Ai Ni screamed shrilly, startling everyone into stopping in their tracks.

The woman staggered, her expression blank, and then she collapsed to the ground.

"Madam! Madam!"

Ai Ni knelt down and held the woman's neck, and everyone could see the red marks on her palms.

"She's bleeding! Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance!" Ai Ni sobbed, firmly holding the woman's neck and head.

"Attorney Hong, call an ambulance! Call the police!"

Li Bu Huo pushed through the crowd, his voice stern and harsh as he stared intently at the stunned Peng Zhi, "If anything happens to our CEO Cheng, you can't afford to pay for it with your lives!"

Peng Zhi's son was still holding the half-broken brick; he was terrified by the bloodstains on Ai Ni's palm.

He didn't mean to hit someone on the head!

He hit the woman's arm!

This woman came here on her own!

"No...I didn't hit it! It wasn't me! It has nothing to do with me!"

The young man panicked, dropped the brick, and ran towards Peng Zhi, shouting, "Dad! It's not my fault! I didn't hit her!!"

The people who followed Peng Zhilai originally intended to intimidate these wealthy people, because they knew that the only boss among them was a young woman, and they all thought she would be particularly easy to fool.

If things go well, Peng Zhi will even share some of the money with them.

But I never expected that blood would actually be drawn!

It's still the woman with the highest status in the group!

What are we going to do! They just came here to join the fun and make some extra money, they don't want to end up with someone's life on their hands!

They all became afraid without prior arrangement.

"Peng Zhi! What do we do?!"

Peng Zhi trembled all over, but gritted his teeth and came to his senses, "She ran there on her own! We didn't hit her!"

Li Bu Huo knelt beside Cheng Ran, looking at her with a cold expression.

Peng Zhi felt his scalp tingle from being stared at!

He glanced around in a panic; most of the tenants had left, and there were no security cameras.

"Go! Go quickly!"

Regardless of any contracts, the dozen or so people scattered instantly, running towards the intersecting streets and disappearing into the rental building.

"Hello! Hello! Is this 120? Someone is injured here! Where? Attorney Hong's hands were trembling, his mind was blank, and he couldn't even remember the address.

Li Buhu shouted in a low voice, "In Gulin Village! Hurry up!"

"In Gulin Village! At the east gate of Gulin Village, opposite the World Trade Center! The injured person was hit on the head, is bleeding heavily, and has already lost consciousness—Aaaaaaah!"

As Hong Lu was describing Cheng Ran's symptoms, the next second, his hand was grabbed, and he screamed in fright.

"Cheng Ran?!" Li Bu Huo was also startled and looked in the direction of the hand towards the woman who should have been unconscious.

"...Have they all left?!" the woman asked weakly.

"Why are you leaving? Don't be afraid, don't move! The ambulance will be here soon!" Li Bu Huo said softly, his eyes filled with self-reproach.

He promised Cheng Ran's mother that he would take good care of Cheng Ran.

But once again, Cheng Ran got into trouble right before his eyes!

"sorry,"

Li Bu Huo's voice carried a hint of fear. He grasped Cheng Ran's hand and soothed her softly, "Does it hurt? Don't be afraid, I won't let anything happen to you, don't be afraid..."

But Cheng Ran seemed to be in a coma and confused, stubbornly murmuring:

"Have they all left?"

Ai Ni said softly, "They're all gone. There's no one left!"

Li Bu Huo suddenly understood Cheng Ran's meaning, and holding Mu Yi Ran's hand, he said heavily and deeply:

"Don't worry, I won't let any of those people get away! I've remembered them all—"

Before the words were even finished, the woman who had been unconscious from blood loss suddenly opened her eyes wide.

Mu Yiran grabbed Li Buhuo's hand and did a sit-up!

Lawyer Hong screamed twice: "Holy crap!"

Mu Yiran covered his mouth: "Holy crap! What did you yell?!"

Hong Lu, with tears in his eyes, asked, "Why did you get up, Ni!"

That scared him to death!

"Finally they're gone. I'm exhausted from acting!" Mu Yiran rolled her eyes, looking around.

Li Bu Huo: "..."

He was almost in tears, how did this guy sit up!

"you?!"

Mu Yiran looked around, gestured for silence, and said to Lawyer Hong, "Don't call the police!"

Then he pulled a few people to a corner.

Li Bu Huo paused for a moment, then suddenly moved closer to Ai Ni's hand and immediately smelled the rusty scent of ink.

He instantly realized what was happening, and was both shocked and furious: "Cheng Ran, what are you doing!"

Mu Yiran patted the dirt off her palms. "Tsk... Luckily I was prepared, otherwise these people definitely wouldn't have let it go so easily! Thanks to Ai Ni for cooperating with me..."

Before Mu Yiran could even pinch Ai Ni's dimples, the girl rolled into her arms.

"Waaaaah! Madam! You scared me to death!"

Ai Ni's eyes were red. "He almost hit you! Why did you rush over?! Let him kill me if he had, how am I supposed to explain to the young master if he had hit you!"

Mu Yiran: "..."

The usually mature and aloof girl was now crying and wailing in her arms. Mu Yiran didn't even react. She raised her hand to pat her shoulder, wanting to comfort her, but a sharp, throbbing pain came from her shoulder.

"Hiss!"

Ai Ni, with snot hanging from her nose, asked in alarm, "What happened?!"

Mu Yiran clutched her left shoulder. "Ouch...it looks like I really hit it. What should I do? You can't tell Shi Youxi!"

Ai Ni couldn't hear her anymore and reached out to tear at Mu Yiran's clothes. Just then, the ambulance siren sounded.

Li Bu Huo frowned and glanced around the corner. Some residents had already run out after hearing the commotion.

He unbuttoned his coat and covered Mu Yiran's upper body, then bent down and picked the woman up.

"We can't stay here, let's go!"

Mu Yiran knew what he meant. She turned her head away, closed her eyes, and let her hands hang limply at her sides, looking half-dead in an instant!

At the entrance of Gulin Village, most of the onlookers were unaware of the situation and came to watch the commotion. When they saw that the injured person was actually the wealthy benefactor they had just met, they were shocked and immediately started shouting in the community's WeChat group.

The homeowners, who were initially complacent, suddenly became anxious after learning the news.

No one noticed a black private car quietly parked at the entrance.

Inside the car, the secretary-general watched the departing ambulance and said to the man behind him, "Vice Mayor, it seems he's really injured. What should we do?"

Lee Byung-seung said calmly, "Didn't you call the police?"

"No. Oh! They didn't even call the police..."

"But it doesn't seem to be caused by Lai Jiansheng, Vice Mayor, what do you think of this..."

Lee Byung-seung opened his eyes and, through the one-way car window, immediately spotted an unusually flustered man in the crowd.

"Have someone guard this place. Lai Jiansheng will tell me as soon as he comes out tonight."

"We also have someone keeping an eye on Cheng Ran's side."

The secretary-general didn't know why the other party was so certain that Lai Jiansheng would go out that night, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions and could only do as he was told.

…

By the time Mu Yiran had finished disinfecting and applying ice packs at the hospital, the sunset in Haishi had already sunk below the horizon by more than halfway.

The group, exhausted, checked into Cheng's hotel to rest.

In the middle, Mu Yiran explained to Li Buhuo the play she acted with Ai Ni.

When Mu Yiran saw the household registration information in the car, she noticed a few troublemakers. Lai Jiansheng was one, and Peng Zhi was another. So when she was having dinner with Li Bingcheng, she asked Ai Ni to prepare some props.

in case.

"When I saw Ai Ni get hit, it wasn't acting! I just played along after being hit on the shoulder. Luckily, Ai Ni was perceptive and immediately cooperated with me."

“These people pretend to be tough, but they’re actually cowards. They’re all about taking advantage of people. All they want is money, so they only dare to hit you guys, but they don’t dare to touch me. If something happens to me, not only will they not get their compensation, but they’ll also face lawsuits and might even lose their lives.”

"So you thought of going up there and courting death?" Li Bu Huo rubbed his forehead, wanting to scold her but unable to bring himself to do so.

"How could this be considered courting death! I call this a cicada shedding its shell!"

Li Bu Huo angrily retorted, "That's called putting yourself in danger! Didn't you know to tell me beforehand? And what if it had actually hit your head!"

"But it didn't hit anything..."

Mu Yiran let Ai Ni apply the swelling-reducing medicine to her. She gasped in pain and could only yawn through laughter.

"What do we do now? We've made a huge commotion inside. I wonder if Lai Jiansheng has noticed. If he finds out, will he ask for a higher price like Peng Zhi did?" Attorney Hong regained his elite demeanor, no longer the middle-aged man who had just been terrified and cried uncontrollably by Mu Yiran's resurrection.

Li Buhuo: "He wouldn't."

“Now everyone knows that Cheng Ran had an accident in the village. Peng Zhi is unlikely to expose it himself. Everyone is just afraid that the Cheng family will not requisition the land because of this, and they will not get the money if the houses are not demolished. That group of people is the most anxious. Lai Jiansheng’s family is the only one that has not signed the consent form yet. He is even more anxious. He had already contacted him before coming here. Now that this has happened, he will definitely come to his door first.”

Hong Lu was still worried: "What if he tries to raise prices like Peng Zhi? We might just turn a small investment into a huge one."

"Transform my ass, into a police motorcycle?"

Mu Yiran teased Ai Ni a few times, but the girl still had a bitter face and was even harder to coax than Shi Youxi.

“We haven’t called the police yet. If he dares to do what Peng Zhi did, then let them be on the news. If they dare to attack the demolition company, my Cheng family will not acquire this land. Let’s see who else is willing to take it over.”

Li Bu Huo is contacting people he knows in the police station to have someone scare Peng Zhi.

"Peng Zhi's commotion turned out to be a lucky accident, but he's also a fool for daring to cause trouble in the village."

"Whether he's truly stupid or just being used as a scapegoat is hard to say." Mu Yiran and Li Buhuo exchanged a glance, and the latter immediately stood up.

"I'll go clean up the mess. You rest for a while. I'll let you know if Lai Jiansheng contacts me."

After saying that, Li Bu Huo pulled Hong Lu away from the suite.

Mu Yiran and Ai Ni were left staring at each other.

Ai Ni sniffled, not daring to look at her. "Madam, the medicine is applied. Let me carry you to bed to rest for a while."

As he spoke, he reached his hand towards Mu Yiran's knees.

"Hey! How did you learn this bad habit from your young master, always hugging people?"

Mu Yiran stood up. "My shoulder is injured, not my leg. I'm not that useless!"

Ai Ni followed her into the bedroom, like a tail following her everywhere, staring at her without saying a word.

She looks exactly like Shi Youxi.

Thinking of the boy, Mu Yiran felt a little powerless. After hanging up the phone, Shi Youxi didn't send any more messages. This time, the stalemate lasted quite a long time.

Mu Yiran wanted to take the initiative to talk to him and ease the tension, but she was injured and afraid that she might say something that would attract Shi Youxi's attention, so she left it alone.

Ai Ni tucked a pillow under her shoulder, and then heard the woman say:

"Aini, look up at me."

Ai Ni bit her lip and looked up, "Madam... I'm sorry, I didn't protect you well. I shouldn't have left and pushed you away..."

"If you don't push me away, I'll get hit."

Mu Yiran pinched her cheek, making dimples appear. "Also, it was my own choice to shield you. Even if it wasn't you, I would have stepped in to shield you anyway. So you don't need to bow your head to me, you don't need to apologize, you don't need to blame yourself, understand?"

Ai Ni nodded, her lips pursed and her eyes red.

Mu Yiran raised an eyebrow and smiled: "You bought a good amount of red ink. How much did it cost? I'll reimburse you. You can use the rest to top up your game account. You're stuck on the puzzle game, aren't you?"

Ai Ni paused for a moment, her dimples peeking out.

"I didn't get stuck on any level, but recharging in the game unlocks new maps, and those chests turned into treasures, which are really beautiful."

Mu Yiran: "??"

This game is quite similar to Miracle Nikki, huh?

The girl came over with her phone to share something; the phone opened to show her WeChat chat.

Mu Yiran saw the blatant message in the chat box:

[Young Master, I'm so sorry, I failed to protect Madam! Madam is injured! Please come to the People's Hospital in Haishi immediately!]

Mu Yiran: "!!!"

Ai Ni: "!!!"

Mu Yiran reacted swiftly and snatched it!

"Ai Ni! Well, I told you not to tell him, but you didn't listen! You even secretly complained about him behind my back!" Mu Yiran shoved her phone under her butt.

"I've lost all the money I spent on games!"

Ai Ni blushed: "Madam! I didn't... I didn't send it, I was just typing."

Mu Yiran: "Heh! You forgot to click send!"

Ai Ni nodded: "Yes...no!"

Mu Yiran was adamant and refused to give her the phone, demanding that Ai Ni hand over any other electronic devices and leave them with her.

Wrapped in the blanket, Mu Yiran, with her phone sandwiched between her arms, fell asleep.

Ai Ni stood to the side, not daring to touch the human-machine sandwich on the bed, and could only guard the door.

"I'll talk to him about this myself. If you tell him first, I won't let you follow me anymore, understand?"

She definitely wanted to tell the young master, but she didn't want to leave Madam's side... Ai Ni struggled for a long time, but couldn't figure out how to make Shi Youxi find out on his own.

Just then, the doorbell rang for the suite.

"who?"

No one answered the door.

Ai Ni thought of Peng Zhi, her expression hardened, and she casually touched the knife and fork on the small dining table.

Ai Ni unlocked the door, and the instant she saw who it was, she stopped waving her hand.

"Young Master?!"