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Chapter 132 To Pounce or Not to Pounce (18)

Chapter 132: Chapter 132 To Pounce or Not to Pounce (18)

Chuxia bit her teeth and knelt alone in silence, enduring for a long time without uttering a sound. She didn’t beg for mercy or cry out from exhaustion; she was incredibly stubborn.

Che’s room was on the second floor, and from the window of his room, he could clearly see Chuxia as she knelt. He continuously leaned against the window, watching her.

He wondered whether she would beg for mercy or submit.

After all, he knew his mother. Mrs. Shi wasn’t the kind of person with a cruel heart—if Chuxia would just admit her wrongs, she wouldn’t really make her kneel the entire night, especially since Chuxia was still just a child at that time.

Yet she simply wouldn’t ask for mercy; she didn’t think she was wrong, which infuriated Mrs. Shi to the point where she refused to deal with her, letting her kneel on.

From afternoon to evening, without eating or drinking, not even a sip of water, Chuxia’s complexion gradually grew pale, her lips parched, her body trembling. Sweat had already soaked through her clothes, yet she still clenched her fists and gritted her teeth.

As long as she had been kneeling, he had been watching. He thought, how could someone be so stubborn, stubborn to the point of breaking one’s heart.

In the deep silence of the night, he lay in bed, unable to sleep. Moonlight poured in through the window, and as he watched that patch of moonlight, he felt pity for the first time, and for the first time... he took action against his mother’s orders.

He rolled out of bed, left his room, went to the kitchen, cooked a bowl of noodles, poured a cup of warm boiled water, and then carried them toward the front courtyard door.

Upon stepping out of the courtyard, he saw Chuxia. She was probably too exhausted to hold up; she wasn’t kneeling anymore but slumped on the ground, frowning as she massaged her knees.

Despite Che’s light steps, her alertness was acute. Che had just taken two steps out of the gate when she noticed something amiss, and abruptly looked up, her large eyes colliding with his.

There was none of the defeat he expected in those large eyes; they were still full of vigor. She just hadn’t anticipated his appearance, a flicker of surprise swiftly passing through the depths of her eyes, then quickly replaced by intense wariness. She moved quickly, kneeling back down as if the moment she had been sitting rubbing her legs was just his imagination.

Che’s pace hesitated slightly, his eyes shadowing with a flicker of darkness. Was she being wary of him...

But soon, any hint of emotion in his eyes was suppressed, and he approached her casually with the items in hand. Chuxia had intended to pretend she hadn’t seen him, but with Che standing right in front of her, not speaking first, she had no choice but to look up at him and then finally spoke, "What are you doing here?"

Her voice was very hoarse and dry, as if she was speaking with grit in her throat, due to the long time without water.

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