He had tried so hard to make her fall in love with him, it would be better to die than to push her away himself.
So all the efforts and arrangements Huo Beijiang made before crumbled to pieces, and he was not someone who always backed down; since he had decided, it was time for him to take the initiative.
Thinking this, a trace of dark and unclear emotion flickered in his lowered eyes.
"I don't need your protection—I can protect myself."
"You don't know, it's very dangerous around me." he said, lifting his eyebrows at Nan Fei, his expression showing no fear of the danger.
He was someone who dealt with danger on a regular basis and was highly sensitive to it. It was only previously due to his father's deliberate concealment that the people around him had been put in danger, and he swore it would never happen again.
"I'm not afraid!" Maybe she had been foolish, deceived, and naive before. But she had never been afraid, not in her past life, and certainly not in this one.