Man Yue didn’t respond.

Chuzheng ground her teeth, opened the door, and went out. Liu Quchen was still standing outside holding that vase.

"Take off your clothes."

"Huh?"

Liu Quchen jumped in fright. What was that supposed to mean?

"He gets mad when he sees anything blue." Chuzheng said, "If you want to ask him questions, take your clothes off."

Liu Quchen: "..."

Fortunately, only Liu Quchen’s outer robe was blue today. Inside he was wearing a pale-moon–colored inner garment, so taking it off wasn’t a problem.

Sure enough, after he took off his clothes and went in, the young man merely swept him a lukewarm glance, showing no sign of anger.

Liu Quchen tried asking Man Yue about what happened back then.

The youth had no reaction at all. No flashbacks from mentioning that time, no anger or resentment of any sort.

Liu Quchen asked several questions and didn’t get a single answer.

"I told you, he won’t talk." Chuzheng made a "please" gesture. "Master Liu, this way, please."

Liu Quchen had heard before that this Second Young Master seemed to have some issues. Looking now...

"I’ve disturbed you."

Liu Quchen left the room, and Chuzheng followed him out.

"Miss Fong, it’s not convenient for Second Young Master to stay here. Why don’t I take him back to Shenwu Manor?"

"He’s fine here." Chuzheng’s face was expressionless. "Master Liu, I won’t hand him over to anyone."

Liu Quchen: "Miss Fong may be misunderstanding. I also wish to protect Second Young Master. After all..."

The girl said carelessly, "I know. That’s why you’re still standing here in one piece right now."

Once again, Liu Quchen felt the bold, blazing confidence radiating off this Tower Master.

For Feng Hanyuan to have a daughter like this was... interesting.

"In that case, I must trouble Miss Fong to take good care of Second Young Master."

"..." As if you need to say it. That’s my Good Person Card. If I don’t take care of him, who will!

Liu Quchen didn’t say anything more, bid farewell to Chuzheng, and left.

He hadn’t had time to put his outer robe back on when he went out. The beautiful woman took one look, and her expression went green.

"Manor Owner, you..."

"Let’s go back." Liu Quchen was lost in thought and didn’t notice anything wrong. His voice was calm.

The woman: "..."

No, wait!

Manor Owner was perfectly fine, so why did he come out with his outer robe off?

What on earth happened in there just now?!!

Seeing Liu Quchen’s preoccupied look, the woman felt as if a thorn had been driven into her heart. What did that woman do to Manor Owner!!

-

"When is Yan Ya coming back?"

When Chuzheng went in, that was the first thing the youth said.

"..."

That question really stumped her. Who the hell knew where that Yan Ya had run off to? She’d thrown out so much money and still hadn’t seen a shadow of him.

After coaxing Man Yue, Chuzheng went out to look for Xi Nan.

"Have you found him?"

"Wh-what... who?" Xi Nan was so scared by Chuzheng’s imposing manner that he started stuttering.

"Yan Ya." If I find him I’m going to kill him! My Good Person Card thinks about him every day!

"N-no... no." Xi Nan said.

"Tower Master, I’ve found some clues." Xin Yu came over from the other side, looking almost fully recovered. "About Man Mansion."

"What clues?"

"Someone once saw those people. They were asking for directions at the time, and someone noticed they had tattoos on their faces."

Xin Yu took out a sheet of paper and unfolded it.

"I had that person try to draw it."

The pattern on the paper... Chuzheng honestly couldn’t tell what it was. Apparently the witness had a very strong abstract-art style.

However... 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Chuzheng still felt it looked a bit familiar, like she’d seen it somewhere before.

A flash of inspiration, and Chuzheng remembered where she’d seen it. Strictly speaking, it wasn’t her who’d seen it—it was the original host.

That Wuyue Clan that was basically running a pyramid scheme and had that whole Saintess setup—some of them had similar tattoos on their faces.

The Wuyue Clan was the place the original host had been taken back to after getting her face swapped.

Chuzheng took the paper. Why would the Wuyue Clan go slaughter Man Yue’s people?

Judging by the time... Qi Peier’s people should be coming to look for her soon, right?

"Tower Master?"

"Hm?"

"What are you thinking about?" Xin Yu asked, puzzled. "Should we keep digging into this?"

"No need." Chuzheng put the paper away and changed the topic. "Anyone come to Fengman Building for money lately?"

At that, Xi Nan instantly went crazy. "How could there not be? They’re here every day. But they don’t dare come in—they can only squat outside."

The impression Chuzheng had left on them last time was too deep; none of them dared to force their way in.

But they did dare, whenever no one was around, to scribble all over the outer walls of Fengman Building, writing stuff like "those who don’t repay their debts will be punished by heaven" and the like.

"Let them."

Leaving those words behind, Chuzheng walked off with the paper in her hand.

"Bro, you still haven’t given me that thing." Xin Yu suddenly stretched out her hand toward Xi Nan.

"I’ll hold onto it. Who knows when you’ll lose it again if you keep it. You trying to get your brother kidnapped to be some bandit’s husband?!"

"That just means you’re not as good as they are."

"I..." Xi Nan was so angry he almost spat blood. "That was me being kind-hearted! Who knew that woman would be so vicious!"

"With that IQ of yours, you’d get tricked and not even know it. Give it to me." Xin Yu immediately seized on the opening to attack.

"Your brother is smart as hell!"

Xi Nan vaulted straight over the railing and jumped down, calling out, "I’ll keep it safe!"

Xin Yu: "..."

-

Shenwu Manor had gotten involved in investigating the Man Mansion case, but unfortunately there still weren’t many clues. They hadn’t found anything substantial.

Time flew by; the uproar over the Man Mansion massacre was gradually replaced by the upcoming Wind and Cloud Conference.

The people in Fengman Building were itching to participate.

Chuzheng had absolutely no intention of going.

During this period, she’d figured out quite a bit about Man Yue’s habits.

Anything blue might set Man Yue off and make him smash things, so Chuzheng had all things blue-related in Fengman Building replaced with red.

When there were lots of people around, Man Yue would take the initiative to move closer to her.

And if she wanted Man Yue to hug her of his own accord, then someone had to indicate they wanted her to leave, or Man Yue had to think she was going to leave him. Only under those circumstances would she get that kind of perk.

Man Yue’s health had been nursed back pretty well. Color was returning to his face, and paired with that red outfit, he was even more dazzling.

Sometimes Man Yue would suddenly want to leave to look for Yan Ya, and Chuzheng had to work really hard to coax him into staying.

Yan Ya sure hadn’t mentioned that a Good Person Card would be this hard to handle in the beginning!

She felt deceived.

Yet she had to endure it.

It hurt.

She wanted to cry.

-

In the blink of an eye, it was time for the Wind and Cloud Conference.

This grand event would go on for about half a month. The main purpose was to let everyone spar and exchange martial arts.

Kind of like a martial-arts version of an inter-sect exchange meet.

The last few days were reserved for the fight over the Wind and Cloud Rankings.

Every year, Shenwu Manor updated the Wind and Cloud Rankings and maintained a challenge system. If you wanted to reach the top of the list, you only needed to challenge the one currently at the top. As long as you could win, you’d become number one.

Of course, during challenges, you weren’t allowed to use underhanded tricks or borrow outside help.

You had to rely on your own true skill to win the challenge for it to be acknowledged.