Gu Yao truly couldn’t describe how she felt after suddenly giving up on something she had pursued for so long.
It was as if a huge stone was lodged in her chest, making it hard for her to breathe, yet it also felt as if her entire heart had been hollowed out, leaving nothing but an empty shell—there really was nothing worse than this.
She even regretted saying those words of surrender.
Because from now on, she really had no excuse to see him again...
Gu Yao walked while wiping away her tears, struggling to regain her composure for a long time.
This relationship, this relationship where she had always been the one giving and pursuing, hadn’t even started before it ended .
Gu Yao alternated between crying and laughing, feeling truly foolish and stupid.
As she walked, a young man emerged from a high-end establishment ahead.
The young man left the venue without glancing her way and simply headed straight on...
Gu Yao hadn’t paid much attention, but suddenly, seven or eight men appeared in front of the young man, blocking his path and surrounding him.
Seeing trouble ahead, Gu Yao instinctively slowed her step, intending to wait for them to disperse before continuing on her way.
The group and the young man seemed to have some dispute, and without exchanging many words, they moved to grab him.
The young man resisted briefly, but with the others having the advantage in numbers, he was quickly restrained.
Gu Yao, seeing that they had no intention of leaving anytime soon, was about to take a different route when she heard someone raise their voice in triumph,
"Pretty boy, weren’t you so capable when you rescued that woman in the bar? Scared now?"
"You cost me a hand, and tonight, I will take back double." ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel·fire.net
"Take him! Tonight, I’ll give him a taste of having his hand chopped off."
This voice, it sounded somewhat familiar, and so did what he said.
The bar? Saving a woman? Chopping off a hand?
Gu Yao looked at the gang and, amongst the seven or eight men, she recognized two familiar faces.
One was the sleazy man from the bar who had tried to take advantage of her. Gu Yao looked at his hand and saw that it was indeed missing a palm.
That was... done by her Second Brother.
The other person was the man who had saved her, the same man who had attended her birthday party and knew her Second Brother.
The seven or eight men brazenly took the young man away, right there in broad daylight.
For a moment, Gu Yao hesitated, but then she directly followed the gang.
She took out her phone with the intention of calling Uncle Li to send someone, but then she thought about the last time Uncle Li and her Second Brother had come to pick her up from the bar... In the end, she dialed 110 and activated her phone’s location service.
Carefully trailing behind them, Gu Yao occasionally heard the man with the missing hand spew curses and utter horrifying threats about how he was going to torture his victim.
Although Gu Yao was somewhat afraid, she couldn’t stand by and do nothing since the man was in this trouble because he had saved her.
After about ten minutes, the gang led the young man through twisted routes into a narrow alley.
Then, without a word, they started beating him up.
During the beating, the young man tried to fight back, but he was no match for the crowd and took quite a beating.
Gu Yao hid in the back, anxious, and several times she nearly rushed out.
But going out there wouldn’t help much, and it might only endanger herself as well.
"Beating him up seems to have calmed him down," the sleazy man laughed triumphantly, then flashed a knife: "Pretty boy, any regrets about sticking your nose in and saving that woman?"