Chapter 12: Cai Shu
Cai Shu kicked the door open and glared at Lu Yucai with resentment.
Ni Mengxue frowned and instinctively stood in front of Lu Yucai, missing the flicker of surprise in Lu Yucai’s eyes.
"And who the hell are you?"
Cai Shu’s brows furrowed up. How come this bitch had forgotten her?
"Mengxue, don’t tell me you have started to like him! This cripple, a good-for-nothing!"
"If you keep your mouth shut, no one will consider you as mute." Ni Mengxue said coldly, but her mind was processing the memories.
This woman is a middle-aged woman; logically speaking, she shouldn’t have any interest in her husband. Until and unless she has a twisted mind.
"You know what? I won’t argue with you anymore! Just hand over your husband. Otherwise, I would have no choice but to imprison you too!" Cai Shu threatened, her triangular eyes filled with warning.
’Hm? This bastard Lu Yucai looks better? How dare he? I will take him away under the pretext of punishment and drain his heart’s blood! Or maybe I will throw him in between the zombie herd and let him become a crippled zombie? That would be amazing too!’
Ni Mengxue snorted as she finally remembered Cai Shu. A minor character in the novel with no presence and a sole goal of tormenting Lu Yucai to death.
’Is she the reason why my hubby’s life status is inching toward death? Ah... she should be killed then, right?’
With that thought, she walked toward Cai Shu; her calm and collected expression made Cai Shu flinch, and she backed away in terror.
"You... you what are you doing?"
[Cai Shu, the main director of the Women’s Protection Association, hated Lu Yucai at first sight. And the person she hates, she makes sure to eliminate. So, after pulling some schemes, she punished Lu Yucai and eventually drove him to death.]
The line of text repeated in Ni Mengxue’s head as she crackled her fingers and murmured, "Just a few minor characters... no more than mere words dared to take my Yucai away from me? What a joke."
The next second, Ni Mengxue slapped Cai Shu hard, causing the older woman to stumble backward.
"You! How dare you!" Cai Shu shouted, clutching her face.
"You hate my husband." Ni Mengxue murmured as she tied her hair up, "Why? I don’t remember him doing anything offensive."
Lu Yucai’s pupil dilated. Was Ni Mengxue taking a stand for him? But why? Shouldn’t she turn a blind eye?
Slap! The ringing sound of the slap broke Lu Yucai’s daze, and what entered his vision changed his perspective for a lifetime.
Ni Mengxue’s aura had transformed... from indifferent and uncaring straight to unhinged and cold. The killing intent in her eyes was suffocating.
He watched as she repeatedly slapped Cai Shu while ignoring the stares of others.
Ni Mengxue’s mind was calculating how to make Cai Shu’s death accidental.
’Um? Does it matter? I can just give them my first batch of vegetable harvest and get away with it.’
"Help... me..." Cai Shu shouted with all her might. She tried to scratch the bitch’s face, but she was way too strong!
"What the hell is going?" Someone from the crowd whispered.
"I don’t know. Maybe Shu was here to take Yucai away for punishment again, but Mengxue finally felt that something was amiss."
"Crazy! I should have brought some Felin leaves to eat while watching the show!"
"So, should we go and separate them? Cai Shu is bleeding!"
"I won’t interfere! With how things are looking, this crazy bitch might end up killing whoever interfered! As for Cai Shu... how should I put it? She deserves it!"
"Right? Finally, someone voiced my thoughts! This Cai Shu... she often took away my friend’s husband under the pretext of some case and molested them!"
"Everyone knows what she does to innocent young men; only Mengxue was foolish enough to send her husband away."
Even though Cai Shu was influential, due to her lecherous habit, she had many enemies!
Molest? The words rang in Ni Mengxue’s ears like acid, and before she could realize it, her hand loosened around Cai Shu, and she marched up to Lu Yucai.
"She... she..." Air seemed to have been sucked out of her chest, her body trembling from the cold and rage filling her mind.
Her Lu Yucai... was...
"No. She never molested me. " Lu Yucai blurted. He had a feeling that if he didn’t tell the truth... Ni Mengxue might end up killing Cai Shu.
Cai Shu, after coughing violently and regaining her breath, turned to accuse Ni Mengxue, but her words died when she saw the murderous aura around Ni Mengxue.
’Run!’ Her instincts shouted, and she believed it. ’Ni Mengxue! Just you wait! I will personally send you and Lu Yucai to hell!’
The crowd laughed but, at the same time, became wary of her.
The warmth of cold hands around her and the steady thumping of her heart slowly helped Ni Mengxue to regain her rationality.
She lifted her head and asked in an unconscious soft voice, "You weren’t..."
"I was not lying." Lu Yucai lowered his gaze and stared at the woman who seemed to have lost her ill intent. Like a docile rabbit, unaware of the dangers of the world.
He watched her close her eyes and take a deep breath. When she opened her eyes again, she was back to her calm self.
"Let’s eat the fried rice."
"Hm..." Lu Yucai didn’t argue. Today, the food tasted extra delicious. Before, he often felt that it was biting even though it tasted great.
But today?
’There might be no delicacy that can match this meal.’
From then on, whenever Lu Yucai faced a problem that he couldn’t solve, he relied on fried rice. Because for him, it became the hope in his dark world.
After eating breakfast, Lu Yucai suddenly asked,
"I know the answer in my heart, but I will still ask. You are... not the real Ni Mengxue, right?"