Ying Qingcang held her in his arms. "Don"t be afraid. Ah Nan is over there and should call us soon." As soon as he finished, Xin Qing"s cell phone rang. Ying Qingcang pressed the hands-free key.
"Young Master!" Ah Nan"s voice came through.
"What"s wrong?" Ying Qingcang asked in a deep voice.
It was noisy in Ah Nan"s side. He seemed to be shouting loudly. "A killer. But was controlled. Zhang Mi took a bullet for Young Master Shen on her shoulder."
Xin Qing"s face turned pale suddenly. Ying Qingcang patted her and calmly said to Ah Nan, "Tell Young Master Shen that let me know before he takes action."
"Yes! "Ah Nan hung up. Ying Qingcang turned off the TV and embraced Xin Qing in his arms to comfort her. "Take it easy. There is no risk to her life."
Xin Qing patted her chest. "I was surprised that Zhang Mi would pounce on the bullet for Young Master Shen."
"She fell in love with Young Master Shen," Ying Qingcang said, "otherwise she would not have such courage."
"No." Xin Qing shook her head. "I know Zhang Mi well. She will never pay first. She is not that kind of person."
She would never be on the weak, humble side. She wanted to be loved radiantly like a queen on high.
As Xin Qing expected, when Zhang Mi woke up after the surgery, she began to point at Young Master Shen and scold him.
"s.h.i.t! Did you sleep with someone else"s woman? Is that why they tried to murder you at the wedding?"
Since Zhang Mi was shot, Young Master Shen had been looking grim. The moment he heard her vibrant voice, he rubbed his forehead helplessly and said, "I never touch a married woman."
"Then you must have had s.e.x with someone you shouldn"t touch. Anyway, it"s your fault that made me get shot." Zhang Mi continued to curse him. Young Master Shen looked at her tenderly. His beautiful phoenix eyes became more attractive.
"Why did you take the bullet for me..." He pulled Zhang Mi"s hands and stared at her.
Zhang Mi sneered. "Do you think I was willing to do that? How could I have fallen on you if I hadn"t sprained my ankle and lost my balance? And I was so unlucky to have taken a bullet for you." She complained incessantly, not noticing Young Master Shen"s dimmer face.
"You mean, you were scared by the gunfire, then sprained your ankle and fell on me, and took the bullet by coincidence." Young Master Shen gnashed his teeth and asked, "You didn"t pounce on the bullet yourself?"
Zhang Mi looked at him as if he were psychotic. "I"m not a fool. Why should I pounce on it? And I was not scared by the gunfire. I"m not so weak. I just sprained my ankle!" This was her key point. She would not let Young Master Shen know she was so afraid that she lost her balance.
Young Master Shen finally understood why "Tears fall down after people knew the truth". He stared at Zhang Mi. Zhang Mi was a little uneasy. She shrank her neck and murmured, "Anyway, I was shot because of you. Why are you so fierce?"
"Have a good rest. I"ll ask the doctor if you can be discharged." Young Master Shen no longer wanted to talk with Zhang Mi. He felt that there was a mouthful of blood in his throat. If he went on talking with her, it would spew out.
Ah Nan, and Xiao Liu, the employer of Boss Wan and who had dressed up as Ying Qingcang, were eavesdropping outside the door. Seeing Young Master Shen come out, they covered up their mouth to keep themselves from laughing. Young Master Shen looked at them coldly. "If you want to laugh, just laugh. Don"t choke."
"Puff!" Xiao Liu failed to hold back.
Young Master Shen glanced at him and said, "It looks like you should be beaten up for such a smile under the mask of Ying Qingcang"s face."
"Young Master Ying asked if you had any plans!" Ah Nan quickly diverged from this topic. Young Master Shen thought for a while. "Arrange helicopters. We will return to S city."
On the second day after Young Master Shen"s return to S City, the newspaper reported that the CEO of Ying Enterprises had finally announced that his ex-wife had been acquitted. Xin Qing appeared in the ward aboveboard. Looking at Zhang Mi, half of whose body was wrapped like a mummy, she laughed herself into convulsions.
"You have no sympathy. Go back to prison as soon as possible!" Zhang Mi waved to Xin Qing and took the apple that Shi Qianqian had peeled for her. "Can you tell me why I"m so unlucky?"
"Why do I think Young Master Shen is more unlucky?" Xin Qing looked at Shi Qianqian with a grin. "Is that right?"
Shi Qianqian smiled. "His self-esteem as a man is too inflated. That"s ok if Zhang Mi cracked him down this time."
"He thought I came to save him!" Zhang Mi twitched her mouth. "My brain is not broken. There were so many people around him. He didn"t need me."
Young Master Shen now wished that he could strangle Zhang Mi.
"Do you know why there is such a heartless person?" "She didn"t even think of saving me at all. I was in front of her." Feeling wronged, Young Master Shen complained to Ying Qingcang. "Even if she has no feelings for me, I have saved her once before. Otherwise, she would have been bitten by a snake instead of me. Doesn"t she know to pay me back? She owes me a life, uh huh?"
Ying Qingcang also felt funny when he knew the truth. He wanted to laugh even more when he saw Young Master Shen act this way.
"Seeing you like this, I thought that you had fallen in love with Zhang Mi." Ying Qingcang shrugged his shoulders. "Look at your face. You act just like you were abandoned."
Young Master Shen said with a snort, "It"s not that serious. I just feel a little unbalanced. But I finally see how stupid that woman is."
"Now let"s get down to business!" Ying Qingcang"s tone suddenly cooled down. "I thought it would take at least a week for your wedding, but you came back only within three days. For this reason, I had to leave Ah Qing."
With a sly smile, Young Master Shen said, "Fortunately, it took only three days. Otherwise, you beast would exhaust our little Xiao Qingqing!"
"To get down to business, who did it?" Ying Qingcang looked at him. "It must be from home."
"Yes." Young Master Shen"s eyes turned cold, and his expression now was very frightening. If outsiders saw him like this, they would not say he was a heartthrob. "They took action in New York just to plant it on foreign forces. It"s a pity that they"re so foolish that they think everyone else is as foolish as they are."
The reason why the Shens had been able to control the underground world of Chinese people for so many years was that besides the Shens" ability, such a situation was popular in both the underworld and the righteous outlaws. n.o.body wanted to break this balance. Unlike before, nowadays, the underworld in foreign countries was busy making money. Who had the time to grab parishes and territory? The police also didn"t want to take any action. Bothering the Shens meant that they would lose their backer. Who would they turn to if something happened?
However, some people at home did not understand. Since Young Master Shen returned, they had been doing something secretly. In recent years, they thought they were strong enough, so they wanted to kill Young Master Shen, who knew nothing but flirting with women. Once the Shens lost its heirs, they would have chances.
"They saved a lot of trouble for me." Young Master Shen poured himself a gla.s.s of red wine, and said with satisfaction, "when I came back, there were at least dozens of messy forces trying to rebel, big or small. They made it even worse. Big fish eat small fish, while small fish eat shrimp. Now there is only big fish left in this water."
Ying Qingcang picked the corner of his mouth. "So, it"s time to sprinkle the net."
Soon, there was a rumor that the Shens began to shuffle the cards. The a.s.sa.s.sination at the wedding wounded Young Master Shen"s wife, who had the Dragon King"s Token. Young Master Shen flipped out for his confidante. From north to south, the whole underground forces began to be cleaned up.
Qing Gang, Zhongxing Gang, and Bai Clan. They were the three largest forces in the South today. They had been expanding their territory and annexing parishes in recent years. So the underworld became a situation of tripart.i.te confrontation.
Ke Shibiao was listening to his underling"s report and knew that the Shens would send someone here soon. If he surrendered, he would have to give away the territory he had struggled for many years. If not, it meant declaring war on the whole underworld.
"Boss, Qing Gang has not done anything that brakes rules in recent years. The Shens would not do anything bad to us. Just give them some benefits. What we should do in the future are all depends on ourselves. The Shens never interfered internal affairs in any gang."
The purpose of Shens" existence was not to lead the underworld. It was to set rules for the underground. Everyone in the underworld knew this, and Ke Shibiao knew it, too. He interrupted his underling.
"The Shens does do not interfere, but as long as it exists, all of us will have to look at their faces." Ke Shibiao smiled. "The changes of dynasties are very normal, aren"t they? Someone has to be the first to stand up." His eyes turned cold. "Take a message to Zhongxing Gang and Bai Clan. Ask them if they would like to... throw over this dynasty with us!"
"Young Master! It"s Qing Gang"s turn."
Young Master Shen nodded. "Do they have any movements?"
"Yesterday, Ke Shibiao met with Zhongxing Gang"s Ah Quan and Bai Clan"s Mr. Bai ."
"Well, ask them to come together. Just say I want to talk with them about the division of territory."
Ying Qingcang did not partic.i.p.ate in Young Master Shen"s affairs. If he could not solve his own problems well, it was a waste of time for him to live for so many years. These days, Tang Shuang was angry with him and kept arguing with him because he withdrew his complaint and let Xin Qing come out of the jail.
"Ah Cang, why did you let her out?" Tang Shuang, who had been pregnant for nearly seven months, came to Ying Qingcang"s office to complain. She originally thought Xin Qing would stay in jail for at least a few months until she gave birth to a child. The result was that Xin Qing was released in less than a week, which was unacceptable for her and she felt that Ying Qingcang was still in love with Xin Qing.
"Why?" Ying Qingcang looked at her with a contemptuous laugh. "You know her ident.i.ty. Do you think her t.i.tle as a CK Chief Designer is a fake one? I don"t want to offend such many n.o.bilities in Europe," he said gently, "you don"t need to think so much. Take good care of yourself. You should know how much I look forward to this child. If something happens, I will be disappointed."
Tang Shuang still wanted to say something, but Ying Qingcang had stood up. "I am heading for a meeting. Let Ah Che send you home."
Xin Qing did not know that Tang Shuang was still thinking about her. She came to the hospital with Zhang Mi today to take down the gauze. Zhang Mi was doing the examination. These days of pa.s.sion left her exhausted, so, she was sleepy from time to time and climbed into bed to get ready for sleep. She heard faintly someone came in and was about to open her eyes when she saw two strangers looking at her with a piece of cloth in their hands.
"You..." Before Xin Qing finished, the piece of cloth had covered her nose, and she lost consciousness.