Ning Sihua’s eyes shone with a strange light too. 

Ma Shanwei’s response alerted her too. She could tell that, so long as he survived, he would wait until his foes were at their most vulnerable, then attack like a mad dog and rip them to pieces.

Beneath this deeply oppressive atmosphere, Su Yi spoke once more. 

“Since I instructed you on good conduct out of the goodness of my heart, might you tell me who put you up to bullying Huang Qianjun?”

Ma Shanwei said in a booming voice, “I have only myself to blame for letting beauty blind me to good sense. When I learned that Nan Ying and Huang Qianjun had never gotten along, I decided to help Nan Ying vent her frustrations, leading to this mistake. Young Lord, your arrival has awakened me to the dangers right in the nick of time. I am deeply ashamed, and I admire you from the bottom of my heart!” 

Everyone was stunned, and all of them glanced over at Nan Ying.

Nan Ying, meanwhile, had gone deathly pale, and her expression was unsightly.

Even she would never have guessed that a glorious vice-commander of the Greenplate Army would sell her out without the slightest hesitation!

When she sensed the crowd’s gazes, Nan Ying couldn’t help but cry...