Pampered by My Ex's Cousin

Chapter 439 - 433: From Now On, Strangers? (4)

Ji Mingyue, standing off to the side, couldn’t bear it and wanted to step forward to stop it, but looking at Ji Anning’s state, she felt guilty. After all, Ji Jingfeng was her nephew, and Anning was her niece-in-law.

Even though she had grown up in the Ji Family, she had no blood relation to them, just a poor, pitiful girl.

With this in mind, she didn’t intervene in Qi Helian beating Jingfeng and instead went to Anning’s side to ask with concern, "Aside from here, are you hurt anywhere else?"

Ji Anning had already calmed down. She gently shook her head at Ji Mingyue, then reached out to touch the place where Bai Guo had bitten her, but suddenly a tense voice halted her movement.

"Don’t touch."

She looked towards the direction the voice had come from and saw Xiang Yiqing coming out of the dining room, carrying a small medical kit and walking briskly towards her.

As he walked, he said, "A bite from teeth needs to be disinfected."

When he reached Ji Anning, he didn’t think twice and handed the kit he was carrying to Ji Mingyue, who was standing idly by, "Hold this."

"Oh," Ji Mingyue said blankly as she reached out to take it, complying in a way that was uncharacteristic for her.

Watching Xiang Yiqing dab medical disinfectant with a cotton swab on Anning’s wound, his actions careful and full of tenderness, she frowned.

Something seemed off...

She looked at Qi Helian again, who had finished dealing with Jingfeng and was tidying up his clothes, with confusion, "Are you two familiar with our Anning?"

How did they know Anning?

And it seemed as if each of them was quite concerned about Anning.

This question left both Xiang Yiqing and Qi Helian momentarily baffled.

In reality, they knew Ji Anning through Ji Chicheng, but they were also aware that the relationship between Ji Chicheng and Ji Anning was not something that could be publicly disclosed, so this question was really challenging for them.

After thinking for a moment, Qi Helian smiled at Ji Mingyue and said, "If I say we’re just being good Samaritans, would you believe that?"

’Ha!’ Ji Mingyue scoffed as if she had heard the funniest joke, her face full of disbelief as she raised her eyebrows at Qi Helian, "Someone as heartless and maniacal as you and my fifth brother would be a good Samaritan?"

Master Qi felt slighted, giving Ji Mingyue a sidelong glance with displeasure but then spoke seriously, "Actually, we both think that your family’s Anning is pretty and is the Goddess we admire."

Goddess we admire... As he said these words, his gaze inadvertently shifted to Ji Anning.

Looking at her delicate, beautiful face, he found that the lie he had just told didn’t seem so untrue.

This isn’t right!

Qi Helian quickly stopped his train of thought, not allowing himself to go any further, then he gave Xiang Yiqing a cocky look and gestured with his eyes, "Doctor Xiang, you agree, right?"

Xiang Yiqing’s mouth twitched slightly, and at this moment, he could only nod, "Mm."

Acknowledging Qi Helian with a nod, he continued to disinfect Ji Anning’s wound.

Violence, after all, tends to draw a crowd, and since the protagonist of the violence was the mega-star Qi Helian, many diners in the restaurant had come out to watch.

They were kept at bay by Qi Helian’s two personal assistants, who didn’t allow them to get close to him.

Qi Helian remained nonchalant, unaffected by the crowd watching him, as he continued to straighten out his clothes that had been messed up in the scuffle with Jingfeng.

However, his comment about "the Goddess we admire" had pushed Ji Anning into the spotlight, and she lowered her head, trying her best to keep out of it.

"Mr. Qi, it’s quite cold here, how about we take Miss Ji and the others to the car," one said.