Chapter 83: Ye Shihan Is Bullied

Feng City, Cloudtop Villa.

After Xiao Yu was taken away from Crouching Dragon Mountain by Great Year and the others, he first instructed Six Harmony and White Tiger to send Ye Xuemei to the hospital. As an ordinary person, Ye Xuemei had witnessed on Crouching Dragon Mountain things she would never in her life have believed possible, and as a result her mental state was not very good. She needed a period of quiet recuperation.

After seeing Ye Xuemei into the hospital, Xiao Yu and the others returned to Cloudtop Mountain.

In a patch of dense woodland near the villa halfway up Cloudtop Mountain, four figures guarded the east, west, south, and north respectively, their eyes bright as torches as they watched everything around them. These four were Great Year, Six Harmony, Song of Parting, and White Tiger.

At the center of where they stood, Xiao Yu’s motionless figure sat quietly cross-legged in a clearing. A faint halo shrouded him, and at that moment he seemed suffused with the aura of the divine realm.

Although Xiao Yu had recovered considerably under the Jade Dew Elixir from Xuanyuan Huangdao earlier, the medicine alone was still not enough. Without the nourishment of the essence of heaven and earth, Xiao Yu would likely remain an ordinary man for some time yet. After all, this battle had left the essence within his body nearly exhausted.

Because of the restrictions on Cloudtop Villa, the woodland halfway up the mountain had not suffered much environmental pollution, and the essence of heaven and earth contained within it was a little richer than elsewhere. It was an excellent place to heal.

After a little over an hour, Xiao Yu’s eyelids trembled, then slowly opened. He gradually restrained his aura, exhaled a heavy breath, and rose to his feet. After nearly two hours of cultivation, Xiao Yu felt that the essence in his body had recovered considerably. Coupled with the effect of the Jade Dew Elixir, the essence within him had even achieved a qualitative breakthrough.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

A few sharp sounds of air splitting rang out, and Great Year and the others instantly appeared beside Xiao Yu.

“Boss, you’re all right now?” Great Year, just landing, asked with a broad grin.

“About seventy or eighty percent better. And listen, what happened today must absolutely not be told to your sister-in-law. The Ye Group’s matters are already enough to trouble her. I don’t want my own affairs to distract her too.”

Xiao Yu cautioned them.

“Don’t worry, we know what to do,” the others said, thumping their chests as if to prove their loyalty, each one striking with such force they looked ready to injure themselves.

Seeing their expressions, Xiao Yu could only shake his head with a wry smile. It seemed that a comfortable life had already made them accustomed to ease. If this had been in the past, they would never have looked so endearingly harmless.

Soon after, the group returned to the villa. When Xiao Yu pressed the doorbell, he had not expected the one who came to open the door to be Ye Shihan, but Jiang Qin.

“Big Brother, you’re back.” After opening the door and seeing that the people outside were Xiao Yu and the members of the Twelve Descents, Jiang Qin’s face instantly lit up with joy.

“What are you doing here?” Xiao Yu asked in some confusion as he looked at Jiang Qin, then stepped into the living room.

After Xiao Yu and the others entered, Jiang Qin closed the door and followed behind them. As soon as Xiao Yu entered the living room, he saw Ye Shihan sitting on the sofa, somewhat dazed, so absent-minded that she had not even noticed so many people coming in.

Noticing Ye Shihan’s odd state, Xiao Yu frowned, quickly walked over and sat beside her, took her hand, and asked softly, “Shihan, what happened?”

Feeling her hand being taken, Ye Shihan finally came back to herself. When she hastily looked up and saw that it was Xiao Yu, she immediately threw herself into his arms.

After Ye Shihan embraced him, Xiao Yu could clearly feel her body trembling faintly. His heart tightened at once. He quickly freed himself from her embrace, held her shoulders, and asked with a grave expression, “Tell me, what exactly happened?”

But no matter how Xiao Yu asked, Ye Shihan only shook her head, as though she did not want to speak of it. Xiao Yu was anxious to the point of burning, his gaze sweeping back and forth through the living room. When his eyes fell on Jiang Qin, they suddenly stopped.

Jiang Qin, a man who should never have been here, had somehow appeared without warning. Inspiration flashed through Xiao Yu’s mind, and he abruptly stood and walked toward Jiang Qin.

Watching Xiao Yu step toward him one pace at a time, Jiang Qin’s face instantly turned ugly. Sure enough, just as Xiao Yu came near, his stern voice rang out.

“Speak. What exactly happened?”

Xiao Yu stared fixedly at Jiang Qin, his eyes like torches. That gaze immediately made Jiang Qin feel the pressure. Then, after glancing at Ye Shihan, he sighed and told Xiao Yu what he wanted to know.

This matter had to begin after Xiao Yu and Ye Shihan parted ways in the ancient city. After separating from Xiao Yu, Ye Shihan drove alone back to Feng City, but she did not go home; instead, she headed to the company.

At first everything was as usual, with nothing amiss. But just as Ye Shihan was nearing the company, an accident occurred. A luxury sports sedan crashed into her car without warning.

Normally, a traffic accident in a busy district would not be anything unusual, and this road was already notorious for collisions. Yet the two young men who got out of the sports sedan had no intention of letting the matter end so lightly.

After stepping out of the car, the two of them strode fiercely toward Ye Shihan’s door, then began pounding wildly on it. The accident itself had been caused by the rear-end collision, but these two young men pushed all the blame onto Ye Shihan.

Seeing the two youths hammering madly on the window, Ye Shihan had never encountered anything like this before and was thoroughly frightened. When repeated pounding on the door brought no result, the two young men even did something outrageous: they took two baseball bats from their trunk, smashed the window of Ye Shihan’s car, and then yanked her out by the hair.

That scene happened to be witnessed by Jiang Qin and the others, who were passing by on business. Seeing the War King’s wife treated in such a manner, how could they possibly let it stand if Xiao Yu found out? So Jiang Qin led a few of his men and immediately rushed over, giving the two youths a vicious beating.

But what they had not expected was that the two young men they had beaten so badly actually had considerable backgrounds, both being the sons of prominent families in the imperial capital.

After being taught a lesson by Jiang Qin and the others, the two of them revealed their identities one after the other. It turned out they were from one of the Seven Minor Families of the imperial capital.

Jiang Qin had some influence in Feng City, but the imperial capital was a place where hidden dragons and crouching tigers abounded. Under the feet of the emperor, even a random brick thrown down could strike some noble scion. That was not someone he, Jiang Qin, could afford to offend.

Knowing he could not afford to provoke them, Jiang Qin had no choice but to take Ye Shihan away. He dared not offend them, but there was still Xiao Yu. So Jiang Qin could only send Ye Shihan back to Cloudtop Villa for the time being and wait for Xiao Yu to return.