Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 154: Chapter 151: Why Should This Young Master Protect You?

Hidden Guard: "Yes, sir!"

A Qi’s eyes widened. Before he could even react, a Hidden Guard had him in his grasp.

As the Hidden Guard suppressed his spiritual power and lifted him up, he was utterly horrified, his face ashen.

A Qi was taken away by the Hidden Guard.

A Cheng was even more frightened, frozen to the spot.

’The Young Master has Hidden Guards with him? And their auras are so powerful.’

’Could they be the Fox Clan’s most mysterious Snow Shadow Guards?’

Watching this scene, Jie Ying was completely stupefied.

She had never seen such a cold and heartless Young Master...

She stared at Bai Chaosi, trying to find her voice.

"Young Master, you... you mustn’t be so angry. I know you were upset by that woman tonight. Once we return to Snow Ridge..."

Before she could finish, Bai Chaosi raised a hand.

An invisible force instantly wrapped around Jie Ying’s neck, choking her and lifting her feet off the ground.

Her eyes bulged as she struggled frantically with one hand.

"Young Master... you... KOFF... What are you doing?"

The intense suffocation instantly turned her face crimson.

"Let... let me go... Young Master!"

Bai Chaosi watched her with cold eyes.

"Jie Ying, do you know why I spared your life when you were in Shen Yue’s hands?"

Jie Ying looked at him in terror.

Her mind went blank from the lack of oxygen, and she could only ask instinctively,

"Wh... why?"

"Wasn’t it because... because of the bond we’ve shared since childhood? You... you have feelings for me... don’t you?"

Bai Chaosi watched her struggle, his eyes like ice.

"Feelings?"

His tone was frigid, and disgust filled his gaze.

"You think that with a two-faced creature like you, I could possibly have feelings for you?"

Listening, A Cheng looked at Jue Ying, his expression stunned.

He knew the Young Master was suffering in silence.

But Jie Ying didn’t understand what he was saying and spoke with great difficulty.

"Young Master, I’m not... Please believe me. I’ve never been two-faced with you... My feelings for you are real..."

Bai Chaosi sneered.

"Real feelings? You’re just like your father, with the same vile, filthy blood running through your veins. Do people like you even know what real feelings are?"

Jie Ying heard him mention her father. ’Father?’

"Young Master, you... KOFF... What are you talking about? What does this have to do with my Father?"

She could barely breathe. The suffocation was spreading to her brain.

Meanwhile, the rims of Bai Chaosi’s eyes reddened. As Jue Ying struggled in agony, his own breathing grew ragged, whether from anger or rage, and something seemed terribly wrong with him.

Watching this, A Cheng couldn’t help but remind him nervously,

"Young Master, you need to calm down."

Just then, Bai Chaosi’s grip tightened. Jue Ying made a choked sound, her eyes looking as if they would pop out of their sockets...

At the same time, Bai Chaosi coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"PFFT..."

A Cheng was horrified. "Young Master! Young Master, are you all right?!"

Bai Chaosi’s hand loosened, and Jie Ying, with just a breath of life left in her, fell to the ground.

Her tendons had already been severed, and now, having been slammed to the ground, she didn’t even have a chance to catch her breath before she was curling up on the floor and screaming in pain.

"My hand... AHH... My hand..."

Meanwhile, Bai Chaosi’s face turned deathly pale. Cold sweat beaded on his forehead, and a trickle of blood escaped the corner of his mouth again.

A Cheng was terrified. Full of concern, he steadied him.

"Young Master, are you okay?"

Bai Chaosi pushed A Cheng away with one hand, wiped the blood from his mouth, and forced himself to stand up straight.

He walked step by step toward Jie Ying, who was sobbing in agony on the ground. He saw her wretched state...

His throat tightened, and a crimson, vicious light, born of pain, glinted in his eyes.

Jie Ying was curled up on the ground in pain, her body trembling uncontrollably...

Finally able to breathe, she looked up at Bai Chaosi, whose eyes burned with hatred above her. She was delirious with pain.

"Young Master, how could you do this to me? I’m in so much pain... Why are you doing this to me? Didn’t you say you would... you would always protect me?"

Hearing her words, a chilling coldness that Jue Ying had never seen before spread across Bai Chaosi’s face.

He looked down at her as if he had just heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.

"Protect you? Why would I ever protect you?"

His tone was so vicious it seemed to be laced with poison.

"You probably don’t know this, but if it weren’t for your ’good’ father, you would have died by my hand long ago. Did you think I’d let you keep causing trouble in front of Shen Yue?"

Hearing this, Jie Ying instantly regained some of her senses.

"Wh-what do you mean?"

Bai Chaosi’s face was as pale as paper, seemingly from pain, but the crimson in his eyes was shockingly bright.

He said, word by word,

"What do I mean? Did your ’good’ father not tell you? When I was very young, he placed a secret technique on me, binding your life and mine together. He did it so he could control me like a puppet and preserve your family’s centuries of glory."

"This secret technique is called the Symbiotic Life Technique. When you feel pain, I feel pain. When you are injured, I am injured. If you die, I die."

Jie Ying was aghast, as if she had just heard the most shocking news imaginable...

She stared at him in disbelief.

A Cheng was also frozen in place, shocked, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead...

’So that’s how it is.’

’It was really like that.’

All he knew was that ever since he started serving the Young Master, he had noticed how much his master detested Jie Ying’s pestering. Yet, whenever she fell ill or got into trouble, he was always the first to appear, going to great lengths and sparing no effort to find medicine to save her life.

Then one time, he personally saw Lady Jie Ying accidentally fall and twist her knee.

The Young Master had been standing perfectly fine, but he suddenly buckled in pain, almost collapsing to his knees.

On several later occasions, he discovered that whenever Lady Jie Ying was injured or felt pain somewhere, the Young Master would have the exact same reaction.

Although the Young Master was always careful to hide it and never let anyone approach within ten feet of him,

as observant as he was, he still noticed the times the Young Master lay in bed, trembling from pain...

At the time, he couldn’t understand what was going on between the two of them or why such a thing would happen.

He never asked the Young Master about it.

But he knew there had to be some unknown secret, some connection, between the Young Master and Lady Jie Ying.

He never imagined, however, that it was the Great Elder who had cast a secret technique on the Young Master.

’No wonder. No wonder the Young Master has disliked being close to people since he was a child. No one could get near him, no one could interact with him at close range...’

’It’s because he’s lived under someone’s control since childhood, treated like a puppet. When he was hurt or in pain, he not only had to endure it all alone, but he also had to prevent anyone from discovering this secret...’

’Because if this secret were ever discovered, it would be like placing his very lifeline in the hands of even more people.’

’Forced to desperately protect someone he despised.’

’Forced to play along with the very people who were hurting him...’

’A man like that, how could he possibly grow close to anyone...’

’His coldness, his aloofness, his ruthlessness, his inscrutable thoughts... It was all because of the burden he carried.’

A Cheng couldn’t imagine how the Young Master had survived for the past twenty-five years.

Jie Ying processed his words and finally reacted.

As if she’d heard an impossible fairytale, she refused to believe it.

"Impossible... How is that possible..."

"My father is completely loyal to the Bai Family! He would never do something like this..."

As she spoke, she suddenly looked at Bai Chaosi’s right hand.

His right hand was hanging limply at his side.

The slight tremor in his arm was clearly caused by extreme pain.

Her face instantly paled.

She remembered how, just moments ago, when Bai Chaosi was choking her, she had been unable to breathe, suffering and on the verge of suffocation.

At that same time, Bai Chaosi’s face had also turned deathly white, his breathing had become ragged, and he had even choked up a mouthful of blood.

In that instant, it was as if she understood everything...

And she collapsed to the ground.

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