After several rounds of clouds and rain.
Yu Qiong exclaimed in pleasant surprise, "I didn't expect your work ability to be this strong. A monthly salary of five thousand feels like a waste of your talents..."
"So, am I officially hired?"
"You've already entered my company thousands of times, and you still ask!"
"It takes two people to agree to be together, but only one to end it."
Tao Bai took a slow drag of his cigarette by the bedside and asked,
"Sis Yu, tell me—is there a way to turn unrequited love into mutual affection?"
"Da Bai, is there really a girl out there you can't get?"
As she spoke, Yu Qiong leaned over him, her face flushed a deep crimson.
She exhaled softly into his ear, her voice laced with a playful, coy pout.
Then, she shifted her weight slightly, her gaze drifting downward.
She raised her hips slightly and looked down at her lower body.
The sheets were completely soaked.
Her gaze then fell upon a "long worm."
Perhaps sensing the burning gaze, the long worm suddenly raised its head and moved its body.
The corners of Yu Qiong's mouth lifted.
You little cutie, still don't want to sleep!
Watch how I deal with you!
She turned and got out of bed, opened the large closet, took out a spare bedsheet, and replaced the soaked one.
The "little cutie" that refused to sleep in the dead of night was subjected to several rounds of "oral education" and "torment", followed by a few fierce beatings, before it was finally willing to lie down obediently and fall into a deep sleep.
Looking at the obediently sleeping little cutie, Yu Qiong revealed a look of satisfaction.
"She likes the kind with money, and preferably power. She wouldn't look twice at someone from the bottom of society like me."
"Do you want me to help you?"
"How?"
"It's simple,"
Yu Qiong smiled, and then proceeded to tell Tao Bai the process of how she drugged Shen Bing (she thought it was drugging, but in reality, it was planting a Gu) as an example.
"By the way, Sis Yu, what is your roommate's name?"
"Shen Bing." Yu Qiong looked at Tao Bai, puzzled. "Why do you ask?"
"Have you ever met her fiancé?"
"Of course I have."
"Then, does he... look like this?"
As Tao Bai spoke, with a thought, the muscles of his face twitched and writhed...
"Ah!"
Her scream was cut off before it could fully escape her throat, as her neck was clamped tight by Tao Bai's large hand.
Yu Qiong's face instantly turned red.
She couldn't breathe.
A strong sense of suffocation washed over her like a tidal wave.
Her hands tried to pry open Tao Bai's grip, but she couldn't.
She kicked, driving her feet into Tao Bai's body again and again, but Tao Bai didn't dodge or show any fear.
Instead, the force in his hand grew stronger.
Yu Qiong steeled her heart and prepared to kick Tao Bai in his crotch!!
It was one of the few fatal weaknesses of a man!!!
But when she suddenly looked down, she was instantly dumbfounded!
There was only a patch of hair on Tao Bai's lower body.
Where did that thing go???!!
After several futile struggles, she was choked into unconsciousness.
*Smack!*
She woke up to the sound of a resounding slap, only to discover with horror that she was stark naked—
Her feet were bound by her own jeans, her hands bound behind her back by her leather jacket, and her mouth tightly gagged with a towel.
The towel was stuffed into her mouth, wrapped around the back of her head, and tied in a dead knot.
She could only make low, muffled "whimpering" sounds, unable to call for help.
Her eyes were filled with terror.
Isn't he dead?
Aren't all the people of the Tao family dead?
How is he not dead?
She was full of questions.
"Why did you harm Shen Bing?"
"Why did you harm our Tao clan?!"
One slap for one question.
Tao Bai delivered two more slaps to her left cheek.
Yu Qiong's left cheek swelled up completely.
She couldn't answer, only whimpering in distress.
"I'm giving you a chance. Speak clearly!"
Tao Bai shouted angrily, his killing intent surging to the heavens.
Tao Bai grabbed the towel near Yu Qiong's right cheek and loosened it slightly.
"I didn't harm Shen Bing..." Yu Qiong said, her speech slurred and indistinct.
*Smack! Smack!!*
Her answer was met with two stinging slaps on her left cheek.
This kind of woman won't shed a tear until she sees the coffin!
If she hadn't done anything wrong to Shen Bing, would she need to hide from her?
"Speak properly!"
Tao Bai roared.
Actually, Tao Bai could have just killed her and collected her into the Blood-Link Mill.
That way, everything he heard would be the truth.
But doing that directly felt somewhat inappropriate.
He had also considered letting Yu Qiong experience the pain of having the appearance of a sixty-five-year-old at the age of thirty!
But he needed information on the Gu caster now, and he didn't have much time to play with her!
He hadn't expected things to go so smoothly!
He had successfully taken her down in just one night!
It couldn't be helped;
The charm of Hong Kong star Tony Leung was something very few girls could refuse.
Even looking 70-80% like him was enough to captivate a large swathe of women.
"I... I was forced..."
Yu Qiong stammered amidst tears of humiliation.
"Forced?"
"I don't know his name... I usually call him Ba Ye (Lord Ba)."
"Can you arrange a meeting with him?"
"Maybe... But I haven't contacted him in a long time..."
"Then contact him now!"
"Now?"
"How do you usually contact him?"
"SMS, QQ."
"Is this him?"
Tao Bai took her phone, opened the contacts, and quickly found a contact named "Ba Ye."
One hour later.
The sky began to brighten.
Tao Bai opened a slit in the curtains, allowing the newly risen sun to cast its first ray of light into the hotel room.
Tao Bai dragged the naked Yu Qiong, who had been tortured and interrogated for over an hour, to the window.
"Enjoy the final sunlight!"
The sunlight spilled onto her horribly swollen face.
For some reason, she found this morning's sun particularly blinding, making it difficult to even open her eyes.
The muscles on her face twitched irregularly, pulling into a bitter smile.
Dragging her back, Tao Bai clamped his right hand around her neck like a giant iron pincer and gradually increased the pressure.
Eventually, Yu Qiong died in the midst of her struggle, her eyes staring wide open.
Her resentment was as thick as dark ink.
Tao Bai summoned the Universe Gourd and collected it inside.
He then summoned the Blood Lotus Mill and collected the soul that had drifted out of her body.
(Author's Note to avoid readers' imaginations running wild: Soul bodies will manifest the clothes they wore when they were alive.)
After sweeping everything Yu Qiong had brought into his storage bag, Tao Bai gave a light scoff.
"Yin-Yang Umbrella, open!"
The earthy-yellow Yin-Yang Umbrella spun in mid-air.
Tao Bai held Yu Qiong's corpse with one arm and formed a hand seal with the other, finally shouting softly:
"Shun!" (Flash/Teleport)
He took her to a desolate wasteland in the suburbs.
He threw her onto the ground, then casually tossed her bra, panties, and handbag onto her.
Then, he threw out a ball of crimson flame.
*Click!*
Tao Bai snapped his fingers, using the spiritual fire on his fingertip to light a "ZhenLong Shengshi" cigarette.
He had only smoked half the cigarette when the corpse and items on the ground had already turned to flying ash, dissipating into the cold wind.
The cold wind blew against his face and the two strands of dragon whiskers hanging down.
The left whisker suddenly brushed against the burning tip of the cigarette.
With a thought, Tao Bai retracted both dragon whiskers.
Although ordinary fire couldn't harm his hair, the dragon whiskers did get in the way of smoking a bit.
*Phew~~~*
Tao Bai exhaled a mouthful of smoke.
"Ba Ye... could it be the one I didn't kill before? Unlikely..."
Using cards to withdraw money was indeed troublesome, so he had burned Yu Qiong's bank cards and car keys along with her body earlier, keeping only the ten thousand or so in cash he had on hand.
According to her account, there were also two hundred thousand HXB in reserve funds in her safe.
After teleporting into her room, Tao Bai used the password she provided to open the safe and transferred the wealth into his own earth-colored storage pouch.
Next, it was time to wait for this "Ba Ye" to show himself.
It was this guy who had provided Yu Qiong with the powder, instructing her to add it to Shen Bing's drink when she wasn't looking.
Afterward, he gave her five hundred thousand.
Five hundred thousand wasn't much to Ba Ye, but he hadn't intended to fulfill his promise or pay up initially honestly.
However, the scheming Yu Qiong held leverage over him.
She threatened that if he didn't pay, or if she were killed, his secrets would be exposed to major media outlets.
Although Ba Ye was skeptical, he didn't dare to gamble on that "what if," so he obediently gave her the agreed-upon five hundred thousand.