Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

"Stop right there." Yan Luhan told them in a stern voice as he entered the room hurriedly. The others stopped in their tracks when they were told to but they exchanged glances among themselves while trying to guess just what could have happened.

Yan Luhan locked the door from the inside and walked beside the two women in large strides. Also, he glanced at the woman who was unconscious on the floor to see if she was okay or something had happened to her as well. 

"Ma, what happened?…"

"Help your sister to get up first."

Only then he noticed Yan Ruomin\'s ashen face. Her lips were also pale and dry. Her brows were knitted while she took deep breaths to withstand the pain.

Yan Luhan carefully held her shoulder and made her sit on the bed. Yan Ruomin tried to move her neck from side to side but she failed. Due to the crooked way she slept, her neck became stiff. She was crying tears of sorrow in her mind while her brain was fuming in anger.

Su Mengsi hurriedly stood up and also supported her daughter with Yan Luhan. When she saw Yan Ruomin couldn\'t move her neck, she understood the matter.

"Luhan, support your sister. I\'m coming right away."

"Hey, Ma! Where are you going, leaving me behind?! Ouch!" Yan Ruomin wanted to look at the walking woman but felt her leg was hurting. 

"Just how did I end up here?! Damn!" Yan Ruomin only could grasp her brother and remained seated down.

"Sis...Don\'t you remember anything?"

Yan Luhan tried to test the waters and see if she remembered anything. 

Honestly the wine Feng Alin gave them last night was too high on alcohol and enough to knock out anybody for a long time. Someone who had drunk it would forget everything the next day but it was possible to remember some broken memories.

When Yan Ruomin heard him, she tried to recall the last night but it was all blurry. She closed her eyes and patted her right side of the forehead for some moments but didn\'t recall anything. Everything was fuzzy and uncleared.

"I don\'t remember anything." Yan Ruomin tried to remember but gave up in the end. She tried to glance at her brother\'s face but failed due to her stiff neck. Thus she looked straight ahead and asked directly, without going on any circles.

"Hey, how did this happen to me?! Also, wasn\'t Sheng Ruming also present there?" 

Yan Ruomin had come back from abroad some months ago. When she was there, she didn\'t pay any attention to any of her friends back in the country and solely concentrated on her studies. As she was a relatively good student, she gave these matters less attention but her mother always mentioned Sheng Ruming whenever she called her.

Yan Ruomin wasn\'t a fool. She knew what her mother was trying to indicate to her. The Sheng family wasn\'t the same as the one which had fallen from grace many years ago. Even if Sheng Haotin managed to save the company, it took them many years.

Her mother also had some contempt about them. But as they gradually regained their status and reputation, also due to Sheng Ruming\'s outstanding ability, Su Mengsi thought it would be great if her daughter could marry in the Sheng family. Also, Sheng Ruming was the only child of Sheng Haotin and Wei Airan, so everything in the family would belong to him in the future. 

Also, if Yan Ruomin could marry in that family, her daughter would be very close to her. A family which Su Mengsi knew very well from inside to outside, also Wei Airan was a good woman and Su Mengsi\'s friend. If Yan Ruomin could marry there, she would definitely be the luckiest woman in Ming city. 

Also, as a sister she would definitely help her brother in his business to expand it further. If her two children could settle down in their life, there wouldn\'t be any worry for her.

Also, the dates she and Chi Bainian arranged with Wei Airan for Sheng Ruming were all façade. Su Mengsi had given words to Chi Bainian. If she helped her in this matter, Feng Alin would be given even more resources in the "Su Entertainment". It\'s not like Feng Alin was short of any resources but recently his manager and some other couple of managers were fighting for an advertisement proposal. It was of an overseas famous brand. 

Chi Bainian always wanted her son to be the top one. So she agreed to Su Mengsi\'s offer. Also, The latter promised to give her many other benefits if due would help her.

Wei Airan didn\'t know any of these matters. The dates Sheng Ruming attended were all good but there would be always some glaring complications in them. Like one would be arrogant in her behaviour, another would be very timid and wasn\'t suitable for the Madam role of the Sheng family, the third one would have some past records with men(cough!), the forth would be a drug addict etc...

  A cunning man like him would never accept those women and she knew it very well in her mind. 

Only after someone went through many rotten and spoiled things would they know a better one\'s real value.

But Su Mengsi was wrong in her deduction. It\'s not like Sheng Ruming rejected those women for any of those earlier mentioned reasons, he never had investigated those women but rather it was for...well, we all know for whom!

So, Su Mengsi asked Yan Ruomin to come back to the country. She wanted her to spend time with Sheng Ruming and if possible to make a relationship with him. Even if it was that friendship one, she could just twist them and publish them in the news.

In her mind, Sheng Ruming didn\'t have any woman he liked. She also knew Ji Yanli was only a friend to him. So she was confident that Yan Ruomin would be able to follow it. Then she would just tell Wei Airan the plan to marry them and it would be perfect…

Yan Ruomin was feeling regretful that she missed the chance to talk with Sheng Ruming. She was sure, with her womanly charm no man could leave her grasp. 

When she was abroad all those years, many men had also proposed to her and wanted to have a relationship with her. Some of them were even bold enough and only wanted to be s*x buddy but why would she agree to them?! Only for money or other benefits?! 

Che! She wasn\'t short on them. So, she declined all of them but one of her pursuer beat them up very badly when she accidentally(intentional) revealed the matter with friends. She knew what he did but remained quiet as if she didn\'t know anything. 

Yan Ruomin had the plan that if she could just take Sheng Ruming with her in bed and they did that act, then he would definitely take responsibility but he was going abroad now that she had come for him?!

So irritating~

When Yan Ruomin saw her mother coming with a cervical collar with her, she heaved a sigh. Su Mengsi put the soft cushion-like thing around her neck.

Yan Luhan remained quiet as he saw them doing everything. 

Yan Ruomin thought to temporarily stop thinking about that man and concentrated on her condition.

"Ma, I\'m feeling painful. Especially my foot…" Yan Ruomin slightly lifted her foot to show them. In front of her mother, she always behaved like a child and Su Mengsi loved it very much.

Some tears also came in her black eyes when she looked at the swelled toe. 

"I have seen it, my baby. Should I bring you to the hospital?" Su Mengsi\'s heart ached for her daughter.

"N..no." Whenever Yan Ruomin thought about injections, her body shivered in fright. It was a fear she had from childhood. "I\'m fine...look."

Yan Ruomin tried to move her toe to dhow them it was okay but a sharp pain hit her. As if a blade was piercing her flesh and tearing it apart.

"What?!" Yan Luhan saw fresh blood coming down from her right big toe. Earlier it had only some dried up blood on but now it was bleeding.

"Ahh!…ah! Ma, I\'m dying!"

She loudly cried up as she gripped Yan Luhan tightly.

"Don\'t move and let me see."

Yan Luhan crouched down and held her leg in his hands. A tiny piece of glass was stuffed in that bloody mess. Also her nail was broken in half. 

The man gulped down his saliva when he saw the heart wrenching scene. The very sight made of it made him uncomfortable as it seemed very painful.

Su Mengsi had a breakdown when she saw it. 

"A...Ahhhh! What is this?! What happened to her?! Also how did you get injured in the first place?!" She began to panic as it seemed very serious. 

Su Mengsi glanced around the room and didn\'t find anything broken or something like that so where could this piece of thing have come from?!

The main reason why Yan Ruomin was crying was that her beautiful nail was broken and she was sure at that time that she would not be able to wear her favourite shoes for some days to come. Also the pain was too much to bear.