C17 Chapter 17

Yuen Yunhua felt deeply wronged, and Xiao Jing'an ached for her, but no one had the time or patience to pay them any attention.

The Xie family had nothing to fear from them. With the Xie family backing her, Chu Jiuge had no reason to give them a second glance.

Xie Xuan was having an asthma attack. While taking his medicine, a pill had gotten lodged in his throat, causing him to stop breathing temporarily. Although the pill had been removed, that did not mean he had started breathing again.

Chu Jiuge did not waste time explaining things to the Xie family. She went straight into action and began CPR on Xie Xuan.

“Stop...” The servant instinctively tried to stop her when he saw Chu Jiuge striking Xie Xuan’s chest without hesitation, but the burly man beside him held him back. “Trust Miss Chu.”

Their young master had already stopped breathing. At this point, it did not matter what Chu Jiuge did, as long as she could bring him back.

Of course, if she could not...

Then Chu Jiuge was dead.

CPR was exhausting work for Chu Jiuge, and it also required precision. She could not let anyone else do it for her, so she had to keep going herself, one compression after another.

After several rounds, Chu Jiuge was breathing hard from fatigue, yet Xie Xuan still showed no sign of breathing again. The Xie family was frantic, but no one dared rush her.

In their minds, urging her would do no good anyway. Chu Jiuge had not said their young master was beyond saving, so all they could do was wait...

But Yuen Yunhua would not miss a chance to put Chu Jiuge down. “You said you could save Third Young Master, but I think you’re nothing more than a fraud, using this as an excuse to take advantage of him. Chu Jiuge, Third Young Master may be gone, but his body is not yours to defile. What you’re doing is desecrating his remains. Are you really going to keep him from resting in peace?”

“Shut up!” The one who told Yuen Yunhua to be quiet was not Chu Jiuge, but a member of the Xie family.

Yes, they knew their young master was not breathing, but...

Hadn’t Chu Jiuge said he still had a chance?

And if there was still a chance, then he could still be saved. They were willing to bet on that. But this young lady from the Yuen family kept talking about him as if he were already dead, calling him a corpse at every turn. How were they supposed to stomach that?

“Don’t let Chu Jiuge fool you. This woman is a master at putting on an act. You have no idea how explicit and disgusting the love letter she wrote to Jing'an was. If you saw it, you’d never be taken in by her again.”

The Xie family said nothing. They knew nothing about the matter, and without knowing the facts, they could not make reckless judgments...

But Yuen Yunhua took their silence as belief and went on to repeat the story of how Chu Jiuge had asked Xiao Jing'an to run away with her. Xiao Jing'an tried several times to stop her, but could not, and he felt more than a little uncomfortable.

He might not like—no, he hated—Chu Jiuge, but he had never intended to expose her private actions in front of everyone. It was simply beneath any decent man.

Chu Jiuge performed CPR on Xie Xuan once more and was now basically certain he was out of danger. Hearing Yuen Yunhua’s self-righteous speech, Chu Jiuge smiled.

If someone gives as good as they get, then she had every reason to return the favor. Yuen Yunhua had targeted her again and again. If she didn’t pay her back a little, that just wouldn’t be like Chu Jiuge.

“If you can bring the Third Young Master back to life, I’ll kneel down and apologize to you. But if you—”

“All right, Miss Yuen, watch carefully...” Chu Jiuge cut her off, because there was no need to hear the rest. She was going to save the Third Young Master and make Yuen Yunhua kneel and apologize...