A short while later, Lin Baishan arrived at the door with a beautiful woman dressed in a pale yellow dress.

"Go inside, Mr. Ye is waiting for you," Lin Baishan said.

The beautiful woman nodded, took a deep breath, and then entered Yefeng's room.

Seeing that Li Chang'an and Li Mingzhu were both there, and that the two were standing respectfully in front of Ye Feng, she was not surprised at all, but rather felt that it was only natural.

Having been in Lingluo City for several days, she had heard some news about the Hengfeng Chamber of Commerce.

"Are you Liu Jinxiang, the current president of the Jinxiang Chamber of Commerce in Fengchi City?" Ye Feng asked.

“Exactly.” Liu Jinxiang nodded.

"I think I've seen you at the Baicaotang auction? I remember you were with Deng Feng then?" Ye Feng frowned slightly.

Liu Jinxiang knelt down in front of Ye Feng with a thud, her beautiful eyes gradually turning red.

Li Chang'an and Li Mingzhu were both startled by Liu Jinxiang's actions, and they both stepped aside.

"What are you doing?" Ye Feng frowned even more.

Liu Jinxiang didn't answer Ye Feng's question. Instead, she sobbed, "A month ago, I took my daughter on a trip and accidentally met Lin Chaofeng, the sect leader of the Secret Soul Sect. Lin Chaofeng actually said that my daughter had extraordinary bones and exceptional talent, and wanted to take her as his disciple..."

“The Secret Soul Sect is infamous, how could I possibly agree to that? So I pretended to decline, politely refused him, and hurriedly took my daughter Liu Xiangnan back to Fengchi City.”

"But I never expected that shortly after returning home, my daughter Xiangnan would fall into a coma and her health would deteriorate day by day. I consulted countless doctors, but none of them could find the cause of her illness, let alone cure her..."

Upon hearing this, Ye Feng already knew what had happened.

It's obvious that Lin Chaofeng, the sect leader of the Secret Soul Sect, has placed a curse on Liu Jinxiang's daughter, Liu Xiangnan, and it's most likely a curse targeting her soul.

As expected, Liu Jinxiang continued, "A few days later, Lin Chaofeng, the sect leader of the Secret Soul Sect, sent a letter through his disciple. In the letter, he claimed that he had placed a Soul-Stealing Curse on my daughter, which would cause her soul to dissipate within a month at the latest, at which point my daughter would be dead."

"If I want to save my daughter, I have to send her to the Secret Soul Sect, but I... how can I push my daughter into a pit of fire..."

Liu Jinxiang burst into tears, which made Li Chang'an and Li Mingzhu feel sorry for her.

Ye Feng said, "So you learned that the Eastern Extremity Soul-Brightening Grass could heal the soul and counteract the Soul-Stealing Curse that Lin Chaofeng placed on your daughter, so you rushed to Lingluo City to participate in the Hundred Herbs Hall's auction and bid for the Eastern Extremity Soul-Brightening Grass?"

“That’s right…” Liu Jinxiang nodded, sobbing.

"But your Golden Fragrance Merchant Guild has declined, and you simply can't afford enough spirit stones to bid for the Eastern Extreme Bright Soul Grass, so you approached Deng Feng, the young master of the Great Dragon Merchant Guild?" Ye Feng added.

“That’s right…” Liu Jinxiang’s face was streaked with tears.

Li Mingzhu asked with some curiosity, "President Jinxiang, you must have agreed to some conditions with Deng Feng, right? Deng Feng is no good; he would never help someone for no reason."

Liu Jinxiang's expression became extremely awkward.

She hesitated for a moment before finally saying, "Deng Feng wants me to marry him... I agreed."

"What?" Li Chang'an was taken aback.

Li Mingzhu was also extremely surprised.

After all, Deng Feng is only in his early twenties, while Liu Jinxiang is already over thirty.

With such a large age gap between them, Deng Feng still demands that Liu Jinxiang marry him. That's really... a heavy taste!

However, Li Chang'an quickly realized what was going on and explained, "Deng Feng wants to annex the Jinxiang Chamber of Commerce in Fengchi City. His marriage of Liu Jinxiang to him is just a means to annex the Jinxiang Chamber of Commerce. There's nothing strange about it."

"I see, I didn't think of that before," Li Mingzhu nodded.

Ye Feng looked at Liu Jinxiang and asked, "You'd rather hand over your Jinxiang Chamber of Commerce to Deng Feng and the Dalong Chamber of Commerce than not save your daughter? You two really have a deep mother-daughter bond. But seeing you like this, I can roughly understand why your Jinxiang Chamber of Commerce has fallen to such a state."

A deep sense of grief and indignation appeared on Liu Jinxiang's face.

“Mr. Ye, if you want to laugh at me, then laugh all you want. But please give me the Eastern Soul-Brightening Grass. I need it to save my daughter…”

"If you promise, I...I can..."

Ye Feng burst into laughter, and after laughing, he said, "What can you do? Marry me? Sorry, I'm not interested in you, nor in your Golden Fragrance Merchant Guild. Don't even mention exchanging you for the Eastern Pole Bright Soul Grass, one of the Four Sacred Herbs; even if you offered yourself to me, I wouldn't want you!"

Liu Jinxiang's mature and beautiful face turned deathly pale instantly!

"Go away, I won't give you the Eastern Soul Grass," Ye Feng said.

"How could you be so heartless..."

Liu Jinxiang burst into tears and moved in front of Ye Feng, grabbing his legs with both hands.

The night wind casually waved its hand, and Liu Jinxiang was immediately enveloped by an invisible force and flew backward, flying several meters before finally crashing to the ground in a very disheveled state.

"Kick her out," Ye Feng said calmly.

Li Chang'an immediately summoned Lin Baishan, who drove Liu Jinxiang out of Ye Feng's room and out of the Hengfeng Chamber of Commerce.

Liu Jinxiang burst into tears, her face streaked with tears, her makeup ruined.

But she didn't leave.

Liu Jinxiang knelt on the street, at the entrance of the Hengfeng Chamber of Commerce, and kept kowtowing.

“Mr. Ye, that woman hasn’t left. She’s kneeling outside the Chamber of Commerce’s gate, kowtowing to you,” Li Chang’an said with a wry smile.

"Ignore her," Ye Feng said nonchalantly.

An hour has passed.

Liu Jinxiang's forehead was bruised and swollen, and it had even started to bleed.

Passersby on the street looked at her with suspicion and began to whisper among themselves.

"What's wrong with this woman?"

"Why was she kneeling and kowtowing outside the Hengfeng Chamber of Commerce? What did she do?"

"Does anyone know why? Explain it quickly!"

Liu Jinxiang ignored the onlookers around her and continued to kowtow to Ye Feng, gritting her teeth.

“Mr. Ye, she hasn’t left yet. Her forehead is bleeding from banging it against something,” Li Mingzhu said as she entered Ye Feng’s room.

Night Wind frowned, but said nothing.

Three hours have passed.

As dusk fell, lights began to illuminate the streets.

Liu Jinxiang continued to kowtow, but she was exhausted and her body was trembling.

Finally, she couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed outside the Hengfeng Chamber of Commerce with a thud.

“Mr. Ye, Liu Jinxiang has fainted and passed out…” Li Mingzhu said quickly, her words tinged with sympathy.

Ye Feng opened his eyes and said angrily, "How dare this damned woman morally blackmail me?"