Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

”Why?” Xu Xingguang showed a curious look.

Cheng Xizhou explained vaguely, ”She has a fear of cameras. Seeing one makes her heart race and feel uneasy.”

Nodding, Xu Xingguang said, ”Usually, people with such symptoms have psychological issues. She must have been harmed by a camera before.”

Cheng Xizhou’s expression was somewhat unnatural. She neither responded to Xu Xingguang’s statement nor denied her analysis.

”I don’t know why, but I always feel that Bai Xi looks familiar, like I’ve seen her before.” Xu Xingguang played a card and said to herself, ”I forgot where I saw her.”

Cheng Xizhou glanced at Xu Xingguang, trembling with fear.

She knew that Xu Xingguang had never met Bai Xi.

The reason she found Bai Xi familiar was because Bai Xi bore a resemblance to Bai Xuan.

During the next few games, Cheng Xizhou played absentmindedly.

After midnight, the four people dispersed, and Fang Jinsu enthusiastically invited them to continue next time.

Xu Xingguang agreed, further saying, ”I will definitely seize the time to diligently practice my card skills.”

”Great, I look forward to Teacher Xu dominating the card table.”

”Just wait and see.”

On the way back, Xu Xingguang and Cheng Xizhou remained together.

Cheng Xizhou bit her lip, lost in thought the whole way.

As they reached the door of Xu Xingguang’s room on the 23rd floor, Cheng Xizhou suddenly called out to Xu Xingguang, ”Teacher Xu.” Her tone was somewhat hesitant.

Xu Xingguang turned and leaned against the door, asking Cheng Xizhou, ”What’s the matter?”

Cheng Xizhou hesitated and said nervously, ”There’s something I feel I should tell you in advance to avoid any future misunderstandings.”

”What is it?” Xu Xingguang showed a look of patience, ready to listen.

Only then did Cheng Xizhou say, ”Bai Xi has a sister named Bai Xuan.”

After speaking, Cheng Xizhou watched Xu Xingguang nervously and added in a low voice, ”She’s the Young Madam of West Continent City’s richest family, the Jiang Family, Bai Xuan.”

Upon hearing this news, Xu Xingguang replied relatively calmly, ”No wonder I found Bai Xi a bit familiar then.”

The two sisters are of completely different types.

Bai Xuan is a typical delicate beauty from the South, slim and petite, with a sweet and soft voice that easily evokes sympathy.

Bai Xi is also petite, but her voice, although clear and delightful, carries a unique carefree detachment.

Their temperaments are also distinctly different. Bai Xuan is gentle and fragile like water, while Bai Xi is like bamboo swaying in the wind yet hard to be brought down.

”But I’ve never heard that Bai Xuan has a sister,” Xu Xingguang said again. ”At the last Jiang Family wedding, I didn’t see Bai Xi either.”

Cheng Xizhou spoke with indignation, ”Although Bai Xi is Bai Xuan’s sister, the two sisters lead completely different lives.”

”Oh?”

Xu Xingguang suddenly invited Cheng Xizhou, ”Would you like to come to my room for a cup of hot milk? We can chat slowly, how about it?”

Cheng Xizhou hesitated for a moment but agreed.

Upon returning to the room, while Xu Xingguang went to the kitchen to warm up the milk for Cheng Xizhou, Cheng Xizhou leaned against the kitchen door, gritting her teeth and said, ”Teacher Xu, in fact, Bai Xuan is not as weak and pitiful as she seems.”

”She’s very wicked!”

Staring at the milk in the pot, Xu Xingguang said expressionlessly, ”Anyone who can unscrupulously use my blood wouldn’t be someone kind-hearted.”

”That’s right!” Seeing Xu Xingguang recognize Bai Xuan’s true nature, Cheng Xizhou found an ally and began to speak fervently about Bai Xuan’s ugly nature.

She said, ”The Bai Family are not native to West Continent City. They originally lived in Haiyu City, where her father was a member of the Xia Country Alliance Government. He almost became the City Lord of Haiyu City. But more than 20 years ago, on their way back to the countryside to visit their grandmother, they encountered a murder case.”

”Bai Xuan’s father died on the spot, and Bai Xi went missing.”

”After their father’s death, their lives took a downturn. A few years later, Bai Xuan’s mother took Bai Xuan and married into West Continent City. But in Bai Xuan’s senior year of high school, Bai Xi was finally found by the police and sent back home.”

Hearing this, Xu Xingguang pointed out, ”Bai Xuan’s mother remarried, and when Bai Xi returned to her stepfather’s home, she was probably not accepted.”

”Not only was she not accepted!” Cheng Xizhou said angrily, unable to contain her resentment. ”They pretended to accept Bai Xi, only to turn around and drug her, sending her to a rich man’s bed!”

”That night, to avoid being controlled by the drug, Bai Xi had to cut her leg with a knife, using the pain to keep herself conscious. That night, she ran out of the room covered in blood. If she hadn’t run into me by chance, who knows what her fate would have been!”

The more Cheng Xizhou spoke, the angrier she became, hitting the kitchen counter with a fist. Her eyes reddened as she said, ”What’s more infuriating is that it was Bai Xuan who tricked Bai Xi into being drugged!”

”She’s Bai Xi’s biological sister, yet she drugged the milk Bai Xi drank! Such a poisonous person deserves that genetic illness. She ought to die!”

”Damn it, Jiang Heng must be blind to consider that woman Bai Xuan as a gentle and kind good girl.”

At this point, Cheng Xizhou suddenly turned around and stared at Xu Xingguang’s face, saying admiringly, ”Teacher Xu, you have no idea how cool you looked when you crashed their wedding with a coffin!”

”Our Bai Xi really admires you. She insisted on following me into the crew when she heard I was chosen as the lead in your work.”

”You are Bai Xi’s idol!” Cheng Xizhou suddenly grabbed Xu Xingguang’s arm.

Xu Xingguang lifted her beautiful eyes to look at Cheng Xizhou and said softly, ”What’s this about?”

Cheng Xizhou shook Xu Xingguang’s arm, pleading with a wronged expression, ”Teacher Xu, our Bai Xi is really different from that bitch Bai Xuan. Please don’t take out your anger on Bai Xi because of Bai Xuan, okay?”

”She’s really pitiful. If she hadn’t been lucky enough to run into me that night, she might already be a plaything for those men and never be able to escape.”

Xu Xingguang nodded solemnly and promised Cheng Xizhou, ”Don’t worry, I will never harm Bai Xi.”

Relieved, Cheng Xizhou’s curiosity was piqued by the gossip.

She stealthily lowered her voice and eagerly asked Xu Xingguang, ”Teacher Xu, you certainly won’t let Bai Xuan and Jiang Heng get away with it, right?”

She had heard about Xu Xingguang’s deeds in Yujiang City and knew how decisively she punished her unfaithful father and her deceitful sister.

Cheng Xizhou believed that a vengeful woman like Xu Xingguang wouldn’t easily let Jiang Heng off the hook.

But would simply taking Jiang Heng’s blood be enough to quell her deep-seated hatred?