Will he be sentenced to death?

She resisted feebly, but the arm that was being dragged only made her feel excruciating pain and served no other purpose.

She tried hard to pull back, but the man was obviously much stronger than her. Her upper body was dragged forward while her lower body was moving backward. Due to the inconsistent direction of the force, Ji Chen fell down miserably again.

But the man didn't pay any attention. He just kept dragging Ji Chen inside. After Ji Chen fell, she was even more powerless to resist and could only let the man drag her in.

When the man saw that Ji Chen stopped resisting, he exerted even more force. The stones on the ground tore the clothes that were in contact with the ground and then touched the inner layer of her skin. One after another, bloodied gashes were exposed.

"Is there anyone there? Help me!"

Ji Chen shouted with all her strength.

Ji Chen, almost in despair, seemed to have made up her mind to face death. She closed her eyes slightly, expecting a new wave of the smell of blood.

"Whoosh—"

She suddenly opened her eyes and seemed to see a flash of white light in the darkness. The hand that was gripping her released instantly.

Ji Chen turned over and faced the night sky with a few scattered stars. She gasped for breath and tried to prop herself up on the ground to get up. There was a cut on her forehead caused by a stone, and blood flowed down her cheek, making her look extremely pitiful.

There were heavy sounds of fighting coming from the side. Ji Chen slowly stood up, unsteadily, swaying dizzily. By the light of the moon, she seemed to see Li Xuan's figure. Under him was the man who was half-beaten to death, but Li Xuan's fists didn't stop. One heavy punch after another landed on the man.

Ji Chen gasped for breath, shook her head. Her vision, which had just become clear with great difficulty, blurred again, and she fell down heavily.

In her blurred memory, it seemed that someone had rushed over and called her name after she fell, but she couldn't remember anything else. She fell into a deep sleep.

When she woke up again, she was in a single room in a hospital. On the table beside the hospital bed was a silver necklace. Li Xuan was sitting on the chair in front of the hospital bed. His eyes were full of red bloodshot. He should have stayed up all night, but he didn't look tired. Instead, he was constantly on alert, as if the person lying in the hospital bed would disappear if he blinked.

Last night, when he was lying on the bed in the rest room, he smelled a familiar scent, accompanied by a strong smell of blood. Maybe others couldn't smell it at such a distance, but he wasn't human. He was a demon, and a wolf demon at that.

For him, a tiny scent would be infinitely spread and magnified a hundred times when it reached his nose.

He didn't care that much at first, but he was a bit alert in the direction the smell came from. When he was about to close his eyes slightly, a cry for help pierced his heart like a dagger. He suddenly opened his eyes, jumped up, and ran towards the source of the sound.

Then he saw the embarrassed Ji Chen being dragged on the ground. He kicked the man desperately and fought him with all his might.

It seemed that from the first time he saw Ji Chen vaguely in the mountains, he had remembered this person. With her not-strong physique, she had dragged him down the mountain all by herself.

She was clearly a veterinarian but insisted on taking on the job of treating humans to treat him. The hand that had dragged him in the village was warm. The chill of being betrayed by someone close to him was somehow made up for in the eyes of this stranger.

He seemed to have fallen in love with her.

Ji Chen's brow suddenly furrowed, as if she was about to wake up. Li Xuan quickly pressed the call bell.

The doctor said that she only had multiple superficial injuries and a transient shock caused by excessive blood loss, which was why she fainted. But in fact, there was nothing serious, and she could recover after resting for two days.

This explanation didn't ease Li Xuan's heart that was in his throat, but he didn't know what else to say.

Ji Chen woke up and weakly said thank you to Li Xuan. Li Xuan didn't let her say anything more, even though questions kept popping up in his mind.

"Ji Chen, what happened to you?" Tian Yimeng, who rushed in from outside the door, pounced towards the hospital bed. She looked at the person lying on the bed with full concern. The gauze on her head and neck was exposed, allowing Tian Yimeng to see it clearly at a glance.

In fact, there were more wounds under the quilt. That brute had no compassion at all. When Ji Chen was dragged across the sharp stones, she had already been rubbed to pieces. Tian Yimeng held Ji Chen's hand through the quilt. Ji Chen let out a muffled groan, and a drop of cold sweat broke out on her head.

Li Xuan quickly shook off Tian Yimeng's hand. Tian Yimeng also realized that she seemed to have hurt Ji Chen. So she quickly lifted the quilt. Some blood seeped out from Ji Chen's bandaged hand. It wasn't much, but it was enough to be shocking.

"Brute!" Tian Yimeng cursed loudly. What neither of them saw was that Li Xuan beside them clenched his fists, and his veins bulged.

At this time, two men in police uniforms, probably in their thirties or forties, walked up to them and explained to Ji Chen that the man last night was a habitual criminal. He was originally ordered to be arrested by the police last year due to a r*p* incident. After serving his sentence, he had been living in that residential area.

This piece of news made everyone present feel a sense of fear. They didn't dare to think about what the outcome would have been if Li Xuan hadn't rushed over last night.

"How are you going to deal with him?" Li Xuan asked the two policemen in an extremely low and suppressed voice.

The policemen replied helplessly, "According to Article 236 of China's Criminal Law, those who r*p* a woman by violence, coercion or other means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. Whoever has sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 14 shall be deemed to have committed r*p* and shall be given a heavier punishment. The maximum penalty can be the death penalty."

"Will he be sentenced to death?"

"No!"

"Fine."

Li Xuan's voice became more and more stern. Ji Chen frowned when she heard his tone, but after thinking about it, she didn't think it was a big deal, so she didn't think too much about it.

At night, the man in the prison was beaten black and blue and was loudly cursing Li Xuan, uttering all kinds of foul language. The person in charge tried to stop him several times, but it didn't work, so they ignored him.

That night, the bed in the rest room was empty. Li Xuan went alone into the man's prison cell. In this human world, if he wanted to hide, no one could find him. After all, there were many differences between humans and demons, just as Li Xuan could disappear at any time.

The next day, the sun still rose in the east. Today, Ji Chen could be discharged from the hospital and rest at home. Tian Yimeng was packing her luggage beside her.

At the same time, Li Xuan walked up to Ji Chen from outside the door and gently stroked her forehead. "It's all right now!"

"Of course it's all right. She can be discharged from the hospital!" Tian Yimeng answered quickly.

Li Xuan looked at Ji Chen with a doting smile.

Ji Chen felt a bit at a loss. Being stared at by his eyes like that, she always felt strange and a bit embarrassed. So she tried to break the deadlock: "Oh, I haven't eaten anything greasy or spicy for so many days in the hospital. Let's go have hot pot with fried dough sticks now, okay?"

As soon as Ji Chen thought of delicious food, her foodie nature was fully revealed. She looked at Li Xuan with shining eyes. Li Xuan let out a soft sigh. "Okay, I'll do as you say!"

Ji Chen got goosebumps all over her body, stood up, and walked out.

In the prison on the other side, the man's body began to change. He always felt a rush of heat rising, as if it was about to burst out. He asked the person in charge to find a doctor, but nothing abnormal was found.

But that night, the prison staff were all in a state of chaos because no one knew why the man had an episode of spontaneous human combustion.

There had been records of this phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion in sensational news, but no one took it seriously because it didn't conform to common sense after all. All the police officers in the prison were worried about this incident that night, fearing that they might also experience spontaneous human combustion one day.