The sound of the police siren racketed through the air as the car zoomed through the roads of Dongdan. It stopped before a park and Jia and Huojin rushed out with Mingshen following behind them.
From afar, Jia noticed the Ma family on one side near the bench whereas Dai Meihui stood at a short distance from Dai Fengge with the fatigue of stress clearly visible on her face. A small crowd of morning walkers had formed around the place where the incident happened.
An officer from the local police station stood in attention. "Superitendent Song."
Jia asked, slightly breathless, "What happened?"
From beside her, Mingshen already crossed her and made his way towards Ma Zhilan, who was seated on the bench, still shaken and shivering.
His piercing gaze watched Dai Fengge being handcuffed and in custody of a junior police officer. Mingshen heard him muttering curses as he stood before him.
"Heyyyyy the cheater with the broken nose~"
As he said that, he simultaneously pinched his bruised nose between his thumb and index finger and squeezed it until the crack of a bone was heard and blood spurted out.
"Aaaahhhhhh!!! Stop! Stop!!!"
Tears immediately fell as an excruciating pain shot up to his brain. He felt as if he was dropped straight to hell. He collapsed on his knees, bawling with the agonizing pain.
Dai Meihui gasped and took a step back.
The junior officer was horrified. "S-Sir, what are you doing!"
"Mingshen!"
As soon as Jia saw what transpired, her jaw dropped with disbelief. She hastily barked her orders to Xiyang. "Call for an ambulance immediately!"
She then glared at Mingshen. "What the hell did you do?"
"Just gave a good massage to his nose," Mingshen joyfully explained and then expressed with all seriousness. "As a doctor, I feel regretful that I didn't treat his injury earlier. It was my duty to treat it before it worsened any further."
"By breaking his nose!?" She asked, incredulous.
"There would be no pain if there would be no nose, right?" He innocently blinked.
"There would be no nonsense if there would be no Yang Mingshen too, right?" She retorted through a clenched jaw. "You cannot just attack someone like that! What were you thinking?"
"That he needed a more rigorous and strong medicine to join the disconnected wires in his brain."
"Disconnected are your wires, you idiot! Forget disconnected, they are not even connected to the main socket!"
Huojin and the local officer-in-charge burst into an involuntary peal of laughter.
She jerked her head sharply towards them, narrowing her eyes. "What is so funny? Please tell me. I also want to laugh."
They vigorously shook their heads for their dear life. "Nothing!"
Jia turned to give Mingshen a peace of her mind, but he was already at the bench where Ma Zhilan was seated with Ma Wenyan standing beside her.
"Hello cool grandma with the cool eyesight," Mingshen greeted her with an enchanting smile. "Do you feel your heart racing faster after the attempted murder attack on you or after meeting the irresistible and charismatic existence of mine?"
Everybody - "..."
Ma Zhilan, who looked tired and shaken until now, felt invigorating with his sense of humor. "My heart racing faster after meeting the irresistible and charismatic existence of yours is more appealing than a murder attempt."
"That's what I wanted to hear. Yang Mingshen is much more bewitching than anything in this world. So, I want you to get a panic attack only because you cannot handle my allure and not for any other reasons~"
Ma Wenyan and Ma Yanyu were left stupefied.
Is this man really flirting with Mom?
Ma Zhilan couldn't help but smile. "You are a good doctor." Dai Fengge was immensely struggling with pain on the other side. "Not for him though."
"I am a devil doctor, not a good doctor. I have no interest in being a good doctor because good people are scarce in this world. So I embrace the side of the majority~ Now be the devil girl and show me your beautiful eyes while taking a deep breath."
Mingshen did a preliminary checkup for any injuries but luckily, she had none. He then pointed out, looking at Ma Wenyan's arm. "Slash wound."
He dryly replied. "Don't ask…"
By then the sound of the ambulance siren also echoed, and two nurses immediately got down to tend Dai Fengge and lie him on a stretcher. They took him inside the ambulance van, starting his emergency treatment as he gasped in pain. Another nurse came to dress Ma Wenyan's injury with a first-aid kit.
Jia gave Mingshen a look as if saying that she would deal with him once they got back. For now, she focused on Ma Zhilan and said with a pleasant smile, "I am glad to know that you aren't injured anywhere."
She nodded.
"If you are comfortable, can you tell me what happened? If not, I can come back later," she gently assured. "I don't want to stress you."
"It's okay, dear."
Ma Wenyan spoke with a sour expression, "I will tell you what happened. We were out on a morning walk. I was helping Mom take some fresh air when this man suddenly came out of nowhere from behind a tree and pulled out a knife on her! Thankfully, Mom screamed just in time and stumbled back. I got in between them. That's when I got slashed. Then he started talking crazy shit how Mom killed his mother. He kept spouting nonsense that he will kill Mom to take revenge and acted like a complete maniac."
He shook his head. "Other people at the park along with us at the time were also terrified. It was thanks to a kind lady that she secretly called the cops and they immediately arrived to subdue him."
He then ranted his anger out. "What is the deal with this man! First, Mom was hospitalized because of him and now he is out to kill her? He should be thrown in jail!"
At that point Dai Meihui broke down. "I am sorry…I am sorry that I couldn't stop him."
Jia asked, "You knew this was going to happen?"
With a trembling body, she spoke, "Fengge was really drunk last night. He was telling how he will avenge his mother's death and hurt Miss. Ma. I thought it was drunken talk and that he will sober up in the morning. But he wasn't at home when I woke up, which was strange because he wasn't an early riser.
Then my neighbor told me that she saw him storming out of the house in rage an hour ago. I panicked. I really didn't think that he would be serious. I called him many times, but he didn't receive any of them. I quickly asked the neighbor to look after Yun and came to Dongdan as soon as I could."
Ma Yanyu looked a little lethargic as she said, "That's when I met her when I was on my way to the office. I was surprised to see her but she told me about her husband and we quickly came here. Thankfully nobody was hurt and Dai Fengge was already caught."
It was pretty much an open and shut case with numerous witnesses having seen Dai Fengge attack in a fury, so there wasn't much to ask.
Jia firmly said, "I didn't expect Dai Fengge to go this far, but there is no turning back for him. He will definitely be punished for this, Miss. Ma. He intentionally tried to hurt you for which jail is the only result for him."
She glanced at Dai Meihui, who didn't seem to be much affected. "Mrs. Dai, I know his arrest would be…"
"Doesn't matter, Miss. Song," a sardonic smile was on her lips as she said, "I had decided to separate from Fengge anyway. That's what I wanted to talk about with him. About our marriage and Yun's future. But he wasn't in that state yesterday and now…what little hope was left is also gone now."