Benefactor?
Xiao Fan hurriedly helped her up, stopping her from continuing to kowtow, his confusion deepening.
He did find the woman familiar, yet for the life of him, he could not recall where exactly he had seen her before.
"Benefactor! Have you forgotten?" The woman was so agitated that her words tumbled over one another. Pointing toward the capital, she said, "At the city gate that day! That bully Zhang Bin wanted to violate me, and he even injured my father!
"It was you! You stepped in and saved us! Benefactor! My father and I have always kept your kindness engraved in our hearts!"
At those words, a scene abruptly flashed through Xiao Fan's mind... the bustling city gate, Zhang Bin, that rat-faced soldierly thug! A helpless father and daughter...
So it was her!
In that instant, every clue linked together. The good seed he had planted that day had unexpectedly borne its fruit here and now.
Had he not intervened back then, perhaps he would not have happened to pass through this place tonight—and this woman might already have withered away in despair.
"What is your name?" Xiao Fan asked.
"Li... Li Li."
Xiao Fan sighed softly at the tricks fate played. He was just about to ask Li Li in detail what her father and she had gone through since they parted at the city gate, and why they had fallen into such a tragic state of shattered home and dead family...
But at that moment!
From the darkness at both ends of the street came a sudden burst of dense, chaotic footsteps!
Figures wielding sabers, axes, clubs, and staves sprang from the shadows. Like hyenas that had caught the scent of blood, they slowly closed in from both front and back, instantly blocking Xiao Fan and Li