Chapter Ten.

At night the man in a hooded cloak appears in Redemption Temple private chambers. He and Guo Mulang are sitting across from each other. The man slips his hand into his robes and takes out a small wooden box and passes it across the table to Guo Mulang. Guo Mulang opens the box revealing a number of red coloured pills. Guo Mulang smiles satisfactorily.

"Lao Guo I need another clue."

Guo Mulang with an evil smirk on his face, suddenly extends his right arm with his palm open as if he's pushing something. The other man's movement ceases and he becomes a statue. His hands and fingers that are slightly revealed seem to be covered in snow or as if he's frozen. The old man then withdraws his arm and sweeps across the air. The movement of the other man resumes.

"Chu Haoyu, you're really something,"the man acknowledges.

Guo Mulang pauses for a moment shocked about the other man's words.

"I've long heard of Chu Haoyu,the most talented disciple of Lotus Manor Sect who has mastered the Freezing Palm Technique. The technique that freezes one's blood and stops it from circulating,"the man smiles proudly at his own words.

Guo Mulang chuckles,"I didn't expect you to figure it out so quickly. My master passed down the technique to me and I passed it down to my favourite disciple."

"So it's possible he will pass it down to his favourite disciple."

The man pauses for a moment as if trying to assess something.

"No matter how fair a master is they always have their favourite disciple."

"No wonder you're being hunted. You and your silly disciple share the same fate. How long are you going to stay here repenting your sins?"

"For as along as I'm sure if I die I'll reincarnate into something sensible."

The man laughs at Guo Mulang's words ,"See you Lao Chu ,"he disappears.

Guo Mulang is left reminiscing about the past. A certain familiar female voice keep ringing in his mind. It's the voice of a girl calling him 'Lao Chu'. The girl called him Lao Chu everytime she saw him climbing the cherry tree. She called him Lao Chu in an endearing voice to convince him to pick the cherry fruits for her while she was injured.

The auspicious date set for the wedding is here. The wedding venue has been decorated in red. The guests are here. Duan Xinyue ,Lei Qiang and Du Bai Xin are among the guests. Xu Han refused to attend the wedding as he is afraid he might run into bad luck again. General Fei is in a red wedding gown. He's standing outside waiting for the bridal sedan. Mei Xin comes running into the hall in panic.

"My Lord bad news,Miss has committed suicide!"

Everyone in the hall rushes towards Wen Luo's pavilion. Wen Cheng barges into the room as others squeeze their way in. Wen Luo is lying on the floor lifelessly with foam around the corners of her mouth. She is in a red wedding gown.

"Call the physician now!"Wen Cheng commands.

General Fei is standing there expressionless and not sure of how to react. While others are discussing whether she has taken pills that make her appear dead,the physician walks in. The physician reads her pulse and proceeds to inject silver needles into her body to detect any kind of poison. The physician confirms she's poisoned but he can't detect what type of poison it is.

As the physician keeps tossing the body, Duan Xinyue is keen to make observations. He drags Lei Qiang out to talk. The dead woman's height seems to be shorter than Wen Luo's . The woman's hands look manly with short fingers while Wen Luo's hands look delicate. There is no sign of struggling from the effect of poison. The woman is definitely not Wen Luo. The foam on the woman's mouth is yellow so it might be Buttercup flower poison. The day before the wedding Wen Luo had sent all the maids to purchase hairpins for her. Maybe she didn't have the time to fake her own death so she took the time to design a dead body to act as an impostor. If she had used her own body then she would have to wake up soon and she wouldn't be able to escape . It's either she killed a lady or she brought in one that was already dead. Several businesswomen have been disappearing lately so it isn't hard to collect a dead body and it is likely someone must have helped her.

For the first time Lei Qiang feels he and Duan Xinyue are on the same page. He always sees Duan Xinyue as an illogic useless man only capable of banging men and women all night.

"Should we tell Lord Wen about it?"Lei Qiang asks suggestively.

"If you want to live for long don't always be nosy,"with that Duan Xinyue walks away. When he reaches outside the gate,he finds his carriage missing. He asks Lei Qiang to offer him a ride but Lei Qiang denies him the offer. He definitely doesn't want to be groped the entire journey. Duan Xinyue doesn't remind him of how he lent him his carriage the first day they met since it was a way of repaying him for lending him his sword. They definitely don't owe each other any favours. When Duan Xinyue realizes Lei Qiang won't be softening his heart any sooner,he convinces Hong Yi to get in the carriage as he hops on the horses to ride the carriage.