Chapter 93
Chapter 93
When Ning Xi ignored her, Qiao Xueman instantly flared up. Out of habit, she turned to Sun Yang to complain. “Baby, this woman is bullying me! Hurry up and teach her a lesson for me!”
Sun Yang looked troubled.
He had seen everything that had happened just now.
It had clearly been Qiao Xueman stirring up trouble for no reason. Ning Xi was the one being harassed.
After a moment of hesitation, he said, “Why don’t we just let it go…”
“How can we just let it go? I was bullied, and you won’t even help me!” As Qiao Xueman spoke, tears began falling in big, noisy drops. “Sun Yang, tell me the truth. Do you not like me anymore?
“Did you fall for this woman called Ning Xi? You two are in the same class. You’ve liked her for a long time, haven’t you?”
By now, the lecture hall was already packed.
Qiao Xueman was not speaking quietly, and she quickly drew everyone’s attention.
Seeing two women and one man facing off, plenty of people had already filled in the blanks with a melodramatic love triangle.
“What’s the fight over there about?”
“No idea. I heard the guy cheated or something.”
“Then the girl next to them is the other woman? She looks so pretty and proper. How could she do something like seducing someone else’s boyfriend?”
Hearing the people around them start to gossip, Sun Yang could not help frowning. He said to Qiao Xueman, “There’s nothing between me and Ning Xi. Don’t talk nonsense.”
Qiao Xueman did not believe him. “If there’s nothing between you, why are you taking her side instead of helping me?”
Sun Yang felt helpless.
When had he taken Ning Xi’s side just now?
“Manman, stop being unreasonable.”
“You’re saying I’m being unreasonable?” Seeing that Sun Yang was not standing with her, Qiao Xueman secretly gritted her teeth. She pricked her fingertip, slipped her hand into her bag, and fed the blood to the Mother Gu inside.
On the surface, she was still sobbing pitifully. “You liar. You clearly said before that you would love me forever, but now you’re bullying me for another woman!”
Everyone quietly watched Qiao Xueman throw her tantrum. They had thought Sun Yang would lose patience and leave her behind, especially since he had already seemed faintly annoyed earlier.
But in the next second, everyone saw Sun Yang become a completely different person. His face filled with distress as he pulled Qiao Xueman into his arms and coaxed her gently. “I’m sorry, baby. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have been mean to you.
“Baby, believe me. I only love you. I definitely don’t have anything shady going on with another woman.”
Hearing Sun Yang call her “baby” again and again in public, even calling himself her husband, the onlookers could not help getting goosebumps.
Who knew what had gotten into Sun Yang? A moment ago, he had seemed perfectly normal. Now he looked as if he had lost his mind.
Seeing her control over Sun Yang strengthen again, Qiao Xueman quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
For some reason, the Love Gu’s control over Sun Yang seemed to have been growing weaker recently.
When the two of them had first started dating, under the influence of the Love Gu, Sun Yang would agree to anything she asked for.
Last week, she had taken a liking to a pair of high heels worth more than thirty thousand yuan, and Sun Yang had bought them for her without even blinking.
Even when she argued with other people, Sun Yang had always stood on her side unconditionally.
Yet over the past few days, Sun Yang had been showing more and more of his own will. He no longer blindly obeyed her the way he used to. This made Qiao Xueman uneasy, so she could only feed the Mother Gu with even more blood to strengthen the connection between the Child Gu and the Mother Gu.
“Since you know you were wrong, are you going to do something now that your baby has been bullied?”
Sun Yang answered with absolute certainty. “I am!”
Seeing Sun Yang defend her, Qiao Xueman felt smug, but on the surface she still looked terribly aggrieved as she guided him on. “Since you’re going to do something, what are you planning to do?”
Like a marionette under someone else’s control, Sun Yang said, “Punish her, of course. Hit her. Make the school expel her!”
As Sun Yang spoke, he actually raised his hand to hit Ning Xi.
At the sight, a triumphant smile curved Qiao Xueman’s lips.
Ning Xi braced herself for the blow. But in the next second, Xia Sheng, who had been sitting beside her, stood up and caught Sun Yang’s swinging hand.
There was a crisp crack, and Sun Yang’s wrist bone snapped on the spot.
Ning Xi froze for a moment. Then stars practically burst in her eyes as she looked at Xia Sheng with pure adoration.
Her Sheng’er was so cool!
She had actually crushed someone’s bone with her bare hand!
Sun Yang let out a miserable scream, his mouth falling open on instinct.
Seizing that opening, Xia Sheng pulled out a Talismans slip and stuffed it straight into his mouth.
Almost the instant the Talismans slip entered Sun Yang’s mouth, it flowed like water, turning into a streak of light that slipped down through his throat and vanished without a trace.
Everything happened too quickly. Before anyone else could see what Xia Sheng had done, the previously agitated Sun Yang seemed to calm down in an instant, staring at Xia Sheng in confusion.
“Student Xia?” It took him several seconds before his eyes gradually cleared.
Noticing that Xia Sheng was still holding his hand, his gaze fell on her delicate, pretty face. His cheeks reddened despite himself, and he stammered, “S-Student Xia, men and women should keep a proper distance. What are you doing?”
Sun Yang liked well-behaved girls who were good at studying, and in his eyes, Xia Sheng was exactly that kind of girl.
He had heard that Xia Sheng had been admitted as the provincial top scorer. Not only were her grades excellent, but her personality was good as well.
On top of that, she was beautiful. In truth, quite a few boys at school had secret crushes on her.
When the type of girl he liked suddenly came so close, any normal boy would feel his heart start racing.
Xia Sheng calmly released his hand and said, “Nothing. Class is starting. Sit down and listen.”
Earlier, Sun Yang had only obeyed Qiao Xueman in everything because he had been controlled by the Love Gu.
Now that the Love Gu had lost its effect, the memories from the period when Sun Yang had been controlled had disappeared automatically as well.
With so many people in the classroom, Xia Sheng had no intention of holding Qiao Xueman accountable on the spot.
After all, even if she did nothing, Qiao Xueman would get into trouble on her own before the day was over.
So Xia Sheng let go of Sun Yang’s hand and sat back down.
Sun Yang recalled the soft touch he’d felt on his hand just now, and his heart was still beating a little fast.
Then, all of a sudden, he felt a faint ache in his wrist.
What was going on?
Xia Sheng had only touched his hand. Why did it feel like his wrist had just been broken and then set again?
Before he could figure it out, Qiao Xueman grabbed his arm. “Baby, what’s wrong with you? Didn’t you say you were going to help me get revenge?”
She could tell that Sun Yang had just been moved by Xia Sheng, and her heart instantly filled with unwillingness and resentment.
Sure enough, all these women were vixens. Every single one of them wanted to steal her man!
First Ning Xi, and now Xia Sheng. These women really were all shameless sluts!
But compared with her resentment toward Xia Sheng, Qiao Xueman felt even more panic at that moment.
Before, she had been able to vaguely sense the movements of the Gu worm inside Sun Yang. But now, that thing seemed dead. She could no longer feel any connection to the Gu worm at all.
Combined with Sun Yang’s strange attitude, she grew even more worried that something had gone wrong with the Gu worm.
But very quickly, she rejected the thought herself.
The ancient book her grandmother had left behind said that the Love Gu was undying and indestructible. Unless the person it had been planted in died, the Gu worm inside him could not possibly perish.
Sun Yang was alive and well right now, so how could anything have happened to her Gu worm?
Besides, Xia Sheng had only grabbed Sun Yang’s wrist just now. It wasn’t like Xia Sheng was some immortal. How could she possibly have destroyed her Gu worm so easily?