Reborn as the Henchman Who Protects the Villain novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: The Man in the Paper

Shi Wen sat back on his heels on the wet stone and said, "No."

"No?" said the Lord.

"You don't get to decide that. Not about me. Not after last night."

Duan Linxiao went very still.

It was the stillness of a man who had not been refused in a long while.

"Let me tell you what was in the book," said Shi Wen. "Then I'll tell you what wasn't."

He held up one finger.

"The book said you were tired. It said you had a cold voice and a hard hand. It had a whole paragraph on your collar."

"The book did not say you pretend to eat."

He held up a second finger.

"You take one bite of eel and put the chopsticks down. It didn't say you can't look at the person you're scared for."

A third.

"It didn't say that when you're moved, you say 'taster' very quietly. You've been doing it for four days."

Duan's mouth opened, and closed.

"The book never said your hands go cold first and your feet last. I know, because I've had them in mine."

"You are listing," said the Lord.

"I'm listing." Shi Wen's voice started to shake. "I could do it for an hour."

"The man in the book couldn't make me laugh over a plum tree."

He laughed, and it came out wet.

Then he found he was crying, hard and helplessly, with both hands over his face.

"Shi Wen."

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