Translator: Henyee Editor: Henyee

After Tang Xi and Qiao Liang had walked for a while, she was suddenly carried up by Qiao Liang. She subconsciously put her arms around his neck and looked at him. Qiao Liang lowered his eyes at her, then at her bleeding foot, and his eyes became filled with rage. “You’d better behave yourself.”

Tang Xi tamely stayed in his arms and gave a low chuckle. “I never dare to not behave myself around you.”

Qiao Liang glared at her again. If she had behaved herself, she would not have been injured!

Qiao Liang warned, “Tang Xi, let me tell you for the last time. Don’t get injured, or else I don’t know what crazy things I’ll do!” He hugged the soaked Tang Xi, not caring whether his clothes would become wet, and continued in a deep voice, “If you want to take revenge and find out who murdered you, I can help you, but you can’t get yourself hurt. Understand?”

Tang Xi paused to raise an eyebrow before looking at Qiao Liang and then she smiled, but her eyes were icy. She stared at Qiao Liang as, in a harsh tone, she said, “Qiao Liang, we’re together because I love you, but I hope to solve my things on my own. You can’t make a decision for me. If you can’t do this, I’ll leave you!”

Qiao Liang suddenly stopped walking and the air around him turned cold as if surrounded by a storm. Qiao Liang looked furiously at Tang Xi and uttered seriously, “Say that again!”

Tang Xi raised her chin to shoot a cold and resolute look at Qiao Liang, as if the man she was facing was not the one she loved but an enemy in business. She said coldly, “I said, if you want to keep me like a canary in a cage, I’ll do everything I can to get away from you, even at the expense of my life!”

Her words thoroughly angered Qiao Liang and his emotions erupted like a storm. He stood there holding Tang Xi as he looked at Tang Xi with a sneer. “I must be crazy to…”

His words were forced into his throat by Tang Xi’s sudden kiss. His anger immediately dissipated and was replaced by surprise and shock. Tang Xi still had her arms around his neck, but the expression on her face was no longer as harsh and cold as a moment ago. Wearing a gentle smile, she said, “Ah Liang, I would also like to stand at the top of the pyramid, looking down at the common herd with you, rather than to stand below and be looking up at you. Can you understand me?”

Qiao Liang felt his heart jolt sharply. “Just because of this?”

Tang Xi nodded. “Yes. You know my former identity is completely different from my present one. In the past, all the big shots in the world would have bowed to me even if I were to just lay at home, but now it’s totally different. I’ve become someone even a little assistant would dare to bully. If I only hide behind you, won’t I become trash?”

Qiao Liang cast a deep gaze at Tang Xi, but didn’t say anything in the end. He took Tang Xi to the lounge and put her down on a sofa, following which he went to find clothes for her. After Tang Xi came out of the dressing room, he found a first-aid kit and began to dress the wounds on her feet.

Thinking of how Qiao Liang hadn’t thrown her to the ground but still held her tightly despite being furious moments before, Tang Xi couldn’t help but smile. She reached out to touch his face with a sweet smile. “Ah Liang, I know you’re very busy. You don’t have to stay by my side every day. I’m an adult and I won’t get lost…”

“Yes, you will.” With that said, Qiao Liang lowered his head to continue dressing her wound.

Tang Xi was stunned at his words… Did he mean that he had already lost her once, so he wouldn’t lose her again?

Tang Xi suddenly felt sad…

At that moment, the door of the lounge was pushed open and Tang Xi looked up only to see Ning Yan, He Wanning and the Xiao brothers come in. Tang Xi raised an eyebrow, while Qiao Liang continued to still treat her wound as if nobody was watching. Xiao Jing took a look at Tang Xi, who nodded at him with a smile, and then he said, “We’ve found it. Xiao Jinning bribed a male assistant of Ning Yan’s company to victimize the model who took her endorsement contract. She didn’t know the model was you.”

“It’s her?” Tang Xi was slightly surprised. She hadn’t met Xiao Jinning for a long time. Even when the real and fake daughter matter was exposed, she hadn’t meet her. To her surprise, Xiao Jinning was once again the one behind this incident.

Ning Yan covered his mouth with a fist and coughed awkwardly before sending an apologetic look at Tang Xi. “It’s my fault. If I were more vigilant, this wouldn’t have happened. The assistant has been fired. As for Xiao Jinning, I’ll sue her after getting the confession and money transfer record from the assistant.”

Tang Xi smiled and nodded. “Okay, sorry for troubling you.”

Ning Yan waved his hand. “It’s my fault, so I’m obliged to handle it.” Looking at her wound that had been wrapped up by Qiao Liang, he raised an eyebrow. “But I’d like to advise you that Xiao Jinning is a bane and you’d better get rid of her as soon as possible.”

Tang Xi nodded and was about to speak when Yang Jingxian called her. Tang Xi answered the phone. Hearing Yang Jingxian’s words on the phone, she scowled and jumped up. “I see. I’ll be right there.”

Xiao Sa and Xiao Jing looked at her at the same time. “What’s up?”

Tang Xi frowned and replied solemnly, “Aunt was injured. Her mom pushed her down the stairs.”

“What!” Xiao Jing and Xiao Sa were shocked. “Pushed her down the stairs?!”

Qiao Liang looked at Tang Xi with a frown, saying, “I’ll send you there.” Then he bent down to take up Tang Xi and went outside.

Tang Xi checked her cell phone only to find many unanswered calls from Yang Jingxian. The accident should have happened a long time ago.

Xiao Jing and Xiao Sa wanted to leave too. They told He Wanning to call them if there was any problem and then left.

Seeing them leave in a hurry, Ning Yan tutted and shook his head. “I didn’t expect the Xiao Family to be so messy.” He clicked his tongue and said, “What surprises me even more is that Qiao Liang is willing to get involved in such a messy family.”

He thought Qiao Liang would always be the kind of man who wasn’t interested in women, but from the moment Xiao Rou fell into the water, he knew that Qiao Liang had fallen for this little girl who had stolen his heart.

After Qiao Liang carried Tang Xi down the mountain, they got on the car and Xiao Sa drove directly to the hospital.

It didn’t take them long to reach the hospital, as Xiao Sa was racing along the way. As soon as they entered the hospital, something suddenly occurred to Tang Xi and she stopped her steps.