Mad Dragon gets out of prison and marries a beautiful CEO.

The two went to a private room on the 16th floor, which was more than ten meters away from the warehouse. After changing into fitted dustproof clothes, they entered the ventilation duct.

Song Qingtong led the way, referring to the map, while Chen Li followed behind.

The ventilation ducts were so narrow that one person could crawl through them, while in the wider sections, one could arch their back and crawl with their buttocks sticking out. They were filled with dust, but thankfully I was wearing a dust mask.

She stopped at a vent, where the connector was fixed, and it was much sturdier and more reliable than the others.

Look down through the gap.

It was all sorts of supplies needed for the wedding banquet. People were guarding the entrance, but there was no one inside.

She moved the dust cover aside, revealing a square passage about half a meter wide. She then casually leaned out and landed gracefully.

Chen Li followed closely behind and jumped down from the ventilation shaft.

Song Qingtong gestured to Chen Li, telling him to stand behind the door and listen for any sounds, while she put on gloves and searched for the goods she was looking for.

Important things are always hidden in hard-to-find places.

She felt that the most likely place to find it was among the piles of Moutai liquor and cigarettes.

She quickly moved the boxes of wine aside, and when she picked up one of them, the weight was noticeably different.

Scratching open a crack at the bottom of the box, I indeed saw packets of white powder. I took out one of the packets, poured some into my hand, rubbed it together, and then gently sniffed it.

That's right!

She looked at Chen Li, who was guarding the door.

Chen Li quickly stepped forward and whispered:

"The person outside received a call; Yuan Tao is coming to inspect the goods. Quickly put them back in their place!"

After helping Song Qingtong put her things away, he first helped her into the ventilation duct.

She pulled him back inside and put the dust cover back in place.

Time was of the essence; the two were piled on top of each other and hadn't had a chance to move when the door suddenly opened, and Yuan Tao walked in with four of his men.

The ventilation duct was narrow, and the two were pressed tightly together.

Chen Li wasn't the type to be attracted to women at first sight, but the fact that a lone man and woman were so intimately connected, and that her body temperature was slowly rising, made her eyes widen in shock.

She felt like she was being held at gunpoint and was being seriously "threatened"!

Even the slightest movement would alert the people below, forcing them to submit.

"Where's the goods? Show them to me!"

Yuan Tao said with great confidence that this was related to whether he could enter the Black Tiger branch of Juxian Chamber of Commerce as a steward, and he had to make sure that nothing went wrong.

Two henchmen moved the wine chests aside, cut open four boxes, and found them filled with white flour.

"Brother Tao, everyone's here."

Yuan Tao randomly picked up a package, checked it, sealed it up, and threw it back in its original place, saying:

"The goods are fine. We'll arrange for someone to seal them up tonight, put them in long cigarette boxes, disguise them as cigarettes, and send them to the buyer as a gift."

The deal at Tomorrow's Wharf is a ruse, a diversionary tactic to complete the transaction discreetly under the guise of the wedding banquet.

By the time the special operations team realized what was happening, the deal had already been struck and the buyers had left.

This plan is flawless.

"Yes, Brother Tao, about the dock transactions tomorrow..."

One of his men asked.

Yuan Tao gave a sinister smile:

"Continue with this, and leave it to Huang Sanpi."

"Don't think I don't know. He and Zhang Sankui staged a ruse to infiltrate my side. I'll kill him tomorrow and throw him into the sea to feed the fish."

Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly smelled dust in the air.

He was naturally sensitive to dust, so he frowned, loosely clenched his fist, covered his mouth and nose, coughed lightly, and felt puzzled.

How could the cleaning staff of a five-star luxury hotel make such a basic mistake?

Could it be...

He turned around, looked up, and examined the ceiling vents.

"Brother Tao, no one will come in from here..."

The subordinates knew that their boss was suspicious by nature and that all his actions were carried out in secret. How could anyone know that the goods were here and even get in through the ventilation ducts?

"Shh-"

Yuan Tao gestured for silence, pulled out a pistol from his waist, and screwed on a silencer.

Song Qingtong was all too familiar with the sound of turning on the silencer tube. Her nerves were on edge, and her scalp tingled. Although the ventilation duct could support the weight of two people, it couldn't withstand the impact of a bullet.

Even a Grandmaster-level cultivator would be injured if struck by a bullet without the protective techniques of having an iron body.

Moreover, she was only a martial artist at the mid-stage of the Qi Refining Realm.

They jumped down and captured them immediately. The major case that had been painstakingly investigated for months was thus aborted. Only a few minor figures could be arrested, while the scourge that plagued Yuncheng remained at large.

It will be even harder to remove it later.

Yuan Tao didn't give her time to hesitate; he raised his gun, pointed it at the ventilation duct, and pulled the trigger.

boom!

The bullet pierced the ventilation shaft with a loud clang.

Taking advantage of the noise, Chen Li hugged her tightly and turned his body so that his back was facing down. He then used his inner energy to protect himself and block the impact of the bullets.

boom! boom! boom!

Yuan Tao emptied the magazines around the ventilation ducts, waited a moment, and when no blood dripped down, he tossed the gun to his subordinate and said:

"It's good that no one's here. Quickly arrange for someone to seal the goods into cigarette boxes and then repackage them into gift boxes. There can be no carelessness."

"Yes, Brother Tao!"

The subordinate took the gun and bowed, saying...

After the group left, the two people in the ventilation duct finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Song Qingtong was terrified, her body trembling slightly. If Chen Li hadn't shielded her from the bullet, she would have been shot and killed by now.

Judging from the sound and vibration just now, Chen Li may have been shot three times, but strangely, he didn't bleed.

However, the gun that had 'threatened' her disappeared.

"How is it?"

Song Qingtong was not angry at his unintentional offense; instead, she felt somewhat guilty and worried.

"Walk."

Chen Li simply answered with one word.

After the two returned to the private room through the ventilation duct, Chen Li went into the shower room, leaned against the wall, and slid down, leaving a bloodstain on the snow-white tiles.

He was shot.

Because of his internal injuries, he experiences sharp pain in his chest when he tries to circulate his qi, and his body-refining skills cannot be fully utilized, inevitably resulting in some damage.

A bullet lodged in his shoulder blade.

Looking at the man who was shot and wounded but remained silent, Song Qingtong was shocked and felt a strange affection for him.

He's a real man, and a man who would use his body to shield her from bullets.

She took out her phone, dialed a number, her hand trembling slightly, her voice tinged with panic:

"He's been shot! Send a medical team immediately..."

After explaining the situation, she went over, knelt down beside him, hugged his head, and gently comforted him:

"It's alright, the medical team will be here soon. You'll get better, you definitely will."

Chen Li's face was enveloped in a gentle warmth, and he even suspected that he would suffocate to death even if he didn't die from the gunshot wound. It seemed that the wound didn't hurt so much anymore.

The medical team arrived and examined Chen Li's body.

Two gunshot wounds, one on the right scapula and one on the buttocks. They didn't bleed inside the ventilation duct because they were sealed by internal energy.

Shockingly, if someone else had been shot twice, they would have been either dead or paralyzed, but he was still able to talk and laugh as usual.

This person's strength is truly astonishing.

After stopping the bleeding, he was secretly put in a car and taken to the hospital for surgery.

Meanwhile, the Dynasty International Hotel received another order to host a wedding banquet in the early hours of the morning, and an unprecedented operation was secretly launched under the guise of this wedding banquet.

……

at the same time.

Lu Xue sat in Chen Li's house, resting her chin on her hand, by the window, waiting for him to return. She waited all night.

During the meal, she drank a bottle of red wine by herself.

After putting his daughter Ziyan to sleep, he wanted to take advantage of his drunkenness and the alluring night to give himself to her, as a way of repaying her kindness in helping him fight off thugs and find her a job.

She knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response, so she thought he was silently rejecting her.

Emboldened by the intoxication, she shamelessly opened his door.

When they went inside, there was no one home.

So she sat by the window and waited until the moon disappeared, the effects of the alcohol wore off, and she sobered up.

Countless men had pursued her, but she had never accepted any of them. All she wanted was to spend one night with him, but he rejected her multiple times. Perhaps he really didn't like her.

Why should I be so humble and demeaning, putting him in a difficult position?

Lu Xue propped herself up on the table. Her legs were numb, so she stood for a while to recover, left the key on the table, locked the door, and went out.

She silently vowed to seal her heart and lock away her love, and never marry again.