Beauty Chairwoman’s Bodyguard Expert

21: Chapter 20 Recollection 21: Chapter 20 Recollection Lu Tianxing watched Rose walking towards him, his eyes carrying a trace of reminiscence as he slowly recalled the first time they had met.

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It was a night a year ago, the darkness as thick as ink, at midnight during winter, and the street was already very deserted.

The dim yellow light that lit the road seemed to bring a chill.

Suddenly, a burst of noisy voices broke the silence of the night.

A disheveled figure stumbled out from an alley; she was dressed in black leather, looking like a sprite of the night, except that she was in total disarray with a slice across her lower abdomen, from which blood seeped out between her fingers as she clutched the wound.

She staggered out of the alley, and behind her, more than a dozen men in black suits, wielding machetes, relentlessly pursued her.

“Miss, there’s no use running; you can’t escape.

The master said it’s time to send you on your way today.”

A deep voice rang out behind the woman, and a pebble, swift as lightning, cut through the air and struck the woman’s knee.

The woman groaned, stumbled, and fell heavily to the ground, unable to get up immediately as she watched her pursuers catching up to her.

“Miss is indeed worthy of her title, a tiger does not father a lamb.

With a father like the master, a hero, your strength indeed is fearsome, Miss.

With just a dagger, you killed more than ten of our brothers and broke out of the encirclement, truly admirable.”

The burly man leading spoke in an extremely cold voice, “It’s a pity, Miss, that you are destined to die today.

The master said the mistress is lonely down below and ordered us to send you to join her.”

“Cang Lang, you ungrateful creature, I never wronged you, so why did you betray me and join hands with my father against me?”

The woman knew she could not escape and staggered to her feet, showing no fear, her gaze coldly fixed on the man before her.

“Hahaha, Miss, you really are something, calm even in the face of danger.

As a woman, having such temperament is already quite impressive,”

The man called Cang Lang said with a sigh, “Water flows downhill, people climb upwards; this principle you should understand, Miss.

The master offers better benefits than you, Miss.

If I kill you, I will become the leader of the Sky Wolf Hall, so I must apologize to you, Miss.”

“Cang Lang, don’t forget, I am his blood daughter.

He dares to kill even his own daughter, and you are just an outsider.

Aren’t you afraid he might kill you one day?

Don’t you know the nature of the Sky Alliance?

The deeds done enrage both heaven and man, utterly heartless.

Following him, you surely won’t meet a good end, do you think the state will let you go?”

The woman took several deep breaths, knowing she couldn’t escape no matter what, she tried one last time to persuade him.

Unmoved, Cang Lang sneered, “This is where you fall short compared to the master, Miss.

You control the Rose Society, and your power is not inferior to the master.

There’s no saying you couldn’t engulf the Sky Alliance in the future.

But look at what you have become; you allow nothing to be done, nothing to be sold; what are we brothers supposed to live on?

Following the master, we needn’t worry about food and drink and can have any woman we want delivered straight to our beds; why should I lead a miserable life with you?”

“Miss, before you die, let me give you a piece of advice: in your next life, don’t be so stubborn.

If you don’t engage in prostitution, gambling, and drugs, others will.

We came out to hustle for money, to enjoy the good life, not to follow some so-called conscience.

What is conscience?

Conscience is just a pile of dogshit—it can’t provide us the good life, can it?

So why keep it?

Alright, Miss, that’s all I have to say, don’t blame me now, kill.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the dozen men in black behind Cang Lang slowly approached the woman, their machetes shimmering coldly in the moonlight.

Just as the woman was about to be hacked to death, a ghost-like voice suddenly appeared, echoing in the darkness.

“Hey buddy, have you no shame?

It’s the first time I’ve heard someone say that conscience is dogshit so brazenly.

Geez, I must be lucky tonight; I run into a stunningly beautiful woman on my way home, oh dear, she’s injured, how pitiful.

If you call me a good brother, I might just save your life.”

The voice was filled with mockery as a figure gradually emerged from the darkness, walked up to the woman, and unceremoniously pinched her cheek, clicking his tongue in admiration.

The woman, who had been waiting to die with her eyes closed, felt a pain on her face and instinctively opened her eyes to see a face filled with a mischievous grin sizing her up, the palpable gaze causing a wave of shyness inside her.

“Young man, who are you?

We from the Sky Alliance are handling our business, and it doesn’t concern you.

Don’t offend someone you can’t afford to offend.”

Cang Lang’s pupils shrank; he hadn’t noticed how this young man had appeared suddenly before them.

“What is the Sky Alliance?”

The young man turned his head with a light smile, “So, you mean I can’t offend you?

Ha, I’ll give you a choice, get lost or die.”

The young man’s voice was very calm, devoid of any trace of liveliness, but when it reached Cang Lang’s ears, it made his body involuntarily shudder, as if a cold wind had swept through, causing him to uncontrollably shiver from head to toe.

“Who exactly are you talking about?”

Cang Lang really disliked this feeling, but he dared not move.

He felt that the man before him was a demon, a Grim Reaper; once he made a move, what awaited him was death.

The young man didn’t answer, but instead turned to the woman with a smile, “Beautiful, I saved your life.

How about a kiss from you as thanks?”

The woman was stunned and looked at the young man dumbfoundedly.

She couldn’t believe that this young man, who suddenly appeared claiming to save her life, actually expected a kiss as his reward.

She didn’t know whether to describe him as naive or too audacious.

“Can you?” the young man asked eagerly.

“Yes…

I can,” the woman stammered, clinching her teeth.

“Kiss your grandpa, kid!

I don’t care what you are, since you like beauties that much, today I’ll send both you and her to the afterlife.

It’ll save you from being lonely on the Naihe Bridge,” Cang Lang exclaimed angrily.

Cang Lang, furious and with an ugly expression, pulled out a gun from his coat and aimed it at the man.

Bang!!

The moment Cang Lang pulled the trigger, the young man suddenly disappeared and reappeared with one hand clutching Cang Lang’s neck, gently exerting pressure.

Crack!

Cang Lang’s head tilted to one side, his eyes wide with disbelief.

He had no idea how his opponent had moved so quickly and had his neck broken.

“I have a peculiar habit; I don’t like people pointing a gun at me.

If someone does, I feel like sending them on their way.

Your boss has gone, now you all can go join him down there,” the young man said.

Before the sound of his voice faded, the man transformed into a fleeting shadow, darting through the darkness.

The sound of bones breaking continuously rang out.

One by one, the men in black were thrown into the air, falling to the ground convulsing a couple of times before life left them.

From a distance, the woman watched this scene with her eyes wide, incredulous at everything that happened.

Those men, thrown onto the ground, convulsed for a few moments then lay still, clearly dead at the hands of the man.

If earlier the man seemed like a naive hero saving a damsel in distress, now he was wholly a Grim Reaper, ruthless in his maneuvers, sparing no one under his hand.

In almost an instant, the man reappeared beside the woman, with bodies lying haphazardly behind him, their chests caved in, dead beyond any doubt.

The young man acted as if he had just done something trivial, dusted off his hands, walked over to the woman, and chuckled, “Beauty, I know I’m handsome, but you don’t need to stare at me like that!

I’ll get shy.”

“Who are you exactly?”

“Some used to call me Judge, but now everyone calls me Lu Tianxing.

What’s your name, beauty?”

“Rose…”

“Rose, heh, nice name.

However, now’s not the time for this, I need to claim my reward.”

Lu Tianxing grinned, and under Rose’s horrified gaze, he planted a fierce kiss on her red lips, claiming his reward.