Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 150: Chapter 149: Bai Chaosi, Who Are You to Me?

Shen Yue looked away from A Qi and turned to Bai Chaosi.

She watched as the man stared at the weeping Jie Ying on the ground, his expression dark and unreadable.

His eyes seemed to hold both pain and conflict.

She frowned.

’Bai Chaosi, you had better not disappoint me.’

’I’ll just wait and see how he reacts.’

Bai Chaosi stood rooted to the spot, a storm swirling in his usually gentle eyes as his mind raced.

Finally, he looked at Shen Yue.

”I know you wouldn’t do something like this.”

She wouldn’t be jealous of a woman who was her inferior in every way.

It just wasn’t her style.

Hearing this, Jie Ying, still on the ground, panicked.

”Young Master, how can you say that? Don’t you believe me? What do you mean it wasn’t her? She’s the one who hurt me! You can’t treat me like this...”

Bai Chaosi took a deep breath.

”But I watched Jie Ying grow up. She may be spoiled and hot-tempered, but she’s a kind girl at heart.”

After she woke up that day, Jie Ying had repeatedly assured him she would no longer harbor inappropriate feelings for him.

She would only see him as a brother.

She also promised not to cause any more trouble for Shen Yue.

That was why he couldn’t believe Jie Ying would instigate things, or that she would deliberately provoke Shen Yue.

He couldn’t understand how things between them had come to this, escalating to physical violence.

On the ground, Jie Ying heard this and let out a sigh of relieved joy.

’She knew it! The Young Master would definitely believe her.’

Meanwhile, Shen Yue stared straight at him.

The warmth in her eyes vanished completely.

’Men. You truly can’t have any expectations for them.’

But Bai Chaosi’s voice was tight as he continued,

”Shen Yue, no matter what happened, can you do it for my sake? Please don’t stoop to her level. Save her hand.”

”Don’t let her be crippled.”

His handsome face was twisted with conflict and pain, his eyes turning red from the inner turmoil he was trying to hide.

He looked almost broken.

Shen Yue almost laughed in anger.

’How could she fail to see it? He was agonizing over the hand of Jie Ying’s that she had crippled by severing the tendon.’

’He chose to believe someone else, yet he still wanted her to heal the hand of the very person who insulted her?’

A slow smile touched her lips, but her words were as sharp and cold as daggers of ice.

”And who are you to me, Bai Chaosi? Does your name carry that much weight?”

”Enough for me to repeatedly save someone who hurls insults at me?”

At her words, Bai Chaosi’s pupils constricted.

Huang Ziyue, Mu Silin, and the others also narrowed their eyes, their gazes fixed menacingly on Jie Ying. ’How dare this woman insult Shen Yue.’

’She should have been killed on the spot, not just had one hand crippled.’

On the ground, Jie Ying cried out in terror,

”Young Master, don’t listen to her! I didn’t insult her, I was just trying to help her... She’s the Female Master you chose. How could I possibly insult her?”

”Young Master, you have to believe me.”

Bai Chaosi looked at Jie Ying’s panicked expression, and as if realizing something, he immediately turned to Shen Yue.

He was hoping she would speak up and set the record straight.

As long as she spoke up, he would believe her.

But Shen Yue read the look in his eyes and found it laughable. She had no desire to get dragged any further into this mess.

’Did she really need to argue with a woman like that just to prove her own innocence?’

’What a joke.’

She shrugged.

”Everything she said is true. I hurt her hand on purpose.”

With that, she turned to leave.

”So, hurry up and get her out of here to have her hand treated. Stop making a scene and being an eyesore.”

A Qi’s eyes widened.

”Young Master, did you hear that? She admitted it!”

Bai Chaosi stared at Shen Yue in shock.

As if sharing a single mind, Huang Ziyue, Mu Silin, and the others all sensed Shen Yue’s sorrow in that moment.

She was heartbroken.

Seeing Shen Yue about to leave, Jie Ying became frightened. Her hand... Nothing could happen to her hand.

Just a moment ago, she could still feel pain, but now her hand was completely numb.

She screamed, ”You can’t go! You have to heal my hand! What did I do wrong? Just because my presence makes you unhappy? Just because of the years of history between me and the Young Master, you’d be so cruel to me? You’re so vicious...”

As he listened, murderous intent filled Huang Ziyue’s eyes as he stared at Jie Ying on the ground.

’Vicious?’

’The nerve of this woman. Twisting the truth and sowing discord right in front of him, and then daring to call *his* woman vicious?’

The expressions on the faces of Mu Silin, Gu Fangqi, and the others were equally grim.

After spending so much time with Shen Yue, this was the first time they had ever heard anyone dare to describe her that way.

How could someone like her, who was so full of love and compassion for the world, be called ’vicious’ by Jie Ying?

It was an outrageous slander.

The words were grating enough for them to hear; they couldn’t imagine how Shen Yue herself must feel.

But they couldn’t make a move to kill a woman at a time like this.

As Jie Ying saw Shen Yue about to walk past Bai Chaosi, she wailed,

”Young Master, she can’t just walk away after injuring my hand! By what right does she treat me this way? Have you forgotten? You promised my female mother you would protect me! I can’t be crippled! My hand can’t be crippled...”

Bai Chaosi’s throat tightened, and his gaze on Jie Ying grew colder by the second.

He took a deep breath.

Just as Shen Yue was about to walk past him, he reached out and grabbed her arm firmly.

It was the very same spot that Jie Ying had pinched until it hurt.

A jolt of pain shot through her arm, and she was forced to stop, frowning as she looked at him.

Huang Ziyue noticed the flicker of pain on Shen Yue’s face. The eyes hidden beneath his cloak narrowed, and his voice became terrifyingly cold.

”Let her go.”

Bai Chaosi acted as if he hadn’t heard, his grip on Shen Yue remaining tight. His throat was constricted as he spoke.

”Shen Yue, I’m sorry.”

”No matter what she did wrong, please, I’m asking you to spare her just this once. Save her hand.”

”Afterward, I will personally come to you to apologize and make amends.”

Hearing this, Jie Ying clutched her injured hand, her eyes wide with disbelief.

”No, Young Master! Why should you have to apologize to her? She’s the one who hurt my hand, so she’s the one who should fix it! That vicious woman...”

”Shut your mouth.”

All traces of Bai Chaosi’s usual gentle demeanor were gone as he snapped coldly at her.