Sadi stared straight at Ye Chen without saying a word. She neither backed down nor cursed at him as she had before. She bottled up all her anger, and it was clear that what he had done had made her hate him to the core.
"I think you understand now how the people you tortured felt."
Half an hour later, Ye Chen untied Sadi and let her down. Smiling, he advised her, "You'd better not hate me. If you do, our story will continue. And as time goes on, I'll only make you hate me more and more. In the end, you'll hate me down to your bones, hate me until you're helpless against it. Who knows? You might even hate me so much you fall in love with me."
With that, Ye Chen picked up the leather coat from the ground and draped it over Sadi. Before leaving, he gave his whip another taunting flick in her direction.
Once Ye Chen was gone, Sadi roared, "Ye Chen, I'll never let you get away with this!"
On a street in the Sabaody Archipelago.
A group came barging down the street. Among them was a man with a belly as round as a barrel. He deliberately walked straight into an elderly, white-haired man. The old man could not get out of the way in time, and the collision sent him crashing to the ground with a cry. He immediately groaned in pain.
The fat man strode off smugly without paying the fallen old man the slightest attention.
His companions laughed at the old man's misfortune. This was the Zhu Chen Pirates, the group Sengoku had sent.
They had only one goal: to kill Ye Chen at any cost.
"Hm? What a strange bunch."
Spoon Aunt had come out to shop. She