Chapter 84, Chapter 84: Zhang Ying, do you like him very much? ...

Unexpectedly, Long Buxi, who looked thin and had never been trained, managed to dodge Wei Muchen's attacks every time.

Enraged, Wei Muchen swung his fist at him, but Wei Muchen remained calm, tilting his head to one side and easily dodging the attack.

Wei Muchen raised his leg to kick him, but he either stepped to the side or swept his leg back, always managing to dodge his attack.

Long Buxi seemed to be able to predict Wei Muchen's every move. When Wei Muchen failed to hit him after another and became frustrated, revealing an opening, Long Buxi seized the opportunity. He grabbed Wei Muchen's right hand with his thin arm, twisted it hard, and as Wei Muchen winced in pain, Long Buxi turned around and went behind Wei Muchen, kicking him hard in the shin joint, forcing Wei Muchen to kneel down.

Wei Muchen was no pushover either; as he knelt, he immediately swept his leg back, aiming directly at Long Buxi's legs.

Long Buxi couldn't dodge in time and tripped, falling to the ground. Before he could get up, Wei Muchen jumped up and slammed his elbow into Long Buxi's chest. Long Buxi had to roll to the side, then jumped up and grabbed Wei Muchen's neck with both hands, trying to strangle him. Wei Muchen retaliated by striking Long Buxi's chest with his elbow again...

The two were fighting so fiercely that they attracted the attention of the neighbors, who came to see what was happening.

When they saw Cheng Ying standing not far from the two, her face furrowed and seemingly lost in thought, the crowd couldn't help but ask, "Comrade Cheng, what's going on? Why are these two fighting?"

Cheng Ying really didn't want to talk about her two ex-boyfriends because of the fights they had fought over, so she could only pick and choose what to say.

Everyone here is shrewd. Wei Muchen came to see Cheng Ying once before, and Cheng Ying gave him a cold shoulder, so everyone wentssiping about it.

Cheng Ying has a new boyfriend, a Miao man from Pucang Village, and they are getting engaged tomorrow.

At this critical juncture, Cheng Ying's ex-boyfriend came to cause trouble for her current boyfriend, which was somewhat ungrateful.

The crowd rushed forward to break up the fight and separated the two people who were fighting fiercely.

The neighbors on the whole street came to watch the commotion, and the two of them couldn't continue fighting and embarrass Cheng Ying, so they temporarily stopped.

Long Buxi's beautiful white face was bruised and swollen, and there was a scratch on her neck. Her clean Miao clothes were covered in mud and dust, and her long hair was disheveled, making her look somewhat disheveled.

Wei Mucheng's face was bruised and swollen on both sides, and there was a deep ligature mark on his neck. His left arm was hanging down unnaturally, and it was unclear whether it was broken. His right leg was unsteady as he walked. He looked more seriously injured than Long Buxi.

Cheng Ying stepped forward with heartache, reaching out to stroke Long Buxi's bruised left cheek, and whispered a reproach, "Why did you fight him head-on? He's a soldier, he's received systematic military training. You don't know military boxing or combat techniques. If you couldn't beat him, just use your Gu worms to bite him! As long as you don't kill him, you can torment him however you want. Why risk your life against him? Your face was perfectly fine, and he beat it up like this, it must hurt a lot."

Long Buxi looked down at her, "Doesn't it look good?"

Cheng Ying was speechless. "Is the point that it doesn't look good? It's you who's injured, and it breaks my heart!"

Long Buxi's dark eyes suddenly softened like water. He reached out his long, slender hands and pressed down on her hand that was stroking his face, saying, "I wanted to fight him fair and square, to let you know that I have the ability to fight him and protect you and your family. Even without the Gu worms, he can't do anything to me. Who knew he would beat me so badly? My face hurt a lot, but when you touched it, it didn't hurt anymore."

Cheng Ying was stunned for a moment, unable to describe the feeling in her heart. She only heard her heart pound strongly, feeling numb, hot, and sour, and she felt like crying.

She had been entangled with Wei Muchen for most of her life. This was the first time a man, unafraid of Wei Muchen's background and status, had stood firmly by her side, stood up for her, and said he would protect her and her family.

Meeting Long Buxi's gentle, watery eyes, Cheng Ying felt as if she could hear her own heart pounding wildly, like a runaway horse.

At that moment, she realized that she seemed to have fallen in love with Long Buxi, not for any other reason than that Long Buxi, knowing who she was facing and what kind of predicament she was in, still chose to protect her without hesitation.

Before his affair, Wei Muchen treated her very well and put her first in many things. However, his sense of superiority from his privileged background in the capital city would always inadvertently show.

He would always tell her about her rural hometown, her parents and sister, which she found very annoying. In her past life, she had argued with him a lot about this issue.

When she encounters certain situations, Wei Muchen always prioritizes the so-called "big picture" and never directly sides with her. He only tries to appease her and make amends afterward, offering hindsight advice.

When she was in danger, his first reaction was not to protect her, but to think that as a battle-hardened female soldier, she was capable enough to protect herself.

He always stood by like a spectator, watching how she saved herself and how she dealt with his difficult relatives and colleagues. Sometimes, when he saw that she was really angry, he would step in and say a few words on her behalf.

She had had enough of Wei Muchen, who was so arrogant and domineering, and who trampled on and controlled her emotions at will.

The lover she needs must always put her first, stand by her unconditionally without asking why, be able to protect her from any verbal or physical harm, and never use her family as leverage or harm her family.

In Long Buxi's memories of her previous life, it seemed that after she married Wei Muchen and he used a curse to take revenge on her, he stayed in Pucang Village and never left the village. He never married or had children, and he remained alone until she was reborn in her fifties.

When Wei Muchen was thirty-six, he brought home an illegitimate child, claiming it was to get rid of the child's mother and raise him under her name; he was her child.

She didn't understand that he was blatantly humiliating and bullying her, crushing her self-esteem to pieces.

Wei Muchen's act of cheating on her makes him incomparable to Long Buxi, who loved only her from beginning to end.

Cheng Ying looked at Long Buxi in front of her and smiled gently at him, "Don't do such foolish things in the future. If you can outsmart someone, don't fight with them. It's so painful to hurt yourself."

Long Buxi nodded obediently, "Okay."

Wei Muchen struggled free from the grasp of the many neighbors who were holding him back. When he saw Cheng Ying and her companion behaving intimately not far away, he paused in his tracks.

The tenderness on Cheng Ying's face was the same expression she often showed him before their breakup, but now she was showing that same expression to another man.

The intense pain and jealousy in his heart burned like fire, making his entire heart ache terribly.

He gritted his teeth and stared at the alluring, incomparably handsome man, asking Cheng Ying, "You broke up with me because you were attracted to his face, and you made up this lie about a childhood betrothal?"

"This is no lie, he is my childhood sweetheart." Cheng Ying glanced at him sideways, not even looking him in the eye, and said coldly.

Wei Muchen scoffed, his eyes full of mockery. "Who would believe that? If he were really your childhood sweetheart, would he let you date me while you were in the army?"

Long Buxi stared intently at Wei Mucheng, her narrow eyes filled with a chilling malice: "She's my childhood sweetheart. I've been waiting for her to come to the village to fulfill our childhood promise and marry me. I didn't know that after she went to the army, she changed her mind and spent time with you. But none of that matters anymore. She's back by my side now, we'll be engaged tomorrow, and we'll get married soon. She will become my wife. If you don't want to die, you'd better stay far away from us, or don't blame me for casting a spell on you."

After fighting Long Buxi, Wei Muchen understood how terrifying this person was.

This Miao man, who had not received any systematic training, was able to dodge his attacks time and time again, and even retaliate by injuring him more severely than his opponent.

The other party only took one of his palm strikes and fought back with ease. He even suspected that the other party deliberately took the blow to gain Cheng Ying's sympathy.

This Miao man was unfathomable, and he also carried mysterious Gu worms. No matter how much Wei Muchen disliked him, he dared not provoke him and court death at this critical juncture.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a wicked smile spreading across his face as he looked at Cheng Ying and said, "He doesn't know that you slept with me, does he?"

Before Cheng Ying could react, he strode away.

Upon hearing this, the neighbors all widened their eyes and turned to look at Cheng Ying, eager to see her explanation.

Cheng Ying calmly said, "When we were dating, I was always in the military. I simply didn't have the time, nor could I possibly go out to sleep with him alone. That would violate military regulations. I would never ruin my bright future because of him. He's talking nonsense! He can't have me, so he tries to ruin me with rumors. He's a piece of trash, a scumbag!"

When the neighbors heard this, they agreed that it made sense, and they couldn't help but scold Wei Mucheng and feel indignant on Cheng Ying's behalf.

Cheng Ying thanked them, and after the neighbors left, she took the key, opened the back gate, pulled Long Buxi into the yard, and locked the gate.

Just as she locked the door, Long Buxi suddenly stepped forward, grabbed her waist, and pulled her into his arms.

Cheng Ying was startled and instinctively reached out to shove him, "What are you doing?"

He didn't speak, but held her struggling wrist with one hand, looking at her with deep eyes and asking, "Cheng Ying, do you like him very much?"

The two were standing too close, and Long Buxi was much taller than Cheng Ying, so Cheng Ying had to look up at him.

The bruises on his otherwise perfect face, where Wei Muchen had struck him, were turning even more purplish-black, making his originally stern face look somewhat comical and pathetic.

Cheng Ying knew, of course, who the "he" Long Buxi was talking about was. She didn't want to lie to him, so she honestly said, "When I was dating him, I was attracted to him and liked him, which is why I dated him."

But I had a dream in which he did many terrible things to me, betrayed me, hurt my family, and caused me indelible psychological damage. After I woke up, I decided to break up with him and stop liking him.

Just then, my dad had an accident, so I chose to leave the army and return to my hometown, where I became a postman. Who knew he would keep harassing me like that, which annoyed me.