Bang!
Lu Ping slapped Su Jie away with a palm and frowned, "You've got it wrong..."
"Attack together! Quick! Save the young lady! Kill this villain!"
Lu Ping hadn't used much force with his palm, so Su Jie wasn't seriously hurt after being flung out of the bathroom. She immediately got up and shouted angrily.
"Su Jie, it's not like that..." Ning Youwei also hurriedly tried to explain, but Su Jie had already rushed back in with four athletically built women in black, shouting as they charged.
"You keep dousing with cold water, don't stop or touch anything."
The bathroom was small, and Lu Ping was worried the five women might accidentally touch the blister on Ning Youwei's chest as they rushed in. He threw the showerhead to Ning Youwei, then spread his arms, scooped up Su Jie and her group, and pushed the tangled women back out.
Bang bang bang...
Ah ah ah...
Then, a series of muffled impacts and sharp shouts followed.
"Stop hitting, stop! Su Jie, it's not what you think!"
It took less than ten seconds before Ning Youwei peeked out of the bathroom to find, to her astonishment, that Lu Ping, in order not to hurt Su Jie and the others while trying to control them, had knocked the women onto the ground in disarray, piled them up, and then kneaded them together into a ball like clay.
Su Jie's head was tightly wedged between the thigh of one woman in black and the buttocks of another.
Her hands were trapped between another two women's chests and armpits, respectively.
Her body was bent into an 'S' shape, and her feet were spread by another woman in black, each foot also wedged into the gaps of two other women's bodies.
The other four women in black, who were bodyguards brought by Su Jie, were also caught up with each other, ultimately forming a huge human ball!
"Lu Ping, you damned bastard! Let us out right now!"
"Let us out! You pervert! Villain!"
"You scumbag, I'm going to kill you!"
The five women were a mixture of furious and embarrassed, their curses echoing throughout the villa.
Fortunately, all five women were very flexible, so although they were twisted into a ball, and each was wedged tight and unable to move by the others, none were actually injured.
"Lu Ping, you should let them go now," said Ning Youwei, still rinsing her chest with cold water, her head peeking out of the bathroom with concern.
"Make sure you talk to them first, so they don't pounce on me again like starving wolves as soon as I let them go," Lu Ping said.
Ning Youwei quickly spoke to Su Jie and her group, "Su Jie, you all misunderstood. Lu Ping is not a bad guy. The water heater broke just now. I got scalded and then fell down; Lu Ping was rescuing me..."
After Ning Youwei's explanation, Su Jie and the others stopped cursing at Lu Ping.
Lu Ping then stepped forward and released the five women.
The other four bodyguards were somewhat unconvinced and glared at Lu Ping before swiftly retreating.
"Miss, how bad are your injuries? Let's hurry to the hospital!"
Once freed, Su Jie quickly rushed over to Ning Youwei and saw the scald on her chest. The skin had turned red and was starting to blacken, with the blister from the burn looking particularly harrowing!
"With burns of this severity, you could be treated at the hospital, but it would definitely leave a big scar, and skin grafting would be your only choice for recovery," Lu Ping said solemnly as he walked over.
"What? A scar? Skin grafting?" Ning Youwei's face changed dramatically, her voice trembling.
The area where she had been scalded covered almost her entire chest and spread up to her neck.
This place, besides the face, is the most important, the most cared-for, and the most delicate skin of a woman!
"If you trust me, I can heal you without leaving a scar," Lu Ping reassured her earnestly.
"Miss, don't listen to his nonsense. Let's go to the hospital quickly!" Su Jie urged urgently.
"Decide for yourself whom you believe," Lu Ping looked sincerely at Ning Youwei.
"I..."
Ning Youwei looked at Lu Ping and then at Su Jie, but her gaze eventually returned to Lu Ping's face.
"Can you really heal it?" Ning Youwei stared into Lu Ping's eyes.
"Yes," said Lu Ping assertively.
"Okay, I trust you," Ning Youwei nodded.
Somehow, she felt drawn to trust Lu Ping, perhaps because of the clarity in his gaze at that moment.
Besides, her reason for coming to Jiang City was initially for this very Lu Ping...
Lu Ping nodded, left the bathroom to find pen and paper, wrote something quickly, and handed it to Su Jie, "Go get all these herbs as fast as you can!"
"Mr. Lu, if you dare to deceive the miss, or if you fail to heal her, I swear I will kill you!" Su Jie snatched the paper and dashed off.
In the meantime, Lu Ping continued urging Ning Youwei to keep rinsing her chest with cold water incessantly.
Half an hour later, Su Jie returned with a large bag of medicinal herbs.
Lu Ping took the herbs to the kitchen, found a clay pot, added the ingredients according to proportions, and began to simmer them...
Before long, Lu Ping came back upstairs with a large bowl.
By then, Ning Youwei had dried off her body, and because she couldn't touch the burn on her chest, she had put on an enormously loose shirt, but left it unbuttoned and open.
"The medicinal concoction is ready. Lie down on the bed, and I'll apply it to you now," Lu Ping placed the bowl down, then dipped his hands into the warm herbal liquid.
"Ah? You're going to apply it with your hands?" Ning Youwei blushed.
"Mr. Lu, you're just trying to take advantage of our miss, aren't you? I'll do it!" Su Jie said angrily.
"You can do it, but without my technique, the effect will only be 60-70%, and you wouldn't want your miss to have a scar on her chest, right?" Lu Ping said calmly.
"I..." Su Jie was at a loss for words.
Ning Youwei bit her lip and said, "Alright, Lu Ping, I trust you. Go ahead."
Then she lay down on the bed and closed her eyes.
However, her lightly quivering eyelashes betrayed her nervousness.
Since Ning Youwei's burn was most severe in the middle of her chest, Lu Ping had to start applying the medicine from the less severely burned sides.