How dare you flirt with my woman

Ren Tianye laughed: "What are you staring at me for?"

Bai Hu immediately fired back: "What if I am?"

Bai Hu knew he shouldn't be losing his temper.

After all, this was part of his Bai Li sister's plan.

Seeing how impatiently Ren Tianye had come looking for him, it was most likely that Bai Li's plan was going especially smoothly. The Ren Tianye before him had probably already fallen madly in love with Bai Li, but upon learning of his existence, jealousy had taken root.

For Bai Li's sake, he ought to swallow his pride and endure it.

But the thought of his Bai Li sister—whom he himself couldn't bear to touch—being mistreated by Ren Tianye only fanned the flames of his fury beyond control.

Yet, to his surprise, Ren Tianye didn't seem angry at all.

Instead, he grinned: "Ye Hu, you see, this is where you're wrong."

"I know that in your heart, Bai Li is no different from your wife..."

"That's right, Bai Li sister is my wife!" Before Ren Tianye could finish, Bai Hu cut in: "Bai Li sister is, in my heart, just like my wife. I'll be with her for life."

"That's exactly it." Ren Tianye chuckled: "Look, you deeply love Bai Li, and I'm very satisfied with her performance. From this perspective, we share a common interest—we should have been friends."

"Yet you treat your friend this way?"

"Isn't that going too far?"

Bai Hu: "???"

He felt his head spin for a moment, dizzy with confusion.

When clarity returned, his rage only intensified.

He was about to lash back, but Ren Tianye had run out of patience.

This was clearly a case of refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a penalty.

So, with a slight raise of his hand, Wang Ming standing behind him immediately understood the signal.

In an instant, three guards pounced forward like wolves.

A flurry of blows rang out—whacks and thuds.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Hu was bruised and swollen-faced.

"I had planned to have a heart-to-heart with you, but now it seems we'll have to talk about something else." Ren Tianye's tone turned cold. "Spill it. What's this Tongxin Alliance all about?"

"What strength do they have now?"

"Where are their main areas of influence?"

"And also..."

"Bai Li said Liu Ruyan appears and disappears like a ghost. Where is she now?"

Pausing, Ren Tianye looked at Ye Hu's stubborn expression and added slowly: "I'd advise you to talk honestly. Otherwise, tonight, Bai Li might have to suffer again."

The stubbornness on Ye Hu's face instantly melted away.

He blurted out: "I'll talk, I'll talk, I'll say everything."

"Just, just don't lay a hand on Bai Li sister."

And so, with little effort, Ren Tianye extracted everything he wanted from Bai Hu's mouth.

The Tongxin Alliance had forces spread across the entire Great Yu Empire.

Every region had hidden troops and even firearms.

However, their main base was in Yunjing!

One of the two capitals of Great Yu—Yunjing!

"Our Tongxin Alliance has merged with the city of Yunjing. Yunjing is the Tongxin Alliance, and the Tongxin Alliance is Yunjing!"

"And our alliance has something called the 'assembly line' established by the Grand Palace Lord, which can mass-produce all kinds of firearms. What we've seen so far is just a drop in the bucket."

"In our Yunjing, the number of firearms is beyond counting!"

The guards behind Ren Tianye, including Wang Ming, were already showing signs of shock. But Ren Tianye remained calm. Through this whole ordeal with Bai Li, he had come to a clear realization:

In this world, hot weapons were not invincible.

A lovestruck mind was!

As long as he grasped that principle, even if the enemy rolled out planes and cannons, he would bet that they were still on cooldown right now!

"And Liu Ruyan?"

Bai Hu shook his head.

He didn't know much about Liu Ruyan either, only that she was as beautiful as an immortal, elusive as a ghost, and served as the spiritual pillar of the Tongxin Alliance.

This made Ren Tianye frown slightly.

Information on Liu Ruyan still remained incomplete!

Given all the recent events and the investigations by the Demon Suppression Bureau, he was quite certain that the source of Great Yu's troubles lay with Liu Ruyan.

But the fact that a single Liu Ruyan could stir up such chaos across Great Yu once made him suspect she might possess something like a system—especially when firearms appeared; that suspicion had grown immensely.

However, after personally inspecting the firearms brought by Lin Zixiao and the Divine Machine Battalion, he dismissed that notion.

Those weapons weren't mass-produced by a system.

Because while they followed a fairly standardized industrial process, there were noticeable differences between different ones—nothing like the nearly identical products a system would churn out.

So it was highly probable that Liu Ruyan had no system.

Yet, the fact that she could unleash such tremendous power still made him think twice.

Now, without finding out Liu Ruyan's exact situation, Ren Tianye's mood darkened again.

Just as he was about to continue his interrogation, a messenger hurriedly ran in and reported: "Duke, a group is approaching rapidly outside the capital, all carrying firearms, looking hostile."

Ren Tianye was startled. "All carrying firearms?"

That left almost no doubt—it was the Tongxin Alliance again.

The Tongxin Alliance had sent more people?

To do what?

"Have they identified themselves?"

"Duke, they haven't said anything. They just demanded that we open the city gates and let them in, or else they'll show no mercy." The messenger added: "Oh, and at the front of the group is a woman."

"On their wagon flies a banner with the character 'Li'!"

A woman? Surname Li?

Ren Tianye was puzzled, but Ye Hu's face instantly changed.

"Li Shuhan!"

Li Shuhan?

Ren Tianye was surprised.

As far as he knew, those of palace lord rank in the Tongxin Alliance all bore the surname Liu.

The high-ranking members were surnamed Bai, which was why Su Li had changed her name to Bai Li.

This person surnamed Li was likely not a top member.

Yet leading a group carrying firearms?

He immediately demanded: "Who is this Li Shuhan?"

Before Ye Hu could answer, another messenger sprinted in: "Report, Duke! The group at the capital gate has grown impatient. They've lined up their firearms, ready to attack the city. The woman at the front is shouting that she wants to see her fiancé, Bai Hu."

Huh?

Ren Tianye paused.

He looked at Bai Hu.

"Fiancée?"

"Damn, you're engaged?"

"So what if I'm engaged?" Bai Hu exploded like he'd been stepped on, leaping up instantly. "Does being engaged stop me from pursuing love? How can a piece of paper stand in the way of my love?"

Ren Tianye: "..."

Never mind, he didn’t have the patience to discuss romance with this man.

After a brief thought, he ordered: "Bring this Li Shuhan here."

Before long, a woman burst into the room.

She was dressed in a tight-fitting brocade robe, belted with jade, her posture straight and her expression sharp. A true beauty, with skin as fair as snow and arresting features—this was presumably Li Shuhan.

She strode in quickly, her gaze locking onto Bai Hu.

Then, her face flooded with anger.

Marching up to Bai Hu, she raised her hand and slapped him!

"Slap!"

Then she roared: "Bai Hu, you've got some nerve!"

Your mother here handed you a whole production line on a silver platter, helped you claw your way up to the Right Protector of the Pact Alliance, treated you with nothing but pure devotion—and you had the nerve to stab me in the back and mess with my woman?

You're begging for death!

……