Ye Xin turned her gaze toward Su Jing.
Su Jing looked completely calm.
“That’s right. Didn’t you already take your speedboat out and fail to bring it back? The one we used yesterday belonged to someone else. Don’t even think about trying to scam me!”
“Besides, I was the one who paid for the speedboat in the first place!”
Ye Xin was speechless again.
Su Jing had truly sacrificed far too much for Jiang Chao!
She was just as foolish as Ye Xin herself had once been.
The moment Jiang Chao heard this, he became frantic. He kicked the security door repeatedly, making loud bang, bang sounds, desperately trying to force his way inside.
Ye Xin suddenly felt that the scene before her was incredibly familiar.
It had happened in her previous life too!
After Su Jing kicked him out of the house, he had brought his friends with him to steal Su Jing’s food.
And right in front of his friends, he had raped Su Jing.
Unable to endure the trauma, Su Jing had eventually jumped from the window and killed herself.
In this life, it was happening all over again—except this time, it was over the speedboat!
Ye Xin turned around, went back into her apartment, grabbed her steel knife, and rushed back out.
She pushed Su Jing into Apartment 1802 and closed the door behind her.
Then, carrying a large basket, she pulled out a fist-sized rock and hurled it straight at Jiang Chao!
“You want to steal from us? Jiang Chao, go ahead and try if you’ve got the guts!”
Grrrrrr…
The rock rolled across the hallway.
Jiang Chao was forced back two steps.
“You crazy woman! No wonder your husband abandoned you! Get out of my way, or I’ll beat you too!”
“Brothers, get her!”
But Ye Xin didn’t give him the chance.
She threw another rock.
This one struck Jiang Chao directly on the foot.
“Ah!”
Jiang Chao screamed.
“My toes… My toes are broken!”
At that moment, Su Jing rushed out of her apartment with red, swollen eyes. She was holding a kitchen knife.
“Jiang Chao, come and try me! Let’s see whether I, Su Jing, am really someone you can bully!”
With that, she hurled the kitchen knife toward Jiang Chao.
His foot was already injured, and he couldn’t jump backward quickly enough.
He fell heavily onto the hallway floor, smashing the back of his head and immediately developing a large bump.
“Murder! Murder! That crazy woman is trying to kill me!”
Jiang Chao screamed at the top of his lungs.
The neighbors, who had been bored inside their homes with nothing to do, opened their doors one after another to watch the commotion.
“Hey! You two are lovers. Why go this far? How can you bear to watch your boyfriend go hungry?”
“Exactly! Look at them. Which one of them doesn’t have a healthy complexion? Do they look like they’re starving? You’re being so heartless. How are you supposed to get along with your neighbors in the future? You’ll be seeing each other every day!”
Seeing people come out, Jiang Chao became bolder again.
Hopping around on one foot, he questioned Su Jing,
“Su Jing, you’re a teacher! Is this how a teacher is supposed to behave?”
Su Jing glared at him without saying a word.
She was still gripping the mop handle that Ye Xin had broken in half.
Seeing that more people had gathered, and encouraged by his companions, Jiang Chao led the two men forward again.
Su Jing swung the mop handle and stood at the front, but Bai Bing grabbed her and pulled her behind him.
He raised the dagger in his hand and suddenly lunged at Jiang Chao!
Ye Xin immediately realized it.
Bai Bing was trained in martial arts!
Although the dagger didn’t actually stab Jiang Chao, it still slashed a large tear across his T-shirt.
If Jiang Chao hadn’t been afraid the first time, this time he was truly terrified.
An unidentified liquid began running down his pant legs, accompanied by a strong smell of urine.
The liquid flowed into his slippers, making wet squish, squish sounds with every step he took backward.
The neighbors covered their noses and retreated.
What a loser. He actually pissed himself from fear!
Bai Bing advanced step by step, waving the dagger.
“A real man who wants food should go out and salvage it himself. What kind of man steals from a woman?”
Jiang Chao didn’t dare doubt it anymore.
This man really would cut him!
He must have taken a liking to Su Jing!
Otherwise, why would he protect her like this?
And then there was Ye Xin, standing there menacingly with a rock in her hand…
He had never expected the usually timid and gentle Su Jing to have so many friends willing to stand up for her.
Seeing Ye Xin and Bai Bing closing in on him, Jiang Chao couldn’t care less about the companions behind him.
He turned and ran!
Unfortunately, his slippers were already wet and slippery.
On top of that, Jiang Chao was running too fast.
His foot slipped.
Grrrrrr…
He tumbled all the way down the stairs.
His companions immediately followed.
“They’re crazy! They’re all crazy! Run!”
The neighbors who had come out to watch were afraid of getting dragged into the trouble.
They quickly turned around, went back inside, and shut their doors.
Not a single person dared make another sound.
However, Ye Xin failed to notice that a man on the seventeenth floor was watching her.
His gaze flickered several times, filled with curiosity and scrutiny.
After chasing Jiang Chao away, Ye Xin didn’t return home to rest.
Instead, she went back into her apartment and took out the security door from her previous home that she had stored in her space.
Then she knocked on Su Jing’s door.
“I measured it. The dimensions are the same. Replace your security door with this one. I kicked yours badly enough that it’s no longer safe.”
She glanced at the note attached to her own security door.
“Do you want me to hook your apartment up to electricity too?”
As she spoke, she looked around Su Jing’s apartment.
There was a pile of supplies on the dining table—noodles, instant noodles, sausages, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and other daily necessities.
They looked like the supplies they had salvaged the previous night.
Through the open door of the master bedroom, Ye Xin could also see the speedboat sitting prominently on the balcony.
Ye Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it wasn’t with Bai Bing!
She had really been afraid that her foolish best friend might be tricked by someone else and end up having her speedboat stolen from her.
At that moment, there was a knock at the door.
It was Bai Bing and his father.
Su Jing opened the door.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine. He’s always had such a bad temper. Xinxin taught him a lesson this time, so he should keep quiet for a few days.”
The father and son exchanged a glance.
“You’re a young woman living alone. It’s not safe. It’s a good thing you have a good friend to help you.”
Bai Bing smiled.
“Since we’re all friends now, we’ll help you replace the security door.”
“Sister Jingjing, I think you should have electricity connected to your security door too. It’ll be safer. Don’t let that scumbag sneak in and steal your things again.”
Su Jing nodded and looked at Ye Xin.
“There’s no electricity in my apartment. I’ll have to trouble you again.”
That was no problem at all.
For Su Jing’s safety, Ye Xin didn’t mind running one more electrical wire.
And so, both Su Jing’s and Bai Bing’s security doors were connected to electricity.
The main switches were installed in Ye Xin’s apartment, allowing her to control the power supply to both doors.
At the same time, Bai Bing’s apartment and Su Jing’s apartment each had their own individual switches that controlled only the electricity to their respective security doors, making it convenient for them to enter and leave freely.
Once everything was properly arranged, Su Jing suddenly turned to Ye Xin.
“Xinxin, how do you train? I feel like you’re much stronger than me! I want to train with you too. At the very least, I can’t just sit here and be a burden to you all.”
Finally, she’s come to her senses!
Ye Xin agreed.
From then on, she would exercise with Su Jing every morning.
But Bai Bing immediately chimed in.
“Sis, I’m a Sanda instructor. If you don’t mind, I can teach you all Sanda. How about it?”
“Hehe, Sister Xin’s family already has enough to deal with. We shouldn’t bother them.”
Su Jing looked at Bai Bing with admiration and a hint of worship.
“That would be great, but wouldn’t that trouble you too much?”
Bai Bing grinned.
“What trouble? I train every day anyway. I can just bring you along while I’m at it.”
Bai Bing’s father was named Bai Yuanshan.
Seeing his son acting this way, he couldn’t bring himself to object.
After helping install the security door at Su Jing’s apartment, he went home.
They agreed that as long as they didn’t need to go outside, they would practice Sanda in Apartment 1802 every morning from eight to eleven.
Su Jing left her apartment, while Bai Bing taught her Sanda.
Ye Xin didn’t participate.
She didn’t want to be the third wheel.
After working all night and then being tormented by Jiang Chao for half the day, Ye Xin went home and collapsed into bed.
She slept all the way until dusk.
By then, her mother had already prepared dinner.
“Xinxin, where did you go today? When I looked outside through the window, I saw that a lot of people had started going out to salvage supplies.”
“Oh, and even the government has started rescue operations!”
The typhoon outside had practically passed.
The winds were now very weak, but the torrential rain was becoming heavier and heavier.
Ye Xin raised her head.
“Did they say where they’re relocating people to?”
Her mother shook her head.
“I heard they’re only accepting residents whose homes have been completely flooded and who have nowhere else to live.”
“Your father-in-law tried to take his mistress along with the rescue team, but they refused him. They said his home could still be made livable after cleaning it up.”
Ye Xin understood immediately.
Jinxiu Garden had been hit directly by the tornado and was one of the relatively few residential communities that had suffered the most severe damage.
But even families whose windows had been shattered by the typhoon were being refused by the rescue teams.
What did that mean?
It meant there were far more people in need of rescue than there were shelters and resources available.