After hearing him out, Fang Lingxin thought about it carefully and felt that Fang Shuwen had a point.
Once she had overcome that mental block, Fang Lingxin had far fewer reservations when she fought the bandits.
But then, a new problem arose.
After she had killed most of a group of bandits, the remaining few knelt before her, weeping and wailing. With faces full of desperate pleas, they swore to the heavens that they would turn over a new leaf and start fresh, begging her to spare their lives.
If they died, they claimed, their parents, wives, and children back home would all die as well.
She wouldn't just be killing one man, but his entire family.
Seeing their wretched state, Fang Lingxin wavered. The thought that their entire families might die because of her stirred an unavoidable feeling of guilt in her heart.
The killing blow that should have landed was stayed.
