Chapter 584: Extra: Valuable

Qi Muyu couldn’t breathe anymore, she struggled desperately, seeing a pair of bloodied, terrifying eyes staring at her like a bloodthirsty wild beast.

Next second, as if she would be devoured by the beast before her.

Qi Muyu struggled even harder, vigorously slapping the little boy who seemed to have lost his mind, while her other hand tightly gripped the boy’s hand that was choking her neck.

It was then that the little boy seemed to finally see the person in front of him clearly, and his rationality gradually returned. He suddenly let go.

The injuries on his body twisted his face in pain, and the red lines on his left cheek eerily receded, leaving his face clean, as if they had never existed.

Qi Muyu coughed as if her lungs would come out. When she finally got her breath back, she felt wronged and angry, pouncing on the little boy with her little fists hammering down on him, “For bullying me, bullying me… I saved you, and you bully me, wuwu!”

The little boy, as if stupefied, endured the severe pain and let the strange little girl who suddenly appeared ride on top of him and hit him.

Only after countless punches had landed on the little boy’s body did Qi Muyu’s anger subside by half.

Standing up, she ran off with a huff.

The little boy struggled to stand and staggered after Qi Muyu.

He wanted to stop her from going that way but was too late.

“Splash!”

Qi Muyu fell into the pool, swallowed several gulps of water since she couldn’t swim, and sank to the bottom.

This pool was for raising fish and the water had been changed not long ago.

The direction Qi Muyu had run from was blocked by artificially planted grass, and by the time she saw it, it was already too late.

“Splash!”

Another sound of water.

Qi Muyu couldn’t open her eyes anymore, only feeling slimy things entangling around her. She wanted to scream, but whenever she opened her mouth she could only drink the distasteful water.

“Cough cough!”

Qi Muyu coughed up several mouthfuls of water, and when she opened her stinging eyes, she saw the wet little boy in front of her and burst into tears.

The little boy furrowed his beautiful eyebrows, his childish voice as cold as an ice cube, “You’re okay now.”

“I saved you, and you wanted to kill me.”

“I didn’t kill you.”

The little boy’s voice was a bit stiff.

He himself was in pain, but his own experiences and habits had already numbed him.

He was just drenched again.

He thought he was going to die, but then this little girl appeared.

He wouldn’t owe her a favor.

“I’ll give you this.”

“I don’t want it.”

Qi Muyu didn’t even look at what was handed to her, swatting it away.

The little boy silently took back his hand, not offering it again.

At that moment, shouts of a search party could be heard from ahead.

The little boy, covering his wound, took Qi Muyu’s hand and placed a cold stone within her palm before he turned and staggered into the shrubbery, disappearing from sight.

Song Jinwei was extremely worried, unable to find Qi Muyu anywhere and feeling like she was at her wit’s end.

She didn’t care about the party and mobilized a large group of people to search for Qi Muyu everywhere.

The surveillance showed Qi Muyu running in this direction, but the cameras in this area were broken, and it was unclear exactly where Qi Muyu was.

Qi Muyu was about to throw the stone in her hand but, hearing the nearby shouts, she quickly scrambled up, “Grandma, I’m here.”

“My heavens!” Song Jinwei ran over, trembling with fright, and was scared again at the sight of Qi Muyu soaking wet, “Xiao Yu, what happened to you?”

“I, I accidentally fell into the water…” Qi Muyu looked around cautiously, but didn’t see that little boy anymore.

Song Jinwei quickly led her away, “Come on, let’s get away from here with Grandma.”

Qi Muyu obediently followed.

The water in the pool had just washed away the bloodstains on her body. Since the pool was used for raising fish, despite the water having been changed, it still had a fishy smell that mixed with the scent of blood, making it indistinguishable to anyone.

After Qi Muyu was taken away, she was examined by the family doctor from the host’s side and changed out of her wet clothes.

“It’s Grandma’s fault for leaving you there.”

“It was me who ran out, it has nothing to do with Grandma,” said Qi Muyu. Despite her young age, she could still discern right from wrong.

Song Jinwei was still shaken.

Because everything had gone smoothly on previous occasions, no one expected an accident to happen this time.

The host family had cleared a room for Qi Muyu to rest for a while. As long as there was nothing serious, she would be able to go out again.

Only the grandmother and granddaughter were left in the room. Song Jinwei carefully asked Qi Muyu, “Did you really fall in by yourself?”

Qi Muyu wasn’t the kind of mischievous child who would wander to such places on her own. Song Jinwei suspected that some other child or even an adult had led her there.

Who would want to harm her granddaughter!

Such incidents were not uncommon in the Qi family, so it was natural for Song Jinwei to have such suspicions.

Qi Muyu hurriedly said, “I fell in by accident, I, I just wanted to look at the fish…”

She still wasn’t good at lying, her eyes slightly evasive.

Seeing this, Song Jinwei didn’t press the child further. However, the seed of suspicion was planted, and she was determined that Qi Muyu would not be allowed to move about alone in the future.

“Here, this is what you had in your hand,” Song Jinwei focused on the stone which was half the size of an egg and asked with a complex expression, “Did you take this from this family?”

“I picked it up…” Only then did Qi Muyu clearly see what the stone looked like, somewhat reddish but upon closer inspection, it was green.

It felt cool and comfortable in her hand.

It wasn’t perfectly round, but it didn’t burn to hold.

This was top-quality jade!

And its value was not low!

Song Jinwei thought it might have been given to Qi Muyu by Qi Si or Shen Yan, or maybe…

She didn’t want to suspect that her granddaughter had stolen it, but this piece was superior to any she had seen before!

“I heard that the child from the Fei family has caused trouble again.”

“How dare the Fei family still keep him? I’ve heard that child is wicked, a real monster.”

“Madam Fei has no choice, she has no children of her own, and Mr. Fei had been a soldier all his life. Before he passed, he made it clear that they should raise him.”

“It’s pitiful for Madam Fei, not being his birth mother and still having to raise this little monster as if she were.”

“A few years back at the department, the Fei family used to be like this… Ever since Mr. Fei passed, they’ve had to keep a low profile at the department.” Those conversing outside in the corridor raised their thumbs and shook their heads, all expressing regret for Mr. Fei.

Another person lowered their voice, “I heard that Mr. Fei was killed by that little monster.”

The person standing across from them immediately looked around in panic, “Are you out of your mind, talking about this?”

Mr. Fei had passed away, but a family like theirs could not be freely discussed by just anyone, especially regarding this little monster.

The little monster’s mother was a soldier and also a daughter of the Fei family. In the course of a mission, she had a child with a mysterious man, and later on, she sacrificed herself in the line of duty.

Leaving behind such a child, it was Mr. Fei who decided to place him in the care of Madam Fei.

This matter was no secret.

But there were strange rumors within, some true, some false.

Sitting in the room, Song Jinwei listened to the conversations seeping in from outside, furrowed her brows, and thought about how these women loved to gossip about the private affairs of various clans.

All this talk of monsters was simply absurd.

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