Beauty and the Bodyguard

She suddenly felt like crying- if it weren’t for Fighter Li and Scorpion letting her parents go, she’d have killed herself already! She couldn’t even die now, for her life wasn’t her own to take!

At that moment, she felt her tears drip down onto her cheek, and she started sobbing…

Goudan was just enjoying his pleasant meal when he heard the girl cry- he jerked his head up to see that it was the girl at the counter!

“Miss shopkeeper, what’s wrong?” Goudan quickly got up and walked over.

Yuanyuan didn’t speak, and continued crying- Goudan’s question actually made her crying worse. It reminded her of her situation.

“Girlie, please talk to me! What’s wrong? Weren’t you fine just a second ago, why are you suddenly crying?” Goudan was panicking- the girl wasn’t replying at all! “Could it be because I didn’t pay? Don’t worry, I’ll pay it back to you, I promise! It hurts me to see you cry!”

“Waah… Wahh….” Yuanyuan started crying even louder.

Yu Ren was thinking of his daughter- there wasn’t much time he had left with her, and so he closed shop and went to his daughter’s burger shop.

Entering the shop, he panicked- his daughter was crying! He went over a few steps, “Yuanyuan, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?”

“Dad…” Yuanyuan jumped into her dad’s arms, crying even louder now.

Yuanyuan, what’s wrong?” Yu Ren asked carefully.

“You, I, I don’t have any money to give you back, and you said you’d buy me the meal, why’re you crying… If you regret it, I won’t eat it anymore …” Goudan felt helpless.

Yu Ren paused- was this guy here to do a dine and dash? But didn’t he say that his daughter was buying him the meal?

“You… You can go eat your food, this has nothing to do with you…” Yuanyuan said, worried that her dad would think it was Goudan who made her cry.

“If it has nothing to do with me, why’d you suddenly cry? You were fine just now, why so suddenly..?” Goudan didn’t know where this was coming from.

“Kid, since this has nothing to do with you, you should go back to your meal..” Yu Ren already guessed the reason why she was crying- it had nothing to do with this guy, so he asked him to go back.

“I’ve eaten your food- I can’t just freeload of of it. Is something wrong? Tell me, perhaps I’ll be able to help you!” Goudan guessed that she might’ve gotten into some trouble.

“You can’t help me… No one can…” Yuanyuan said to him, as if taking out her frustration, “Just stop asking…”

“What do you mean, I can’t help you?” Goudan felt a surge of boldness coming- he didn’t feel very good when looking at Yuanyuan cry, and he was the type of person who remembered their roots! She bought him a meal, and now that she was in trouble there was no way he’d just leave her like that!

“I’m about to get taken away to be somebody’s mistress, how can you help me?” Yuanyuan had no choice but to blurt it out. She dind’t want to say it, but Goudan kept pushing and asking- this wasn’t something she wanted to annouce!

“Mistress?” Goudan blinked, “Somebody’s taking you away? Why are they taking you away?”

“Don’t ask so many questions, this has nothing to do with you- just finish your meal and leave!” Yuanyuan didn’t want to involve an honest man into her issue.

“Please tell me- what’s wrong? I don’t believe that someone could just come take you away while I’m sitting here!” Goudan’s stubbornness was surfacing as he widened his eyes.

Goudan had some nice feelings regarding Yuanyuan, after all- he felt that she was a kind girl, much nicer than that scammer girl! She bought him food, and he couldn’t just ignore her when she was in trouble, this wasn’t how he was raised!

“Fine, if you want to listen, I’ll tell it to you…” Yuanyuan saw that Goudan was insisting passionately, so she gave in. She was feeling frustrated from keeping everything pent up for these two days, and it bring her relief if she spilled everything.

In truth, she didn’t believe that Goudan would be able to do anything- he had just entered the city, what did he know of the coldness and cruelty here? And so she told him about how her father got scammed into an arena betting event, and about the debt, and about how Fighter Li was forcing her to become his mistress.

Goudan grew furious while listening to the story. He looked at Yu Ren bitterly, “What is this Scorpion and Fighter Li? One cocky bastard, and another arena performer? I thought they would be some powerful men, but they were just a couple of small fries- and yet you’re still shipping your daughetr away to settle the debt? What sort of father are you, are you a man?”

“I… I’m not, but what can I do? Scorpion is of the underground world, and that Fighter Li is strong- he’s able to break through an iron door, what am I supposed to do? They can kill our entire family easily!” Yu Ren smiled bitterly.

“And so you accept this fate? Giving them your daughter?” Goudan was quite pissed- what sort of father was this?

“What else can I do?” He shook his head, helpless. “Kid, you don’t understand- you’re too honest, you don’t know how strong those people are!”

“Strong? Some city guy and a performer- how strong could they be?” Goudan said, looking down on them, “These sorts of people prey on the weak- if you look soft they’ll come get you, if you act tough then they’ll hit you- If I were you, I’d fight to the death with them!”

“Fight? I’m not on their level at all, I’d die!” Yu Ren felt that this guy was too unreasonable. He shook his head…

“Why do you keep talking about my dad like that? You just came to the city, how would you know how strong they are? You make it sound so easy, why don’t you go fight them to the death then?” Yuanyuan was getting angry. Her father wasn’t brave and this was his fault, but getting called out like that by a stranger made her uncomfortable for sure. His words had sense to them, but he didn’t know how complicated the situation was, or how strong the enemy was!

“Give me that Fighter Li or whatever he’s called- give me his address, I’ll kill him with one punch!”