Chapter 197: Chapter 197: Hero Saves the Beauty

The thugs’ words were incredibly lewd, but Vera Xavier picked out the key details. She confirmed that someone had paid these punks to come after her today. The mastermind was vicious, intending for the thugs to rape her first, then break her limbs and utterly destroy her.

If her past self had encountered something like this at her age, she would have chickened out long ago. But their luck was just terrible; they had run into her reborn self!

In her past life, she had experienced far too much and understood better than anyone that you couldn’t rely on anyone but yourself. That was why she had spent a fortune to learn martial arts.

Her heart burned with hatred for the mastermind’s viciousness. Remembering the tragic experiences of her past life, she resolved that she would never live like that again!

A chilling killing intent erupted from her. When she struck, she was even more ruthless than the thugs who surrounded her, men who fought for a living.

Her moves were decisive, each one aimed at their vitals.

The thugs clearly hadn’t expected her to be such a formidable fighter. They were all stunned, their eyes filled with shock as they stared at her.

In the blink of an eye, she had smashed the heads of three thugs with the steel pipe in her hand. The scent of fresh blood made her eyes turn red, yet her expression was as cold as frost in the dead of winter.

“Fuck! Who said this bitch was a pushover? She’s clearly a tough nut to crack!”

“We got ripped off on this job! Only a thousand bucks for this? For this kind of trouble, it should’ve been at least five thousand!”

“Brothers, take this bitch down! She dared to fight back, so we have to teach her a lesson!”

The thugs were provoked as well. In truth, they were a little scared, because they had never seen a girl so vicious and reckless!

And if they couldn’t even handle one girl, they might as well give up running in these circles.

So they suppressed their fear and attacked Vera Xavier all at once.

They had originally thought they wouldn’t need many weapons to deal with a girl, so they had only brought steel pipes, no knives. Now that their weapons were matched, they didn’t have much of an advantage.

But Vera Xavier was still just a girl, and her stamina was naturally lower than a man’s. After fighting for about ten minutes, her energy began to fail. Caught off guard, her left hand was struck by a steel pipe. A sharp pain shot through it, and the pipe she was holding clattered to the ground.

The thugs were thrilled and lunged at her in unison. But before they could get close, a pair of strong, powerful legs swept out in a roundhouse kick, sending them all flying.

The alley wasn’t very wide to begin with. Several of the thugs who were sent flying crashed directly into the walls, their heads split open and bleeding.

But Vera Xavier’s eyes had gone red with battle rage. The moment the pipe was knocked from her hand, she pulled out a fruit knife hidden on her person and lunged forward to stab them. But a pair of long, slender-fingered hands pulled her into an embrace as a gentle voice said, “Vera, don’t dirty your hands with this trash.”

Vera Xavier turned her head and saw Nathaniel Nathan’s eyes—cool, yet filled with concern. Her frenzied state of mind was instantly pulled back to reality. All the grievances she had suffered in this life and the last rushed to her heart. She pouted and whined to him, “Nathaniel Nathan, they were bullying me!”

She hadn’t been afraid at all before, but after seeing him, she inexplicably felt a pang of fear, and yet, just as inexplicably, a warmth bloomed in her heart.

Nathaniel Nathan’s voice was warm. “Just leave it to me. As long as I’m here, no one in this world will ever be able to bully you!”

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