Chapter 2 - Chapter 2

"Help...Help..." After breaking up with Shen Manjun and Ou Zhixuan, Yan Xiaonuo was walking alone on the street when he suddenly heard crying coming from the dark alley, and his whole body was shocked.

"Shut up! If you keep talking, I'll kill you! If you want to survive, let me be happy!" The man's obscene words made people want to vomit.

Yan Xiaonuo immediately knew what had happened to him.

"Woo - go away...don't touch me...help..." The frightened cry for help and sobbing obviously came from the mouth of a girl in danger.

These days, perhaps many people know what it means to protect yourself wisely.

However, Yan Xiaonuo was born with a bit more sense of justice and compassion than the average person. Especially when she thought of an isolated and helpless girl who was about to be defiled by a beast, the blood in her whole body boiled!

The question is, what should she do?

She said that Xiaonuo was not a heroine with special skills in martial arts novels. She just rushed in so rashly. If she couldn't protect herself, how could she save others?

Well, the wisest thing to do is to call 110 immediately for help! However, she doesn't even have a mobile phone! She has to run to call a public phone, but she is afraid that the fire far away cannot save the fire nearby.

"Please... don't... ugh..." The girl's cry made Yan Xiaonuo clenched his fists tightly.

"Atai, please hold her legs down for me! My little brother can't wait any longer!" The man roughly took off his belt and let out a lewd laugh.

"Oh... no..."

Yan Xiaonuo didn't hesitate anymore and rushed into the dark alley, "Hey! Don't you think it's shameful for two grown men to bully a girl?"

"Yeah!?" The two thieves were extremely unhappy that their good deeds had been ruined, and they glared angrily, "Who are you? How dare you interfere in my business!"

"I'm a plainclothes policeman who specializes in catching bad guys like you!" Yan Xiaonuo threw his hands on his waist and pretended to be a law enforcement officer, bluffing.

There are two people on the other side, and they are very powerful gangsters. Even if she was a master of fighting in the orphanage when she was a child, she is still no match for them. She knows this! Since she knows she can't beat them, she can only outwit them. .

"Police?" The gangster's expression changed.

Duan Rouyin, who was huddled in the dark with disheveled clothes and tears on his face, heard the word "police" and felt as if he had met a savior, and his beautiful doll-like face regained its luster.

Little sister, run away!

Yan Xiaonuo winked so hard that the corners of his eyes almost cramped, but why was the girl still paralyzed there? She didn't even know how to seize the opportunity to escape!

"Hmph, look, I'll catch you today and lock you up for ten or eight years!" She usually watches police movies, hoping that these lines will work and scare these two bastards into running away!

"Boss, flash mob, it's the police..."

"Don't be stupid!" The man who was called the boss, after all, had seen some big winds and waves, so he immediately calmed down and was not easily fooled by Yan Xiaonuo, "If it were really the police, they would have rushed over to arrest us, how could they just Standing there and yelling?"

"I don't want to get my hands dirty! My subordinates will be here soon! You are dead!"

"Ha! She's just a little girl!" The boss took a step forward. After seeing clearly, he laughed, "My hair hasn't even grown yet. You want to pretend to be a detective to scare me. It'll take a few years!"

Oops, I'm wearing a gang!

Yan Xiaonuo secretly screamed that something was wrong, but still raised his chin and faced him, staring back without saying a word. Showing weakness to these bandits would only increase their momentum and destroy his own prestige!

"Uncle, I am so lucky today. I met two beautiful ladies in a row. Haha... God is so good to me!" The boss looked at her from head to toe with a lecherous look and laughed proudly. "When I have enough fun, uncle, I will sell you at a good price!"

"Hmph, you two also want to take advantage of this girl?" Now that things have happened, she is willing to risk everything and will never let that girl get hurt!

She is still so young, she looks only fifteen or sixteen years old, and her timid face makes people want to protect her from the bottom of their hearts.

"Hey, uncle, I will make it impossible for you to live or die..." The boss salivated and smiled lustfully, and stretched out his magic palm towards her.

Yan Xiaonuo dodged deftly and used the same ferocity as in childhood fights. She kicked the opponent in the crotch with all her strength, and the pervert immediately let out a wail like a slaughtering pig.

"Wow! It hurts, it hurts me to death!"

"Hmph, you know how powerful I am, right? And you, what are you doing standing there? Hurry up and come here!" Yan Xiaonuo provoked the other big man and lured him away from the girl.

"Ah...Tai, you Liang guy, chop this stinky girl to death!" The boss covered his lower body and gave the order bitterly when he was dying of pain.

I saw the gangster named Artai showing a knife.

Yan Xiaonuo swallowed. She might not be able to beat the two of them with her bare hands, not to mention they had knives in their hands.

"Little sister, run quickly! Go home quickly!" she yelled at the frightened girl.

go home!?

Duan Rouyin sobbed and shed more tears. She just didn't want to go home, so she was still wandering out so late. In order to get rid of Xiao Du, she turned into a dark alley, but met these two lewd thieves... …

She regrets so much! If she hadn't been too willful, how could this have happened?

"Hurry up! I can't protect myself, and I can't protect you, so run away!" Yan Xiaonuo dodged left and right, narrowly avoiding the gangster's attack, while urging the girl to run for her life.

Duan Rouyin felt as if she had awakened from a dream. Her older sister had deliberately drawn the villains away to save her! Watching her older sister narrowly avoid being stabbed, Rouyin's heart nearly stopped.

Her foolishness, her stubbornness—she shouldn't have endangered this kind-hearted sister...

Springing up from the ground, Rouyin stumbled out of the dark alley, shouting for help, "Somebody help! Xiao Du! Xiao Du! Save us!"

She had no idea how long she had been crying and shouting until two tall men rushed over.

"Miss, so this is where you were!" The driver and bodyguard, whom she had gone to great lengths to shake off earlier, miraculously appeared before her.

"Xiao Du! Big…Big Brother?" Rouyin burst into tears, hardly able to believe she'd lived to see her family again, and her body went limp.

"What happened? Are you hurt?" Duan Shunchen held his disheveled, terrified sister, his heart sinking as he pieced together what might have occurred.

After receiving a call from Xiao Du saying that Rouyin had asked to buy ice cream and then disappeared without a trace, he, as her older brother, had immediately dropped everything and rushed over, searching all around, fearing something had happened to her. And yet, despite all his efforts, something had still gone wrong!

No, I'm fine, go quickly, go save her!" Duan Rouyin whimpered, pointing her trembling fingers at the dark alley, urging, "Hurry, go quickly!"

"Who to save?"

"Big sister..." Duan Rouyin cried, "In order to save me, big sister... is dealing with bad guys... She can't get into trouble! No way!"

"Okay, got it, I'll go right away!"

Without saying a word, Duan Shunchen put his nearly collapsed sister into the hands of the bodyguard and hurried into the dark alley that was rarely visited.

Big sister!?

Growing up, he had never seen his willful and rebellious sister care about anyone. Who is this big sister?

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"Stop!" The scene in front of him made Duan Shunchen stunned. His handsome and agile body rushed like a panther and punched the gangster who was torturing the girl in the face with a heavy punch. With a roundhouse kick, the bloody knife in the other gangster's hand fell to the ground.

"Beautiful...beautiful!" Yan Xiaonuo pressed the wound and praised through gritted teeth. Alas, if she were so skilled, she wouldn't just get beaten!

She thought she was dead, but now a handsome expert appeared to save her!? Could it be a hallucination before she died?

Duan Shunchen was stunned and couldn't help but raise his handsome eyebrows.

This girl was beaten until her nose was bruised and her face was swollen, and she was slashed several times. The wounds were bleeding, but she was still in the mood to praise him for his beautiful skills!?

Precisely because she was seriously injured, Duan Shunchen's heart ignited with raging anger, and he hated the two bastards who had done this murder to the extreme.

"D*mn it!" he cursed angrily.

"You brat, you don't want to live anymore and you dare to interfere with the uncle's business?" After spitting, the boss angrily scolded the nosy young man. Seeing that he was tall, thin and polite, he looked like he was not a problem at all. , I must have fallen for his trick because I was unprepared.

If they really wanted to fight, how could they, two burly men, be afraid of a gentle and bratty boy? Thinking of this, they became more arrogant and gearing up.

"Cut the nonsense!"

With a cold expression, Duan Shunchen blinked and asked while throwing a few punches.

He couldn't be bothered to waste words with them; expressing his anger through action was more practical. Besides, there was an injured woman in urgent need of medical attention.

Just like that, the two thugs didn't even understand what was happening before Duan Shunchen ruthlessly beat them down, leaving them sprawled on the ground, unable to move.

Yan Xiaono was terrified. "You… you… killed them…"

This man, who seemed so refined and cultured, was unexpectedly so brutal. Although those two scoundrels deserved it, he couldn't just beat them to death!

"Miss, you should worry about yourself first!" At least the two beasts were too weak to fight back; it was better this way, as they would lie there obediently until the police arrived.

Duan Shunchen bent down and picked up her battered body, but no matter how gently he moved, he still inadvertently touched her wounds.

"Ow, it hurts…" Yan Xiaono's hands and feet felt icy; the pain almost made her faint.

"Hang in there! I'll get you to the hospital right away!" Feeling a rush of warmth pouring from her abdomen, Duan Shunchen's heart tightened; her injuries were worse than he had thought. If he didn't move faster, she might bleed out!

Yan Xiaono struggled to open her eyes, the intense pain making it hard for her to speak, "The little sister… she…"

"She's fine."

"Mm…" The weight on her heart lifted, and she smiled, closing her eyes.

"Hey! Hey, hang in there!" Duan Shunchen shouted anxiously, fearing she would just slip away.

"It hurts so much…"

Yan Xiaono groaned, feeling like the pain was overwhelming. It turned out that intervening when witnessing injustice came at such a painful cost. However, heaven wasn't too cruel; at least she would die in the arms of a handsome man.

This man was ridiculously good-looking! Dying in his embrace felt just like a famous, popular TV drama, tragically beautiful!

But then she remembered her swollen face, looking like a steamed bun, and she really wanted to cry. A handsome man holding a pig-headed girl—how could that be called tragic beauty? It was just endless sorrow, sobbing...

"Hang on! You must hang on!" Duan Shunchen held her tightly, anxiously rushing out of the alley, trying to get her to the hospital as quickly as possible.

He didn't even know the name of this girl, who was on the brink of death. Her bruised and swollen face made it impossible to discern her features… Yet, at that moment, he felt a strong sense of pain and reluctance for her, something he had never experienced before.

How could this happen!?

He could only explain it as the girl saving his sister's life, leading him to see her differently…

Yes, it must be that way!

As soon as they entered the hospital, Yan Xiaono was immediately taken into the operating room.

"Is… is she going to be okay? She's hurt so badly… is there a risk to her life?"

Duan Rouyin was extremely worried, anxiously pacing outside the operating room, continually looking up at the red light, hoping it would turn off.

Duan Shunchen glanced at his sister.

"Don't worry, the doctors are already performing emergency treatment. She'll be fine!"

Though he maintained his usual calm demeanor, he knew that his worry was no less than his sister's, perhaps even more…

Because he understood better than Rouyin just how serious her injuries were!

At that moment, she must be fighting against death, right?

Duan Shunchen silently lowered his head, running his hands through his thick black hair.

At that moment, he could have helped her fend off the villains; now, he found himself utterly helpless. He loathed his own impotence!

"But the older sister has been inside for so long!" Duan Rouyin anxiously stamped her foot, her voice choking with emotion. "The situation must be dire..."

"Rouyin, you're exhausted and shaken; I think you should return home and rest," he urged gently.

"No! I want to stay here; I won't go back!"

"Rouyin, listen to me." Duan Shunchen's tone, while kind, carried a note of insistence. "It's quite late now. If you don't return, Grandma and Mom will be worried."

"Brother, don't send me away! I want to stay with my sister. I need to know she's safe! She got hurt saving me... I can't just abandon her..."

"Be good, you need to rest. I'll stay here." The presence of others was of no consequence; he had resolved to remain alone.

At his words, Duan Rouyin paused in surprise.

She couldn't have heard correctly, could she? Her typically busy brother, who was so swamped with responsibilities he barely had time to sleep, actually said he was willing to stay in the hospital?

Given his usual demeanor, he would have sent Xiao Du to handle things instead.

"But brother..." Duan Rouyin was taken aback by her brother's decision; however, she had no intention of leaving the hospital at this moment.

"Xiao Du, take the young lady home!"

"Understood." Xiao Du quickly complied. "Miss, let's heed your brother's advice and go back."

"Brother..." Duan Rouyin wanted to protest, but when she met his resolute gaze, she knew further argument would be futile.

"Brother... will you stay until my sister is out of danger?"

"Absolutely!" He was a man of his word.

"As soon as she emerges from the operating room, I want you to inform me immediately, alright?" Duan Rouyin pressed on.

"Then keep your phone on."

"Call me as soon as you have news!" Duan Rouyin's eyes lit up as she accepted his terms.

"No, I won't have you waiting all night for a call; you have school tomorrow! I'll send you a text, and you can read it when you wake up."

"It's a promise!" She wouldn't sleep a wink without good news tonight! But there was no need for her brother to know that.

"Alright! Now go home!"

Only then did Duan Rouyin obediently leave with Xiao Du.

Finally, he had managed to send that clingy little pest away!

At last, his ears enjoyed a moment of peace... Duan Shunchen stretched out his long legs; the bench outside the operating room was hard and narrow, quite uncomfortable to sit on.

The wait was long and torturous; idleness heightened his anxiety, so he opened his blue backpack again...

This backpack belonged to Yan Xiaono!

While handling her admission paperwork, he had searched through her belongings to ascertain her identity. Although rummaging through someone else's bag was rather rude, he had no choice in the matter.

Strangely, despite thoroughly examining her backpack, he found no way to contact her family or friends; this young lady didn't even have a phone directory.

Really now! It was hard not to wonder if she had any relatives or friends. Perhaps she prided herself on her sharp memory, keeping all her contacts stored in her mind?

However, this became quite the inconvenience for those trying to reach her family in situations like this, as they were now.

Of course, he could send someone to her school for inquiries, but that would take until tomorrow at the earliest. Hopefully, her family wouldn't be overly worried about her absence overnight.

"Yan Xiaono..."

He pulled out her wallet, his contemplative gaze fixated on her student ID.