Uncontrollable Heart
She raised her head and looked up at his face, her heart pounding.
He used all his strength to look at her. Shen Yue’s emotions were on the verge of collapsing. He wanted to pull her into his arms and tell her how much he could not let her go.
His eyes were red, and he raised his hand hesitantly. In the end, he couldn’t let go of his previous regret and put her down. Looking at the innocence in her eyes, with a single thought, he understood the right choice. He could give up on himself, but he could not destroy her again.
Shen Yue pushed her away and fell heavily to the ground. As if he couldn’t feel the pain, he picked up his crutches, and, refusing the help his subordinates offered, stood up again.
He continued to walk out without saying a word. The purple-robed man seemed to have got used to it and followed behind him silently.
Zhao Jianlong was originally vexed by her undeserved desire, but she never thought that the other party would actually avoid her like a plague. The people in the city usually kept a respectful distance from her, so now she was was numb to it. However, she felt indescribably unwilling to accept the same treatment from him. Unless he could look at her with a more normal expression, she could not ignore his existence.
“You stop!” She walked to the narrow door and blocked his way.
Shen Yue did not even glance at her and gave the man in purple a meaningful look. The other party understood and immediately threw out a long rope to tie down Zhao Jianlong, who was at a disadvantage in martial arts.
“Hey, you…” Before she could cry out, the purple-robed man had already sealed her acupuncture point. Zhao Jianlong could only watch as Shen Yue boarded the carriage.
At this moment, the purple-robed man felt the dark wind sweep past. He was as nimble as a swallow as he spread his wings and dodged. In the next moment, a few silver darts streaked across his eyes. The target was Zhao Jianlong’s rope. Because the rope was made with a special process, ordinary blunt weapons could not easily break it.
“Shameless maniac! In broad daylight, you actually dared to tease a good woman.” Zhao Qinghuai’s sword had arrived behind the purple-robed man like a timely rain.
The man withdrew his rope and turned to fight. He snickered and said, “She was clearly the one who tangled with our sect leader first.”
Just as the two of them began fighting, a horse passed by and slowed down. The person on the horse waved the rope, wrapped it around Zhao Jianlong, who was standing at the door and unable to move, and pulled her onto the horse. Then, he rode away.
The horse carriage Shen Yue was riding took a detour. When he heard the sound of hooves coming from behind him, he was shocked. He suspected that the people from the Red Fox Sect had found him. He opened the curtain of the window and saw the familiar figure being held on the front of a horse by a black-clothed man.
“Driver, catch up to that horse.”
“Stop fighting, stop fighting.” The shopkeeper ran out from where he was and shouted, “That young lady was snatched away!”
“Did your men abduct my sister?!” Zhao Qinghuai, who had just come out, saw his sister being tied up. He naturally thought that her sister was still with the same people. After saying that, he was even more infuriated. He made a vicious move in an attempt to deal with this guy in front of him and save her as soon as possible.
The purple-robed man felt that ever since this brother and sister appeared, everything had happened so inexplicably. “I’m here alone. How can I have an accomplice?”
“You’re pestering me endlessly. It’s obviously to stall for time.”
Under Zhao Qinghuai’s intense attack, the other man replied with ease, “I can prove that this matter has nothing to do with me, but you may not believe it to be true.”
Because of this battle, all the guests had already left and the items in the shop had been smashed to pieces. The shopkeeper stood upstairs, separated from the “battlefield” and said in a conciliatory tone, “Little brother, I saw that it was your younger sister who made the first move. I think there has been a group of flower thieves in the city recently. Maybe your younger sister was kidnapped by those people. If you go now, you might still be able to catch up.”
Zhao Qinghuai thought about it. Especially when he heard about the flower thief, he was even more anxious. The longsword cut the rope and the two took a few steps back under the shock of his inner energy. Zhao Qinghuai angrily glared at the purple-robed man, took out a silver ingot from his chest, threw it on the counter, and turned to run to the backyard.
The other man recalled that the young lady had been kidnapped without any defenses because she had been sealed off by him. He was somewhat responsible for this matter.
Zhao Qinghuai was about to leave when the purple-robed man appeared again and said, “I’ve long said that it has nothing to do with me. However, if you need help, I’m willing to come and join this mess.”