The next second, before the man could speak...
Chi Heng had already taken off his shirt.
He turned his back, a faint hint of mockery playing at the corners of his lips.
The man didn't say much, but he gestured behind him.
One of them immediately stepped forward and handed him a whip that was soaked in salt water.
"Smack!"
"Smack!"
"Smack!"
After a few more lashes, Chi Heng's back, already covered in crisscrossing welts, was covered in even more bloody wounds.
"Madam asked me to pass on a message to you: Young Master, you are now an adult. You should know what you should and shouldn't do, and don't forget your place!"
After a pause, the man spoke threateningly, "If there's a next time, it's hard to say who will get those lashes..."
The words fell.
Chi Heng slowly turned around, staring directly at the man in front of him. "Get lost!"
"Yes, young master." The man nodded slightly, glanced at the old man guarding the door before leaving, and then led everyone out of the door.
As soon as they left, Chi Heng's once upright back bent instantly.
"Young Master! Why are you doing this to yourself?"
Before the words were even finished, the old man was already sobbing uncontrollably.
"Madam, she's too cruel. You are, after all, his..."
“Uncle Da.” Chi Heng shook his head at him.
"Okay, okay... I won't say it, I won't say it..."
Uncle Da understood what he meant. He wiped away his tears and quickly took out hemostatic powder and bandages from the medicine box.
"Young master, bear with the pain, I'll apply medicine and bandage it for you right away."
"Uncle Da, it's alright, I'm not in pain anymore."
Chi Heng gently comforted her, "She's not in the country, so those people were hesitant and only used about 70 or 80 percent of their strength when they attacked her."
Compared to the past, this is already considered mild.
"How could it not hurt!" Uncle Da's tears fell again, heartbroken.
The whip was specially made, with barbs and soaked in salt water.
One lash, and even the hardest bone can't withstand it.
As he spoke, Uncle Da glanced at Chi Heng's back again, where new wounds overlapped with old ones, the wounds so gruesome that it was almost unbearable to look at them.
He could only be extremely careful until he had finished bandaging Chi Heng's wounds.
Uncle Da couldn't help but whisper another word of advice, "Young Master, listen to my advice, stop arguing with Madam!"
Actually, when his wife asked him to return to China...
He had advised the young master.
But the young master wouldn't listen; he stubbornly insisted on coming back.
They even bought the house without permission and actively contacted the Jiang family.
That's why I suffered this physical pain again.
Chi Heng didn't speak, his gaze fixed on the half-open drawer.
Even without seeing the contents of the drawer with his own eyes, Uncle Da knew what was inside.
"Young Master..." Uncle Da wanted to persuade him again.
"Uncle Da, stop talking." Chi Heng closed the drawer.
He knew what Uncle Da was going to say, but at that moment he couldn't hear anything.
After a moment of silence, he spoke again, "Have you prepared everything I asked you to?"
"Ready." As he said this, Uncle Da glanced warily at the door.
Once he was sure those people were gone, he quietly opened the hidden compartment of the medicine box and took out two identical safety buckles.
Chi Heng was raised by Uncle Da from a young age, and Uncle Da knew exactly what his every move meant.
"Young Master, I'd better find a way to send this over to you, otherwise Madam will find out..."
Chi Heng shook his head. "No need."
Seeing that Uncle Da wanted to say something, he unusually offered an explanation.
"Uncle Da, this is my own decision, and it has nothing to do with her."
He admitted that he did indeed have unusual feelings for her.
But returning to China was just to find out if she had been doing well all these years.
Is it true, as those people say, that she is currently in dire straits?
Therefore, he knew perfectly well that doing so would displease his mother.
But he did it anyway.
"Uncle Da." As if remembering something, a faint smile appeared on Chi Heng's lips.
"Her personality is still the same as when she was a child—simple and straightforward, she doesn't like beating around the bush, and she's very happy now."
That's enough.
When he brought up the Jiang family member, Uncle Da couldn't help but sigh.
He's old and can't keep up with the ideas of young people.
But he knew that the young master liked her.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have made a special trip back to China just to make sure she was alright.
He just didn't understand, if he liked it so much, why...
“Young Master,” Uncle Da looked at him, “Didn’t Madam say that as long as things go smoothly, she would agree to anything you want…”
"She agreed?" Chi Heng chuckled self-deprecatingly upon hearing this. "She's always like this, deciding other people's lives based on her own preferences."
They've been controlling him for over twenty years, and it's still not enough!
Now they want to control other people's lives.
What makes her so special?
“But, young master…” Uncle Da looked puzzled, “haven’t you always liked Miss Jiang?”
Chi Heng has never denied liking her.
However, being in the complex and dangerous vortex of the Qin family, he himself did not have the ability to protect himself.
What right or face does he have to drag her into this mess?
Moreover, his liking for her was always one-sided from beginning to end.
There was not a trace of romantic love in her eyes when she looked at him.
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