Chapter 28 — Shen Yushu's Soldier Brother

Not many people knew about this, but Zhong Yongliang happened to be one of those who did. So even with a hundred lives at his back he would never have dared provoke that little miss Shen Yushu; at the memory of the way Wu Xiaocan had looked that day, he shuddered for no reason at all.

The truth was that Zhong Yongliang was the sort who tramples the weak and cringes before the strong. Under a fist as absolute as Chen Yuming's, he dared not harbor the slightest thought of resistance. His own family had some small pull, and his father's establishment kept a few strong-arm men on hand, but how could such men be compared with Chen Yuming's regular troops?