When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 94

Giving themselves away

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"": ""Hey! You!" Zhang Yunling stamped her feet several times, but the person who had knocked her over had already run off and vanished from sight.

Zhang Yunling's eyes reddened, tears welling in them.

She was not usually so fragile, but Zhong Zhicheng had stirred up terrible memories. Combined with her worry for Gu Ya, it had finally broken through her defenses.

She crouched and set the food carrier upright. Luckily, there was still a tin food box in the bottom tier. Worried that the medicinal porridge would cool or spill, Zhang Yunling had deliberately packed it in the metal box.

There was another tier, too. Although half the food had spilled, quite a bit remained on the plate inside the carrier.

Zhang Yunling separated out the dirtied tier, packed everything up, and hurried toward You Jiang's House.

Carefully making sure no one else was nearby, she reached the grassy ground out back and froze.

The iron cover over the passage into the Underground Room had actually been opened!?

A little way inside the entrance, blood spattered the dirt. There was also an alarming crater, as though something had slammed into it, likewise mottled with blood.

"Oh my God... Aunt Gu..." Trembling, Zhang Yunling started to go inside.

Her expression changed again. She scanned her surroundings warily, then abandoned the passage and hurried away in another direction.

The iron cover was open.

That meant someone had gone inside!

Gu Ya... must have been taken away!

You Jiang, that idiot!

He had insisted on keeping Gu Ya himself, even though she had told him she could watch over Gu Ya too, without anything going wrong.

Now there was going to be serious trouble!

Behind the Peach Grove, Zhang Li pounded on the door with heavy

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