Yue Xiaofei did not want the girl, who had only just lost her brother, to see the bloody, brutal scene that was about to unfold.
Chen Nian looked at Yue Xiaofei. In his calm eyes, she read everything.
No!
She couldn't let this happen!
A courage unlike anything Chen Nian had ever known surged through her heart!
Her brother was gone. She could not stand by and watch these heroes, who had protected her and sought justice for him, die before her eyes too!
"I won't!"
Chen Nian cried out, broke free of Bai Bing's supporting arm, and rushed out of the crowd!
"Nian!"
Bai Bing cried out and reached to grab her, but it was too late.
Chen Nian ran in front of Yue Xiaofei and spread her arms. With her frail body still trembling slightly, she shielded him behind her!
She raised her head. The eyes that had been filled with grief and tears now burned with fury as she glared at Sun Xiaochuan!
"Don't you dare insult Brother Xiaofei!"
The girl's voice was sharp with emotion, but every word rang with unshakable defiance!
"You're villains! Rats hiding in the gutter!"
"Brother Xiaofei is a hero! My brother was a hero too!"
"You have no right to make him kneel! You're not even fit to shine his shoes!"
"If you want to get to him, you'll have to step over my dead body!"
Her sudden outburst stunned everyone present.
No one had imagined that this soft-spoken, delicate-looking eighteen-year-old girl could have such courage!
She had pointed at the underground emperor of Jinling and called him a rat in front of three thousand ruthless criminals!
Sun Xiaochuan's face darkened at once!
He could tolerate Yue Xiaofei's provocation. To him, that was a contest between two men.
But he could