Ye Lu’s eyes were deeply cold; these people had been bribed to capture her. And from their mouths, it was Miss Yi who had bribed them, their customer. Ye Lu’s fingernails dug into her palm as she clenched her fist, silently grinding her teeth in anger.

She only knew of one woman related to that surname, and it was only that woman she had offended.

Yiren!

Ye Lu’s gaze grew even colder.

This woman had actually dared to enter the Su Family’s sphere of influence to capture her. Her hatred for Ye Lu was evidently profound.

However, Ye Lu was somewhat puzzled. Although she had always been aware that Yiren harbored resentment against her due to Third Young Master Jun, most of the time it only manifested in petty actions.

But after the black market auction, there hadn’t been any major moves or attempts on her life. Instead, she had always used Third Young Master Jun to show off her power and strike at her pride.

Why, then, had she suddenly sent so many people to capture Ye Lu?

And if she really wanted to capture her, it should have been while she was in N Nation, not in such a place where they were so anxious they couldn’t even wait for her to go out, so hurried and eager. It was truly intriguing.

Ye Lu’s beautiful brows gradually furrowed.

She couldn’t figure out any other possibility, the only conceivable motive was that Yiren had uncovered her true identity.

If that was the reason, she found it hard to understand. She had always kept her identity so strictly concealed; how had Yiren discovered it?

Many doubts tangled together in her heart.

Suddenly, she heard the door open again, and Ling Kong’s cautious voice came through: "Are you still here?"

Ye Lu breathed a sigh of relief, stepping out from behind the curtain with a smile. If this youngster weren’t here, even if she had avoided the trouble just now, it would have been very difficult to protect herself. She was fortunate to have brought him along; otherwise, it would have been troublesome.

Ling Kong glanced at the messy scene on the floor and raised an eyebrow: "You’re quite adaptable, knowing to play the Empty City Trick."

Outside, after encountering that group of unidentified men, he had immediately started fighting, deliberately leading them in the wrong direction to another room, fooling them and buying some time, all to give her a chance to react.

Fortunately, the woman remained calm and shrewd, or else, if he alone had to deal with those burly men and then come to her rescue, he would have been caught off guard.

"Are you alright?" Ye Lu asked him with concern.

She had heard from those men that he had taken on a dozen men by himself—damn, those bastards! Each one a grown man, and they had the audacity, the shamelessness, to gang up on a child like that.

"Hmph!" Ling Kong lifted his head proudly and carelessly wiped away the fresh blood on his cheek, his eyes arrogant, "Who do you think I am? Those losers can’t even touch a single hair on me. They were beaten until they were running like they had ketchup pouring out of them." 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Ye Lu glared at him; this brat was terribly arrogant, but he truly had the gall to back it up!

Truly worthy of being the son of the arms dealer king.

"The people who were after me just now were Ivan and his daughter," Ye Lu revealed without reservation.

Ling Kong’s expression immediately turned grave: "Ivan and his daughter? That’s not good."

"What do you mean?" Ye Lu was surprised.

"Never mind why they want to kill you for the moment, but since they’ve come here, Su City is now within their sphere of influence, and I’m afraid we won’t be able to leave the area."

Ye Lu’s face changed, looking very disturbed: "Why?"

"If the Su Family used to have business dealings with our Ji Family, and later on we stopped supplying them with weapons, who do you think supplied them with weapons?"