“The timing should be about right.” Lin Ye calculated that nearly half an hour had passed since he entered this place. The good show was about to begin.
As he thought this, Lin Ye’s spatial ring flashed faintly, and a delicate jade pendant appeared in his hand. It was the very one Song Yin had left in Lin Ye’s room that afternoon.
After casually tossing the jade pendant into a corner, Lin Ye returned to the first floor of the Treasure Pavilion.
After carefully observing the activity outside for a long while, Lin Ye finally found a gap in the guards’ patrol. He quickly opened the main door, then immediately returned to the corner where he had been before.
“Big brother, I definitely didn’t hear wrong this time!”
“That’s right! I also heard the sound of the Treasure Pavilion’s main door opening just now!”
“Yes, I’ll report to the family head. You stay here and stand guard. Second Brother, take a team and search the surroundings. If you see anyone suspicious, arrest them immediately!”
The guard captain finally realized the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly issued orderly instructions to everyone.
Having said that, he hurried toward the residence of Lin Hai, the Lin Family’s family head.
“You, search the south. You, the north.” After the guard captain left, the man known as Second Brother immediately ordered everyone to inspect the surrounding area.
Watching the activity in the distance, Lin Ye’s lips curled into a mocking smile.
If it came to head-on combat, he might truly be inferior to these guards. But when it came to moving covertly, absolutely no one here would be able to discover his whereabouts.
Lin Ye immediately moved, using the assassin-exclusive Wind Shadow Step. An afterimage remained where he stood, while he had already dashed more than ten meters away. Before long, he had left the search area of all the guards.
However, he did not return directly to his own residence.
About two minutes later, Lin Ye lightly leaped down from the several-meter-high courtyard wall, and his figure appeared inside Liu Yun’s courtyard.
It was around midnight. Under the sprinkling of moonlight, Liu Yun’s courtyard was not especially dark.
Lin Ye swept his gaze around. Aside from various exquisite potted plants and decorations, there was only one living person in the courtyard: the maidservant dozing at the room’s entrance.
Hearing the faint gasps and delicate moans intermittently coming through the doors and windows, Lin Ye’s lips curled into a faint smile. Just as he had expected, Lin Hai really was incapable!
In a moment, when Lin Hai saw his beloved wife enjoying herself beneath another man, who knew what expression would appear on that old face of his?
Lin Ye’s figure flashed, and in the blink of an eye he appeared in front of the maidservant. He then took the medicine bottle of sleeping powder he had bought that afternoon from his spatial ring and held it beneath the maidservant’s nose for several seconds.
Only when the maidservant’s breathing became increasingly even did Lin Ye put the medicine bottle back into his spatial ring.
He then moved the maidservant, who had fallen into a deep sleep, to one side.
“Creak!”
The sound of the room door being gently pushed open rang out, and the sounds inside became even clearer in Lin Ye’s ears.
However, with the help of the Heavenly Fragrance Powder, the two people lost in pleasure clearly did not notice Lin Ye’s arrival at all.
“Who?” The man’s movements abruptly froze as he shouted in panic.
Because Lin Ye was wearing Nightwalker Garb with a mask covering his face, Song Yin could only vaguely see a black shadow at the doorway.
That’s right—the person who had passed by outside Lin Ye’s room about half an hour earlier was Song Yin.
Since many people had seen him enter Liu Yun’s courtyard that afternoon, he could only leave first to avoid attracting gossip.
It was not until nighttime that he dared to carefully return to do what he wanted with her.
When Song Yin discovered him, Lin Ye’s face behind the black mask showed a trace of surprise.
But it did not matter. A teasing smile curled at the corners of Lin Ye’s mouth behind the mask as he slowly walked toward the large bed where the two were.
“Mm!” Liu Yun’s consciousness seemed unclear. At Song Yin’s pause, Liu Yun shifted her body restlessly.
“Who are you?” Song Yin carefully soothed Liu Yun while asking Lin Ye coldly, his expression grim.
He wanted to leave Liu Yun’s body, but he could never overcome his body’s reaction.
He did not know what was wrong with him today. His endurance had lasted exceptionally long; this had never happened before!
From Song Yin’s performance, Lin Ye could tell that the Heavenly Fragrance Powder had affected him, but it had nowhere near driven him out of his mind.
But it did not matter. The reason Lin Ye had administered the Heavenly Fragrance Powder to him on the way was that he feared some unexpected incident at the Treasure Pavilion might delay him.
Now that he was already here and Song Yin had not left, his objective had been achieved.
“I’m here to help you both experience a sensation you have never enjoyed before.” Lin Ye smiled faintly.
He deliberately lowered his voice. Based on his voice alone, no one could possibly associate it with him.
As he spoke, Lin Ye took a medicine bottle from his spatial ring and scattered the medicinal powder inside into the air.
“You!”
Song Yin stared at Lin Ye’s actions in terror. Before he could say anything, the focus in his eyes gradually blurred.
Then the last traces of clarity in his eyes completely vanished, and he once again transformed into a beast, rampaging over Liu Yun.
Looking at their reactions, Lin Ye inwardly praised the Heavenly Fragrance Powder. It truly deserved to be the best aphrodisiac here. If he had not taken the antidote earlier, he wondered whether he would have ended up as helpless as Song Yin.
Lin Ye slowly shifted his gaze away from the two of them. He took a bowl of water from his spatial ring and placed it beside the bed, then lifted his leg and left the room filled with sounds of passion.
Afterward, Lin Ye carefully erased the footprints he had left in the room and courtyard. Once he confirmed that no traces remained, he finally left Liu Yun’s courtyard.
After leaving Liu Yun’s courtyard, he heard a commotion like the Treasure Pavilion had exploded. Clearly, the theft at the Treasure Pavilion had been discovered.
Moreover, judging from the commotion, the guards seemed to be searching every courtyard on a massive scale.
Lin Ye smiled faintly and hid in a corner where he could observe the activity at the entrance to Liu Yun’s courtyard.
About ten minutes later, Lin Hai and the search team finally arrived in front of Liu Yun’s courtyard.
“Family head, should we search Madam’s courtyard as well?” the guard captain asked hesitantly.
“Search it!” Lin Hai’s expression was as gloomy as water. He looked like a powder keg ready to explode at any moment, appearing extremely frightening.
This Lin Hai, who was also Lin Ye’s father, looked only around thirty years old. He had a sturdy build and a rather resolute, handsome face, though the cold, hard lines of his features made him seem somewhat unapproachable.
If he had not been incapable in that regard, Liu Yun probably would not have taken such a great risk to do this with Song Yin.
“Yes!” Seeing Lin Hai’s expression, the guard captain did not dare hesitate in the slightest and hurriedly led everyone into the courtyard.
“Uh!”
The moment they entered the courtyard, they heard the indistinct sounds coming from inside the room. All the guards abruptly froze, then tacitly turned their gazes toward Lin Hai’s face.
Lin Hai also froze the instant he heard those sounds. He then reacted, seemingly unable to believe what his ears had heard.
Ignoring the gaze of the heavy guard, Lin Hai stiffly walked toward Liu Yun’s room.
“Get lost!” As the sounds reaching his ears grew louder and louder, Lin Hai kicked aside the maidservant sleeping soundly at the door.
“Bang!”
The room door was kicked open violently.