"Slap!"
A crisp sound of a slap echoed in the empty room.
Shen Jianyi looked up at the red - eyed man and thought that Pei Xiuyuan must be crazy.
"Don't challenge my bottom line anymore!"
The man wasn't one to back down easily. Otherwise, he wouldn't have chased her all the way home.
Without a second thought, Pei Xiuyuan reached out and grabbed the woman's neck.
She struggled to pry his hands off, but he was much stronger. He kept tightening his grip, making it hard for her to breathe.
Just then.
The stunned figure behind suddenly sprang into action. He punched the man in the nose and eyes, and then kicked him hard in the abdomen. Pei Xiuyuan staggered back several steps.
He knelt on one knee, covering his abdomen with his hand, and looked up at the two people in front of him.
A silver light flashed. Lu Jinsheng somehow found a dagger and held it tightly in his hand.
Seeing this, Shen Jianyi immediately understood.
Lu Jinsheng's irritability disorder must have flared up again. Lately, the frequency of his attacks had been increasing.
She took a deep breath, grabbed the man's arm, and tried to sound calm as she reminded him, "Don't do anything stupid."
If he really did something to Pei Xiuyuan, it was easy to guess what would happen to him next.
The Pei family was no easy opponent. Although the old master of the Pei family rarely showed up, he was a cunning fox.
Shen Jianyi stepped in front of Lu Jinsheng and faced Pei Xiuyuan.
"Why don't you just leave?"
Her voice was as cold as ice from the North Pole, without a hint of warmth. The atmosphere in the hall had reached its freezing point.
Perhaps the commotion they made was too loud, and Song Miner, who was resting, heard it. She rushed out and saw this scene.
Her eyes widened. She had never seen the young master and the young mistress like this before.
The key was that Pei Xiuyuan had come without her knowledge.
Just as Song Miner was stunned, the man rushed towards her at lightning speed, grabbed her, and held a cold dagger to her neck.
"Juanjuan, if you don't come with me today, I'll kill her!"
Hearing this, Song Miner was terrified. Her legs started to tremble uncontrollably. Her lips went numb, and tears streamed down her face as she looked at the man in front of her.
"Madam... please help me. I don't want to die..."
The thing was, Song Miner didn't know what she had done. She just came out to see what the commotion was about, and now she had become the man's hostage to threaten Shen Jianyi.
Shen Jianyi took a deep breath. Her heart was starting to boil with anger, but she remained calm on the surface.
She tried to suppress her temper that was about to explode. Shen Jianyi's voice was cold, and her eyes showed no intention of saving the girl.
"Do whatever you want. Do you think I'll go with you just for a little maid?"
She thought this would make Pei Xiuyuan lose interest in Song Miner for the time being, but she didn't expect that the man had already seen through her plan.
Pei Xiuyuan sneered and gently drew the dagger across the girl's neck. A trickle of bright red blood slowly ran down the silver blade.
At this moment, Song Miner couldn't feel the pain anymore. Her nerves seemed to be numb. She didn't know what would happen to her next, but she... didn't want to die.
"Madam, save me..."
Song Miner was barely conscious. Her voice was weak, and her mind was blank. This was the last thing she said before she fainted.
Originally, Pei Xiuyuan wanted to use Song Miner to threaten the woman, but unexpectedly, the girl fainted in his arms.
He pushed the girl away in disgust and threw the dagger on the ground.
Pei Xiuyuan limped towards her. The corners of his eyes were red, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Now he looked like a poor, abandoned puppy. However, he didn't deserve Shen Jianyi's pity.
She couldn't forget what Pei Xiuyuan had done in the past. How could she forgive such a crazy man?
"Pei Xiuyuan, don't come any closer!"
Shen Jianyi continued to back away. She tightly held the man's arm and whispered in his ear, "I'll hold him off. You take Song Miner to the room."
If Song Miner stayed here, she would only cause more trouble.
She thought she had made herself clear, but Lu Jinsheng seemed not to understand. He didn't want to leave.
"Yiyi, I have to protect you."
He had once promised that as long as he was around, no one would ever hurt Shen Jianyi. How could he leave her now to take care of someone else?
Hearing this, Shen Jianyi took a deep breath. She kept one hand behind her back and quickly pressed the power button of the phone in her pocket twice. The alarm call was immediately dialed.
Now, all Shen Jianyi had to do was stall the man in front of her and wait for the police to arrive.
"Juanjuan, come with me," he insisted. "I'm the only one in this world who will treat you well. They're all just using you. Do you really think this man in front of you loves you?"
Shen Jianyi could tell that Pei Xiuyuan was just trying to drive a wedge between them. Unfortunately, these words might work on other women, but not on her.
She never judged a person by just listening to words. She and Lu Jinsheng had been through life - and - death situations together. How could she not understand him?
Moreover, she wasn't the Juanjuan Pei Xiuyuan was looking for.
She remained expressionless, standing there as cold as ice.
The woman pursed her lips. Her bright red lips parted slightly, and her voice was deep and alluring. "I've said it many times. I'm not the Juanjuan you're looking for. I don't know her. There are many people who look alike in this world, but she's not me."
If possible, Shen Jianyi also wanted to know where the Juanjuan he was talking about was.
After all, that girl was her own younger sister.
"Impossible!" Pei Xiuyuan seemed completely possessed now. That person had driven him crazy.
Maybe Lu Jinsheng really couldn't stand this man in front of him anymore. He had been forcibly suppressing his inner rage.
But now, he completely lost control of his body.
Just as Pei Xiuyuan was approaching the woman, Lu Jinsheng twirled the dagger in his hand and stabbed at the man without thinking.
Fortunately, the man dodged in time, so the dagger got stuck in the wall and couldn't be pulled out.
But his almost crazy state was out of control, and Pei Xiuyuan was still provoking him.
"You can't even control your own emotions. How can you guarantee that you won't hurt her one day?"