Chapter 41 [VIP] Jianghu (22)

Nan Yan was halfway through her words when Su Mo's voice suddenly came from inside the room, instantly interrupting her.

Su Mo clenched the purse in her hand. For some reason, she felt a little flustered after hearing Gu Nanyan's voice. She had an inexplicable intuition that maybe Brother Xiao was not completely without feelings for that woman.

After all, the two have been together for such a long time, even if it's just a casual affair, I'm afraid there must be some feelings between them.

So she was afraid. She was afraid that what the woman said would take Brother Xiao away again. She had already lost Xie Yu and could not lose Brother Xiao again, so subconsciously, she called out Brother Xiao's name.

When Su Mo came out from the inner room and saw Nan Yan standing at the door, the expression on her face seemed to change.

She subconsciously walked to Xiao Guanxue's side, leaned close to his sleeve, and looked at Nan Yan with a defensive look on her face, "Miss Gu, what are you doing here? Don't you think you haven't used Brother Xiao enough?"

"If you want to take revenge on Xie Yu, you can go find someone else. Why do you always pick on Brother Xiao and bully him?"

Everything she said was reminding Xiao Guanxue of what happened that day. She just hoped that he would not be confused again and be deceived by the woman's sweet words and schemes.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Xiao Guanxue's expression became even more indifferent. He didn't say anything, but his eyes when he looked at Nan Yan were a little cold.

It seems that she hasn't finished what she just said...

After Nan Yan saw Su Mo walking out of the inner room, her face turned even paler. For a moment, her body swayed and trembled twice, and finally she managed to stand steadily by holding on to the pillar behind her.

She turned her head, and the look in her eyes made Xiao Guanxue feel inexplicably uncomfortable. She stared at him, "What was she doing in your room? What did you do?"

Xiao Guanxue frowned when he heard this, especially when Nan Yan's eyes were full of suspicion and distrust, as if he and Su Mo had really done something shameful. For a moment, he just felt suffocated and angry in his chest.

Is he such a person in her eyes? She really underestimated him!

"What do you think we are doing? Even if we really did something, what does it have to do with you? Are you only allowed to have an affair with your brother A Yu, but I am not allowed to flirt with other women?"

Xiao Guanxue took a deep breath, and her voice became even colder. "Gu Nanyan, don't say we have nothing to do with each other. Even if we do, we are just using each other. What position do you have to say this now? You are meddling too much!"

He didn't want to get involved in the affair between her and Xie Yu anymore. Being cheated once was enough, and he didn't want to lose a second time.

At this time, Xiao Guanxue was really angry, so his words were merciless.

Nan Yan's face turned pale with anger. She clenched her fingers so tightly that her finger bones turned white, and was about to speak.

He caught a glimpse of the small purse in Su Mo's hand, and his eyes widened immediately, with a hint of disbelief and despair in his eyes.

"Why is that purse in your hand?"

...purse?

Xiao Guanxue was startled for a moment, he looked down and saw the purse in Su Mo's hand, he pinched his cuff subconsciously and found it was empty, then he remembered that he accidentally dropped the medicine box when he was packing up just now, he thought the purse must have fallen at that time.

He frowned, wanting to explain clearly but feeling that he couldn't let her look down on him, he just said, "That's mine, what does it have to do with you?"

"That's mine!"

Nan Yan shouted subconsciously, and was trembling with anger at this moment. Her eyes were red, "That was my jade pendant. She stole my things, right?"

Nan Yan suddenly raised her head and glared at Su Mo fiercely, "Su Mo, do you like to steal other people's things? Don't you know that it is my jade pendant? Don't you feel uncomfortable holding it in your hand? Are you so shameless that you would steal someone else's token of love?"

"That's enough."

Xiao Guanxue's eyes were cold, and she immediately felt extremely mocked when she heard the word "token of love". It was clearly something she didn't want, but it was forcibly said to be a token of love between the two of them.

It's ridiculous!

Seeing that Nan Yan's words were getting more and more outrageous, Su Mo had no idea what was going on. She was slandered as a shameless thief for no reason and her face turned red with anger.

He immediately interrupted her, "Gu Nanyan, what nonsense are you talking about? I gave her the jade pendant. Who said she stole it?"

Hearing this, Nan Yan's body suddenly stiffened.

Then she raised her eyes in disbelief, tears almost overflowing from her eyes, "You... gave it to her, you gave the jade pendant... to her?"

When Xiao Guanxue met her red eyes, he felt a tightness in his chest. He turned away subconsciously and said coldly, "So what? Do you forbid me to give something you don't want to another woman?"

Nan Yan suddenly felt something exploded around her head, making her dizzy and her body swayed twice before she could stand steadily.

She rubbed her aching brow with her hand, only to feel the pain in her chest getting worse. She barely held onto the door frame to avoid making a fool of herself.

She choked and said, "So, you want to... marry her?"

Xiao Guanxue didn't expect her to ask this, but hearing her ask this still made him feel a little uncomfortable, so he just said in a deep voice, "What does this have to do with you?"

It was these words that made Nan Yan unable to bear it any longer.

She raised her eyes and stared at him with resentment, "Of course it has something to do with me, it's mine, how can I give my things to others..."

Before she finished her words, she rushed over without a care in the world. No one knew where she got the strength from, but she grabbed Su Mo's arm and pried her fingers apart with all her strength, repeating over and over again, "It's mine, that's mine..."

Su Moyi never expected that Gu Nanyan would rush over to her on the spot, and she was injured. After being pinched by Nanyan, the wound on her arm opened again. A look of pain instantly appeared on her face, and she even forgot to struggle for a moment.

Xiao Guanxue, who was standing beside him, felt that the woman was going too far after seeing this scene. He knew that she was arrogant and unreasonable, and now she dared to commit violence so brazenly in front of him. This was simply too much.

He grabbed Nan Yan's wrist, pulled it hard, and threw her away, while scolding, "Gu Nan Yan, have you made enough trouble?"

With this swing, he did not expect Nan Yan's body to fall backwards uncontrollably, her arm hitting the doorstep heavily, and the purse in her hand fell to the ground with the movement.

With a "pop" sound.

His fingers struck the gravel, the sound of jade hitting the ground was heard, and the jade pendant broke into two pieces in an instant.

At that moment, it seemed as if the air around me had stagnated.

Nan Yan fell to the ground powerlessly, her fingertips trembling slightly in pain, her face pale without a trace of blood, and she felt a piercing pain quickly spreading throughout her limbs.

She clenched her fingers tightly, as if trying to find some strength from them, but it was in vain. She felt as if all the strength in her body had been drained away, and she could not stand up.

In fact, Xiao Guanxue didn't use much force at all, he didn't mean to push her. However, what he didn't know was that Nan Yan had been very ill in recent days. She had been standing here for a while with all her strength left. After being pushed by him, she couldn't stand at all.

This scene also made Xiao Guanxue a little stunned, and a panic surged in his heart unconsciously, as if he had done something irreparable.

He didn't want to hurt her. Even though she took advantage of him completely, he never thought of hurting her.

At most, he would just say something to anger her and pretend to be nice. As long as she was willing to be more submissive and admit that she was not completely heartless towards him, he would immediately forgive her.

But now...he really hurt her.

Xiao Guanxue saw that her palms were all worn out, with blood oozing from the fingertips and her palms stained with blood. A flash of heartache suddenly crossed his eyes, and he subconsciously reached out to help her.

"Yan... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I didn't mean to hurt you..."

"Don't touch me."

Nan Yan slapped away the hand he extended to her with such force that the blood on her palm rubbed onto the back of his hand.

Xiao Guanxue pursed her lips and said nothing.

He lowered his eyes slightly, then reached out his hand again, "You are injured, I will take care of your wound first, if there is anything else we can talk about later..."

"Get out of here!"

But this time, before he could finish his words, Nan Yan pushed him hard. She used almost all her strength to push Xiao Guanxue, causing him to stagger and his back hit the sharp corner of the table. He groaned in pain and his face turned pale.

"Brother Xiao, are you okay?"

Su Mo, who was standing beside him, was so distressed when she saw this that she quickly stepped forward to help the man up, "Come, I'll help you up first."

She turned around and stared at Nan Yan with dissatisfaction, "Gu Nan Yan, don't go too far. Brother Xiao obviously didn't mean it. If you hadn't been unreasonable and slandered me first, he wouldn't have pushed you by mistake."

Everything he said showed that Xiao Guanxue accidentally pushed her because of himself.

She had quite a few complaints about Nan Yan and had disliked her from the very beginning. Now she thought that this woman was so unreasonable, so why did Brother Xiao still tolerate her so much?

Xiao Guanxue was stunned.

He ignored Su Mo and kept his eyes on Nan Yan.

He saw Nan Yan reach out and pick up the broken jade pendant. The blood between her fingers dyed the jade pendant red. Perhaps it was because the fall was too painful that she couldn't stand steadily for several times.

Xiao Guanxue instinctively wanted to reach out, but was frozen in place by her icy gaze, as if she were looking at a stranger, and suddenly a feeling of suffocation surged in his heart.

Nan Yan raised her eyes and glanced at him.

She suddenly smiled softly, her smile as bright as a crabapple, but her eyes suddenly became resentful and twisted, and she said to him word by word:

"Xiao Guanxue, you are right, I am so selfish, so if I don't want something, I would rather destroy it than allow others to get their hands on it!"

Her tone was unusually calm when she said this, so calm that it was resolute and indifferent, as if she didn't care about anything.

Xiao Guanxue had never seen Yanyan like this before.

At that moment, I felt as if my heart was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and the slightest movement caused a tearing pain.

He opened his mouth and wanted to explain something, but when the words reached his lips, he found that his throat was blocked by something and he couldn't utter a word.

Nan Yan turned and left. Xiao Guanxue kept watching her back until she disappeared, then looked down at his own palm. There was still a trace of blood on the back of his hand, and his fingers curled up unconsciously. Why did he... push her?

On the other side, Xie Yu felt that this moment was extremely tormenting. He thought to himself, sending his sweetheart to another man...

This feeling was really uncomfortable, as if a huge rock was pressing heavily on his heart. Every time he breathed, he felt as if his chest was pierced by countless silver needles and it hurt slightly.

He was thinking that they should have reconciled by now, and Yanyan should be very happy, and maybe they are already discussing marriage. This is good, really good. A fickle person like him deserves such punishment, and it is enough for him to see her happy for the rest of his life.

I can't pester her anymore, and I can't let her get hurt anymore. I just need to be her brother...

Xie Yu thought so, but his heart ached. It was the most painful experience he had ever had. He felt as if something was flowing out of his eyes uncontrollably. Even his vision of seeing people became blurred. Seeing people?

He seemed to see Yanyan?

Xie Yu paused for a moment, then after he reacted, he suddenly rushed out of the house and directly rushed in front of Nan Yan.

His eyes were filled with panic and nervousness, but looking at the distraught and empty-eyed Yanyan in front of him, he could not care about anything else at the moment. He just felt that he was feeling worse than her, and his whole heart was in a knot.

"What's wrong? Who bullied you? Was it Xiao Guanxue? Did he say something he shouldn't have said? Don't cry. I'm going to find him now. I'm going to find him and ask him clearly."

Why... did it turn out like this?

He was clearly about to let go, and she was smiling so happily in the morning, the happiest time she had smiled in recent days. She even asked him if Rouge looked good... But why did she become like this after meeting Xiao Guanxue?

Xie Yu felt a pang of pain in his chest. Why didn't this person know how to take care of himself? How could he bear to let her go?

He carefully wiped the blood off her face, not knowing where it came from. But after looking around, he found that she had wounds on her body and was not vomiting blood, which made him feel a little relieved.

When Nan Yan heard the familiar voice, she slowly raised her face. The rouge on her face was smudged by the water vapor, and the corners of her eyes were red from moisture. She looked like she had been crying.

She looked at Xie Yu, and the tears that had been accumulating in her eyes for a long time seemed to be unable to be restrained any longer. They fell heavily on the back of Xie Yu's hand, as if they were smashing into his heart.

She said softly, as if she was in extreme despair, "He is going to marry someone else. He gave the jade pendant... to someone else..."

"Jade pendant?"

What jade pendant?

Xie Yu had no idea what she was talking about, but seeing how sad and desperate Nan Yan was, he didn't dare to ask any further questions. The only thing he could think of was to go to Xiao Guanxue and ask him what he had done and why Nan Yan became like this.

"Don't cry, Yanyan, I'm going to find him. I'm going to find him right now to avenge you..."

Xie Yu turned around and was about to look for Xiao Guanxue, but Nan Yan grabbed his wrist and said, "Don't go. I don't want to see him, never again..."

He suddenly felt the wetness on the skin she was holding.

Xie Yu lowered his head and found that her palm was covered with mud. Her hand had been hidden in her sleeve, so he didn't see the wound, but he never thought that the blood came from there.

He grabbed her wrist and saw the scarred palm. He felt angry and painful in his chest. He was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. "You, why don't you say anything when you are injured? Don't you want your hand anymore? Gu Nanyan, you are ruining yourself like this!"

Nan Yan didn't seem to hear what he said. She seemed to have lost her soul. She just shook her head and repeated, "Don't go look for him, Brother Yu, don't go look for him..."

Xie Yu quickly agreed. He carefully pried open her fingers and said, "Okay, I won't go look for him. I won't go look for him. Let go of your hand first and I'll help you take care of the wound."

He saw that she was holding a broken jade pendant tightly in her palm. The sharp fragments pierced into her palm and the blood almost soaked the entire jade pendant.

Xie Yu felt distressed and angry at the same time. He hated to see her doing such self-mutilation. He felt as if his heart was being tangled by countless threads, tearing at it. It hurt so much.

Do you like him that much? To this extent?

As he thought this in his heart, he became more careful in his movements and just took the jade pendant from her hand.

The intense pain also made Nan Yan suddenly wake up. She suddenly became mad and snatched the jade pendant back from his hand. She held it tightly in her palm and stared at him viciously.

"That's my jade pendant. It's mine. No one else is allowed to touch it. No one else is allowed to touch something I don't want!"

She shouted at him without caring about him, her eyes full of hatred as if she was looking at an enemy.

Xie Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly looked at her hand, "Okay, okay, I won't touch it, I won't touch your jade pendant..."

Nan Yan paused, then looked at the broken jade pendant in her hand. With trembling fingers, she put the two pieces together, but because one corner was missing, she couldn't put them together. No matter how hard she tried, they just didn't fit together...

"Why can't I spell it out..."

She muttered in despair, helpless and pitiful, "What should I do? I can't put it together. It can't be put together."

She frantically grabbed Xie Yu's hand, tears streaming down her cheeks like beads from a broken string, almost wetting her entire sleeves, "Brother Yu, please help me, can you help me put it together..."

Xie Yu felt his eyes ache when he saw her like this. He held her tightly in his arms and patted her back over and over again. "Okay, I'll help you. I will definitely help you. Brother Yu will help you restore it to its original state."

Nan Yan's fingers trembled, and Xie Yu immediately took the jade pendant from her hand, and Nan Yan was held in his arms.

At first, she burst into tears, but later it turned into low sobs. She cried until her throat was choked, and finally she coughed a few times, and it seemed that blood kept flowing out of the corners of her mouth.

Her voice was intermittent, extremely sad, with a sense of sorrow lingering in it, "Go... home, Brother Ayu."

"Take me...home."

Xie Yu wiped away the trace of blood with his fingertips and said softly, "Okay, I'll take you home. Let's go home."