Chapter 154 — The Professional Shield
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"Jingyi, I don't care whether you had a boyfriend before. None of that matters to me. After all, I've studied abroad for so many years, and you have the right to your own life." Chentian said, "But now, I hope we can start over. This is my parents' wish, and your parents' wish as well. I think you understand?"
"Hah? Funny." Sun Jingyan curled her lip. "Chentian, don't you think what you're saying is rather funny? Whether you go abroad or not, what does that have to do with me? Before you went abroad, our two families were old friends, and we were like brother and sister. We still are. What's the difference? Not to mention all this nonsense about starting over."
"Jingyan, is this your boyfriend?" Chen Tian saw Sun Jingyan's resolute attitude and, rather than pressing the previous argument further, abruptly steered the conversation onto Wei Zhao.
If he had not brought Wei Zhao up just then, one might have thought he had never noticed Wei Zhao sitting there at all.
"Yes." Sun Jingyan nodded. "You have seen him, you believe it now, so can you leave?"
"Heh..." Chen Tian smiled faintly and extended a hand to Wei Zhao. "Hello, brother. My name is Chen Tian."
"Wei Zhao." Wei Zhao put out his hand and shook Chen Tian's once. He was just about to let go when he suddenly felt a powerful force clamp down on his palm.
So Chen Tian was still unwilling to let it go after all, and meant to make some trouble. But Wei Zhao did not strike back; let him squeeze. Back when his master had made him pound tree trunks bare-handed day after day, pain of this degree had long since ceased to register.
Besides, the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art had successfully broken through the first layer into the first layer's Great Perfection. Though it was still the first layer, a breakthrough and no breakthrough were two entirely different things.
Wei Zhao's whole body had undergone a marked transformation, and his coordination had reached an unprecedented perfection. If he ran into another bank robbery like the last one, he might well handle it without taking a wound.
But last time, the injury had mostly been for the sake of the little nurse Guan Xin behind him; on the other hand, it had also served to mislead the robbers. After all, how formidable could a man with a bullet in him really be?
So although the tendons and bones of Wei Zhao's hand were being deformed under Chen Tian's grip, there was no pain at all, because the structure of his body had changed, and the suppleness between his tendons and bones was unlike that of an ordinary man.
After two squeezes with no effect, Chen Tian had no choice but to let go; holding on to another man's hand without end was hardly proper. Of course, Chen Tian did not believe there was truly no effect.
His family's martial skill lay entirely in their hands. He had not used the family technique when he gripped Wei Zhao, but Chen Tian had great confidence in the strength of his own hand. So in his view, Wei Zhao had not felt no pain; he simply had extraordinary endurance and was pretending nothing was wrong, refusing to lose face in front of Sun Jingyan.
As for using the family technique on Wei Zhao, Chen Tian had not considered it. That could have crushed the bones of Wei Zhao's hand in an instant, and then Sun Jingyan would surely think he was bullying the weak with his power, which would only be counterproductive.