Ye Xin abruptly stood up and pulled open the door.
Su Jing’s voice was coming from inside her apartment.
With the strength-enhancing pill and two Body Enhancement Pills, Ye Xin had enough strength to kick down the security door of Su Jing’s apartment. However, after raising her foot, she hesitated.
Ye Xin lowered her foot and instead raised her hand, pounding hard on Su Jing’s door.
“Jingjing, are you okay?”
Su Jing’s voice came from inside.
“Xinxin, help me! Hurry, save me!”
This time, Ye Xin didn’t hesitate.
She raised her foot and kicked the security door!
The thin metal panel immediately cracked.
She secretly felt relieved.
Thank goodness I replaced my security door!
The door of another neighbor’s apartment also opened. The man and his son poked their heads out.
“What’s going on?”
Ye Xin had no time to answer them. She quickly forced open Su Jing’s security door and rushed inside.
The apartment belonged to Su Jing. Ever since she started dating her boyfriend, she had allowed the man to live there with her.
And now, that man was straddling Su Jing, his fists raining down on her body and face like a storm.
Before Ye Xin could even move, the young man who had followed behind her stepped forward.
He grabbed the man who was pinning Su Jing down and yanked him away.
He threw him onto the floor and, still furious, kicked him twice.
“Beating up a woman? You’re a disgrace to all men!”
Jiang Chao struggled to get back on his feet and tried to go after Su Jing again.
Ye Xin stood beside Su Jing and stared at him coldly.
“Try touching her again.”
Jiang Chao froze.
“You stinking woman! I’ll beat you up too—”
Before he could finish, Ye Xin kicked him hard in the lower abdomen.
He immediately crouched down, clutching his crotch.
Even then, he continued shouting angrily.
“If you hadn’t moved here, how would she have become like this?”
“She used to be gentle and understanding. It’s all because of you! All of you!”
“Your security door is electrified. Why does everyone know about it except me? What are you trying to protect yourselves from? Su Jing used to have a key to your apartment too. Where’s the key now? Why did you take it back?”
“This little bitch even said I have no right to interfere in your affairs! She’s just asking to be—”
Bang!
Ye Xin launched another kick, striking him squarely in the face.
Before he could finish his sentence, Jiang Chao was sent flying.
The force was so great that he stumbled backward several steps before crashing into the wall.
“Who the hell do you think you’re acting tough in front of? Su Jing may put up with you, but I sure as hell won’t!”
By this point, Ye Xin roughly understood what had happened.
Jiang Chao had several good-for-nothing friends in the building. Whenever they had nothing better to do, they would gather together to play cards and smoke.
He had come home late the previous night.
When he discovered that there was no food left at home, he ordered Su Jing to go to Ye Xin and borrow some supplies.
Su Jing refused.
He then decided to go himself, but the moment his hand touched the security door, he got shocked.
That was when he noticed the piece of paper stuck to the door:
“Beware of Electric Shock.”
He felt that Ye Xin didn’t consider him one of their own.
Everyone else had been warned beforehand, yet he was the only one who hadn’t been told.
And Su Jing hadn’t told him either.
In his mind, this clearly meant that Su Jing had been manipulated by Ye Xin and had turned against him.
Ye Xin hugged Su Jing and comforted her.
“Don’t be afraid, Jingjing. I’m here. Don’t be afraid.”
With someone finally backing her up, Su Jing pushed Ye Xin aside and quickly returned to the bedroom.
She grabbed all of Jiang Chao’s belongings and threw them out the door.
“We’re breaking up. Get out of my home!”
“This man… not only did he team up with those worthless friends of his to kill the couple on the thirteenth floor and steal their food, he even went after their child. He’s a monster!”
Ye Xin exchanged a glance with the new neighbor.
Neither of them had expected that the incident on the thirteenth floor had actually been their doing!
Su Jing grabbed Ye Xin’s arm and then turned to the other neighbor.
“He knew that you all had food stored at home. He forced me to go and borrow food from you. I refused, and then he… he…”
Su Jing lifted her clothes.
Her body was covered in bruises, both dark blue and purple, with injuries scattered densely across her skin.
It was obvious that this wasn’t the first time she had been beaten!
Jiang Chao glared at them with bloodshot eyes.
“Just you wait! Su Jing, you filthy bitch! I swear I’ll kill you!”
Su Jing trembled and shrank into Ye Xin’s arms.
Ye Xin casually picked up the mop from Su Jing’s apartment.
With a light bend of her hands, the mop head snapped off!
Holding the mop handle, Ye Xin took a step toward Jiang Chao.
“Go ahead. Try me.”
For some reason, when Jiang Chao looked into Ye Xin’s eyes, an inexplicable chill ran through him.
He quickly picked up his belongings and turned around to flee.
“I’m sorry. I was careless. I originally electrified my door so my ex-father-in-law couldn’t just come upstairs and knock whenever he wanted. I never thought something like this would happen.”
“And about the key to my apartment…” Ye Xin began.
Before she could finish, Su Jing shook her head.
“No! Taking the key back was the right thing to do! Otherwise, that door of yours would have been practically useless.”
“Xinxin, I finally understand why you wanted me to break up with Jiang Chao. He isn’t even human! From now on, he goes his way and I go mine. He’ll never set foot on the eighteenth floor again.”
Ye Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Jing had finally broken up with him!
Su Jing had broken up with Jiang Chao more than three months earlier than she had in her previous life. Hopefully, in this lifetime, she could escape the fate that had awaited her before.
The young boy from the new neighbor’s apartment was silent for a moment before running home. He returned with half a bottle of medicinal alcohol and handed it to Su Jing.
“Rub this on your injuries. Massage it for a while to help improve blood circulation and reduce the bruising.”
The man watched his son’s actions without saying a word. He simply turned around and left Room 1802.
The boy smiled, revealing a row of bright white teeth.
“My name is Bai Bing. Sis, you don’t need to be sad over a man like that. He’s not worth it.”
Su Jing thanked him and watched as he turned and left.
Ye Xin took the bottle of medicinal alcohol from her hand.
“Lie down. I’ll help massage it for you.”
Outside, the typhoon continued to sweep across the land. Rain relentlessly battered the windows.
Apart from the howling wind and pounding rain, the apartment was completely silent.
After applying the medicine to Su Jing’s injuries, Ye Xin returned to Room 1801. For some reason, she felt a little more relaxed.
Jiang Chao was gone.
Perhaps the fate of her previous life had already begun to change.
Oh, right!
Bai Bing’s family hadn’t appeared in her previous life either.
Ye Xin hurried onto the balcony and looked out at the torrential rain.
She understood now.
Even if Jiang Chao had been driven away, and even if her own home was as secure as a fortress, none of this meant that things would be peaceful!
Just as she was thinking about this, someone knocked on the security door of Ye Xin’s apartment again.
Both Ye Xin and Su Jing tensed simultaneously.
Could it be Jiang Chao? Had he come back to take revenge on Ye Xin?
Su Jing, Ye Xin, and Bai Bing all opened their doors at the same time.
Through the observation window, Ye Xin saw who had come and immediately frowned.
These people really are impossible to get rid of!
It wasn’t Jiang Chao who had returned.
Instead, it was her father-in-law and his mistress again. This time, they were holding a leather shoe and using it to pound forcefully against Ye Xin’s door!
Bang! Bang!
The noise was deafening.
And this time, it wasn’t just the two of them.
Standing in front of them were two men and a woman with a face full of flesh.
One of the men was the one pounding on the door.
Ye Xin recognized him. He seemed to be a resident from the second floor.
His apartment had now been flooded, and sewage was even shooting out of his toilet. The place had become completely uninhabitable, so he had moved into the hallway and was squeezing in with the residents on the first floor.
When the man saw Ye Xin open the door, he immediately put on a broad smile.
“Beautiful lady, could you help us out?”
Ye Xin glanced at Gu Siyan standing behind him and coldly asked,
“What do you want?”
Regardless of Ye Xin’s attitude, the man continued smiling ingratiatingly.
“We’ve been starving for two days now. We really can’t hold out any longer. We came to borrow some food from you. Look, we’re all neighbors. We see each other every day. You know how it is, right?”
Gu Siyan kept his head lowered and didn’t say a word.
Ye Xin knew that he was the one who had instigated this.
It probably wouldn’t be easy to send them away.
“We do still have some food left. But we got it by braving the strong winds and torrential rain and salvaging it from the floodwater. We practically risked our lives for it. So, lending you food is impossible.”
“But I can point you in the right direction.”