Chapter 120
"You dare touch her?!"
He couldn't bear to touch it.
Pei Lingjun gritted his teeth, grabbed a wooden stick from the ground, and smashed it down hard.
"ah--"
The heart-wrenching screams of pain echoed through the sky, piercing the eardrums.
Before He Chang could react or beg for mercy, the excruciating pain spread from his entire arm to his whole body, and he fainted the next moment, his face pale.
The thugs and servants of the He family were terrified, staring at the young man. They watched as he calmly got up, kicked the man lying on the ground like a dead pig, and turned around to say, "Tell your master that breaking one of his hands today is a lesson. If he still doesn't change his ways, I don't mind taking his life."
The thugs were so frightened that they ran away in a panic, helped the unconscious He Chang onto the carriage, and slunk away.
After everyone left, Wen Shu helped Lu Jiang over, her eyes full of worry. With He Chang's hand broken and the He family offended, how could they live peacefully in Shanzhou?
"Thank you...cough cough!" Lu Jiang forced a bow, greeting Pei Lingjun and Cui Pei. "We owe you a great debt today; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable. But what are you doing here?"
Wen Shu linked arms with Lu Jiang, and Pei Lingjun glanced at their intimate gesture. What Wen Shu had said last night had infuriated him.
She didn't want him.
And he went out of his way to pursue her.
He's shameless; it's no use trying to save face in front of the girl he likes.
How much is modesty worth?
“I was worried about Ah Shu. I saw that she didn’t have anyone protecting her, so I came to check on her.”
The young man's sarcastic tone and reasoning made Lu Jiang's face darken.
He indeed failed to protect Wen Shu, almost causing her harm to He Chang.
Lu Jiang nodded silently, "Brother Song arrived just in time."
Pei Lingjun smiled and gave Cui Pei a wink. The latter understood and warmly helped Lu Jiang up, half-supporting and half-dragging him, saying, "Come, come, sit down and rest. You've been frightened; it's not good for you to walk around or move around..."
The sound gradually faded away, leaving only Wen Shu and Pei Lingjun on the open ground.
The young man took her hand and saw that her palm was covered in blood, and there were even small pebbles stuck in her flesh inside the wound, which made his heart ache.
"The wound is so serious, it needs to be bandaged immediately." Pei Lingjun took out a worn handkerchief from his pocket and carefully wiped the wound on her palm, gently blowing on it to relieve the pain.
Wen Shu's eyes were filled with tears, she couldn't tell if it was from fright or lingering fear. She looked away from Pei Lingjun, even though she had said those things yesterday.
But why does he seem like he can't understand or leave?
The half-worn handkerchief he pulled out of his pocket was the one he had kept from when he was in Anyang. It was the handkerchief she had left behind when she bandaged his wounds while he was trying to save her and his father outside the city.
Wen Shu really wanted to ask him why he still kept her handkerchief.
The Wen family has already fallen, hasn't he? Hasn't he achieved his goal? Why is he still bothering her?
The moment she saw him, all the memories of her past life would flood her mind, those painful experiences like countless fine threads binding her heart, causing her unbearable pain.
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