Flower Alley
One day, Wang Yue arrived at a town less than a hundred miles away from Dingjing City. Passing by a restaurant called Spring Breeze Tower, he unexpectedly spotted Mu Zhuohua's donkey cart.
Thinking to himself that he found without even looking what he had despaired of ever finding, he handed his horse over to the restaurant attendant and walked inside Spring Breeze Tower.
Upon entering, he immediately caught sight of Mu Zhuohua and her servant at a glance. Judging by their situation, however, things clearly looked somewhat precarious.
The two of them sat at a table in the very corner, flanked by several men in cyan garments at the tables on either side who were clearly preventing them from escaping.
Disregarding those two tables of toughs, Wang Yue walked straight over, sat down beside Mu Zhuohua, and then mocked, "You two are quite slow at running away. I thought you'd already reached Dingjing, and never expected to run into you here."
Wang Yue originally assumed that upon hearing his words, Mu Zhuohua and Guo Juli would immediately beg for help. He had already prepared himself to negotiate terms with them.
After all, the situation of these two women was hardly favorable, and there was probably no one else who could help them; the only one who could rescue them was himself.
Yet to Wang Yue's surprise, he had only guessed half of it, while the other half of the outcome left him somewhat dumbfounded.
Seeing Wang Yue sit down beside her, Mu Zhuohua hurriedly leaned her body closer to him and said with a hint of surprise in her voice, "Brother Yue, you've finally come. If you hadn't arrived, Steward Zhou and the others would have dragged me away. I refuse to marry that Magistrate Zhuang, and in