Rebirth Of The Demon

Chapter Nine [ 9 ]

Mind Releasing My Woman

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“J-Jin Mao Ge, p-please wa-wait for a moment..” After hearing the words from the slovenly youth with the conspicuous hairdo, the Tanned Beauty hastily replied while reaching down towards a small wooden compartment.

In a few moments, a slightly greased envelope can be seen held within her quivering grasp. Albeit unwilling to part with the envelope, she had no choice but to comply, taking in a mouthful of breath, she then handed it over to the youth respectfully with both hands.

Although the way she spoke and carried herself made the Tanned Beauty seem a little timid, Li Feng had inadvertently caught the intentions hidden deep within her mesmerizing gaze. Especially when the slovenly youth started to approach her stall, the tanned beauty’s eyes flashed once more, her brown pupils brimming with hostility and disgust.

Li Feng was now certain that something definitely occurred between them or else it wouldn’t have sparked such a big reaction within the woman. Well, who wouldn’t be angered if random punks like these appear from out of nowhere demanding fees for doing something that the police are paid to do.

“Hmm~” Humming a tune, Jin Mao lazily strode over to the stall, his eyes constantly darting back and forth, ogling greedily at the curvaceous figure of the beauty that stood before him.

With her head lowered and her body bent slightly, her gaze was completely fixated at the bumpy asphalt ground her stall was stationed. The Tanned Beauty could only hear the dragged out footsteps that encroached her, at the same time she felt a pair of passionate gaze locked itself onto her body as though it was examining every nook and cranny of her body.

She was definitely no stranger to such sensations as it was exactly how she felt when those filthy men stare at her with their unbridled gazes. Even though she was repulsed by this irksome sensation, she couldn’t help but to raise her head up in curiosity only to be greeted by a repulsive sight.

Jin Mao’s eyes glazed over as his face flushed red, his hurried breath escaped his slightly agape mouth as saliva trickled down the corners.

In a snap, her complexion instantly changed for the worse before she pulled her gaze back down onto the ground. Her body trembled involuntarily while she bit down on her supple cherry lips as she mustered her willpower to rein in the wrath that was about to erupt.

Noticing the subtle change in the tanned beauty, Jin Mao’s eyes widened as he had realized that he acted way too brazenly. “Ahem!” Holding up a fist before his mouth, he coughed out loud in a miserable attempt to disguise the poorly concealed lust-filled eyes of his.

His futile actions drew in the disdainful gazes of the public as his intentions were extremely obvious when his eyes were constantly sweeping back and forth the lady’s figure. Jin Mao’s reputation weren’t any better to begin with and now, the evaluation of him had dropped down another level.

Recalling his task, Jin Mao retracted his gaze back towards the woman but rather than looking at the greased envelope he came for, his sight glued themselves onto her hands instead.

Lifting his arm, he reached out towards the outstretched pair hands that the envelope rested on. Just as he touched the envelope, Jin Mao intentionally brushed his pig paw against the tanned beauty’s trembling hands.

A perverse smirk played across his lips the instant he came in contact with the seemingly boneless and delicate pair of hands.

“Ahh!” Jin Mao’s loathsome and extremely shameless actions drew out a frightened shriek from the Tanned Beauty before she retrieved her hands back at the speed of light.

Normally, even the slightest emergence of Jin Mao in her thoughts revolted her to the point of retching, much less a physical contact like a touch or a simple handshake. A wave of disgust crashed over her like a surging wave, nauseation spread through her entirety and churned her insides as though her intestines were wrestling against each other.

Taking a deep breath as she tried to suppress the urge to regurgitate the lunch she just had several hours ago.

While the Tanned Beauty was trying her best to restrain herself, Jin Mao simply stood blankly before her. Licking his somewhat chapped lips, he reminisced the amazing sensation he felt earlier with an expression of longing plastered across his face.

Breaking out from his absence, he peeled open the top of the envelope with a little disgust as the envelope felt a little greasy to the touch. Sticking two fingers through the opening, he wriggled them a little back and forth within the package before pulling it out.

Doing some mental calculations within his head, Jin Mao’s beady eyes rolled a couple of rounds before he folded the envelope and stuffed it down his back pocket.

Looking at the meticulous actions that Jin Mao displayed, the tanned beauty couldn’t help but to tighten her small fists. It was as if time flowed differently for her as compared to the others as it was nerve wrecking.

This experience resembled one of a student who was awaiting the teacher’s reprisal at the office after making a mistake. Especially when the room is enclosed leaving only the teacher and the student alone, the silence made the whole situation much worse than it seemed.

Because the nauseous sensation hadn’t subsided just yet, the pressure made her break out in a little cold sweat within this brief moment.

“Kekeke, the amount is indeed correct.” Cackling out loud, he patted his stuffed pocket with a satisfied expression.

She felt as if her small heart was going to leap out of her mouth, it was nerve wrecking as every passing second felt like an eternity but upon hearing Jin Mao’s words, the Tanned Beauty visibly calmed down and breathed out a sigh of relief, her hands patted her bountiful chest as if trying to sooth her heart.

By instinct, his eyes followed along the tanned beauty’s actions and his line of sight gradually landed onto her slightly undulating twin peaks causing him to gulp down a mouthful of saliva.

Well not only Jin Mao, most of the men at the scene found themselves staring right at those impactful nuclear weapons but soon snapped out of it when they felt a sharp pain spreading from their waists by courtesy of their partners that stood beside them.

This just goes to show how beautiful the Tanned Beauty was, even with a few simple movements like pulling the wisps of hair to the back or wiping away the sweat, men just couldn’t help but be drawn in like bees to honey.

Coughing, he then reverted to an expression he thought looked charming and spoke “Alright Wan Qing Jie, now that this matter is settled, let’s move on to the next.”

Just as she thought everything was over, Jin Mao’s words rang out like bucketful of cold water being poured over her head “Ahh! J-Jin Mao Ge, as you can see… I still have to attend to my business, o-other day perhaps?” Mustering up her courage, the Tanned Beauty stuttered nervously.

“No you can’t..” Jin Mao narrowed his eyes while his brows furrowed tightly, his tone carried a trace of annoyance and anger as he didn’t expect the Tanned Beauty to raise her objections.

“A-Ah?! O-okay.. W-what is the next problem?” Looking at the slightly flared up expression and hearing the tone that’s full of annoyance, Ou Wan Qing knows that she had no other choice but to comply along with his wishes.

Ou Wan Qing knows that she can’t afford to anger the slovenly teen with the conspicuous hairstyle in front of her. As Jin Mao is part of the triad that governs this area, everyone including her, has to obey and put up with whatever he does.

“Wait for a moment.. Ahem!” Coughing out loud after he finished his sentence, Jin Mao readjusted his collared shirt with both hands and clapped his hands.

Kaka! They must be mesmerized by my suave appearance. Feeling that he had successfully attracted the attention of the crowd, Jin Mao sneered with satisfaction as his ego inflated.

Looking at the stupid spectacle displayed before her, the tanned beauty could only sigh resignedly as her shoulders slumped forward. Although she was a little timid in nature, she definitely wasn’t dumb to the point to not notice that the hoodlum had something up his sleeves.

Sometimes, Ou Wan Qing wished that she had been born average like the others. Dating all the way back to her childhood, her looks had been the cause of all troubles that found its way to her. Like the saying goes, beauty are the root of all troubles, she could relate to that a hundred percent.

The truth was, Ou Wan Qing had only recently started working here, probably several months back but right after a few days of operating the stall, something unexpected occurred.

The number of customers had started to grow astronomically after a week, but without much thought, Ou Wan Qing could faintly make out the reason behind it. As she had guessed, rumours of Ou Wan Qing’s outstanding looks started to spread and circulate about like wildfire around the Linzhen area.

Most of the customers frequented her stall simply because of wanting to catch a single glance of the so called “ Beauty ” from the rumours and indeed, they were shocked right after the first glance as never had they met such a perfect woman, it was as though god had spent a little more time on her, even the stars on television pale in comparison to her looks.

After confirming that the beauty from the rumours was indeed true, they began to speculate that the reason behind the large customer crowd. None believed that her culinary skills was any good and thought that it was her outstanding looks that garnered that much customers.

Yet again, they were proven wrong after having taken the first bite of the food she made, they found themselves strangely wanting for more. If someone could rate how delicious her food was, it would be comparable to those of a restaurant chef!

She isn’t just a flower vase meant for decoration purposes, not only does she have a pretty face and a devilish figure, she was also hardworking, kind and possesses top notch culinary skills.

These facts alone brought her much more customers when compared to the stalls in the vicinity, but with overwhelming success, unwanted trouble soon sniffed and sought its way here.

As Jin Mao was the person responsible for the area where Xuyan Night Market was stationed, he had been given tasks of inspecting and collecting fees from the monthly visits to the night market.

Never had he thought that in a mess of a place like the night market had such a beautiful woman. At the first sight of her enchanting silhouette, Jin Mao was enraptured and after taking a closer look, he made a resolve to conquer this woman.

Under the pretence of inspection of the Xuyan Night Market, Jin Mao started to work his way towards his goal. His inspection however only consisted of frequenting Ou Wan Qing’s stall and nothing else which was already suspicious.

During the beginning, they started to have normal chats between each other, and just when Ou Wan Qing had gotten the idea that Jin Mao was actually a nice person, he spoiled his own plans by laying sexual advances on her.

Like how she felt towards the other men with hidden motives, Ou Wan Qing only held disgust towards Jin Mao but with the knowledge that Jin Mao belonged to a certain triad called the Black Dragon Gang that was supposed to be responsible for the Night Market, she knew that she couldn’t treat him like the other lecherous men.

Carefully and respectfully, using different means, Ou Wan Qing would reject his advances one after the other but after countless rejection of his sexual advances, Jin Mao got frustrated and his mentality took a different turn which led things awry.

Jin Mao stopped visiting her stall every day which made the tanned beauty felt delight as it was too much stress dealing with a man like him but following his disappearance, student delinquents took his place instead.

It initially started out with simple harassment and childish pranks but as time passed, the harassment worsened. Groundless rumours also began to spread and rapidly circulated around like rat infestations about how her food was filthy and so on.

From such influences, her business declined, customers decreased and her income lessened rapidly each day.

Fed up with this particular issue, Ou Wan Qing looked for Jin Mao and demanded an explanation as this situation only occurred after his disappearance only to be given a reply saying he had no involvement in any of the harassment to which she believed the first time round.

Time after time, the same incidents and harassment continued and repeated itself again and again over a span of several weeks which made it clear that Jin Mao was indeed lying.

If someone had indeed caused trouble, Jin Mao being the one responsible for the area would have heard of it from his underlings and dealt with it but since it never got dealt with, nor did she get a reasonable explanation. That goes to show that it must definitely have involved him either directly or indirectly.

It would be fine if it was only the income that was lessening but another problem soon popped up with Jin Mao as the cause yet again.

Every single time he visited, the protection fee would be raised by a significant amount making it extremely difficult on her.

Recalling the past only served exhaust her, a sigh of helplessness escaped her mouth as she looked ahead at what Jin Mao was up to.

Sfx Pa! Pa! Pa!

Shortly after his crisp applauses, a series of heavy footsteps resounded right behind the crowd, diverting the crowd’s attention away from Jin Mao.

Two figures gradually appeared in the eyes of the crowd, towering over a hundred and ninety meters easily, forming a stark contrast to the crowd that obstructed their path.

This pair of bald men dressed in a fashion similar to Jin Mao, their muscles rippled under the tight unbuttoned shirts that fluttered in the wind while they wore a pair of shorts that showcased their trained legs.

A menacing look permanently carved onto their gorilla-like faces, their forced their way into the human barricades like bulls.

Regardless of age, gender or race, the burly pair used their overwhelming height and weight as an advantage to crusade into the tightly packed crowd, pushing anyone that obstructs their path out of the way with ease.

“Ahh! It hurts!”

“Gah!”

Moans and grunts of pain rang out unceasingly as the pair of burly men bulldozed their way towards Jin Mao. Strangely, one would think that the crowd should feel anger towards the two men for their overbearing behaviour but none let out a single curse nor rebuttal.

Like fire extinguishers, the black dragon tattooed onto their sturdy chests snuffed out the flames of anger in them as soon as they locked eyes with it. As though they were deflated balloons, those who rushed up towards them stiffened in place and felt their strength draining away.

Sfx Thud! Thud! Thud!

With a series of “ Thud “ sounds, they fell to the ground with their mouths clamped shut, helplessness took the place if their impulses after they were extinguished.

These are the evidence that goes to show of the prestige that Black Dragon Gang holds, being one of the top dogs in the underworld, no one with a sane mind would be willing to incur their wrath over such a small matter.

The black dragon tattooed on their chests acted like symbols that represented the Black Dragon Gang as a whole, which was why Jin Mao and his underlings unbuttoned their shirts wherever they went to.

It acted similarly to a protective charm, a permanent shield that envelopes the one who had the tattoo, like an immunity, the symbol would nullify any crime that you committed but to what extent, no one knows nor want to know.

After the bald pair arrived to the scene, they separated and stood on either sides on Jin Mao like bodyguards, sandwiching him in the middle. Without looking at the bald giants that stood beside him, he lifted up his hand and snapped it with a conceited expression.

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“Jin Mao Ge, here are the flowers!” Hearing the crisp snap, it prompted them to hand over a large bouquet of beautiful flowers.

Taking over the bouquet of flowers with both hands, Jin Mao stared passionately towards the tanned beauty standing on the opposite side.

“These roses represent how I feel about you, I am extremely in love with you, I found myself having sleepless nights because of you, each and every day doesn’t pass without a moment of me thinking about you.”

“The red roses signifies my desire for you, the orange roses signifies my flaming passion for you and the lavender roses signifies the love I felt for you the moment I met you. Together, they number up to an exact ninety nine stalks that represents the love and care I’ll treat you with for the remainders of my life…”

“Ou Wan Qing.. Will you please be my girlfriend?” Jin Mao knelt down at the last sentence, his voice seemed sincere but his clothes seemed extremely out of place.

“…” The crowd went deathly silent, seemingly waiting for the tanned beauty’s response.

“…” Ou Wan Qing too kept quiet, her luscious hair shadowed her eyes as she looked downwards at the ground showing no signs of response. Her delicate fists clenched themselves into a tight ball, nails sinking into the supple flesh as her teeth bit down on her supple lips.

Looking at the beautiful assortment of red, orange and lavender coloured roses displayed before her eyes, her droopy eyes flashed with unknown emotions that no one except for herself would know.

If it was other women that was being confessed to with these flowers, they would undoubtedly agree but Ou Wan Qing wasn’t a teenage girl that acts without running it several times through the head.

Feeling the suffocating gazes of the crowd that was directed and congregated on her, all she was filled with a sense of helplessness.

Although it was a proven fact that Ou Wan Qing like other women, loves beautiful objects like jewellery, clothes, flowers and etcetera. However, she wasn’t someone who would sacrifice her purity and the happiness of her family over something so shallow like vanity.

Ou Wan Qing was someone that had experienced countless of tribulations during her life time, married, bore a child and even becoming a widow afterwards so she treats marriage with a different mentality and much more seriously than that of others.

If the person in question wasn’t Jin Mao who was confessing, Ou Wan Qing may have had gotten a little touched but it was indeed Jin Mao who is on his knees.

She knows that Jin Mao was someone that bears grudges and after repeated rejections of his sexual advances, her life started going downhill from there on so she can’t even imagine what would happen if she rejects him before the public.

How is a weak woman like Ou Wan Qing supposed to deal with a bunch of ruthless thugs without any sense of morality, even if she had miraculously done so, how is she going to cope with the trouble the follows afterwards.

“Why can’t you just let me go?” She raised her head, revealing her reddened eyes and asked softly before continuing.

“I am a withering old woman, a widow and a mother at that. So why are you still chasing after me when there are much better choices out there?” Her voice strained as she spoke.

Her tone contained such extreme desperation and despair within that the crowd couldn’t help but to feel empathy towards the pitiful woman. Even Li Feng who was watching all of this play out, felt aggrieved for what the poor lady had to experience but he knows that it isn’t the time for him to step out just yet.

“C’mon Wan Qing Jie, you will always be a blooming flower in my eyes..” Jin Mao looked on with an indifferent expression but the fire in his eyes spoke otherwise, they flashed with a vicious light.

BITCH! SLUT! ARGH! He cursed inwardly while maintaining a smile on his face, a true hypocrite indeed.

Never had Ou Wan Qing given up and resigned to fate despite the obstacles that stood in her path but right now, she feels that the future seemed extremely bleak. One can dodge for one, two or three times but can’t dodge forever.

Although she had rejected his advances, it was always outside the prying eyes of the public but to think that Jin Mao would come up with something so ridiculous like confessing his love to her before a live crowd.

Placed before her, stands two choices, either of which would still result in her life being miserable throughout.

The first choice placed before her was to accept the confession which will inevitably lead to the suffering for the remainders of her life along with the happiness of her child after being dragged into this problematic situation.

The last choice was to reject Jin Mao’s confession and live the rest of her life in hiding like a fugitive as rejecting him alone, means offending the whole of the Black Dragon Gang and without much thought, her child would still be dragged into this mess.

No matter what choices she made, her child would inevitably be dragged into this never ending cycle of suffering. Like all mothers, how could they bear to witness the suffering of their child.

Faced with a dilemma, her eyes started to moisten as she contemplated. She would rather kill herself than to involve her child into this.

“Accept it!”

“Gahahaha! Accept it!!!”

“Go on, accept it!”

The student delinquents that were bashing up the stall previously, staggered over to the scene and cheered merrily as they raised their weapons up in the air.

They knew what kind of a person Jin Mao was and the unscrupulous deeds that he had done so without even taking a second thought, one would know that anyone that ends up being his woman, would definitely suffer.

Although they were cheering and acting all supportive on the exterior, inwardly, they felt a little pity towards the tanned beauty.

How much does something like “ Pity ” cost?

Can it fill their stomach during times of hunger?

Can it pay their bills?

The answer is a definite NO, in order to satisfy their hunger, to pay the bills, they need money and to earn money, they could only resort to fawning over Jin Mao.

Reality is cruel, money makes the world go round be it the past or the present.

Although the modern era and ancient era are two totally different worlds in terms of technology and mentality but in reality, there isn’t much differences between the two eras.

The weak will always end up as food for the strong, manipulated, toyed with and that is an iron clad fact. In these modern times, the only difference is that it isn’t only force that defines your strength, connections and wealth also plays a big part.

The reason why the Black Dragon Gang got to their position today as the top dogs are solely due to the support of their wide connections throughout Binhai City.

“I-I am s-sorry! I can’t accept your confession!” After a long consideration, Ou Wan Qing decided to reject him!

Jin Mao’s “ Gentlemanly ” smile sunk, contorting into a hideous scowl that accentuated his loathsome face much more so compared to before.

Never had he thought that Ou Wan Qing would reject him, he had planned meticulously but it simply went through the roof.

Under normal circumstances, the woman should have accepted the confession even if they planned to do so as the gazes and the urging directed at the woman should have added as pressure.

Also due to the woman not wanting to embarrass the male counterpart, they should have accept the confession even if it felt forced.

After kneeling for more than a minute’s time, Jin Mao’s kneecap had long started to ache and the straight rejection acted like a fuel, poured over the anger that showed signs of combustion.

“Are you seriously going to embarrass me here? Before the eyes of the public?” Jin Mao spoke with an extremely icy tone, his shrunken eyes locked down venomously onto the teary eyed woman like an enemy.

After a brief moment, he sighed and shrugged his shoulders and spoke with a helpless tone “Why are you taking the hard route instead of the obvious and comfortable one placed before you?”

“Well.. Doesn’t concern me, since you aren’t taking the soft approach, I’ll just have to shove it down your throat.. You’ll be mine either way.. Kakakakaka!” Finishing his declaration, Jin Mao looked up with a menacing smile and slammed the bouquet of roses onto the ground.

“Fuck! To think I wasted money on a slut like you…” Spitting to the sides, he propped himself up with both hands.

Standing up, he patted his somewhat sullied jeans and strode towards Ou Wan Qing while his underlings followed closely behind.

“Boss, since you are not taking her as your girlfriend, why don’t you leave us the leftovers after enjoying her body?” One of the three student delinquents from before spoke, a lewd smile sported his freckled face as he asked.

“Yeah! * Licks * I have never seen such a beauty in my whole life…” The student beside the one who just spoke licked his sausage-like lips with burning eyes while another spectacled student nodded.

Other than these three, the bald man and the youth with the blonde crew cut remained silent, their faces unchanged throughout the whole ordeal but their eyes contained similar traces of disdain.

“Haha! Of course you can, woman is just a venting tool for us men.. You can play with her however you like after I’m done.” Jin Mao cackled out loud as he patted the student’s back.

During the entire conversation between them, the public didn’t have to perk up their ears in order to listen in on what they were saying as Jin Mao and his crew were conversing out loud, each individual voices rand loud and clear.

“This is outrageous! How can they force someone into something like this!”

“Where is the justice?! Someone call the police!”

“Poor woman!”

“Reporting to the police? Are you stupid? The sole reason these punks act like this was because of the support from the government. Even if these bunch of bastards are thrown behind bars, they would come out sooner or later..”

“Oh my gosh, I can’t believe this is happening right before my eyes!”

The crowd started to break out into a heated discussion, every single one of them felt extremely angered by their barbarian-like actions but no one stepped out.

Even if they felt that this wasn’t right, none of them stood out in the name of the “ Justice ” that they spoke so highly of. They knew what the Black Dragon Gang was capable of and no one in the crowd was willing to incur their wrath as it would not only endanger their lives but also their families.

Helpless, they could only pray for the best, hoping that nothing bad will happen to the poor lady despite the facts placed before their very eyes.

“Nooo! Help!!!” Ou Wan Qing struggled as she was caught by one of the bald giants, rather than human hands, they resembled iron clamps instead, no matter how she struggled, she couldn’t seem to break out of the powerful grasp.

Filled with despair and helplessness, she could only turn to the crowd, screaming for help but her heart soon turned cold as her eyes too dimmed down.

Every single stranger she locked eyes with reacted as if they hadn’t noticed her obvious pleas of help, shamelessly turning their heads away while pretending to be on their phones.

Hahahaha… What am I expecting from them… Ou Wan Qing laughed inwardly in ridicule as no one refused to step up nor speak up.

Even though she knows for a fact that the strangers had no obligation whatsoever to help her and the ruthlessness of Black Dragon Gang members, Ou Wan Qing couldn’t help but to bear hatred towards the people who turned their eyes away.

Tears streamed down her dulled eyes, the spark of life contained within rapidly burning out like the straw of hope she clung onto. Knowing that her struggles were futile, she simply stopped and allowed herself to be dragged about like a rag doll.

Xuan’ Er, my child... A silhouette briefly flashed past her mind, reigniting the dying flames in her lifeless eyes.

“LET ME GOO!!!” Ou Wan Qing flailed about, mustering all of the strength she had in hopes for the iron clamp to loosen up enough for her to squeeze her way out.

Wait till we get home, I’ll turn you into an obedient pet you are kakaka.. Looking down at the futile struggles of the beauty and sneered complacently as he pictured what he would do to her devilish body.

“Kakaka! Ou Wan Qing, you think you’re all that huh, well-“ Ridicule flashed within Jin Mao’s eyes as he lead his underlings away from the scene but a voice interrupted him.. A very familiar one at that.

“Oy, Jin Mao right? Mind releasing my woman?” Amidst the chaos, a charming and silky voice rang out instantly stopped Jin Mao and his crew in their tracks.

“Who the fuck do you-“ Jin Mao scowled and as soon as he turned back, his face paled instantly at the sudden emergence of a demon.

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