He wasn't even dead and these cows were already getting ahead of themselves. Did they really think that he wouldn't be able to do anything just because he was paralyzed?
Although he couldn't pat her head, Zhan Lichuan's words still gave Jing Qian comfort.
"Don't worry about it. As long as I'm still alive, he won't be able to do anything to you."
Jing Qian was still planning on how she could further ask for protection from this man, trying to get his support in order to fight Du Yanzheng, but when Zhan Lichuan said those words, she raised her head, which was originally buried in his chest, and looked at him in surprise.
Jian Qian had always been a strong woman. She was the person whom others looked to for protection— even when she was with Du Yanzheng. When she encountered any difficulties, in order to train her, he would watch quietly by her side without offering any help. There was once where she almost died, but Du Yanzheng hadn't helped her even at the end.
