The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)
Chapter 975

Diago suddenly frowned when he heard Nathaniel asking for Mango.

"Hah! What's your relationship with that b*tch?"

Nathaniel immediately slapped him as soon as Diago had just finished his words.

Diago was stunned by the slap.

Just as Nathaniel was enquiring for Mango, someone secretly came to the place Mango was locked up.

Mango finally heard someone coming in after such a long time.

"What exactly are you guys up to? Just get it done with it already. Heh. Do you want to kill me or torture me?" Mango was hungry and thirsty, and her voice was a little hoarse.

The person who came in didn't say anything and directly whipped Mango's body.

Mango's voice was muffled as the whip landed on her body.

It was too painful!

Her clothes tore as blood started to seep out of her wounds, and the pungent smell of blood filled the air.

Mango's entire body was twitching.

She couldn't see who was in front of her because she had been blindfolded. However, she guessed that the person had a grudge against her as the other party did not speak. But who had a grudge against her?

"Who... who are you?"

Mango asked with her body tensed up. However, another lash of the whip landed on her.

Argh! This lash was more powerful than the first one!

Mango felt like she was about to cry, but she refused to do so.

The person who was whipping her enjoyed seeing her in a miserable state!

Therefore, she could not let their wish come true.

Mango's nose was sensitive, and she caught on to a faint smell of purfume.

The smell of this perfume seemed familiar.

Mango's heart thumped.

"Gisella?"

The third whiplash landed on her body as she called this name.

Mango almost fainted this time.

The other party had exerted even more force to make the lash more painful. Obviously, they were trying to take out their anger on her as they detested her! Mango nearly failed to catch a breath. She had blood stuck in her throat, and it was choking her so much.

"Gisella! You... you are Gisella!"

Mango was very familiar with the smell of Gisella's perfume. Moreover, Gisella was the only one who hated Mango so much to the extent where she wanted to kill her. Gisella wanted to raise her whip and whip her again when she heard Mango calling out her name. Just at this moment, there were sounds of footsteps coming from the outside. "Miss, someone is coming. Let's go quickly."

Gisella looked at Mango with extreme anger and said coldly, "I'm going to kill her!"

"It's Nathaniel! Miss, we'll be trapped here if we don't leave now."

The newcomer almost dragged Gisella away.

Mango felt burning pain all over her body, and her body couldn't help twitching.

She swore to pay back Gisella for the three whiplashes that she had got today!

Some noisy footsteps finally came across from the outside.

"Madam should be here."

Mango fainted when she heard Ned's voice.

Nathaniel kicked the door open.

He nearly went crazy when he saw Mango's body soaked in blood.

"Mango!"

He moved forward to untie Mango's legs and hands.

Mango fell directly into his arms lifelessly.

Nathaniel was enraged when the pungent smell of blood filled his nostrils.

He quickly and carefully carried Mango and ran outside.

"Hurry up and drive to the hospital!"

Ned was also stunned by the scene in front of him.

Lebanon felt heartbroken as he saw Mango's current state when he rushed here after receiving the news. "Mango, what..."

"Get lost!"

Nathaniel's eyes were blazing with fury, and he could not control his temper anymore.

Alfred felt a bit wronged for Lebanon. He wanted to say something, but Lebanon stopped him.

With Lebanon's car tailing behind Nathaniel, the group of people went to the hospital.

Nathaniel wanted to follow Mango in when the medical staff pushed her into the operation room. The doctor couldn't stop him, and he gave him sterile clothes to wear.

The doctor was just about to cut off Mango's clothes when Nathaniel went in. However, the blood was stuck together with her clothes, and every movement they made would hurt her tremendously. After all, her body nerves were still sensitive even though she was in an unconscious state.

Nathaniel's really wanted to kill someone when he saw this!

"Be gentler!"

Nathaniel's expression was solemn and frightening, and it was as if his cold gaze was freezing the room. Hence, the doctors and nurses broke out in cold sweat, but they did not dare to touch her anymore. Emberly rushed over when she heard that Mango had to go through an operation. She frowned slightly when she saw that Nathaniel was inside the operation room, but she quickly swapped shifts with the doctor.

"Let me do it."

Nathaniel's attitude softened a little when he saw that Emberly was the doctor in charge of the operation. However, his eyes never left Mango.

These three whips had caused her flesh to split open! The wound caused by the last whiplash was so deep that they could see her bones!

Nathaniel gritted his teeth so hard that there was a creaking sound.

He had to tear this person into shreds!

Emberly's eyes narrowed as well. She gently removed Mango's clothes with the machine in her hand before sanitizing her body and suturing the wound.

The nurses around her quickly grabbed tissues for Emberly to wipe her sweat away.

The operation lasted for more than three hours as Emberly pulled out the fibres inside Mango's body bit by bit.

Nathaniel felt that his back was wet.

Although he was not doing the operation, he was heartbroken as he watched the whole operation with his own eyes.

After that, Mango was pushed to the intensive care unit.

"Take care of her tonight. Make sure that she doesn't get a fever."

Emberly knew that there wasn't much that she could say this time, so she reminded Nathaniel and left.

Nathaniel scolded himself for being too careless as he looked at Mango's pale face.

He said to Ned, who was waiting outside, "Compile some evidence and make sure to throw Diago into prison. Get some other people to go in too. Make sure he has a slow death, I want him to suffer as much as Mango did!"

"Alright!"

Ned knew the relationship between Nathaniel and Mango. In fact, he was also upset when he saw Mango in such a miserable state.

Diago did not know what he had done, and he did not know that Nathaniel was Mango's husband. After all, he had wanted to get revenge for Melissa out of loyalty, but he never thought he would get himself into trouble because of this.

Lebanon wanted to take a look at Mango, but there was a visiting schedule for the ICU. He couldn't go in if Nathaniel didn't come out.

He couldn't continue to stay here as there was a lot of people here, so he went back with Alfred.

Rainie rushed to the hospital instantly when she heard that something happened to Mango. When she saw Mango lying on the bed lifelessly, she blamed herself repeatedly.

"Sorry... it's all my fault. I... I shouldn't have taken her down the alley."

"It has nothing to do with you. The other party attacked Mango with intentions. They would still find the right timing to take action even if you all did not go to the valley. I'm the one who should be sorry... I failed to protect her! Ah!"

Nathaniel's voice was hoarse.

Rainie could see deep affection from Nathaniel's eyes. She hesitated and asked, "Who is he?"

"Melissa's boyfriend."

"Who is Melissa?"

"The woman that caused Mango to misunderstand me."

Rainie was silent for a few seconds after hearing Nathaniel's words. She then lowered her voice and asked, "What's going on? How are you related to Melissa? Mango suspected that you had an affair with her but later, she believed that you did not cheat on her. However, there was still some secret between you and this woman, and this secret definitely has something to do with Mango. Look, Nathaniel, I don't know why you want to hide things from Mango. It might be for her sake, but do you think that doing this will benefit her? Perhaps if you had told her the truth, she would be cautious of her surroundings. Then, this would not have happened! But, this is only my speculation."

Nathaniel remained silent.

Rainie's words prickled at his conscience greatly.

Did he make a mistake by trying to hide the truth from Mango?

Rainie did not say anything anymore when she saw that Nathaniel was in deep thought. She knew that she had made her point, so it was better for her to stop now. Moreover, Nathaniel was not a normal civilian.

"I'll inform the cast crew and music arrangement team. Mango will definitely not be able to continue to play the zither now that she is lying in the hospital, so I'll have to let them now."

"I've already sent someone to hire a professional zither player for you. This won't delay the filming of your album, and the work in your cast crew will continue as usual. You are a newbie that Mango is supporting, and you have already signed a contract with Ares, so you have to go to work."

Rainie got slightly stunned upon Nathaniel's

words.

Nathaniel knew all of Mango's actions clearly. Anyone could tell that his feelings for Mango had never changed.

So what kind of secret was he hiding? Why couldn't he tell Mango the truth?

Rainie was really curious, but she knew that curiosity killed the cat, so she nodded and left the ward.

Emberly walked out of the hospital with thoughts of Mango's injured state filling her mind.

Her attacker had been too ruthless!

Plus, Mango was her good friend. She couldn't stay still when she saw her best friend being bullied, right?

Emberly called Eugene as she thought of this.

"Do me a favour."

This was the first time that Emberly had requested help from Eugene, so he was stunned.

"What do you need?"

"Let's talk when I get back home. I'll be back in half an hour."

"Alright."

Emberly hung the phone. She let a sigh and drove back after that.

Nathaniel held Mango's hands tightly after everyone had left.

Ned knocked on the door and whispered, "Mr. Ye, we've received some additional information."

Nathaniel glanced at Mango before standing up and walking out.

"Tell me about it."

"The person who had whipped Madam wasn't Diago's men."

"What did you say?"

Nathaniel's eyes suddenly narrowed.

Ned quickly said, "Diago was the one that kidnapped Madam, but they only wanted to starve her for three days. After that, they planned to rip her clothes off and take some pictures after she has lost all her strength. Then, they would only take further action after ruining her reputation."

Nathaniel's murderous aura spread out wantonly after he heard what Ned had said.

What a vicious plan!

Nathaniel's eyes were as cold as ice, and he said slowly, "Make sure he gets a taste of his own medicine then."

"Yes sir!"

Ned knew that Nathaniel would not let Diago off, but he added, "The supervision camera around that area had been broken, but I got some people to repair it. The person who had beaten Madam up was

Gisella."

"What?"

Nathaniel was stunned for a moment.

Ned said respectfully, "Gisella! Bernard's girlfriend. She could get out from the jail this time is also because of her relationship with Bernard. Plus, Mr. and Mrs. Shen had given the higher ups some gifts."

Nathaniel narrowed his eyes slightly.

The Shen family?

How could the parents who treated Mango so well back then turn away from her this easily? Why did they treat her so ruthlessly, all for the sake of their biological daughter?

Gisella was so bold!

Did she really think that she could do anything she wanted just because Bernard was supporting her?