The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)
Chapter 1013

"Wow! How much did it actually cost you to raise such a group of mercenaries? Wait, let me rephrase this question. Are these all Bernard's men? You guys have indeed built a lot of forces for yourself all these years, thanks to Kolton. Huh?"

At that point, Mango wasn't terrified at all. In fact, she was rather calm.

Suddenly, Carmel firmly protected Mango behind her and whispered, "Madam, I'll protect you. You can't just ignore me and escape once you find the opportunity to do so."

"What? Don't be silly! Laney won't give me the chance to flee, and I won't let you die here for me either. You should know how skilled these people are more than me. Even if we both join hands, we might now even win over them. Besides, Ned hasn't come over yet, and both the Hans and Xiao families haven't made any moves as well. I bet that Laney did something to distract them so that they couldn't come over now!"

Mango had been looking at Laney all this while when she said this.

On the other hand, Laney's eyes lit up whenever

Mango made speculations.

Then, she smiled and said, "Mango, I truly admire you, and I'm quite fond of you as well..."

"Sadly, we can't be friends."

Mango finished her sentence for her almost immediately.

"That's right. However, I will make sure that your death is painless because you did treat my daughter sincerely. Since you're the daughter- inlaw of the Ye family, you should die in this mansion that. You can rest assured that after you die, I will make sure that people bury both the bodies of Nathaniel and you into the Ye family's ancestral grave. After all, I'm quite merciful now that things have escalated this way." Laney said this sarcastically.

Meanwhile, Carmel quickly took on an offensive stance and protected Mango behind her back.

"Hah! If you want to harm Madam, you have to do that over my dead body!"

Laney's eyes became even colder when she heard Carmel's threat.

"What are you guys waiting for? Kill her!"

The mercenaries behind Laney immediately rushed towards Mango and Carmel on her command.

Although Mango knew that she had lost this round, she refused to go down without a fight. Besides, she couldn't allow Carmel to take on the attacks of all these people by herself!

She quickly joined the battle. Unfortunately, her actions only caused the wounds on her body to reopen.

After all, it was obvious that both of them would lose as they were going against ten experienced mercenaries. Carmel was already injured even though she had only been fighting for a short time. In fact, she was attacking even fiercer, and it was as if she couldn't feel any pain coming from her body at all.

On the other hand, Mango felt that her back was on fire when she felt her wound bleed and reopen again. However, Carmel was fighting with all her might, and Mango was determined not to let Carmel die here.

At that moment, she realised that she was still far from being a qualified superior. Sadly, she would not have another chance to try again.

Just when Mango and Carmel barely withstand it, the sound of a car engine suddenly sounded outside.

Laney frowned slightly when she heard this.

Before anyone could react, a bunch of people broke in with gas masks. They emitted smoke bombs immediately when they came in, causing everyone to choke and cough repeatedly. Thus, no one focused on the fight anymore.

Suddenly, Carmel promptly jumped to the front of Laney and caught the latter, who was about to flee.

"Take them down! Don't let any one of them go!"

Meanwhile, Mango felt that someone was pulling her out of the range of the smoke bomb. The voice beside her was somewhat familiar, and the corners of her lips raised slightly when she heard it. "You're finally here, Henry! If you came a second later, I would have been stabbed to death!"

Mango punched him as she was feeling rather grateful to see him.

Henry shyly touched his chest and said with a smile, "Madam, how can I forget what you've asked me to do? To be honest, I was afraid that my heart disease would affect my training when Mr. Ye sent me to the training base. However, Walter taught me a unique method to take care of it, so I managed to survive through the training."

When Henry brought up Walter, Mango subconsciously asked, "Have you talked to Walter recently?"

"Yeah, he sent me a message saying that he was travelling around in Norway recently."

Again, Mango felt depressed instantly upon hearing Henry's remarks.

How dare Walter treat her this way?

He could send a message to Novalee's younger brother to inform the latter about his whereabouts, but he didn't bother dropping Mango a text. Urgh! How annoying!"

"Madam, wait outside, please. Let me deal with the situation here."

Henry was standing in front of Mango when he said this, and Mango was reminded of the time when they first met.

When she had met Henry the first time in Longford County, the only thing this shy boy wanted to do was to pursue a career in the medical field. However, he never expected him to become someone like this. After all, he was one of the captains that were working in Nathaniel's training base now!

In fact, Novalee would probably be glad to see her brother's achievements if she was still alive.

Mango let out a sigh before she recovered from her trance.

After the smoke cleared, Mango could see that Henry's men had subdued most of Laney's men.

Furthermore, they had also surrounded and trapped those mercenaries that had escaped outside.

Carmel frowned as she glanced at Henry, who looked had a frail appearance. In fact, she didn't want to admit that someone as weak as Henry had saved her. However, she had to acknowledge that Henry was talented at commanding other people around after she had seen how he had taken control of the situation easily without panicking.

"Madam, what's going on now?"

Mango only smiled and looked at Laney, who was struggling in Carmel's hands. She said in a low voice, "Hmm... Aunt Laney, would you like to take a guess and tell me what's going on?" "Hah! Mango Shen, I've underestimated you, after all. I didn't even expect you to have a backup plan. Well, my people have never seen you contacting this person at all. Who is he?" Laney was unfamiliar with Henry. After all, only a few people from the Ye family knew who Henry was. In fact, if both Sisi and Newell were here, they wouldn't recognise Henry as well.

Henry was Novalee's younger brother. After all, Novalee had done some unforgivable things to Walter, so people would never think that the Ye family would adopt any of Novalee's siblings, let alone her twin brother. Therefore, Henry's real identity was still mysterious now.

When Mango saw Laney's confused expression, she decided to kindly explain the current situation to her.

"Heh. Do you really think that you're smarter than Nathaniel?"

"What? Did Nathaniel arrange all this?"

Laney felt irritated at this thought. She knew that Mango had seen Nathaniel before she returned to Ocean City. At that time, she felt that since Nathaniel had been detained, she could deal with Mango easily even if he taught Mango some tactics. However, little did she expect that she would lose the game.

Mango said in a low voice, "Do you really think that the Ye family only has one troop of elite bodyguards? You've mentioned that the Ye family has a training base, and no one else but Nathaniel can order this team around. However, you may not have found out that I'm the mistress of Dark Night Empire! Although Nathaniel disbanded Dark Night Empire, those who were remained loyal to the Ye family later reunited again. Thus, the Dark Night Empire only listens to me. Before I came back, I did make a bet with Nathaniel whether I would lose to you or not. Well, I guess I almost lost it.

Besides, I would've never used Henry's team as a backup if I never made a bet with Nathan."

Laney's expression turned ghastly when she heard what Mango had said.

"Hah! I guess it was my mistake since I didn't think about this."

"Winner takes all. Laney, it's time to admit that you lost."

Just as Mango finished speaking, Henry had already cleaned up the living room.

"Madam, we've already cleaned out this place. How shall we deal with this person?"

Henry glanced at Laney. Though he was fraillooking, Laney couldn't help looking into his bright eyes.

"Mango, you may not be able to do anything to me even if you catch me. I know that you went to meet Kolton, and he must have told you about my relationship with Bernard. Do you think that Bernard would ignore me after I get caught? Do you want to hand me over to the police? Well, what crimes are you planning to charge me with? After all, the police need a reason to arrest me! Do you have any evidence of what I've done towards Sisi and Newell? Do you think that other people will believe that I did it if you don't have any evidence? Heh. As long as I deny it, what can you

do to me?"

Laney said these words arrogantly.

Mango felt a headache coming at this thought.

Indeed, she could do nothing to Laney even if she had caught the latter.

In fact, Laney was a troublesome existence right now. However, Mango could not allow Laney to continue stirring up trouble in the Ye family as well.

"Take her away first and lock her up in the jail of Dark Night Empire. No one can see her without my order."

"Yes, Madam."

After answering Mango, Henry left and dragged Laney away with him.

Then, the living room of the Yes Mansion immediately became quiet.

Meanwhile, Carmel asked someone to clean up the living room. However, she still didn't quite understand what was going on.

"Madam, is Henry really working for you?"

"Hmm? What are you thinking about?"

Mango smiled plainly upon hearing that.

After all, she had won that match narrowly.

Thankfully, Nathaniel had reminded her that Laney was suspicious. In fact, he had advised her to be more cautious whenever she interacted with Laney. If not, she wouldn't have thought of using the strength o the Dark Night Empire to protect herself.

It turned out that Nathaniel had made a right assumption.

She had to admire Nathaniel's brilliant mind at the moment. However, she truly missed him too right now.

She had to deal with the things over there as soon as possible so that Nathaniel could be released quickly.

Meanwhile, Carmel saw the corners of Mango's lips rising to a smile slightly, but her gaze was cloudy. Thus, she knew that Mango was in a trance right now.

When she saw this, she immediately coughed so that Mango could wake up from her trance.

"Madam, I'm indeed curious. I've been with you all day long, but I've never seen you meet Henry or give him a call. How did you make contact with him? I didn't even notice it!"

Carmel felt upset when she brought this topic up.

Mango smiled and said, "I didn't mean to hide it from you on purpose, but Laney is way too cunning. Besides, she has a lot of spies, and I don't know who would betray us. Hence, I asked Ned to help me pass on the message to Henry. Thus, even if Ned had to deal with an emergency, he could still send Henry to save up."

"Well, didn't you just say that no one besides you can mobilize the Dark Night Empire?"

"Yeah, that's why I gave my keepsake to Ned."

Carmel finally understood the whole incident soon after Mango finished speaking.

She had always felt that Mango was too kind-hearted, and she was worried that Mango would always be on the losing end. However, she didn't expect that Mango would be brilliant enough to come up with a backup plan.

"Madam, it was simply too risky just now! I'm sorry, this was my mistake because I never thought that this would happen! Since Laney knows everything, does she also know about Sisi and her husband's location? Shall we change another place for them?"

Carmel abruptly thought of this problem.

Mango shook her head and said, "Nah, that's not necessary. After all, I'm sure that the place is secretive enough because Terrence found it for me. However, I suspect that he's trapped somewhere. I think that he got himself into trouble after he helped me arrange for Sisi to go into the sanitorium. Let me call and ask him later. Alas! I hope that nothing terrible happened to him!"

While Mango was speaking, her mobile phone suddenly rang.

However, Mango's expression changed slightly when she saw the number on the screen.