.”
One stone piercing arms and thighs—almost like bullets.
Ye Siming wanted to say you’re the amazing one, but instead said,“That wasn’t impressive at all.”
If he hadn’t ended up like this, they wouldn’t have suffered alongside him.
He was the one who had dragged her into this misery…