Cao Ling felt like she suddenly lost all her strength. If she hadn’t been leaning against the edge of the hot spring, she might have slipped and been submerged by the water.

Also, Cao Ling felt as though Ye Qiu had taken advantage of her earlier.

Ye Qiu stepped out of the hot spring and didn’t go back in. Soaking for a long time had made his skin slightly pruned, and besides, he’d had enough for now.

He’d wait until tonight to soak again.

Liu Lingshow and Xiaomai felt exhausted too.

They got up to take a regular hot shower, wrapped themselves in bathrobes, went back to their rooms, and fell asleep after drying their hair.

While Ye Qiu was sitting there drinking, Lin Xiang and Cao Ling also sat nearby. Cao Ling, who had felt somewhat faint earlier, finally recovered after a while.

She was very tired too.

After Cao Ling left to shower and rest in her room, only Ye Qiu and Lin Xiang were left.

"You bastard," Lin Xiang said, looking at him.

Back in Malaysia, Ye Qiu had taken liberties with her too, and now he seemed to have forgotten about it, treating her like a stranger.

"Lin Xiang, what’s wrong?"

"Nothing," Lin Xiang said, glaring at him fiercely.

Then she turned and went to shower before going to rest as well.

Ye Qiu shook his head, not knowing what Lin Xiang was thinking.

After they finished showering, Ye Qiu took a quick shower too, then went to the other room to rest.

The shorts he had worn were already off, so now he wasn’t wearing anything.

After a nap, Ye Qiu woke up to find it was already past eleven at night.

The sleep after soaking in the hot spring was really comfortable.

Once up, he put on his robe and saw Cao Ling come out. She said, "Brother Cao Long just called asking if we wanted to go out to eat?"

"Where to eat?"

"At the villa, of course."

"Let’s not go, maybe tomorrow. If you’re hungry, have the waitress bring over some steaks."

Ye Qiu noticed that Cao Ling, too, seemed to be wearing nothing under the robe. Feeling as if he saw through her, Cao Ling hurried back to her room.

After Cao Ling left, Ye Qiu jumped back into the hot spring, enjoying another comfortable soak.

...

Three days.

Ye Feng gave the opponent three days to get rid of that bastard.

It hadn’t even been two days yet, but to his surprise, that bastard wasn’t dead. Instead, his own bodyguard got messed up.

Could that guy really be so formidable?

Plucking flowers and leaves, all could harm people.

Ye Feng truly didn’t believe it.

Despite having firearms, his man got injured like that.

Also, his man had said that at the time, it was itchy and painful all over, feeling worse than death.

What kind of feeling is that?

Ye Feng didn’t know, but it didn’t seem like his bodyguard was joking.

But no matter what, he was determined to get that bastard dealt with quickly.

In the study, Ye Feng clapped his hands, and soon, two shadows appeared.

"I don’t want that bastard to see the sunrise tomorrow," Ye Feng said.

He tossed out a photo of Ye Qiu again.

And this photo was taken at the Badaling Great Wall.

"He’s at the Xiaotangquan Hot Spring Resort," Ye Feng added.

The two soon vanished into the night.

Meanwhile, back in the villa at the hot spring resort, the other three women also woke up, feeling very hungry.

When they came out, they saw Ye Qiu soaking in the hot spring.

"Are you guys hungry? Just call the front desk to send food up," Ye Qiu said. Even though they had been eating earlier, the hot spring sped up digestion, and now they had no idea where all the food had gone.

So Cao Ling went over to call the front desk, asking them to send over steaks and Capital City roast duck, as that’s what they ate there.

After getting out of the hot spring and showering again, Ye Qiu went out to the living room to watch TV with the four women.

Possibly due to the nap, they were now wide awake without any trace of sleepiness.

Xiaomai went over to give Ye Qiu a massage.

When the doorbell rang, Cao Ling went to open the door, and two female waitstaff brought in the food they had ordered.

"Sir, beautiful ladies, do you need anything else?"

"No, that will be all," Cao Ling replied.

After the waitstaff left, Cao Ling and the others sat down to eat, having ordered two roast ducks and five steaks, enough to fill them up.

Ye Qiu and the four women ate together.

Around one in the morning, the four women washed up and went back to their rooms to rest.

Ye Qiu didn’t call Liu Lingshow to his room. Instead, he stayed alone, not lying down to rest but continuing his cultivation, absorbing spiritual energy.

Ye Qiu didn’t know how much time had passed when he suddenly heard the doorbell ring.

Getting up to check what was going on,

He remembered that neither he nor the four women had called for room service.

As Ye Qiu got up, Cao Ling and Lin Xiang also awoke, casting curious glances.

Just as Ye Qiu reached the door, sensing something was off, he told the two women to return to their rooms.

Cao Ling and Liu Lingshow could only return to their rooms.

Ye Qiu tied his bathrobe securely to prevent it from falling and opened the door to see two young men in server uniforms.

But most of the staff at the hot spring were women; men were only needed in other work areas.

"Sir, we have a gift for you."

"Really? Delivering gifts in the dead of night? Do you want me to file a complaint?" Ye Qiu said coldly.

He didn’t believe them at all.

At this moment, one of the young men holding a tray removed the cloth from it, revealing a handgun. "You bastard, die!" he shouted, pointing it at Ye Qiu.

The man quickly released the safety and aimed at Ye Qiu’s forehead.

In that split second of disbelief for the two young men, Ye Qiu grabbed the gun. The man tried to fire but couldn’t, as Ye Qiu crushed the gun and the man’s finger along with it, causing blood to pour out—it was the young man’s blood.

Almost like a spark igniting, with both of them initiating their attacks at once, while one aimed to shoot Ye Qiu, the other drew a sharp fruit knife from the serving cart and thrust it at Ye Qiu’s chest.

"Ah!"

From the room, Cao Ling and Lin Xiang saw this scene. Although Ye Qiu’s back was to them, blocking most of it, they clearly saw the young men dressed as male servers—one firing at Ye Qiu and the other stabbing towards him.