This Time and That Time (Part 1)

"With the restrictions Bai Lian arranged in place, it won't be easy to move someone away without anyone noticing."

Qiongqi truly was a lecherous fiend, but his mind had always been clear. Coupled with the resentment in his heart, Flower Lady said one sentence, and he could throw back ten. "If you're setting a trap for someone, who the hell puts the nails out in the open? If I keep blocking the place, how could Lu Qing possibly come? Besides, I've memorized her scent to the bone. So long as she enters within a hundred li of this place, she won't get away!"

Flower Lady neither agreed nor disagreed with his argument. She merely said, "Red Fang Workshop was destroyed because Lu Suhua made her move, and it seems to have been a family matter. By buying Bao Yun, whether intentionally or not, we stuck our hands into it. That was not particularly clever to begin with. Don't do anything foolish again and sink yourself in deeper."

"Aren't we all after Lu Qing? What's the difference?"

"Your grudge with Lu Qing is none of my concern. I only care whether we can use this opportunity to establish ties with Lu Suhua—and even Donghua Palace."

Qiongqi's bell-sized eyes nearly bulged from their sockets. "Is that really the case? Haven't we suffered enough suppression from Madame Yellow Springs since the last tribulation? Why are we crawling back to them again?"

"Times have changed. Over these past hundred years, Lu Chen has once again become the one calling the shots in Donghua Palace. Yet he does not truly manage affairs. Most matters in the palace have been handed over to Lu Suhua. Since that is so, why not give it a try?"

"Ha! From the last tribulation until a hundred years ago, the