Su Zhen was somewhat dazed—there really was someone called White Tiger… But at this moment she had no mind for teasing. While grateful to the white-clothed man for helping her out of the situation, her heart was stretched tight—she didn’t know what Murong Sixth was really thinking or if he was displeased. For some reason, she was inexplicably afraid of him.

Murong Sixth never said anything, just played with the folding fan in his hands.

She finally couldn’t stay calm, thinking to herself: using a folding fan in the dead of winter—what’s wrong with him?

“You’re cursing me in your heart. How about this—if you can clear a path for me, I’ll grant your request. This won’t count against the life debt you owe me. Given your temperament, you’ll probably cause trouble again in the future, and that debt can save your life then.”

Before she had cursed much, she heard Murong Sixth laugh softly.

Su Zhen was speechless, seeing him slightly narrow his eyes as he looked at her. In his amber eyes, fine lines of laughter actually flowed.

No sarcasm, no mockery, yet not exactly kind either—as if he had simply encountered something that pleased him.

Her heart fluttered again.

He would help her!

The others seemed somewhat surprised too, but even that willful young man didn’t dare say much more, only asking in wonder, “Clear a path? How? It’s packed so tightly there’s no gap to be seen. You want him to use lightness skills and go swoosh swoosh swoosh, carrying Sixth Brother over people’s shoulders?”

Having their job taken, Azure Dragon and White Tiger’s faces turned slightly iron-gray. Su Zhen had also come to her senses, thinking: swoosh swoosh swoosh, swoosh your sister—you think this is a play?

The white-clothed man smiled at Su Zhen, “Huaisu’s martial arts must be quite good—after all, you saved my sixth brother that day.”

Su Zhen wanted to cry but had no tears. She spread her hands, “I don’t know martial arts.”

As she spoke, she quickly glanced at Murong Sixth and saw him looking at her with an expression that was neither smile nor not, making her heart tighten again. Unexpectedly, she found herself thinking what an unrelated thought that this man was truly handsome. Looking around, she suddenly had an idea.

“Wait for me a moment.”

She called out to Murong Sixth and ran into a nearby tea stall, placing a silver ingot on an empty table, “I’m buying this teapot.”

Before the old tea vendor could realize what was happening, she had already grabbed an iron kettle from the stove and rushed back. Everyone looked at her somewhat bewildered as she shouted loudly, “Hey, who dropped this big pile of silver?”

At her shout, about half the people at the platform turned around. She immediately poured the scalding tea water on the ground, and steam immediately hissed up from the floor.

Someone in the crowd immediately cursed: “What silver? Where did this crazy person come from!”

At this moment, she had already rushed to Murong Sixth’s side, grabbed his hand, and shouted, “Move aside, move aside—scalding hot tea coming through!”

With this, people hurriedly dodged to the sides. In an instant, she had pulled Murong Sixth into the front row.

The crowd cursed furiously as the white-clothed man and others, seeing the situation was bad, had already rushed in after them.

Su Zhen only heard Murong Ninth’s trembling voice say, “Li Huaisu, you’re finished! You actually dared to molest my sixth brother… My sixth brother is someone important—how could you touch him? Besides, my sixth brother has mysophobia…”

He was saying she had molested Murong Sixth? Su Zhen was greatly alarmed, sneaking a glance at the slender, beautiful hand she was tightly gripping.

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