"Aah-!"
Qian Zhuoyin struggled desperately. The more she struggled, the tighter the Golden Silk Net cinched around her. Her vicious, wide-eyed, teeth-bared expression frightened Dongfang Minghui into ducking behind Qian Wanyu, leaving only her little head peeking out.
Ding Ding had tired itself out smashing ice and sat on her head, looking down at the woman from its lofty perch. "Baddie, baddie."
Dongfang Minghui recalled the first time Qian Zhuoyin had touched Little One. Little One had tilted its head and studied Qian Zhuoyin, and must have noticed something then, because afterward it refused to let Qian Zhuoyin touch it. She reached up and poked Ding Ding. "Hindsight hero."
Ding Ding solemnly chimed in from the side, "Horsey."
"..."
Dongfang Minghui could not be bothered to keep tangling with Ding Ding's nonsense. She hurriedly tugged Qian Wanyu's sleeve. "Seventh Sister, what do we do now?"
With a wave of Qian Wanyu's hand, the guards who had left earlier took up their respective duties, quickly lighting the entire courtyard as brightly as day. The treasured herb garden really had become a patch of muddy earth covered in ice.
Little Lecher still felt lingering fear within her soul sea. "Look how dangerous that was. If I hadn't escaped fast enough, I might have met my end here today."
If such massive chunks of ice came crashing down, the entire herb garden would have been destroyed, and the plants' roots would have frozen and rotted through. "Qian Zhuoyin had ill intentions. She tried every possible means to hover around you, probably because she wanted to destroy the Love Flower Seed."
Dongfang Minghui nodded in agreement, then recalled what Qian Zhuoyin had just said and shuddered involuntarily. "She wanted to capture me. I was her real target. But it's strange. Those few days when