However, when Qin Manjiang and Xia Nan went outside, they saw someone with a bleeding head.
Wu Tiansheng?
Both men jumped, almost mistaking him for a ghost.
Wu Tiansheng stood in the snow, his face covered in blood, looking utterly wretched.
"Mr. Wu? What happened?"
Xia Nan went over and examined him.
Wu Tiansheng also visibly relaxed. He shook his head and said, "I don't know either... Yesterday, Chen Xin and I were in a cabin. While I was talking, he suddenly attacked me."
"He knocked me to the ground with a club," Wu Tiansheng said, still shaken. "He thought I'd passed out, but I'm fairly strong. I escaped when he wasn't looking, and he couldn't catch me."
Xia Nan listened as he treated the wound. Wu Tiansheng had been injured a little above the back of his head. A blow to that spot, hard enough to draw blood, meant considerable force must have been used.
With that location and that amount of force, never mind knocking someone unconscious-it could easily have killed him outright.
Not only had Wu Tiansheng survived, but he had also run all this way while bleeding.
That was hardly "fairly strong." That was "exceptionally strong"!
Only after following Qin Manjiang and Xia Nan into the cabin did Wu Tiansheng notice the body lying on the floor.
Grief appeared on his face. "Did Miss Lin die last night?" he asked.
"Perhaps," Qin Manjiang said quietly. "She died in her dream."
His words made Wu Tiansheng pause. Looking at Qin Manjiang and Xia Nan, he said, "Actually... I can't be sure it was Chen Xin who attacked me..."
"What do you mean?" Qin Manjiang was puzzled by this statement.
Wu Tiansheng lowered his head and said, "Because I felt that although that person was Chen Xin, he