"Brother, cripple this bastard's hands, disfigure his face too. I want him to regret messing with my woman, and regret hitting me!"
Hearing a familiar voice, Mu Yuxin's heart skipped a beat. She looked and indeed, it was the notorious school bully from their school. This bully, Du Zhiming, relying on his family's wealth and his brother's connections in the underworld, treated the school like his own backyard.
Every day, he would either bully classmates or harass female students. In short, he was cunningly wicked.
So, the boy being beaten up was a transfer student from Jinghua City?
"Heh... You vermin from the gutter, dare to lay a hand on me!"
The boy's voice was deep and pleasant, but his tone of arrogance and conceit instantly infuriated everyone.
"Kid, you're not even peeing your pants in this situation. I respect you as a man, but you're too arrogant. If we don't teach you a lesson, you probably don't know who's the boss in Linhai Town!"
"Brother, why waste words with him? Hurry up and do it!"
Mu Yuxin was in a terrible state, torn between taking a detour and potentially being beaten by Feng WanHui, or sneaking through the alleys.
They were so engrossed in their fight, if she was careful, she wouldn't be discovered, right?
Besides, it was only two hundred meters. At most, she could sprint past.
With this thought, Mu Yuxin tiptoed in.
She turned her head away, not wanting to look at the fiercely fighting crowd, just wanting to get through this alley and go home quickly.
But fate was not on her side. Someone suddenly flew and hit the wall next to her, letting out a scream.
Mu Yuxin looked at the thug bleeding from his head and groaning while clutching his stomach. Just as she was about to run, someone grabbed her hair from behind.
"Ah..."
Mu Yuxin cried out in pain, clutching her almost torn-out hair. "Let go of me!"
The man didn't let go. Instead, he spat out a mouthful of blood. "Brother, that kid actually has backup!"
"I... I'm not..."
The man, unable to defeat Guan Yang, took out his anger on Mu Yuxin. He slapped her fiercely. The slap knocked off Mu Yuxin's glasses, leaving her dizzy and her ears ringing. Her lip was also broken.
She suddenly regretted it. If she had known this would happen, she should have taken the long way.
She shouldn't have taken this path just to save a little time, or to avoid being beaten at home.
Suddenly, her bangs were lifted. Then, she heard the man's lewd laughter. "Yo, brothers, this girl is pretty, her skin is so tender. After we're done with that kid, we can have dessert."
Mu Yuxin was very beautiful. To avoid unnecessary trouble, she always wore thick glasses and kept her bangs long, which had prevented her from catching the eye of the school bully. She never expected it to be exposed like this.
Mu Yuxin was not one to be passively slaughtered. Seeing a brick nearby, she laboriously picked it up and smashed it down hard on the person straddling her.
"Ah..."
The man let out a scream as his head was hit by the brick. Mu Yuxin seized the opportunity to push him away and scrambled to her feet. But the man grabbed her schoolbag, dragging her back to the ground.
The man was completely enraged and slapped Mu Yuxin several times. Mu Yuxin's vision blurred.
But before she fainted, she seemed to see the transfer student, who was surrounded by more than a dozen people, break through the siege with a baseball bat. His methods were brutal, each strike fatal. He was covered in blood, it was unclear if it was his own or someone else's, but the killing intent and ferocity emanating from him were enough to make one tremble in fear.
The men who were originally beating him, seeing their brothers lying on the ground screaming in pain, and seeing the boy who looked like he walked out of hell approaching with a baseball bat, got up immediately, holding a stick for defense. "You... What do you want?"
The boy sneered. He didn't say a word and swung the baseball bat, hitting the man across the face.
Blood instantly sprayed onto Mu Yuxin's face, and she was completely stunned.
When she came to her senses again, she found the boy dragging her by the arm, pulling her out of the alley. She was terrified, shaking off his hand and running away.
The two of them hadn't spoken a word from beginning to end.
But that was the first time Mu Yuxin had been so close to death.
...
She suddenly opened her eyes, panting heavily, feeling pain all over her body.
Looking at her surroundings, she breathed a sigh of relief. She had dreamt of the first time she met Guan Yang.
The bathroom door suddenly opened, and Guan Yang, wrapped in a white bathrobe, walked out. Mu Yuxin looked at his face and felt that he hadn't changed much from before, still as fierce as ever.
Seeing Mu Yuxin staring blankly at him, Guan Yang said coldly, "Seen enough? Want me to take off my clothes for you to see?"
Mu Yuxin's face flushed red, and she averted her gaze.
The next second, she heard Guan Yang's deep, sexy voice, "I heard your biological father is Lin Xing'an?"
Mu Yuxin was stunned. How did he know?
"Heh... Then why didn't Lin Xing'an acknowledge you? And let Lin Qiutong continue to be the eldest daughter of the Lin family?"
Mu Yuxin lowered her eyes and remained silent. She no longer cared about this matter.
But her silence didn't mean Guan Yang would let her off.
"Mu Yuxin, you are truly pathetic and tragic. You listened so well to Feng WanHui, doing so much for the Mu family, and in the end, you have no blood relation to them at all. And your biological parents don't want you either! Tell me, what have you been doing with your life? What is the meaning of your existence in this world?"
If these words were spoken by someone else, Mu Yuxin might not have reacted so strongly.
But it was Guan Yang who said them.
The person she loved the most stabbed her heart, which hurt far more than anyone else's words.
Seeing Mu Yuxin's continued silence, Guan Yang suddenly strode forward and grabbed her chin, forcing her to look up at him. "This is your retribution. You deserve to be unloved and uncared for your entire life, living in pain forever."
After saying this, Guan Yang left. Mu Yuxin tightly clutched the quilt, tears streaming down her face.
If time could rewind, she would have avoided that alley. She would have taken the long way, endured being beaten by Feng WanHui at home, rather than take that alley.
But people don't have the ability to predict the future, and there are no 'if onlys'.
...
Lin Qiutong's case was being investigated with great urgency. To exonerate Song Guanliang, Song Guanliang had to return.
After Song Qinian asked Song Guanliang and Liu Xiaohan to return, Shen Chiyan sent bodyguards to protect them.
Soon, it was time for the trial.
Song Qinian, accompanied by Shen Chiyan, went to the court.
As Lin Qiutong was a celebrity, many reporters were waiting outside the courthouse. As soon as Song Qinian and Shen Chiyan got out of the car, they were swarmed by cameras.