Chapter 884: Wesll be together forever (2/2)

She could escape the Di Clan, but she couldn’t betray them!

Finally, her words melted into a charming laugh instead. “Alright. Help me put it on and we’ll be husband and wife forever.” As she finished, she added, “And we need to be together in our next lives too!”

“Alright!” Tang Li agreed readily. He lowered his head and slipped the bracelet onto Ning Jing’s wrist as if carefully giving his wife a gift. Ning Jing looked at him with a cold smile in her heart.

Together forever? Does that even exist in this world? Once I cut off this hand, our ‘“together” will just be a joke.

Tang Li, let’s stay together in our next life instead!

Once the jade bracelet was on, Ning Jing raised her hand to examine it with a grin. “It looks rather pretty.”

“If you like it, I’ll give it to you. You can keep wearing it, alright?” Tang Li grinned back.

Ning Jing turned serious. “Let me say this now. Take this off me as soon as we get out of the black market!”

Tang Li didn’t answer, but helped Ning Jing put on her face veil. “Let’s go,” he said simply.

For the sake of disguising her identity, Ning Jing didn’t take Tang Li in through the secret passage. She had ways to change her identity and avoid the inspections all the same. Actually, Tang Li also had his own methods, but he didn’t offer any of them. After bypassing the last scout, Tang Li quietly shot a look at Ning Jing, who didn’t notice.

Late at night, the markets were a bustling scene, especially at the auctions and gambling houses. Tang Li and Ning Jing successfully slipped in before she took him to a gambling house on the very outskirts. He could tell at a glance that this one was owned by Myriad Merchant Hall. As the festive scene swept over them, Tang Li muttered beneath the hubbub, “Are we going to the warehouse right now?”

“Of course. This is the busiest time of night for Myriad Merchant Hall, so it’s our best chance. I know a secret passage. When we get there, you help me deal with the guards. Once we get the things, we’ll leave by the passage!” Ning Jing muttered back.

Before them was Myriad Merchant Hall’s most lively gambling house. Inside, she could seize the chance while Tang Li was distracted to cut off her hand and slip away in the chaos. There was a secret passage beneath the house that connected to a private passageway of Myriad Merchant Hall. She’d be safe as soon as she slipped in there. The Myriad Merchant Hall guards would prevent Tang Li from entering. In any case, Ning Cheng was still at the army. Her current status was still enough to give her some say here. None of those guards would dare to bar her way, and she’d find some excuse to slip away later. Once the secret was out and Ning Cheng came to interrogate the guards, it’d already be useless!

Ning Jing was definitely a merchant at heart. In her eyes, it was worth losing a hand to win freedom for herself and the baby in her womb. Gradually, the two of them were swept up into the ground and surrounded by people on all sides. They squeezed and pushed past the pair while Tang Li’s complicated gaze remained hooded. As they walked, he couldn’t help but pull Ning Jing into his arms to shield her from being bumped. His grip was a bit tight as he muttered, “You better behave and not try any tricks.”

“You’re overthinking things,” Ning Jing remarked. She was focused on the gamblers around them. There were many taboos in a gambling house, but causing a ruckus was the biggest one because it’d only lead to trouble. As long as she found a rough time and crashed into him hard, chaos would break out here within fifteen minutes!

Very soon, she set her sights on a well dressed strongman. She glanced at the pile of chips on his gambling table and was certain he had lost quite a bit of cash. Losers had the worst tempers and nowhere to vent. If she crashed into him…

Gradually, they drew closer to the man, but it was then that someone suddenly squeezed their way over.

“Be careful!” Tang Li exclaimed as he shielded Ning Jing. “He didn’t hit you, did he?”

“I’m...I’m fine,” Ning Jing replied. Even if she was hit, she’d be okay. That person was moving very aggressively. Both of them had already ripped each other apart, so why protect her now? Ning JIng suddenly realized that she missed Tang Li’s hugs. After today, he would probably never hug her, protect her, or be just above her head with his celestial countenance when she looked up again.

Step by step, they made their way through the crowd. Right before reaching her target, Ning Jing still hadn’t made her move. In the end, they passed by the man without anything happening. Soon enough, she spotted a second target, but missed a chance right in front of her. The third and fourth passed by without anything happening as well.

Sometimes, all it took was a single hug to make someone miss them for a lifetime.

If they went any further, they’d reach the secret passage. Ning Jing had to make a choice. She found her fifth target and prepared to struggle out of Tang Li’s hug when a familiar figure flitted into her sights. He was wearing a bronze mask that obscured his mouth and nose like a cough mask, leaving his dark brows and chilly eyes exposed!

Ning Jing suddenly lost her cool to shiver, because this was none other than her big brother, the leader of the Myriad Merchant Hall, Ning Cheng!