Zhou Haotian rushed back to the City Lord's Residence in a panic and headed straight for his mother's bedroom.
Zhou Haotian's mother was a middle-aged woman with a somewhat harsh face. Seeing her son come charging in, she could not help snapping, "In two more days, you'll be the rightful eldest young master of the City Lord's Residence. What kind of behavior is this, still acting so recklessly?"
Zhou Haotian paid no attention to her reprimand and merely asked anxiously, "Where's Father?" He glanced around the room, saw that his father was not there, and turned to rush out again.
"Stop right there!"
By now, Zhou Haotian's eyes had reddened with anxiety. He was about to run toward the study when the woman caught him from behind.
"Tell me clearly. What exactly happened?"
"Zhou Qingshu, he... he found a Five-Flavor Pill."
A cold glint flashed through the middle-aged woman's eyes. "Your father's in the study. I'll come with you."
Zhou Haotian and the middle-aged woman had barely reached the study door when they heard a woman's coquettish laughter from inside, mingled with the occasional moan.
The middle-aged woman's face darkened at once, and she instantly cast what Zhou Haotian had told her beyond the nine heavens.
Channeling her spiritual energy, she blasted the study door away with a palm strike.
Inside, a disheveled man and woman were entangled together. The man's face turned livid as he hastily found some clothes and threw them on, while the woman screamed repeatedly in fright.
The woman was a maid in the residence.
Zhou Haotian stared at the scene before him, dumbstruck.
"Well, Zhou Bo! So this is how you handle the residence's affairs-by handling another woman?"
The man pulled on his clothes haphazardly, his face dark. "Whatever else, I'm the City Lord of