Li Jun was preparing to rest after his Journey to Li Na's hometown. He walked into the living room, readying himself to receive Li Na's call. The call he received was not the kind he was expecting. After the frantic call from her about Chen Yinnan's appearance, Li Jun discarded his food and ran out.
A dread he had never experienced before took hold of his mind. Not wanting to waste a single second, Li Jun stormed out the front door without speaking to anyone. He started the car and sped all the way over to Xu's house as he followed the direction which the GPS was calling mechanically, trying again and again not to listen to the noise from the phone as he started recording the situation in Li Na's house through his phone.
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'Hmph, Ah!' Mr. Xu's knee hit the floor as the knife pierced through his chest and Li Na saw the glint of silver flashed into her father's chest.
Li Na caught his eyes over her father's shoulder. Li Na could see that Chen Yinnan's eyes were filled with evil mirth and undisguised evil. Li Na rushed and grabbed her father as she saw that her father was saturated with pain and shock.
Li Na looked from the hand that pushed the knife into her father's chest to the face smirking down at her with evil intensity, "Father! No-No, " she was shocked and terrified at what happened as blood started spouting out of her father's chest.
Li Na's father groaned in agony when the knife was twisted into his chest, and his knees hit the ground as he leaned his head towards Li Na's shoulder. She reached out to him, but Chen Yinann looked at her as he smiled evilly.
"Har har, look at him trying to become a hero, he's too late for that. Sorry Li Na, but you will also have to go with your father,"
She screamed loudly when he began to drag her away from where her father was struck down, fighting and screaming at him to let her go when he hissed at her. "Stop it or I will cut off your tongue first"
Did he not realize that her father needed her, that he would surely die without her help? Li Na was extremely furious and the thin thread holding together her rationality snapped.
She screamed for her father, yanked her hand hard from the grip of Chen Yinnan, and began running back in the direction of her father. She hadn't made it far when she was wrestled to the ground by strong hands that pinned her down.
She continued to scream underneath him, fighting with everything she had, she gripped his head and turned it with an intensity that was never there before she bit off his left ear.
Chen Yinnan was shocked by the pain that assaulted him, The weight on top of Li Na disappeared. He looked at Li Na who was looking at him furiously as he held onto the bleeding spot where his ear is supposed to be, he became terrified and sneered as he saw her grab her father's stick and lunge at his head with all her strength. He realized too late that he had poked the hornet nest.
"F**k, you are just a woman, you can't hit me" screamed Chen Yinnan who fell to his knees on the ground as the walking stick hit him on the head. He struggled to stand up with all his strength, he bellowed and shouted as he swung round Li Na and made a lunge for her.
"Why you crazy Bi – ' Thwack. Chen Yinnan was cut off by a hard punch to the side of his head.
Fierce Rage propels Li Jun to huge hurried steps at a time.
He ran towards the house, but the remaining distance feels like it's forcing his heart to explode out of his chest. The landing is too big, the house too long. I'm too far away. He should've insisted on coming with her and staying by her side, and he was freaking stewing in his regret, shaking in my desperation to reach her.
He followed the sounds of rising shouts. Almost there. He rushed through the doorway, his focus zooming in on the far side of the room.
He saw Li Na standing with an unperturbed expression on her face as the man he supposed was Chen Yinnian pounce towards her, with anger that was not hidden, Li Jun rushed toward Chen Yinnan and swung a heavy punch and aim it towards the head of the man.
Li Jun ran towards Li Na and shouted her name but she did not answer.
Li Na saw that Chen Yinnan was down, did not see or heard the call from Li Jun. "Father" she tried to shout while rushing towards her father with pain undisguised.
"Li Na, are you okay?" Li Na could hear her father say from the ground, his voice sounded strangled and cracked. Li Na looked down and sucked in a large breath. There was a large pool of thick red around her father, and he was holding his chest, his fingers soaked in it. She dropped down to her knees into the red pool, her hands grabbing hers.
"You know, I love you Li Na?" her father asked, blinking his tears as he tried to look at her and Li Na nodded, not taking her eyes off father, whose eyes were beginning to drift closed.
"Do-don't talk father, let go grab the car key, okay?" Li Na said, her voice quivering.
"Listen, I was not putting it past your mother not to invite him here into the house. She can be stubborn at times. Just to be alert and have enough evidence I installed hidden cameras from all angles of the house. I will always be with you, Li-" Li Na's father stopped whispering as he closed his eyes. Li Na started crying at her old man's words but furiously wiped them away, getting the red stain all over her face.
Li Jun tied up the unconscious Chen Yinnan with the Duct Tape he ran to pick from his car and called the police to report what happened at the Xu Lake estate.
He then entered the house and heard the words Li Na's father said to her and he dropped to his knees beside Li Na.
"Li Na!" He caught her in his arms as she nearly fell down from exhaustion. "Are you okay?"
He swung her to the ground carefully, clasping her to his chest.
"Li Na?" He pushed her hair back so that he could see her. Her lips were bruised and swollen, there were scratches on her neck, her eyes were frantic and glazed over.
That bastard freaking hurt her. He wanted to go back and kill him but his rationality made him understand the severity of such actions.
"Are you alright? Did he…?" Li Jun dropped his eyes to her clothing, fearing what might have happened as he saw her torn shirt but intact pants.
He closed his eyes and breathed that he had not arrived any later. Who knows what he would have found.
"Come with me," he said firmly, moving Li Na's hands, and pressed his jacket over her torn shirt, holding it there firmly.
"What happened?" he asked as he held her. Li Na was looking at her father and muttering to herself.
"Li Na?" When she didn't respond, he reached over to brush the hair out of her eyes.
She flinched at his touch.
He froze. "Li Na, it's okay. let's get you and your father to the hospital quick, okay? You are also wounded " Li Jun whispered as he took in Li Na's bruised face and torn skin on her shoulder.
Li Na nodded, absently, tears streaming down her saddened face. He quickly carried her father to the passenger's seat of his car as Li Na trailed behind him, entering the seat with her father and closing the door behind her.