Chu Xingchen listened to the constant clanking of chains and watched Winter Melon, whose pupils had dilated somewhat in terror.
He said calmly, "There's no need to be quite this happy, is there?"
Li Yingling stood behind her master. She had managed to keep a straight face through his earlier words, which hardly sounded like something a good person would say, but at this, she could not help retorting:
"Does that look like happiness to you? He's clearly scared half to death!"
Chu Xingchen glanced back at this rebellious disciple and said with certainty:
"Of course he's happy. Haven't you heard that life is precious, but freedom is worth even more?"
"Once Winter Melon gets out, Xu Linglong will give him a little special attention at most, but what he'll gain is freedom! How could he not be happy?"
Li Yingling pointed at Winter Melon, who, after hearing her master's words, had begun imagining his days after leaving prison and was already starting to twitch, and said:
"Junior Brother... if you say much more, his life really will be set free."
At that moment, Li Yingling also felt a dawning realization, roughly understanding why Winter Melon's hatred for Cui Hao ran so bone-deep.
Her master must surely have had a hand in this. Cui Hao's bewilderment and confusion back then truly had a reason.
When it came to drawing hatred, her master really was the best of the best.
No wonder her master had come here disguised as Cui Hao and spouted nonsense like-once you had enough debts, they stopped being debts.
Now it seemed... even nonsense had its logic.
Judging by Winter Melon's current behavior, even if Cui Hao really saved his life several times, it probably would not dispel his murderous intent.
Seeing this, Chu Xingchen raised a