"My name is Zhang Chen, Young Master of the Zhang Family."
Zhang Chen looked at her, his voice calm and certain. "The Wang Family has already been wiped out. Wang Lie is dead. Wang Teng is dead. Everyone on this island who ever hurt you is dead."
Mu Wanqing stared blankly at him, seemingly trying to take in the enormous amount of information.
"Wiped... wiped out?"
She murmured to herself, a haze of tears slowly welling in her eyes.
Then her tears poured down like a breached dam.
They were the despair and hatred she had suppressed for so long.
Zhang Chen swept his hand, and a wind blade cleanly severed the chains around her wrists and ankles.
The chains clattered to the ground.
"You're from the Mu Family?"
Zhang Chen asked.
Rubbing her swollen, reddened wrists, Mu Wanqing struggled to sit up on the stone platform. She bowed gracefully to Zhang Chen, her voice choked with emotion. "I am Mu Wanqing. Thank you, benefactor, for saving my life..."
"The Wang Family wanted to seize my Mu Family's ancestral Green Scroll of Nurturing Origin. They killed my father and brothers and wiped out my entire family..."
"This hatred is irreconcilable. Now that you've avenged my family's blood feud, Wanqing... Wanqing is willing to serve you as a slave or maid, to repay your kindness!"
As she spoke, she started to kneel.
Zhang Chen did not dodge, accepting her bow.
Then he reached out and made a gesture as if to help her up.
"I didn't save you solely so you could repay me."
Looking her in the eyes without the slightest hesitation, Zhang Chen said, "I value your talents. My Zhang Family is in dire need of capable people right now. We're short of someone who can manage the Herb