Proud Goddess Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 154 - 154 153 Reunited with Sister-in-law_1

154: Chapter 153: Reunited with Sister-in-law_1 154: Chapter 153: Reunited with Sister-in-law_1 The beautiful lady was frightened and quickly stepped back several paces.

Seeing this, the maidservant pulled the beautiful lady behind her and glared at Lu Chuan, shouting, “Are you sick?

Do you realize you scared our miss?”

She turned her head to the four bodyguards and yelled, “What are you standing there for?

Hurry up and get rid of this lunatic!”

The four bodyguards immediately surrounded Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan was anxious in his heart and with just a release of his Qi, he sent the four bodyguards tumbling to the ground.

Then, pushing the maidservant aside, he got close to the beautiful lady again and said, “Sorry, I was too anxious just now.

Please tell me the name of the person you said you wanted to save.

I want to confirm whether I heard it wrong.”

The maidservant was dumbfounded, never expecting this unremarkable looking man to be so formidable, toppling the four bodyguards in an instant.

What was most important was that she didn’t even see Lu Chuan make a move, which made her doubt her own eyes.

Could it be his speed was too fast for me to see?

The beautiful lady was also shocked, but Lu Chuan’s sudden softening of his tone made her less afraid.

She replied, “The name is…

Mu Nanqing.”

Lu Chuan’s heart skipped a beat, and his eyes filled with even more urgency.

His sister-in-law’s name wasn’t a common one, and the chances of a duplicate were extremely low.

He never imagined he’d hear his sister-in-law’s name here.

He then asked, “Do you have a photo?”

The beautiful lady nodded, took out her phone, and scrolled to a photo.

After Lu Chuan confirmed that the photo was indeed of his sister-in-law, he said with a somewhat panicked expression, “This person is my sister-in-law.

Take me to her; I have a way to save her.”

The beautiful lady’s eyes lit up, “Really?”

Lu Chuan nodded earnestly.

The beautiful lady said urgently, “We mustn’t delay; let’s hurry back.”

The maidservant by her side clearly held a great deal of dissatisfaction towards Lu Chuan, but bound by the strength he had demonstrated, she dared not say more.

The group immediately headed down the mountain.

On the way, Lu Chuan learned that the beautiful lady was named Wang Shiya, a young lady from a second-tier family in Spring Water City of Jiangnan Province.

According to what Wang Shiya said, Mu Nanqing had come to Spring Water City with Su Ming, and the two had been planning to lay low there for a while.

Along the way, Su Ming got to know Wang Shiya, and the two hit it off, developing admiration and affection for each other.

Wang Shiya provided much assistance to Su Ming and Mu Nanqing, and Su Ming reciprocated with sincere feelings.

Hearing this, Lu Chuan frowned.

Knowing Su Ming, he felt Miss Wang might have been taken advantage of.

It was very likely that Su Ming got to know Wang Shiya to gain some conveniences in Spring Water City.

Originally, their lives were peaceful, but one day, when Mu Nanqing went to the market because of her exceptional beauty and charm, she caught the eye of a well-known local tyrant in Spring Water City, Hong Wu.

Hong Wu, the local tyrant of Spring Water City, had an astonishing power base and was himself extremely formidable, known as a Transcendent Realm skillful expert, feared by all.

He had his subordinates take away Mu Nanqing.

Su Ming, who was nearby, naturally wouldn’t agree and a fight broke out between the two sides.

Su Ming injured several of Hong Wu’s men.

When Hong Wu saw that Su Ming was no ordinary fighter, he personally took action.

Su Ming was no match and fled with Mu Nanqing.

During the escape, Mu Nanqing was seriously injured and fell unconscious.

Out of necessity, Su Ming took her to the Wang family’s place for refuge.

But Hong Wu still found them.

Seeing that Mu Nanqing was seriously injured and unconscious, unable to fulfill his desires, Hong Wu, in a fit of rage, captured Su Ming and threw him into the Misty Rain Theater.

The Misty Rain Theater was an entertainment venue owned by Hong Wu, catering to the wealthy for amusement.

There was a life-and-death arena where Hong Wu demanded that Su Ming win one thousand fights to be allowed to leave.

By now, Su Ming had fought nine hundred and ninety-eight consecutive battles in the arena, even gaining fame in Spring Water City, with countless people watching his battles every day, all with one purpose – to see when Su Ming would lose.

To make money, Hong Wu arranged ten battles for Su Ming every day.

Other than taking time to eat and replenish his strength, Su Ming was always in a state of combat.

Although his strength as a Grade 9 Grandmaster ranked him as a skilled fighter in the martial arts world, the opponents found by Hong Wu were not his equals.

However, the high intensity of the battles left Su Ming covered in wounds.

After more than nine hundred battles, he was on the verge of collapse.

One of his arms was also broken during the fights.

Hong Wu stated that he would arrange a powerful opponent for Su Ming’s nine hundred and ninety-ninth battle.

Everyone speculated that this would be the end of Su Ming’s winning streak, and that he himself would die in this fight.

This battle was set to take place tonight.

After hearing Wang Shiya’s story, Lu Chuan felt a rage climbing to its peak.

He had thought that as long as Su Ming took Mu Nanqing away from Cloud City, they would be safe, yet they had encountered such an incident.

Clearly, this Hong Wu had made it onto Lu Chuan’s blacklist.

By the time the group arrived at Spring Water City, it was already the afternoon.

Wang Shiya led Lu Chuan to the Wang family villa.

After entering, she hesitated for a moment and said, “Wait here for a bit; I’ll arrange some things.

Then I will take you to save Sister Nanqing.”

Lu Chuan nodded.

Wang Shiya left for a while and then returned to Lu Chuan, saying, “Let’s go upstairs.”

Lu Chuan followed Wang Shiya up to the second floor and entered a bedroom.

His expression turned incredibly agitated when he saw that it was indeed Mu Nanqing lying unconscious on the bed.

He hurried over to check her condition.

Only after confirming that Mu Nanqing was not in any critical danger did he quietly breathe a sigh of relief.

However, a hint of confusion arose in his heart.

Wang Shiya had said that Mu Nanqing was unconscious due to serious injuries, but after taking her pulse, he didn’t find any injuries.

Judging by Mu Nanqing’s appearance, she seemed more likely to have been poisoned into unconsciousness.

“Lu Chuan, don’t just stand there.

Didn’t you say you had a way to save Sister Nanqing?

Hurry and treat her,” Wang Shiya urged.

Lu Chuan didn’t give it another thought and turned to Wang Shiya, saying, “Get me some silver needles.”

Wang Shiya immediately did as told and brought Lu Chuan the silver needles.

After assessing the poison within Mu Nanqing, Lu Chuan determined that the toxin was somewhat unique; it seemed designed only to keep a person unconscious, but without a specific antidote, even the most skilled medical practitioner couldn’t wake her.

Of course, that was the case only for others.

As a practitioner himself, it was still quite easy for Lu Chuan to neutralize such a petty poison.

He performed acupuncture, inserting silver needles one by one into Mu Nanqing’s body.

Half an hour later.

Lu Chuan withdrew all the silver needles, then looked over at Mu Nanqing’s face.

Mu Nanqing slowly opened her eyes, which were full of bewilderment.

The first thing she saw was Lu Chuan, and she murmured to herself, “Xiaochuan… am I dreaming?”

Seeing Mu Nanqing awaken, Lu Chuan relaxed and a smile crossed his face as he said, “Sister-in-law, you’re not dreaming, it’s really me.”

Mu Nanqing lifted a hand and caressed Lu Chuan’s cheek, then upon confirming he was real, she immediately got up and embraced him, and began to cry.

“Xiaochuan, it’s good that you’re alright.

I was so worried; I thought I would never see you again in this lifetime, wuu wuu wuu…”

Lu Chuan wrapped his arms around her, saying, “Sister-in-law, what are you talking about?

Didn’t I come to find you?”

The two embraced tightly, with Lu Chuan letting Mu Nanqing release all her pent-up emotions.

Seeing that Mu Nanqing had truly awakened, Wang Shiya also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, giving a maid a glance that seemed to issue an order.

The maid nodded and left the room.

After a while, Mu Nanqing’s emotions settled, and she finally separated from Lu Chuan.

She was terrified when she learned that Long Tianya and others were hunting Lu Chuan, but now that she saw he was unharmed, she could relax.

Lu Chuan looked at Mu Nanqing and asked, “Sister-in-law, weren’t you injured?

But when I examined you just now, you had no issues except for being poisoned.

What’s going on?”

Mu Nanqing looked puzzled and said, “I wasn’t injured.”

Lu Chuan’s brow furrowed.

That’s when Wang Shiya spoke indifferently, “Saying she was injured and unconscious was a lie I told.

She fell into a coma after ingesting a poisoned pill, and it was Su Ming who fed it to her.”

Lu Chuan’s confusion deepened, and he faintly sensed a change in Wang Shiya’s attitude, now with clearly more hostility.

“What is going on here?

Why did you lie to me?”

Wang Shiya sighed and said, “Actually, Sister Nanqing was well protected during Hong Wu’s assassination attempts and wasn’t harmed.

Later, when the two of them took refuge in my house and Hong Wu showed up, Su Ming knew he couldn’t defeat Hong Wu.

Even if he fought to the death, he wouldn’t be able to stop Hong Wu from taking Sister Nanqing away.”

“So, he thought of a way, feeding Sister Nanqing a poison pill that would only induce coma.

The antidote is known only to him.”

“Seeing Sister Nanqing comatose, like a lifeless body just breathing, naturally Hong Wu lost interest.

He pressured Su Ming to tell him where the antidote was, but Su Ming refused to divulge anything and was consequently taken to Misty Rain Theater.”

“Hong Wu promised Su Ming that if he handed over the antidote, he would be let go, but Su Ming didn’t say a word no matter what, enduring over nine hundred battles.”

“I went to Misty Rain Theater every day to see him; you can’t imagine how miserable he is now.

I like him and can’t bear to see him suffer like this…”

“So you tried every means to wake up my sister-in-law to exchange her for Su Ming?” Lu Chuan’s suspicion was instantly clarified, and his gaze turned icy.

Wang Shiya looked at Lu Chuan and, though pained, boldly admitted, “That’s right.

Although I know Su Ming would rather die than not protect Sister Nanqing, I think it’s not worth it.

You should be able to understand, for the sake of someone I love, my choice, right?”

No sooner had she finished speaking than a series of footsteps echoed from the hallway outside.

A group of bodyguards dressed in black suits arrived at the room’s entrance.

These bodyguards were far more powerful than the four Wang Shiya had previously engaged, with many among them even having reached the Grandmaster Realm.

Wang Shiya’s gaze fell on Lu Chuan as she said, “Hand over Sister Nanqing to me, or I’ll have to take some extreme measures!”