County yamen prison.
"Brother Jiang, why are you here?!" Cheng Ran gripped the cage forged from refined iron with both hands, delight written across his face.
He had never expected to see Jiang Ning here.
At this moment, Xie Xiaoj iu also came to the cell where Tong Xiuyun was being held. She tugged at Tong Xiuyun's clothes and, after finding nothing amiss, finally let out a long breath.
The two women immediately clasped hands, their faces full of joy.
Nearby.
Seeing that Cheng Ran was safe and sound, Jiang Ning nodded slightly before replying, "I heard something had happened to you, so I came at once."
After saying that, Jiang Ning added, "Brother Cheng was arrested this morning. Why didn't you mention my name? If you had, how would Xiao Tianhe have dared act so recklessly?"
Cheng Ran could not help but shake his head with a bitter smile.
"How could I have had the face to invoke Brother Jiang's great name?"
Then he said with emotion, "Only today did I realize that Martial Dao is a hundred times more important than doing business! Take my Cheng Family—we can be said to possess a fortune worth ten thousand gold."
"But what then? Faced with merely a captain from the Inspection Office, we were utterly powerless!"
"If Brother Jiang had not come to save us, my entire family might have died under false accusations."
Jiang Ning said, "Brother Cheng, have you finally seen through it?"
Cheng Ran nodded repeatedly. "I have! No matter how difficult martial arts may be, I must keep walking this path! In this world, without strength to protect oneself, one cannot take even a single step!"
"If I had even half of Brother Jiang's strength, how would Xiao Tianhe have dared bully my Cheng Family like