Deep down, people always carry a gene for impulse, especially when it comes to playing the hero to save a damsel in distress. Yet most people only regret their rashness after the fact, and almost all that regret stems from two reasons.
One is overestimating one's abilities, trying to show off only to end up getting humiliated. The other is that the cost of the impulse is simply too high, leaving them with bitter regrets. Qu Yiheng belonged to the first category.
As someone who had hung out with Shen Xiao and Li Ercang from the very beginning of the Recycling Station days—and especially as their Station Chief Qu—Qu Yiheng had long lost any realistic sense of his own combat prowess. In other words, he had zero self-awareness.
Chapter 321