Wooing my Bodyguard Wife

"Me? An entitled manchild?" Wei Yan was outraged at that very thought. "Between the two of us, why am I the entitled manchild in your mind? Is it because I'm not handsome or rich enough for your tastes?"

"You bastard! I can't believe you're trying to pin the blame on me after all you've done!" Xue Ning burst out, fury in her eyes. "If you're not good enough for me, it's because you're a manipulative snake that couldn't even confess honestly to me. I don't ask for a lot when it comes to my partners - I just want them to be good people and you can't even be that!"

"I am a good person!" Wei Yan protested. "It's Sun Jingwei's fault I became this way!"

"How so?" Xue Ning challenged, crossing her arms as her eyebrow twitched. "Please explain, because I have no fucking clue how you reached this conclusion!"

Wei Yan's eyes bulged out in anger, and he stomped his foot like a child throwing a tantrum. "It just is! Why does he have everything he wants handed on a silver platter by virtue of his birth!"

"Huh? Oi, don't blame me for your own personality defects!" Jingwei warned, feeling incredibly insulted by Wei Yan's words. It was one thing to hear these words from random people he had never met, but he considered Wei Yan as one of his people!

He was there when Jingwei told him about Wu Shang Jing; how could he claim that Jingwei had everything handed to him?

"You chose to act like a scheming palace concubine! You're employed as my bodyguard, but you chose to flirt with my fiancee instead of doing your job. Xue Ning didn't even give any indication she liked you!" Jingwei ranted.

"Did I hold a gun to your head and threaten you with death if you didn't try to snatch my fiancee? Honestly!"

"You don't have a gun," Xue Ning said, patting his arm before stalking towards Wei Yan.

"But more importantly, if you had truly loved me, you wouldn't be trying to manipulate me into breaking up with my boyfriend! You wouldn't have purposely dragged innocent people into this mess! You wouldn't be purposely creating a huge scene so you could emotionally manipulate me into pretending to date you!"

Xue Ning punctuated the end of her rant with a swift kick to his balls! Every male in the crowd winced in unison, feeling phantom pain lace through their body at that sight. Wei Yan bowled over, gasping in shock.

He had expected Sun Jingwei to fight him, and Wei Yan could either beat him handily to show his superiority, or pretend to lose so as to garner pity from Xue Ning and the onlookers, while painting Sun Jingwei as an angry violent brute.

He didn't expect Li Xue Ning to be the person in the relationship to bring him to his knees! He clutched at his groin, wheezing in pain.

"You kicked me!" Wei Yan choked out. "How could you?"

"You created a mob that harassed my parents and made one of my old classmates cry. If you have the balls to do such despicable things, you should have the balls to endure the punishment!" Xue Ning retorted.

"If you're a man, stand up and let me do it again!"

Wei Yan cast a helpless look at the crowd surrounding them, hoping someone would take pity on him and convince her to let him off. However, he was greeted with the condescending gazes of townsfolk.

"Aiyo, this boy ah…to think he was hiding such an evil heart inside that sweet face."

"You really can't judge a book by its cover…"

"Poor Chun Fei! She humiliated herself in front of an attached man because of this boy's words!"

"I hope she kicks him more! What kind of man would resort to petty tricks to win a girl's heart?"

"That's so unmanly, I would never agree to be with someone like that."

"I know right? That's so scummy of him…"

"Just destroy his manhood! He isn't a real man anyway!"

"That's right! No real man would be so despicable in love!"

Wei Yan paled as he heard the mutterings. He wasn't going to get any support from these people. If they had it their way, they would gladly munch on popcorn while Li Xue Ning stomped all over his manhood.

He then gave Ming Guang a pleading glance. They were colleagues right? Surely he wouldn't be so heartless to leave Wei Yan in the lurch in times like this! They were supposed to have each other's backs!

Ming Guang stared at the bird's nest on the tree near the woods, refusing to meet his gaze.

"Ming Guang…"  Wei Yan breathed out. "Say something! Don't just stare at the birds!"

"Are you going to speak for him Ming Guang?" Jingwei asked casually, as though asking for his preferred lunch menu.

Ming Guang sighed deeply as he turned to look at his three companions, but especially at Wei Yan.

"I've told you not to do things like this, but you refused to listen to me. You have shamed Captain Mu and ruined his trust in you, while squandering this godsent opportunity in your career. What else can I say?"

"You're supposed to be defending me!" Wei Yan yelled in panic. Ming Guang was his last hope!

"How can I? I should have asked Captain Mu to reassign another bodyguard, from the moment I knew of your immaturity, but I had hoped that you would still see sense! The love you claimed to have for Li Xue Ning was nothing more than childish infatuation, and it seems to me that you hate Sun Jingwei more than you love her."

Oh. At Ming Guang's last statement, Xue Ning felt the clouds in her mind finally disperse, letting the light shine through. Jingwei had a similarly enlightened look on his face.

"No wonder you were purposely trying to make me look bad in front of Uncle and Auntie!" Jingwei commented, clapping his hands. "You're just a hater! Man, you should have just stuck with online trolling."