Chapter 1236

“…Uncle, why, tell me why… Uncle…”

The murmuring voice in her dream was clear to his ears, but he just didn’t know how to deal with it.

“Girl, I’m not your uncle, I’m going to lay you down.”

Mu Xiaoyao gently pushed her, but instead of letting go, Baili Xia held him even tighter.

Above those tightly closed eyes, her delicate brows were tightly furrowed together.

At the corners of her eyes, there was still the sheen of undried tears.

Her voice was hoarse with grievance: “What exactly do you want to use me for, what are you trying to do…”

“They want to kill me, are you going to let them? Uncle…”

Mu Xiaoyao’s heart suddenly tensed, seeing her face so pained even in her dreams made his own heart inexplicably ache.

Fortunately, Baili Xia did not continue sleep talking.

Not knowing what she saw in her dream, her tangled eyebrows finally slowly smoothed out.

Her crystal-clear little face no longer bore tear streaks, but it still carried a faint, frail breath.

Her long hair, lifted by the wind, fell across her face, even brushing the corners of her lips.

Strand by strand, lying across her small face, made it appear even more fragile and lonely.

Mu Xiaoyao couldn’t help but reach out to brush those strands of hair away, tucking them behind her ear.

His fingertips inadvertently touched her cheek, realizing that a girl’s cheek felt completely different from a man’s.

Of course, he had only touched his own face before, and apart from that, only hers.

His long finger did not move, the pad still gently pressing against her cheek, very lightly.

She was wronged today.

An ordinary girl, twice targeted for assassination.

To say she wasn’t scared, even he wouldn’t believe that.

After all, she’s just an eighteen-year-old girl.

Who wouldn’t be afraid when their life is threatened?

But she kept feigning strength, silently waiting for that man to come.

Even if he just came to say a few comforting words.

But he, stubbornly, did not come.

“I’m sorry.” Mu Xiaoyao’s voice was very soft; Baili Xia, deep in sleep, naturally could not hear it.

In truth, he didn’t even know why he was saying sorry.

Perhaps because he hadn’t protected her well today.

Or perhaps, because he too had a part in the matter with Uncle.

Dongfang Jin had always been tracking the person who released the wild wolves at the hunting grounds.

It was he who personally sabotaged the surveillance system on the road.

Even if the order came from Uncle, it was still executed by him in person.

If one day, she finds out that he too had a hand in concealing things, even assisting those who hurt her, would she hate him?

She…

would surely hate him to death, right?

…

In an abandoned building on the outskirts of Jin City, in one of the rooms,

a man’s hands were shackled with steel cuffs, pulled off the ground and suspended in midair for hours.

The wrists, where the steel restraints pressed, were already marked deeply with blood, on the verge of breaking open.

Had it not been for professional training, being suspended for hours like this would have ended his life long ago.

Ever since he was captured and loaded into the vehicle, his eyes were covered, and by the time he opened his eyes again, he had arrived here.

Upon entering the room, those people suspended him in this manner without a word, then they all left.

No one has come to check since, not a single word spoken.

When he first arrived it was daytime, and now it was already night.

The room was pitch black, not a sliver of light.

In such darkness, in such silence, panic grew within him.

Who was it that could intercept him on his meticulously planned route?

Could it be, him?