Chapter 248.1: Skin Cage Grub (1/2)

Baili Yu didn’t respond to him and simply closed his eyes. Then he turned to look towards the distant full moon and sighed softly. It was the fifteenth again.

In the end, Jun Xin did head back. He first snuck into Bai Lianhua’s room and drugged her, then commanded someone to throw her into the sea. Of course, he told them to give her the antidote to the knockout drug before throwing her in.

They had grown up together after all, so there was no way he could let her drown to death in the sea.

After finishing this, he put on the silver mask that he hadn’t worn for quite a long time, changed into black clothing and started heading towards the prison.

Qing Moran was being held in a rather clean room inside the prison. If it weren’t for those strange torture instruments, this room was actually even more luxurious than the side rooms of some nobles.

There were two hidden guards keeping watch at the entrance. When they saw Jun Xin, they bowed and saluted him.

“You guys withdraw,” said Jun Xin coldly.

After the guards left, he placed his hand on the lock over the door. With a slight vibration, that steel lock turned into fine powder and spilled onto the ground.

He pushed lightly to open the door, then walked in, stepping over the dust.

“Who are you?” Qing Moran had never seen Jun Xin in this appearance before. Her face immediately turned pale due to his oppressive chilling air and she looked at him warily.

Jun Xin didn’t speak and simply continued approaching. His emotionless cold eyes swept over her as he sized her up.

Inwardly, he concluded that if Tang Doudou was wearing these clothes, she would look way better than this woman.

“What do you want?” Qing Moran saw that he was sizing her up without a scruple and became afraid. The way he was looking at her was completely different from the lusty way normal men looked at her. His gaze was bone-piercingly cold.

“Stay away!” As he soundlessly approached, panic appeared on Qing Moran’s face and she started retreating backwards.

Underneath the mask, Jun Xin’s lips curled disdainfully. He reached out and pulled off the cord around Qing Moran’s neck. How pretty did she imagine herself to be? Did she think he wanted to do something to her?

Tch, stupid ugly woman. He was just curious about this cord.

“Give it back!” Qing Moran had thought that this man was going to do something to her and was distracted, so it inadvertently gave the man the opportunity to pull off that cord. She immediately pounced forward to grab the cord back as if a fire had been lit in her.

However, how was it possible that Jun Xin would let her snatch it back? He moved slightly to the side and Qing Moran hit empty air. When she turned around, Jun Xin was already studying the thing the cord was tied around.

It was a bead but he couldn’t tell what material it was made of. It was sparkly and translucent with a faint purple glow. In the very center there was a tiny character. It seemed like it was someone’s name.

Jun Xin carefully put the bead in his sleeve and turned around to say coldly, “This doesn’t belong to you.”

“How do you know?” Although Qing Moran was a courtesan, she was very good at reading people’s expressions because she had seen too many types of people before. She was especially good at figuring out what men were thinking. When she saw Jun Xin put that item away, she seemed to realize something. “Indeed, this doesn’t belong to me, but I hope that you will look on the behalf of the owner of this object and release Moran.”

“Release you?”

“Moran will not breathe a word about anything you guys are doing.”

“But in this world, only the mouths of the dead are the most secure.” What a foolish woman. Since they had already chosen to act, how was it possible for them to let her go so easily?

Moreover… He gave a cold laugh. “If I took into consideration the owner of the bead, you would have already died a couple hundred times. You should be grateful that I didn’t take it into consideration and left you alive.”

His words instantly made Qing Moran’s blood run cold. “Mountain’s Clouds is only effective in my hands. If you guys kill me, then Mountain’s Clouds will end up useless!”

“Speak, what are your conditions?” Jun Xin boldly sat down in the middle of the room. Even though he had sat down, Qing Moran still felt like he was towering over her.

In reality, there wasn’t much of anything that she wanted. She was just worried that they would kill her to silence her after she helped them.

As long as she kept delaying things and refusing to help them question that black-clothed person, she would be able to stay alive for the time being. Once that person got to Ocean City and found that she was missing, he’d definitely search everywhere to save her.