Ye Sui said, "Afterwards, we'll arrange a guest room for this young lady to rest, but right now I have some questions that need to be answered by you all."
Shen Wu asked, "What does Mr. Ye want to ask?"
"I'm not sure whose hands you and Miss Wen rescued Qiu Shui from, or where."
"It was a masked man in black. While I was entangled with him, Miss Qiu fell off the cliff, and my junior sister jumped down to save her."
Ye Sui immediately looked at Wen Ran with grateful eyes.
Wen Ran felt a little embarrassed, "Speaking of it, after falling off the cliff, I was also very fortunate to have Miss Qiu's care."
Ye Sui laughed, "Miss Wen is too modest. Qiu Shui has been so well-protected by us that she's become quite headstrong. Many times, we don't know what to do with her. This time, it was Qiu Shui who caused you trouble."
Qiu Shan also chimed in, "Qiu Shui has a bad temper. We've worried so much about her for days, and when she came back, she didn't even give us a good face."
In fact, Wen Ran thought Qiu Shui was quite alright. Although she had a young lady's temper, it wasn't to the point of being irredeemable as others said.
However, she wasn't really connected to Hidden Abyss Valley, and her contact with Qiu Shui was brief, so she didn't have the qualification or position to comment on Qiu Shui in front of these people.
Ye Sui patted Qiu Shan's head, signaling him not to say more, then looked towards Shen Wu again, "Young Master Shen, you fought with the masked man; did you manage to see his face?"
Someone breaking into Hidden Abyss Valley in the middle of the night and kidnapping the young mistress is not something an ordinary person could accomplish.
Naturally, people would wonder which enemy of Hidden Abyss Valley would dare such a bold deed.
If Shen Wu could see what that person looked like and draw a portrait, maybe we could find out who the person was.
But Shen Wu shook his head, "He wore a face veil, so I couldn't see his face. His movement technique was impressive, and I hadn't seen it before. Concerned for my junior sister and Miss Qiu, I didn't chase him after he escaped but hurried to the cliff to find them."
Yes, he was in such a hurry yet managed to roast a wild chicken on the way.
Wen Ran couldn't help but admire this man's ability to lie eyes wide open; if she hadn't seen the young Immortal Monarch losing his character so many times, she might have believed his nonsense.
Ye Sui looked again at the unfamiliar girl in white, "And this young lady is?"
Wen Ran quickly explained, "Miss Xiaobai is the person we met at the bottom of the cliff. She's the one who saved me and Miss Qiu. She wanted to go out and find her relatives, but traveling alone as a girl wasn't convenient, so we brought her along."
Ye Sui bowed to Xiaobai, "On behalf of Qiu Shui, I sincerely thank you for saving her life."
But Xiaobai said with a bad mood, "She stepped on and destroyed my flowers."
Ye Sui quickly said, "If Qiu Shui damaged your belongings, Hidden Abyss Valley will surely compensate you double."
"You can't comp..."
"Cough cough cough!" Wen Ran coughed, interrupting Xiaobai's complaint, and slightly turned her face, giving several winks to Xiaobai.
Though baffling, Xiaobai eventually silenced herself.
A pair of hands turned Wen Ran's face back with a not-so-gentle force that left her face slightly sore, yet the person sincerely asked like a benevolent person:
"Ranran, are you feeling unwell?"
Wen Ran sarcastically smiled, "A bit."
Ye Sui also knew there wouldn't be more answers, seeing this, he tactfully said, "You've all had a tiring day, and it's late now. Please go back to the guest rooms to rest, and we can discuss everything tomorrow."
Wen Ran and Shen Wu still had adjacent guest rooms, and Xiaobai's room was arranged to be on the other side of Wen Ran's room.
After everyone from Hidden Abyss Valley had left, Xiaobai stood at the door, pitifully tugging at her clothes, not daring to enter, "There are so many men here, I'm afraid to sleep alone."
She used to take in many attractive people to understand what good-looking people liked, both men and women.
The women were fine, but a few times, men tried to sneak into her room. Even with her low level of cultivation, she could handle ordinary men.
But here in Hidden Abyss Valley, they were all cultivators. Wen Ran had warned her many times not to use sorcery. Being so fragile and easily bullied, what if someone tries to sneak into her room at night?
Wen Ran gently comforted, "Don't be afraid. I live right next door, and if anything happens, just call my name loudly, and I'll come straight over."
Xiaobai, still delicate and weak, mumbled, "But..."
There wasn't any 'but' as she was pushed into the room, and with a "Bang," the door was shut.
The person inside wanted to open the door, but a boy chewing on a Qing Mei smiled kindly and said, "If you make another noise, I'll chop you up."
Things went quiet inside.
Wen Ran looked speechlessly at him.
Shen Wu glanced at the half-eaten Qing Mei in his hand, hesitated for a long while, then offered it to her.
Wen Ran swatted his hand away, "I don't want it."
"Alright then." He happily withdrew his hand and continued munching on the Qing Mei that looked quite sour.
It was great she didn't take it, so he didn't have to hesitate over whether to share his food with her.
Wen Ran was really used to Shen Wu's unfathomable character. She crossed her arms and frowned at him, "Can you be a little gentler with girls?"
Shen Wu paused in his movement, "Gentle?"
"Like when you just rudely pushed her in and said such scary things."
"I didn't kick her, that's already pretty good."
Wen Ran recalled the scene on the cliff that day and fell silent because she realized Shen Wu seemed to be speaking quite reasonably. After all, he was indeed someone who could kick a beauty without hesitation.
This topic couldn't continue, so she switched to another question, "Did you really let that masked man escape?"
"Not escape; he couldn't beat me, so he fled." He was quite competitive about these sorts of things, so he corrected her.
Wen Ran replied, "Isn't that still running off?"
He pursed his lips, "It's fleeing."
"Alright, alright, whatever you say."
Shen Wu lost interest in munching the Qing Mei and tossed away the core, and instantly, a new item appeared in his hand, "You see, he just couldn't beat me and ran!"
What Wen Ran saw was a severed arm, her expression unprepared and bewildered.
He bragged proudly, "This is my trophy."
Seeing Wen Ran still didn't react, he waved the severed arm before her eyes like a child who just won an argument, smiling with crescent eyes, "Ranran, are you scared again?"
Wen Ran kicked at him, "Bastard! You better throw away all the things you've hoarded! No more eating!"
Shen Wu dodged her kick with ease, just brought out a bun ready to take a bite, and at her words, he looked puzzled, "Why?"
"Who would stash severed limbs in a storage space!" Wen Ran felt she was going insane, "It's dirty, it's dirty! Everything in that space is ruined! If you get sick from eating them, I won't take care of you!"
So the only point of concern is this?
Shen Wu looked at the severed arm in his left hand and the bun in his right hand, finally looking at Wen Ran who was holding her head in distress.
He blinked several times, slowly let go, and everything fell to the ground. Pitifully, he pleaded, "Can I not throw away the other stuff?"
"No!"
His face fell downcast.