Ransom 2

The next morning.

First thing waking up, Xiao Fan tried to search for Zhuan An, for she wasn't in his embrace like he thought she would. His hand searching for her went all around him, yet found nothing, and certainly, he couldn't have missed a human body.

'Weird,' he thought as he got into a sitting position on the edge of the bed, a sheet covering his privates. Starting to remember what had happened last night, his facial expression changed drastically.

'I did what?' he reminiscing the sex last night with Zhuan An made him baffled at best. 'I said all those things to her? A bitch? A three-hole whore...' He didn't want to believe, but everything was too vividly in his head.

His hand went over his face. 'I'm a bastard...' he concluded. There was no way around this, for what he had done shouldn't happen, the end of the story.

A moment of pondering about what he had done to her, Xiao Fan came back to reality. Back to reality, the first thing was to finish his search for the poor woman, who he had abused like that the entire night.

'She's not on the bed'⁠—his eyes then went around the room⁠—'Do not say that I did that too...' He did find Zhuan An; however, the place she was sleeping was not a one suitable for his wife.

'I did do that...' Finding a memory telling him that he had done so made his mood drop again. He simply didn't want to believe that he had treated his wife like one would treat a dog or any other pet.

"Okay...take it easy...easy" he repeated the word as he got to his robes and started to clothe himself before going to Zhuan An, who was sleeping on a mat instead of the bed.

Xiao Fan speaking seemed to garner some attention from the woman sleeping on a fur rug, but not much, only a twitch.

'Oh don't wake up...please sleep' he knew that him speaking might have triggered something inside of Zhuan An, who he might have fucked till she was broken.

*Twitch* His hope wasn't fulfilled seeing as Zhuan An twitched some more. There were clear signs that she was waking up from him speaking.

Nothing to do, Xiao Fan went to look at Luan Lyn, the person he had thrown into the other room so that he wouldn't be bothering them during the night.

As he saw that Luan Lyn was still in sleep did he hear Zhuan An's voice.

"Ah..." the woman left out a small sound that noted her to be awake, no doubt.

"M-morning" Xiao Fan didn't know what would exactly happen, so while stuttering a good morning, he turned his around to look at her.

Zhuan An, hearing his voice, searched for it. When found she happily called, "Hubby!" Her body also tried to get up, yet failed rather spectacularly because her legs gave up.

Xiao Fan saw her falling and wanting to prevent her from any harm, he sprinted over to her, catching her body before it hit the floor. "An'er, I don't think you can walk just yet," he noted that in her current condition, walking might not be easy.

"Hmm... You did do a number on me," she got what he was meaning and agreed. Just from being awake a little longer could she feel that her entire lower body was a mess of muscles.

"Yeah..." He didn't really know how to act right now. 'Does she expect me to keep up the act or to act as if nothing had happened?' he had a dilemma.

At least Zhuan An was somewhat back to normal, for she saw his rather worried face, and so grasped his dilemma. To it, she giggled, "No need to worry, I asked for you to be rough." Surely she wasn't angry at him for reshaping her body or for him degrading her during sex; after all, she had been to one wanting him to do it like that.

A small awkward smile came to Xiao Fan's face. "Well, it was fun," he responded. 'Lucky me...' he thought and felt the anxiety gripping his mind leave.

"It was nice... What does, Master want to do now?" she humoured.

One of those words leaving her mouth did zap Xiao Fan. "Leave that for the bed stuff, or when we are around your father," he gave a half-serious half-joking answer.

"Well, what does hubby want to do? Want to go find the girls you angered?" she had other stuff to throw at him.

"Finding them right now might not be the right decision; instead of that, we should get out of here and wait for the meeting to start. Both of them will be present there anyway." He was sure that looking for Qian Ki or Fei Sun wasn't the option he wanted to take.

Zhuan An, who was dressing then asked, "Cuddle time?" There should be no hurry to leave, and if they had nothing better to do, then this would be fun.

Xiao Fan shrugged his shoulder.

His actions made Zhuan An jump on him while she was still half-dressed. If Xiao Fan didn't decide she would, and she had decided it was cuddling time.

....

Sometime later as they were on the bed, playing with their hands on the other's body did they hear a knock on the door.

'That's not good.' The two had a collective thought and quickly looked into the other's eyes with a more serious expression.

However, the voice that called from the other side of the door made them even more weirded out. "When I said any room... I didn't exactly mean something like this..." For it was Duan Hin calling for the two of them.

"Wait; what?" Zhuan An was always the first one to come back from any shock, and so like always she was the first one to whisper.

"Like I know," Xiao Fan whispered back. She might have had the first words, but like Xiao Fan knew an answer to this.

"C'mon, Mask! Facade! We don't have all the day to wait for some extras." Duan Hin made sure that the two of them knew.

"Okay...let's get going," Xiao Fan said after hearing their nicknames being called out by Duan Hin.

Zhuan An nodded, and soon the two of them were fully clothed as they came to the door.

"You weren't joking when you said that we would be found no matter where we went." Opening the door, Xiao Fan spoke about the words they had been told.

"Actually, we were betting on the fact that people would point out such odd people... However, after hearing her screaming as if she was being flayed alive for so long...well, it was easy to point out where you two were." Duan Hin looked at Zhuan An, who was taking support from Xiao Fan.

"Well, that's enough of that," Xiao Fan closed that topic there and then. "The meeting is starting?" and changed the subject right after.

"Yes, and though you aren't essential, the Shaman wanted to have the presence of every side before starting anything."⁠—having said this to Xiao Fan, his eyes went over the youth's shoulder into the room⁠—"Is he there?" he asked for Luan Lyn.

"He's fine," Xiao Fan commented that Luan Lyn was fine. Then he pushed to the hallway with Zhuan An lagging a little behind.

'If the kid is okay...then it is okay for me,' Duan Hin had no feelings for Luan Lyn, even if he was his cousin's child. Also, he was too humoured by the state in which Zhuan An was. There was no doubt about who had been the woman screaming for hours on end into the skies above Ulaanbaatar.

....

Inside a spacious meeting hall inside the largest temple of Ulaanbaatar.

At the end of the hall, the Shaman was sitting on a wooden throne, behind her Fei Sun, who seemed rather troubled by something. The Shaman knew why Fei Sun was vexed, and so didn't focus on her much; furthermore, she needed to keep these brutes from devouring Qian Ki.

Qian Ki herself was like Fei Sun. However, unlike Fei Sun, Qian Ki also had to worry about her own safety in the current situation. Inside her hideout, she could take on the full lot of them, but here? She would be dead under a second if these Chiefs decided to attack her. 'Damit, where is that scoundrel...' she was getting frustrated about how Xiao Fan had been and was conducting himself.

Thankfully neither of them needed to hold their feelings towards their man for long as Xiao Fan's figure appeared on the entrance into the hall. Now that scoundrel had appeared, both of them could make their irritation manifest into two pairs of eyes drilling into him.

The scoundrel himself coming into the hall was at first lax, but when feeling that a few people wanted to do something to him, his lax attitude went away. 'Someone wants to hurt me?' He could sense this. His eyes went around the hall, trying to locate the Chiefs with bad intentions; however, it seemed that none of them wanted to harm him, not even the Chief who looked the closest to Luan Lyn.

Not finding the people with malicious intent, he helped Zhuan An, who wasn't any better to her seat and everything. Then as he was taking a seat, he felt someone pinch his side.

'Oh...' he realised. As his head turned around the final nail was stricken as he remarked that one of the people with malicious intent towards him was Qian Ki. From this and from the words of Duan Hin, he looked towards the Hag's side and noticed that Fei Sun was the same as Qian Ki.

'Did her screaming really echo in the city this badly?' He couldn't believe it being so, but the reality of the situation made aforementioned be the only possibility. They wouldn't be mad like this if it was him sleeping with her and nothing else, however, if they had heard it all... 'Fuck me with an anchor,' Xiao Fan thought and smiled at the two women.

The two women weren't satisfied with a smiling apology, but at least they stopped the intense stares.

"Luan Len" Around the time this ended, the Hag called for one of the Chiefs, "We don't need to hear more from your son's...sexual exploits," she shut up the man, who was thinking that it was her son, who had made all of Ulaanbaatar stay awake by banging a woman so masterfully.

'Pfft!' From those words, Xiao Fan got the idea but didn't dare to show it outwardly. There was already enough trouble waiting for him.

"Let a father be proud of his son!" Luan Len stated. "Having a son like my Luan Lyn is a pride to any father!" The Chief took great pride in having such a child.

The Hag wasn't too humoured, "I said, stop it, or do you want to..." She raised her walking stick towards the Chief, not listening to her orders.

"A woman wouldn't understand," Luan Len spoke, shaking his head, but under the Hag's pressure, he didn't talk more.

The Hag, having gotten his way through, looked for the final time that everyone was here, before announcing, "The meeting will now start. We have gathered here to discuss the topic concerning the compensation that Qian Ki will be paid—"

"Why are we paying her!" She didn't get far, for one of the Chiefs voiced this.

"If you think that you can take her on when on her terms you are mistaken" Duan Hin answered.

"Isn't she a Body Strengthening Realm Second Grade? What could possibly make me be afraid of her?" The same Chief questioned those words.

The room soon filled with all kinds of noises as every Chief wanted to express their opinion and such. They had quickly drowned all conversation about the topic itself with their usual bickering.

"DO YOU LOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE ENEMY IS PRESENT HERE AS WELL?" The Hag didn't take this, and including her screaming, she also sent a shockwave from her stick.