When Village Chief Jiang finally pacified the crowd and turned to seek counsel from Han Chun and Cao Qiu, his heart instantly sank.
Han Chun looked utterly terrified, his face deathly pale, his legs shaking uncontrollably. He had already been scared out of his wits. Far from possessing any heroic, invincible bravado, he could barely stand upright and would have collapsed had Cao Qiu and a bailiff not been supporting him.
Beside him, Punishment Commissioner Cao was in no better state. Rather than say he was supporting Han Chun, it was more accurate to say the two were leaning on each other, barely keeping themselves from collapsing to the ground in terror.
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