Now it looked like he wouldn't get a single penny!
Surely he couldn't... actually tear up the hostages?
At that thought, anger shot up inside him like a sudden flame.
Without another word, he charged into the inner cave abode, grabbed Gu Shuangshuang, who was still lazing in bed, and delivered two sharp smacks to her backside.
"Ow! What are you doing?" Gu Shuangshuang woke with a start from the pain and complained groggily.
"Are all you bandits this rough?"
"Rough, my ass!" Chun Xiaobai roared furiously. "If you fucking cost me money, you're paying me back today!"
"What do you mean?" Gu Shuangshuang looked bewildered.
Chun Xiaobai immediately explained his Wealth-Making Scheme and how she had ruined it, from beginning to end.
After hearing him out, Gu Shuangshuang stuck out her tongue playfully. "Oh, why didn't you say so sooner? If I'd known you wanted them to bite each other like dogs, I wouldn't have used that trick."
"What do you mean?"
Gu Shuangshuang had grown up in the Sect, after all, and her father was its Sect Master. Her broad knowledge and experience naturally gave her a perspective someone who had muddled along on his own like Chun Xiaobai couldn't match.
"It's mainly because Qin Ruoxue's status is too high. They were already suspicious of each other and getting the wrong idea. With that price you demanded, you drove them straight over the edge."
"Uh!"
Her words left Chun Xiaobai speechless. Was she saying it was his fault for having such narrow horizons?
He might fall short of this woman in other areas, but when it came to standing atop the heights of wealth and prosperity, if he, Chun Xiaobai, claimed second place, nobody in the entire Cultivation World would dare claim first!
"Cut the crap! Just tell