"Use a stone," I said calmly from the side.
The burly man only came to his senses after hearing me. He snatched up a stone beside him and brought it down on Zhang Kaifu's head. With a bang, Zhang Kaifu's skull split open, blood splattering all over his face.
The unconscious Zhang Kaifu finally quieted down. The woman knelt on the ground, coughing nonstop, tears and mucus streaming down her face together.
"Qian! Are you all right?!" The burly man patted the woman's back and checked her injuries.
"I'm fine... I clearly drove away... the filthy thing attached to him, but..." The woman shook her head and pulled out a tissue to wipe the mucus and tears from her face, looking unable to believe she had actually failed.
"Brother Tian, if you hadn't reminded her, she would've been dead by now." Yu Xiaoxue sounded somewhat angry. Even though I was the one who had saved her, she hadn't come to thank me first—instead, she had started fixing her makeup. What a ridiculous sight.
I said nothing and watched quietly, but I found it rather amusing inside. Yu Xiaoxue, Yu Xiaoxue, you never even wore makeup back in the village. How would you know how much the beautiful women from the cities cared about their looks? They valued beauty over their lives! They even injected poison into their faces to slim them down. You've never seen that before, have you? The reports about it come out every day. So you can't expect a beauty to come apologize to you with mucus and tears hanging from her nose, can you?
Yu Xiaoxue had no idea what I was thinking, but seeing me smile at her made her blush slightly.
After wiping the mucus and tears from her face and enduring Yu Xiaoxue's