Chapter 54 I Guaranteed Her
"Ye Fan, why did you come back? Didn't I tell you to run away quickly?"
Seeing Ye Fan holding a stack of banknotes and smiling at her, Zhuang Jingwen's matured face was filled with surprise.
Ye Fan grinned and said, "Sister Jingwen, you've taken good care of me over the years, even during trouble, you insisted I go first. Now that you're in trouble, I can't just stand by and watch!"
Just now, when Zhuang Jingwen had told him to leave, Ye Fan didn't refuse. He figured that even if these people came looking for trouble, they wouldn't resort to using knives.
However, he was wrong. To Ye Fan's surprise, under the lead of Xiang Tianba, the boss of the Eastern Suburb Gray Zone, they actually intended to chop down Zhuang Jingwen.
If it weren't for Ye Fan's timely intervention, Zhuang Jingwen's head might have already been chopped off by Xiang Tianba.
"Ye Fan, they're numerous and strong, don't worry about me, just run!" Zhuang Jingwen urged anxiously.
Xiang Tianlong had clearly come prepared, bringing with him no less than sixty to seventy people. Even if Ye Fan knew martial arts, he probably wouldn't stand a chance against a crowd.
"There is a road to heaven yet you refuse to take it, no door to hell yet you burden yourself into it! Kid, I spared you just now, but to think you're still so ignorant of life and death to come back. What? Do you want to play the hero saving the beauty?" Xiang Tianba sneered coldly.
Facing Xiang Tianba's sneer, Ye Fan pointed at Zhuang Jingwen and said, "Her, I hold my ground! If you don't want bloodshed, immediately take your men and get lost!"
"Ye Fan!"
Hearing that, Zhuang Jingwen's beautiful eyes widened. A warm current rose in her heart, and she was moved.
Ye Fan had been following her for several years; she knew him too well. In her mind, aside from being hardworking and capable, Ye Fan was quite dull. He hardly managed to smooth things over when guests caused trouble.
Zhuang Jingwen never imagined that Ye Fan would undergo such a dramatic change in character. For some reason, as soon as Ye Fan's words fell, Zhuang Jingwen actually felt a sense of security, as if Ye Fan would protect her and ensure her safety this evening, leading her safely out of this encirclement.
"This is killing me, boss, this kid actually wants to play the hero saving the beauty, I think he's probably had his brains kicked in by a donkey," a man known as Monkey mocked.
Xiang Tianba was also amused, "Kid, do you know that playing the hero to save the beauty comes at a price? Monkey, take your men and chop him down!"
"Yes, boss!" Monkey gave a wicked smile, waved his hand, and led a dozen men charging towards Ye Fan.
"Chop him dead!"
Monkey clenched the cleaver in his hand tightly while the gang of riff-raffs also raised their cleavers, aiming to chop down onto Ye Fan.
Zhuang Jingwen's face turned pale; she feared that Ye Fan would be chopped to death by Monkey and his men, "Xiang Tianba, you're after me, Ye Fan is just an outsider. Let him go. If you let Ye Fan go, you can kill or maim me as you please!"
"Miss, now I am the knife, and you are the fish; what right do you have to bargain with me?" Xiang Tianba said disdainfully.
"Ye Fan, run away!"
Realizing that Xiang Tianba intended to kill Ye Fan, Zhuang Jingwen didn't want Ye Fan to be foolhardy and she shouted urgently.
"This ignorant kid, daring to meddle in business that's not his, deserves more than death!" Xiang Tianba said with contempt.
He was the boss of the Gray Zone in the Eastern Suburb of Central Plains. Normally, no one dared to provoke him, not even the Noble Clans and Powerful Families within the Central Plains would get any face from him if he was displeased.
An insignificant Ye Fan dared to meddle in affairs, wasn't this simply asking for a longer life?
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—whoosh—
Just as everyone thought Ye Fan was about to be chopped to death, Ye Fan swiftly flicked tens of banknotes out.
Under Ye Fan's control, those hundred-yuan notes were even sharper than blades, slashing straight at the thighs of Monkey and his men like it was aiming for the heart of the problem.
Before Monkey and his dozen men could get close to Ye Fan, they felt pain in their thighs and fell headlong to the ground.
Monkey and the others instinctively looked at their thighs, only to see a bloody gash on each of their thighs where the banknotes had sliced them, their trousers already soaked red with blood.
Seeing this, Monkey cried out in pain, "Boss, there's something off about this kid!"
"Dammit, to lay a hand on my men, I'll flay you alive, brothers, all of you, attack, kill him!" Xiang Tianba was immediately enraged on the spot.
He had roamed the Central Plains with his gang with impunity, hardly anyone daring to provoke him. Xiang Tianba had not expected that tonight, even with his personal attendance, someone would not give him face and would strike at his men.
"Kill him, avenge Monkey and the others!"
Xiang Tianba's fifty or so followers were all infuriated, one after another, they charged towards Ye Fan like ferocious demons.
As the crowd of more than fifty people surged towards him, Ye Fan flicked the banknotes in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, dozens more were struck in the thigh and heavily fell to the ground.
Xiang Tianba was nearing explosion with rage, he screamed like mad, "Kill him, kill him for me!"
"Kid, die!" Shouted one of the hoodlums as he swung a steel pipe hard towards Ye Fan's head.
Ye Fan sneered, "Want to kill me? With you misfits?"
He slightly tilted his body, dodging the steel pipe, and with his right foot, he kicked heavily into the chin of the hoodlum, who howled, clutching his chin and falling to the ground on his behind, the steel pipe flying out of his hand.
Ye Fan grabbed the steel pipe with his right hand, and as the remaining dozen hoodlums approached, he swept them with a swift swallow-tail move, the steel pipe striking with tremendous force at the gang's knees.
The hoodlums were no match for Ye Fan; they all collapsed with shattered kneecaps on the ground.
"My God!"
At that moment, seeing Ye Fan easily take down Xiang Tianba's gang, Zhuang Jingwen covered her sexy red lips in shock.
She never imagined that the usually dull-looking Ye Fan could be so formidable, even having worked for her for several years. She couldn't help but be reminded of the sweeping monks from the television dramas.
"They've all been taken down? How is that possible?"
Seeing dozens of his men laid low by Ye Fan in the blink of an eye, Xiang Tianba showed a stunned expression, unable to remain calm any longer.
After dealing with the group, Ye Fan, holding the steel pipe, pointed at Xiang Tianba and said, "I'm warning you for the last time, I've decided to protect Sister Jingwen, take your men and disappear from my sight right now!"
"Kid, I didn't think you could fight like this, it's quite a surprise. But do you think I, Xiang Tianba, am a vegetarian?"
Xiang Tianba sneered, his foot stamped on the ground and the fallen machete sprang from the floor into his firm grip.
Clenching the machete, Xiang Tianba said coldly, "Do you know, I have an irreconcilable vendetta with this damn woman? To take revenge, I searched for her for a full ten years!"
"Oh?" Ye Fan was surprised.
Gazing at Xiang Tianba, whose whole body was seething with hatred, Ye Fan looked towards Zhuang Jingwen, unable to comprehend how such a frail woman could have such deep enmity with a Gray Zone boss.
Xiang Tianba glared at Ye Fan viciously, "Let me tell you, I've decided to kill this damned woman tonight; not even Jesus could save her, mark my words!" Read now on m_vl_em_p_yr
"And if you want to live a couple more years, you better get lost! If you dare to interfere again, do you believe I would kill your whole family?"
"Kill my whole family?" Ye Fan's gaze became icy cold.
The next moment, with a chilling gleam in his eyes, Ye Fan said, "For that remark alone, I've not only decided to protect Sister Jingwen, but you also have to go down!"
"Is that so? Since you wish to die, then I shall grant your wish! You little bastard, die!"
Upon hearing Ye Fan's words, Xiang Tianba roared with fury, gripping the machete tightly, he charged at Ye Fan like a tiger descending the mountain.