Kapow!

A loud noise shook the sky and the ground. Smoke was everywhere.

Xia Xibei smiled bitterly before she even opened her eyes.

—She had failed again!

In the next moment, the weird sensations in her body made her open her eyes, her gaze looking sharp.

The sloppy, dirty, and stinking man in front of her did not notice the change. Instead, he grinned and bared his yellow teeth while stroking her body.

Xia Xibei’s motions were faster than her thoughts. She grabbed the man’s hand and pulled hard!

“Ow!”

The man yelped, and his scream scared all the feral dogs and cats who were scrounging for food in the trash cans nearby.

“Let…let me go!”

The man yelled as he tried to push Xia Xibei.

But in the next moment, he screamed again as Xia Xibei kicked hard at his lower body, his eyes bulging out from the pain!

What kind of man wouldn’t understand this kind of pain?

Xia Xibei didn’t stop. She kicked him again, sending him to the wall.

The man curled up. His face was so pale, and he couldn’t speak.

Xia Xibei looked around blankly. This familiar yet strange alley with its sour and pungent smell finally unlocked her long-forgotten memory.

She looked down at her body in t-shirt and jeans, and her expression finally changed.

She was reborn again?! And she was reborn as a seventeen-year-old!

Yes, she was reborn twice.

The first time, she was reborn in a mysterious fantasy world with her memories, eventually becoming a legendary doctor and a naturalist.

However, she had never expected to be reborn a second time! And she had returned to her first life, a lifetime when she was the most unwilling and resentful!

Looking at the man groaning in pain, her eyes became colder.

In this life, although she had parents, they had long ago divorced and made new families who regarded her as a burden and let her live by herself.

As a result, she had no choice but to work to support herself.

During this point in time, she was working as a clerk for a small restaurant. She had gone out for a delivery and when she passed through this narrow alley, she was followed by this homeless man who had assaulted her.

Even though she got away in the end, the encounter had traumatized her for life!

Now that she was reborn, she would start her change with this man!

She walked toward the man as she thought of this.

“No, no… don’t come over!”

When he heard her footsteps, the homeless man became afraid, and he started to beg. “I-I… someone told me to come. I didn’t want to!”

Xia Xibei stopped walking. Her face was dark and inscrutable, her gaze cold. “Who told you to come?”

“A-a teenager! He gave me money, he told me to wait for you here! He told me to do all this!”

The homeless man didn’t dare to hide anything and immediately told her the whole story.

He was afraid that if he talked too slow, Xia Xibei would kill him.

A teenager?

Xia Xibei looked down. “How much did he give you?”

“Just one… one thousand yuan!”

One thousand yuan was enough for him to ruin a girl. So cheap!

Even though the last step wasn’t committed, this incident was already a huge blow to Xia Xibei, who was originally introverted and timid.

This was also the start of her tragedy.

Thinking of this, she stepped forward. “Where is the money?”

The homeless man was startled and looked up at her in disbelief.

“Take it out!”

Xia Xibei stomped a foot on his back with no mercy.

“I-I-I’ll get it now!”

The homeless man hurriedly pulled out a thousand yuan from his clothes.

“Can I go now? I’m really innocent!”

Picking up the money that was still smelly, Xia Xibei showed a weird smile.

Innocent? How innocent can someone be to ruin a girl for one thousand yuan?

Her mouth moved. In the next instant, a few feral cats suddenly appeared and charged toward the homeless man.

“Argh—!”

In the fantasy world that Xia Xibei was reborn into for her second life, there were animal-trainers and royal botanists. People who had both skills were called naturalists.

It could be because of her memory that she had a strong mental power to become a rare naturalist.

Even though her skills in this area were almost non-existent after being reborn, controlling a few feral cats and dogs was still really easy.

Xia Xibei wasn’t moved by the screams coming from behind her. She kept walking forward.

However, as she passed another alley, a few footsteps came.

“Get him! He’s in front! Don’t let him get away!”

Xia Xibei frowned. She didn’t want to face these people, so she carefully darted away.

As she got close to a raft of bamboo, the scent of blood rushed to her nose.

Before she could react, a hand had pulled her into the raft of bamboo.

“Shhh…”

A low-pitched voice sounded, and before she could speak, he hugged her and covered her mouth.

A masculine scent filled her nostrils along with the thick scent of blood.

The footsteps outside got closer. They were headed toward them.

Xia Xibei was angry, but she couldn’t let those people get close to them. They might think she was with the man.

Her brows moved.

“Over there!”

Someone yelled, followed by others running in another direction.

After making the feral cats and dogs lead the people away, Xia Xibei felt dizzy and her body went limp.

She would have fallen on the ground if the man didn’t catch her.

However, their pose was a little suggestive.

Xia Xibei was very thin, but she wasn’t short. She was almost 170 cm.

The man, however, was taller. She could feel his energy over her head, giving her goosebumps. He was also quite strong, with a wide and solid chest.

When Xia Xibei had been pulled in here earlier, she didn’t struggle; she just tried to maintain some distance from him.

Now, she was too weak to stand from her exertion. She could only lean on him. There was almost no space between them.

Such an ambiguous posture was already embarrassing, but what made Xia Xibei ashamed and annoyed was that the man’s body seemed to have changed!

The air seemed to have frozen as the two of them leaned together.

Confirming that those people had left, she pressed against the man’s chest and pushed him away.

“Hm!”

The man grunted. There was more blood on his belly now.

Pa pa pa!

The bamboo raft fell to the ground, making a crisp sound and bringing up a lot of dust.

Xia Xibei finally saw the man.

He was at least 185 cm tall. He had a lean figure and angular features, slanted and strong brows, deep and sharp eyes, thin lips, and a frown that made him look like an emperor overlooking the world from his throne, exuding arrogance.

Too bad the blood stains and the mess made his strength ridiculous.

When Xia Xibei clearly saw the man’s face, her gaze changed.

Qiao Yanjue. People called him Master Jue!

The Qiao family was renowned for its wealth in the country of Hua, and he was a mogul of the business world, which frightened people.

Except, when she thought of Qiao Yanjue’s relationship with a certain person, she wished that she could have made those people chasing him come back!

Xia Xibei’s gaze made Qiao Yanjue frown. He hesitated. “You know me?”

“I don’t know you.” Xia Xibei’s face was unchanged.

Of course, Qiao Yanjue didn’t believe her. He could tell that the young woman wasn’t telling the truth.

However, he had no time to ponder this as his injury became worse.

His body shook. Xia Xibei didn’t have time to think: she strode forward and supported him.

After holding him up, Xia Xibei wanted to slap herself.

What a reflex!

She did have standards about saving people!

“I’m sorry I troubled you. You can go,” Qiao Yanjue said with a pale face. There was actually a pitiful look on his typically strong face.

Xia Xibei’s face turned dark. Of course she wanted to leave.

But seeing how Qiao Yanjue looked, and the blood which kept flowing, her thoughts were in a jumble. In the end, she turned serious and had him sit on the ground.

Before Qiao Yanjue could even react, she had his jacket taken off and his top pulled up. He was was pressed to the ground.

Maybe Qiao Yanjue didn’t have any strength left or something that he just let her move him.

The clothes were pulled apart, revealing his sculpted abdomen. The bullet marks on it were terrifying, and there was still bleeding.

If this continued, within ten minutes, he would die from excessive blood loss.

Xia Xibei did not react as she reached out her hand to press hard on the wound.

What shocked Qiao Yanjue was that the bleeding really stopped!

“Got a knife and a lighter?”

Qiao Yanjue was startled for a moment, “I have them in my pocket.”

Xia Xibei reached over into his pocket and quickly took out an army knife, a lighter, and a pack of cigarettes.

She threw the pack of cigarettes into the trash can with a bit of disgust and set the knife on fire.

“Try to hold on.”

After handling the knife, she said with a cold face. Before Qiao Yanjue could react, the knife sank into his wound.

“Ah!” Qiao Yanjue immediately broke into a cold sweat. He gritted his teeth, his body suddenly tightening.

Pain! Huge pain!

Without anesthesia, and in such a crude environment, Qiao Yanjue felt that he was crazy. And this girl was crazy, too!

If it weren’t for his masculine pride, he might have yelled.

Xia Xibei’s movements were very neat. The bullet was not deep, so it was soon dug out.

Then Xia Xibei briefly treated the wound. She tore his coat into strips with a knife, and bandaged him simply.

“OK. You won’t die.”

Xia Xibei stood up with a calm expression, but her eyes showed some revulsion.

Qiao Yanjue’s face was pale. He wondered if he had offended this girl before. Why else would she have this attitude?

But he had never been to this place before; how could she know him?

Xia Xibei took the knife and lighter. “This is my reward for saving you. I will not see you in the future.”

Then she left without waiting for Qiao Yanjue to reply.

Watching this scene, Qiao Yanjue became even more bewildered.

After regaining his senses, an interested smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

This girl was quite interesting.

Not see him in the future? Impossible!

After a few minutes, there was movement in the alley again, but this time it was Qiao Yanjue’s people who had come over.

“Master, please forgive us, we came too late!”

Several bodyguards looked at Qiao Yanjue, who was lying on the ground, and their faces turned paler.

Especially after looking at the “bandage” on his abdomen—their heartbeats almost stopped.

Qiao Yanjue didn’t speak, and let them help him up from the ground.

When he got into the car, he finally spoke. “Find out everything.”

His voice was even, but everyone was so terrified that their hairs stood upright.

“Yes!”

Meanwhile, treating Qiao Yanjue’s appearance as an accident, Xia Xibei washed the blood from her hands and walked back to the small restaurant where she worked.

Fortunately, she was wearing black clothes today, so the bloodstains on it were not easy to see and would not scare people.

Back at the small restaurant, there was immediately some shouting. “Where did you go? Where is the food you were delivering?! The customer has called to complain!”

Facing the seemingly honest face, Xia Xibei curved the corner of her mouth. “I quit.”