Chapter 771: Chapter 666: 666

Chapter 666

Guo Yanyan lay sprawled on the ground, whimpering and crying, but she didn’t get up. Perhaps it was too painful to move, or maybe she was hoping Gu Shaojun would take pity on a fair maiden, run over, and help her to her feet. That was, of course, just wishful thinking. Why would Gu Shaojun waste a single second on Guo Yanyan? He was busy exchanging flirtatious glances with his young fiancée. Taking advantage of the moment while Xia Qingting was too busy mocking Guo Yanyan to look back, Gu Shaojun finally got close enough to steal a quick kiss on Xiao Man’s face.

Guo Yanyan waited in vain. Realizing no one was coming near, she had no choice but to slowly struggle to her feet.

When Xia Qingting saw her face, she let out another peal of clear laughter.

The cement pavement wasn’t particularly dirty, so Guo Yanyan’s face hadn’t picked up much dust. It was deathly pale. She was bleeding, and while one couldn’t see below her neck, it was obvious her forehead was scraped and her nose and lips were dripping with fresh blood. Her Qi Circulation was decent, as she hadn’t knocked out her front teeth, though she had bitten through her lower lip. The blood, mixed with her smeared makeup, made her look something like a vampire under the streetlight. A child would surely have been frightened to tears at the sight of her.

She sat on the ground, one hand reaching for Gu Shaojun, who was just a step away, while her other hand gently cupped her chin in a pitiful pose. She sobbed delicately, crying, "Shaojun... it hurts! Shaojun... it really, really hurts! Shaojun, please help me... *sob sob sob*!"

Gu Shaojun and Xiao Man stood side-by-side, their gazes fixed on Guo Yanyan with cold disgust. He knew Qiu Limai had already entered the courtyard and would be out shortly, so he restrained himself. Otherwise, even if he didn’t kill Guo Yanyan on the spot, he would have crippled her or struck her mute. ’For a woman like that to even say my name... It’s absolutely disgusting.’

Xia Qingting, however, would not tolerate it. She strode forward and slapped away the "claw" pointing at Gu Shaojun. "Shut up! It’s supposed to hurt! You’re shameless and have no self-respect. You overplayed your hand and got nothing. You should’ve just fallen to your death! Dare to say his name one more time, and you’ll see what happens!"

Guo Yanyan glared furiously at Xia Qingting. The pain from her injuries intensified, and blood from her nose trickled into her mouth, making her words muffled. "Xia Qingting! Don’t think I don’t know about you... In your dreams! I was the one who met Shaojun first! We were dating! I love him! He can only be mine! Get lost!"

Xia Qingting paused for a second, then bent down and—SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!—landed three sharp slaps on Guo Yanyan’s face. Ignoring the other woman’s piercing shrieks, she wiped her blood-smeared hand on Guo Yanyan’s dress and explained, "One of those was for me. The other two were for my friend, Tang Manman, and her man. Your thoughts are so foul and disgusting that you’ve offended all three of us. Hence, three slaps!"

At the sound of the commotion, the courtyard gates of the surrounding homes opened one by one. A dozen or so people emerged, all acting as though they had only just noticed the incident on the pathway.

Everyone expressed shock upon seeing Guo Yanyan’s condition. Some of the more helpful neighbors offered to notify the Guo family, and a few women cried out that the injured woman should be taken to the medical unit or the hospital. But it was all talk and no action; for the moment, no one made a move.

Everyone knew what was going on. The hospital was far from the family compound, and the medical unit wasn’t close, either. Besides, there was a car right there. Four wheels were faster than two legs, and using the car meant no one would get blood on their clothes. Since the vehicle was parked right at the gate, why should anyone have to resort to manual labor? That was one thing. For another, this Miss Guo Yanyan was usually far too calculating and snobbish. Only those with real power and influence were worthy of her notice or respect. If you were just an ordinary person, she’d ignore you completely, even if you walked right past her. She was thoroughly unlikable, so no one was eager to answer the call to carry her off for medical attention.

Qiu Limai, however, saw how much blood Guo Yanyan was losing, which had already stained a large patch of her white dress red. She quickly turned, went back inside, and brought out a first-aid kit. A resident who worked in the medical field immediately took it and began to stanch Guo Yanyan’s bleeding.

Gu Shaojun, holding Xiao Man’s hand, gave a nod of greeting. Meanwhile, Xia Qingting recounted the entire incident for the crowd of onlookers, explaining in detail how Guo Yanyan had run past her front gate, twisted her ankle in her high heels, and fallen to the ground. Then, she pointed to Gu Shaojun and Xiao Man and said:

"This is Mr. Gu, Gu Shaojun, and standing beside him is his fiancée, Tang Manman. Their marriage was arranged when they were children, and they are very much in love. Tang Manman is also my friend. Tonight, I went with her and Gu Shaojun to visit another friend, and they were just dropping me off. The three of us were saying our goodbyes at the gate when we witnessed Guo Yanyan’s fall."

Gu Shaojun, still holding Xiao Man’s hand, nodded at the crowd. He was about to speak when Xiao Man scratched his palm and addressed the group herself:

"Hello, everyone. My name is Tang Manman. I’m Gu Shaojun’s fiancée, and I’m also a good friend of Xia Qingting’s. A moment ago, we saw this young woman, Miss Guo Yanyan, fall and injure herself. Ordinarily, we absolutely should have lent a hand. An injury like this doesn’t even require a trip to the hospital; I could have treated her myself, as I’m a medical student. I’m about to graduate from Kyoto Medical University and am already interning at a hospital in Beijing. I am fully capable of dressing her wounds. But this Guo Yanyan has malicious intentions. Right in front of me, she declared that she loves my fiancé and wants to be with him—that only *she* has the right to be with him! I was furious. My fiancé and I have already held a wedding banquet back in our hometown, and we’re officially registering our marriage next year. Yet Guo Yanyan is openly trying to steal the man I love. Who could possibly tolerate that? So, I refused to treat her, and I didn’t advise my fiancé to rush her to the hospital. If that makes me wrong, then I don’t mind being wrong. I will not tolerate such a shameless and morally bankrupt woman. Even if she were to bleed out right in front of me, I wouldn’t lift a finger to help her. I hope you can all understand!"

The crowd was silent for a moment before erupting in a chorus of condemnation, all of it directed at Guo Yanyan. The women were particularly merciless, pointing at her and hurling vicious, ugly insults. They looked at Guo Yanyan as if she were a pile of shit. In truth, Wei Shumin and her daughters already had a poor reputation in the military family compound, and the other residents had long been waiting for an opportunity to tell them off.

"Miss Tang, you were right not to treat her," the woman dressing Guo Yanyan’s wounds said to Xiao Man. "I don’t even want to touch a shameless, disgraceful woman like this!"

This woman was a doctor from the medical unit, around forty years old. She looked at Guo Yanyan with an expression of pure disgust. If it weren’t out of respect for the senior officer’s wife, she never would have stepped forward to help.

’The doctor fumed internally. She recalled a time her own husband, drunk, had praised how beautiful and charming the young Wei Shumin had been, calling her the ’belle of the army.’ He’d even mentioned once receiving an intense, flirtatious gaze from her... One look and he remembered it his whole life. If she’d actually made a move on him, wouldn’t he have fallen right at that wretched woman’s feet?’

’The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. What kind of person could Wei Shumin’s daughter possibly be? This Guo Yanyan might not be as brazen as her mother and sister, but she’s cut from the same cloth—black-hearted and rotten to the core. Just look at this, trying to break up a happy young couple and take the man for herself. A pity for her that the real fiancée is a formidable one who held her ground!’

’That’s how it should be done,’ she thought. ’If I had known my husband back when Wei Shumin was trying her tricks, I would’ve crushed her on the spot if she’d dared to make a pass at him!’

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