A Perfect Match Made in Trouble

Colin Gu glared at Evan Xiao, his face twisted with rage. Suddenly, he grabbed Grace's hand and said, "Come with me!"

Grace pushed him away. "Where are we going?"

Colin Gu stared at her. "Don’t you care about your mother anymore?"

Grace gasped. "My mother? Did you take her?"

"Come with me and I’ll release her!" Colin Gu grabbed Grace’s hand again, pulling her away.

Seeing this, Wendy Zhu hurried after them, calling out as she ran, "Your Majesty, where are you going? Take me with you!"

Colin Gu dragged Grace into the Eight Trigram Array.

As soon as they entered, his right hand suddenly glowed gold, and a semi-transparent energy shield appeared, visible to the naked eye.

Wendy Zhu crashed into the energy shield, unable to get in. She kept pounding on it and crying.

"Grace!" Once inside, someone called her name.

Grace turned and saw her mother there, with Hope by her side.

"Hope, what happened?" Grace asked, her face serious.

"It was the Second Miss!" Hope angrily pointed at Wendy Zhu, who was still pounding outside the barrier. "She disguised herself as you and gave me a Palace Exit Token, telling me to bring Madam here. It was only when we arrived that I realized it was her!"

Hope paused, gritting her teeth and blushing. "The Second Miss also said the Emperor was afraid you wouldn’t... consummate the marriage, so he brought Madam here to threaten you!"

Grace looked at Colin Gu. "Is that true?"

Colin Gu gave a twisted smile. "Looks like Wendy Zhu actually had a pretty good idea."

Grace took a deep breath. "You and Wendy Zhu really are a perfect pair!"

Colin Gu raised an eyebrow. "Grace, I brought you here just to let your mother go."

"Then let her go!"

"This Eight Trigram Array is a formation passed down by generations of Blue Moon Kingdom emperors. It's powered by the Sacred Tree. No one but a god can break it!"

"So?"

"I can let your mother go!" Colin Gu said. "But you have to use the Self-Paralysis Technique and become my hostage."

"With your level of cultivation, why should I use the Self-Paralysis Technique for you?" Grace reached out to grab Colin Gu's arm.

But at that moment, several crisscrossing arrows of spiritual energy shot out from the barrier, grazing Grace and piercing the ground, leaving a ring of bottomless holes.

This was the power of the formation—no human could resist it.

Grace froze, unable to move.

"Don’t be reckless," Colin Gu said. "It’s not exactly safe in here!"

Grace gritted her teeth. "Let my mother and Hope leave first, and I’ll agree!"

"No way!" Lena blurted out. "Grace, I’ll stay as the hostage. You go!"

"I bet His Majesty won’t agree," Grace looked at Colin Gu. "Right?"

Colin Gu smiled. "Madam, I only want Grace!"

"Mother! Did you hear me?" Grace shot Lena a look. "Go on, I’ll be fine."

Lena understood that her cultivation was far inferior to Grace’s and would only hold her back. She gritted her teeth and said, "All right."

Colin Gu extended his right hand. "Drip blood onto the center of my right palm, and you can leave!"

Grace saw that there was an Eight Trigram symbol in the center of his palm.

So the formation was already fused with Colin Gu! He controlled the core, able to manipulate it at will!

Lena and Hope walked over, each dripping blood onto his right palm, then headed out of the barrier.