No one could have predicted things would turn out this way.
What started as a farce had suddenly become an attempted murder.
Watching the man clutching a dagger charge toward Consort Li…
Everyone present was stunned.
By the time they snapped back to reality, the man was less than five meters away from Consort Li!
At that distance, he only needed to stretch out his arm and take two more steps.
He could plunge that dagger right into Consort Li’s chest!
“Ah!!!”
Someone, unable to watch the bloody scene, screamed and shut their eyes tight.
Others wanted to rush over to help.
But sadly, they were simply too far away from Consort Li.
Their hearts were willing, but their bodies couldn’t make it in time!
“It’s over!”
This thought involuntarily rose in everyone’s mind.
But just at that moment.
“Excuse me.”
A low voice came from behind.
And then, without waiting for anyone to react, they felt a forceful gust of wind streak past them.
It was so fast that all anyone saw was a black shadow flash by ahead.
And then—
“Roar!”
A tiger’s roar suddenly erupted.
The sound was powerful and commanding, shaking everyone to their core.
The black shadow appeared in front of Consort Li, a large palm like the lightning mirror of the thunder goddess.
In a flash, that one palm seized the man’s wrist.
A reverse twist of the hand, the palm becoming a lock, as internal energy surged.
“Ah!”
A blood-curdling scream echoed through the shopping mall.
Hearing this, people finally reacted and stared intently.
They discovered that, at some point, a handsome man in a black trench coat had appeared in front of Consort Li.
And the man with the dagger, who had tried to assassinate Consort Li…
He was now subdued, kneeling on the ground, his wrist twisted at a grotesque angle, his face contorted in agony!
“What’s this…”
Seeing this, people murmured in surprise, puzzled expressions on their faces.
What had just happened?
How had everything changed in the blink of an eye?
And when did this man show up? Who was he?
Many questions surfaced in their minds, leaving them baffled.
As they were thinking this…
Consort Li, having just narrowly escaped death, came back to her senses.
What met her eyes was Jiang Nian’s flawless profile.
That cold expression paired with that incredibly commanding posture…
Under the dazzling lights, it was like a divine soldier descending from heaven, searing itself deeply into Consort Li’s mind.
It made her involuntarily lose focus for a moment.
“Are you alright?”
Noticing Consort Li looking at him, Jiang Nian turned his head slightly and asked.
At the sound of his voice, Consort Li’s pupils refocused.
A strange feeling of coyness rose in her heart. She pursed her lips and said quietly, “I-I’m fine.”
“Mm, good.”
Jiang Nian responded, then shifted his gaze to the man he had subdued, kneeling on the ground.
The man’s wrist was shattered.
Yet he still hadn’t given up struggling, his venomous glare fixed on Jiang Nian and Consort Li.
It looked as if he wanted to flay them alive and devour their flesh.
“So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is!”
“I was wondering why Wanwan had a change of heart. Turns out it was you, you dog of a man, seducing her!”
“May you die a terrible death! I’ll kill you, kill you both!”
Seeing his crazed expression, Jiang Nian’s look turned a bit odd.
Even when he had been watching from the sidelines earlier, he’d felt this man was not quite right.
Now, seeing him like this again…
Jiang Nian couldn’t help but look at Consort Li and tap his own head. “Is there something… wrong with him up here?”
Consort Li glanced at the man, then nodded. “Pretty much.”
She then proceeded to tell Jiang Nian the whole backstory between her and this man.
Upon learning it all stemmed from a single necklace…
Jiang Nian laughed.
He looked at the man, his face full of mockery.
“Come on, man. I was thinking there was some complicated, twisted story between you two.”
“So in the end, it’s just a goblin’s self-delusion?”
“Don’t talk yet. Let me guess.”
“Back when you were in school, not a single girl in class was willing to speak to you, right? And your status was rock bottom; everyone looked down on you.”
“That made you incredibly insecure. You didn’t dare, and didn’t even know how, to talk to girls.”
“Then one day, a girl took pity on you, exchanged a few words with you out of kindness, and you immediately started fantasizing, thinking she was into you.”
“After that, you relentlessly harassed her, repaying kindness with malice, isn’t that right?”
Jiang Nian spoke with undisguised sarcasm and contempt in his voice.
The man’s face flushed beet red, veins bulging on his forehead. He roared hysterically, “I’m not like that, I never did! You’re spouting nonsense!”
Hearing this, Jiang Nian ignored him.
He just grinned at Consort Li. “See? That’s classic—he’s been exposed, hit a nerve, and now he’s panicking.”
Then he looked back at the man. “I mean, you’ve just started your little performance and you can’t handle it already? A grown man like you can’t be this fragile, can you?”
“You… you…”
Listening to Jiang Nian’s taunting words…
The man’s eyes bulged with rage.
He wanted to retort, but sheer fury choked him, leaving him unable to utter a word.
In the end, he couldn’t catch his breath, his eyes rolled back, and he promptly passed out cold right there.
Seeing this…
The entire scene went silent.
The onlookers stared at Jiang Nian with stunned expressions, and then quietly stepped back to put distance between him and themselves!
Couldn’t mess with him.
Truly couldn’t afford to mess with him!
Holy crap, not only did he have incredible martial prowess, able to appear before Consort Li in an instant and single-handedly subdue the knife-wielding man…
But his tongue was this venomous too!
Good grief. Every single word was aimed straight at the heart, designed to wound!
For a moment, a saying surfaced in the minds of many.
“A martial artist isn’t scary—unless he’s got smarts.”
They murmured among themselves:
“Damn, isn’t this guy too awesome? He literally scolded someone into unconsciousness?”
“Awesome, totally awesome. This dude’s a pure dual-spec warrior!”
“If you can’t understand plain words, then I happen to know some fisticuffs. And if you happen to know fisticuffs, well, I also dabble in the art of language.”
“Dude, aren’t you just too evil? How’s anyone supposed to play this game without a nerf?”
“Whether he can play or not, I don’t know. But this guy… um… since he’s out cold, should we call 120 for him?”
“Might as well. Don’t let him die right in front of me; it’d be bad luck.”
“…”
After some discussion, the onlookers ultimately decided to call an ambulance for the man, hoping he wouldn’t just die there.
As for Jiang Nian, he was a bit dumbfounded that the man had actually just passed out like that.
Originally, he only wanted to mock and gross the guy out a bit, to vent some spleen on Consort Li’s behalf and earn some goodwill.
But looking at it now… had he somehow messed himself over instead?
A question for the experts: if you accidentally talk someone to death while acting in self-defense, is that considered excessive force?
Asking online, and it’s pretty urgent!
