244 Accidental Encounter on the Road (1/2)

”Qin Clan. At around 5:30 this evening, Qin Xiaoyou was buying vegetables at the Chaoyang Farmers' Market but was abducted in the midst of it by the people of the Qin Clan. She should still be with the Qin Clan now.”

Dongfang Yi's message was succinct, and briefly explained the whole matter.

The capital was the political center and belonged to the region that was highly monitored by the Heaven's Eye Organization. In the capital and the surrounding areas, almost all the ancient martial arts influences were being monitored by the Heaven's Eye intelligence agents at all times. Hence, they could get information on any of the Qin Clan's activities.

”Understood.” Mo Wen hung up the phone silently, and then squinted slightly while looking at the sun setting at the horizon.

Originally, he had not been prepared to handle the Qin Clan's matter so soon. After all, his cultivation was not high enough, and he didn't know the ins and outs of the Qin Clan, so he was unsure if he could deal with this family, which was one of the top five ancient martial arts aristocratic families in the capital.

However, he had no choice but to act now. The Qin Clan had abducted Qin Xiaoyou to use her for the completion of the political marriage with the Wang Clan. The people of the Wang Clan had turned their noses up at the Fourth young mistress of the Qin Clan, so Qin Xiaoyou would be the substitute for the marriage.

As one of the five big ancient martial arts aristocratic families in the capital, the Qin Clan had more than 200 years of history in which they had produced relatively good ancient martial arts experts. Hence, among the ancient martial arts aristocratic families, they had a revered status and vast influences that were almost equivalent to the strengths of a medium ancient martial arts sect, which very few people would dare to provoke.

The Qin Clan was situated in the northern suburb of the capital, on top of a peak on one of the Taihang Mountains. Perhaps due to its long history and being an ancient martial arts aristocratic family, the Qin Clan's mansion was an ancient vintage building equivalent to a manor house in the ancient times. Its occupying area was vast with a little bridge over the stream and interlinking buildings with lofts. It had an abundant supply of everything, including birds and flowers, which formed beautiful scenery.

Below the mountain peak was a winding mountain road which outside vehicles couldn't enter. This mountain road, which was only for those vehicles with the Qin Clan's emblem, would lead all the way up to the manor house at the top of the mountain.

”The Qin Clan is indeed splendorous.”

Mo Wen stood at the bottom of the mountain as he glimpsed the winding road and the sentries guarding it. The corners of his lips curled.

Those who didn't know might have thought that there was a military base on that mountain with layers of tight security.

In the current society, only a handful of influential bigwigs were able to rule over a mountain and dominate the whole area.

At a distance, a Mercedes Benz was slowly driving from the national highway onto the winding road. That seemed to be Qin Clan's vehicle, which had successfully passed through the first sentry post at the bottom of the mountain and was moving towards the mountain top.

Mo Wen raised his brows and the next moment, his figure disappeared suddenly from its original location and changed into a series of remnant shadows. In broad daylight, he disappeared into the thin air. A moment ago, he had been standing beside the mountain road but in the blink of an eye, he was gone without a trace.

That Mercedes Benz S600 was on its way up the mountain. Nobody had noticed that a dim figure had pounced onto the side of the Mercedes Benz and then strangely disappeared.

There were only two people in the car, along with the chauffeur, who was sitting in the driver's seat, totally engrossed in driving. A seductively dressed woman was sitting in the passenger's seat in the back with a magazine, casually flipping the pages.

This person was none other than the Qin Clan's Fourth young mistress, Qin Fangshu. As usual, her face had heavy makeup on it, and she was dressed in loud, flamboyant clothing.

The Qin Fourth young mistress threw the magazine aside and asked impatiently, ”How much more time will it take?”

”Fourth young mistress, going uphill is difficult, so it will take another 30 minutes to get to the manor house. For your safety, this is already the fastest speed.”

The chauffeur's voice had a tinge of helplessness. The Qin Fourth young mistress' character was famous for being eccentric and was usually tart and mean. When interacting with the Qin Clan's servants, she would either beat them or scold them for little things. She was incredibly rude and unreasonable.

With the Qin Clan being a big household with great business, this Fourth young mistress was the clan leader's most doted on daughter. Not only the servants, but also the younger generations of their collateral branch who were slightly lower than she was in status, would usually go along with her wishes and didn't dare to go against her at all.

Today, the Fourth young mistress went crazy for some unknown reason. Originally, she was having an outing outside. However, halfway through it, she suddenly insisted that she had to return to the Qin Clan manor house so urgently that the driver had to run a red light more than a dozen times.

”Fifteen minutes. If I don't get to the manor house, you don't have to drive for me anymore.”

The Qin Fourth young mistress snorted coldly with impatience all over her face.

Originally, she wasn't going to be back at the manor house for a few days. However, she received a surprise call from a sister in the clan informing her that the Fifth young mistress of the Qin Clan, who was substituting for her in the Wang Clan's marriage, had appeared. At this moment, she was in the Qin Clan manor house and was going to complete the marriage with the Wang Clan in two days' time.

Suddenly, the Qin Fourth young mistress couldn't stay put as wave after wave of resentment filled her heart.

A hick with no status or position, how could she substitute for me to marry into the Wang Clan? How could the Wang Clan turn their noses up at me and chose that hick who appeared from an unknown place instead?

She was only having a licentious lifestyle. Could that young master from the Wang Clan be clean in both body and mind? How could they turn their noses up at her? Qin Fangshu was constantly brooding about Wang Clan's annulment of the engagement, as it was the greatest humiliation of her life. In spite of the fact that she was the venerable Fourth young mistress of the Qin Clan, someone actually dared to turn his nose up at her.

It was fine that the Wang Clan had annulled the engagement and rejected her, since she had no intention of marrying into an ancient martial arts aristocratic family that was strictly stratified. She still intended to be a libertine for a few more years, so she basically didn't intend to get married.