The two walked into the villa one after another.
Kai didn't want to waste any more words, nor did he want to stay there for too long. He straightforwardly asked the purpose of his visit today.
"Are those newly - arrived armed teams on the border your men?"
"They are mine." Darryl admitted quite candidly.
This really surprised Kai. He had only come here on a whim today. He never expected that they were really Darryl's men.
Kai's face darkened. He stepped forward and grabbed Darryl's neck tightly.
Darryl's face instantly turned blue and purple due to lack of oxygen.
Just then,
"Kai!"
A familiar voice sounded not far away.
The next second, Lynn came down the stairs and stood about two meters away from Kai.
"Kai, let go of the Earl."
Lynn looked at Kai with a complicated look in his eyes.
Hearing this, Kai instantly began to doubt if his ears had a mind of their own.
How could Lynn be with Darryl?
Before Kai could think further, Lynn had already walked up to him. He placed a hand on Kai's shoulder and tightly grasped his joint, repeating the words he had just said.
"Kai, let go of the Earl."
As soon as the words were out, for some reason, whether it was because Kai's hand went weak or for other reasons, he suddenly let go of the hand that was holding Darryl's neck.
He looked at Lynn coldly. After a long while, he finally spoke, "Are you working for him?"
As Kai spoke, he pointed at Darryl, who was standing not far away, covering his neck and coughing violently.
Hearing this, Lynn looked a bit embarrassed. "Kai, he is the new Earl. I only work for the Earl."
Hearing this, Kai seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world.
It was just a position! A position could make their friendship from childhood disappear without a trace.
Kai didn't say a word. He shifted his gaze from Lynn to Darryl.
"Don't touch my territory or my men again. Otherwise, I'll burn your palace to the ground."
Kai looked at Darryl menacingly, then his gaze briefly rested on Lynn.
After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.
Suddenly, he was called out.
"Kai!"
Kai stopped in his tracks but didn't turn around.
Darryl's voice rang out behind him.
"Brother, stop targeting those people from Huaguo because of that woman."
Darryl's nose turned sour, and his voice trembled slightly. He stared intently at Kai's back. His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, "You won't end well." And it just happened to fall into Kai's ears.
Kai seemed not to hear. He took a step forward again and walked straight ahead without looking back.
He walked out of the manor.
He walked out of the Goldsmith family.
Darryl watched Kai's departing back with a complicated look in his eyes.
...
Meanwhile, at Yuelan Manor.
In a dim room, a young girl was lying quietly on a pure - black sofa.
"Third Master, will Miss Zhizhi really wake up?"
Uncle Shen beside him looked a bit anxious. If he had known that Qingmian would do this, he would have stopped her!
Although she wasn't Miss Zhizhi, after getting along with her for this period of time, he had developed feelings for Qingmian.
Qingmian seemed very weak, but in fact, she was very tough. She had extraordinary willpower when it came to things she was determined to do.
Uncle Shen felt that there was less of the arrogance that Jiang Zhirou had on her, and more of a gentle quality that made people want to get close to her.
Looking at the person who hadn't woken up, Uncle Shen could only feel anxious.
Si Moshen's expression also looked a bit grim.
No one could guarantee a 100% success rate when it came to hypnosis. But a situation like this, where the person woke up later than expected, had never happened before.
If neither Qingmian nor Jiang Zhirou woke up...
When this thought popped up in Si Moshen's mind, his face became even grimmer.
Just then, Uncle Shen's phone suddenly rang.
He nodded slightly at Si Moshen and then walked out of the room.
A moment later, Si Moshen also walked out of the room.
Uncle Shen leaned close to Si Moshen's ear and whispered, "Third Master, Darryl has already sent quite a few people to the imperial capital. Once Kai makes a move, his men will act immediately."
Hearing this, a hint of relief finally appeared in Si Moshen's jet - black eyes.
From the time he made a deal with Darryl last time until just now, he finally dared to completely believe that Darryl would take action.
Darryl seemed very innocent, but in fact, he was more scheming than Kai.
If Kai was a hungry wolf hunting for prey, then Darryl was more like a leopard observing in the dark.
After Uncle Shen finished speaking, he thought of the person lying in the room and sighed, "Third Master, why don't you just tell Qingmian that you've been helping her?"
If Qingmian knew that Si Moshen had been contacting the Goldsmith family behind her back, would she not have chosen to hypnotize herself?
Uncle Shen thought like this.
Si Moshen heard this and was silent for two seconds before slowly saying, "She's not unaware. She just doesn't want to owe me."
Hearing this, a look of surprise flashed across Uncle Shen's face, and then he felt that this was indeed in line with Qingmian's way of doing things.
Back then, she could pretend to be Jiang Zhirou and get close to Si Moshen, which actually violated her principles.
It was a pity that people and principles were constantly changing.
If the Qingmian lying inside now could go back ten years, she would never have believed that she would make such a choice.
After all, what she had always wanted was very little, very little.
Uncle Shen sighed and didn't say anything else.
Inside the room.
Qingmian felt that she had had a very long dream.
There was everything in the dream.
There was her mother and grandfather, her elder brother, Chi Yu, Si Moshen and Uncle Shen, Wen Xi, Xia Xia, the music teacher who taught her, her classmates...
Everyone was there.
"Mom, where's Dad?"
In the dream, Qingmian looked up and suddenly asked Jiang Yan this question.
Suddenly, the scene in the dream changed rapidly. One by one, the people around her disappeared. The houses around began to collapse, and the sun began to be covered by dark clouds.
Gradually, a bunch of things whose faces she couldn't see gathered around her.
They all looked the same, as if they were copied and pasted.
They were all wearing black robes and were constantly approaching Qingmian.
The originally collapsed houses gradually repaired themselves, and then rapidly decayed and became mottled, covered with moss.
"Qingmian!"
Suddenly, a loud noise came from around.
In the dim room, the young girl lying quietly frowned tightly.
The next second, she suddenly opened her eyes.
After waking up, the young girl scanned the room with her eyes. Then, her gaze fell on the closed door.
Then, she got up and walked towards the door.
"Creak~"
The wooden door was pushed open from the inside.
Uncle Shen and Si Moshen, who were standing outside the door, heard the noise and turned around at the same time.
The air seemed to freeze instantly.
I don't know how long it took, but Si Moshen's voice broke the frozen barrier in the middle.
"Zhizhi, welcome home."