The Devil's Sleeping Beauty

Chapter 23 Masters condition

Lu Yifeng was immediately brought to the emergency room by the time he arrived in the hospital.

Xia Meiren and some of the men who brought their boss to the hospital stood waiting outside.

Her heart was racing as she was nervous and worried for Lu Yifeng. After seeing the slashes on his body when she tore off his shirt and applied pressure to stop the bleeding, she was really surprised. Was he recently attacked?

If he was injured, why would he come out and accompany her and Little Melon? He could have find some reasons to avoid Little Melon’s request.

He was carrying Little Melon around since yesterday and the boy would hug his body from time to time, how can he withstand the pain from his wounds? It was a good thing that Little Melon was not a naughty child while he was being carried or else, Lu Yifeng’s wounds would open.

Such great endurance... Xia Meiren couldn’t help but be amazed when she thought of it. But where did those wounds came from? His body looked like he was been whipped by someone. How can that be possible? Xia Meiren saw how strong and fast Lu Yifeng’s fighting skills were.

A sudden thought came in her mind. Why would her grandparents accept his offer when they know that he was the man who defiled her for four years ago?

He looked like he was been whipped... the only person she knows that can handle a whip so well was her grandmother, Ji Ruo!

"Madam, don’t worry about our boss. He’s a strong man, he will definitely survive this surgery." A tall man who stood beside her said. His name is Zhao Long Ji, he is the leader of Lu Yifeng’s bodyguards.

Seeing how pale Xia Meiren’s face was and how her hands covered in blood were shaking, Zhao Long Ji wanted to reassure and comfort her. He handed his handkerchief to her. "Here."

Xia Meiren looked at the handkerchief before she looked at the man who offered it to her. He was tall but he was a few centimeters shorter than Lu Yifeng. He was a handsome man but the long scar under his right eye ruined it.

"Boss will be fine. I have already called Mr. Su, he has bought a new set of clothes for you so you need to change once he arrives. If boss saw your clothes covered in his blood, he will definitely faint again!"

She chuckled a bit before she accepted the handkerchief. "Mm, thank you." She started wiping her hands with it.

While in the middle of the surgery, Lu Yifeng’s assistant, Su Lei came with the set of clothes for Xia Meiren.

While Xia Meiren went to wash herself and change into the new clothes, Su Lei turned to Zhao Long Ji.

"How is master’s condition?" He asked.

"Aside from the blood loss from his previous injuries, he’s fine. He didn’t get any new injuries thanks to Ms. Xia Meiren’s help. The doctors are stitching his wounds close." Zhao Long Ji reported.

"Ms. Xia helped master?" Su Lei furrowed his brows. "A weak looking girl like her?"

"Yes. Although I wasn’t able to see it myself, the bullets in master’s gun wasn’t reduced. He didn’t shoot those men. The only other person that was in that place was Madam." Even if Zhao Long Ji didn’t want to believe it, this fact was their only evidence. Besides, the gun Xia Meiren was holding only has one bullet left, if it wasn’t her then who else could it be?

Su Lei was still doubting though. To be honest, Su Lei himself didn’t want a weak girl like Xia Meiren to be his master’s woman. He was against it but he couldn’t do anything about it.

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After Xia Meiren changed her clothes, seeing that it was almost quarter to nine in the evening, she gave her grandmother a call.

"Hello?" Ji Ruo’s soft, old voice was heard.

"Grandma, is Xiao Gua still awake?" Despite wanting to ask for the origins of Lu Yifeng’s wound, she knows that it was not right to talk about it over the phone that’s why she decided to ask for Little Melon’s condition.

"Yes. He’s still awake." Ji Ruo sighed in the other line. "I tried putting him to bed but he said he won’t go to sleep until you come back. Where are you anyway? Did Lu Yifeng tried to force you into something again?!" She raised her voice upon asking the question. "Tell me where you are right now and I will give him another beating! How dare he-

"No, no. He did not... Calm down, grandma." Xia Meiren quickly interrupted her grandmother. By how Ji Ruo talked, Xia Meiren was now sure that the wounds on Lu Yifeng’s body was her grandmother’s doing.

Back then, when she learned that her grandparents agreed on letting her marry the man she hated the most, Xia Meiren thought that Lu Yifeng blackmailed them. But now that she knows what really happened, another crack was created in the wall Xia Meiren created.

Was he really sorry for what happened that night?