Chapter 142: Reprimand
He couldn’t think. He was just acting on instinct. The force was rushing in his body, and his muscles were tensed into deep lines. He grabbed the woman’s hand, which was in mid-air, and threw it away. He had long since stopped caring that the other party was just a middle-aged woman who was exhausted. He was just stubbornly wanting to isolate the possibility of hurting the girl behind him as much as possible.
“Are you okay?”
Su Yu turned around at the first moment. His muscles were tensed, and his eyes were bloodshot. A few strands of blood were stained, and his appearance was a little scary.
The girl seemed to have not yet recovered from the shock just now. She was curled up in a corner of the entryway in a daze. Her dark pupils were rolling uneasily in the shadows, and the color in the depths was dark. Su Yu couldn’t see his own shadow in them at all.
Being a dozen years younger could have been her bargaining chip to fight against the woman. But she had subconsciously chosen to endure with submission. She was standing in place, motionless. It was as if all the pain that life had given her just needed to be accepted obediently.
After the pain was over, it was all over. What kind of ghost logic was this?
Su Yu turned his head again and stared at the ferocious and fierce woman behind him. He still recognized her. At Xia Qiange’s mother’s funeral, she had attended as Xia Qiange’s stepmother. That sharp and mean face had not changed in so many years, and it was disgusting.
“This is our home. Please leave here immediately.”
His voice suddenly became cold, and his bangs shadowed the uncertain anger in his eyes.
“I’m her mother. Who are you?” the woman took a few steps back with some lingering fear. She was wary of his clenched fist, but her words were still harsh and sharp. “Could it be that this little bitch has hooked up with a man? He looks quite fair. Is he a pretty boy who lives off a woman?”
He ignored the woman’s increasingly arrogant and incessant chatter. A ferocious wild fire was born in the bone-chilling cold wind. His closed lips slowly parted, and the blue veins on the back of his hand were bulging. He took a few steps forward and pushed the woman back. He still pointed behind her, and his hoarse voice took on a cold tone. “Leave here.”
“You dare to push me? You little bastard. I’ll fight you.”
But the woman was clearly like a madwoman. She put on the posture of a hooligan who was rolling on the ground and was acting shamelessly. She was cursing with unbearable filth, and she went up and stretched out her sharp-nailed claws, wanting to scratch Su Yu. He was pushed away by his elbow, but he was still accidentally scratched by her nails on the back of his hand. A dazzling bloody mark, and fresh blood immediately seeped out, and it was dripping down his long fingers.
“This is my daughter’s home. The person who should leave is you…”
“Slap!”
A crisp sound suddenly sounded, and it instantly stopped the vicious words on the woman’s lips. The surroundings suddenly became quiet.
The expression on Su Yu’s face was stunned. His body seemed as if it had been struck by something, stumbling back several steps. The force that had erupted in that instant was surprisingly great. He stared at a corner of his clothes, which he had subconsciously held in his hand. The texture was fluffy—it was the pajamas that the girl liked very much.
“You… get out!”
Xia Qiange, who had just been hiding in a corner with an uneasy expression, suddenly changed into a different person. Her dark, deep eyes were condensed into inches of solid ice. The cold wind from outside had broken through the window of the corridor and rushed in.
She raised her lowered head, and the dark green veins on her pale and slender neck crawled like poisonous snakes. The annoyance was forcing her into a state of unrest. Her temples were slightly bulging, and she could hear the sound of a monster frantically hitting a cage.
Xia Qiange tried to take a deep breath to calm herself. But the bright red blood on the back of the boy’s hand seemed to have a consciousness of its own. It was entangling her, as if she were on a ferocious and noisy firework. The tongue of fire was licking her, blood was seeping from the corners of her eyes, and her heart was burning with pain.
The woman was in a daze for a moment. She covered the red and stinging slap mark on her cheek, and the hysterical madness on her face was even more intense. She screamed and pointed at Xia Qiange. “You jinx. Nothing good has happened since you moved into our house. It’s all your fault! You have to compensate me… compensate me for the car, compensate me for the house, and compensate me for my money…”
Su Yu’s actions were one step faster than the woman’s. He pulled Xia Qiange and hid her behind him. The woman, who had completely lost her reason, had taken off her shoes and had thrown her bag. Her hair was messy, and she was in a posture of going crazy.
He was pinching the knuckles of his clenched fist, and a crisp and vibrating sensation was transmitted. He didn’t want to care about the so-called etiquette and shame anymore. Forbearance would only hurt the person behind him.
But just as the woman was about to pounce, a dense sound of footsteps was heard in the stairwell. A few property security guards in familiar uniforms rushed up and held down the woman, who had not had time to act up.
The woman was struggling constantly. She had already been at her wit’s end. She had worked hard for several years to outlive the original owner. The most youthful and beautiful years of her life had all been spent secretly as a mistress. Now that she had lost both her person and her money, jealousy would always transfer the hatred to someone who was living a better life than her.
The harsh and piercing screams were echoing in the corridor. Su Yu lowered his head, and a pair of hands that were still trembling with fear quietly hugged him. The suppressed cry had nailed him to the spot. He pulled the girl and hid her behind him. No matter how cold and violent the strong wind was, it could no longer cut her skin, which should have been pampered and not have experienced hardship.
“Give me a little money, okay? I’m really about to die.”
The woman was lying on the ground, her clothes in a mess, and she no longer cared about her dignity. She was unwilling to give up and reached out to Xia Qiange, who was behind Su Yu. Her face was covered in tears, as if she had already admitted her mistake. But she had never reflected on her past actions. For that little bit of unearned money, she had viciously wanted to inflict hardship on others.
Su Yu looked at the rather pitiful woman on the ground with a blank expression. The corner of his clothes was gently pulled a few times by the girl. It seemed that she wanted to pull him back into the house and leave this place, which was full of a bloody smell.
“Thank you for this time, auntie. Please help us call the police.”
He bowed slightly to the landlady, who had just climbed up the stairs, panting. His tone was plain. “Qian Ge is not feeling well. We’ll go back first.”
Su Yu held the warmth in his palm tightly and used his body to block the mess behind him. He held the girl, whose body was slightly trembling, and went back into the house.
The surroundings became quiet, and the sound of crying came very suddenly.
He turned his head and happened to meet the girl behind him. The little her raised a pair of wet eyes, and large tears were rolling down from her eyes. The light above her head had stretched her shadow, which was very uneasy because of her fear, and it had extended to Su Yu’s feet.
“Su… Su Yu…”
Her voice was choked, and she couldn’t even speak clearly. Her thoughts were also in a mess. She had called him by his full name, which she had not called him for a long time. But it was still intermittent, as if she were a child who was learning to speak, and she was vaguely trying to tell him something.
“Su Yu, I didn’t harm them. I’m not a jinx. I really don’t know… why. You believe me…”, she held her head, and her eyes were filled with a painful emotion because of her self-blame.
He smiled and nodded, and he touched her lowered head.
“Yeah, it’s okay.”
