"Again? You guys are such persistent pests." Tao Cheng spat on the ground, shook off Cheng Ruan's arm, and told the people around him to restrain her. Then he rolled his wrists and rushed towards Miaomiao.
Since their leader had charged forward, those slovenly minions naturally wouldn't just stand by. They scrambled up from the ground and charged after him.
How could those guys, whose bodies had long been depleted by debauchery and lust, be a match for Miaomiao, who had been learning martial arts since childhood?
They were just being so reckless because they outnumbered the others.
They never expected that, even with over a dozen of them, they could be beaten back single - handedly by a little girl, and all of them ended up black - eyed, swollen - faced, and more or less injured.
The fight was extremely chaotic. The opponents' random fighting style was like a children's game. In fact, seeing that they were losing, they even tried to grab Wei Ziqi and the others.
But Wei Ziqi was a smart cookie. Before they could get close, he had already seen through their intention. He grabbed Yao Mingxuan, who was still on the ground, and ran far away, out of the chaotic fighting area.
In just a dozen minutes, the KTV corridor was littered with bodies. The passing waiters had already seen the chaos here, but seeing that the main character was Tao Cheng, they all backed off, afraid of getting into trouble.
"Don't move! If you do, this girl's face won't be intact anymore."
Tao Cheng roared angrily. He grabbed Cheng Ruan by the neck and held a fruit knife, threatening to slash her face. No one knew when he had slipped out of the fight and got the fruit knife.
The scene was so chaotic just now that no one noticed his little move.
When Miaomiao saw Cheng Ruan being threatened with a knife, she immediately stopped fighting. Seeing that the threat was effective, Tao Cheng, whose face was swollen like a pig's head, sneered maliciously.
"Tao Cheng! Who gave you the guts to take a hostage and hurt someone with a knife?"
Tao Jing was so angry that she trembled all over and roared.
"It's none of your business! Don't think you're really my sister! You, and you two, come here and kneel down to apologize to me. Then I'll let her go."
Tao Cheng pointed at Miaomiao, Yao Mingxuan, and Wei Ziqi. He was determined to regain the face he had lost today.
The opponent had a knife. Although Miaomiao herself wasn't afraid of such cold weapons, the person with the knife to her face was Cheng Ruan, who had no ability to defend herself at all.
Looking at Cheng Ruan, who was crying so hard that she could hardly catch her breath, Miaomiao walked up to Tao Cheng without hesitation. She knelt down with a thud and said, "Sorry."
Wei Ziqi and Yao Mingxuan also walked up behind Miaomiao, knelt on the ground, and apologized.
Having regained his lost face, Tao Cheng took a deep breath looking at the three people kneeling on the ground. He put down the knife and threw Cheng Ruan at Miaomiao.
Miaomiao quickly stood up and caught Cheng Ruan, who was about to fall. After steadying her, she turned around and rushed in front of Tao Cheng. With a swift kick, she sent Tao Cheng sprawling on his back.
Immediately, Tao Cheng's screams and the cracking sound of bones echoed through the corridor. The scene was extremely brutal, scaring those minions so much that their legs went weak.
They didn't feel much during the group fight, but now Miaomiao was straddling Tao Cheng, punching him mercilessly. Tao Cheng was crying with snot and tears streaming down his face. All he could do was scream; he couldn't even utter a complete sentence, which showed how painful it was.
"Miaomiao, stop! You'll cause trouble if you keep going." Seeing that they had taught him enough, Wei Ziqi quickly stopped Miaomiao. Without giving others any time to react, he took his friends and walked out of the KTV.
Outside, Wei Ziqi quickly hailed a taxi and took Yao Mingxuan to the hospital. Although his injuries were mostly superficial, some of the open wounds still needed to be disinfected and bandaged. They also needed to check if there were any internal injuries.
At the hospital, after a systematic examination, there was nothing wrong with other parts of his body. However, during the fight, Yao Mingxuan's inner cheek had been cut by his teeth, and he needed stitches and anti - inflammatory injections.
While getting the injection, Tao Jing bowed respectfully to the three kids and apologized, "I'm sorry. If I hadn't insisted on taking you to that kind of place today, this wouldn't have happened. Don't worry. I'll handle this properly. I'll even force Tao Cheng to kneel down and apologize to you."
"This is not your fault. You're not the one who picked the fight. That guy is lecherous and arrogant. Even if we had just met him on the street by chance instead of in the KTV, the conflict would have turned out like this. It has nothing to do with the place. It's simply that he's a bad person. Besides, it's your birthday today, and we've ruined your mood."
Wei Ziqi shook his head slightly. They didn't really care about whether Tao Cheng would kneel or not.
Kneeling on the ground was just an action, and "sorry" was just three words at most. It wasn't difficult to do or say. Compared to the possibility that the guy might impulsively slash Cheng Ruan's face and disfigure her, this kind of petty humiliation with no real - life harm didn't count for much.
They wouldn't be devastated just because of this kneel, and they wouldn't have a psychological shadow just because they apologized to someone they didn't respect.
That guy was obviously an impulsive and brainless fool. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had such a big conflict with them on the spot. So, in that situation, doing as he said was the best outcome.
Moreover, after Cheng Ruan was thrown out, Miaomiao immediately got revenge. If Tao Cheng didn't lie in bed for ten days or half a month, all of Miaomiao's years of martial - arts training would have been in vain. It would take him at least three or four months of recovery before he could come out and cause trouble again.
"I still have to apologize to you."
Tao Jing felt extremely guilty. Seeing that the four kids didn't have any estrangement from her because of this incident, she felt even more remorseful and uneasy.
The atmosphere became increasingly solemn. Yao Mingxuan grinned, gasped in pain, and then said after catching his breath, "It's okay. I'm not seriously injured. He must be pretty hurt. But I noticed that you two seem to know each other, and you both have the surname Tao. What's his relation to your family? Are you relatives?"
"We're related by blood. He's my father's illegitimate son." Tao Jing was silent for a while before explaining when this topic came up.
"Illegitimate son?! How dare an illegitimate son be so arrogant? What gives him the nerve?!" Yao Mingxuan was really shocked by Tao Cheng's identity.
His arrogant attitude even seemed to overshadow Tao Jing's. At first, they thought he was Tao Jing's direct - line cousin or something, but they never expected him to be just an illegitimate son.