The Tender Beauty is Sweetly Doted in the 20th Century Novel!-Chapter 164 - 163: It’s All Because of You!

It’s Liu Jitong’s voice!

Jiang Yuan’s eyes suddenly lit up.

She turned her head, and tears instantly burst out when she saw Liu Jitong.

She started struggling again, but Xie Fengmian had already tightened the rope, and her struggle would only hurt herself. But Jiang Yuan had hope now, so even though her arms were being worn out by the rough hemp rope, she wouldn’t stop.

"Let her go, Xie Fengmian, we can talk this out, don’t hurt innocent people."

Liu Jitong spoke while approaching, but Xie Fengmian suddenly pulled out a small knife from somewhere and held it against Jiang Yuan’s throat.

"Don’t come any closer! Move one more step and I’ll slit her throat, and none of us will have it easy! Even if I die, I’ll take someone with me. You’ll never live happily again!"

Xie Fengmian’s tone was very agitated, and his hand was not steady.

The knife was sharp, and just lying across the front of her throat seemed to cause a stinging pain. Jiang Yuan was so scared her face turned white, she didn’t dare struggle anymore, and could only stare with her big round eyes at Liu Jitong.

Liu Jitong didn’t dare move either, his hands were spread open in front of him, trying hard to show that he was no threat and didn’t carry any weapons.

"I won’t come over, I won’t, Xie Fengmian, put the knife down, we can talk right here, I won’t come over."

Liu Jitong’s face showed a level of anxiety and worry Jiang Yuan had never seen before. She felt a bitterness and fear in her heart, not daring to make a sound, only watching him silently with tears flowing.

Seeing her like this, Liu Jitong swallowed hard, feeling as if his heart had been suddenly squeezed, so much so that it was suffocating him.

"What do you want, Xie Fengmian? Just say it, there’s no need to involve an innocent girl in our business matters. She’s blameless."

"Blameless?"

Xie Fengmian felt as if he’d heard the biggest joke in the world.

"What’s innocent? Didn’t she open that fried chicken shop? Didn’t she follow He Chen to open those chain stores, driving down prices? Can our Xie Family be bankrupt? Is that innocent?"

"You’re all f***ing in it together, not one of you is a good person!"

His eyes were red, glaring at Liu Jitong, and the knife in his hand trembled, leaving a bright red mark on Jiang Yuan’s pale neck.

Liu Jitong gritted his teeth, trying hard to suppress the urge to rush in and kill, taking a deep breath.

"Fine, whatever you say is whatever it is. Now, what do you truly want—money or something else? I’ll agree to whatever I can do."

His eyes never left the terrified and trembling Jiang Yuan, watching her small, animal-like expression full of hope and pain, Liu Jitong felt his heart pounding wildly.

He wanted so much to rush over and hold her, dry her tears, and tell her not to cry, but he couldn’t. He could only watch helplessly as she cried.

Under the bright moonlight, Jiang Yuan was left with only a fitted undershirt on her upper body, the moonlight outlining her curves beautifully, but she was shivering from the cold, her face starting to take on an unhealthy flush.

"What do I want?"

"I want a lot of things. My first demand: Liu Jitong, kneel and kowtow to me!"

To threaten him, Xie Fengmian suddenly grabbed Jiang Yuan’s hair with force. Jiang Yuan winced in pain but didn’t utter a sound, only looking at him sorrowfully.

Liu Jitong felt a pang in his heart, his tone involuntarily lowered.

"I’ll kneel, I’ll kneel! Just don’t hurt her." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Without any hesitation, he dropped to his knees, the tall, slender man lowering his always-confident head, his hands pressing against the ground, ready to kowtow to him.

Watching this, Xie Fengmian felt overjoyed.

"Hahaha! Liu Jitong, never thought you’d end up like this! I knew I didn’t catch the wrong person; this little girl even said you don’t like her."

"What a little liar, huh?"

Jiang Yuan had deceived him, and Xie Fengmian was very angry, gripping her hair tightly and slapping her hard. When he let go, Jiang Yuan couldn’t control her balance, crashing to the ground with the chair.

Just as Xie Fengmian bent down to pull her up again, two men suddenly rushed in from behind and each gave him a kick, sending Xie Fengmian flying more than a meter away.

"You’re looking for death! Daring to hit my sister! Damn it!"

"My sister, whom my family cherished so dearly, and you dared to kidnap and hit, Xie Fengmian, you’re f***ing going to prison!"

Jiang Tiancheng and Jiang Tianrui, the two brothers, somehow snuck into the house from behind, and Xie Fengmian was completely unaware.

He thought only Liu Jitong was here.

He’d miscalculated!

Just as the thought crossed his mind, the Jiang brothers dragged him up and started beating him. Punches and kicks rained down on Xie Fengmian, making stars dance in front of his eyes. He curled up, mouth full of blood, almost losing his breath.

Liu Jitong didn’t immediately join the fight; he rushed over to help Jiang Yuan, who had fallen to the ground. Seeing her sobbing uncontrollably, his hands trembled even as he untied her.

"I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s my fault."

"It’s all because of me..."

"Jiang Yuan, I’m sorry, I’m sorry..."

He didn’t know how to express his emotions and fear. Seeing Jiang Yuan tied up and beaten, Liu Jitong wished it was him being beaten, longed to tear Xie Fengmian to pieces.

His hands kept trembling, and unknowingly, his vision became blurry.

Jiang Yuan’s condition was really bad; her head was hit hard, she’d been terribly frightened, wore too little and caught a chill. Her complexion was extremely unhealthy, and she no longer had the strength to speak.

Liu Jitong took off his jacket to cover her, intending to take her to the hospital, but Jiang Tiancheng pulled him aside with an unfriendly tone.

"It’s all because of you! Liu Jitong, if she didn’t like you, you wouldn’t be better off than Xie Fengmian right now."

"Since you don’t like her, don’t lead her on. You better not appear in front of Jiang Yuan again, or I can’t guarantee it won’t be you in the hospital next time."

Jiang Tianrui dragged a half-conscious Xie Fengmian to the police station, while Jiang Tiancheng took the nearly unconscious Jiang Yuan to the hospital. Neither brother said another word to Liu Jitong.

Liu Jitong wanted to follow Jiang Tiancheng to the hospital to take care of Jiang Yuan, but was directly hit and sent flying by Jiang Tiancheng.

Logically, Liu Jitong’s height gave him an advantage, but he didn’t fight back and ended up going home bruised and battered.

That night, Ye Manman was unaware of the event until the next day when Jiang Tianrui came to the shop and explained everything. Ye Manman and He Chen quickly rushed to the hospital.

When they arrived, Jiang Yuan had already woken up. Her mother and sister-in-law were taking care of her.

But the room was very quiet; the family didn’t say much, and Jiang Yuan’s expression was extremely dark.

Ye Manman placed the fruit and malt milk essence she brought on the side, only when she called Jiang Yuan’s name did Jiang Yuan realize she was there.

At the first sight of Ye Manman, Jiang Yuan’s eyes filled with tears again.

"Manman... my brother said I can’t meet him again."

Her lips were pale, and her voice was still trembling, with a sobbing tone.

Ye Manman felt a pang in her heart and didn’t know how to comfort her.

She knew very well that this incident had a huge impact on the Jiang brothers.

A sister who they’d cherished was kidnapped and hurt because of Liu Jitong. It’s normal for them to want to prevent Jiang Yuan from seeing Liu Jitong again, but...

"But I really want to see him. I still like him, what should I do?"

"He was clearly worried about me; I saw it yesterday."

"But why hasn’t he come to see me..."

"Manman, could you go and ask him for me?"