Chapter Twenty-One: Explanation

Watching as Zhao Hong dragged the corpse away, Xu Kang called a soldier to clean the bloodstains in the courtyard before finally stepping into the Xu family’s house.

At this moment, Madam Xu had already awakened. Seeing Xu Kang enter, she looked at him with concern and, before he could speak, asked anxiously, “Kang’er, you’re back? Are you all right?”

Hearing her question, Xu Kang couldn’t help but let out a wry chuckle. He hurried to her bedside and gently took her hand. “Mother, don’t worry. I am unharmed. But how are you feeling?”

As he spoke, he quietly used Healing Touch on her.

The moment he did so, a faint light shimmered around Madam Xu, though the well-lit room kept it from notice. She herself felt suddenly lighter, the pain from where she’d been kicked vanished, and a gentle warmth suffused her whole body.

A smile instantly appeared on her face.

“Hehe, now that I see you, my son, nothing else matters. You needn’t worry about me. Oh? Why is there blood on your boots, Kang’er? Are you hurt?”

“Blood?”

Noticing her look of surprise and concern, Xu Kang lowered his head and indeed saw a few crimson spots on his boots.

He quickly understood the cause.

“It must have splattered on me when Zhao Hong killed that man earlier.”

But he had no intention of telling Madam Xu the truth. Smiling, he waved his hand dismissively. “Mother, there’s nothing to worry about. It isn’t my blood. It’s… ah, dog’s blood. I happened to pass by as someone was butchering a dog, and some got on me