“Taking advantage of her so brazenly.
What an animal!”
“The poor girl is unconscious, and this kid just keeps touching her!
Isn’t he afraid of getting charged with causing her death?”
Hearing the piercing rebukes, Zheng Yan frowned, but his hands didn’t stop moving, continuing to wander over the beautiful woman’s lower abdomen.
He had to admit, the woman who had collapsed in front of him was truly beautiful.
Not only was her skin fair and her features exquisite, but she also had a captivatingly curvaceous figure.
Her firm, smooth stomach was completely free of fat.
As the saying goes, after three years in prison, even a sow looks like a goddess.
For Zheng Yan, who had just spent three years in prison, this ambiguous contact with such a stunning woman was a severe test of his willpower.
But he truly was trying to save her, without a single ulterior motive.
Even though, if his hand had shifted just slightly, he could have scaled the peaks.
But he didn’t.
Nearby, some of the male onlookers’ eyes turned red with envy as they watched Zheng Yan continue to take advantage of the situation.
In normal times, the unconscious beauty on the ground was a goddess completely out of their reach, but now she lay there, seemingly at his mercy.
If they weren’t afraid of trouble, they would have rushed up to get a piece of the action themselves.
Even so, they couldn’t stand watching Zheng Yan have all the fun.
“You bastard!
Aren’t you done taking advantage of her yet?”
“Yeah!
Stop it right now!”
“Let’s grab him and tie him up!
Then we’ll wait for the police to haul him off to prison!”
A few of the men exchanged glances, then started toward Zheng Yan, gritting their teeth.
COUGH, COUGH!
Just then, the beautiful woman on the ground suddenly let out a dry cough and slowly opened her eyes.
Huh?
Instantly, the men who were about to tie up Zheng Yan froze.
This…
A moment ago, the woman’s face had been deathly pale and her breathing faint, as if she were on the verge of death.
‘She’s awake already?’
‘Was Zheng Yan actually saving her?’
“Where am I…?”
Lying on the ground, Bai Zhi murmured as if waking from a long dream.
In the fog of her memory, she only recalled a sudden, sharp pain before everything went black and she passed out.
‘What happened to me?’
Huh?
Before she could think any further, her body suddenly stiffened.
She felt a hand caressing her stomach.
The palm was incredibly hot, as if it held some magical power.
She could feel waves of warmth seeping into her body from his touch.
Beneath that scorching touch, she actually felt a strange sense of comfort?
Opening her eyes, she saw a handsome man grinning at her before speaking.
“You’re awake?”
What infuriated Bai Zhi was that even though she was awake, this man’s hand was still on her stomach, stroking her relentlessly!
“Let go!”
Bai Zhi glared, her eyes filled with an icy chill.
She exuded an aura of authority, the kind that came from holding a high position for a long time.
She was clearly no ordinary person.
“Um…”
SLAP!
Zheng Yan had just started to say something when Bai Zhi, having scrambled to her feet, slapped him squarely across the face.
“Pervert!”
Bai Zhi stared at Zheng Yan, her gaze a mixture of shame, fury, and coldness.
Growing up, she had never even held a boy’s hand.
And today, this Zheng Yan had touched her for so long with his filthy hands?
The very thought made Bai Zhi want to rush home and scrub her body with clean water hundreds of times.
“What did you hit me for?”
Zheng Yan was stunned.
If it hadn’t been for him, Bai Zhi would already be dead, her stomach burst open by the Insect Gu inside her.
“Don’t you know perfectly well why I hit you?”
“Are you going to say you were just saving my life?
That if it weren’t for you, I’d be dead?”
“Using ‘saving someone’ as an excuse to take advantage of them…
you’re disgusting!”
Bai Zhi looked at Zheng Yan with disgust.
Zheng Yan frowned and began to explain, “I really was saving you.
You have an Insect Gu in your stomach, and it was about to burst out.
The backlash was too sudden, and this isn’t a convenient place, so I could only temporarily pacify the Insect Gu inside you.”
“An Insect Gu?
What a ridiculous and pathetic excuse.”
“What’s next?
Are you going to say I need follow-up treatment?
And that the follow-up treatment requires me to take off my clothes?”
“And after you ‘cure’ me, should I offer myself to you in gratitude?”
Bai Zhi sneered.
“I really…”
“Enough!
Your pathetic acting is laughable to me!”
“I don’t want to argue with you.
Get lost!
And don’t ever appear before me again!”
“If there’s a next time, I’ll have scum of society like you thrown in prison!”
Bai Zhi shot Zheng Yan a vicious glare and turned to leave.
“Stop.”
Zheng Yan’s brow furrowed, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
“What?
Not satisfied?”
Bai Zhi turned back, looking at Zheng Yan indifferently.
“In the eyes of big shots like you, are the lives of ordinary people worthless?
Are our fates not worthy of any consideration?
Can you ruin an ordinary person’s life with just a single sentence?”
Zheng Yan’s fists clenched, his eyes bloodshot.
Three years ago, the Jing Family wanted to forcibly demolish his family’s home, and his family refused.
As a result, his father was beaten to death.
When he went to the Jing Family to demand an explanation, he was beaten half to death, thrown in prison, and framed for attempted assault!
‘Attempted assault?’
Hahaha!
‘How utterly laughable!’
‘If I’m guilty of attempted assault, then what about the Jing Family, who beat my father to death?’
‘Diabolical criminals?’
Fortunately, in prison, he had awakened the legacy within his family’s Jade Pendant, gaining heaven-defying medical skills and a Cultivation Technique.
Now, just after getting out, he had kindly saved Bai Zhi, and in return, she wanted to send him back to prison?
‘Do the fates of ordinary people truly mean so little to powerful people like them, to be toyed with at will?’
Bai Zhi was startled by Zheng Yan’s bloodshot eyes, but she still frowned and said, “I’ve always believed that all people are born equal, that no one is inherently superior to another.”
“But I’m talking about people, not the scum of society!”
Zheng Yan was taken aback, but he also calmed down.
‘On second thought, the way I treated her really could be easily misunderstood.’
However, Bai Zhi’s domineering attitude still angered him.
He couldn’t help but sneer, “You’ll be back, begging me for help.
Want to take down my number?
It might save your life at a critical moment.”
Bai Zhi’s brow twitched.
She gave Zheng Yan a look as if he were an idiot, not even deigning to waste another word on him before turning and walking away.
‘In her eyes, this lecherous, idiotic lowlife wasn’t worth any more of her time.’
Zheng Yan let out a cold laugh.
‘You can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.’
That woman had been cursed with an Insect Gu, and it had now reached the point where it was about to burst from her stomach.
If it weren’t for him, Bai Zhi would have already died a gruesome death just now.
‘I save her out of the goodness of my heart, and this is the thanks I get?’
‘Fine!’
Zheng Yan turned and left.
He couldn’t wait to see his mother.
When he was framed by the Jing Family and sent to prison, he was sentenced to eight years.
But in prison, he received the inheritance and cultivated diligently.
He developed immortal qi in his body, and even his eyes transformed into the Celestial Eye, allowing him to see through anything.
Over the past three years, while cultivating, he also treated people in the prison.
Everyone from the warden to the common inmates had received his medical care.
Because of this, he earned consecutive sentence reductions for good behavior and was now released early.
When he left, the warden and the other inmates had even pooled together fifty thousand yuan and given him a commemorative banner.
Feeling the money in his pocket, Zheng Yan remembered the warden’s request from before his release.
A friend of the warden’s was ill, and he’d asked Zheng Yan to take a look.
‘After I take care of things at home, I’ll have to go help him out.’
But for now, he had to hurry and see his mother to tell her the news of his early release.
He wanted to give her a surprise!
「Half an hour later, Zheng Yan arrived at his maternal uncle’s house.」
After he was imprisoned, his mother had been left in the care of his uncle’s family.
Filled with excitement, he pushed open the door.
However, the scene that met his eyes made him instantly clench his fists in rage.
In the yard, his own mother was curled up in a dilapidated dog kennel, dressed in rags, lifting a handful of slop to her mouth.
“Mom!”
Zheng Yan rushed forward and knocked the slop from his mother’s hands.
The next second, he saw the red welts covering her hands—clearly caused by being whipped with a hard object.
“Yan…
you’re out…”
Mrs.
Zheng stared blankly at Zheng Yan, her eyes instantly filling with tears.
At this moment, she felt that all her perseverance had been worth it.
Her son was finally out of prison.
She could finally see hope, see the light!
“Zheng Yan?”
An incredulous gasp came from behind him.
Zheng Yan turned his head to see a fat woman caked in heavy makeup staring dumbly at him.
This was his maternal uncle’s wife.
“Is this how you’ve been treating my mother since I went to prison?”
Zheng Yan roared, glaring at his aunt.
“Who the fuck are you yelling at?
For an old hag like her, giving her a bite to eat and a roof over her head is already a blessing from the heavens.”
“You, on the other hand…
you got out early?
I’ve spent a fortune feeding that useless old mother of yours all these years.
Now get a job and start paying me back!”