QT: The Rescue Of The Miserable Bigshots-Chapter 197 - 7.27

"Hmm? That’s weird!"

Ming Ye glanced around the empty Golden Palace, raising an eyebrow, "Are you sure he is here?"

Su Jinzhou nodded, "Yes, I marked him with tracking powder yesterday."

It was a habit he’d developed over the years, an extra precaution to ensure that his targets never strayed too far off course and hinder the completion of the task.

"Hey, there!"

Su Jinzhou saw the male protagonist lying motionless in the corner.

"Looks like I came all this way for nothing."

Ming Ye spread his hands. "Look, not a single soul around. I am useless!"

Su Jinzhou scanned the palace with narrowed eyes, "Very strange. Why would Fang Qi be left here, unattended, in this strange Golden Palace... and not in Yin Luo’s Demon Palace."

Who could be the owner of this Golden Palace?

Where is everyone?

Also, where is Fang Qi’s master, Immortal Jiang?

Ming Ye glanced at Fang Qi lying on the ground and said, "He looks like someone knocked him unconscious in a hurry."

"No matter what, let’s take him away quickly."

Su Jinzhou did not dare to delay and bent down to help Fang Qi up.

"Tsk!" Ming Ye scoffed and grabbed Su Jinzhou’s wrist, "You’re way too skinny to move that lump. Let me do it."

Su Jinzhou gave him a look, "You? Really? How?"

He already knew Ming Ye looked down on Fang Qi and judging by the look on his face, he had zero intention of touching him.

"That’s easy."

Ming Ye chuckled, then flicked his finger. A large, fiery red feather appeared out of thin air and settled onto the ground. With a simple hook of his finger, an invisible force nudged Fang Qi’s body, rolling him effortlessly onto the feather.

Su Jinzhou tilted his head, watching the feather hover. "Okay, I’ll admit... That’s impressive."

Ming Ye gave a smug shrug, "Of course it is. I don’t do manual labor."

"Let’s go!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the feather took the lead and floated out of the Golden Palace.

Su Jinzhou: "..."

It is worthy of being called...

A bird!

In the original plot, the Demon Prince Ming Ye revealed his true form during the war between the three realms in the second half of the plot.

A fire phoenix, risen from a thousand years of slumber and flame, reborn through the ashes of nirvana.

Jiang Jiamian always felt that he did not hear wrongly.

"What did you call me just now?"

In a trance, he saw a face without a mask, and the expression on that face was somewhat strange.

Not like the madman Lou Yan who was always sneering and smiling, but a kind of calm, indifferent and distant existence.

It didn’t feel real, more like a memory that slipped through his fingers.

Yet the voice that came with it was filled with extreme tenderness.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t make sense of it.

When he was completely awake and looked closely, he found that Lou Yan was still the same, and the name he called him turned back into Immortal Jiang.

Although the original owner was also called Jiang Jiamian, since he became a disciple of Wanling Sect, he has abandoned his worldly name.

Later, when his cultivation became increasingly powerful, and it transformed from the Cultivator Jiang into the Immortal Jiang, no one knew his true name anymore.

In the entire cultivation world, except for his own memory, everyone only knows the Immortal Jiang, not Jiang Jiamian.

Therefore, there is absolutely no way that Lou Yan would call him Jiamian.

"Immortal Jiang?"

Lou Yan looked at him in confusion, "What’s wrong? Do you have another name? Then tell me, and I will call you whatever you want."

Jiang Jiamian frowned slightly. Could it be that he was not fully awake and it was just a hallucination?

"Did you feel anything wrong just now?"

Jiang Jiamian suspected that if it wasn’t Lou Yan himself, then it might be related to the soul behind him.

"Something’s wrong?"

Lou Yan frowned, "For a moment, it felt like I had forgotten something. I only remember feeling anxious and when I looked again, you were already awake."

He could feel it, something was clearly off.

"I’ll take you back."

Lou Yan bent down and picked him up.

"I can walk by myself."

Jiang Jiamian resisted subconsciously.

Lou Yan brows furrowed, "No, you’ve only just woken up. You’re too weak right now."

"Oh? Why not?" Jiang Jiamian raised his eyebrow, his gaze landing on Lou Yan’s clearly unsettled face, "If I remember correctly, I’m your enemy, the one you want to bully and abuse. Shouldn’t you wish that I would have a hard time?"

Lou Yan’s eyes turned cold, "Yes, but only I can bully you. No one else. And now? You’re suffering because of that good disciple of yours."

Tsk, so stubborn.

Jiang Jiamian felt that Lou Yan cared about him, but he also knew that given this little lunatic’s personality, it would be impossible for him to admit it.

"Can I ask you a favor?"

But Jiang Jiamian, fully aware of what was happening, didn’t hesitate to take advantage.

Lou Yan held him close as he tore through the space, his voice nearly swallowed by the rushing wind, "What’s the matter?"

"Let Fang Qi go, he just wanted to save me."

"Absolutely not!" Of all things, this was what he couldn’t accept, "Have you forgotten that you were almost killed by him!? You want to let him go, but I don’t!"

Jiang Jiamian was overwhelmed, but he still tried to negotiate, "If you’re willing to let him go, I promise, I’ll stay in the Golden Palace forever, completely at your mercy."

The words ’at your mercy’ were carefully chosen, striking right at the heart of Lou Yan’s deepest desire.

For a moment, Lou Yan almost agreed without thinking. But he forced himself back into cold clarity, refusing to be moved by the beauty of Jiang Jiamian’s surrender.

"You belong to me now. Whether I spare him or not, that doesn’t change."

Jiang Jiamian: "..."

Ah, what a mistake.

It seems that this promise wasn’t enough to sway Lou Yan.

He would have to try harder.

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