"Who told you Dong Jie was going to suffer?" Jiang Yang asked. Dong Hao instinctively replied, "Didn't you just say that I still had many trials and hardships ahead of me?"
"That's you, not Dong Jie."
"What about Dong Jie?"
"She won't suffer." Jiang Yang spoke as calmly as if it were the most natural thing in the world, while Dong Hao felt like he was about to collapse. What kind of crooked logic was that?
He could see it now. His master was playing favorites!
He had to suffer and endure hardships, while Dong Jie did not?
Dong Hao suddenly felt a tightness in his chest. He wanted to vomit, but could not.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Boss, you're really playing favorites here!"
"Poor Dong Hao. You've boarded a pirate ship now!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. The difference between boys and girls."
Li Shun and the others clicked their tongues as they looked at Dong Hao, smiles curling at the corners of their mouths. Dong Hao's face had gone ashen. He did not know Jiang Yang all that well, but he knew Jiang Yang was someone who acted decisively and always did what he said.
If Jiang Yang said Dong Hao would face many hardships in the future, then he probably really would.
But that was not what Dong Hao found hardest to accept. What he could not accept was having to endure suffering that could clearly have been avoided.
"Martial uncles!" Dong Jie blinked and called out sweetly to Li Shun and the others. The moment those words left her mouth, Li Shun and the others felt their entire bodies go weak.
"You still haven't given us welcome gifts!"
With that one sentence, Li Shun and the others instantly felt as though they had fallen into an icy abyss. What