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Chapter 628 The Peace Rope is Broken (2)_1

Chapter 628: Chapter 628 The Peace Rope is Broken (2)_1

"Jiaojiao, your auntie doesn’t want any candy. What can you give her instead?" After handing over the gift money, Shu Wen teased Ruan Jiaojiao with a smile.

Ruan Jiaojiao immediately gestured for her to come closer, and as soon as Shu Wen leaned in, Ruan Jiaojiao gave her two big kisses. Zhao Li, who was watching, immediately ran over, "Jiaojiao, hurry, give your godmother some too."

Ruan Jiaojiao, smiling, gave Zhao Li two kisses as well, and the three of them played around joyfully.

The last to give gift money was the Yuan Family. Old Lady Yuan arrived, and so did her four sons. Yuan Xiaodong and his grandfather were there, too—each household gave two hundred.

After the feast, the Ruan Family made almost twenty thousand just from gift money.

If anyone had been covertly watching the Ruan Family with envy and thoughts of doing harm before, now all they could feel was envy and dread. The greater the gap, the more impossible it became to bridge, and envy could only turn to admiration. Even if they wanted to cause trouble, they wouldn’t dare.

Ruan Jiaojiao always took a nap at noon. After helping to distribute the candy, she was extremely sleepy. Since it was still too noisy and crowded downstairs, she could only walk upstairs groggily, intending to cuddle with Xiaobai in her room and sleep.

She was walking along the handrail, too sleepy and her mind a blur, rubbing her eyes non-stop and paying no attention to her surroundings. She only sensed that there seemed to be an argument nearby, a wave of shouting after another, making her already dazed mind even more buzzing.

By the time she caught a glimpse of an emerald green glass bottle being smashed toward the third step in front of her out of the corner of her eye, it was too late to dodge; all she could do was instinctively raise her hand to shield her face.

There was a "clang."

The glass bottle shattered, accompanied by her scream.

Shards flew everywhere, one slicing across her forearm. She felt a sharp pain in her arm, and before she could look again, she was already enveloped in someone’s embrace.

"Are you f***ing trying to kill yourself?" Ruan Jie, Ruan Chi, and Lu Xian were just coming down from upstairs and witnessed this scene as they reached the corner.

Ruan Jie and Ruan Chi’s faces turned pale, nearly leaping down. Both tall and burly, they directly jumped over the banister and landed a kick on the guy who threw the bottle, sending him flying under the table.

"Don’t be afraid," Lu Xian held Ruan Jiaojiao, one hand covering her head and tucking it into his chest, the other holding her arm, now cut by the glass bottle. Seeing the red gash on her delicate wrist and the blood oozing out, he found it especially glaring, wishing it were him who’d been injured instead.

"Oh my God, what are you doing? Are you trying to kill someone?" The boy’s mother screamed, anxiously helping her son who had been kicked under the table and couldn’t get up, "You’ve hurt my son, can you afford to compensate? My child..."

"Even if he dies, the Ruan Family can afford it!" Ruan Jie said fiercely. Already fifteen and looking a lot like Ruan Jianguo, his ferocity at that moment was overwhelming, leaving the boy’s mother speechless with fear.

The boy’s mother, recalling the gift money the Ruan Family had just received and recognizing that they were not to be provoked now, dared not say anything further. She just mumbled under her breath, barely audible, as she helped her son, who was already drunk beyond clear consciousness, crawl out from under the table.

Ruan Jianguo and Shu Jiao, who were at the doorway seeing off guests, heard the commotion and hurried over.

Especially Shu Jiao, upon seeing the small pool of blood in front of Ruan Jiaojiao and the Peace Rope that had been cut by the glass shards, felt her right eyelid begin to twitch non-stop.