“Ah!”

A scream echoed from the room. Lu Xiaoyao and the others had only been out for a few minutes, having just been driven out by Dai Wei to find someone. Now, a man's shriek suddenly rang out from behind them.

Hearing this, Lu Xiaoyao and the others immediately rushed back.

As soon as they reached the hall, Lu Xiaoyao saw Mary, her face pale and trembling, holding a fruit knife and staring at the unfamiliar man lying on the ground, blood spurting from his neck like a fountain.

It was clear he wouldn't survive.

"Holy crap!"

Lu Xiaoyao was so startled that she immediately covered her eyes. It wasn't just the bloody scene, but the dying man's trousers were loose, revealing a suggestive sight that was simply too obscene.

He clearly intended to do something terrible but was killed by Mary in self-defense!

"What happened? Heavens! Mr. Johnson!"

The old butler, arriving late, recognized the man on the ground at a glance and was so frightened that he hurried forward, shouting for someone to help.

But the man's pupils were already dilated, his eyes unfocused, and his breathing was gradually fading.

"What are you doing?!"

Du Laisen hadn't expected this to happen while he was upstairs.

Looking at the lifeless man on the floor, his expression was grim. No wonder he couldn't find him when he told the guests upstairs that the party would be postponed.

Judging from the situation, the guy probably woke up drunk and, driven by lust, mistook Mary for a newcomer and tried to get physical, which led to this...?

He looked questioningly at Mary, but saw her staring back at him with disgust and loathing!

"Do you know who you just killed?"

Seeing her expression, Du Laisen's tone turned cold, abandoning his usual gentle demeanor.

"How would I know who I killed? Why don't you ask me why I did it?!"

Mary's voice grew louder and louder, and a wave of nausea surged up from her stomach.

It was too disgusting!

What did that man say just now?

Everyone comes here to have a good time, isn't that why they stay?

Was *this* what he meant by "a good time"?

She recalled the man's face, flushed red from drinking, as he tugged at her collar, pulled at her trousers, touched her inappropriately, and made filthy comments about Dai Wei.

She had thought that seeing Du Laisen in the garden with another woman tonight was enough to anger her, but what else had she heard?!

That man!

"No reason justifies killing the mayor's youngest son, Mary. You know everything..."

Du Laisen's eyes were dark as he stared at his wife, his last sentence spoken with certainty.

"I didn't want you to know any of this."

"You didn't want me to know? You scum! So you let Dai Wei know, and did those things here! With a group of people! Are you even human?!"

Mary trembled with rage, hysterically screaming and venting everything at the man!

She had only met Dai Wei today and realized how different she was from what she had imagined. They should have been "love rivals" and hated each other, but Dai Wei had been so kind to her, telling her that Du Laisen was not a good person.

If Lena hadn't disappeared tonight, Dai Wei would have pretended not to know anything and sent her away.

And she herself would have been trapped in this dark and filthy world forever!

"Dai Wei?" Du Laisen's eyes narrowed, and he chuckled like he was amused by a cat or dog. "So it was her. Seems she's not obedient enough."

With that, Du Laisen gestured for the servants around him to seize Mary. Bai Xiao and Lu Xiaoyao, hidden among the crowd, naturally wouldn't stand idly by. They immediately helped Mary beat the others down.

"These are the 'temporary workers' you mentioned?"

Watching the sudden emergence of the five, helping Mary fight, Du Laisen's tone was laced with displeasure, causing the old butler to break into a cold sweat.

"Master... I, I don't know!"

The house had just held a ball, and the tables and chairs hadn't been put back, leaving plenty of space for a free-for-all.

Dai Wei, hearing the commotion, came downstairs and saw Mary, looking pale, confronting Du Laisen, who looked displeased, across a wall of fighting bodies.

"Don't go over there." Mary quickly sensed Dai Wei coming down the stairs and walking to her side. She stretched out her hand to stop Dai Wei and said, "He knows..."

When Mary said "knows," she naturally meant that Du Laisen knew of Mary's arrival and that she was connected to Dai Wei. Dai Wei sighed inwardly, reached out and pressed Mary's hand down, and said, "Later, after you find Lena, take her and leave."

"I can't leave."

Mary pointed to the corpse not far away, and Dai Wei clearly saw the dagger in her hand, causing Dai Wei to gasp. "He, he's the mayor's youngest son!"

"Yes, I know." Mary smiled bitterly and turned to look at Dai Wei. "But that man deserved to die. He was saying such filthy, disgusting things, and he wanted to do something... Someone like that..."

After hearing so much from Mary, Dai Wei naturally understood what she meant, and a hint of disgust appeared on her face as well.

How could she not know what kind of man he was?

"Careful!"

Suddenly, Lu Xiaoyao felt someone slam into her back, and a tremendous force knocked her to the ground. Immediately afterward, a loud gunshot rang out above her head!

"He has a gun!"

Bai Xiao watched Julian dive to push Lu Xiaoyao out of the way of the bullet. She turned her head and saw Du Laisen holding a revolver. After missing his first shot, he immediately shifted his aim and shot Zhen Po, who was stunned by the situation, knocking her to the ground!

"Zhen Po?!"

Lu Xiaoyao, lying on the ground, watched Zhen Po fall unconscious and her eyes turned red. Immediately after, another gunshot rang out. Du Laisen once again turned his gun on the two people on the ground, but Julian immediately grabbed Lu Xiaoyao and spun around, the entire process taking only two seconds!

Seeing this, Bai Xiao immediately grabbed a tablecloth from a nearby table, wrapped it around, and whipped it at Du Laisen!

Bai Xiao's attacks were incredibly fast, and Yuan Fang immediately flanked Du Laisen from the side, cooperating with Bai Xiao to subdue him.

"Get up quickly." Julian took the opportunity to pull Lu Xiaoyao up from the ground. Seeing other servants attempting to ambush them, the two quickly fought back, once again engaging in a brawl with the others.

The scene was chaotic once more!

...

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a loud crash echoed from outside the tightly closed door of the exhibition room!

Mu Chen and the others were startled, then exchanged glances, seeing disbelief in each other's eyes!

"Who is it?"

When they had entered earlier, they had casually closed the door and locked it from the inside. But what was that sound coming from outside?