[GB] Boss Ruan, your husband doesn't want you anymore.

Then, smiling, he said to Qin Ru and Ling Shu, "You two should go and change too."

"We will help you find a place for these children, but..."

The dancer paused, then smiled slyly: "But there are conditions for us to send it out."

Qin Ru heard the dancer say this after she changed her clothes, so Qin Ru asked, "What are the conditions?"

The dancer covered her smiling mouth with her fan, revealing only her cunning eyes, and said, "I need you to help me retrieve something from the Treasure Pavilion."

Qin Ru: "Huh? We're too busy running to get something?"

Ling Shu asked, "What is it?"

The dancer pointed with her fan to the changing room where Ruan Qian'an was and said, "I'll talk about this after Ruan Qian'an comes out."

Qin Ru and Ling Shu exchanged a glance, thinking that it might work if Ruan Qian'an took it.

After waiting for a while—

Qin Ru sat back in her chair, resting her face on the back, and said, "Why did she take so long to change her clothes? I hope something bad happened to her."

Ling Shu leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, and said with his arms crossed, "With her skills, no matter what, she shouldn't be the one who got into trouble."

Qin Ru nodded and then said, "What you said makes sense."

Ruan Qian'an took off her old clothes, which clung tightly to her torn and bleeding skin.

As it slid downwards, it felt like tearing at one's own flesh.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Ruan Qian'an's forehead. She reached back and touched it: "Is it because it can't heal and hasn't fully recovered yet?"

She couldn't bandage either of her wounds herself, so she could only hastily stop the bleeding, put on her clothes, and go out.

The dancer, seeing Ruan Qian'an come out, said, "You're really taking your time."

Ruan Qian'an said to Qin Ru, "Let's go."

Dancer: "Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't even stated my conditions yet."

Qin Ru hurriedly stood up and grabbed Ruan Qian'an's hand as she was about to leave, saying, "We have to fulfill her conditions, otherwise we won't be able to get out!"

Ruan Qian'an withdrew her hand and glanced in Qin Ru's direction: "?"

The dancer opened her narrow eyes: "Do you want to go out looking like this? Aren't you afraid of causing a riot?"

Ruan Qian'an paused in her hand as she opened the door: "So what?"

The dancer fanned herself with a fan: "Don't forget you're carrying a lot of burdens. Are you sure you don't need my help? Don't be a fool."

"You couldn't even save a few brats? Won't that ruin your lifelong reputation?"

Ruan Qian'an: "Huh?" She let go of the handle.

He walked step by step up to the dancer, raising his dagger: "You're so noisy."

Just as Ruan Qian'an was about to strike, Qin Ru grabbed her tightly: "Calm down, you have to calm down, we're still counting on her to get us out of here."

Ruan Qian'an: "Let go."

Qin Ruleng shivered, her hand trembling but she didn't let go of Ruan Qian'an's: "Then don't lay a hand on her, okay?"

She released Ruan Qian'an's hand in the next instant, feeling Ruan Qian'an's breath growing colder and colder. She dared not argue any further.

Ruan Qian'an sheathed his dagger and said to the dancer, "You shouldn't have told me your conditions."

She picked up a mask from the table and said to Qin Ru, "After you leave here, go to Uncle Mei's place and wait for me."

Then he opened the door and walked out without looking back.

Qin Ru and Ling Shu exchanged glances. Qin Ru said, "Does she mean to part ways here? Where is she going?"

Ling Shu shook his head: "I don't know."

The dancer coughed: "You can only leave after you fulfill my conditions."

Qin Ru: "Are we your second-best option?!"

The dancer shifted her gaze guiltily. She wouldn't tell them that the conditions were originally meant for them, and that she deliberately made things difficult for Ruan Qian'an to get her to do it. Who would have thought that Ruan Qian'an would still act like a madwoman, making them think that she had become a saint? Otherwise, why would she save those children?

A little bit of love, but not much?

"You all saw what Ruan Qian'an was like. It's better to rely on yourself than on her."

Good luck to you guys!

The dancer gave a thumbs-up gesture.

The mask Ruan Qian'an is wearing now is completely black with finely carved lines on it.

The area where her eyes were visible was also black. Ruan Qian'an first covered her eyes with a black cloth, and then put on a mask.

Ruan Qian'an sniffed, clearly feeling that familiar scent coming this way.

Why did it disappear?

Without realizing it, she walked to the front hall, the same place where they had just come in.

Surprisingly, these people remained unchanged, showing no sign of panic, except that the number of guards had increased, and there were even more guards in the shadows.

Ruan Qian'an's brow twitched violently. She had found it.

She avoided the cameras, grabbed the man, covered his mouth and nose, and led him into a room.

"Huo Jingmo, long time no see~"

With his mouth and nose covered, Huo Jingmo could only whimper. He opened his eyes wide in terror and frantically tried to fight back.

His hands were tied behind his back, and the person who came in pressed him against the wall from behind. His face was pressed against the wall.

The person approached him from behind and whispered in his ear, "Don't make a sound."

Then, nestled against his neck, Huo Jingmo felt a chill run through his body, enveloped by an unknown fear.

He bit down hard on the mouth covering him, and the person behind him hissed softly.

Then the man actually put his finger in his mouth, and he tried to scream in terror.

His fingers went deeper and deeper, and saliva dripped from his lips. Huo Jingmo tilted his head back and breathed in the faint air.

He struggled wildly, wanting to see who was doing this disrespectful thing to him.

The people behind him seemed to have figured out his intention.

There was a snap.

Huo Jingmo froze.

He got spanked?!

Huo Jingmo struggled relentlessly, ignoring everything else.

Ruan Qian'an frowned; such constant struggling would cause injury.

She sighed softly, "Can't you just behave for once?"

Huo Jingmo felt his grip loosen, and then launched an elbow strike at the person behind him.

The person behind seemed not to have expected his attack and took a hard hit.

The man retaliated swiftly, striking some pressure point that made him weak all over.

Huo Jingmo turned around, wiped his mouth, and slowly slid down to the ground, leaning against the wall.

Upon seeing that the person's upper half of their face was covered by a mask, concealing even their eyes, they exclaimed, "Who are you?!"

The man curled his red lips into a smile. He licked his sharp teeth, lifted the man's chin, and bent down.

Huo Jingmo braced himself and pushed her away, his frail body feeling as if it weighed a ton. Just as her lips were about to touch his.

A trickle of blood suddenly seeped from the man's mouth.

Huo Jingmo seemed to hear a barely audible sigh, yet also seemed not to hear it at all.

Ruan Qian'an covered the spot on her shoulder where Huo Jingmo had just hit her.

Then, bewildered, she covered her mouth.

Then a large mouthful of blood gushed from her mouth.

"what!"

Ruan Qian'an bent over in pain, opened her eyes, and couldn't even cover the blood gushing from her mouth with her hands.

With her other hand, she knocked away the bottle that Huo Jingmo had thrown at her, and the bottle shattered on the ground with a loud thud.

Ruan Qian'an struggled to her feet and tried to grab Huo Jingmo's sleeve.

Almost.

Then she fainted right next to Huo Jingmo.