NOVPUBChapter 295: Chapter 295: Silence by Murder
Chapter 295 -295: Silence by Murder
After ten minutes, she was no longer trembling. What had happened had happened, and it needed to be faced.
“How did you guys get here so quickly?”
Bai Xiao was very grateful that An Zhiyuan and Jiang Shaoqing arrived in time, because if they didn’t, the three of them would surely have died today. Shang Kaijie had even brought reinforcements, and they had guns!
If An Zhiyuan and Jiang Shaoqing hadn’t arrived, it was likely that they would all have been killed.
“We had been chasing him for a day and two nights. This bastard is very good at hiding. The last time we spotted him was by the side of the road, and then he disappeared. Luckily, we found his subordinate’s wife. That woman spilled everything. Her man had followed Shang Kaijie to cause trouble for a woman. It goes without saying, we first went to the hospital dormitory. Since you weren’t there, I figured you would probably be here.”
“By the time we arrived, it was like this, I’m sorry, I promised to protect you, but I broke my word!”
An Zhiyuan felt extremely guilty. As a man, he hadn’t kept his promise, which was very frustrating for someone who took promises as seriously as he did.
“It’s not your fault. You can’t guard me 24 hours a day. If Shang Kaijie is intent on revenge, even if he didn’t act today, he would find another chance in the future. Actually, now that he’s made a move, it saves me from the constant fear of someone plotting against me day and night. It’s not easy to be always on guard against evil intentions.” Bai Xiao leaned into his embrace to comfort him, her warm breath tickling his chest, a tingling, numbing sensation.
“Do you feel warmer now?” An Zhiyuan suppressed his stirring thoughts, holding his most beloved girl like this. If he didn’t have any thoughts, he wouldn’t be a man. He was no chaste sage.
“I’m already very warm.”
“Then let’s go outside. We need to discuss what to do about Shang Kaijie,” An Zhiyuan said, pushing Bai Xiao away and putting on his fleece jacket.
Bai Xiao threw off the blanket, got down from the bed, and followed An Zhiyuan out.
“What do you plan to do with him?”
Killing him was definitely not an option.
It was not about whether they had the courage, but they simply couldn’t do it.
It wasn’t just the few of them involved; Jiang Shaoqing’s men and An Zhiyuan’s men had all seen Shang Kaijie. If he died, with so many people knowing, the secret would eventually come out one day. If they wanted Shang Kaijie dead, it would mean they would have to take out the entire Shang Family.
That was unrealistic, so they couldn’t do that! It would only bring endless revenge and scheming.
“We definitely can’t let him off lightly, or he might dare to come back seeking revenge. The price has to be substantial.” An Zhiyuan wanted a permanent solution but hadn’t thought of one yet.
As the two of them walked out, Bai Yue had just prepared a cup of ginger sugar water to bring to Bai Xiao and saw her coming out. She hurried over and asked, “Are you alright?” Bai Xiao had looked as if she was about to faint just now, and it was only now that Bai Yue understood what Bai Ju had said about Bai Xiao’s medical skills’ aftereffects!
Back then, it had just been hearsay, but now that she saw it firsthand, she truly believed it was a gift from their parents; otherwise, how could she explain everything?
She had watched her own fingers, which were about to be severed, become completely intact in just a few minutes. Other than warmth, there was only warmth at the injured parts of her fingers. If she hadn’t seen with her own eyes what her fingers had looked like, she never would have believed how dangerous the situation had been.
And as if the warmth had been absorbed by her sister, her body kept getting colder, her complexion paler, a pallor tinged with green, turning to a dark hue. The aftereffects of Bai Xiao’s medical skills were indeed frightening.
“I’m fine now, big sister!” Bai Xiao took the ginger sugar water and drank it anyway. It was her big sister’s kindness, and if she didn’t drink it, her big sister would probably remain worried.
Bai Yue held onto Bai Xiao, “I’m relieved you’re okay! I’m so relieved.” She looked her sister over and felt a sigh of relief seeing she was alright.
Li Haishun had already come running over. Bai Xiao lifted his shirt and saw a black and blue footprint on his abdomen. That was the work of that bastard Shang Kaijie, who didn’t even spare a child.
“Does it hurt?” Bai Xiao felt a pang of heartache. At that moment, the child had not cared about his own safety at all, biting Shang Kaijie fiercely, which gave her a chance.
“It doesn’t hurt, hiss…” Bai Xiao pressed his finger to the spot and he winced in pain.
“It still doesn’t hurt?” Bai Xiao gently touched and rubbed the bruised area, and Li Haishun felt much better, warm and cozy, “Auntie! This is really comfortable!”
Bai Yue said softly, “Don’t mess around. A child will recover from an injury in a couple of days. A doctor looked at him just now; don’t neglect your own health.” Only the two sisters could hear this voice.
Bai Xiao gave her elder sister a look, “This is your own son, right?” But she pulled her hand back anyway. This kind of bruising didn’t need much treatment, the loop of her special ability was just to spare the child severe pain in the next two days. She hadn’t planned to do much healing.
“What are you talking about? Can he not be my own son? But you’re also my own sister. This bruise won’t kill anyone, and what you did back there was terrifying. I thought you were going to die. We have to choose the lesser of two evils. You should keep it down!” She cared for her son deeply. He had faced constant hardships since birth.
Jiang Shaoqing and An Zhiyuan were whispering to each other, seemingly engrossed in their own conversation, when An Zhiyuan glanced at Bai Xiao and walked over.
“Xiao, can I have a word with you?”
Bai Xiao nodded. “Elder sister, take the child to sleep first. Don’t let him stay here. I’ll have them figure out how to get rid of the people! We don’t want our place dirtied.” Mainly, she didn’t want her sister and the child to be frightened again.
Bai Yue nodded, seeing that it was already past eleven o’clock at night. The child had school the next day.
“What’s the matter?” Bai Xiao asked An Zhiyuan, feigning ignorance, though she knew exactly what he was going to ask her.
The idea that Shang Kaijie could fully recover was far-fetched.
Her special ability was not for show.
“Well… Shang Kaijie can’t move his body at all, nor can he speak. Except for his eyes, he’s practically paralyzed. Worse than paralyzed. Could you explain what happened during your fight with him? We need to figure something out.”
“You’ve been told, he can’t move because I hit his acupoint. It was a fight to the death, and if I hadn’t made my move, it wouldn’t have been just my life at stake, but my family’s too.” Bai Xiao laid it all out. Now they needed to think together, and keeping secrets wasn’t conducive to communication.
Jiang Shaoqing had come over, and his eyes lit up when he heard this. He hadn’t expected Traditional Chinese Medicine to be so profound. Many people enjoyed martial arts films with defense techniques like the Golden Bell Cover, the Iron Shirt, and acupoint hitting—enviable skills that Bai Xiao apparently mastered.
“Now the only option seems to be to silence him permanently. If we send Shang Kaijie back to the Shang Family like this, it would be greatly disadvantageous to us.” An Zhiyuan, with his status, surprised Bai Xiao by saying such a thing.
Good heavens, what had she driven An Zhiyuan to become? Was he turning dark?
Jiang Shaoqing also nodded, both having the same thought.
If peace couldn’t be made, there would be no place for a burial.
Bai Xiao quickly intervened, “Wait, he can be cured!” She couldn’t let Jiang Shaoqing and An Zhiyuan face off against the Shang Family now. The Shangs had some dark secrets unknown to outsiders. She wanted revenge, but not for everyone to be dragged down completely.
Both men’s eyes shone then. Right, they’d heard that you can reverse acupoint techniques.
They hadn’t really thought it through, jumping straight to murder and silence.
An Zhiyuan laughed sheepishly, “My mind wasn’t clear just now, I misspoke! Pretend I didn’t say anything.”
He now remembered who he was. In that moment, for his wife’s sake, An Zhiyuan had truly been ready for ruthless measures, even pondering expulsion and prison.
He couldn’t let Bai Xiao be in danger in the future.
