"I … I'm fine."
Ling Chunuan's voice came from inside the room. "You … you should leave. This is my home, not yours. Don't leave."
Zhuang Hong's expression changed slightly, and his hand fell from the door handle.
"Nuannuan, do you hate me?"
There was silence for a few seconds, and then a sentence came from inside the door.
"Quite."
Through the door, Ling Chunuan's face was pale. She could almost see Zhuang Hong's every movement as he turned around to leave, and the sound of his footsteps gradually faded away.
There was a cold and sticky sensation on her neck, and it flowed into her collar.
"Can you let me go now?" She asked with a trembling voice.
The man behind her breathed a sigh of relief, and tied Ling Chunuan's hands behind her back with a rope. He found a ball of cloth and stuffed it into her mouth, and then threw her on the bed.
Ling Chunuan's head hit the headboard of the bed, and she saw stars. Because her mouth was stuffed, she couldn't say a word, and could only groan.
The man glared at her fiercely, and said through the mask, "Shut up."
Ling Chunuan didn't dare to make a sound.
After a while, the man turned the room upside down.
Ling Chunuan carefully sized up the man from the corner of her eyes.
Only then did she notice that this man was not very tall. He was about 1.75 meters tall. He was thin, had a crew cut, and wore a mask. Perhaps he was afraid that others would remember his appearance. His pair of evasive eyes looked very wretched.
Ling Chunuan frowned when she saw that he had been rummaging through the things.
In fact, she wanted to tell him that the value of the things in this courtyard wouldn't be more than a thousand yuan. This was all because Gu Yao was cautious and didn't want to show off his wealth.
After the room was turned into a mess, the man didn't show the slightest annoyance because he didn't find anything. Instead, he walked towards Ling Chunuan.
From the moment the man grabbed her collar, she finally realized what he was going to do. She struggled with all her might, making whimpering sounds.
The man straddled her waist and tore open her collar impatiently. A few buttons on his shirt were undone and were bouncing around the room.
A huge fear engulfed Ling Chunuan. She had never been humiliated like this in the past 19 years. In her panic, she even forgot to cry. She just struggled on the bed with reddened eyes.
With a loud bang, sawdust and dust flew in the room. A figure rushed in from outside the door like a flash of lightning. Before Ling Chunuan could see clearly, the man on top of her was swept away. Accompanied by a series of tragic screams, the man's face was already badly mutilated.
Zhuang Hong's eyes were filled with an ominous glint. He channeled all of his hostility into his fists and punched the shifty-eyed man. At first, the man was on the ground kowtowing and begging for mercy. Later, his mouth was full of blood and he fainted from the beating. He fell to the ground and kept twitching. That scene was shocking to see.
Ling Chunuan shrank in the corner of the bed, her face full of fear. She opened her eyes wide and wanted to say something, but the cloth in her mouth made her unable to speak.
"Wuwuwu …"
His violent actions finally stopped. His hand that was stained with blood hovered in the air before slowly falling down. He turned around and looked at the girl on the bed.
Her hair was messy. The sweet and cute bun on her head was now loose and draped over her shoulders. Her face was pale. There was blood on the corner of her mouth, staining the white cloth.
Zhuang Hong's heart sank. He quickly got up and walked to the bed. He took the cloth out of her mouth and asked carefully, "Does it hurt anywhere?"
Ling Chunuan shook her head. The fear in her eyes made people's hearts ache.
Zhuang Hong lowered his head and untied the rope on her without saying a word. If he didn't feel Ling Chunuan's tone just now was not right, he wouldn't have turned back.
If he didn't turn back, all of this would be unimaginable.
After the rope was untied, Ling Chunuan's body trembled slightly. She seemed to have finally realized what kind of disaster she had just experienced. Her face was full of disbelief.
Zhuang Hong pulled the trembling Ling Chunuan into his arms.
"Don't be afraid, Nuannuan, I'm here …"
Ling Chunuan finally couldn't hold it in anymore. She lay in Zhuang Hong's warm arms and cried loudly.
She didn't know how long she cried. There was a gentle pat on her shoulder and his clear and gentle voice in her ear. "It's okay, it's okay …"
Later, the man with the short hair who tried to molest Ling Chunuan was taken to the hospital's ambulance by the district police called by Zhuang Hong. It was said that he broke 12 bones in his body. It would be difficult for him to live a normal life for the rest of his life.
Ling Chunuan didn't have the heart to ask why the man came to the old house. She had always been carefree. When the police took the man away, she had already changed into a clean set of clothes. The wound on her neck had also been treated by Zhuang Hong. Although she was still hiding behind Zhuang Hong, she didn't look frightened anymore. Seeing that there was nothing for her to do, she simply rolled up her sleeves and went into the kitchen to prepare lunch.
No matter what happened, no matter when, no matter what happened, could stop her from cooking.
"Mr. Zhuang, we've checked. This man is a habitual thief. He has a criminal record in the police station. He has just been released for half a month, and now he's causing trouble again. I'm really sorry. This time we'll take him back and lock him up for a while."
The police who came to the scene to record knew the background of the people who lived in the old house. When they received the call that there was an accident, they were so scared that they almost peed their pants. The chief almost flipped the table over. The patrol team who was responsible for patrolling the old house that day naturally received a heavy punishment.
Although the police's attitude was good, Zhuang Hong didn't buy it. He coldly glanced at the house where the accident happened.
"He's not here to steal. I think I've made it clear enough."
There was nothing valuable in the house. If he just wanted to steal, he wouldn't have deliberately messed up a pile of clothes to leave evidence. Besides, his real target was Ling Chunuan in the end.
"Maybe it's because he didn't find anything valuable, so he decided to do it on the spur of the moment …"
Zhuang Hong's cold eyes scared the little policeman and he didn't dare to speculate anymore. He had to change the topic. "We'll carefully examine the situation. We'll definitely give you a satisfactory answer."
After the police left, Zhuang Hong wanted to go to the kitchen to see Ling Chunuan, but before he could take two steps, he received a call from Gu Yao.
On the other end of the phone, his future brother-in-law's tone was very calm, but it made people shudder.
"Zhuang Hong, it seems that I made a wrong decision to hand Nuannuan over to you."
Everything in Lanjiang City, even if Gu Yao was far away in Mauritius, was still under his control.
Zhuang Hong was very calm and said calmly, "I'll find out what happened.
"I'll find out what's going on. Also, if you hadn't handed Nuannuan over to me, you'd regret it even more."
"If I didn't hand her over to you, in my arrangement, there are people who will take care of her. At least in the past 19 years, I've never let her experience what happened today."
"…" Zhuang Hong frowned and was speechless for a moment.
"I'll only give you half a month. If Nuannuan has no interest in you, you can leave."
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