The man lay on the ground, beaten blue and black, barely conscious and completely helpless.
"A scum man!" one woman spat.
"Today, you got what you deserve!" another declared.
"You don't want to be embarrassed, but it's okay to embarrass your wife?" a third shouted.
"You can't withstand this kind of beating, but you're fine with making your wife a punching bag! What a pathetic coward!"
The man had heard the other guest call him Master Huo. All the color drained from his face as the implications crashed over him like a tidal wave.
"Master... Master Huo..." he croaked, his voice barely audible through his split and bleeding lips.
"I can be anywhere and everywhere, so long as my wife is there," Huo Ting Cheng said, his voice deceptively calm. Then his eyes narrowed to deadly slits. "What kind of creature is this that spoils my honeymoon?"
The temperature dropped another ten degrees.
