His words were like the Nine True Words.
Hu Ting had no power to resist, immediately falling to her knees. Always aloof and accustomed to ordering people around, Hu Ting's face drained of color. Her hands pressed against her thighs, and large beads of sweat rolled down her pale, twisted face. She could never have imagined that this man would lay a hand on a weak woman like herself.
As things stood, she would have contacted her husband even if Chen Yang had said nothing.
Once the call connected, she spoke concisely, emphasizing at the end that she had been hit and that he needed to bring people over immediately.
Beside her, Guo Kai was seething, his face a mask of anger he dared not express. Who in the world are these two?
Seeing Yang Hu's grim gaze fixed on him, Guo Kai protested, "We were once comrades-in-arms! How can you humiliate me like this? What gives you the right to claim you're on active duty?"
