1000 Love Until Your Heart Breaks, Monthly Votes +45

"Naturally, there will be punishment. Once we're back in the country, you can go receive it yourself." Ling Tian'ao huffed coldly.

"Understood, Young Master!!" Jing Rui accepted the punishment.

"No, wait! Ling Tian'ao! Jing Rui has been wholeheartedly protecting me! If it weren't for him, I would have been captured long ago!" Xia Zhisu pleaded on Jing Rui's behalf.

"In the end, you were still captured," Ling Tian'ao emphasized. "And he abandoned his master and ran off on his own."

"No, no, no! It was me who told him to run! I was afraid he'd slow me down! I told him to go find you first!" Xia Zhisu kept pleading relentlessly.

Ling Tian'ao remained unmoved.

"Oh, come on! Why are you still so cold and wooden-faced? It's hard to believe someone as boring as you actually has people chasing after you!" An irritated voice suddenly came from nearby.

And it was spoken in Chinese.

Xia Zhisu raised her head and saw a man with a slicked-back hairstyle, his hair combed high.