Profound Gold City, Ji Residence.
Ji Lanxin's room.
Maid Xiao Hong and Xiao Zi kept carrying boiling hot water into her room. Since she had secretly returned to the residence alone, this was already the tenth-odd bath she had taken. Her skin had been scalded a warm red by the hot water.
Even so, she still seemed to feel filthy. She kept calling for the maids to replace and replenish the hot water, with the ruthless determination to scrub her skin raw.
Her abnormal behavior eventually reached the Ji Family Head's ears.
Yet just as the Ji Family Head hurried over in concern, intending to ask Ji Lanxin what had happened,
an aged, sinister figure barged into her room ahead of him.
Because Ji Lanxin had her back turned, she assumed it was a maid coming to replace the hot water and instinctively spat out a curse about how slow her hands and feet were.
But when no response came despite her urging, her heart trembled and unease suddenly rose within her.
She fearfully turned her head. Upon seeing Long Tongue Old Monster's aged, ugly figure standing behind her, she nearly fainted from fright.
"You... don't come any closer. This is the Ji Family. If you dare touch me again, Grandpa will never let you off."
As she spoke, her entire body shrank beneath the water's surface, leaving only her neck and head exposed as she timidly glanced at Long Tongue Old Monster.
Seeing his tattered clothes and bruised face, looking as though he had been badly beaten, she could not help but feel surprised.
But when she saw that his strength remained terrifyingly formidable, fear still rose uncontrollably within her.
Scene after scene from the Profound Gloom Mountain Range surged into her mind like a tide. Thinking of Long