Just as Shang Ke Xin and Pu Cang Jie’s gazes were about to part, looking towards Riyako’s direction, they simultaneously saw a car rapidly approaching.
“Riyako!”
Everything happened in an instant. Shang Ke Xin found her hand empty, and then that tall, handsome figure, accompanied by a low and anxious voice, flashed out like lightning.
“No—” Shang Ke Xin heard herself screaming.
Bang!
The car seemed to move in slow motion, hitting the tall body that had just pushed Riyako away. Then, like a lifeless sack, he was hit into mid-air and bounced against a nearby streetlight pole, then falling to the ground.
He did not move at all, the shocking bright red blood slowly spreading… spreading… like a red sea…
“No!” Shang Ke Xin shouted.
There seemed to be others shouting too, but… she didn’t care about anything else… What was he hiding from her? What was he going to tell her? None of that mattered now…
She rushed forward, knelt down wanting to touch Pu Cang Jie, but was suddenly pushed away by a force.
“Don’t touch him! You’re not qualified to touch him! You shameless foreigner!”
Akita Riyako seemed to have gone mad, snatching up Pu Cang Jie, who lay on the ground covered in blood, “The Japanese prince is mine. He is mine! I’ve waited ten years… he is mine!”
Shang Ke Xin stared in shock at Akita Riyako. What was this crazy woman talking about?!
In a daze, she was pushed aside by another tall man, who spoke in Japanese: “Gently put him down! Riyako, don’t move him, you’ll hurt him! I’ve called an ambulance, it’ll be here soon.”
She seemed to have seen this tall man before.
Shang Ke Xin looked blankly at the scene before her.
“Okay… I won’t move, won’t move! This isn’t my fault! Not my fault…” Akita Riyako cried, extremely agitated.
“Riyako, calm down!”
“It’s her! If she hadn’t appeared, this wouldn’t have happened. She has no right… no right at all!”
Riyako’s hand suddenly pointed at her, and Shang Ke Xin took a sharp breath. Her face was covered in blood, Pu Cang Jie’s blood…
“I know! Riyako, calm down. She’s just a friend of the master. Riyako, calm down, put him down.”
