Zheng Dan pointed at Zu An. “Bring him along.”
Zu An was extremely gloomy. He’d set out to obtain intelligence about the Whale Gang’s boss and their hideout, and managed to do so, but the way he obtained it… He really couldn’t bring himself to feel at all happy about it.
Ya Xiao frowned and gestured toward Zu An with his hand. “It won’t be easy for us to move through the city while dragging someone along with us. How about we just find some place to get rid of this Plum Blossom scoundrel?”
Zheng Dan glared at him. “Are you telling me how to do things?”
Ya Xiao broke out into cold sweat at once. “This humble one doesn’t dare!” he said in a panic.
Zu An gave her a mental thumbs-up. This was what a gang boss should be like!
However, this side of her really was too different from that gentle and reserved girl that he was already used to.
A black sack was thrown over Zu An’s head, after which he vaguely felt his body being thrown into a carriage. It felt like he was bundled in and out of four or five different carriages in quick succession, before things started to settle down.
From the gentle rising and falling that he was experiencing, he figured that he had been transferred to a boat.
At first, he thought that Zheng Dan would come and free him, but it seemed like she had no intention of doing so. He was thrown into the hold of the cabin as if forgotten.
What the heck! Are they worried that I’ll remember the way to Whale Gang’s base?
After that sudden angry thought, Zu An quickly calmed down. The way they were treating him surely meant that they had no intentions of killing him. If they had instead let him observe the way to their secret base, they would really have no choice but to silence him.
Just then, he remembered that he now knew Zheng Dan’s identity. Would she really let him go just like that? His mind wrestled with the two options.
In the same boat, Zheng Dan was conflicted as well.
The cool breeze didn’t dispel her unease. She couldn’t figure out how to deal with Zu An either.
She hadn’t expected to encounter Zu An in that restaurant either. She could tell from how he’d wrinkled his brow that he’d already recognized her, and she had to make a snap decision.
It was all that fellow’s fault for messing with her so much, that she had even forgotten to change her fragrance when she changed her outfit. If she’d been clear-headed, she would never have made such a simple mistake.
She really had no idea how she was going to deal with him. There was no way she could let him go, since he’d already discovered her identity. Once she was exposed, not just herself and the Whale Gang, but the entire Zheng clan, would face a disaster.
However, killing him seemed like a bit of a waste.
Forget it. I’ll try and see if I can still get those promissory notes off him.
It wasn’t only Plum Blossom Sect’s seven-and-a-half million taels of silver. The casino that was discreetly supported by the Zheng clan also owed him five hundred thousand taels!
Not only had she failed to obtain any information from the attempts to honey trap him, she’d instead suffered severe losses herself!
It was time for her to change tactics. If soft methods wouldn’t work, she had to resort to harder methods.
That fellow could just break under torture…
While the two of them were wrapped up in their thoughts, the boat arrived at Whale Island.
Zu An was brought out. The black sack over his head was removed and he could finally see light again.
He examined his surroundings. They were on a small island. A faint mist covered everything, and there was no other land in sight. He was impressed by the size of Brightmoon Lake—it was even large enough to hide such a place! It truly was vast and mysterious.
“Gang boss, should we throw this guy into the prison?” Ya Xiao asked.
After a slight hesitation, Zheng Dan said, “Bring him along with me.”
She was worried that something might happen if she let this fellow out of her sight. The Whale Gang was full of ruffians. A single misstep and this guy might just wind up dead.
Besides, it wouldn’t take long to settle whatever important matter had brought her here. She could slowly settle things with him once she was done.
The group thus headed straight into the meeting hall. Just as they were about to reach the hall, a playful voice drifted over to them. “Hm? Just trying to find a way to get rid of him was starting to give me a headache, but it seems like all that effort wasn’t necessary! Isn’t this the Chu clan’s young master, Zu An? Didn’t you have many experts protecting you? How did you end up here?”