"Heh heh..."
Xu Yan's face turned red as she was being choked, only able to let out a hissing sound from her throat with great difficulty.
And the sight of Jiang Chen's angry, bloodshot eyes fiercely fixed on her almost scared her to the point of wetting her pants.
"Mom!"
Li Liyun panicked, stamped her foot, and shouted at the bodyguards, "What are you standing around for? Save her!"
"Yes, yes."
Several bodyguards finally snapped out of their shock and quickly pounced towards Jiang Chen.
"Bang!" Jiang Chen threw Xu Yan's body harshly against the side of a car, which hit Xu Yan with an "ugh," nearly causing her to faint from the pain.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chen had already turned around, facing the bodyguards who were lunging at him.
In an instant, the martial techniques and killing skills he had learned in another world surged into his mind, allowing him to move without even thinking.
A bodyguard came up to him, one of the ones who had hit Jiang Chen before. This time, there was a vicious smile on his face and a fierce glint in his eyes as he anticipated knocking Jiang Chen down with a punch like before and then beating him up.
But as he got close to Jiang Chen, suddenly his vision blurred. Then, Jiang Chen's clasped palms reached his chin, striking ruthlessly at his Adam's apple.
"Oh... cough cough..."
The unbearable sharp pain turned his face instantly dark as he clutched his throat.
But Jiang Chen did not even look at him, and with a backhand elbow, he sent him spewing blood from his mouth to the ground, unable to get up.
Jiang Chen didn't stop there; taking advantage of the momentum, he approached another bodyguard who had previously hit him. Before the man could react, Jiang Chen suddenly lunged forward, his knee rising sharply, hitting the other man right in his lower sensitive area.
Oh, shattered!
The bodyguard doubled over in agony.
But then he saw Jiang Chen's fist coming from below, striking straight upwards.
"Thud," the bodyguard was caught on the chin and sent flying through the air, bleeding from his mouth and nose.
Everyone froze, dumbstruck.
No one had imagined that Jiang Chen could be so formidable, so ruthless!
Yet Jiang Chen just sneered, casually twisting his neck from side to side, and with a beckoning gesture to the other stupefied bodyguards, he taunted, "Come on."
"All at once!" The bodyguards roared as they charged at him.
"Haha."
Jiang Chen laughed heartily, surging forward.
"Bang bang bang bang..."
The onlookers couldn't tell who was who anymore, but they heard several muffled thumps and pained screams.
Then they saw several bodyguards already lying on the ground, wailing in agony.
And Jiang Chen stood alone among them, triumphant and fearless!
Around them, there was dead silence. The rest were stunned.
Xu Yan and Li Liyun's eyes were wide open in disbelief, unable to accept that the so-called useless person in their eyes could be so powerful.
Terrifyingly powerful!
Even Shen Xiaoqin had her mouth wide open, looking at her son in shock.
Jiang Chen looked around, his heart swelling with pride, wanting to shout to the heavens:
Joy!
Then he exhaled a long breath of relief and strode towards Xu Yan.
"What do you want... ah!"
Xu Yan screamed in panic, but before she could finish, Jiang Chen grabbed her hair, turning her words into a scream.
Jiang Chen dragged Xu Yan by her hair to his mother's side.
"Kneel down and apologize to my mom," Jiang Chen said coldly.
Although fearful, Xu Yan still shrieked defiantly, "You're insane, do you know..."
"Slap!"
Before Xu Yan could finish, Jiang Chen slapped her across the face, sending her mind buzzing.
"I don't know what you want to say, but I know that if you don't kneel down and apologize, I will kill you," Jiang Chen sneered.
"I don't believe it!" Xu Yan was still shouting.
"Don't believe it?"
Jiang Chen directly slapped her again.
Xu Yan's head tilted, and blood trickled from her nose and mouth.
"Jiang Chen, you're insane, you will regret this." Li Liyun finally snapped out of her shock and charged at him furiously.
Jiang Chen turned his head and pointed, his voice icy, "Shut your mouth. It's not your turn to speak."
Li Liyun felt a sudden tightness in her chest and stopped in her tracks, really shutting up. To her horror, she discovered that Jiang Chen was like a completely different person—a far cry from the good-for-nothing she used to abuse.
Jiang Chen didn't look at her again, instead turning his cold gaze back to Xu Yan and asked, word by word, "Will you kneel?"
Xu Yan, covering her swollen face, looked at Jiang Chen, her body starting to tremble slowly, full of fear.
She too could feel that at this moment, Jiang Chen was no longer the Jiang Chen of before.
Even, she truly felt a murderous chill from Jiang Chen's icy eyes.
If she did not kneel, Jiang Chen would really kill her.
"Plop."
Finally, Xu Yan knelt down rigidly in front of Shen Xiaoqin.
"I'm sorry... I was wrong."
Shen Xiaoqin stood with her mouth agape, staring blankly at Xu Yan, who knelt before her, admitting her fault. Suddenly, the stifled feeling that had been suppressed in her heart burst forth, and in that moment, she breathed it all out.
It even made her body feel a lot more comfortable.
"Mom, let's go."
Jiang Chen helped up his mother and walked towards Li Liyun.
Li Liyun was still staring at Jiang Chen in shock.
She couldn't understand how the once madly in love with her, only submissive, utterly useless Jiang Chen could suddenly become so formidable?
Not only did he bravely defeat all of Mom's bodyguards, but he also forced Mom to kneel down and apologize in public?
No, it shouldn't be like this!
It should be this useless Jiang Chen who is knocked down and kneeling to apologize!
Could it be because he knew that she was about to dump him, and the shock of losing someone as beautiful and well-bred as herself made him go insane?
Yes, that must be it!
So now I'll tell him that I want to break up with him!
He will surely wail in pain, perhaps even contemplate suicide!
After a bit of self-comfort, Li Liyun's emotions calmed down slightly. She clenched her teeth secretly, fixing her gaze on Jiang Chen as he approached her.
"Jiang Chen, have you really gone mad? I want to..."
But before Li Liyun could finish her sentence, she saw Jiang Chen stop in front of her and casually drop a sentence:
"I want a divorce from you."
Upon hearing this, Li Liyun's mind buzzed, her angry expression freezing on her face as she opened her mouth wide in disbelief, staring at Jiang Chen.
She knew Jiang Chen too well. He had truly been deeply in love with her in the past, willing to do anything happily.
In her mind, she had imagined many times over the moment she would abandon Jiang Chen; he would be on his knees, begging her to forgive him with tears, before she would kick him away.
That was the way it should be!
But now, Jiang Chen was the one initiating the divorce? And looking at his eyes, so resolute, with not the slightest hesitation, like he was about to throw away a pair of worn-out shoes that he had become bored with.
A wave of humiliated rage surged from the depths of her heart.
"No… I don't agree!" Li Liyun suddenly screamed like a shrew, "What right do you have to mention divorce to me?"
Jiang Chen looked at her calmly as she finished shouting, then suddenly smiled, "I was blind before, to have fallen in love with you. So, whether you agree or not, I am leaving."
With that, he didn't cast Li Liyun another glance and turned to leave.
Li Liyun stood frozen, foolishly watching as Jiang Chen supported his mother and left without looking back at her again.
Just like discarding worn-out shoes!