Yang Chúnqiàn threw Wu Lina's phone and its screen cracked on impact with the floor. Wu Lina was terrified. As she got up to pick it off the floor, the bodyguard standing behind her grasped her by the shoulders and pinned her to the sofa. Wu Lina became angry and lashed at Mrs. Yang, "Stop being insane! Yang Xinyu and I are together, and no one can separate us!"

Yang Chúnqiàn's temper flared and she slapped Wu Lina's face hard, marking her white skin, "You despicable girl!"

Shocked Wu Lina brought her hand to her cheek, which had turned red and burned. She could feel blood trickling out from the corner of her lip. She wiped it off with her thumb, and before she knew it, a tear rolled out of her eye.

The head of security, Lu Shiming, barged through the front door as Mrs. Yang raised her hand to hit Wu Lina. Immediately, he signaled the four security men stationed outside the penthouse entrance, to join him and together they entered the living room.

They attacked Mrs. Yang's bodyguards, who in a few seconds were lying on the floor with their noses touching the ground as Yang Xinyu's security men straddled their backs.

Mrs. Yang shouted, "How dare you?"

She ran to save her bodyguards, kicking and hitting those who were sitting on them. She looked like a maniac out of control.

Lu Shiming had to intervene to protect his men. He couldn't stop Mrs. Yang, as he did not have the authority to touch her.

Seeing that the security men wouldn't budge from their places, she turned towards Wu Lina to vent her anger. She lifted her hand to hit her again but Lu Shiming stepped in front of her to protect Wu Lina, and Mrs. Yang's slap hit his arm instead.

"Mrs. Yang, please be calm," requested Lu Shiming.

"Who are you to stop me?" she shouted at him.

"I am Lu Shiming, Ms. Wu Lina's bodyguard," he replied quietly.

"Oh, so now our money is being wasted on her protection? You petty thief!," she exclaimed bitterly at Wu Lina.

She opened her purse and took a bundle of notes, hurling them at Wu Lina's face, "Here, take this and get out of this house."

Then, she grabbed Wu Lina's hand and dragged her out of the house. Lu Shiming didn't know how to protect Wu Lina and was mentally pleading her to protect herself. Wu Lina looked at him and, as if she could hear him, yanked her hand away.

Yang Chúnqiàn madness increased. She seized Wu Lina by her hair and dragged her outside as she struggled. She threw her out of the house with such force that Wu Lina almost fell to the ground.

"Don't you dare enter this house if you have any dignity left!" she shouted.

The moment she finished her sentence, the elevator door opened and Yang Xinyu walked out. He rushed forward to gather Wu Lina in his arms, who shuddered in his grasp. He saw her face stained with blood and his mother's fingers printed red on her lily-white skin. His eyes welled and he stroked her lightly over the marks.

She winced in pain and looked away.

Filled with rage, Yang Xinyu looked at his mother. Then he looked at Lu Shiming who stood behind her. He strode towards him and slapped him hard, "Is this how you protect Wu Lina? What am I paying you for?"

"Sorry, sir this will not happen again," Lu Shiming replied quietly with conviction.

His gaze fell on the two bodyguards inside the living room, still pinned by his men on the floor. He took Wu Lina's hand, went to the bedroom and locked her in. She shouted from inside, "Xinyu, open the door!"

Yang Xinyu ignored her, went to his mother's bodyguards lying on floor and started kicking them. Yang Chúnqiàn rushed to stop him, but the more she tried, the more he kicked them. There was blood spurting from their mouth and if he didn't stop, they would die. One of them had fainted while the other was near insensate.

Yang Chúnqiàn was horrified at her son's reaction. She had never seen him so furious. She stepped back and looked at him fearfully. Then she looked at Lu Shiming, and with her eyes pleaded him to stop Yang Xinyu.

Lu Shiming went to Yang Xinyu and put his arms around Yang Xinyu, pulling him back as he struggled. Yang Xinyu looked at him with his eyes red, and his face crimson with anger. He turned towards his mother and warned, "Do not use force on Wu Lina, ever again."

"Yang Xinyu, have you become so brazen that you behave so rudely with me? Is this what we have taught you? Had President Yang been here, he would have slapped you!" said Yang Chúnqiàn in a firm voice, hiding her fear.

"Had President Yang been here, he would have dragged you out of the house before you could do this. And now, please, leave," he said curtly.

Saying that he turned on his heels and went in the bedroom locking it this time, from the inside.

"I will not forget this Xinyu. And I will definitely take legal action against that nurse!" shouted Yang Chúnqiàn after him.

Yang Xinyu heard the front door close as his mother left the living room and breathed a sigh of relief. He wondered how Wu Lina would have been had he not been there in time. He saw her sitting on the edge of the bed, staring blankly off into space. Her shoulders were slumped, and her tiny fists were curled up on her lap.

The only other person who had ever treated her in this manner was her father. He had thrown her out of the house. As the memories of the past flooded her mind, she started crying silently, the tears hurting her cheek once again. There really must be something wrong with her stars.