Chapter 25 PUA In a moment of desperation, Feng Huaihe forcefully grabbed her hand…

What are you doing here?

Jing Wan put down the whip, narrowed his long, thin eyes, and looked at Zhu Qing with hostility.

Zhu Qing was still reeling from the scene before her: "I... I'm Master Feng here to see the Chief Secretary. He's right outside the door, asking me to announce his arrival..."

Upon hearing this, Jing Wan frowned as he looked at Feng Huaihe's battered back and said in a low voice, "In your current state, it's not appropriate for you to see your father. Zhijian, think it over carefully."

He threw the whip on the ground, looked at Feng Zhijian's kneeling, bent back, and sighed: "Don't blame me for being harsh. You've seen what the Feng family is like. You should know very well that no one but me cares about you this much."

Jing Wan left after saying, "I hope to see you at the Feng residence tomorrow." When he passed Zhu Qing, he stopped and looked her up and down as if examining a product.

Zhu Qing felt very uncomfortable, but since this person dared to hit even Feng Huaihe, she could only lower her head without any backbone.

Finally, after Jing Wan's gaze shifted and the others left, Zhu Qing hurriedly helped Feng Huaihe up and sat him down on the low couch next to the round moon window. Then she went around to his back to check the injury on his back.

Bloody, with crisscrossing whip marks.

Zhu Qing felt a pain in his back just by looking at him, wondering how that person could bring himself to hit him.

She couldn't bear it and said, "Aren't you supposed to be very capable? You can even kill intruders without saying a word, so why did you let him beat you like this?"

Feng Huaihe felt a burning sensation on his back and whispered, "That's my teacher, Jing Wan."

Teachers are like fathers; it's not good to resist them, because resistance can't truly solve the problem at its root.

We can only wait for an opportunity to kill him with one blow and eliminate the threat forever.

"So he's Jing Wan?"

Zhu Qing recalled that when Tian Lingzi mentioned Jing Wan in the secretary's office last time, Feng Huaihe became stiff as if his hair had been pricked up.

"Does he often punish you like this? I thought..."

She thought Feng Huaihe was incredibly powerful, appreciated by Tian Lingzi, and a leader in the shogunate. His archery skills were also excellent. Even though she didn't agree with him killing that colleague, she had to admit that his arrow shot was very beautiful.

Even setting aside external factors, Feng Huaihe's ability to emerge from the shadow of his adoptive mother being his elder sister, and to climb his way up from Qingxi Village to his current position, clearly demonstrates his inner strength.

It seems that for this reason, she had naturally overlooked the fact that Feng Huaihe was just a flesh-and-blood human being, an ordinary person, who also had his own fears.

Seeing him trembling in pain, his face pale, yet he remained silent, Zhu Qing seemed to see herself in him, working two jobs and ruining her health but refusing to ask for help; she was the one who had received her acceptance letter and was about to see hope, only to be drowned by others.

They were all the same. They all stubbornly climbed out of the mud, trying to walk towards the light, but there was always someone who would step on them and try to kick them back into the mud.

At that moment, he forgot about the dark room and the leader's many shortcomings. He only felt empathy for those who were in the same boat. As he walked out, Zhu Qing said, "I'll go find you a doctor."

"Need not!"

In his haste, Feng Huaihe grabbed her hand tightly.

Feeling the warmth and softness enveloping his palm, Feng Huaihe was stunned.

He had imagined many times, in many scenarios, at what moment he would hold her hand, but he never expected it to be after he had been in such a sorry state.

A note from the author:

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