Chapter 272: Staged Accident

Jiang Fan deliberately put on a confident air and pressed Yin Ruxue.

“N-nothing… Was I really already asleep when you came back?”

“Of course. You were even snoring, sleeping like a log. Don’t tell me you were having a wet dream?”

“What wet dream?! Jiang Fan, why don’t you just go die?”

Yin Ruxue’s face was beet red, but Jiang Fan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Alright, let’s hurry up and get ready. We have to take Mengmeng to school!”

Jiang Fan didn’t dare continue the discussion about last night. The two of them quickly got ready, woke Mengmeng up, had breakfast, and soon headed out.

After dropping Mengmeng off at kindergarten, they headed straight for the company. By unspoken agreement, they didn’t say a word the entire way.

Just as they were approaching the company, at a traffic light near the entrance, Yin Ruxue had just stepped on the brake when the car suddenly lurched.

THUD!

With a dull thud, the car jolted forward. Jiang Fan realized they had been rear-ended.

Yin Ruxue frowned and glanced in the rearview mirror. A Hummer SUV was behind them. Yin Ruxue was about to get out, but four burly men quickly emerged from the Hummer.

“Stay in the car and don’t move. I’ll handle this!”

Jiang Fan frowned, motioning for Yin Ruxue to be careful as he got out of the car himself.

Four men got out of the Hummer. The one in the lead had tattooed sleeves, his arms as thick as a normal person’s thighs. The other three also looked well-trained.

“What the hell, are you blind? Why would you slam on the brakes during rush hour? You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” The tattooed man, without bothering to get the facts straight, first slapped Yin Ruxue’s car before walking to the front of his own.

Yin Ruxue hesitated, but seeing that all four men looked hostile, she quickly got out of the car as well.

The tattooed man went to the front of his vehicle first to inspect the situation. Behind him, the three trained-looking men were each holding a baseball bat.

Jiang Fan also walked up to check: the Hummer’s front end wasn’t seriously damaged, but the rear of Yin Ruxue’s car had a large dent, and the bumper was clearly damaged.

He couldn’t help but frown as he looked at the four men.

“Damn it, a woman driver. You have no idea what you’re doing. So, tell me, how are you going to compensate me?!”

“Sir, it’s obvious you rear-ended me. You’re completely at fault!” Yin Ruxue said coldly.

“I rear-ended you? If you hadn’t slammed on your brakes, would I have hit you?”

“I was driving normally, and not even fast. The light turned red, so I made a normal stop!”

“A normal stop? The light was green for a while longer! You couldn’t have made it through? You clearly slammed on the brakes on purpose!”

“If you won’t be reasonable, let’s just call the traffic police. Look at what you’ve done to my car!”

Yin Ruxue shot the tattooed man a resentful look and then pulled out her phone.

“Calling the cops?”

A vicious look crossed the tattooed man’s face. His expression suddenly turned savage as he snatched the phone from Yin Ruxue’s hand and smashed it violently onto the ground.

“What are you doing?” Yin Ruxue was at a loss, but the tattooed man had already grabbed her by the hand.

“Neither of you are leaving until we settle this!”

“Let her go!” Jiang Fan darted forward and shoved the tattooed man away.

Caught off guard, the tattooed man staggered back two or three steps from Jiang Fan’s push.

“Son of a bitch, you dare to get physical? Brothers, waste this kid for me!”

“Get him!”

“Go!”

At the tattooed man’s command, all four of them charged forward together.

Unhurried, Jiang Fan shielded Yin Ruxue behind him. He watched as the four men rushed him at the same time.

But to Jiang Fan, their movements seemed strangely slow, like watching a movie in slow motion.

Jiang Fan kicked the tattooed man in the stomach. The kick wasn’t heavy, but the man stumbled back several steps, slammed hard against the Hummer, and collapsed to the ground.

The other three men followed close behind, only to be kicked to the ground by Jiang Fan as well, completely powerless to fight back.

“Impossible… Kid, who the hell are you? I’m at the initial stage of Inner Strength! How could I be taken down by a punk like you?”

The tattooed man stared at Jiang Fan in disbelief. He tried to get up but found he didn’t even have the strength to stand.

‘I didn’t expect my casual kick to be so powerful,’ Jiang Fan thought.

He now realized that the Centennial Ganoderma from yesterday must have taken effect.

Previously, Jiang Fan had felt a powerful force within him about to break through a barrier. But when he woke up this morning, the meridians throughout his body felt unusually relaxed, and the feeling of hitting a bottleneck was gone.

‘Looks like I’ve already broken through, thanks to the Centennial Ganoderma. I just didn’t realize it until now.’

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Fan had defeated all four men. Behind him, Yin Ruxue was momentarily stunned.

But then, Jiang Fan strode forward and grabbed the tattooed man by the collar. The burly man was lifted up by Jiang Fan as if he were a baby chick.

“I’ll ask you, who sent you to do this?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

CRACK! With a sharp snap, the man’s arm was dislocated. He let out a bloodcurdling scream.

“I’ll ask you one last time: who sent you? If you don’t talk, you can say goodbye to your other arm!”

“Young Master Dong! It was Young Master Dong who sent us!” the tattooed man sputtered hastily.

At this, the expressions on both Jiang Fan and Yin Ruxue’s faces changed.

Jiang Fan wasn’t stupid. The tattooed man had clearly been trying to stage an accident, and the three men behind him had gotten out of the car already holding weapons.

These men had obviously come prepared. Besides, they didn’t look like they were short on cash, and they were in the wrong for the rear-end collision anyway. The possibility they were doing this for money was slim.

Therefore, the most likely explanation was that someone had sent them.

“Dong Shaojie of the Dong Family?”

“Y-yes! That’s him!”

“Boss, please spare us! If we had known who we were dealing with, we wouldn’t have dared to do this even if you gave us ten times the courage!”

Jiang Fan snorted coldly. “Go back and tell Dong Shaojie to watch his back!”

Looking battered and terrified, the tattooed man and his crew nodded frantically. They didn’t dare delay for a second, scrambling back towards the Hummer.

“Wait!” Jiang Fan said viciously. “You think you can just leave after smashing our car up like this?”

Dragging his ruined body, the tattooed man staggered over and pulled a check from his pocket, handing it to Yin Ruxue.

“Miss Yin, it’s all our fault. We were blind and didn’t know who we were dealing with. We’re fully responsible for rear-ending you, and we’ll cover all the damages today. Please, take this check. You can fill it out for any amount up to one million!”

By now, Yin Ruxue was completely dumbfounded. She stared at Jiang Fan, feeling like he was a familiar stranger.