Amid a chorus of miserable shrieks, Jin Peng was sent flying by a kick, crashing into seven or eight hoodlums and knocking them all down.
Having kicked Jin Peng away, Ye Huan grabbed a nearby chair and charged into the mob of thugs like a tiger plunging into a flock of sheep!
"My god, this butcher is actually this powerful!"
Watching Ye Huan wield the chair like an unstoppable divine general, every single one of his strikes leaving a hoodlum with a split skull or shattered bones, someone cried out in shock.
"Taking on fifty people by himself—is this butcher even human?"
"This is too insane. Young Master Su's bodyguards are completely incomparable to this butcher."
"No wonder it only took him a little over half an hour to torture Xiang Yingxin into that state. With a man like this, let alone Xiang Yingxin, even I couldn't handle it."
"This is a lesson for us: never, ever provoke a butcher in the future. Whether it's killing cows, sheep, donkeys—anyone in the slaughtering trade must not be messed with. In their eyes, humans are no different from the livestock under their blades."
Listening to the surrounding chatter, Lin Xi thought to herself that once tonight's events got out, no one would ever dare provoke him again.
Yet she suddenly noticed many of the girls looking at her with strange expressions.
Unable to help herself, she asked the girl next to her, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
The girl said with a look of pure admiration, "Lin Xi, your physical stamina is truly incredible. That butcher spent just over half an hour putting Xiang Yingxin through the wringer, and you're completely fine."
Lin Xi's face turned as dark as charcoal instantly: "We didn't sleep together!"
"Then you'd better get ready to walk while holding onto the walls, and stock up on some swelling-reduction medicine at home," the girl warned.
Lin Xi: "……"
At that moment, Lin Xi couldn't help wondering: since Ye Huan had taken advantage of her for free before, why hadn't she ended up in as miserable a state as Xiang Yingxin? *Bah, bah, bah, what on earth am I rambling about in my head?*
By now, Ye Huan had already knocked down all fifty hoodlums. Not a single one was in one piece; either they had broken arms, fractured legs, or split heads bleeding profusely.
Moreover, every single one of them had passed out!
"You—you, exactly what kind of person are you?"
Jin Peng, the only one still conscious, could no longer care about his broken arm and the excruciating pain throughout his body as he stared in terror at Ye Huan, who looked like a descending demon god.
Never in his life had he seen someone so formidable, so savagely brutal.
"A successor to socialism!" Ye Huan replied casually.
Jin Peng: "……"
Lin Xi: "……"
Su Lei and the others: "……"
Paying Jin Peng no further mind, Ye Huan walked over to Shen Huamei, who was still curled up on the ground in a state of spasm. He grabbed her wrist to check her pulse and prepared to help her up.
"Take your filthy hands off me!"
Enduring the spasms in her abdomen, Shen Huamei slapped Ye Huan's hand away.
Ye Huan frowned. This girl really bit the hand that fed her; she couldn't recognize a good heart when she saw one.
At that moment, Lin Xi and the others came running over. Previously, while Shen Huamei was caught in the middle of the battlefield, they hadn't dared approach, but now that all the enemies on the field were unconscious, they finally dared to come close.
"Huamei, I'll take you to the hospital!" Lin Xi said as she helped Shen Huamei up.
"Mm!" Shen Huamei replied through clenched teeth, enduring the sharp pain in her lower abdomen, her face pale as sweat poured off her in sheets.
"No need for the hospital. I'll just give her a few massages and she'll be fine!" Ye Huan said.
The surrounding crowd immediately shot Ye Huan looks that clearly conveyed: *You're just a butcher, what do you know about medicine?*
"You know medicine?" Lin Xi asked in surprise.
Before Ye Huan could answer, Shen Huamei said with disgust, "Take me to the hospital. I absolutely refuse to let a butcher touch my body."
Ye Huan almost couldn't stop himself from slapping Shen Huamei across the face. He said coldly, "Your lower abdomen has suffered heavy trauma, and the blood stasis must be cleared out as soon as possible, otherwise it will affect your fertility. If you go to the hospital now, the doctors will only give you glucose and anti-inflammatory drugs. By the time your pain subsides on its own, it will be too late to clear out the stasis!"
Ye Huan phrased it relatively tactfully, but everyone present understood. Jin Peng had kicked Shen Huamei's lower abdomen three times with all his might, and the importance of that area to a woman went without saying.
Shen Huamei naturally understood this logic as well. If she lost her fertility simply because of her aversion to Ye Huan, she would never be able to become a mother in this lifetime, nor would she ever find a partner she liked—no man would be willing to marry a barren woman.
"Then hurry up and do it!"
Seeing the complex expression on Shen Huamei's face and knowing that Ye Huan's words had frightened her, Lin Xi immediately urged Ye Huan to massage Shen Huamei right away.
At this, Su Lei chimed in with a sarcastic tone, "Talking as if it's all true! Even if it is as you say, if you fail to clear the blood stasis in Shen Huamei's lower abdomen, wouldn't Shen Huamei miss the optimal window for treatment?"
*Slap!*
With a flick of his hand, Ye Huan gave Su Lei a slap across the face: "Say that again and see what happens!"
Frightened, Su Lei shrank his neck and took several steps back, not daring to say another word, though his heart burned with blinding rage. *This detestable slaughterhouse lout actually slapped me in public! I must have my revenge for this!*
"Make her lie flat on her back!"
Seeing that Su Lei had behaved himself, Ye Huan said to Lin Xi and the other girl supporting Shen Huamei.
The two girls immediately and carefully helped Shen Huamei lie down on the ground.
Squatting down, Ye Huan placed his hand over Shen Huamei's lower abdomen and began to massage gently.
Shen Huamei's delicate body trembled; she almost couldn't resist kicking Ye Huan away. Being massaged in that place by this butcher in front of everyone was simply the greatest humiliation of her life.
Yet the very next moment, Shen Huamei suddenly felt Ye Huan's palm grow hot. A wave of warmth coursed through his hand and penetrated into her lower abdomen, instantly filling her entire body with a cozy, comfortable sensation so pleasurable she almost cried out.
Soon, Shen Huamei felt that the pain in her lower abdomen was completely gone, and even the left cheek where she had been slapped no longer hurt at all!
"All done!" Ye Huan stood up and said.
"Done?" Lin Xi asked in a daze, looking at Shen Huamei with nervous concern. "Huamei, do you really not hurt anymore?"
"It doesn't hurt!"
Shen Huamei got up on her own, glared coldly at Ye Huan, and said with disgust, "Don't think that just because you helped me, I'll be grateful to you. I am still against you and Lin Xi being together, and I still maintain that you are not good enough for Lin Xi."
Ye Huan shrugged his shoulders. He had never expected Shen Huamei to be grateful to him in the first place; the only reason he helped her was because he didn't want his and Lin Xi's affairs to ruin Shen Huamei's birthday party and create a rift in the friendship between Lin Xi and Shen Huamei.
"You—you actually know medicine?"
Seeing that Shen Huamei was truly fine, Lin Xi looked at Ye Huan in shock.
Su Lei and the others were also utterly stunned. They simply couldn't believe that a butcher actually knew how to heal people.
"I'm a butcher. I often treat boars, sows, piglets, and the like. People give me the nickname 'The Miraculous Physician of Pipi Pig's House'!" Ye Huan looked at Shen Huamei and said with a smile.
As soon as those words left his mouth, the same single word flashed collectively across everyone's minds... *Veterinarian!*
Shen Huamei felt like she didn't want to live anymore. It was bad enough that her lower abdomen had been massaged by a butcher, but this butcher turned out to be a vet—she had basically been treated like a pig by him!
"Get out of my sight! My birthday party doesn't welcome you!" Shen Huamei roared at Ye Huan after coming to her senses.
"Don't get angry, I'm leaving right now, right now. Anger leads to endocrine disorders, irregular periods, and liver dysfunction, which in turn affects your fertility!" Ye Huan hurriedly soothed.
It would have been better if he hadn't tried to soothe her; with this reassurance, Shen Huamei grew even more furious: "Get out! Get out of here!"
"You got it!"
Ye Huan trotted over, hoisted the half-dead Jin Peng, and walked right out.
At that moment, Xiang Yingxin spread her legs and walked over to Lin Xi with an awkward stride, provoking her: "Lin Xi, your husband is too amazing. I'll be asking him out often from now on; I hope you won't stop me!"
The crowd was instantly astounded. This girl had just been put through the wringer by Ye Huan, yet her words were full of a lingering craving, as if she had grown addicted to it.
Amid a chorus of miserable shrieks, Jin Peng was sent flying by a kick, crashing into seven or eight hoodlums and knocking them all down.
"Ye Huan, how was the experience with Xiang Yingxin?" Lin Xi ignored Xiang Yingxin and asked in a loud voice.
"Very smooth!" Ye Huan answered loudly from the doorway of the bar.
"I authorize you to look for Xiang Yingxin to play often from now on, it's free anyway!" Lin Xi said loudly.
"No problem!"
Ye Huan gave Lin Xi an OK hand gesture, then hauled Jin Peng away and left the bar!
The dialogue between Ye Huan and Lin Xi flew Xiang Yingxin into a rage!
In truth, Xiang Yingxin had never slept with Ye Huan at all. The reason she had ended up in that state was purely because she had danced high-intensity routines for over half an hour and sang for over half an hour—she was simply exhausted!
But other people didn't know that!
And so Xiang Yingxin had wanted to admit in public that she and Lin Xi's husband had a thing. That way, in less than two days, everyone in Pengcheng's upper-class circles would know that Lin Xi's husband was cheating—and doing it right in front of Lin Xi.
By then, Lin Xi would lose all her face and dignity!
Yet those few sentences exchanged between Ye Huan and Lin Xi completely dismantled her entire plan.
Once word of this got out, everyone would assume she had been toyed with by Ye Huan, and furthermore, that Lin Xi herself had instructed Ye Huan to play with her.
Her reputation would be thoroughly dragged through the mud!
After dragging the half-dead Jin Peng out of the bar, Ye Huan called Lin Xi: "Why did Jin Peng send men to grab you at the bar tonight?"
Lin Xi immediately recounted how Jin Jiu had gone to the Lin Group to look for her that afternoon. Hesitating for a moment, she ultimately followed her grandfather's wishes and asked Ye Huan if he had a way to resolve the problem: "Jin Feiyu was arrested, and now you've crippled Jin Peng. Knowing Jin Jiu's personality, he'll definitely launch a crazy retaliation against me. Do you have any way to stop him from coming after me?"
Ye Huan thought for a moment: "I'll go cripple Jin Jiu!"
That was Ye Huan for you; his way of thinking was forever different from everyone else's.
If anyone else encountered trouble like Lin Xi's, they would rack their brains trying to resolve it:
Either run away;
Or pull strings everywhere and beg Jin Jiu to let them off;
Or beef up their security forces.
Ye Huan was something else entirely. When faced with trouble he couldn't solve, his first instinct was simply to eliminate the person who created the trouble.
Lin Xi: "A psychiatric patient's thought process really is different from normal people... Well, make sure you stay safe, I'll wait for you at the bar!"
Ye Huan was speechless. He said he worked in slaughtering, and Lin Xi decided he was a butcher; his brain had issues, and Lin Xi mistook him for a mental patient.
Unbelievable!
"Slaughterhouse man, I advise you to give up any ideas you have about my father, and stop sticking your nose into the feud between the Jin Family and Lin Xi, otherwise you'll die a very ugly death!" Jin Peng, lying half-dead on the ground, said coldly.
"If you knew who I am, you wouldn't be saying this!"
Ye Huan let out a disdainful scoff, kicked Jin Peng unconscious with a casual kick, dragged him to the parking lot, and shoved him into the trunk.
After getting into the car, he rolled down the window and shouted, "Take me to find Jin Jiu!"
Immediately, the Hell Sect's Water and Fire Judges, who had been secretly protecting Ye Huan all along, drove their vehicle out in front to lead the way for him.
Inside the living room of a luxurious villa!
Jin Jiu sat on the sofa with a gloomy expression, a cigar clenched between his teeth, a fierce and ruthless glint flashing intermittently in his eyes.
He was waiting for Lin Xi!
To be precise, he was waiting for Jin Peng to bring Lin Xi to him!
"It's been nearly two hours now, why hasn't Xiao Peng made his move yet?" Jin Jiu checked the time, frowned, and muttered to himself.
The butler at his side worriedly suggested, "Master Nine, could something have happened over on Second Young Master's end?"
"No way!" Jin Jiu said with absolute confidence.
"Xiao Peng took fifty men with him. Catching a woman with no power to truss a chicken isn't difficult at all. I reckon Xiao Peng must have started playing around at the bar; that kid is just too playful."
"Should I call Second Young Master to hurry him up?" the butler asked.
"Mm!" Jin Jiu nodded.
The butler immediately took out his phone and dialed Jin Peng's number. A moment later, a phone ringtone rang from outside the villa.
"Xiao Peng is back!"
Jin Jiu stood up abruptly, picked up the Tang blade resting on the coffee table, drew the sword from its scabbard, and said to the butler, "Go out and welcome them, and hurry up and bring that bitch Lin Xi inside. Tonight, I'm going to carve her up alive myself, piece by piece."
Acknowledging the order, the butler turned to head outside to greet them.
At that exact moment, however, the heavy villa doors were kicked open with immense force, and Jin Peng was tossed inside like a ragdoll.
"Dad, don't let this butcher go! Kill him, kill him..."
Pointing at the approaching Ye Huan, Jin Peng roared in fury.
"This..."
Seeing Jin Peng's wretched state, Jin Jiu and the butler's expressions underwent a drastic change. When they caught sight of Ye Huan walking in behind him, Jin Jiu asked coldly, "Who are you? Did you do this to my son?"
Before Ye Huan could answer, Jin Peng howled at the top of his lungs: "It's him, Dad, he's the one who beat me up! Hurry up and kill him to avenge me!"
Jin Jiu's gaze sharpened, fixing on Ye Huan like a venomous viper as he spoke coldly, "You beat my son, and yet you dare show up here alone? Brat, I, Jin Jiu, have roamed the underground world for so many years, but I've never seen anyone bolder than you, nor anyone more arrogant and unbridled."
"I'm not here to shoot the breeze with you!" Ye Huan said coldly.
"Then what are you here for?" Jin Jiu demanded.
Just as Ye Huan was about to answer, Jin Peng chimed in first: "Dad, he's here to cripple you!"
"Cripple me? Hahahaha..."
Jin Jiu burst into cold laughter, looking at Ye Huan with utter contempt as he declared, "Ever since I stepped foot into the martial world, the number of people who wanted to cripple me has been countless. But those people either got crippled by me or killed by me. Brat, if you want to cripple me, you'll have to see if you even have the ability."
With that, he tossed the Tang blade in his hand to the butler and commanded, "Sever his heel tendons. I don't like the way he's standing while talking to me!"
"Understood!"
The butler caught the Tang blade, looking at Ye Huan with amused playfulness as he said, "Brat, since you dared to come here all by yourself and had the gall to claim you'd cripple Master Nine, you must have a few tricks up your sleeve. I'll give you the first move so nobody can say I was bullying you!"
Watching the butler posture with such an intensely punchable attitude, Ye Huan couldn't muster any fighting spirit at all. He said, "I'm here for Jin Jiu, this has nothing to do with you. I'll give you three seconds to get the hell out of my sight."
"Oh ho, quite the tough guy!" The butler chuckled.
Jin Jiu and Jin Peng also laughed cruelly. They both knew the butler's true capabilities, and for Ye Huan to dare act so full of himself right in front of the butler was simply having a death wish.
"One!" Ye Huan began to count.
"Looking for death!"
Provoked by Ye Huan's arrogance and utter disregard for him, the butler lunged forward at top speed. He didn't even bother using the Tang blade in his hand, opting instead to lash out with a kick aimed straight at Ye Huan's chest.
In the butler's eyes, fighting a pretty boy like Ye Huan already counted as bullying; using a weapon would make it even more unfair.
Moreover, Jin Jiu hadn't told him to kill the guy, so he figured a few bare-handed blows would easily beat Ye Huan into submission, and then he could use the blade to slice his heel tendons!
Facing the butler's powerful kick, Ye Huan offered a cold, dismissive sneer. He sidestepped just enough to dodge it cleanly, and stated:
"Two!"
*Oh?*
Seeing that Ye Huan had actually dodged his kick, the butler was genuinely startled. "Well, I'll be. You actually have a few moves in you, kid."
As he spoke, the foot he used to kick Ye Huan touched the ground, and he smoothly dropped his stance into a sweeping low kick, intending to take Ye Huan's legs out from under him.
"Three!"
Ye Huan counted to three. Instead of dodging the sweep, he lifted one foot and brought it down with pinpoint precision squarely onto the shin of the butler's sweeping leg.
*Crack!*
Accompanied by a hair-raising sound of shattering bone, the butler's lower leg was snapped clean in half by the stomp!
"Ah..."
The butler let out a miserable shriek as his other intact leg bounced backward over a meter away, staring at Ye Huan in profound shock.
He knew all too well how fast his sweeping kick had been; for Ye Huan to land a precise stomp right onto his leg proved beyond a doubt that he had underestimated his opponent. Ye Huan was strong—far stronger than him!
"This..."
Seeing that the butler had not only failed to land a hit on Ye Huan after two consecutive moves, but had instead gotten his leg snapped like a twig, the ferocious smiles finally vanished from the faces of Jin Jiu and Jin Peng.
At the same time, they realized that Ye Huan's strength was easily on par with—or above—the butler's!
*Oh no, we've kicked a steel plate this time...* Jin Jiu thought to himself.
"I gave you a chance, but you didn't cherish it."
Picking up the Tang blade that had dropped to the floor when the butler bounced backward in agony, Ye Huan walked slowly toward him and spoke coldly.
"Don't come any closer..."
Panic seized the butler. Hopping backward frantically on his single good leg, he stammered, "I'm leaving, I'll vanish from your sight right now..."
Right as he said that, his back slammed into the television set—he had run out of room to retreat!
"Take one last look at this world."
Indifferently, Ye Huan swung the executioner's blade in his hand.
Utter terror and regret filled the butler's face before his head rolled across the floor, blood gushing from his severed neck like a fountain.
"Ah..."
Seeing Ye Huan actually kill the butler—and using a method of execution as savage and brutal as decapitation—Jin Jiu and Jin Peng shrieked in horror.
At last, it fully dawned on them that Ye Huan was no ordinary person.
Which ordinary person would dare kill someone, let alone do it with such ruthless, effortless casualness, as if taking lives was something he did every single day?
"Why are there always so many people in this world who think they have too much life to live?"
Holding the bloody blade, Ye Huan looked over at Jin Jiu and asked, "Do you believe now that I have the ability to cripple you?"
*Thud.* Jin Jiu dropped straight to his knees. "Spare my life, spare me! I have money, I have lots of money! As long as you don't kill me, I'll give you however much you want..."
As a seasoned overlord who had dominated the underground world, Jin Jiu understood the art of bending and stretching. When facing someone weaker, he used thunderous means to deal heavy blows; when facing someone stronger, kneeling, begging, and throwing money at them—he would do anything as long as it kept him alive.
"You deserve to die!"
Walking right up to Jin Jiu, Ye Huan raised the butcher's blade high.
Originally, he hadn't planned on taking lives tonight, but since he had already killed the butler, he might as well finish off Jin Jiu as well. Consider it doing a good deed by ridding Pengcheng of this public menace!
"Spare his life!"