Bai Xueqing quietly watched everything after she was silenced by Bai Zihan.
She had only wanted to intervene because Shen Liang had helped her before, and also because she felt Bai Zihan was demanding too much for crimes that, in her eyes, weren't that severe.
She didn't expect Bai Zihan to react that way to her words, and now, she felt a bit guilty—because truth be told, she had also thought he was in the wrong… until he revealed his evidence.
The Bai Zihan before her felt different from the one she knew.
That same strange feeling had stirred back at the Bai Clan when she confronted him because of Shen Liang.
But back then, it was just because he seemed a bit more gutsy than she remembered.
Now, though? Bai Zihan's coldness and mercilessness… even the way he seemed to look down on her—it made her uneasy.
Yes, for the first time, she felt a trace of fear toward her younger brother, the one she'd always thought of as a lazy troublemaker.
