Awakening the Phoenix Flow System after the breakup, I'm so happy!

The Qin family's old residence is located on a hillside in the suburbs of Jiangcheng. It is a typical Chinese garden building.

Security is usually tight here, but after Old Master Qin was hospitalized, most of the guards in the mansion were transferred away.

Chen Yang parked his car in a grove of trees a few hundred meters from the back door.

The two got out of the car. Qin Xue wasn't wearing shoes and walked barefoot on the dirt road full of gravel. Every step she took made her wince in pain.

Chen Yang couldn't stand it anymore, so he went over and half-squatted in front of her.

"Come on up. At this rate, we won't be able to get in before daybreak."

Qin Xue hesitated for a moment, looking at the dark forest around her, before finally climbing onto Chen Yang's broad back.

Chen Yang supported her legs and stood up steadily, walking forward along the base of the wall.

Qin Xue wrapped her arms around his neck, rested her chin on his shoulder, and swayed gently with the rhythm of his walk.

The man's back was broad and warm; even through his thin shirt, you could feel the heat emanating from him.

Qin Xue grew up under her grandfather's strict discipline. In order to take over the family business, she forced herself to become cold and ruthless, and she didn't even have a close friend.

Not to mention being carried by a man at night like this.

She secretly sniffed, smelling the faint soapy scent on Chen Yang, and the strange feeling in her heart grew stronger and stronger.

She suddenly asked Chen Yang:

"Are you this attentive to other women?"

Qin Xue didn't know why she had asked such a question, and she regretted it as soon as the words left her mouth.

Chen Yang chuckled softly, without stopping.

"That depends on the person. For a rich woman as beautiful and wealthy as you, of course I have to be extra attentive. That's called investing, you know?"

Qin Xue punched him on the shoulder in an annoyed tone.

"Can't you speak properly? You're always so unserious. Was that assassin sent by my second uncle? Does he already know I'm investigating him?"

Chen Yang put away his joking thoughts and lowered his voice.

"Very likely. That old guy is ruthless. He messed up at the hospital, so he'll definitely send people to the old house to ambush us. We need to hurry."

As they spoke, the two had already arrived at the back door of the old house.

Chen Yang put Qin Xue down and reached out to push the wooden door covered with iron sheets. The door was locked from the inside.

He took two steps back, took a running start, stepped on the wall and leaped up, grabbing the top of the high wall with both hands, and with a nimble flip, jumped over.

A moment later, a slight noise came from inside, and the back door was pulled open from the inside.

Chen Yang poked his head out and waved to Qin Xue.

"Hurry up and come in, don't dawdle."

Qin Xue ran in barefoot, and the two of them followed the covered walkway, using the artificial hill and flower bushes as cover, and quietly made their way to the small courtyard where the study was located.

The entire house was quiet, with only a few dim floor lamps emitting a faint light.

The study door wasn't locked. Chen Yang pushed it open, pulled Qin Xue inside, and then closed the door behind him.

The room was pitch black, and the air was filled with a rich sandalwood scent.

"The light switch is by the door. Don't turn on the main light, just turn on the table lamp."

Qin Xue lowered her voice to remind her, as she was very familiar with this place.

Chen Yang fumbled to turn on a small desk lamp, the dim light barely illuminating a small area near the desk.

The two huddled together at the desk and began searching for the bronze wine cup.

The study wasn't large, and the two people were very close together.

Qin Xue bent down to pull out the drawer, her hair brushing against Chen Yang's chin, carrying a pleasant floral scent.

Chen Yang turned his head slightly and could see that her neckline was slightly open due to her movements, and her fair skin looked particularly dazzling under the dim light.

His Adam's apple bobbed, and he forced himself to look away.

The atmosphere between this man and woman alone in a room has inexplicably become so ambiguous.

"Found it, it's here."

Qin Xue let out a deliberately suppressed cheer and took out a box wrapped in red cloth from a hidden compartment at the bottom of the desk.

She placed the box on the table and carefully opened it.

Inside was a bronze jue cup about the size of a palm, with a long spout and three slender, pointed feet.

The cup is covered with green rust, making it look like an old object that has been around for quite some time.

Chen Yang leaned closer, picked up the wine cup, and examined it carefully under the light.

Qin Xue also came over, and the two heads almost touched.

"This thing looks perfectly normal. Apart from being a bit old, there's nowhere for poisonous insects to hide."

Qin Xue stared at it for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

Chen Yang didn't speak, but instead used his fingers to carefully stroke the patterns on the cup.

"The material of this thing is indeed old bronze, but these patterns were re-engraved later."

Chen Yang pointed to a pattern on the bottom of the cup and asked Qin Xue to look at it carefully.

"Look at this pattern, doesn't it look like a black feather with an eye totem in the middle?"

Qin Xue looked in the direction he pointed and indeed saw a strange totem the size of a fingernail, hidden among the intricate cloud patterns, very inconspicuous.

"What does this prove? Perhaps it's just some kind of ancient totem."

Chen Yang sneered and put the goblet back into the box.

"This isn't some ancient totem; it's the symbol of the Black Feather Organization."

"I've seen this pattern in another place before. It was for a strange organization that did shady things."

Qin Xue's expression changed instantly upon hearing this.

"Kuroba, how could my second uncle be involved with this kind of organization?"

Although she knew that her second uncle would stop at nothing to seize power, colluding with such a criminal organization was a capital offense.

Chen Yang leaned against the desk, his arms crossed over his chest.

"Your second uncle couldn't possibly get his hands on those poisonous insects that can control people's minds on his own; they could only have been given to him by Black Feather's people."

"It seems your second uncle sold the entire Qin family to Hei Yu in order to acquire it."

Qin Xue was so angry that she trembled all over, her hands gripping the edge of the table so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

"That beast! If Grandpa knew he did something like this, he'd be furious."

Her eyes reddened, tears welled up, and she bit her lip to keep them from falling.

Looking at her stubborn yet aggrieved appearance, Chen Yang felt inexplicably irritated. He reached out and put his arm around her shoulder, pulling her into his embrace.

"Alright, stop pretending. If you want to cry, just cry. You can lean on my shoulder for a bit, it's free."

Qin Xue had been holding back her tears, but after he coaxed her like that, they streamed down her face, and she buried her face in his chest, sobbing silently.

Chen Yang gently patted her back, comforting her like he was soothing a child.

Just at this warm and ambiguous moment, a series of messy footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.

Immediately afterwards, several blinding beams of flashlight light shone in through the cracks in the window.

"Surround them, don't let even a fly out, Second Master will be here soon."

A gruff male voice boomed in the courtyard, and judging from the sound, there were at least a dozen people surrounding the study.

Qin Xue suddenly lifted her head from Chen Yang's arms, her face full of terror.

"They're my second uncle's men, Ah Qiang. How did they get here so quickly?"