The Counterattack of a Wealthy Family's Substitute

The driver looked at her with a strange expression.

Yao Yingxi shook her head. The driver remembered that the address she had just given was the address of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and then he noticed that she was carrying a bag.

I immediately thought that she might have been caught reporting a corrupt official. The person who rear-ended her was likely trying to kill her.

A sense of righteousness arose spontaneously, and the driver fastened his seatbelt.

"How is that car now?"

"That's what Xi Yuanchen asked on the phone," Yao Yingxi heard a very loud horn sound coming from the phone.

Her gaze returned to the car behind her, which she kept staring at. The driver of the vehicle that caused the accident still hadn't gotten out, and her heart tightened. She asked anxiously, "No one got out of that car."

Xi Yuanchen instructed, "Lie down with your head down and see if you can see the situation of the car behind you through the rearview mirror."

Yao Yingxi responded, "Mm."

"Have the driver check if the car can start. If not, keep it in the car. I've already called the police. Don't panic on the way there."

He tried to calm Yao Yingxi down and warned her to be careful.

With trembling hands, Yao Yingxi clutched the object in her arms tightly, lowered her head so that the back of her head could not be seen through the windshield, and then carefully spoke to the driver: "Sir, could you please try to start the car slowly and see if it can move?"

Meanwhile, the man in the black sedan had a grim expression and a ruthless look. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt, one hand gripping the car door, the other holding a loaded gun, his eyes fixed on the taxi in front of him, ready to shoot anyone who got out of the car at any moment.

He frowned as he watched the yellow taxi ahead, which showed no sign of anyone getting out.

A moment later, upon seeing the person who had been in his sight, he suddenly lay down. Startled, he put on a mask, opened the car window, and leaned out a little.

He supported the hand holding the gun with one hand to ensure a steady grip. Both his hands were scarred, likely due to past injuries, which allowed him to exert the strength of a normal person's single hand.

Smoke was coming out of the taxi's exhaust, but the vehicle remained motionless.

Fu Gui, gripping the gun, suddenly became alert. "Bang..." The bullet left the barrel, aimed at the wheel, but missed and hit the car body.

Yao Yingxi screamed in fright, "Ah..."

Terrified beyond measure, her body trembled violently, and her voice choked with sobs, "Xi Yuanchen..."

This was the first time she had ever been so scared. Even when Xu Xinya gave her a countdown and told her what was going to happen, she had never felt this fearful or worried that she would die.

"I'm here, I'm almost there."

"Bang bang..." Along with Xi Yuanchen's voice, two gunshots rang out.

"Miss, I'll go out and hold that person off. You run and make sure to report this corrupt official so that we people at the bottom of society won't be exploited like this anymore."

The driver spoke with an air of righteous indignation.

"No... no."

Yao Yingxi stared at the person outside with red eyes and refused. She slowly stood up a little and noticed that the man holding the gun was a disabled person. His figure looked somewhat familiar. As if she had thought of something, her pupils contracted.

The man holding the gun—the one who beat her half to death the first time she met him—how could she forget him? He was Fugui, Xu Hengyuan's lackey.

Xu Hengyuan had already suspected that she would report the bribery, so he had someone wait for her here.

She was so stupid. How could she not have thought that Xu Hengyuan, having taken this position, wouldn't just sit there and wait for her to report him and deal with him?

Fu Gui limped slowly, his hands gripping the gun as he walked to the taxi.

The driver was also scared, though it was unclear whether it was a matter of responsibility. He had already unbuckled his seatbelt, gripping the car door, while remaining vigilant for the approaching robbers.

"Miss, get ready and get out. I'll open the car door and try to stall this person. Please listen to me."

Yao Yingxi clenched her fist, her gaze firm, her tone resolute: "No need."

Xu Hengyuan wanted her life. Besides, even if she got out of the car, she couldn't go far from here. Why harm innocent people?

As he spoke, Fugui had already walked to the back seat window. His cold eyes were like those of a demon crawling out of hell, eerie and chilling.

"Yao Yingxi..."

Hearing her refusal to speak, Xi Yechen called out to her on the phone, but there was no answer.

When Yao Yingxi met those eyes, she was still shaken; the events of that day were still vivid in her mind.

But in an instant, she suddenly wasn't so afraid anymore, afraid that she might die.

He sat up straight, his eyes fixed on the demon outside the car, and let go of the phone he had been holding.

"Yao Yingxi, can you hear me?"

"Yao Yingxi".

Fu Gui gripped the handlebars, tried to twist them but couldn't open them. He pointed his gun at Yao Yingxi and mouthed, "Open the car door."

The driver in front suddenly kicked open his driver's side door, "Bang..."

Fu Gui's attention wasn't on the driver, nor did he expect the driver to do that. He instinctively used his hands and feet to point at the source of the sound. Just as he was about to pull back, the gunshot rang out.

The driver suddenly grabbed Fugui's body, pushed him against the car, and shouted, "Miss, let's go!"

Fu Gui lost his balance and stumbled back several steps, crashing into the car before he realized what was happening and rammed the driver in the back with his elbow.

The driver winced in pain, and Fu Gui saw the car door on Yao Yingxi's side open and fired at the driver.

The driver was in so much pain that he was dizzy and unable to hold onto Fugui.

Fu Gui pushed the driver aside and fired a shot at the car door.

Yao Yingxi, who was about to get off the car, suddenly shrank back.

Just as Fugui was about to get closer to Yao Yingxi.

Suddenly, a car came straight toward him with a loud bang, knocking him flying before finally coming to a stop.

Several police cars also stopped and surrounded Fugui.

Fu Gui was knocked to the ground, his head bleeding profusely. His gun had long been knocked away and was lying on the ground. He couldn't move one of his hands and it was lying there stiffly.

Xi Yuanchen got out of the car and hurried to the taxi. When he saw Yao Yingxi, he finally felt relieved.

He was completely unaware that his emotions were somewhat strange at that moment.

When Yao Yingxi saw him standing before her as if a god had descended, her eyes quickly reddened, and she looked at him with tears in her eyes. Although she really wanted to hug him, she had to restrain herself at this critical moment.

Xi Yuanchen half-squatted down and hugged her.

If she hadn't suddenly realized that things had gone too smoothly these past few days, with everything unexpectedly going in the direction Yao Yingxi wanted, she would have been fine.

No one would suspect anything about what happened today. Who is Xu Hengyuan? How could he let something like this happen, putting him on the verge of imprisonment and bankruptcy, and even giving Yao Yingxi the thought that she was still alive?

Yao Yingxi couldn't help but feel lingering fear as she thought about what had just happened, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

As the ambulance siren sounded, the driver and Fugui were carried away.

Xi Yuanchen then took her hand and helped her out of the taxi.

A captain in the police station stood there for a while, hesitating whether he should go up and ask Xi Yuanchen how to resolve the situation.

Seeing two people standing by the car, he breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward: "Mr. Xi, should we take this prisoner back to the police station?"

He just checked and found that six shots were fired in total. This Vietnamese firearm, a new model from last year, has a total of seven bullets.

He was unsure how to handle the situation, as the man wanted to kill Young Master Xi's woman. Normally, the perpetrator should be taken back to the police station, but since the man wanted to kill Young Master Xi's woman, he was in a difficult position about how to proceed.