After marrying the fierce god, her handsome young husband was pampered to the extreme.

"Calm down, calm down," Pearl said. "He might not be here to see me. Let's question him properly after he wakes up."

After Pearl finished speaking, Zhao Duo had already taken out a scorpion and placed it on the white-haired young man's forehead.

Pearl is now quite used to her husband occasionally pulling bugs out of some nook or cranny.

He asked worriedly, "Won't he be poisoned?"

"No," Zhao Duo said. "It's just an ordinary scorpion."

Pearl glanced at the scorpion with its unusually long, dark purple stinger and calmly hummed in agreement.

Lin Ling has been afraid of insects since she was a child, and now she was completely stiff.

The scorpion's tail pierced his flesh, and soon the white-haired man woke up.

Once his vision cleared, the white-haired man realized he was tightly bound.

How tightly bound was it? From the neck down to the ankles, the ropes were tied so neatly, with not a single gap.

When Pearl saw that he was awake, she felt that the big knife she had brought had come in handy.

He trudged over, dragging his broadsword, and said shakily, "Who are you? What are you doing in the Southwest? Tell me the truth, or I'll chop your head off..."

After thinking for a long time, Pearl finally came up with what she considered the most vicious phrase: "Kick it like a ball!"

The white-haired man didn't even lift his eyelids, nor did he look directly at the pearl.

This really infuriated Pearl.

Lin Ling quickly tried to calm her brother down, saying, "Don't be angry, don't be angry."

Zhao Duo didn't have that much patience. He stepped on the white-haired man's chest and said, "Speak."

The kick was quite forceful; the white-haired man coughed a few times but remained silent.

Pearl was afraid he would die, so she hurriedly said, "Husband, be gentle, don't step on him to death."

This person seems to be completely unyielding.

Zhao Duo tilted his head. "How about we use a curse?"

Pearl thought for a moment, then said decisively, "Go!"

They won't shed a tear until they see the coffin!

We'll have to resort to some tricks!

Upon hearing this, the white-haired man finally raised his eyelids and looked at the person properly.

His gaze shifted from Zhao Duo to Pearl. Just as he was about to look away, he suddenly realized that Pearl looked very familiar, so he took another look.

At that moment, a tiny insect, smaller than a grain of rice, fell from Zhao Duo's fingertip.

He seemed completely unconcerned about the insect burrowing into his skin; in a short while, the insect would be crushed by his internal force, so it was nothing to fear.

The person in front of me looked so familiar, as if I had seen him somewhere before.

The white-haired man hesitated before speaking, "Could it be that you are Yin Cheng's son?"

Pearl blinked. This person was a foreign race from the North, so it wasn't surprising that she knew him.

The white-haired man narrowed his eyes. "Yin Zhiwei?"

The renowned war god of the North dotes on his eldest son, a fact that is no secret in the North.

"Yes, what, are you going to kill me?"

The white-haired man retorted, "Why would I kill you?"

Pearl said, "If you're not here to kill me, then what are you doing in the Southwest?"

The white-haired man said, "It's none of your business."

Pearl was furious. "The Kingdom of Tengshe, huh? I'll have my father arrest you all and make you do hard labor!"

The white-haired man chuckled and closed his eyes. "Now that I'm in your hands, do with me as you please."

Zhao Duo asked, "Should we just kill them?"

He was waiting for Pearl's decision.

Pearl hesitated, worried that this man was bait. What if he died at his hands and the people of the Tengshe Kingdom took the opportunity to start a war?

I'm very worried, very angry, and I really want to grab a big knife and chop something down.

"How about... we send him to the authorities?" Lin Ling said weakly. "He... he trespassed on private property, lock him up!"

Pearl's eyes lit up. What a great idea!

The charges are readily available, and it's only right that he's locked up in jail.

He immediately wrote to his father, asking him to send someone to arrest this person!

When the white-haired man heard the soft, gentle voice, he remembered the fair-skinned young man he had seen in the bathhouse before.

He raised his eyes and stared intently at Lin Ling.

Lin Ling trembled with fright and quickly hid behind her brother.

That scoundrel, why... why are you staring at him!

Pearl noticed this too, and started rolling up her sleeves. "Before sending him to the authorities, let's give him a good beating first!"

Zhao Duo lowered Zhenzhu's sleeve. "I'll take care of it."

Pearl's eyes immediately lit up with excitement. "My husband, you're so good to me."

Zhao Duo gently squeezed his beloved husband's palm.

Lin Ling: "..."

Lin Ling silently took two steps back, pretending to be a landscape tree.

The white-haired man suddenly spoke up: "Do you know that Yin Cheng was wounded by an arrow?"

Pearl immediately turned her head away, "You're lying to me, I don't believe you."

"You haven't heard of the Holy Church?" the white-haired man said. "They've been quite rampant in the North lately, frequently harassing the borders of your Yin Dynasty."

"This time, Yin Cheng was shot by an arrow, and the Holy Church has publicized the matter extensively. Now all the tribes in the Northern Territory know about it."

Pearl's ears twitched.

The white-haired man continued, "Our Tengshe Kingdom has long since submitted to your Great Yin Dynasty. I would not lie to you."

Zhao Duo said softly to Pearl, "You go back first, I'll handle this, okay?"

Pearl nodded blankly.

Lin Ling never expected that her uncle's affairs would be involved.

He quickly caught up with Pearl, "Brother."

Pearl pinched her younger brother's cheek. "I'm fine, don't worry."

"He's definitely lying. Uncle will be fine."

Pearl smiled. "Okay, are you coming back to the Princess's residence with me tonight?"

Lin Ling was also afraid of this white-haired man, so she obediently nodded.

After the two men left, Zhao Duo stopped pretending.

He had already sensed that the Gu worms he had planted had been torn apart; with his abilities, the rope could not bind him.

That's why he sent Pearl back first, worried that she might get hurt if a fight broke out.

He was looking through the white-haired man's travel documents and identity papers.

Legend has it that there is a tribe in the northern border who are skilled at controlling sand serpents and have called themselves the Kingdom of the Soaring Serpents.

Miao territory had little connection with the various ethnic groups in the northern border, and Zhao Duo couldn't fathom this person's purpose.

However, in a short while, the white-haired man broke free of his restraints.

He cracked his neck. "You know Gu poison. Do you know the Atu clan?"

Zhao Duo said, "That's me."

The white-haired man said, "I want to enter Mount Tsukimi. You take me into the mountain, and I'll give you whatever you want."

Zhao Duo breathed a sigh of relief. Since he was going to Mount Tsukimi, he wasn't there for the pearls.

Seeing that Zhao Duo remained silent, the white-haired man continued, "Everything I just said is true. It is no exaggeration to say that Yin Cheng was shot by an arrow."

Zhao Duo said, "Going into the mountains is easy to arrange, but there is still one thing I don't understand."

The white-haired man said, "Ask away."

Why did you break into my brother's room in the middle of the night?

The white-haired man said, "I didn't know that was your brother's bedroom. Besides, the situation was urgent, and I had no other choice."

He was somewhat possessed at the time, and with pursuers behind him, he had no choice but to find a place to hide.

Unexpectedly, in this vast Wuling County, he found himself standing on the very roof of Lin Ling's boudoir.

Zhao Duo looked at him expressionlessly.