By now, the sky was already lightening. In the dawn, Ye Lingyue and Gong Linxin saw two people dressed in the same ugly armor that Ye Lingyue had worn earlier.

As soon as the two entered the alley, they couldn’t wait to take off their armor. It was Bo Qing and Situ.

"Wow, this thing is really heavy, nearly suffocated me," Situ grumbled.

"Enough chatter. I wonder how Ling Yue is doing."

Bo Qing’s handsome eyebrows were tightly knit. He heard some noise behind him, turned around, and saw Ye Lingyue and Gong Linxin walking out.

When he saw Ye Lingyue, his face broke into a broad smile, and he hurriedly walked over, scrutinizing her closely. Noticing suspicious red bloodstains at the corner of her mouth, a fierce look flared in Bo Qing’s eyes.

"You’re hurt? Who did this?!"

Seeing that Bo Qing’s eyes were only on Ye Lingyue, Gong Linxin felt a wave of disappointment. As for Bo Qing, she could only give up.

She couldn’t help but envy Ye Lingyue. The man from earlier and Bo Qing in front of her—both of their eyes only had City Lord Ye.

"It’s nothing. It doesn’t matter who did it; what matters is that next time, I’ll return it tenfold."

Ye Lingyue wiped her mouth, remembering the earlier battle, and said it nonchalantly.

It was the second time, counting the Earth Evil Prison, that she had lost to that man twice. There was both an unwillingness and an unspeakable sense of anger.

There won’t be a third time. In this Jiu Provinces Hunting, she was determined to cultivate hard. The next time she confronted that man, it would be either him or her.

"By the way, did you get the thing I asked for?"

"Of course. It’s not our first time doing this kind of kidnapping," Bo Qing and Situ exchanged a glance, both with sly smiles on their faces.

The two took out two bags one after the other.

These were the Life Qiankun Bags that Ye Lingyue had given them earlier.

Gong Linxin was curious, not knowing what they intended to do.

Situ opened his Qiankun Bag first, and a person rolled out, unconscious.

It was none other than the Third Young Master Jin.

"Ling Yue, speaking of which, I have a surprise for you. Do you know who you wanted me to capture?" Bo Qing said with amusement, opening his Life Qiankun Bag.

A man rolled out from inside.

"Hong Yulang? He’s here too."

Ye Lingyue was startled after seeing the person Bo Qing had captured.

The brother and sister of the Hong Family truly were like lingering spirits that wouldn’t go away.

Bo Qing was also aware of the grudges between Hong Yulang and Ye Lingyue. Seeing Hong Yulang, he immediately subdued the man and brought him along.

Before Ye Lingyue and the others broke into the Chuyun Pavilion, they had already inquired: it was said that the City Lord’s concubine was also inside. Ye Lingyue furrowed her brow, a plan hatching in her mind. She went to rescue Gong Linxin while the others carried out their parts.

With Bo Qing and the others’ cultivation in the Small Divine Power Realm, kidnapping someone wasn’t difficult. Moreover, with the cover of the Life Qiankun Bags, they easily avoided the Jin Family’s tracking after capturing the people.

"Now that the people are captured, City Lord Ye, what are you planning to do?" Gong Linxin and Situ both wished to tear the Third Young Master Jin into eight pieces, but Ye Lingyue wouldn’t let them do so.

"What to do? Killing such scum would be too kind. I have a method, it’s called ’turning their own trick against them.’ You two help and make each drink half a jug."

Ye Lingyue said, taking out a wine jug.

That wine jug was from the Red Sleeve Pavilion, but the wine inside wasn’t ordinary. It was the potent Tiger and Wolf Wine refined by Yue Mubai, which the Third Young Master Jin had forced the women of Breaking the Dawn to drink.

Bo Qing and Situ, being clever, instantly understood what was going on. Gong Linxin coughed a few times, standing aside with Ye Lingyue to watch the show.

Morning broke quickly. In the Yaxin Small House within the City Lord’s Mansion.

Hong Yulang gradually awoke, feeling an intense dryness in his throat and an urge in his body as if something was trying to break out, leaving him scorching hot all over.

Fire, fire everywhere. He vaguely remembered drinking at the Chuyun Pavilion, but suddenly, Gong Linxin burst in, and then the pavilion caught fire.

Amidst the chaos, he saw Bo Qing.

Bo Qing!

It was Bo Qing, the person he thought of day and night.

Hong Yulang opened his eyes, seeing Bo Qing’s face very close.

"It’s you, really you."

Hong Yulang said obsessively, almost fanatically embracing the body pressing on him. He was disoriented, tearing at the man’s clothes, the sound of fabric ripping.

The person on him also responded to his actions. Their bodies entwined like newborn babies.

Behind him, a sharp pain caused Hong Yulang to cry out. The feeling of being with his beloved made him feel light as air.

He cried out in oblivion, the bed beneath them shaking noisily, the entire room resounding with his cries.

Bam—

The door was kicked open with a loud bang.

A clamor of footsteps, Hong Yulang and the person on him halted their movements, instinctively looking up.

Only to see City Lord Ma standing at the door, followed by Xi Jiuye, Yue Mubai, and others.

After the incident at the Red Sleeve Pavilion, Xi Jiuye and the others lost track of the Third Young Master Jin and went to the City Lord’s Mansion to ask City Lord Ma to send people to search.

Hearing that his beloved concubine Hong Yulang might also have gone missing in the fire, City Lord Ma was anxious. But at that moment, a guard reported that earlier someone had seen Young Master Yu with a man entering Yaxin Small House.

City Lord Ma brought people to search, only to see...

"Third Young Master Jin, Hong Yulang, how dare you indulge in such an affair."

City Lord Ma’s face turned purple with rage, pointing to the two men on the bed like entwined monks, engaged in scandalous acts.

Hong Yulang shivered upon hearing that and turned back abruptly.

The person he had been so intimately involved with, the one entangled with him all night, was none other than the Third Young Master Jin.

Hong Yulang felt his guts wrenching. The thought of his actions with the Third Young Master Jin made him retch.

Third Young Master Jin didn’t fare much better. As soon as he saw the person beneath him was Hong Yulang, he too screamed, shoving Hong Yulang away.

He had been dazed last night, just remembering being with a passionate "woman," engaging in intense "exercise," only to realize that it was Hong Yulang he had been with.

"Scoundrel, you scoundrel, get out of here."

City Lord Ma was so furious that the veins on his forehead bulged. He flipped Hong Yulang over with a kick and left in a fury.

"City Lord, let me explain, I was set up." Hong Yulang crawled and staggered, not caring about his nakedness, grabbing for any clothing as he went after City Lord Ma.