"There was an accident."
Lu Feng answered casually.
Su Huaijin grew even more concerned. "What sort of accident could leave you injured like this? Where is Elder Gongxi? Why didn't Junior Sister Chu and the others return with you?"
Lu Feng sighed. "It's a complicated matter. We'll discuss it properly once we see Elder Chihuo."
Just then, several noisy, piercing screams suddenly rang out from afar.
"Catch the thief! There's a lecherous thief!!!"
Su Huaijin froze, her gaze turning toward the southeast direction. "That's... Xu Dandan's courtyard!? Has she been molested?"
Her words carried a teasing hint of iron tree blooming—she was actually taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune.
Lu Feng looked in the same direction, though not because of whose courtyard it was. He had sensed Ye Fan's aura flash past from that direction.
At once, Lu Feng sent back a subtle aura in response.
He then said to Su Huaijin, "The thief they're shouting about may be my friend. Miss Su, please go take a look on my behalf."
"Oh?" Su Huaijin gave Lu Feng a half-smiling glance. "You even have friends who are 'lecherous thieves'? I truly couldn't tell."
With that, she headed straight out of the courtyard.
"Remember, you owe me a favor."
Lu Feng could not help but laugh at the way Su Huaijin seized every advantage. She really did look for every chance to wring some benefit out of him.
Lu Feng was not actually sure whether Ye Fan would be caught. His request was mainly a two-pronged precaution. If Ye Fan had not been caught, sending Su Huaijin away would also make it easier for Ye Fan to come find him and talk.
Sure enough, not long after, Ye Fan's furtive figure slipped over Su Huaijin's courtyard wall.
Yet what Lu Feng had