Chapter 198: Chapter 198 I Want to Ask You Something

He finally got rid of Zhao Yifan, and the crowd started to have fun at the festival.

However, Chen Hao couldn’t handle the crowd’s constant questioning and found an excuse to leave early.

Besides, he had already achieved his goal—now Xu Xia’s mother saw Yang Hui as a precious baby.

Chen Hao flagged down a taxi to go back to school.

“Mister, please stop here!”

The moment he reached the school gates, Chen Hao saw the scene unfolding in front of him and asked the driver to stop the car.

It was almost night.

He noticed that there were a few expensive cars parked by the school gates.

A couple of ruffians were surrounding a girl who wanted to enter the school, obviously blocking her way and not letting her pass through.

The girl looked angry, even raising her hand to slap a boy.

They became even more fierce because of that, almost starting to take action.

“These little rich kids. Just because their families are rich, they think they can do everything they want.

Young man, I think you should just read the situation and stop caring about these little things. There are some people we just can’t afford to offend.”

The driver looked at the scene, smiling bitterly as he shook his head.

But Chen Hao just passed a hundred dollar bill to him, saying that he could keep the change before he went down from the car.

He walked toward the girl.

The driver looked at Chen Hao’s retreating figure sympathetically. “Sigh. Young man, good luck!”

After that, he left.

“Miss Qin Ya, don’t embarrass us, okay? Our boss said that we had to invite you over today, just to have a glass or two, there’s no harm in that!”

The ruffians opened their arms and surrounded Qin Ya halfway.

There were people walking by them, but no one dared to butt into a situation like this.

“Screw off, you guys! I don’t even know your boss. Why should I have a drink with him?” Qin Ya scolded coldly.

“Hehe, Miss Qin Ya, our boss is Shen Qiang. You should have heard of him before. Speaking of which, you guys must be fated. He met you during a business conference once and couldn’t forget you, but could not find your contact information!”

“But today, your fate has come! Your picture was on some guy’s phone, and once we asked around, we really managed to find you! Our boss has even booked a table just for you. If you don’t show up, then we’ll be done for!”

The ruffians laughed.

“Go away! I mean it when I say I’m not going. If you all keep going on, I will call the police!” Qin Ya said, biting her lip.

“Cough, cough! Since Miss Qin Ya is so ruthless, then we won’t be so courteous anymore. It looks like we will just have to use force. But once you see our boss, you will fall in love with him for sure!

Hahaha!”

“Brothers, let’s escort Miss Qin Ya onto the car!”

The head of the ruffians commanded, and a couple of his underlings pulled Qin Ya into the car by her arms.

“What are you all doing?! Let me go! Help!”

Qin Ya yelled in terror.

She faintly remembers having heard about someone called Shen Qiang before, who was involved with gangsters.

Apart from that, he was also a wild, careless young master.

The things he did were just disgusting.

Qin Ya didn’t know how or when she had gotten his attention, but she could roughly guess how she would end up after being taken away by him!

That was why she struggled for her life.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Right at that moment, a few loud bangs sounded!

Then she saw the ruffian’s heads, which had been beaten and were all bleeding profusely.

The person who had rushed over was, of course, Chen Hao.

When he saw that the girl in question was Qin Ya, he got off the car and found two tree branches that were heavy and sturdy. Without caring about whether he would kill anyone, he came over and started beating them.

There were five ruffians in total.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Hao had knocked out four of them.

“F*ck, who are you?” the head ruffian was panicking and asked in shock.

“I’ll beat you to death!”

Chen Hao didn’t say more and went up to hit him.

That ruffian seemed to fight often, and he picked up a brick from the ground before using it in the scuffle with Chen Hao.

But he still couldn’t win against the fierce Chen Hao and ran off with his tail between his legs.

“Chen Hao, y-you’re okay, right?” Qin Ya said in shock.

“I’m fine!”

Chen Hao wiped at the bloodstains at the corner of his mouth.

“Ah! Your head looks like it’s bleeding!” Qin Ya suddenly got anxious.

He didn’t notice before, but his forehead was bleeding.

It was the result of a sneak attack by that little goon.

“It’s no big deal. Why did they come to mess with you?”

Chen Hao wiped at the injury on his face. This was the first time he had ever fought like that.

Luckily, he had some strength. The main thing was that he didn’t care, he just focused on desperately fighting.

“I don’t know either. Once I came back today, they started harassing me through the phone. After that, they came to block me at the school gates and kept forcing me to have a meal with Shen Qiang. I don’t even know him, and I don’t know who gave him my contact information!”

Qin Ya looked at Chen Hao, who had just fought for her, and her heart was filled with unspeakable emotion as she told him what happened with reddening eyes.

Looks like it was that *sshole, Li Yue! Chen Hao muttered inwardly.

Chen Hao definitely knew the start of everything that had happened today. Li Yue was taken away to get a scolding by Shen Qiang that afternoon. He didn’t know how Shen Qiang taught Li Yue his lesson, but the fact that Shen Qiang had his eyes on Qin Ya right now was definitely the doings of Li Yue!

He had always been hiding from Qin Ya, but he had still been subconsciously treating Qin Ya as his friend.

He also knew that Qin Ya had treated him pretty well before, but he had disappointed her. That was why Chen Hao had always felt a little guilty toward Qin Ya.

That was also why he had thrown himself into the fray carelessly when he had seen Qin Ya get into trouble.

At first, after Chen Hao had made sure that Qin Ya was fine, he'd wanted to return to his dormitory and bandage his cuts.

But Qin Ya did not allow him to, instead forcing him to go to the medical office with her.

The whole way, Qin Ya clutched Chen Hao’s hand tightly.

But who knew what she had been thinking? She had previously been extremely worried about Chen Hao, but without him saying anything, she suddenly swung his hand away fiercely, letting him walk on his own.

“What is it?” Chen Hao said, surprised.

“Nothing! I’m just wondering, why do I have to be worried about you, or be kind to you? You treated me so badly before. You didn’t even treat me as a friend!” Qin Ya suddenly said, her tone aggrieved.

“Did you know how many times I prepared food from home for you because I wanted to go to the canteen with you and eat together? I also wanted to study with you, but you kept avoiding me. When my mom was sick, you didn’t even ask about her. That’s when I realized that I thought too highly of myself. I even thought—I thought that you would at least treat me as a friend, maybe even… haha, turns out I was overthinking!” Qin Ya said.

“You weren’t supposed to save me today. I was already very disappointed in you, but now I’m very grateful, too, and touched. Tell me, what do you want from me?!” Qin Ya stomped her foot in agitation.

“I just don’t want you to get hurt! I really do see you as my friend!”

Qin Ya wasn’t an overly materialistic girl, which was something he hadn’t seen often. She was kind and pretty, too, so of course Chen Hao would see her as a friend!

“Okay, then I’ll ask you something.”

Qin Ya said emotionally, and stared at Chen Hao intensely.