C2

Leng Ning followed the voice and looked back. He saw a man in black standing in front of the door with a cane in his hand. He wore a hood and his face was hidden in the darkness.

Although he was standing in the dark, the sunlight did not give him any warmth at all. He was like an evil spirit that had crawled out from under the Bridge of Helplessness, causing people to shudder in fear.

Suddenly, he slightly raised his head. The guests all covered their eyes in fear, not daring to look. However, Leng Ning was not afraid. She looked straight at the man who was about to become her fiancé, and saw a slight smirk on his face.

The smile was so eerie it made her scalp tingle.

He was Huo Quan, the man who frightened everyone in the city while he was overseas, the man who was about to get engaged to her.

She saw the white hand rise and fall, the cane rapidly paused three times on the ground as if it were impatient.

Leng Fei hid behind her back and pulled at the corner of her shirt in fear. Even through her clothes, she could still feel her body trembling.

"Meow ~" The black cat in his arms cried out in grievance.

Leng Qing suddenly came back to his senses. His actions just now were to summon the cat. This cat was his, but it was burnt to ashes by Leng Fei …

"Come here." He suddenly spoke with a hoarse and unpleasant voice, causing one to involuntarily think of the Black and White Impermanence who had come for their lives at night.

"Meow ~" the black cat meowed again, then it jumped down from Leng Qing's bosom and lightly climbed up Huo Quan's shoulder along the leg of his pants, tilting its head to lick its own fur.

"Come here." Huo Quan once again stretched out his hand towards Leng Ning.

Everyone looked at her with sympathy. Leng Fei even tightly held onto her clothes as she walked forward.

This time, she could clearly see his appearance. His face was thin and sallow, his facial features were sunken like a skeleton, and the skin on his face had completely festered due to some unknown reason. She could even faintly see maggots rolling under his skin, making people feel nauseous.

Huo Quan indifferently looked at her. He held her hand and smeared some ointment on the wounds she had been scratched with. The ointment was cool and refreshing, just like his body temperature. It caused Leng Qing to shudder uncontrollably.

"Does it hurt?" He lowered his head and blew a few breaths into her wound.

"It doesn't hurt." Leng Qing retracted her hand and looked at him warily.

She didn't think that her previous statement of insincerity could move this powerful figure.

Huo Quan passed the blue porcelain bottle in his hand to her. "Wipe it once in a while, it won't leave any scars."

"Thank you very much." Leng Qing took the porcelain bottle with a slight tremble, but without any defense, he suddenly pulled it into his embrace.

"Come with me." His tone was somewhat urgent.

This appearance was too different from the rumours of evil fiends.

The tip of her cold nose was almost touching the carrion of his chin, and the sound made all the hairs on his body stand on end. She stiffly pushed him away and said, "No."

She could feel his cold gaze on her face, and she was suddenly afraid. She wanted to run away from him.

"Mr. Huo, Mr. Huo, long time no see. This is the desolation that I mentioned to you earlier. You've heard it too. She has always admired you …" Ruan Lingyin had already mentally prepared herself, but when she saw Huo Quan's face, her stomach couldn't help but churn.

Leng Ning glanced at Qin Zheng beside her and could not help but sneer in her heart. Earlier, Ruan Lingyin had not said those words to pretend to be a goddess in front of Qin Zheng, but had purposely said them to provoke her to speak the latter half of her sentence to Huo Quan.

She already knew that Huo Quan had come, and most likely knew that the black cat was raised by Huo Quan as well.

"You want to be my woman?" Huo Quan's slender, icy, and long fingers lifted her chin.

Leng Ning composed herself, glancing at Qin Zheng and asking, "What are the benefits of being your woman?"

Huo Quan smiled, but his smile contained a faint trace of an imperceptible pampering, "Is calling the wind and summoning the rain enough?"

Leng Qing gritted his teeth. He had indeed heard the words just now.

"My foster father was set up and imprisoned. Can you save him?" she asked bluntly.

"Of course."

"Deal." Leng Qing stretched out his hand and looked at him with an indifferent gaze, as if he was unafraid of death.

Since the person in front of her was more capable than Qin Zheng, and since she had already provoked him, there was no reason why she shouldn't try her best and be threatened by others.

However, Huo Quan suddenly covered her eyes with his hand. Then, she felt the icy and soft sensation on her lips. She wanted to push him away with her heart filled with shock, but she couldn't move his hand.

"Deal." He let go of her hand and softly spat out two words.

Suddenly, there were sounds of explosions coming from outside. Leng Qing had just turned around when she was pushed into her embrace and rolled on the ground a few times.

The banquet hall, which had been bustling with songs and dances, was suddenly filled with bullets.

"Are you okay?" A rough question entered his ears.

Leng Qing ignored him, turning a deaf ear to him.

It was time. She had been cared for by Qin Zheng for so many years, it was time to repay this favor.

Therefore, she didn't hesitate to insert her silver needles into the arm of the person behind her the moment she raised her head. She then pushed open his shackles and ran forward. The bullet passed by her ear, but she didn't seem to feel it. She rushed behind Qin Zheng and pushed him away. The huge crystal chandelier came crashing down on her. She looked at the dumbstruck Qin Zheng and smiled.

I finally paid you back what I owed you.

"Cool!" After a guttural scream, she felt a heavy impact on her body. She fell to the ground and looked back to see the man's hat falling off his head, his rotting face completely exposed, his right leg pinned down by the chandelier.

Receiving her gaze, he lowered his head and struggled to put his hat back on, hiding his bright eyes in the darkness.

Leng Qing didn't know why he wanted to save her, but he felt a certain corner of his heart soften.

"Go!" The house is about to collapse! " Just as she was about to walk towards him, Qin Zheng stopped her.

Only then did she realize that there was a fire in the villa. Accompanied by the sound of an explosion, the entire villa was on the verge of collapse.

"Qin Zheng, from now on, we will settle our differences." She looked at him as two streams of clear tears rolled down her cheeks. After that, she shook off his hand and walked towards Huo Quan in large strides.

No one had ever fought for her in her life before. Since she had offended him, she wouldn't leave him alone to die.

Qin Zheng wanted to chase after him, but he was blocked by the falling beams.

"What are you doing here? "Go away!" Witnessing everything, Wei Ping glared hatefully at Leng Ning.

Only then did Leng Qing see that the chandelier had been moved away, but there was another pillar pressed down on Huo Quan's leg.

His leg seemed to have been injured in the past, and he had to rely on a walking stick to walk.

"Let me help you." Leng Qing reached out to grab the pillar, but was kicked out by Huo Quan. She couldn't see his face, and could only hear his hoarse voice, "Scram!"

"Second Master, please hold it in. It's almost done." Weeping like a child, he joined the other two in pulling the pole away from his leg.

Leng Qing saw the difficulty in lifting them and was afraid that the pillars would fall again. He hurriedly stepped forward to help them.

The pillar was already burning hot, and when he touched it, it immediately burned his skin. Fortunately, he was able to save Huo Quan's leg in the end.

"Leave, our lord doesn't want you anymore!" Wei Ping forcefully pushed Huo Quan to stand up.

The surrounding smoke billowed. Leng Qing's feet were unsteady and was about to fall into the sea of fire, but Huo Quan actually jumped and pulled her back with one foot, causing the two of them to fall onto the ground.