Chapter 24 - The first meeting

Dongmei's head could not keep looking at him, her vision became blurry, she didn't want to close her eyes but they were too heavy to keep them open.

Her head touched the ground, her hair clip broke as her long hairs waved down and covered the brown hair of the little boy in her arms who was left unharmed by her fall earlier which sprained her ankle and the fall of her head which swelled up her kelp.

She fainted as her weak heart felt overwhelmed by the events that kept bothering her time and again.

Her subconscious mind flashed her a dream revealing a puzzle, "Is she a taboo?" She did not leave her house her entire life because the Lin family wanted an innocent and decent daughter-in-law who they can dominate.

But the moment she broke the orbit of where her planet revolved, dangers kept coming uninvited.

The man who shot the Liger despite knowing the consequences of killing a rare breed had no pinch of fear on his face when he grabbed the rifle from one of the runaway guards.

His eyes did not twitch when he shot the beast who was about to take the life of a woman and his little cousin.

But his heart ached as he saw the girl of his dreams in a miserable state, the fate played well with the fated ones, who would have thought they would cross each other's path in a moment like this?

He had wondered in his mind a million times before sleeping and fantasized about bout their meeting. He thought he would go to Bai Mansion and propose to her a marriage with the fact he had the photo his grandfather possessed before he died.

He would apologize to her parents for the delay in proposing and he would explain what had happened to him and his grandfather.

She would come down with a cornet of flowers on her head and wearing a simple and shy smile on her fair chubby cheeks. Her back would be winged like a fairy that the e the e and halo effect of heroin.

"Hello! Mr. Qian Jin." She would greet him in a lovely tone.

He would often dream of her running toward him but she kept running and failed to hold the hand he always spread for her.

That fantasy shattered into the blood of the liger that flowed out, approaching Dongmei's head on the floor of the pool.

His heart was crumbled and trampled by the evil force called fate. He couldn't believe his eyes that the woman living in his dreams was lying on the ground, protecting his little cousin whom he was looking around like a crazy man.

He did not know what made him care about Qian Mu so much, but he did from the bottom of his heart. It was just that he wasn't used to caring for people and looking after them.

He was a lonely wanderer who never stayed in one place.

Often sleeping in hotels or maybe at a friend's place, spending time in different cafes. He never stayed home. It became his regret when his grandfather died. He never showed his filial piety, though he was the only one in his life who cared about him.

Over a dozen of men marched in a black suit, they pointed their guns at Qian Jin who had dropped the rifle as he saw Dongmei fainting out of exhaustion and trauma.

A man ran in with a fierce expression and the poetess Su Manning followed him soon after he stood on the other side of the pool.

"Qian Jin! you bastard! What did you do?"

"You killed my beloved pet?" Lin Xie yelled at him as his eyes were stuck on the dead beast.

But the man whose eyes were glued at Dongmei staring at her with mixed feelings and numbed leg had no mood to argue. Qian Jin spoke in a tone as if he was brushing off Lin Xie, "Was it yours?"

"I am willing to accept it happily then."

"I killed your liger."

Fan Xian recovered from the shock of the bullet fired on the liger and he slipped away with Lin Bao before Lin Xie could notice them in the pool.

The little boy Qian Mu struggled for his breath but Dongmei's warmth made him refuse to catch air. Mumu realized as Dongmei's hand loosened the grip. He popped his head out and looked up to notice the face of his Angel who jumped in to help when the people with guns hesitated.

He found her familiar when he could not remember who she was. He carefully came out of the cover Dongmei made to save him and shook her arms to make her wake up.

He ignores the men who were surrounding them from two sides and corners his cousin and brother. Only Mumu knew how many times he called for his help in his heart.

Qian Jin noticed Mumu who was sitting beside Dongmei with endless tears dropping on her cheeks which Mumu's little hand kept wiping thinking she was the one crying and shedding tears.

Jin took a few steps toward the steel stairs to help them up but Lin Xie's men blocked his way.

"You think I will let you and your family go? Your son and your wife are so dead now."

Jin was confused, Lin Xie had mistaken Dongmei and Mumu as his wife and son according to what rumors said about his illegitimate son. He assumed the two victims of the scary liger lying inside the empty pool as his family.

Jin wanted to smile shyly but he had no time.

Lin Xie's sturdy men attacked him, he kept dodging their fists and kicks, after several attempts of attack. His men became impatient and took out knives from their pockets and started one attack after the other.

Qian Jin was avoiding hitting them in front of already traumatized Mumu.

-Slit!!!-

-Slash!-

-tore-

The knives cut through the flesh of his arms, and his sweat added pain to his bleedings. He did not want to see Mumu violence but he could not let him see him dying either and leaving him in hands of a womanizer Mafia boss.

He made his first attack and grabbed hold of a knife to defend.

...

KICKED!!!

SLIT!!!

CUT !!!

SWOOSH!!!

ZAP!!!

KICKED!!!!

SLAP!!!

PUNCH!!!

SLIT!!!!

DOOM!!!

SWISH!!!

Qian Jin returned them thrice the injuries he suffered and smashed all his men that kept bouncing themselves at him at the same time.

He was tired and out of his breath. His legs weren't supporting him and he sat on one of the bodies that were lying on the ground and leaned his elbows against his knees as the sweat was dripping from his hair and falling on the ground as he gasped and had no energy left. However, this wasn't the case with his enemies.

He looked up as another batch marched in. "Who comes to a resort with his girlfriend with so many dogs? Lin Xie, of course."

He glanced a look at the woman named Su Manning who was sitting on a sit two meters high made for coaches and life-saver who keep a watch over.

He wanted to see where Lin Xie go. But one of the men punched his face. Blood came out of Jin's mouth, he kicked the man who attacked him and the two other guys fall back.

They expected him to kneel or fall but instead, he stood up despite those cuts all over his back from where he kept bleeding, and his white shirt was drenched with blood and was torn, revealing his muscled body and deep cuts and scars that were profound than the current countless cuts he owed as the prize of his victory over the men who were whining on the ground.

However, it looked difficult for Qian Jin to stand any longer and he felt he could lose his soul anytime. He staggered and stumbled as men kept coming inside were ready to smack him with their heavy rods.

"This is just too much now..." Jin muttered as he glanced at his cousin and Dongmei.