When she heard those words, Ran Xiangsi’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.
It took her 0.01 seconds to react—oh, that sounded like Ran Zhonghai’s voice, didn’t it??
Great, her phone number had been found out again.
He really wouldn’t give her a moment’s peace.
"Then why don’t you just kneel to him?" Ran Xiangsi spoke languidly, not caring at all about Ran Zhonghai’s threat.
"You! You’re now Young Master Gu’s fiancée, how can you act ? Do you have any conscience left?" Ran Zhonghai’s voice instantly rose several octaves, probably on the verge of going mad with anger.
Gu Beichuan had gotten injured, so he was bound to put pressure on Ran Zhonghai, who in turn was ready to vent all his anger on Ran Xiangsi.
"The one who has no conscience is you." Ran Xiangsi let out a cold snort, abruptly ending the call. She then added the number to her blacklist to prevent further harassment.
After hanging up the phone, Ran Xiangsi suddenly found the silence in the car eerily unsettling.
Turning her head, she glanced at Xing Chen, who wasn’t looking at her but was focused on driving.
After a moment’s hesitation, she still decided to ask, "Um... you, did you really crush Gu Beichuan’s wrist into a comminuted fracture just now?"
Right now, she was quite concerned about this.
She thought about it—Gu Beichuan’s anguished cry at the time shouldn’t have been just from a simple squeeze. So... it was a fracture, and a comminuted one at that?
"He hurt you. This is the lightest punishment." Xing Chen’s words were direct, without any disguise or pretense, and came with an explanation, which left Ran Xiangsi in stunned silence.
Firstly, her current feelings could no longer be described as mere shock...
Xing Chen had looked so effortless when he crushed Gu Beichuan’s wrist, and it really resulted in a comminuted fracture. Amazing!
Secondly, Xing Chen had done it because Gu Beichuan hurt her. That’s why he struck.
So, this person... was protecting her?
Realizing this, the once parched part of Ran Xiangsi’s heart unexpectedly welled up with warmth, converging slowly into a vast ocean.
Xing Chen’s words were like the warm winter sun, shining upon the lake in Ran Xiangsi’s heart, making it sparkle and glimmer, almost bringing tears to her eyes.
This kind of protection really moved her deeply...
Ran Xiangsi learned to be cheerful after she came to A City for college, picking it up from Chu Xiaoge.
But beneath that cheerful facade, she was actually very silent, with sadness, pain, and loneliness...
All caused by her childhood experiences.
When she was four, her parents divorced, and her father drove her mother away, leaving her with nothing.
Her mother couldn’t stay in A City and had to take her far away to Lansi Country.
Two years later, her mother passed away.
The neighbor in Lansi Country was a gentle and kind woman, a friend of Ran Xiangsi’s mother, who had also been to A City but hadn’t married anyone there like Ran Xiangsi’s mother did. Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs ɴovᴇl_Firᴇ.ɴet
She lived alone for many years with her love for that man.
Ran Xiangsi lived with her for two years, until she was taken away by a mysterious person at the age of eight...
Those experiences taught Xiangsi that she had to learn to protect herself, that only by being strong could she avoid being bullied.
But... suddenly one day, someone appeared beside her.
Protecting her unconditionally, such a feeling was strange, very... addicting.