Chapter 141

"Sorry. I shouldn't have listened to Zheng Wanru and questioned you without thinking," Xie Jin said suddenly.

Shen Lantang paused. Ever since they had fallen off the cliff, her memories of Zhaojing had grown strangely hazy. The business with the Zheng Family hadn't happened long ago, yet it felt as distant as a previous life.

"I'm not angry anymore. I'd already forgotten about it."

As far as she was concerned, she had known Zheng Wanru liked him and deliberately kept quiet, watching the drama unfold from the sidelines. That counted as getting even, so they were square.

Besides, half the reason Xie Jin was in this state was that he had protected her. How could she still be angry with him now?

Any two people were bound to have disagreements, especially when one of them was as oblivious as Xie Jin. Shen Lantang did get angry with him sometimes, but when she saw him cleaning his wounds, all those little grievances slipped away. They no longer mattered.

No wonder heroines in novels could forgive the hurt a hero had caused them after he risked his life to save them. Compared with physical pain, what was emotional pain? What was it?

—Uh, maybe she felt that way because she'd never been emotionally hurt.

"Really?" Xie Jin asked. "That makes me feel much better. I reflected on it afterward, too. I shouldn't have questioned your character. I knew you..."

"All right, all right, stop talking. That takes energy, too. If you have any to spare, use it to recover. Here, the crab's ready. Have some crab!"

Shen Lantang picked up a bright-red crab with her makeshift chopsticks, turned, and placed it in Xie Jin's hand.

Xie Jin: "..."

There was being tired, and then there was having someone else decide you were