"Boss, is this strength okay?"
He Xiangdong had already woken up and was diligently offering his services to Ye Chen, ceaselessly massaging and rubbing his shoulders and back.
"It's not bad; you're doing pretty well, with great potential!" Ye Chen sat on a stool, tilting his head back and enjoying treatment akin to that of an emperor.
"Thank you, Boss, for your kindness!" He Xiangdong burst into joy upon receiving the praise.
As He Xiangdong massaged Ye Chen's shoulders and back, the other two each clung to one of Ye Chen's legs, vigorously kneading them with faces full of eagerness to please.
A rough-looking migrant worker in tattered camouflage clothes nonchalantly accepted the flattery of three tall, rich, and handsome men—a scene that was utterly comical.
However, Chen Tian didn't find it the slightest bit funny. He had stormed in here to rescue these three young masters, but the scene before him had him completely stunned.
What the hell! This isn't some kind of joke, is it?! You can't mess with people like this!
Liu Shihua and Zhang Xinlan watched all of this, their faces filled with disbelief.
Had He Xiangdong and the others taken the wrong medication? Why were they massaging and rubbing Ye Chen's shoulders? Even their own fathers hadn't enjoyed such treatment, right? How did Ye Chen, this bumpkin, manage it?!
For the two women, the events of today could make a melodramatic script that would be a legendary drama!
"Ye Chen, let's go already. You're pretty cheeky, aren't you? Don't wear out the three young masters," Zhang Xinlan called out to Ye Chen, wanting to escape this problematic place.
Zhang Xinlan didn't know how Ye Chen had turned the situation around. But this place was a hotbed of trouble, and it would be better for them to leave sooner rather than later.
"Ah? Okay, then let's go," Ye Chen got up, ready to leave.
"No, Boss, please don't leave me!" He Xiangdong saw Ye Chen rising to leave and immediately clung to his leg, crying and begging.
Ye Chen's face instantly darkened. Those words sounded odd to him, and he kicked He Xiangdong away, "I'm not interested in men!"
"I can't! I cannot be separated from you anymore, I'm conquered by your free and easy ways!" He Xiangdong cried out in sorrow, for in this very short time, Ye Chen had become his everything.
"Boss, please don't go!" After Ye Chen kicked He Xiangdong away, the other two lunged at him, each grabbing one of Ye Chen's legs.
This melodramatic scene had the security manager Chen Tian doubting his own eyes, while Zhang Xinlan and Liu Shihua's eyes were about to pop out of their heads.
What in the world is going on here?!
"They couldn't have some unspeakable secret, could they?" Liu Shihua murmured quietly to herself, looking at this scene, she couldn't help but doubt the relationship between these four men.
"Ye Chen, let's get out of here. It's getting late, and we have an event to attend tomorrow!" Zhang Xinlan shouted.
"Understood!" Ye Chen acted like a boss in front of others, but in front of Zhang Xinlan, he was like a grandson. That's how it goes when you fancy a beauty.
"Boss, please don't go, okay?" He Xiangdong lunged at him again, with the three of them tightly holding onto Ye Chen's legs, refusing to let go.
"Ye Chen, you bumpkin, you're very unpopular here, okay? Didn't you see a dozen security guards coming to catch you? You better run!" Liu Shihua urged.
"Catch me?" Ye Chen raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, do you see that bald guy over there? Not only does he want to catch you, but he also insulted me by calling me a 'sellout', said I was cheap, so what should we do? My big bodyguard!" Liu Shihua flipped her hair, her small face full of rage.
Liu Shihua had deliberately said that sentence. Chen Tian had insulted her earlier, calling her a sellout, and now she was throwing it back at him. This was her revenge.
An old saint once said: Only petty men and women are difficult to raise; it's better to offend the petty men than to offend the women!
Ye Chen glanced at Liu Shihua, then at Chen Tian, who was approaching with a dozen men. His expression immediately grew stern.
Ever since Ye Chen left his hometown to come here, he did so to make money as a hired hand. He had no other skills but a certain talent for fighting and killing. For Ye Chen, being a bodyguard was undoubtedly a great job, especially being a bodyguard for a beauty.
Encountering Zhang Xinlan was particularly pleasing to Ye Chen. He had a very deep impression of this elder sister; one could say that her becoming so enchanting was his own handiwork.
Years ago, Ye Chen learned some techniques from his family's medical books and secretly applied them to Zhang Xinlan, stimulating a few acupoints on her body. Over ten years had passed, and this older sister indeed turned into an exceptional woman.
If he could do this bodyguard job well, earning money would be the least of it. Maybe he could have both the money and the woman in the end. Ye Chen still had faith in his charming talents.
But this bald man in front of him dared to cause trouble for his job. If because of this incident, he was fired by these two beauties, what then?
He wouldn't be able to continue his past connection with Zhang Xinlan, nor could he stay close to Liu Shihua, this national beauty. How great would his loss be?
At this thought, Ye Chen's expression became even uglier, and he was very displeased.
Chen Tian glanced at Liu Shihua and felt some resentment toward her for speaking out of turn and putting him in danger.
Earlier, in his anxious haste, Chen Tian had blurted out that Liu Shihua was just someone to be sold, because he thought that He Xiangdong was under inhuman attack, and the attacker might have been Liu Shihua's accomplice. That's why he dared to say such things.
However, the situation had now completely reversed; the bumpkin was not a thug, but an existence before whom three influential young men bowed their knees; to Chen Tian, this was like the sudden arrival of terrible news!
The situation had become clear now. If this bumpkin sir before them wasn't pleased, it would directly affect the attitude of the three influential young men.
Chen Tian also considered himself a notable figure in Longcheng, managing to be the security manager at the Emperor Hotel and certainly having made many connections. But to a person like He Xiangdong, he was still just a tiny flesh twist, a flick of a finger could send him into a pit of endless misfortune!
"Plop!"
Chen Tian knelt in front of Liu Shihua, his face full of trembling fat, while his bald head shone with a flash of gold in that moment.
"Miss Liu, I was wrong. Please be magnanimous and forgive me!" Chen Tian cried. But in reality, it was all his fault for insulting Liu Shihua in the first place.
Chen Tian had observed for a long time that the being worshipped by the three powerful young men was completely obedient to Liu Shihua's commands. If he could seek Liu Shihua's forgiveness, then he might escape this catastrophe.
"Good for you, Chen Tian, it seems you do not want to live, to insult Miss Liu like that, it's a crime deserving of death!" He Xiangdong, seeing Chen Tian's submission, couldn't help but fly into a rage, kicking Chen Tian in the head.
Chen Tian's neck made a crisp crack, and He Xiangdong's leather shoe left a bloody mark on his face; his neck was instantly crooked, blood smeared all over, a sight too horrendous to bear.
Chen Tian did not fall over but remained on his knees before Liu Shihua. He Xiangdong, not willing to let it go, stamped heavily again on Chen Tian's bald head with his leather shoe.
"Ah, don't hit him anymore, what if you kill him? I heard his cervical vertebra break just now!" Liu Shihua, after all a woman, upon seeing He Xiangdong's violence torturing Chen Tian into a non-human shape, suddenly felt her heart soften.
"Yes, Mr. He, please don't hit him anymore; if he died that would be too much!" Zhang Xinlan also spoke, after several heavy blows, Chen Tian's bald head was covered with shoe prints, and his neck had been kicked askew.
"Okay, stop hitting him!" Ye Chen also spoke up, and upon hearing Ye Chen, He Xiangdong decisively stopped.
In fact, He Xiangdong was afraid of causing a death, but his harsh treatment of Chen Tian was mainly to show Ye Chen, especially since he had just offended Miss Zhang and Miss Liu. He needed a scapegoat to bear the blame on his behalf.
"It's all clear now, we should go!" Ye Chen noticed Zhang Xinlan continuously giving him meaningful looks, clearly wanting him to leave quickly. With that, Ye Chen could no longer continue to play the lord here. "However, in the future, when you see Miss Liu Shihua, you must treat her politely, and greet Manager Zhang with a smile, do you understand?"
"The boss is right!"
"Rest assured, from now on Miss Liu and Miss Zhang will be like my own mothers!"
"..."
Ye Chen's words earned a solemn promise from the three men.
Liu Shihua almost spat out her saliva upon hearing this. She struggled to hold back her laughter, though the scene was quite comical.
Meanwhile, Zhang Xinlan looked at the submissive behavior of He Xiangdong and the other two, growing even more astonished. What kind of divine skills did Ye Chen possess to make these three hedonists willingly grovel before him!
"Snap, snap, snap!"
Ye Chen flexed his fingers, cracking them like bursting popcorn, and approached Chen Tian. Looking at that neck which had been kicked askew by He Xiangdong, he hesitated a bit.
Chen Tian was practically at death's door, with his bald head covered in shoe prints, the once shiny scalp now a bloody mess. Even more severe was the dislocation of his cervical spine from He Xiangdong's kick, now he was just hanging on by a thread, struggling to stay conscious, and may faint at any moment.
Just when Liu Shihua had softened her heart and decided not to pursue the matter, Chen Tian, despite his severe injuries, felt a sense of relief as if he was granted a new lease of life.
But, while enduring the pain of a displaced cervical spine, the bumpkin who made the three powerful young men grovel appeared before him again.
Hearing the snapping of Ye Chen's finger joints, Chen Tian already knew what he was about to face. It would be a new round of torture. Recalling Ye Chen's violent methods from the surveillance footage, if he were to suffer another beating now, Chen Tian felt he wouldn't even need to go to the hospital; he might just die right there!
"Sigh." Looking at Chen Tian, Ye Chen ultimately acted, all for the sake of the old chief's instructions.
Ye Chen's hands, enshrouded in a thin layer of azure True Qi, coiled around Chen Tian's cervical spine like lightning. In an instant, the collision of bone joints sounded as dense as firecrackers.
"Ah, he isn't going to kill someone, is he?" Liu Shihua covered her mouth in shock, seeing Ye Chen's forceful hands on Chen Tian, his power so fierce, she feared it might twist his neck.
Even though Chen Tian had insulted her, Liu Shihua only wanted to punish him a bit, not expecting this bumpkin to be so violent, delivering lethal blows at his hands!
Zhang Xinlan watched Ye Chen's technique with a light frown. Observing Ye Chen's skilled moves made her think of something, but she wasn't sure if her guess was correct.