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Chapter 445 – Couldn’t Hit Your Heart
If it was any other casual request, Lin Xiao would have already agreed before Claire started crying, but this was different.
Helping Claire to deal with the rebels was no small task! If he got involved, he doesn’t know what other trouble he’ll run into, and with Lin Xiao’s lazy personality, how could he take this arduous and thankless task?
There were two reasons he rejected Claire.
First, this was Gotham Kingdom’s internal affairs, though it was called a rebellion, there’s no saying who’s right or wrong yet. As they say, the losers are always in the wrong, so the righteous can only be decided after fighting. Lin Xiao wasn’t a citizen of Gotham Kingdom and had no relations with the royals or the rebels, as an outsider, he had no reason to get involved.
As for the second reason, although he may be free now, he’ll get busy soon. Snow has been shutting herself inside and studying the black core and she’ll soon find a cure, at that time, they’ll all be quite busy. With the cure, they have to first save the mildly infected patients, then tread deep into the plague zone to do a large-scale cleanup and purification and will only truly complete their mission after completely clearing out the ‘plague’.
So Lin Xiao had an important mission, and that was to protect Snow! For the next while, Snow will surely become their number one assassination target! Using herself as a beacon to illuminate the people that are suffering while also provoking the third apostle. There was no way they wouldn’t bite and will think of a way to finish that brat off!
So Lin Xiao had to be ready in case something happened and wouldn’t have the time for Claire’s stuff.
“Claire, d-don’t cry, it’s embarrassing to cry over something like this
 even if you beg me while crying, I won’t agree.”
Hearing the sobbing sounds behind him, Lin Xiao knew that Claire wanted to cry but was controlling her emotions. But no matter how pitiful it sounded
 Lin Xiao couldn’t agree!
Don’t forget Xiao Hua’s warning before she left

Xiao Hua knew that Lin Xiao was soft-hearted, if Claire tearfully pleaded with him, he would surely fall for it! So she specially warned him to not get too close to Claire.
Think about it, if Lin Xiao agreed and really helped her deal with those annoying generals, what will happen next?
That’s right, Claire would owe Lin Xiao a huge favor, and since she was already secretly interested in him, she would take that chance to get closer to him and continuously ask him to help her, pulling them even closer together. Then when Lin Xiao finally came to his senses, he might have already become Claire’s husband!
Xiao Hua definitely won’t allow something like that to happen! The first woman Lin Xiao marries has to be the miss! Otherwise, she’ll find a way to slaughter the little bitch!
So
 because of Xiao Hua’s threat, Lin Xiao didn’t dare to rashly accept Claire’s request.
But Claire didn’t know that Lin Xiao was considering so many things, she just knew that she came to sincerely beg Lin Xiao, but he rejected her repeatedly and wouldn’t even finish listening to her!
“I really don’t understand
 Lin Xiao, why aren’t you willing to help me? Do you really hate me that much?”
“No, I didn’t really like you in the beginning, but I realized that you have a lot of strengths, so I don’t hate you.”
“Eh? Really?”
“Of course.”
“Wu
”
Fortunately, Lin Xiao wasn’t facing her, otherwise, if he saw her blushing, he would be shocked.
Perhaps even Claire didn’t expect herself to be that easily coaxed.
“Hmph, I don’t believe you! You aren’t even willing to help me with such a small thing, you clearly hate me! Is this all the magnanimity you have? What kind of man are you!”
“Uh, princess, is helping you deal with the rebellion a small matter?”
“I-I don’t care! Anyways, there’s no one close that I can trust, the plague isn’t fully taken care of, the rebels are stirring, the holy sword is still missing, and those bastard generals are still arguing
 Lin Xiao, my country is on the brink of life and death, I-I really don’t want to personally bury everything!”
“Then hurry up and go save it
 stop wasting time here with me.”
“Lin Xiao, you!? Lin Xiao, I’m telling you, don’t get too full of yourself! I can deal with it myself
 even without you!”
“Oh, then best of luck to you.”
“Lin Xiao, I finally see you for who you are! You timid ungrateful coward!”
“Uh
 wait a second.” Lin Xiao couldn’t stomach that and turned to interrupt her, “I was the one who saved you before, so you should be grateful to me, why are you calling me ungrateful?”
“R-right, then forget that
 Lin Xiao, you timid coward!”
“Hm, I’m fine with that.”
“You! You! You!!! Lin Xiao, I was truly foolish to place my hope in you
 I shouldn’t have come!”
Claire trembled and suddenly remembered something, she gripped her ears holding onto the pearl earrings and seemingly wanted to take them off, but because she used too much strength she cut her ears and the blood stained the pearls.
“I’ll protect my country, my father and my people no matter what happens
 so even without you, I will beat the rebels and restore peace!”
“I was blind this time! I trusted the wrong person! I won’t ever come back again!”
The earrings accurately hit Lin Xiao’s forehead and then bounced off coincidentally landing in his hands.
Lin Xiao stared at the bloody earrings in his hand and heard Claire’s heavy footsteps as she angrily stormed off.
“As expected of an archer, she sure is accurate.”
“But no matter how accurate she is, she still can’t hit your heart.”
At that time, there was a charming voice outside the door.
“Sister Ying? Why are you guys back?”
Lin Xiao ran over to welcome them.
“Elena and I can only peacefully coexist for around two hours, so now that times up and I don’t want to fight with her, so we came back.”
Lin Xiao looked out the door and saw Elena’s expressionless face as she walked over, then she scoffed at him and went to do something else.
“Uh
 you two sure have a strange way of getting along.”
“Hehe, still not as strange as you.”
“Me? What about me?”
“Lin Xiao, I just saw a crying girl run out of your room, care to give me an explanation?”
ShenDai Ying’s smile was still mesmerizing, but Lin Xiao couldn’t help but tremble when looking at her squinted eyes.
“Oh right, as well as the bloody earring is your hand
 if you don’t give me a proper explanation, you know how that’ll end.”
“Sister Ying! W-wait
 we can talk about, don’t draw your sword!”
Lin Xiao told ShenDai Ying about everything that happened, including his concerns and why he rejected Claire.
ShenDai Ying was in agreement and nodded in support.
There was no doubt that Lin Xiao’s choice was the most rational, if Snow’s safety and ShenDai Ying were on one side of the scale and Claire was on the other, it was an easy choice to which side weighed more.
But looking at that crying girl run away and the bloody earring, ShenDai Ying didn’t feel very good.
“Lin Xiao, I don’t want to order you, I’m just curious
 are you able to help Claire with those generals?”
“I should be able to, it’s just going to be quite troublesome.”
“Really? Hehe, I get it
 then without considering anything else, If I’m just asking you to help her, will you do it?”
“Ah?”