After smashing the beastly man with a stone, Gu Moqian picked up the frightened girl, who had fainted, and fled the wooden hut.
It was later that he learned the man had died in the hut from alcohol poisoning and excessive blood loss. For that scum to die so easily felt almost like he got off too lightly.
He took the girl to a clearing in the forest to rest.
At one point, the girl woke up. Those pure, beautiful eyes, filled with fear and vigilance, became something he would never be able to forget.
The tenderness and patience he showed as a teenager gradually melted the girl's defenses.
In the end, she fell asleep in his arms.
If not for the sudden appearance of a pack of wolves, perhaps they would have come to know each other in a different way, and their lives thereafter would have been completely different.
To shield the girl, he faced the wolves alone.
