The deflated cultivator refused to give up and vowed to turn the tables.

All the guards chased after them to the east. Su Zinong and Qin Xiangxue grabbed the rope and climbed back up the city wall from the east. They jumped down into the courtyard and ran towards the west wall. They climbed onto the stools on the Eight Immortals table, crossed the high wall, and immediately jumped over the west wall.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his feet touched the ground, he was struck twice on the back, his acupoints sealed, and his true energy cultivation was blocked.

"Brilliant! Even when escaping, they use tables and chairs to form a Bagua formation, and they even know how to use feints. Didn't they say they were going to escape tomorrow? Why are they doing it earlier?" Ou Ruo's sweet voice came from behind.

“They didn’t run away. They just seemed a bit bored. Your guards were doing nothing, so they played hide-and-seek with them…” Su Zinong said.

“Those idiots, whenever they all go in one direction, I can’t help but go in the other direction,” Ou Ruo murmured.

"You are indeed smart!" Su Zinong sighed, having to admit it.

“I’ve been good at hide-and-seek since I was a child. You need to avoid those guards and come with me. I’ll take you to a good place where the guards definitely won’t find you,” Ou Ruo said with a smile.

The three of them went to the basement.

The secret room we entered this time had the character "ice" written on it.

A chill ran through me as I entered, and my teeth chattered.

“This is where we usually store frozen meat. We’ve cleared it out for you to play hide-and-seek. You can hide here!” After saying that, Ou Ruo released Su Zinong and Qin Xiangxue’s pressure points, pushed them into the secret room, turned around and walked out, locking the iron door behind her with a clang.

In less than fifteen minutes, both of them had turned purple from the cold.

"We need to get moving!" Su Zinong said.

The two walked back and forth in a secret room that was about three zhang square, which was filled with huge blocks of ice on all sides.

It was a little warmer to walk on, but chills still seeped into my body, making my heart tremble.

The two of them circulated their inner energy, allowing it to flow rapidly within their bodies.

Half an hour later, a series of knocks, fast and slow, sounded at the iron gate.

"Is anyone home? I'm coming in." Awfula's polite voice rang out from outside.

She pushed open the door and saw Su Zinong and Qin Xiangxue trembling all over, their lips purple, and their faces pale. She quickly asked, "Are you both alright? If you can't hold on, you can tell me you want to get married."

Qin Xiangxue glanced at Su Zinong and sighed softly. She knew Su Zinong would never agree. He usually seemed gentle and easy to talk to, but he would never yield when threatened by an enemy.

Unexpectedly, Su Zinong said, "Alright, I'll marry you!" He paused for a moment, then continued, "But you must first release Miss Qin. Once she's out of this city, I'll marry you."

“That won’t do. What if you change your mind after she leaves? Then I’ll have one less person to blackmail you.” After saying that, Ou Ruo slammed the iron gate shut, and the sound of her footsteps gradually faded away.

She understood it in her heart.

“At this point, you don’t need to promise her anything for my sake. Just stay together until the end,” Qin Xiangxue said gently. “Or we can hug each other to keep warm. I heard a story that when two people are cold, they should take off their clothes and hug each other, then wrap their clothes around each other.”

“I don’t really believe it!” Su Zinong said. “Those are just stories made up to fool you girls. In this cold weather, our hands and feet are probably already numb from the cold as soon as we take off our clothes. Don’t worry, I said that to lull her into a false sense of security. I won’t actually agree to marry her. I already have a plan.”

As he spoke, he took out the red spirit stone and placed it in his palm, speeding up the circulation of his true energy. A warm current flowed from his palm to his body's meridians, and he began to feel a slight warmth.

Qin Xiangxue was overjoyed upon seeing this, and quickly took out the red spirit stone to imitate Su Zinong's method and cultivate accordingly.

Sure enough, after a quarter of an hour, the two of them stopped trembling so much, and their bodies warmed up slightly. The water, though still cold, was no longer unbearable.

Half an hour later, Ou Ruo arrived. Seeing the two of them like this, even her lips turned red. She quickly waved and said, "Come out, let's go eat mutton soup."

In the restaurant.

"You two should drink more soup to warm yourselves up. I specifically told them to add extra ginger and chili," Ou Ruo said as she spooned soup and served meat to the two of them.

"This is truly thoughtful and considerate," Su Zinong exclaimed.

“I won’t let you die so easily, otherwise no one will want to play with me,” Aurora said.

"If it weren't for our methods, we would have frozen to death long ago!" Su Zinong shook his head and said, "Don't pretend to be a good person here."

"Isn't it easy to kill you? As long as I ignore you, you'll all die in there eventually. Whether you freeze to death, starve to death, or die of thirst, you'll all die anyway." What Ou Ruo said was indeed the truth.

Su Zinong was speechless.

"You probably can't win his heart this way. You're so beautiful; if you were gentler with him, he might like you and agree to marry you," Qin Xiangxue couldn't help but say.

“I’m not an ordinary woman. I want him to be unforgettable to me. Whether he can fall in love with me is another matter. By the way, you agreed to let him marry me, so you love him deeply, don’t you?” Ou Ruo said with a smile.

"He and I are just good friends," Qin Xiangxue said.

“I’m not blind,” Aurora said.

Since that escape incident, it's rare to see tables and chairs in the entire compound. It's said they were all moved away, leaving only the table and chairs that Oro used.

“Those good-for-nothings don’t deserve to use tables and chairs,” Ou Ruo said.

So the scene of a large group of highly skilled guards sitting on the ground eating during the meal was quite amusing.

Su Zinong and Qin Xiangxue still had tables and chairs to use, but they were given two small tables that were difficult to stack into tall objects.

"That's really thoughtful!" Su Zinong exclaimed while gnawing on a chicken leg.

“You already have chicken legs to eat, so stop complaining,” Qin Xiangxue said.

It has been more than a month since the two of them arrived here.

"It's my bad breath! I shouldn't have said you were going to stay here for two months when you bought a big bag of groceries that day. Well, it's really been almost two months!" Su Zinong complained to himself.

"That was just a joke, don't take it seriously!" Qin Xiangxue smiled, not minding at all.

"But I haven't been able to come up with a solution. Do I really have to marry her, get her drunk, and then run away from the wedding?" Su Zinong couldn't help but imagine the scene.

"Maybe once you're in the bridal chamber and see the bride's rosy cheeks and radiant beauty, you won't want to leave," Qin Xiangxue said.

"Alas, it's all over! I've always prided myself on my intelligence, but I never imagined I'd be so helpless and defeated by a woman." Su Zinong sighed repeatedly.

In the afternoon, Qin Xiangxue walked into the room from outside, and Su Zinong asked, "Weren't you in the room just now?"

"Oh, I just braided Ou Ruo's hair. She looks quite pretty with her hair in a bun," Qin Xiangxue replied.

"When did you become so close to her and become best friends? Don't you want to leave?" Su Zinong asked helplessly.

"She's not that difficult to get along with," Qin Xiangxue said.

"Are you trying to persuade me to give in to her again?" Su Zinong said. "You've really changed your mind."

Qin Xiangxue glanced around and whispered, "No, no, let me tell you, there's a big red flower by the west wall, and next to it, below, there's a big dog hole..."