Wow! My wife is beautiful and obedient, everyone envies her!

Overwhelmed by the joy of the reunion, Xiu indulged in the moment, ignoring his injuries and who else was in the room.

Shi Bai was startled by his actions.

After a brief moment of disorientation, he reached out and forcefully pushed the person away.

After finally pushing the person away, he turned around in alarm to look at Noah's darkened face.

Noah's blue eyes were cold, so cold that they seemed ready to kill them at any moment.

"Mr. Noah, let me explain, we are...we are..." Bai's mind went blank, and in his panic, he couldn't find the words to explain.

Noah snorted coldly, "What are you doing?" he asked.

Unhappy at being pushed away, Xiu put his hand on Shi Bai's shoulder and pulled him forward.

"Xiaobai, we've been apart for half a year. We finally met, and you kissed me once and then pushed me away. Don't you like me anymore?"

"Young Master!" Shi Bai was on the verge of tears. "Mr. Noah is here!"

Thinking of what he had heard people say, Shi Bai's tears were about to fall again.

He was terrified; Xiu, who had barely escaped death, was now facing danger again.

Xiu also turned his attention to Noah and smiled, "Patriarch, thank you for your help. You really helped me find Xiaobai."

Shi Bai was taken aback, looking at Xiu with surprise, then at Noah.

Noah snorted coldly, "How come you weren't stabbed to death? If you had, I would have taken care of him for you."

"That's the benefit of reading a lot. I used to worry that my mother would kill me one day, so I learned some basic human anatomy from the doctor. When that guy's knife stabbed me, I avoided vital organs."

"You managed to avoid the vital points but still got stabbed?" Noah said with a hint of disdain.

Xiu Dao said, "That knife was too close; it would have pierced my abdomen. I could only dodge it in a panic, but I was really lucky. If the other party had used a gun, I would definitely be dead. To use a knife, it seems the other party is very poor."

Xiu even had the mood to joke about this with Noah.

Noah understood the implication in his words, "You saw the face clearly?"

"I saw it clearly, but I slept for a day, so it should have been cleared out by now. However, I noticed that the guy had a wolf tattooed in the middle of his neck, so it looks like he's from a small, outside organization."

Juecheng is home to four major families and is the main base for arms manufacturing. Some small organizations from other cities feel that they have reached the limit in their current cities, so they want to come to Juecheng to try their luck and see if they can gain greater opportunities and benefits.

However, the small organizations that came to Juecheng were all used as pawns by the four major families to do things that the four major families couldn't do themselves. The assassination of Xiu and Qiyuan was one such example. The people behind them couldn't come forward and didn't want to use their own people, so they used guys from other cities.

Xiu is right. He was unconscious for a whole day, and the guy who tried to assassinate him is already dead.

Yesterday, two murdered bodies were found in Juecheng. One was found on the riverbank and was confirmed to be the guy who delivered the poisoned cake. The other was found under the bridge, and Noah had guessed yesterday that it was the assassin who killed Xiu. According to Xiu's description, it was indeed that guy.

“Seeing that you still have the strength of family, I’ll have the hospital arrange for you to be transferred to another hospital later. You can recuperate at Davis’s house; it’ll be safer there,” Noah said.

Xiu had no objection to this, and simply said "okay".

Noah gave him another cold look, glanced at Shi Bai, turned around and slammed the door shut. This action looked like he was angry and silently protesting something.

Shi Bai was still processing their conversation when Noah saw that he and Xiu were intimate and that he hadn't done what the cleaning staff had suggested. Was Mr. Noah really that magnanimous?

"What are you thinking about? Your little eyes are always rolling around, so cute!"

As Xiu spoke, he planted a strong kiss on Shi Bai's cheek.

Shi Bai looked at him and asked softly, "Young Master, why didn't Mr. Noah kill you?"

He spoke very softly, as if afraid that Noah, who had already left, would hear him.

Xiu smiled. "Why would he want to kill me?"

"Everyone says you're Mr. Noah's lover now."

"You will be one too."

"Huh?!" Shi Bai stood there in astonishment, his round eyes wide open, his face showing a cute expression of confusion and surprise.

Xiu stopped teasing his little darling and told Shi Bai about his deal with Noah, "Mr. Noah only likes A Yuan. I'm just a shield between them to fool outsiders."

"No wonder Mr. Noah didn't react when you kissed me. I heard from older men that even if they have a mistress, they don't allow her to have another lover. Someone like Mr. Noah would definitely kill the lover who has a mistress."

Shi Bai's anxious heart was finally at ease, filled with relief and joy.

It turns out that his young master had never changed his mind and had been looking for him all along.

"Someone like the patriarch would probably kill his lover's mistress. He's not the kind of person who would kill someone he likes; he'd only kill the person his lover likes. This sounds a bit awkward, but never mind, let's not talk about him. Xiao Bai, why didn't you go back to Dongzhou?"

Xiu no longer wanted to discuss what kind of person Noah was; he just wanted to know why Shi Bai hadn't left and had come back.

“The head of the family did not send me back to Dongzhou. He sold me to human traffickers. The traffickers wanted to send me to work in a coal mine, but I ran away when they weren’t looking.”

Xiu's expression changed.

He knew his father couldn't be that kind. Sending someone back to Dongzhou would cost a lot of money, and he wouldn't be so foolish as to send Shi Bai back. Exchanging Shi Bai for money was what he would do.

Saying that Shi Bai would be sent back to Dongzhou was just a lie to make him give up.

Xiu touched Shi Bai's face and said with heartache, "You've lost so much weight. You must have suffered a lot these past few days."

"It's not bitter. It's not bitter as long as I can see the young master."

Shi Bai chuckled.

Xiu felt a pang of pain in his heart at the sight of her simple-minded and silly appearance.

Xiu couldn't help but think that if he could be as strong as Noah, he would do his best to protect the people he loved, even though there were many dangers around him.

But he had no power whatsoever.

Let alone protecting his loved ones, he couldn't even protect himself when he was imprisoned in the church.

He just wants to thank Noah now, for he wasn't a lecherous, promiscuous man who would accept anyone.

If his father were to give him to some lecherous old man, his life would be over.

Fortunately, the delivery time was right.

If he had been sent there before Noah met Qi Yuan, given Noah's personality, he probably wouldn't have even wanted to see him.

Having endured hardship, all his luck came from meeting Noah.

Xiu's ambitions are not great.

He only wanted power that was above his own father.

Let your father taste the suffering he endured.

Noah can help him.

While it's true that relying on the power of others to become stronger isn't ideal, wouldn't it be foolish not to use the power you have?

Xiu isn't stupid; he'll seize this opportunity.