Chapter 181: Chapter 181: Who Told You to Come Over? What if I’d Hurt You?

Xi Zirong was in no mood to bother with petty jealousy. The image of the man viciously lunging at Xu Su was too terrifying, filling him with a dread that chilled him to the bone.

Involuntary tears welled up in Xu Su’s eyes from the pain. Xi Zirong gently coaxed her to release the hand clutching her shoulder and neck.

Three scratches, nearly ten centimeters long, stretched from the left side of her neck down to her collarbone. The skin was broken and bleeding, a horrifying sight.

Huang Feng and the others who had just gathered around cried out in shock.

Shen Chen’s expression turned cold instantly. He turned to look at Little Huang Mao on the ground, his killing intent completely unconcealed.

It all happened too fast. In just a few minutes, the lively wedding banquet had devolved into chaos.

A few of Little Huang Mao’s buddies had just helped him up, only for him to be kicked down again the very next second.

“You’re all looking to die, aren’t you? Fine, I’ll grant your wish.” Shen Chen’s face was like ice as he kicked Little Huang Mao in the ribs again and again. You could almost hear bones cracking. He finally planted his shoe on the man’s blood-soaked face, grinding it viciously over his mouth. “What’s the point of having a mouth if you don’t know how to use it?”

The two tables were close, and the men hadn’t lowered their voices, so Shen Chen’s table had heard every single one of their filthy comments.

It was only because Xu Su herself had been enduring it that both Shen Chen and Xi Zirong had been forced to grit their teeth and hold back, not daring to make a rash move.

When Xu Su finally snapped and they rushed over, she had already been hurt.

This was Kang County, after all, and they were at a friend’s wedding. A lot of people knew Little Huang Mao, but no one knew Shen Chen or his status. Seeing an outsider savagely beating up their buddy, many people moved to stop him—several of whom had just been harassing Xu Su themselves.

Shen Chen was looking for a way to vent his pent-up fury anyway. He took his foot off Little Huang Mao and kicked another man who had been running his mouth at Xu Su.

As an heir to one of Beijing’s top families, Shen Chen was every bit as inherently violent as Zhou Mochen. It was just that on a normal day, one of them adopted the guise of a promiscuous playboy who had a smile for everyone.

The other hid behind the mask of a “flower on a high peak”—cool, aloof, and unapproachable.

In reality, the fact that they got along meant the two of them were more or less the same.

For instance, seeing Shen Chen beating someone up right now instantly reminded Xu Su of a scene from her past life: a deadpan Zhou Mochen kicking and breaking several ribs of a man who had spoken rudely to her.

He was almost identical to the Shen Chen before her now. Aside from their ice-cold eyes, both wore expressionless faces, as if they weren’t kicking a person but a dead dog.

People from their circle, no matter how much of a wastrel they might seem, had all learned professional self-defense from a young age. Each was an expert in knowing where to hit to inflict the most pain. Shen Chen was fighting seven or eight people by himself and wasn’t losing ground.

The hand on her waist loosened. Xi Zirong nuzzled Xu Su’s chin. “Susu, wait for me a second.”

He clearly saw Shen Chen was outnumbered and wanted to go help.

“No, don’t get involved.” Xu Su tightened her arms around Xi Zirong’s waist, not letting him go.

’We’re students. What if the school punishes us?’

’It doesn’t matter how hard Shen Chen fights; he has the power to smooth things over.’

With her arms wrapped tightly around his waist, Xi Zirong sounded a bit frustrated. “Susu, this makes me feel so useless.”

Xu Su shook her head. “Don’t think like that. We’re students; we can’t get into fights.”

’I can’t let Xi Zirong get a demerit on his school record, or worse, end up with a criminal record over some careless mistake.’

’With such a huge commotion, someone must have called the police by now.’

It had all happened so suddenly. A fight at a wedding banquet, with one side connected to the bride and the other to the groom—the whole thing had devolved into a chaotic mess.

Li Tingting desperately held back her husband, who wanted to join the fight to help his buddies. She scanned the room and finally found Xu Su.

She grabbed Xu Su’s arm. “Susu, hurry and stop your friend! Someone’s going to get killed if this keeps up.”

Li Tingting finally noticed the wound on Xu Su’s neck. She frowned, and her grip on Xu Su’s arm loosened slightly. Her voice took on a pleading tone. “Please, it’s my wedding today. Do it for my sake and get your friend to stop. Someone’s really going to die if he doesn’t.”

To say someone was going to die was an exaggeration. Shen Chen wasn’t an idiot, after all. Even if he really had the intent to kill, he wouldn’t do it in front of so many people. If he truly wanted to destroy someone, he had plenty of methods to use after the fact.

The most seriously injured person in the brawl was Little Huang Mao, who likely had several broken ribs. The others who had tried to intervene weren’t as badly hurt. Shen Chen himself had taken a few hits, but he had the clear upper hand, with everyone else scattered and staggering.

Seeing a bruise forming on Shen Chen’s arm where he’d been hit with a chair leg, Xu Su frowned. She let go of Xi Zirong and hurried over.

Xu Su grabbed Shen Chen’s arm. Lost in a fighting rage, he thought it was just another person trying to stop him and bent his elbow to swing his fist.

With no other choice, Xu Su yelped and threw her arms around his waist, burying herself against his chest. “Don’t hit me!”

The delicate voice in his arms made Shen Chen’s fist freeze. His devil-may-care attitude was gone. Gritting his teeth, he gripped her waist and snapped, “Who told you to come over here while I’m fighting? What if you got hurt?”

’Those words… and that tone…’

Xu Su’s mind went blank.

She was still in a daze when the police arrived, and her mind hadn’t caught up even as she was being taken to the police station for questioning.

’Why do I get the feeling Shen Chen isn’t treating me like ’the girl his good buddy likes’?’

’It must be my imagination…’

Xu Su’s neck wound looked frightening. After a brief questioning at the police station, the officers determined she wasn’t directly involved and let her go to the hospital to have it treated.

Outside the police station, Grandma Xu and her two uncles were waiting anxiously. Xu Su briefly explained what happened. Chen Ni and the others had witnessed the entire farce at the banquet.

With the wedding banquet having ended up like this, Xu Su didn’t bother hiding anything. She felt she had already tried her best to keep the peace, but her cousin-in-law’s buddies had just been too foul-mouthed. Who could tolerate that?

’As for Shen Chen’s actions… he was very protective of me in my past life, so it’s understandable. After all, even if it was just for Zhou Mochen’s sake, he couldn’t just stand by and watch someone humiliate me, right…?’

Xu Su had grown up in the Chen family home. No one knew her character better than the grandmother and uncles who had watched her grow up.

Her wound was clearly causing her a lot of pain, so no one could bear to make her talk much. They all urged her to go to the hospital and get it treated first.

Her grandmother was getting on in years, and Xu Su didn’t want her to worry. She persuaded Grandma Xu to go home, telling her only that she would head back to Chang City right after getting her wound treated, since school was starting the next day.

In the end, only Xi Zirong and a few other classmates accompanied Xu Su to Kang County People’s Hospital.

She had assumed that after such a major incident, Shen Chen would be held at the police station for a while. But she had barely arrived at Kang County People’s Hospital and was still waiting for her wound to be medicated when he showed up.

His clothes were rumpled from the fight. He leaned against the doorway of the treatment room, frowning as he watched the doctor work. “Just do a basic cleaning. I’ll take her to Chang City to get it properly dressed.”

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