Was that true?
Her Aunt—the Aunt who had painstakingly raised her—had actually faced such danger before?!
Qiu Zining was still fuming. "Chen Yanjun! Do you think I wouldn't dare take you to Military Court?!"
"Don't think I'm afraid of you just because your family belongs to the nobility!"
"I've put up with you for a long time, so don't push your luck!"
Her voice was shrill and trembling, grating and noisy to the ear.
Xia Chujian instinctively snapped, "Qiu Zining, can you fucking shut up?!"
Qiu Zining had not expected Xia Chujian to embarrass her so openly, scolding her in front of so many people.
She shot to her feet and shouted sharply, "Xia Chujian, who the hell are you cursing?!"
Xia Chujian's mind was in chaos. Right now, she only wanted to shut Qiu Zining's mouth.
She rose abruptly, leaping from her seat and landing directly in front of Qiu Zining's desk.
The next second, none of them saw what happened.
But the muzzle of a long-barreled pistol had already been shoved into Qiu Zining's mouth.
No one knew when Xia Chujian had pulled out a long-barreled pistol.
Qiu Zining instinctively raised both hands and made muffled noises. Her terrified eyes were wide open, her black pupils rolling wildly in their sockets. They looked like two black glass beads embedded in eyes that were mostly white.
Xia Chujian pressed the gun against her mouth. Her voice was as cold as the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice of the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest, as if one breath from her could freeze Qiu Zining solid.
Qiu Zining really was trembling all over—not from cold, but from fear.
She had never imagined that Xia Chujian could be this insane! Even crazier than she was!
What kind of person shoved