Chapter 20 Outwitting a Deception (Part 1)_3

And the young girl, who had already walked into the alley and covered about a third of the distance, instantly sensed something was wrong when she saw the two men approaching from the opposite direction. She hastily stopped, turned around, and tried to run back.

But how could she, her feet bound in the traditional manner, possibly outrun two men?

In the blink of an eye, Sun Ling and Huang Jun caught up with her and flanked her from front and back, effectively trapping her.

"Eh? Miss, why run?" Sun Ling said with a smile, standing in front of her and scrutinizing her face by the faint moonlight.

And she was indeed beautiful—with only light makeup applied, her eyebrows delicately drawn, and her bright eyes and white teeth enhancing her lovely allure; she was but eighteen or nineteen, her hairstyle that of an unmarried girl. She was dressed in a white undergarment, with a pale blue jacket over it, and a ribbon tied into a butterfly knot at her chest.