Seventh District, Deliberately

"Then let us in. I want to see Old Shu. Letting us in shouldn't violate her orders, should it? If I'm not mistaken, she only told you to keep us here. As long as you don't let us go, you won't be disobeying orders," I said.

Chang Shuai's eyes lit up. He nodded slightly. "That's right. My mission is to keep you here. How I do that doesn't seem to matter. Since you want to go in, fine, I'll let you in. But let me make this clear: getting in will be easy, but whether you can get back out afterward won't be up to you."

I smiled and nodded at him. Sure enough, he had his men make way for us.

None of his men raised any objections. It was clear that they all followed Chang Shuai's lead.

From another perspective, as long as Chang Shuai did not go against Xu Qiuyan's mother's wishes, these people would not disobey his orders.

This was likely the instruction Xu Qiuyan's mother had given them.

Xu Qiuyan had already woken up. She looked at me. "Where's my dad?"

I shook my head without explaining. She gritted her teeth, broke free from my arms, and jumped down. Then she glared at Ye Jinghong. "Why? Why did you do this to me? I only wanted to help my dad. Was I wrong?"

Ye Jinghong was not like me. She did not indulge Xu Qiuyan and said coldly, "Help? What could you possibly use to help? Do you think you're stronger than your dad? Or do you think you can deal with your mom? I'm not looking down on you, but if you had stayed there, what could you have done besides make things worse? Who do you think you could have helped?"

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