Chapter 43

When Fu Siyao arrived and saw this, she was furious. Fu Qingshu was out so late without even bringing a bodyguard. If something really happened because she was so careless, it would be too late for regrets.

By the time she arrived, she discovered that several thugs had already barged into Fu Qingshu's private room. At the door, a handsome young man was locked in a tense standoff with several other thugs.

"I'm warning you, pretty boy. Stay out of this."

"Hand over the chicks inside. If we're in a good mood, we might let you off. Otherwise, don't blame us for getting rough."

The thuggish men were about to rush forward and grab them. The young women behind Fu Qingshu screamed in fright. Gu Yubai turned to reassure them, saying gently, "Don't be afraid. With me here, they won't dare do anything to you."

"Waaah... save us!"

"Don't let them in..."

"Please!"

Several girls' frantic sobs and cries rang out inside the private room. It was a miserable scene. To fend off the thugs at the door earlier, they had thrown cups, plates, food scraps, and all sorts of other things onto the floor.

For a moment, everything descended into chaos. Outside, many ordinary bar patrons had gathered to watch.

Coldly enough, apart from Gu Yubai, not a single person offered the girls a helping hand.

They had all retreated a long way away to watch.

So at that moment, Fu Qingshu and her friends were utterly isolated and helpless. Gu Yubai was the only person who could save them.

Gu Yubai sneered at the thugs.

"Come at me, all of you. What kind of men pick on women?"

He had gone to great lengths to prepare a birthday gift for Wu Songshan, only to draw water with a bamboo basket and come away empty-handed. The Fu Family had snatched an important business partner away through opportunistic tricks. He was deeply frustrated and wanted to vent, and these thugs happened to make convenient targets.

If Ruoning had been with him, things would not have gotten so bad that he had to drown his sorrows at a bar. But Ruoning had joined a production and was filming now, leaving him alone tonight. He had come to the bar for some entertainment, never expecting to encounter something like this.

Just as he was about to step in and do the right thing, a group of well-trained strangers in black suits suddenly rushed out of the crowd. Before anyone could react, they moved swiftly with a clear objective.

Before the thugs even had a chance to strike, the man in black leading the group threw an incredibly swift, fierce punch, immediately leaving one blond-haired thug unable to fight back.

Then, as though it were a signal, someone in the surrounding bar suddenly screamed.

Both groups reacted and instantly began fighting in earnest.

But however fierce the scene looked, the whole thing was nothing more than a merciless crushing.

Against well-trained former special forces soldiers, the thugs did not even have a chance to strike.

Within a few moves, they had all lost the ability to resist and were humiliatingly restrained by the black-clad bodyguards, forced to their knees on the floor.

Then an exceptionally gentle-looking, beautiful woman emerged from the crowd, a stunning beauty whose graceful, serene air made people look twice.

Fu Siyao regarded the disreputable-looking thugs with cold eyes.

But the one who truly left her frustrated at her failure to do better was her own younger sister.

"Xiaoshu, come here."

The panic had yet to fade from Fu Qingshu's face. Seeing that her sister had finally arrived, she breathed a complete sigh of relief.

Thank goodness my sister got here. We're safe now.

But she was a little nervous facing her eldest sister, afraid she would blame her for what had happened today.

In fact, she felt terribly guilty and thought that being out drinking in the middle of the night had been very inappropriate.

Fu Siyao was seething. She snapped at Fu Qingshu, "Qingshu, you're old enough now. Don't you have any sense of what you should and shouldn't do? And even if you were going to stay out all night, you didn't have a single bodyguard with you. What on earth were you thinking?"

The moment she received Fu Qingshu's text, she had felt that something was very wrong. There were serious problems with this whole affair. Fu Qingshu had been celebrating a birthday with friends, drinking at a bar in the middle of the night without a single bodyguard beside her, all because her friends said having bodyguards around felt restrictive and kept them from enjoying themselves to the fullest.

So these willful young ladies had agreed not to bring any bodyguards, made excuses, and sneaked out to enjoy themselves freely. Then they had been harassed by thugs and nearly taken advantage of.

Fu Siyao was so angry that she really wanted to give Fu Qingshu a proper scolding and make sure she learned her lesson this time. But now was not the time. Dealing with those thugs was the most urgent matter.

Those thugs had actually dared to harass a daughter of the Fu Family. Their audacity knew no bounds. If they were not taught a brutal lesson today, people really would think the Fu Family was easy to bully.

After suffering a setback over the marriage alliance last time, Fu Siyao no longer adhered to etiquette and restraint as she once had. She now felt that many things could not simply be endured. Whatever happened had to be dealt with like a thunderbolt, or she could easily be the one to suffer.

She turned and ordered the bodyguards, referring to the thugs, "Beat them. Slap their faces."

Hearing the order, the bodyguards began slapping the thugs without hesitation, their movements fierce and swift, showing no mercy.

Smack, smack, smack, smack! The sound of slaps immediately rang out all around.

Every slap carried vicious force, landing on the thugs' faces and making them scream without pause.

Some bodyguards even struck with alternating hands, beating the thugs until they cried for their fathers and cursed their mothers, tears and snot streaming down their faces.

For a time, screams and slaps rang out incessantly. It was quite a lively scene.

Even the onlookers felt their faces ache, to say nothing of how much pain those actually being slapped were in.

Fu Qingshu also sucked in a cold breath at the sight, staring blankly, unable to recover her senses.

This was the scene that greeted Fu Huaiyan and his wife, Su Wanqiao, when they hurried over.

They saw the Fu Family's bodyguards restraining one of the thugs and slapping him furiously with both hands, their movements so fast they almost left afterimages.