Chapter 89: Do You Really Want to Die?

Ye Yaoyao’s careless, devil-may-care manner only made Shen Yan boil with rage.

He had thought that damned woman actually cared about him.

And in the end?

Had he been the one indulging in wishful thinking?

With a dark face, Shen Yan pulled out his phone and scanned the code, transferring two hundred thousand over at once.

When Ye Yaoyao saw the amount, a smile she could not quite suppress curved her lips.

Good. Excellent.

She liked men like Shen Yan best, men with money to burn.

Seeing the smile on her face only made Shen Yan angrier.

That damned woman.

...

At the Shen Group, Shen Sheng sat at his desk, steadily handling the company’s internal affairs.

After a busy stretch, he leaned back in his chair and looked around.

At last, he had taken the seat he had longed for all this time.

This seat had always belonged to him.

But that was still not enough.

Over the years, Shen Yan had gained so much from this position, and he meant to take it back piece by piece.

Then his thoughts turned, unbidden, to what had happened at the apartment yesterday.

Ye Yaoyao...

Of course, he was not truly that interested in the woman herself. The reason he pursued her without giving up was simple: first, he could tell Shen Yan had genuinely fallen for Ye Yaoyao; second, he knew that woman was not nearly as simple as she appeared online.

Ye Yaoyao was no ordinary woman. Her background and identity were both far from simple.

If he could gain her help, Shen Sheng believed everything would go far more smoothly.

Unfortunately, that little minx did not know how to appreciate kindness and refused to accept the favor. Since that was the case, she should not blame him for turning ruthless.

...

Ye Yaoyao was busy at the Ye Group when she suddenly received news that Ye Qian had been in an accident.

Without a word, she grabbed her keys and left, making a call to Feng Yuqi on the way.

By the time Ye Yaoyao arrived, Ye Qian had just come out of the warehouse, clutching his abdomen.

When he saw her, he froze. "Yaoyao? Why are you here? Go!"

In that brief moment, the people behind him caught up and raised an iron rod, ready to smash it down on Ye Qian.

Ye Yaoyao’s expression turned cold. She lifted her foot and kicked the man hard to the ground.

Taking one look at Ye Qian’s condition, the fire in her chest burned even fiercer.

How utterly despicable!

Had all those warnings before been for nothing?

With Ye Qian there, Ye Yaoyao should not have exposed herself, but she could not bear it any longer.

"Yaoyao!"

Ye Qian cried out in alarm, watching as she strode toward the crowd, afraid she would get hurt.

Yet what he saw next was Ye Yaoyao moving with dazzling skill, taking on a whole group by herself with ease.

Compared with her, Ye Qian suddenly felt far too weak.

His younger sister could face a crowd alone, so how could he...

"Ah..."

More and more people poured out. Ye Yaoyao’s strength began to falter, and in that brief lapse of concentration, someone struck her. Her body lurched hard downward.

Just as she was about to reach her limit, Shen Yan arrived with Feng Yuqi.

The two of them took over for Ye Yaoyao and wrestled with the group.

Freed for the moment, Ye Yaoyao rushed to Ye Qian’s side and helped him up.

"Brother, are you all right?"

"I’m fine. What about you? Are you hurt?"

After Ye Qian asked in concern, his voice turned guilty. "Yaoyao, this is all my fault. I’m useless. I couldn’t protect you..."

"We still haven’t found out what happened. Maybe they were after me."

Ye Yaoyao soothed him. "I’ll take you to the hospital first. Come on."

Shen Yan and Feng Yuqi had already dealt with the remaining men. Shen Yan came over and saw Ye Yaoyao helping Ye Qian to his feet. The worry in her eyes was plain to see, and his feelings became a tangled mess.

Was that woman really that concerned about the Ye family?

Feng Yuqi stood obediently behind them, sneaking glances at Ye Yaoyao from time to time.

Their boss was hurt!

Ye Qian looked up and met Shen Yan’s eyes. The atmosphere changed at once.

Was this the insolent little brat who had wasted Yaoyao’s youth and made her suffer so much?

Thinking of that, Ye Qian almost instinctively moved toward Shen Yan, but Ye Yaoyao caught hold of him.

She shook her head at him. "The injuries on you matter more."

"Fine."

Then he would let that brat off for now.

The Ye siblings went to the hospital to have their wounds treated.

Ye Yaoyao had suffered a cut; it was not severe, but it did require stitches.

By contrast, Ye Qian’s condition was much worse. He had lost too much blood and needed a transfusion.

After Ye Yaoyao had her wound dressed, she waited outside. Her lips were trembling slightly, and she was deeply worried.

All the way here, Ye Qian had been forcing himself to stay conscious.

But in the end, as he got out of the car, he still collapsed on the spot.

Ye Yaoyao was afraid something would happen to him.

Shen Yan watched her stricken, lost expression and wanted to ask about her relationship with Ye Qian. But seeing how worried she was, he could only hold himself back.

Ye Yaoyao’s heart remained suspended in anxiety until the light above the emergency room finally went out and the doctor came out to say that Ye Qian had passed the danger period.

"Good. It’s good that he’s all right..." Ye Yaoyao murmured to herself.

The next second, Shen Yan pulled her up, and the two of them walked to the end of the corridor.

"Ye Yaoyao, what exactly is your relationship with Ye Qian? You were willing to risk your life for him?" Shen Yan finally could not hold back.

"What do you think?"

Ye Yaoyao had a headache and did not want to tangle with him over this. "I’m not in the mood to talk about this now."

With that, she turned to leave, only for Shen Yan to draw her back into his arms again.

He held her tightly. She struggled, but Ye Qian was injured now, and she truly had no heart for any tender, romantic nonsense with Shen Yan here.

"Ye Yaoyao, can you please stop having so many men around you?" Shen Yan said in a muffled voice.

He was almost being driven mad.

One Ye Shen had not been enough, and now there was Ye Qian too?

No matter who it was, Shen Yan could not accept Ye Yaoyao weaving in and out of the lives of so many men.

Ye Yaoyao shuddered violently. She did not know if it was her imagination, but she seemed to hear a note of pleading in Shen Yan’s voice.

Was this man...

She let out a breath. "Shen Yan, Ye Qian and I are not what you think."

Shen Yan’s first instinct was to press for details and find out exactly what they were to each other, but in the end he only said, "That’s good."

Ye Qian had nearly died from blood loss.

When Ye Shen heard about it, his first reaction was only bewilderment. But when he saw that Ye Qian had woken up, he immediately sneered, "A life as tough as cockroach shit. So you’re not dead yet."

"Exactly. You want the little sister all to yourself? In your dreams!"

Ye Yaoyao watched the two of them bantering, but she could not smile. Instead, bitterness rose in her heart.

For matters like Ye Qian’s, it was inevitable that he would have to walk along the edge of the abyss.

But for the sake of the family’s stability, there was no giving it up.

"Yaoyao, I heard you were at the scene? How could you have been there?" Ye Shen looked over at her.

In such a dangerous place, how could Yaoyao have gone there?

That question made Ye Qian think of Ye Yaoyao’s heroic figure as she had single-handedly beaten an entire group to the ground.

Ye Qian was also curious why Yaoyao had been there, and why she possessed such remarkable skills.

But all of that depended on Ye Shen knowing nothing.

"I was originally going to message you, but I sent it to the wrong person."

Ye Qian stepped in to smooth things over. "I’ll be more careful next time."

The next second, Ye Shen shot him a murderous look. "Have you really grown tired of living? You sent her a message?"