After the divorce, my ex-husband and son lined up to pursue me.

Chapter 98 Escape
Jiangxia must escape; she must leave this hell.

However, the entire villa is guarded by bodyguards 24 hours a day, and there are also guards on duty at the entrance.

Obviously, the doorway is out of the question, so the only option is... climbing through the window.

However, all the sharp and dangerous items upstairs and downstairs had been taken away by Ruan Muhuai's men. Jiang Xia rummaged through the drawers and found a few brand-new bed sheets. At this moment, she didn't care about whether they were expensive or not, and tore them to shreds with a 'rip' sound.

Fortunately, the villa was large and there were no servants watching over them, so the bodyguards downstairs could neither hear nor know what Jiang Xia was doing in the bedroom.

She tore all the bed sheets into strips and then braided them into a long rope.

With one end tied around her waist and the other end fastened to the bed leg in the room, Jiang Xia tried it out briefly and felt it was okay. Without wasting any time, she took advantage of the approaching darkness, decisively opened the window, and climbed out.

It is two stories high and tens of meters above the ground.

She carefully tried not to make a sound, occasionally stepping on the window frame, and slowly moved to the ground without any danger.

She could still faintly hear the bodyguards smoking and chatting. She tiptoed around and looked around... There were guards at the front door, so she definitely couldn't leave. But the back door... there were guards there too!

Just as Jiang Xia was racking his brains in frustration, suddenly!
A clear whistle rang out.

She was suddenly startled, and then she heard a voice say, "Oh ho, you've gotten quite capable!"

The deep voice, tinged with a playful mockery, sounded somewhat familiar…

Jiang Xia looked in surprise in the direction of the sound, and was stunned at first glance.

It was actually Lu Twenty-Three!

Not only did he appear suddenly, but he also walked towards her with his eyebrows raised and a nonchalant air, laughing as he spoke, his voice blatantly undisguised: "Trying to run away? Do you need any help?"

Jiang Xia was stunned: "..."

Her astonished gaze then swept past Lu Niansan, who was walking towards her, and looked around at the several-meter-high courtyard wall and the bodyguards at the front and back gates. How did Lu Niansan get in?
Before they could ask any questions, the alerted bodyguards realized something was wrong and quickly ran towards the two of them.

"Who are you? How did you get in here?!"

"Madam! What brings you out here too?"

The bodyguards were suspicious, but their desire to apprehend the two as quickly as possible outweighed their doubts.

Jiang Xia's heart tightened, and she grabbed Lu Niansan's arm tightly in a panic: "Take me away! Hurry!"

Lu Niansan chuckled and glanced down at her clenched hand: "Are you begging me? If so, shouldn't you... say something nice to me?"

"You..." Jiang Xia gritted her teeth in anger, but her expression suddenly changed as she stared at the bodyguard rushing towards her!

Lu Niansan acted as if nothing had happened and said to her, "Call me 'brother' first, and I'll take you away." The moment his words fell, he suddenly turned around and kicked the bodyguard who was rushing towards him.

He grabbed another bodyguard with his other hand and, as if he were picking up a chick, threw the tall, burly bodyguard into the bushes!

Jiang Xia was stunned.

"Still not yelling? So stubborn? Then I'm not going to take care of you!" Lu Niansan still had the mind to scare her.

Jiang Xia was so stunned that she couldn't even react. She gasped, "Be careful!" It was unclear whether she was warning Lu Niansan or the bodyguard who was rushing towards her looking for death.

"What are you afraid of?" Lu Niansan continued to ramble on, but his attacks were incredibly ruthless, each punch landing squarely, like a trained martial artist who had beaten all four bodyguards to the ground in no time.

Hearing their cries of agony, Lu Niansan lightly dusted off his hands, grabbed Jiang Xia who was already stunned, and strode towards the back door.

It was only then that Jiang Xia noticed that the four bodyguards who were originally guarding the back door had been beaten unconscious at some point, which is why Lu Niansan was able to swagger into Qiushui Garden as if he were in an empty place!
After exiting through the back door, a Suzuki motorcycle was parked not far away.

Lu Ershisan tossed a helmet to Jiang Xia, put it on himself, then mounted his motorcycle and rode off into the night with Jiang Xia on his back, roaring away.

We passed through affluent neighborhoods, swept through bustling city streets, exited the elevated highway, and headed straight for the suburbs.

As they sped along, Jiang Xia's slow, astonished thoughts gradually subsided in the wind. Looking at the man in front of her, focused on riding, her thoughts suddenly drifted back to the past, as if everything around her was fading and flowing backward...

"I've discovered it, you're very smart, no, you're a genius!"

"Why didn't you participate in the competition? Did your aunt talk to you and say that the orphanage doesn't have enough money? It's already good enough that you can go to school, how can they support you to participate in any competitions, right?"

"How much money do you need? There's a training camp before the competition, right? Would five thousand be enough for you?"

"No, thank you. Girls should eat and drink well. I'll give you ten thousand."

When he was a teenager, besides being good-looking, Lu Niansan was also a chatterbox.

He didn't study properly, often skipped classes, and got into fights, accumulating numerous disciplinary actions. His teachers tried to find caregivers at orphanages for him, but they weren't his parents, and no one was willing to take care of him much.

Jiang Xia naturally wouldn't meddle in other people's business, and she tried to avoid him every day on her way to and from school because she disliked his noise and commotion.

Lu Niansan didn't mind, until one time Jiang Xia and some classmates participated in a math competition organized by the city. Jiang Xia didn't win an award, but he had to participate in the next round of the competition. The top 40 students selected from the whole province, if they won a prize, would be awarded a national-level prize.

It's easy to imagine how difficult it is to obtain, and how glorious it is.

But Jiang Xia gave up. The teacher didn't try to persuade her much, and although her classmates talked about it, they all understood because she was an orphan.

She has no parents, and no one is obligated to provide her with a substantial material foundation.

I don't know what Lu Niansan was thinking, but that night, just like now, he forcibly dragged her onto the motorcycle, took her to the beach, and then stuffed the bundle of money he wanted to use to buy a new motorcycle into her backpack.

"Don't ask me where my money came from. It's all clean, I earned it myself!"

"Take it and spend it however you like. In ten days or half a month, I'll come to see you at your training camp and give you another 20,000. If you get a good ranking, you can also try to get a guaranteed admission to university. You're a genius, this shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

……

Jiangxia paid back the money he had later by working.

She didn't know why, but at this moment she suddenly thought of the past, pulling her back to her memories, and the motorcycle stopped near a bustling food stall.

Lu Niansan helped her out of the car. After taking off his helmet, he strode into the food stall, chose a spot outside, pulled over a folding stool, and sat down, lighting a cigarette as he did so.

Through the smoke he exhaled, he looked at Jiang Xia, who was sitting opposite him: "I've told you before, your husband is no good. Okay, forget about him, and from now on, just be with me!"

(End of this chapter)