Chapter 47: When the flower is stained with ink 1

The entire town square, which was packed with people, was in complete chaos. The staff and town management were busy trying to control the situation and prevent a stampede, as the town square was at the heart of Bohai Town and a police station was nearby. The police arrived immediately, their sirens blaring through the air in the distance.

The town management, who had painstakingly prepared and planned for the Bohai Spring Festival, were in great distress. Such a wonderful spring festival, and yet some people just had to come and ruin it!

It took some time before the law enforcers could finally reach the center of the town square by pushing their way through the crowd. But before they could even reach the stage, they heard the surrounding passersby yelling at them, "Here, here, officers! The culprit is here!"

"Come over! Move, move away! Make way for the law enforcers!"

Taking advantage of the small gap, the law enforcers immediately headed toward the culprit. At that moment, they saw him being pinned to the ground by a large man.

The man promptly stood up and handed the culprit over to the law enforcers.

"What--!"

"Ah!"

Everyone gasped as soon as they saw the culprit’s condition. They hadn’t gotten a clear look at him earlier because the large man had thrown himself over the culprit just as the latter was about to throw another bottle of sulfuric acid.

The acid had ended up splashing onto the ground right where the culprit had fallen.

The culprit had been screaming in pain this entire time. His thick jacket and sweater had almost completely melted, and large patches of reddened skin, seemingly burned by the acid, were visible across various parts of his body.

The person, who seemed to be a boy less than twenty years old, continued screaming in agony, struggling frantically against the large man’s firm grasp.

A foul odor of burning flesh permeated the air.

The law enforcers were speechless.

"Let’s take him to the hospital first and have his wounds treated," one of them said.

They immediately decided to do so and began dragging the culprit away.

At that moment, the culprit happened to raise his head in pain. As he looked toward the stage, he saw something he found unbelievable. The pain on his face transformed into a look of shock and disbelief.

Instantly, he forgot about the pain. Instead, he screamed furiously, "Why? Why are you okay?!"

He saw Lin Feng standing on the stage, well-protected by the people surrounding him. There wasn’t a single red mark on his body.

Amid the screams and chaos of the crowd, Lin Feng still managed to hear the culprit’s furious and loud shouting.

The culprit was not too far from the stage. After all, how else could the bottle of sulfuric acid have reached Lin Feng, who was standing on the stage?

Raising his head, Lin Feng, whose face was pale, looked straight in the culprit’s direction.

This person...

Wasn’t he one of the volunteers? Don’t tell me he’s been pretending to be a volunteer all along, taking advantage of his position to sabotage the instruments backstage?

Lin Feng immediately connected the dots.

"Why?" he muttered, at a loss. A mixture of emotions filled him—fear, confusion, unwillingness, and anger.

His anger grew bigger and bigger, growing into something else.

Someone just wanted to harm him so terribly.

If Edmund had not come to save Lin Feng, his face and body would have been utterly destroyed. He would even be in a very dangerous situation, especially if the acid melted his eyes and entered his body’s orifices.

This realization filled Lin Feng with coldness, terror, and... a certain terrible and evil urge as he looked at the culprit.

Was he, Lin Feng, really too much of a soft persimmon that everyone could just pinch him if they wanted to?

The culprit, who appeared to have been a rather good-looking young man before the sulfuric acid disfigured his face, continued screaming hysterically.

"You! Why are you okay?! You can’t take Chu Jingyan away from me! I’m the one he loves! You’re nothing but a plaything he found in this rural town! I’m the one he likes! If... If it weren’t for your pretty face, would he even be interested in you? You’re a slut! You’re a slut who likes stealing other people’s men! Chu Jingyan will never truly like you!"

All sounds suddenly receded.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Who was Chu Jingyan?

The name sounded like a man’s name!

From the culprit’s disfigured face, everyone’s eyes flew over to the otherworldly beautiful youth standing on the stage, surrounded by many others.

Even the gazes thrown at the bare-bodied Edmund changed a little.

The shock in their eyes was replaced by a desire to hear gossip.

Several glass hearts of the girls in the audience broke one after another.

At that moment, a hushed silence fell over the town square.

Housekeeper Yang’s face tightened, and he immediately signaled the others to start retreating.

However, Lin Feng had yet to notice the strange atmosphere.

Even a soft lamb, when provoked, would become angry.

Lin Feng’s usually gentle face was cold and pale. "Who are you? Who is Chu Jingyan? I’ve never even heard that name before! Whatever it is, your actions can never be justified."

The entire town square had fallen silent, so Lin Feng’s voice was heard clearly by many people.

As if unable to hear anything, the culprit just screamed and struggled, trying to go over to Lin Feng’s direction, mindlessly repeating the earlier words again and again.

Lin Feng’s anger burned even more, making his face completely expressionless and cold.

"I don’t know you at all. I’m sure I’ve never seen you before, and I don’t even know who Chu Jingyan is. Why are you accusing me like this? How can you be so evil? Because of you, Edmund got hurt!"

In the end, the culprit was so irrational and hysterical that the law enforcers had to forcibly drag him away.

Clearly, the man was already out of his mind. He no longer cared about his own wounds and was intent on attacking his victim.

Since Lin Feng was the victim of the incident, he also had to go to the police station.