After instructing the three children to keep an eye on the two, Tang Xiaoxiao went back into the villa to find a rope to tie them up.

Tang Xiaoxiao hadn't gone far when the two men exchanged a glance and tried to escape again.

However, they had just made a slight movement...

"Meow meow!"

If you try anything again, I'll mess with you!

"Woof woof woof!"

Behave yourself!

The two could not understand the meaning of their calls, but the threat was too obvious.

The short, stocky man had already experienced the black panther's strength, and was indeed frightened by the barking, shrinking back and suppressing his restless thoughts.

The other person was scratched several times by the two cats and was still shaken.

They saw the two cats and the dog with their fur standing on end, staring at them menacingly.

I'm too scared to move, I'm too scared to move QAQ

Where the hell did they get these cats and dogs? How come they're so big and so fierce!

Tang Xiaoxiao quickly retrieved a thick hemp rope from the villa and swiftly tied the two of them together tightly. She dragged them to the light at the villa entrance and threw them on the ground before leisurely pulling up a chair to sit down and asking slowly, "Tell me, where are you from, and what are your names?"

The two men were tied back to back, unable to even exchange glances. The short, stocky man who had been bitten hesitated for a moment before finally speaking, "We are from Liu Family Village."

Liujia Village and Houtang Village are not adjacent; there is a Qiantang Village in between.

However, it's not that far.

Tang Xiaoxiao guessed that the other party was most likely not from this village, as he looked very unfamiliar. The main reason was that although there were people with different surnames in their Hou Tang Village, almost no one would dare to barge into her house unless they didn't want to live in the village anymore.

They didn't give their names, and Tang Xiaoxiao wasn't interested in knowing anyway, since she didn't recognize any of them.

She simply asked, "What are you trying to do by climbing in? Stealing something? Or... are you after me?"

The tone suddenly turned somber in the second half of the sentence.

The girl's tone was unhurried and somewhat sweet, yet in the stillness of the night, it inexplicably carried a sinister air. The two men secretly glanced at the girl under the lamplight, and faced with that unhurried, even slightly smiling, beautiful face, a chill ran down their spines.

How fearless must one be to remain so calm and composed after two strange men have broken into their home?

The other, slightly thinner and taller man still felt sharp pain in the places where the cat had scratched his arms and thighs. Remembering the force that had thrown him off the artificial hill, he shuddered and stammered, "I...we just wanted to get something valuable...your family looks very wealthy, so...we weren't planning on doing anything else..."

“Yes, yes, we just wanted to steal some things, we really didn’t intend to do anything else!” another short, stocky man echoed.

"Is that so?" Tang Xiaoxiao scoffed.

Don't think she didn't see the fleeting greed in their eyes the moment she finished asking the question.

Perhaps he wants both wealth and beauty.

Their ambitions are quite large.

It was no secret that she lived alone in the villa. She was skilled and daring, the villa was surrounded by surveillance cameras, and she had several pets on guard. Moreover, most of the people in Hou Tang Village were relatives, so Tang Xiaoxiao never worried about safety.

These two thieves probably didn't know anything about her situation and came to her door without asking around.

Otherwise, Black Panther alone would be quite famous in the village. When Tang Xiaoxiao had free time, she would often take them for walks in the village. People in the neighborhood all knew that she had a very powerful dog and two huge cats that didn't look like cats at all.