Chapter 447

Jude instinctively stepped forward, trying to get a clearer look, but Willow was quicker. With a swift motion, she tucked the jade pendant back into her collar. "Comrade, just now you—" Jude blurted out, but Willow had already dismissed him entirely. She held a grudge. She remembered all too well how this man had mocked Grandpa Craig as a "barefoot doctor" back at the military compound gate. And from the conversation, she gathered that his father—the elderly man beside him with bandaged eyes and an obscured face—was none other than Old Garcia, the very man Aiden had risked his life to rescue. If this was how he treated the person who had saved his own father’s life, what kind of man could he possibly be? So without hesitation, Willow decided to ignore him completely, pretending she hadn’t heard a word. Jude’s face twisted with fury. How dare some village woman from a backwater county give him the cold shoulder? Who did she think she was? But with everyone around them showering Dr. Crai