"Brother Yaoting!" Ye Mei called Wandong. Seeing Ma Yi leaving with his underlings, Ye Mei finally felt relieved. She could no longer withstand the grievance she suffered from the Qinglong Gang. She let out an agonized cry and rushed into Wandong's arms regardless of others present.
Wandong didn't expect Ye Mei could have behaved in such a zealous manner. After he came back to himself, Ye Mei's plump, fragrant and innocent body was already in his arms.
"Mei!" Ye Ling yelled in a shocked tone on seeing that. She glared at Ye Mei with a full-on alert.
Leng Yuecui looked away with her eyebrows knitted, looking displeased. Somehow, she felt jealous of seeing Wandong and Ye Mei being so intimate.
Wandong soon came back to his senses and patted lightly on Ye Mei's back. He soothed her, "Little sister, I'm so sorry about my delayed arrival. I feel for your suffering."
On hearing that, Ye Ling's vigilance vanished forthwith. Compounded with the way Wandong looked at Ye Mei, one could tell that he only took her as a young sister.
As everyone knows, interpersonal relations were rather mysterious — if you treated the other party with sincerity, you would definitely look at him with earnestness. It was exactly how it was between Wandong and Ye Ling. Wandong's manifest reliability was reassuring to Ye Ling. Even Leng Yuecui turned back and unfolded her knitted eyebrows.
As Ye Mei calmed down, she noticed the impropriety of her behavior. She stepped out of Wandong's arms, head downcast.
"Sister, let me introduce you two to each other. This is my brother Yaoting, who I have brought up times without number. Without him, Xiu Wei would have... I didn't expect that Brother Yaoting came to your rescue today right after he saved me yesterday. Sister, isn't him our Gabriel the Angel?" Ye Mei said, beaming radiantly.
Ye Ling looked at Wandong with gratitude. If he hadn't arrived in time, she would have been carried off to Han Shiqi's place. She even dared not paint a picture of what would have come after that.
"That goes without saying! Childe Xu, you saved all of us. Please accept my courtesy!" Ye Ling said and made a graceful courtesy forthwith.
Ye Ling was such a bouncing beauty that even her posture was overwhelmingly mesmerizing.
"Sister Ye Ling, please stand up," Wandong hastened to say. Seeing Ye Ling making a courtesy, Wandong felt tempted to help her up. However, considering the required prudent reserve between men and women, he could only signal Leng Yuecui to do that for him.
Although Wandong did that by nature, Leng Yuecui was completely blown away by his demeanor of a perfect gentleman. Her admiration for him increased thereafter.
One could not have appeared so considerate if he had been ignorant of manners. There was indeed a shortcut to an outstanding martial capacity, but civilization and chivalry called for years of cultivation. It was surprising that Wandong could be so gentile while having an air of authority about him. Thinking of that, Leng Yuecui got immersed in an indescribable jubilance as if she had obtained a piece of hard-won treasure.
She hastened to help up Ye Ling with undisguised joy.
"I concede that you saved all of us. However, we won't spare you if you dare to take the liberties with Ye Mei," Yue Zhong said, coming into the store with Yue Zhong's help. It was supposed that he should have extended gratitude to Wandong instead of offering such an abrupt warning. It was rather offensive.
"You..." Wu Yang was about to justify Wandong on hearing that out of indignation when Wandong waved his hand to stop him.
Being unprovoked, Wandong said in a composed tone, "I, Xu Yaoting swear that I don't have any bad ulterior motives for Ye Mei Sister. Otherwise, a calamity will befall me for my sin."
"Yuezhong, enough is enough. I have full faith in Wandong's personality. His eyes wouldn't be so sincere if he were a bad guy," Ye Ling said to Yue Zhong in a somewhat displeased tone.
Taking no notice of their conversation, Leng Yuecui looked Wandong in his eyes subconsciously. She got smitten by him right away. Wandong's eyes were so clear and upright that she felt as if she could have dived straight into them.