Chapter 184: I Have a Heart of Justice
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Only after Ye Liang Chen’s face was smacked to the side did he finally snap back to reality, eyes wide with disbelief: “Y-you hit me?”
Long Aotian stepped forward, eyes steely and calm as he stared straight at Ye Liang Chen.
That look—yea, Ye Liang Chen knew it all too well. Some people get angry and shout obscenities nonstop, but others keep their cool, hiding an storm of fury underneath. And right now, Ye Liang Chen felt that familiar, terrifying wave of impending doom crashing down.
In that moment, Ye Liang Chen’s mind was flooded with memories of being dominated in his past life by Long Aotian. He took a step back, trembling, eyes filled with terror: “Y-You, what are you trying to do?”
“Have I ever told you that smashing someone’s door like that isn’t a good idea?” Long Aotian asked in a low, serious tone.
He remembered knocking on Hu Yuying’s door once, scaring his little lackey so badly his face turned ghostly pale.
That incident, though it didn’t directly hurt Hu Yuying, left a dark shadow hurting her heart for quite a while.
He couldn’t forget how Hu Yuying was nearly in tears, desperate and confused, asking for help but terrified she’d cause trouble.
And Long Aotian couldn’t fathom—what if he hadn’t run into Hu Yuying? If she had been alone, how scared and helpless would she have been?
Pulling someone out of darkness is tough. But destroying someone? That’s effortless.
He had finally revived his little lackey, only to find her still following Hu Yuying and Qing Xue around, which made Long Aotian mad enough to see red.
In truth, unconsciously, they already occupied a huge, massive part of his heart.
Seeing Long Aotian like this, Ye Liang Chen’s original boisterous declaration stuck in his throat—he didn’t know how to say it now.
He honestly didn’t expect that he, even after blackening his heart, dared to hit himself.
Wow, talk about disrespect—he didn’t even put his darker half in his eyes!
Covering his face, Ye Liang Chen yelled, “Don’t think I don’t know what you’re planning! I’m here to stop you!”
“Even if you hit me, I won’t give in. As everyone knows, I have a heart of justice,” he declared, turning his gaze to Li Qing Xue and Lin Wan Ning. “Come over quick.”
“Now that I’m here, no one can hurt you.”
Lin Wan Ning shot Ye Liang Chen a cold look: “Are you out of your mind? Do we even know each other? Are we very close? And what the hell are you seeing that makes you think we’re hurt?”
Li Qing Xue exhaled slowly, recalling her earlier words on the campus track. She thought she made herself clear, but now it turns out he wasn’t listening—he just liked projecting his thoughts onto her.
“You, Ye Liang Chen, enough. Why are you like this now? Stranger and yet so annoying,” she snapped.
Hearing the words, Ye Liang Chen clutched his chest, hurt and in pain.
He’d come to save them, only to be slapped in the face with their words. They weren’t thankful—no, they even looked down on him.
He was the one being attacked! The victim! Why were they all siding with Long Aotian? Why not him?
His heart couldn’t accept this—no, absolutely couldn’t.
“Don’t you see what kind of person Long Aotian really is?” he yelled.
He… ah… “Ugh…” Ye Liang Chen gasped, staggering back two steps.
Not only was he stunned—Long Aotian and the other two also looked at Hu Yuying in utter disbelief.
Hu Yuying withdrew her soft, white hand—her first push was out of fear, but this second time, it was different. No fear, no trembling, just determination.
She couldn’t always be protected by Brother Long. She wanted him to see that she was strong now, that sometimes she could even protect him.
Moreover, this guy dared to bother her and Brother Long… too d*mn disgusting!
Ye Liang Chen looked at Hu Yuying with grievance, grief, and heartbreak: “Why? Why?”
“There’s no why. If you really want a reason, it’s us asking you—why are you stalking us? Why are you kicking our door? Why always act like you’re doing us a favor?”
“We don’t even know you well, why do you keep bothering us?”
This hit the hearts of Li Qing Xue and Lin Wan Ning.
Yes, Lin Wan Ning also wondered—why did he act like he knew her so well, like he was trying to save her? But she didn’t need saving. Not at all.
Li Qing Xue saw Ye Liang Chen in this state and didn’t want to say more.
They’d known him for nine years, but Ye Liang Chen had changed beyond recognition—lying to their teachers, claiming that dating had affected his studies, even trying to get her to give up the college entrance exam.
If that was his “salvation,” she’d rather not.
She smiled—a real, biting smile. Ye Liang Chen had spent so much effort trying to rescue them, only to get back nothing but blame.
Hahaha, isn’t that just hilarious?
They’d only wake up when Long Aotian hurt them from head to toe? As if that would change anything.
“Looks like I’ve been deluding myself,” Ye Liang Chen sighed bitterly, mumbling.
All his enthusiasm, all his passion, had become—unfamiliar, unrecognizable to them.
It hurt worse than Long Aotian slapping him.
He suddenly looked up at Long Aotian: “You’re proud, huh?”
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Long Aotian quickly slapped him again—he’d been wanting to do that all along. Doesn’t he know how irritating he is?
Like everyone else is wrong, only Long Aotian is right.
Tracking his little lackey and Qing Xue, barging in like it’s all justified.
He shouldn’t oppose. He should just watch as Long Aotian bounces around right before his eyes.
But when he fought back, in Long Aotian’s eyes, he became the villain. Long Aotian, meanwhile, was the innocent—so full of grievance and misery.
Even though Long Aotian usually had a good temper, at this moment—at this very moment—his urge to punch this guy was uncontrollable.
“Sniff sniff… You hit me, why the hell did you hit me?”
“Everything is your fault! Why are you treating me like this?” If a single slap could make Ye Liang Chen still stand firm, he might have held on. But two? That was too much.
Long Aotian stepped forward, grabbing Ye Liang Chen and roughly hauling him up: “As long as they call me ‘Big Bro’, I’ll be responsible for protecting them.”
“If you dare try something again, I swear—I will do everything in my power to send you away.”
“Look at me! Look at me!”
Ye Liang Chen shivered at Long Aotian’s roar, instinctively looking at him.
His eyes—so terrifying. At this moment, Long Aotian’s gaze gradually merged with that crazy dragon in his dream.
It was pure, deep fear—shaking from the bone’s core.
“Did you hear me?”
“I, I heard.”
Watching Ye Liang Chen’s panicked retreat, Long Aotian sighed. If possible, he wouldn’t want to do this. But right now, it seemed the best option…
【Knight’s Spirit, Never Rest!】
