Chapter 3: The Empress’s Inner Demon (Part 1)

“You little brat, you’re quite lucky.”

The leader was a fat man with a face full of flesh. He swaggered over arrogantly.

“If you’re not dead, then you still owe us protection money for these past few days. You better pay up.”

“Oh, how come there’s an extra person? This little girl is really beautiful.”

The fat man surveyed the room and noticed Ning Wuxie, who had just been awakened from his sleep and was now on high alert.

“Double the protection money for the extra person! Can you afford it?!”

The fat man waved his fist and threatened Ning Wuxie with a sneer.

“No, I’m moving out tomorrow,” Ning Wuxie said coldly.

“Moving out?”

But when the fat man heard this, his eyes widened.

“You think you don’t have to pay if you move out?!”

“This house was given to you by our Black Tiger Gang as charity. Are you rejecting it?”

The fat man became more and more excited, his ugly face twitching with anger.

“If you want to move out, you still have to pay! And you have to pay us years of care and respect!”

“A total of ten taels, not a penny less! Can you take it out?”

As he listened to the fat man’s arrogant scolding, Ning Wuxie’s eyes gradually turned cold, and his face darkened.

“No.”

“Hmph, then get out and raise the money! As for this little girl, I’ll take her back to take care of her…”

As the fat man changed the direction of his words, he leered at Ningxuan lying on the bed and licked his lips.

Saying that, he ignored Ning Wuxie and moved towards Ningxuan!

“Ah! Brother!” Ningxuan immediately burst into tears, her face full of fear. She hurriedly moved backward and curled up on the bed.

And as Ningxuan’s cries rang out, Ning Wuxie’s fist also clenched.

The fat man completely underestimated him and stood beside him, ready to attack!

Ning Wuxie’s fist struck like a venomous snake, swift and powerful, fiercely colliding with the fat man’s fleshy face.

Bang!

The fat man, weighing over two hundred catties, was sent flying and crashed into the thin wooden wall. The whole room shook, and dust fell!

“Ah?!” The other two lackeys were dumbfounded.

Before they could react and rush to beat Ning Wuxie, they were frozen in place by his gaze.

“Wang, are you really going to take this girl?” One of the lackeys trembled as he looked at Ning Wuxie in fear.

Even the man himself was like this. How could this young man dare to attack?

Wang couldn’t bear it anymore and opened his big mouth to roar: “I said take her!”

“Yes!” The two thugs quickly squeezed past him and clumsily dragged Wang out of the door.

“You wait for me!”

Ning Wuxie watched them leave. From outside the door came Wang’s muffled voice.

Mere mortals can be killed or not killed; he just didn’t want Ningxuan to see too much bloodshed.

Anyway, tonight he would take Xuan’er and leave this disgusting place.

He turned around towards Xuan’er on the bed, wanting to comfort her a little bit.

But he found that Xuan’er had shrunk herself into a corner, hugging her knees tightly with tears streaming down her face.

“What’s wrong with you, Xuan’er?”

Ning Wuxie quickly went up and hugged her, pulling her into his arms.

But Xuan’er just silently shed tears, as if she had been greatly stimulated, just like when her grandfather was cremated last night.

Ning Wuxie held her, wiping away her tears and comforting her for a while.

Xuan’er finally sobbed and told him the reason for her crying.

It turned out that a few days ago, Xuan’er’s grandfather was beaten to death by these people from the Black Tiger Gang!

The fat man who had just come to find Ning Wuxie was one of the culprits.

Ning Wuxie held Xuan’er close to him, pressing his face against hers, letting her hold onto him tightly.

In his past life, he often wondered what Jiang Ningxuan had experienced to eventually become an enemy of the righteous path and embark on a bloody path.

Now that Ning Wuxie understood, her grandfather’s death at the hands of ordinary gangsters must have been an important part of her transformation on the path of darkness!

It could even be said that it was not enough to call it an inner demon.

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