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"Sir, times have changed."

Zhou Wu, holding a gun behind him, looked at Hou Zhenghao, who had already fallen to the ground, and said something smug.

"Big brother, are you alright?"

Do I look like someone who's in trouble?

Even though his back was getting cold, Zhou Wu still forced himself to stay upright.

With the escort of Niu Er and Lin Niangzi, they finally returned to the city lord's mansion.

The safe return of Wu Tianji and Jin Xier brought tears of joy to the eyes of the women in the family.

"It's okay if it's okay, it's okay if it's okay."

"The bathwater has been prepared. You should all go and take a bath. I've specially added grapefruit peel to wash away any bad luck."

"After you finish washing up, you can eat dinner, have a good rest, and get some sleep."

Li Baiwei, Yang Chun, and Liu Hongdou each said a line; it had all been arranged long ago.

Wu Tianji and Jin Xier were exhausted, but they had been covered in mud for several days, so they could only force themselves to follow the maids to wash off the dust.

"Husband, you should go and wash up too."

"Oh."

In the bathroom, Zhou Wu, with the help of a maid, removed his clothes.

Just like in the TV show, there was a large wooden bathtub, and some flower petals were even sprinkled inside.

However, Zhou Wu was already used to it. When he first encountered this kind of thing, he was very resistant, saying that a grown man shouldn't be scattering flower petals. But later he realized that in this era without shower gel, although flower petals could not replace shower gel, they could at least play a role in his mind.

Just as Zhou Wu was sitting in the bathtub with his eyes closed, resting, he suddenly heard the sounds of women playing next door. Upon closer listening, he realized it was Wu Tianji and Jin Xier.

Zhou Wu then remembered that the large bathroom next door seemed to be the one in his house. He had designed it himself, taking inspiration from bathhouses of later generations, and it was much more spacious than his wooden tub.

"Are Wu Tianji and Jin Xi'er next door?"

It seems that's how it is. For some reason, Zhou Wu suddenly had an image of two women in the bath, their bodies partially visible. He recalled how the two women had hugged him tightly, and he could clearly feel their large breasts. However, the situation at the time had distracted Zhou Wu.

But now, thinking about it, Zhou Wu immediately felt as if his blood was boiling.

"Hehe, Sister Wu, I didn't expect you to be so..."

Jin Xier's voice suddenly faded, and Zhou Wu strained his ears but couldn't hear what was said afterward. However, as someone who had been through similar experiences, Zhou Wu naturally knew what it was.

Then came the sound of two people splashing in the water, which made Zhou Wu extremely aroused.

"Husband, may I come in?"

Li Baiwei's voice rang out just outside the door; at that moment, it was like a lamb entering a tiger's den.

Zhou Wu stood up, opened the door, and pulled Li Baiwei into the room. Then, they heard sounds of "hmm, ahh~~" coming from inside.

Half an hour later.

The others had been waiting at the table for a long time. When Zhou Wu and Li Baiwei took their seats, Wu Tianji and Jin Xier were blushing.

"Hey~ Sister Wu, Sister Xi'er, why are your faces so red? Are you sick?"

Li Baiwei greeted them with concern, unaware that their blushing was due to Zhou Wu and Li Baiwei's mischief next door.

"It's nothing, it's nothing, I just took a shower and it's a little hot."

"Yes, yes, that's right."

Jin Xi'er quickly followed up with Wu Tianji's words.

"Oh, it's good that you're not sick."

. . . . . . . .

Just two days after the kidnapping was dealt with, Zhou Wu received a letter from the capital.

After Zhou Wu finished reading it, he let out a long sigh.

"What's wrong, my husband? Has the court presented us with another difficult problem?"

Li Baiwei felt a pang of sympathy seeing her husband's troubled expression.

"Next month, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace will send the theater to perform in the capital."

"But Sister Wu has just recovered. Can her body handle all this travel?"

Zhou Wu wasn't worried about whether his body could handle it; what worried him was the people at the theater, most of whom came from the capital. They didn't seem to have a good impression of that place, and he was afraid that sending them back suddenly would upset them.

"It's not that bad, I'm going out for a bit."

. . . . .

With Wu Tianji's return, the theater resumed normal operations. The topic of the kidnapping was hotly debated for a few days, but it gradually faded away with time.

It was probably because of this kidnapping incident that Wu Tianji and Jin Xier became very close.

Now, whenever Wu Tianji has a performance, Jin Xier will definitely attend.

"Miss Wu is really going all out, not even taking a few days off."

Wu Tianji was performing on stage at the moment, which Zhou Wu found somewhat puzzling.

"Sister Wu said that there have been no performances for several days, and the audience must be getting impatient."

Jin Xier and Wu Tianji are already best friends who can talk about anything, so Jin Xier knows what Wu Tianji is thinking.

"It's true that once you become an idol, you're often not in control of your own destiny."

It can be said that Wu Tianji is now the face of the South China Sea. You may not know that Zhou Wu is the person in charge of the South China Sea, but you cannot not know Wu Tianji of the South China Sea.

After disappearing for several days, Wu Tianji made a comeback performance, and the audience's reaction was even more enthusiastic. When the actors took their bows on stage, the audience below erupted in applause.

After the audience dispersed, Jin Xier and Zhou Wu went backstage.

"Everyone has worked hard. I bought some afternoon tea, come and have some."

Zhou Wu would occasionally come back to the theater, and he never came empty-handed; he would always buy some food along the way.

"Wow, roasted pigeon! This is my favorite place."

"Crispy skin, juicy, top-notch."

Zhou Wu's pigeons received unanimous praise.

"You always end up spending so much money."

"As long as everyone is happy."

“That’s right, he’s so rich, Sister Wu doesn’t need to worry about him.”

Jin Xi'er still harbors some resentment towards noon. After all, once Li Tiancheng sent her to the South China Sea, he could distance himself from her. When he wrote The Story of the Stone, the terrible ending also saddened Jin Xi'er for several days.

From that time on, Jin Xier secretly harbored resentment towards Zhou Wu. It wasn't until the kidnapping incident, when Zhou Wu rescued her, that their relationship improved.

"What do you want from me?"

Wu Tianji was naturally asking Zhou Wu, because Jin Xi'er came almost every day, while Zhou Wu only came to the Three Treasures Hall when he had nothing to do.

"Haha, I do have something I need to trouble you with."

Based on Wu Tianji's understanding of Zhou Wu, the more polite Zhou Wu was, the more troublesome things might be.

"You tell me first and listen."

"A letter has arrived from the palace, inviting you to perform a few shows there."

"what!"

Zhou Wu was being polite, but who would dare disobey an order from the palace?

Wu Tianji actually had no objection to performing in the palace, but he didn't expect that his performance in the new version of The Legend of the Condor Heroes had already reached the palace.

"Next month, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace will be hosting a royal banquet. We hope you can come and join in the festivities."

"Row."

There was no room for objection, so Wu Tianji readily agreed, and Zhou Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhou Wu had thought he would have to talk a lot, but he didn't expect it to be done so easily.