Zhou Chen looked at the shocked Bai Liuli and smiled. "What? Are you surprised, Miss Bai?" He paused halfway through. "Do you know me, Miss Bai?"
Bai Liuli stood stunned for a moment before hurriedly collecting herself. "When you went to see Zhiyi before, my lord, I saw you from a distance and remembered you."
Even now, however, her heart was still filled with shock.
Recalling how the guards had just called him "District Superintendent Zhou," even a fool could have understood that the District Superintendent they were addressing was none other than Zhou Chen!
To think she had once mocked Nan Zhiyi for choosing a First-Rank Martial Artist, content to mind her own shop without any ambition.
Now it seemed Nan Zhiyi had made the best choice of all. Out of ten thousand men, she had picked a future District Superintendent, and it was precisely because she had kept to herself that she had escaped the Four-Family Alliance's purge.
After everything she had endured over the past two days, Bai Liuli felt she had grown a great deal.
Before, she had been arrogant, looking down on everyone and always believing she was right.
When she heard Zhou Chen intended to break through to the second rank, she had flatly declared that he could never succeed. Now reality had slapped her hard across the face.
Thinking back to the self-assured speech she had delivered before Nan Zhiyi that day, while Nan Zhiyi merely smiled faintly without responding, she now realized how ridiculous she had been.
"Did Zhiyi ask you to rescue me, Lord Zhou?" Bai Liuli wisely changed how she addressed him, then looked at him timidly, a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
She was terrified that Zhou Chen would give her another refusal.
Seeing her like this, Zhou