Chapter 378

Chapter 378: Chapter 378

Yan Rongrong glanced at the crowd rushing toward them, then looked back at Chenyang, her expression growing complex.

She was irritated by his behavior, this eagerness to get himself beaten and cursed.

At the same time, however, she was also touched. Instead of shying away from danger, he was doing his utmost to look out for her, An Xiaoqing, Liu Yun, and the others.

A man’s character isn’t determined by how much money he makes or the great deeds he accomplishes, but by whether he can shield those around him from the storm when it matters most.

Right now, Chenyang could have easily stayed hidden and waited for Liu Yue and the media company to finalize their preparations before he went out.

Once their preparations were complete, the rumors Lin Jiji had deliberately spread would be swiftly debunked. Everyone would realize they had misunderstood Chenyang. At that point, he wouldn’t even have to sneak around; he could stroll down the street shouting through a megaphone, and no one would bat an eye.

But walking out now, before the plan was ready, meant facing a verbal onslaught from the crowd and potential physical retaliation from the more impulsive ones.

Yan Rongrong understood all this, and she was sure Chenyang did too.

But he wasn’t just thinking of his own safety. To prevent Liu Yun, An Xiaoqing, and the others from being implicated, he chose to draw all of the crowd’s anger toward himself.

Not everyone had that kind of courage.

And that sense of responsibility was something even fewer men possessed.

On that point alone, Yan Rongrong felt that Chenyang was a real man.

The disdain she’d felt for him—for walking out while clutching his back—mostly vanished in that instant.

"Let Xiaoqing stay in the car. I’ll stay here and face this with you."

Chenyang frowned. "There are a lot of them, and some of the more radical fans might do something impulsive. It’s easy for you to get caught in the crossfire if you stay here."

"Hah, just a bunch of brain-dead fans. If a fight really breaks out, it’s not certain who’d get the better of whom. Besides, I’d almost hope they’d hit me."

"Oh? Besides enjoying tormenting others, does General Manager Yan also have some masochistic tendencies?"

Yan Rongrong snorted. "You’re the one with the masochistic streak. The reason I’d want them to hit me is that it would completely change the situation. It would no longer be about them causing trouble for you. It would be about my family and the entire Yang City law enforcement system causing trouble for them."

Hearing this, Chenyang instantly understood her implication.

Yan Rongrong was the police chief’s precious daughter.

Assaulting her for no reason on Yang City’s turf was the modern equivalent of slapping the emperor’s favorite princess in the Capital City.

When that happened, the arriving police wouldn’t care about Chenyang’s situation. Their first priority would be to arrest everyone involved and haul them away.

At this thought, Chenyang smiled playfully. "General Manager Yan, you’re suddenly being so good to me. I’ll almost feel too embarrassed to go all out on you later."

Yan Rongrong stiffened, then said angrily, "We have a crisis on our hands, and you still have the nerve to joke?"

"I’m not joking. Your gesture really did touch me." Chenyang leaned in closer and said teasingly, "You haven’t fallen in love with me, have you? Why else would you be so good to me?"

"Could you be any more narcissistic?"

"Am I wrong?"

"Wrong my ass! I want to protect you only because I don’t want them to beat you to death before you have a chance to spar with me again."

"Just worried there’s no one to spar with, not that there’s no one who can satisfy you?"

"You?" Yan Rongrong held up her pinky finger. "You think you can satisfy me with something that small? Come back after cultivating for a few thousand more years."

Chenyang grinned. "You just wait. After we’re done with this, either I’ll die of sexual exhaustion, or you’ll be fucked until you can’t get out of bed!"

"Heh. I’ll be waiting."

Yan Rongrong gave a scornful smile, then turned with Chenyang to face the crowd that had run up to them.

"We finally caught you, you bastard."

"Chenyang, you need to give us an explanation, and you need to give our idol one!"

"You piece of scum! At a rescue scene with so many suffering victims, instead of doing your job as a doctor and saving them, you were just looking for ways to benefit yourself. You don’t fucking deserve to be a doctor!"

"He doesn’t just not deserve to be a doctor, he doesn’t deserve to be human! You son of a bitch, get on your knees and apologize to the victims you’ve harmed, or we’ll make sure you don’t walk out of this courtyard today!"