"Young Master Zhou? What's happened, what's the matter?"
No sooner had the young man called out than a large group of bodyguards rushed into the entrance, with the bearded leader looking around nervously.
This young man was none other than Zhou Ming, the head of the Holy Envoy Organization in the Southwestern Region!
Five years ago, after the incident with Ye Fan, Zhou Ming had secretly employed the Soul Capturing Technique on Xuan Yufei, partly to use her as a puppet for cultivating his spiritual power, and partly to use her as a conduit for intelligence gathering.
Most crucially, Zhou Ming also gleaned through certain channels the identity of Xuan Yufei's mother.
It was highly possible that Xuan Yufei's mother was a descendant of a servant from the Divine Gate clan!
And the Divine Gate was the sworn enemy of the Holy Envoy Organization.
Zhou Ming had invested so much effort in applying the Soul Capturing Technique on Xuan Yufei, hoping to make a breakthrough via her.
For five years, while the Soul Capturing Technique on Xuan Yufei hadn't yielded any valuable information, it also hadn't caused any issues.
But just now, Zhou Ming discovered that the Soul Capturing Technique he had placed on Xuan Yufei was suddenly broken.
Xuan Yufei had lost contact with him, and Zhou Ming had even suffered a backlash!
"Send someone to investigate immediately what has happened to Xuan Yufei in Cloud City. Who has had contact with Xuan Yufei today, I want to know all about Xuan Yufei's situation!" Zhou Ming wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and continued, "Also, get in touch with the assassins we sent to probe Xuan Yufei, and have them report back immediately!"
As soon as Zhou Ming finished speaking, a four-eyed geek in the crowd immediately said, "Young Master Zhou, we lost contact with those assassins an hour ago... Just now, the information from the life detectors confirmed that the entire assassin group has... all died..."
"What?"
Zhou Ming's pupils dilated in shock as he stood up from the bed, his eyebrows furrowed.
Zhou Ming had chosen that assassin group to test Xuan Yufei because they were not well-known and didn't belong to any particular force, meaning they were unlikely to be noticed by anyone else.
But he had just made his move, and all of the assassins were wiped out already?
Zhou Ming knew that among those people, the leader had the strength of a Grandmaster Realm, which was not a low level of power throughout Great Xia.
Who exactly had interfered with Xuan Yufei's affairs?
The Ye Family?
But Xuan Yufei had clearly already annulled her marriage to Ye Fan, so the Ye Family had no need to continue concerning themselves with the Xuan Family's affairs. Moreover, wasn't Ye Fan considered a fool? How could he get involved in Xuan Yufei's matters?
It was clear that Qing Ruolan had made a great determination.
"Sister-in-law Ruolan, I am much better now! Today, Yixue took me to the antique street, and it brought back many other memories, only I just can't remember a lot of things... Hehe, but Divine Doctor Lei said that I'll get better gradually... Sister-in-law Ruolan, give me a hug..."
Looking at the beauty before him, Ye Fan didn't know how to express his feelings.
He couldn't fully reveal that he had awoken, yet he needed to express his concern.
He could only be half-truthful, half-coherent, half-lucid, half-foolish!
Seeing Ye Fan's open arms, Qing Ruolan's face flushed with shyness. After glancing at Su Yixue, she finally snuggled into Ye Fan's embrace, shyly.
Having declared her intention to marry Ye Fan in front of so many people, from that moment on, everyone would consider Qing Ruolan as Ye Fan's wife.
"Xiao Fan, you don't have to call me sister-in-law anymore, you should call me wife, okay?" Qing Ruolan, wrapping her arms around Ye Fan's neck, tenderly instructed him, "The same goes for Sister Linglong and Mange... They are all your wives!"
Though she was shy, seeing Ye Fan like this warmed Qing Ruolan's heart.
After all, when she announced her intention to marry Ye Fan, he was completely foolish without a single moment of clarity.
But now, Ye Fan had regained the mental capacity of a teenager, and given time, he would certainly return to his former peak.
"Okay!"
Ye Fan replied earnestly, his sharp eyes catching a hint of sorrow in Qing Ruolan's eyes, "Wife Ruolan, have you encountered some troubles? You seem a bit unhappy!"
Qing Ruolan was taken aback and looked at Ye Fan with some confusion. She had concealed her emotions deeply, yet Ye Fan noticed them?
"No... nothing! It's just that our Qing Family's jewelry business has been affected recently, our previous partners who supplied goods have all stopped cooperating with us lately, and the raw gemstones we've stockpiled won't last much longer!"
"Sigh! I heard that General Song Pa from Myanmar is coming to Great Xia in the next few days to renegotiate the jade raw stone agency, so I wanted to try my luck and see if I could get some raw stones from General Song Pa, so we wouldn't be at the mercy of all these distributors within the Great Xia Realm!"
Although Qing Ruolan didn't spell it out, Ye Fan understood very well.
The troubles the Qing Family now faced were likely due to Qing Ruolan continuing to side with the Ye Family and publicly announcing her marriage to him.
Those who targeted the Ye Family were suppressing the Qing Family from behind the scenes...
"Wife Ruolan, don't worry, I will definitely help you get the jade agency rights, you don't have to worry!" Ye Fan patted her gently on the back, his mind recalling that burly man from Myanmar!
Back then, Song Pa owed Ye Fan more than one life...