After all, they were colleagues. Xu Zixi took the initiative to say hello. "Hi, Daisa. You've been working late, too?"
Because of the old news about Fengcheng, Daisa hadn't talked to Xu Zixi for a long time. Seeing her take the initiative to speak and there being only the two of them around, she sighed.
"Yeah. The work in the secretariat is trivial and messy. If I don't handle it properly, things will be in a complete mess at work tomorrow. Don't worry. I'm not alone. Zhenzhen was also working overtime just now. But she said she had something at home and left ten minutes earlier than me."
Xu Zixi remembered that Daisa had said last time that she had to pass by a dark and deserted path on her way home and had been followed by someone. She said,
"Since we've met, let's go together. I'll walk you home."
Daisa was quite flattered. "No, no need. My place is quite out - of - the - way. I don't want to trouble you."
Xu Zixi pressed the elevator button and smiled. "Don't decline. I know it must be scary for you to go home alone when it's this late."
"I didn't expect you to still remember..." Daisa was stunned, and at the same time, she felt very warm. While taking the elevator down, she kept stealing glances at Xu Zixi.
The former assistant was really a nice person. Although she used to be a rich young lady, she never put on airs like Miss Pei. Moreover, last time she helped Zhou Yaru from the product department get back her stolen computer. Could a person like this be as despicable as the news said?
With a "ding", the elevator reached the first floor. Daisa quickly composed herself and walked out with Xu Zixi. After swiping their employee cards, they were officially off work.
From afar, Xu Zixi saw Hu Yuankang waving at her. She said to Daisa, "I'll walk you home. It won't take much time."
This time, Daisa didn't decline anymore. She smiled and said, "Thank you, Yuan Xi!"
However, as the two were walking towards the car, Daisa caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye that there were three people confronting each other not far away, and one of them looked very familiar. She let out a soft "huh" and stopped in her tracks.
Xu Zixi asked, "What's wrong?"
Daisa pointed in that direction. "That person over there looks like Zhenzhen?"
In the distance, Cui Jiandong shielded Huang Zhenzhen behind him and said seriously to the gloomy - looking and thin man in front of him,
"I'm warning you. This is the Pei Corporation, not a place where you can act wildly! If you continue to harass our female colleagues, I'll call the police!"
The man sneered twice and stared intently at Huang Zhenzhen behind Cui Jiandong. "Huang Zhenzhen, so the reason you've been refusing to get back together with me is because of this pretty boy!"
Huang Zhenzhen's hair had been tugged into a mess, and there were wounds on her face from the beating. She glared at the man angrily and shouted shrilly,
"Xu Minghe, give up this idea! I'll never get back together with a scumbag like you who beats women at the slightest provocation!"
"It's you who is unchaste and always showing yourself outside. Do you know what my brothers say about me? They say I have a secretary girlfriend who has a green hat on her head and who has been slept with by the men in the company countless times! If you had just stayed at home obediently, why would I have beaten you?"
The man reached out his hand to pull Huang Zhenzhen past Cui Jiandong. "Come back with me! As long as you listen to me from now on, I promise I'll never beat you again."
Cui Jiandong pushed the man hard and frowned. "Can't you understand? Didn't she say she won't get back together with you?"
His strength was quite great. The thin man couldn't withstand the push and was directly knocked to the ground. The man was stunned for a moment, then swore in disbelief, "Fuck your mother", jumped up from the ground, took out something, and stabbed at Cui Jiandong.
Cui Jiandong only saw a flash of light in the air, and then he felt something pierce his abdomen. He looked up blankly, and in his dilated pupils was the man's crazy expression.
"Huang Zhenzhen, if I can't have you, no one else can. I'm going to kill you two adulterers!"
Huang Zhenzhen screamed, "Help! Murder!"
The man took out the knife from Cui Jiandong's abdomen and wanted to stab again. Suddenly, something flew over and hit him hard on the head. He staggered back a few steps. Shaking his dazed head, just as he was about to open his eyes, he felt his wrist holding the knife being grabbed, and with a "snap", his entire arm was broken, and an unbearable pain shot through him.
It didn't end there. Then his left arm was also broken in this extremely rough way. He knelt on the ground, wailing heart - rendingly, and his gloomy face was distorted with pain.
After Xu Zixi subdued the man and made sure he was no longer a threat, she then turned to check on Cui Jiandong.
It was only when the knife left his body that Cui Jiandong felt the pain. He covered the bleeding wound, collapsed into Huang Zhenzhen's arms, his body trembling uncontrollably. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead due to the pain, and his lips had started to turn pale.
Huang Zhenzhen never expected such a thing to happen. Holding Cui Jiandong, she was completely at a loss.
"Manager Cui, you, you, you..."
"Daisa, call an ambulance first!" Xu Zixi calmly commanded. Then she stepped forward to check Cui Jiandong's wound. "Manager Cui, don't panic. The wound isn't in a fatal position, and the knife didn't go in too deep. You'll be okay. Don't be afraid. Keep calm. Don't get too excited. Keep your hand on the wound and don't let go. Zhenzhen, hold him until the ambulance arrives!"
Only then did Huang Zhenzhen notice that the person in front of her was Xu Zixi. She was stunned for a moment, and her panicked heart was inexplicably soothed. She nodded vigorously. "Okay! I'll listen to you!"
Taking out her phone to call the police, she looked coldly at the man on the ground whose arms she had broken. So this was Huang Zhenzhen's domestic - abusing ex - boyfriend? He only knew how to use such extreme means against women, treating women as his property. He was truly a social scum.
The ambulance arrived faster than the police car. Cui Jiandong was carried onto a stretcher and rushed to the hospital, and Huang Zhenzhen went with him. Xu Zixi and Daisa waited at the scene until the police car arrived. They explained what had just happened to the police and cooperated with them to retrieve the surveillance footage near the Pei Corporation before heading to the hospital.
When Xu Zixi and Daisa arrived, Cui Jiandong had already been pushed into the operating room. Huang Zhenzhen was sitting outside the operating room, silently shedding tears. There was still Cui Jiandong's blood on her body, making her look pitiful and disheveled.
Hearing the footsteps, Huang Zhenzhen looked up. Seeing Xu Zixi and Daisa, she seemed to finally find a backbone. She stood up and hugged Xu Zixi tightly, crying loudly.
"It's my fault that Manager Cui got hurt. If it weren't for me, he wouldn't be injured! Yuan Xi, I'm so scared. I'm so afraid he'll die because of me. Waaah..."