C10 Officer This Is the Power of a Family!

Caught in a difficult situation, Yunhua was no match for Chu Jiuge, and not wanting to disgrace his family, Xiao Jing'an had only one choice...

"You win!" Xiao Jing'an forced the words out, each one sounding like it was squeezed through clenched teeth. "Miss Chu, I apologize. I was out of line today, and I misspoke earlier. Please, be the bigger person and don't hold it against me."

For Xiao Jing'an, apologizing was almost unbearable, worse than anything else. But the threat from Chu Jiuge was even more daunting, so he chose the lesser of two evils and apologized.

"If you'd done this earlier, we wouldn't have had a problem," Chu Jiuge said. Though she didn't hold any deep-seated respect for the powerful families, she understood their influence and had no desire to make enemies. She just wanted to protect herself.

As soon as Xiao Jing'an apologized, Chu Jiuge released him. "Little Young Master, you..."

"Seize her!" Xiao Jing'an ordered the nearby officers the moment he was free. The officers hesitated briefly before moving in to capture Chu Jiuge.

"Xiao Jing'an, you broke your word," Chu Jiuge's expression changed as she quickly dodged.

She knew that people from influential families prided themselves on their integrity and would never go back on their word so blatantly, at least not publicly. She had overestimated him.

"Don't worry, Miss Chu. The Xiao family won't trouble you, but I can't speak for others," Xiao Jing'an said with a sly smile, touching his neck.

Think you can outsmart him? Chu Jiuge was still too green.

If he didn't teach Chu Jiuge a lesson today, others might think the Xiao family was easy to push around.

"Fine, I admit defeat." Clearly, she had been outmaneuvered, but she blamed herself for being too naive.

Chu Jiuge stopped talking as more officers arrived. Using her agility, she barely managed to evade them, but she couldn't break through their encirclement.

Chu Jiuge wanted to intervene several times but held back, knowing these were government officials, and she dared not act recklessly. As the officials' attacks grew more aggressive, Chu Jiuge dodged awkwardly, growing increasingly frustrated. "I almost got my face slashed by Yuen Yunhua earlier, and where were you then? Now you're following her orders to take me down? Are you government soldiers or just lackeys for the powerful families?"

"You offended Miss Yuen and Little Young Master Xiao. You deserve to die for that," one official sneered, his spear grazing Chu Jiuge's arm.

Chu Jiuge felt a sharp pain and looked to see a patch of skin missing from her arm.

"Miss Chu, surrender now, or if we accidentally kill you, it'll be for nothing," the official threatened, jabbing his spear at her, each strike aimed at a vital spot.

Chu Jiuge's attempts to evade became increasingly desperate, her body accumulating several scrapes and bruises.

The onlookers stood by, not a single person stepping forward, as if Chu Jiuge and her group were blocking their path. They stood quietly, pretending not to see anything.

Who were they kidding? This young lady from the Chu family had publicly taken the Xiao family's Little Young Master hostage. It was a wonder the Xiao family hadn't skinned her alive. What more could she expect?

A young man in white, descending from a nearby teahouse, glanced at Chu Jiuge, who was being besieged and dodging clumsily. He then looked up at the teahouse not far away, chuckled, and...

...took an old man with white hair hostage and walked off.

As for Chu Jiuge's fate? Please, if her future husband wasn't concerned, why should a passerby care?