Chapter 35 - Backfire: a Fight Between the Cousin and the Second Miss Wei (1/2)

Chapter 35 Backfire: a Fight Between the Cousin and the Second Miss Wei

Near a big tree beside the side door, a big wolf dog was lying lazily on the ground, its head leaning feebly against its forelimbs, its tongue sticking out, and its saliva dripping down. The dog looked hungry and lacking in strength.

Suddenly, a faint fragrance in the air flew to its nose. The wolf dog had been starved for more than a day or two. When it caught the smell, its hair immediately stood up. It jumped to its feet, shook its body, and stared at the side door.

The fragrance was getting closer and closer. The wolf dog couldn’t endure it any longer and suddenly pounced forward. The long chain behind it was pulled along clattering as it dashed forward. Since the dog had been starved for several days, it could catch even the slightest trace of fragrance in the air. At this moment, it leaped out with sheer excitement.

Now the wolf dog sprang excitedly upon the figure at the door and opened its mouth wide…

Mo Huating didn’t expect that the wolf dog would pounce at him when he reached the side door. Fortunately, he was adept at martial arts. He took two quick steps backward and reached out to fend off the attack. However, the fragrance grew even stronger as his hand was extended. The wolf dog was almost driven crazy. Normally, if the dog saw a hand reaching out to its head, it would probably pause for a moment.

But now, the wolf dog had gone nuts at the smell. It simply didn’t care about anything. It lunged at Mo Huating and bit him in the hand. With a miserable cry, a piece of flesh was bitten off Mo Huating’s wrist.

Seeing this scene in front of them, the large group of people who followed in were so scared that they could barely stand on their legs.

Several young male servants following Mo Huating here were quick to react. Some of them came over to support Mo Huating, who had fallen to the ground, and others hurried to pull back the chain. The servants tried their best and finally held the crazy wolf dog in reign.

Mo Huating was helped up, his face pale with pain due to the bite that had taken a piece of flesh off his wrist. The wound was so deep that bones could be seen, and there was blood gushing out. As a man who practiced martial arts, he endured the pain by gritting his teeth. He took a strip of cloth from one of the young male servants and wrapped it around the wrist. Then he ordered anxiously.

“Hurry, hurry up to find the Sixth Young Lady. Make…make sure nothing happens to her.”

“Yes.”

A few stout young male servants nodded and scattered in all directions to look for Wei Yuewu.

The Madam Dowager frowned deeply at the scene in front of her. Lady Tu came in anxiously. Without caring about her fear of the wolf dog, she asked the maids and old maidservants who followed her here to help look for Wei Yuewu.

Judging by the ferocity of the wolf dog, it was highly likely that Wei Yuewu would be in grave danger if she had really rushed in here.

However, they did not find Wei Yuewu after searching the entire yard. Mo Huating felt the situation was out of his control by instinct. He somehow recalled the night when Wei Yuewu escaped from death. The plan was also nearly perfect at that night. But in the end, the one he discovered dead in the carriage was only a maid of Wei Yuewu, while Wei Yuewu herself had actually escaped. Then, what would happen to her this time?

Was it possible that Wei Yuewu escaped again?

Considering Wei Yuewu had managed to survive from that perfect ambush last time, Mo Huating inexplicably became alarmed and fearful of her. The pain on his wrist also seemed to be getting stronger. Cold sweat began to appear on his pale handsome face. Most of the sweat was caused by the pain, while the rest was due to his worry that things might turn out to be different from his plan.

“Marquis, where is Yuewu? Where on earth did you take her? If something bad really happened to her here at your mansion, Marquis Jing Yuan, we would definitely not let you get away with it.”

Lady Tu’s expression turned cold. She still remembered that her mother-in-law repeatedly told her before she came to the capital that Marquis Jing Yuan was not a good husband for Yuewu.

No matter how talented or handsome he was, a husband who assassinated his fiancee would never be a desirable husband.

“Marquis Jing Yuan, what exactly is going on?”

The Madam Dowager also asked with a grim face.

It was she who took Wei Yuewu along to the mansion of Marquis Jing Yuan. If Wei Yuewu really encountered some accident here, the implication was enough to make the Madam Dowager stand by Wei Yuewu’s side without hesitation.

“Where is she?”

Mo Huating asked in a sharp voice as he turned his head and glared at the old maidservant who had reported the news.

“I saw the Sixth Miss Wei coming this way. She must have come here. But…but now I really don’t know where she is!”

The old maidservant who had reported the news never thought that she would make such a big mistake. She instantly dropped to her knee in a great fluster.

“You watched our Yuewu coming here. You also knew that there was a wolf dog here, but you didn’t stop Yuewu from entering this place. Instead, you ran a long distance to inform Marquis Jing Yuan of it. What exactly does that mean? Marquis Jing Yuan, what is the intention of your mansion?”

Lady Tu was so furious that her lips turned pale and her eyes were filled with anger.

“Marquis Jing Yuan, if something happened to Yuewu today, the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang would never be reconciled with you.”

The Madam Dowager was furious that Mo Huating should have brought about such trouble when she came to cancel the engagement. Her sharp gaze swept across Mo Huating.

As the situation had developed into such a mess, it was almost certain that Mo Huating had an unavoidable responsibility for Wei Yuewu coming to this place.