Pietoso: pitiful, piteous.
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Yang Liu's protective mode had been activated after he heard Yuan Boqin's unexpected words.
"What do you want to do with him?" He asked the skinny student with his usual cold tone.
The other boys at their table had stopped eating and were now observing their conversation in silence.
"It's a private matter," Yuan Boqin answered sternly.
Yang Liu didn't feel comfortable around the skinny boy, and there were two reasons behind that feeling. The first reason was because of the tragedy of Yuan Boqin's brother in the past, and the second reason was because of the complicated relationship between Zhou Yongliang and the Yuan family.
He assumed that he could ignore the first reason now since Yuan Boqin was looking for Zhou Yongliang instead of him, but now he was concern about the second reason.
