“The imperial clan of Zither’s formation graph?” Xu Chao said disdainfully, with a mocking look, “Do you think it can be of any use? We can get in even without the formation graph.”

Ronghua eyed him, “You are so confident. Do you think I have no idea that all those people are the cannon fodder of you?”

Xu Chao said, “Ronghua, it is not good for a woman to be too smart.”

“Too smart?” Was that what they thought of her?

It wasn’t that she was too smart, but only she knew a little more than them.

“It was the ancestors of the imperial clan of Zither that created the formation graph, and there should be no problem in defending here with the help of the clan’s terrain and the patriarch’s ability. But now, you broke the formation graph just by several punches. Don’t you think it was a waste?”

Xu Chao’s face clouded over with continuously changing expression, but even so, he still kept his tongue.

“Liu Shaoting, the imperial clan of Shen’s patriarch, originally had no reason to come here and make troubles, but this time he came and went all-in for simply paltry resources of the imperial clan of Zither. It seems somewhat unreasonable!”

Her words made Xu Chao a little diffident, but he remained a calm look, while his hands hidden under his sleeves were gathering energy secretly.

“As for Yang Quan, the patriarch of the imperial clan of Boxing, I know a bit about him. Xia Pumo told me that Yang Quan has no resistance to those good-looking men, so, to make your scheme more achievable, you took Xia Puyang as a bargaining chip and asked Yang Quan to attack the imperial clan of Zither for you, right?”

The hostility was getting heavier and heavier in Xu Chao’s eyes, “Is there any evidence for what you said?”

Was any more evidence needed? Their ravaging of the imperial clan of Zither this time was apparently deliberate and well planned. If it were not that Ronghua had called Xia Pumo back and she also arrived in time, the imperial clan of Zither would very likely have gotten ruined, and then no one could save it anymore.

Xu Chao said, “Ronghua, you are always so confident and never care about anything, except what you think you must do yourself. The imperial clan of Zither didn’t get destroyed this time, and it is the failure of my plan. If there were the next time, I would never let them go so easily, and the imperial clan of Zither would be doomed to belong to me.”

“Is there any reason for that you attach such importance to the imperial clan of Zither?”

He raised his eyes to her, “Nothing. Well, do you hope there is any problem?”

Ronghua tapped the table casually, “Or, do you think there is some secret in the imperial clan of Zither, and you have to get the imperial clan of Zither first before knowing it?”

Xu Chao stared at her and smiled, “Who is this one? Is he your new toyboy?”

Toyboy? Rongnuan? How could he be a toyboy? Ronghua squinted her eyes. Didn’t it seem a bit ridiculous that Xu Chao sidetracked the topic so stiffly?

But Rongnuan didn’t think so. Holding Ronghua, he glared at Xu Chao with a dark face. What a damned man! He actually regarded him as Ronghua’s toyboy! How could it be!

Furthermore, had there been any other men beside Ronghua before him?

“Shut up!”

There was anger in Ronghua’s tone, which Xu Chao looked forward to, “You should be her next one!”

“As a woman who has been living for too long, Ronghua should often feel lonely! It’s natural and normal for her to need a man like you.”

“I said, shut up!”

Ronghua put down a heavy Ding on top of Xu Chao’s head, and Xu Chao immediately reached out his hands to hold it, but Rongnuan did not see anything above his head!

“Huahua!” Rongnuan raised his head and wanted Ronghua to give him an explanation. However, she seemed unwilling to explain the problem but just kept stroking him to calm him down. Rongnuan could not bear her such frivolity anymore, “Huahua, I want to know, I want to know the reason, okay?”

Ronghua lowered her head silently. Gazing at Rongnuan’s tense and scared eyes, she sighed, “Nothing, he is talking nonsense. How could you be like that kind of man? You are the one I value most.”

Ronghua stood up and pulled Rongnuan in her arms, “In this imperial clan of Zither, I have only a few intimates, and you are one of them!”

Before she finished her words, a flash of pale lightning hit across the sky. After a while, a thunderstruck came. Through the window of the dungeon, Ronghua found the sky had got overcast. It just became slightly bright outside, but now, it was going to be dark again. In a short while, it was starting to drizzle. Rongnuan’s face was in Ronghua’s arms and got slightly dark. He looked at the thunder outside and wanted to say something, but finally, he bowed his head and looked down. Ronghua didn’t know the emotion in his eyes, and nor could she see it.

Ronghua said, “It’s raining. How can it become dark again just a short moment after dawn?”

Holding a restrained expression, Xu Chao seemed to want to say something, his lips moving slightly. After a long time, he asked, “Ronghua, you... What the hell do you want to say!”

With Rongnuan in her arms, Ronghua turned around and stared at Xu Chao, while her hands kept stroking Rongnuan’s back, “Patriarch Xu, it’s getting dark. It’s easier to get things done in the dark, isn’t it?”

Xu Chao said nothing, and it should be that he could not even breathe under the pressure of the heavy Ding.

Ronghua looked at him, feeling ridiculous, “Patriarch Xu, you have always taken yourself too seriously. You have been preparing for so long. Isn’t it all for such a day?”

Xu Chao couldn’t bear it anymore. He forcibly gathered his energy in his hands and pushed the heavy Ding above his head away. After standing up directly, Xu Chao rushed over and tightly grabbed the cell’s door handle, regardless of the chain on his body. His hands had already got badly scarred, “Ronghua, you are such a vicious woman! Besides being a backstabber, what else can you do? My son is still unconscious because of your beating. You, you... you will suffer from retribution one day! Wait and see!”

Xu Chao seemed to go crazy, and his eyes turned red. Regardless of his bleeding hands, he rushed over, wanting to catch Ronghua.

Rongnuan glared at Xu Chao’s hands with some malice, and his eyes suddenly flashed with blood-red light. It was a pity that Ronghua didn’t notice it, and even Xu Chao paid all his attention to Ronghua’s face, dreaming of tearing her up.

Xu Chao’s crazy appearance made him like a wild monster trying to tear up its prey. All of a sudden, Rongnuan retracted the red light in his eyes, and his body unconsciously got closer to Ronghua. Noticing his approach, Ronghua hugged him a bit more tightly, “Patriarch Xu, it’s useless for you to be angry. Do you think you could remain immune if others knew what you did?”

Xu Chao said, “You…What the hell do you want to do?”

Ronghua stroked her lips and said charmingly, “I want you to tell what the secret is in the imperial clan of Zither!”

After Ronghua snapped her fingers, she made a spatial warping to show a scene in front of him.

“You’ve made a good scheme. You might have estimated that I would come here, but you didn’t expect that I would come so fast and even call back Xia Pumo in advance. Otherwise, what would happen to the imperial clan of Zither? I don’t know.”

What appeared in the scene was the consequence of not having Xia Pumo and Ronghua. Without them, the imperial clan of Zither turned to be so vulnerable. Xu Chao abetted and took advantage of Yang Quan to open the formation graph, but he didn’t use all his forces to deal with the imperial clan of Zither. He had always been planning to be the wolf in the shepherds’ quarrel from the beginning to the end.

However, what he didn’t know was that there was a hunter behind the wolf.

Ronghua had already let Xia Pumo and others come back first, and she also just wandered around for some days and then went here. She found that Xia Puyang, the patriarch of the imperial clan of Zither, lost much spiritual power, and there were some changes in the formation graph.

“Then why didn’t you tell them that the formation graph had been changed?”

Ronghua was full of smiles, and she appeared to realize something suddenly, “Oh, it turns out that the formation graph has been changed?”

Xu Chao was stunned. All of a sudden, he felt that he had been cheated and couldn’t help being furious, “You lied to me!”

“So what? What can you do?” Ronghua suddenly became stern, “Just with your present prisoner-like appearance?”

“Ridiculous!”

With a wave of her hand, she slammed the cell door.

Then, Ronghua took Rongnuan and left there with a trace of unspeakable emotion, leaving Xu Chao behind, who kept yelling and shouting. She had got what she wanted to know, so he became useless now.

Rongnuan turned his head to look at her, “Huahua, why didn’t you ask more? He should know a lot of secrets.”

However, Ronghua didn’t reply to him and even didn’t glance at him. Rongnuan eyed her and found that her face was still full of smiles, and she showed no intention to explain to him.

“How about the others? Ronghua, don’t you plan to interrogate them?”

“Huahua, do we just leave like this?”

“And, well, am I your toyboy?”

Ronghua stopped. Seeing the anger and dissatisfaction in Ronghua’s face, immediately, Rongnuan knew that he did something wrong and shouldn’t ask about this, “Huahua, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t ask. Sorry!”

Ronghua turned her head to gaze at him, “Tell you one thing, Rongnuan!”

“What?”

“Never say sorry in front of me, because only the weak deserve the word.”

Ronghua and Rongnuan came out of the dungeon. As they just sat down well, Xia Pumo came in. Ronghua asked him first before he could speak, “Xia Pumo, tell me honestly. Is the imperial clan of Zither indeed simply an imperial clan of Zither?”

Xia Pumo was shocked by Ronghua’s nonsensical words before he asked about the thing that he concerned about, “Ronghua, what do you mean? The imperial clan of Zither, of course, is the imperial clan of Zither. Otherwise, what else could it be!?”

“Really?”

“Really!”

Xia Pumo replied very positively. Ronghua kept staring at him, but she didn’t find any nervousness and intention to conceal from him. It seemed that he indeed had no idea. However, Xia Pumo believed that Ronghua never asked meaningless questions, “Ronghua, what’s wrong with you? Why do you suddenly think of asking about this?”

“Oh, nothing. I just want to ask you to prove a thing!”

“What?”

She shrugged a bit helplessly, “Nothing. It’s just a question. Why are you looking for me?”

Her words reminded Xia Pumo that he had something to ask her, “Oh, well, while your sister, Princess Qingyi, saved my brother, here came a man. I forgot to tell you because the man took Mengta out with him a few days ago and has not been in the imperial clan of Zither these days. Now, he is back. I wonder if you’d like to go to see him!”