"Pingzhi, why haven't you apologized to young hero Ji?"
Lin Zhennan hurriedly pulled Lin Pingzhi out from behind him and shoved him forward.
Then he greeted Ji Boying with a smiling face.
"These past few days, the agency has made some enemies, and everyone has been on edge. My son was in the wrong and acted too rashly, offending young hero Ji. Please forgive him, please forgive him..."
Lin Pingzhi also stared curiously at the young man before him, a peer who was much taller than himself and handsome in an entirely different way.
Hope and curiosity appeared amid the frightened eyes of the remaining Guards of the Fuwei Escort Agency. They all looked at the young man before them as though he were their savior.
"Please forgive me, Great Hero Ji. I..."
With a smile, Ji Boying reached out with his left hand and helped Lin Pingzhi up.
"There is no need for such courtesy, Young Escort Leader. I know a little about what has happened to the Fuwei Escort Agency. Given the circumstances, such a reaction was perfectly natural. What is there to forgive?"
For a moment, everyone felt somewhat disappointed upon seeing how gentle this young man was.
At a time of life and death, they would have found it more reassuring if some fierce and domineering figure had come to their aid.
But then they saw the broken sword tip on the ground.
They thought of Chief Guard Zhang's repeated praise over the past month.
That put them more at ease.
Though the young man before them was young and mild-mannered rather than brutal, looking like a scholar fresh from the academy—
His methods were clearly those of a top-tier hero of the martial world.
When they had heard Chief Guard Zhang praising him so extravagantly,