The two days when the Girl in the painting took Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi out to play, Xu Huo basically stayed in the hotel. Aside from collecting information related to the instance, he mainly used the rest of the time to rest—of course, every now and then he still had to deal with people openly and covertly watching him.
Ever since he turned down Mrs. Bai—he didn't know if that bouquet of flowers had done the trick—the number of people tailing him shot up sharply on the very first night he checked into the hotel. Most of them were brimming with killing intent; if he hadn't stayed in his room the whole time without going out, he'd probably have had to face assassination attempts coming from every direction.
Only a few actually entered the hotel, and even wandered outside his room; there were even people who pretended to be regular guests and knocked on his door in a perfectly aboveboard manner.
