Want to climb the tree! First hold the bark!

"Oh."

That single sound? Disrespectful as hell. Like she had just heard the dumbest shit imaginable and was genuinely impressed at the stupidity.

She had only come to scare a few people.

But Luo Yang? This brain-dead donkey had kept trying to scan Wang Xiao's women with his X-ray fuckery.

And that was a game he was not fucking built for. She had given him a chance. A warning. He should've taken it. But instead? This dumbass dug his own grave and flopped in headfirst.

Luo Yang knew why she had warned him. He knew who he had been looking at.

Wang Mei. And he knew what the fuck he had coming.

But Xue Weisheng? That old fart had never been bitch-slapped by reality like this before. And it showed.

He squared his shoulders. Sneered at Mary. "The Qing Dynasty Emperor doesn't take rogues like you lightly—"

Mary tilted her head. Chuckled.

"He doesn't need to."

She leaned forward, smile widening.