C17 Chapter 17

Yuan Yunhua felt deeply wronged, and Xiao Jing'an's heart ached for her, but no one had the time or patience to care.

The Xie family wasn't afraid of them. With the Xie family backing her, Chu Jiuge had no reason to give them a second thought.

Xie Xuan was having an asthma attack. He had choked on a pill while taking his medicine and stopped breathing for a moment. Even though the pill had already been removed, that didn't mean he would automatically start breathing again.

Chu Jiuge didn't bother explaining much to the Xie family. She acted at once and began performing CPR on Xie Xuan.

“Stop...” Seeing Chu Jiuge striking Xie Xuan's chest without hesitation, the young servant instinctively tried to stop her, but the burly man beside him held him back. “Trust Miss Chu.”

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

Of course, if she couldn't...

Chu Jiuge would be dead for sure.

For Chu Jiuge, CPR was exhausting work, and it also required skill. She couldn't hand it off to anyone else and could only keep going herself, one compression after another.

After several rounds, Chu Jiuge was breathing a little hard from exhaustion, but Xie Xuan still showed no sign of breathing again. The Xie family was anxious, but they didn't dare rush her.

In their eyes, rushing her would do no good anyway. Chu Jiuge hadn't said their young master was beyond saving, so all they could do was wait...

But Yuan Yunhua wasn't about to miss a chance to tear Chu Jiuge down. “You keep saying you can save Third Young Master, but I think you're nothing but a fraud, using this as an excuse to take advantage of him. Chu Jiuge, even if Third Young Master has passed, his body is not yours to defile. What you're doing is desecrating him. You're making sure he can't even rest in peace.”

“Shut up!” The one telling Yuan Yunhua to be quiet wasn't Chu Jiuge, but a member of the Xie family.

Yes, they knew their young master had stopped breathing, but...

Hadn't Chu Jiuge said there was still hope?

As long as there was hope, it meant their young master could still be saved. They were willing to take that chance, but this Miss Yuan kept saying he had passed and calling him a corpse.

“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.” Yuen Yunhua was beside herself with rage. Ignoring Xiao Jing’an’s attempts to stop her, she once again brought up the love letter Chu Jiuge had written to him.

The Xie family said nothing. They knew nothing about the matter, and without knowing the facts, they could not make careless 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 he couldn’t, and he felt deeply uncomfortable.

He might not like Chu Jiuge—no, he outright hated her—but he had never thought of exposing her private behavior in public. That was beneath any decent man.

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

When someone gives as good as they get, it’s only fair. Yuen Yunhua had targeted her again and again. If she didn’t return the favor, that would hardly be like Chu Jiuge.

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

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