Lu Chengwen flew into a rage the moment he heard it. "What do you mean by that, Bai Menya?!"
E Lai was furious as well. "Insolence! Lu Chengwen, watch how you speak to our Patriarch!"
Lu Chengwen glanced at Little Monkey and hurriedly smiled. "No, I got worked up. Brother Bai, Bai Family Head, Bai... You're an important figure, a Grandmaster, someone invincible under heaven... She really is just an ordinary child. She has trauma-related stress and can't be frightened!"
Lu Chengwen looked at Jiang Xiaohu. "Big Brother, you... say something for me. Really, she's just an ordinary child. She doesn't know anything, she doesn't understand anything. I'll have Zhao Ritian take her back, and I'll stay. I definitely won't leave, okay?"
Jiang Xiaohu looked at Lu Chengwen, his brows tightly furrowed, his heart a tangled mess of emotions.
He was Jiang Xiaohou's brother, yet from childhood until now, it seemed he had never protected her like this.
All along the way, she had relied only on herself.
So many times, at the brink of life and death, their father had watched coldly from the sidelines. He had hated it to the bone and wanted to rush forward, but constrained by their father's authority, he had not dared act rashly.
He had watched her petite body fight desperately amid the crowd.
Her father and brother stood far away, watching coldly, never lifting a hand to help.
When she was covered in blood and crawled up from among the corpses, the look in her eyes when she looked at them... Jiang Xiaohu would never forget that moment for the rest of his life.
Now, he watched Jiang Xiaohou hide behind Lu Chengwen, pretending to be terrified, yet her eyes gradually filled with a sense of safety and happiness.
Jiang Xiaohu suddenly