However, when Qin Manjiang and Xia Nan went outside, they saw someone with a bloodied 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 miserable.
"Mr. Wu? What happened?"
Xia Nan went over to examine him.
Wu Tiansheng visibly relaxed as well. 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 floor with a club," Wu Tiansheng said, still shaken. "He thought I'd passed out, but I'm fairly strong. I escaped while he wasn't paying attention, and he couldn't catch me."
Xia Nan listened as he treated the wound. Wu Tiansheng's injury was slightly above the back of his head. A blow to that spot, hard enough to draw blood, certainly couldn't have been light.
With that location and that much force, never mind passing out-he could easily have died on the spot.
Not only had Wu Tiansheng survived, but he had even run all this way while bleeding.
That wasn't "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 showed on his face. "Did Miss Lin die last night?"
"Perhaps," Qin Manjiang said quietly. "She died in a dream."
Those words made Wu Tiansheng freeze. He looked at Qin Manjiang and Xia Nan and said, "Actually... I can't be certain 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, from what I sensed, although that person was Chen Xin, he also seemed not to