"CRUNCH... CRUNCH..."
The rhythmic crunch of boots on thick snow echoed as several figures appeared in the woods, quickly fanning out.
"Young Master."
A moment later, someone shouted from a distance:
"Found him!"
The snow was cleared away, revealing a stiff corpse.
"Damn it!" The speaker had delicate features and fair skin, like a finely crafted porcelain doll, yet her voice was incredibly piercing and shrill.
"Yuan Chong? What an inconvenient time to die!"
"Brother."
Zhou Yuanling glanced to the side.
"So this is the home of the 'wonderful husband' you told me about? You said he had extraordinary Talent and possessed a Body Tempering Treasure. Now, we can't even find *his* body."
As Miss Zhou of the Zhou Family, she had never liked the marriage her family had arranged. How could the son of a Zhu Family servant possibly be worthy of her?
But then Yuan Bao had managed to cultivate Inner Qi at a young age, showing promising potential. And on top of that...
