Chapter 168 - 167: Kill Him

Ye Xuan quietly entered Yang Bingyu’s room, initially just wanting to check on her condition. To his surprise, he found Lin Aoxue curled up asleep on the nearby sofa, her brows slightly furrowed.

"Xue’er, why are you here?" Ye Xuan asked in surprise as he gently woke her.

Lin Aoxue opened her sleepy eyes. The moment she saw it was Ye Xuan, her gaze lit up. She glanced at Yang Bingyu, who was sleeping on the bed, and then pulled Ye Xuan out of the room.

"I sent you a message saying I brought Yang Bingyu back to Yunju Mountain Villa," Lin Aoxue whispered, keeping her voice low. "But I didn’t know when you’d be back, so I decided to stay and keep her company for the night."

Not long after Ye Xuan had left the hospital, Yang Bingyu’s emergency treatment had finished. It wasn’t anything too serious—she had just suffered a severe fright, which caused some complications with her pregnancy. The doctor had initially wanted her to stay in the hospital for observation, but Yang Bingyu stubbornly refused, insisting on returning to Yunju Mountain Villa. Since Lin Aoxue couldn’t reach Ye Xuan at the time, she had taken matters into her own hands and, together with Yu Ling, brought Yang Bingyu back.

Even though the two of them were technically romantic rivals, Lin Aoxue couldn’t just abandon a pregnant woman. After waiting forever for Ye Xuan to return, she had decided to stay the night to watch over Yang Bingyu.

"Your own body hasn’t even fully recovered yet. Aren’t you just being reckless?" Ye Xuan pulled Lin Aoxue into his arms. Though his words sounded reproachful, his tone was brimming with tender affection.

Lin Aoxue leaned against his chest and gently shook her head. "My injuries are mostly healed. The doctor said I can be discharged in another two days, so it’s fine.

"How are things with Night Rose? Is she okay?"

Hearing her considerate words, Ye Xuan felt that being able to marry her was the greatest blessing of his life.

"Don’t worry, I’ve handled everything," Ye Xuan said truthfully as he ruffled her hair. "I had Night Rose go to Jingcheng to find Vermilion Bird. She’ll keep Night Rose safe."

"Then—"

Just as Lin Aoxue was about to say something, the bedroom door clicked open, startling them both.

"Bingyu? Why are you awake?" Ye Xuan asked with a guilty conscience as he looked at Yang Bingyu standing in the doorway, clad in a nightgown, her face as cold as frost.

He hadn’t expected her to wake up so suddenly and didn’t know if she had overheard their conversation. Yang Bingyu absolutely loathed Night Rose; the murder of Yang Zhennan remained a deeply embedded thorn in her heart.

"If I hadn’t woken up, how could I have heard all of that?" Yang Bingyu looked at Ye Xuan, her eyes full of heartbreak, and demanded emotionally, "Ye Xuan, you clearly know Night Rose is the murderer who killed my grandfather. Why did you save her?!"

When she was in the hospital, she had assumed Ye Xuan would be guarding the door outside. Yet, when she came out, he was nowhere to be seen. Only Lin Aoxue was sitting alone on the bench. When Yang Bingyu asked where he had gone, Lin Aoxue simply said he had stepped out for an urgent matter.

So, the urgent matter she mentioned was going to save Night Rose.

How utterly ridiculous!

"It’s not what you think, Bingyu. Listen to me explain." Seeing her like this, Ye Xuan panicked a little. He reached out to touch her, but she heartlessly dodged his hand.

"Not what I think? Heh, I originally thought you would be like other husbands and fathers, waiting outside the operating room.

"I originally thought I would see you as soon as I came out. But no. While the baby and I were inside undergoing emergency treatment, you weren’t there.

"Lin Aoxue said you had something very important to attend to, and I believed her. But I never imagined it was to save Night Rose.

"So, the baby in my belly and I are less important than a murderer."

Yang Bingyu stepped backward as she spoke. Her emotions grew increasingly volatile, and her tears flowed uncontrollably, streaming down her face like a breached dam.

"Bingyu, please calm down first and listen to Ye Xuan explain, okay?" Lin Aoxue was fraught with worry seeing her in this state. They had only just managed to save the baby; they couldn’t afford to let Yang Bingyu agitate her pregnancy again.

But unexpectedly, upon hearing Lin Aoxue’s words, Yang Bingyu’s emotions broke down even further. She let out a sharp scream, grabbed a nearby vase, and hurled it directly at Lin Aoxue.

Lin Aoxue was dumbfounded, completely unable to dodge in time.

With a single stride, Ye Xuan stepped right in front of Lin Aoxue, using his back to shield her from the incoming projectile.

CRASH!

The vase shattered into a pile of fragments on the floor. Ye Xuan clenched his jaw, enduring the pain.

Snapping out of her daze, Lin Aoxue panicked and immediately tried to check on his injury. "Are you okay? Does it hurt?"

Watching their intimate interaction, Yang Bingyu felt as if a massive hole had been gouged out of her heart. Her entire body felt both painful and freezing cold.

"Heh, what a pair of deeply affectionate lovers. Ye Xuan, tonight, I’ve finally seen your true colors.

"Both of you, get out! Get out! I never want to see you again!"

CRASH! BANG!

Amidst a chaotic cacophony of breaking items, Yang Bingyu began smashing everything in the room like a madwoman.

Ye Xuan knew her bipolar mania was acting up. He patted Lin Aoxue on the shoulder, signaling for her to leave first. With Yang Bingyu currently in a frenzied state, he worried that Lin Aoxue might get hurt if she stayed.

Lin Aoxue gave Yang Bingyu a worried glance, but ultimately obeyed and backed out of the room.

"Bingyu, put down what’s in your hand first, okay? Be good, listen to me. Whatever it is, we can talk it out slowly." Ye Xuan tried to soothe her while attempting to inch closer.

Clutching a desk lamp, Yang Bingyu glared at him with bloodshot eyes.

"Why? Why are you doing this to me?

"What more do you want from me? Yang Jie is dead, my grandfather is dead, and now the Yang Family is falling apart like loose sand!

"You keep claiming you’ll protect me, yet you’re the one who hurts me the most!

"You tell me to trust you, but you saved the murderer who killed my grandfather! You even sent her to Jingcheng and asked someone to protect her!

"Ye Xuan, tell me, how am I supposed to trust you?!"

The events of the past replayed in her mind one by one. As she looked at the man before her, a surge of deep resentment rose from the very bottom of her heart.

She thought, "If it weren’t for him, my life wouldn’t be like this. Kill him! Kill him!"

Like a woman possessed, those words echoed endlessly in Yang Bingyu’s mind.

At this point, Ye Xuan was only a meter away from her. Just as he was about to reach out and grab her, an accident occurred. To his shock, Yang Bingyu viciously swung the desk lamp directly at his head.

"Go to hell! This is all your fault! Go to hell!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.

The heavy lamp struck Ye Xuan squarely on the crown of his head. A wave of dizziness washed over him, and he staggered slightly before finally steadying himself.

By now, Yang Bingyu had completely lost her mind. She didn’t remember who she was, nor did she remember Ye Xuan. She only felt an endless, raging inferno of anger in her chest that desperately needed to be unleashed.