Ning Chen didn't blame Wu Tiezhu. If even a master above the ranks altogether like him had been caught, the enemy was very skilled. A few guards couldn't have stopped it.

"Brother Zhuzi, this isn't your fault. Get up first!"

Wu Tiezhu rose, deeply ashamed.

Ning Chen sat up and leaned against the headboard, his eyes narrowed. "The person came in through the skylight, didn't they?"

Pan Yucheng and the others were startled.

Feng Qizheng blurted, "How'd you know?"

Ning Chen smiled. "Isn't it obvious? There are guards at the front and back of my room. Anyone who wanted to get in would have to come from above. They couldn't very well tunnel up out of the floor, could they?

Before I passed out, I caught a glimpse of the person's build. Someone that size could get through the skylight."

Feng Qizheng asked, "Did you see whether it was a man or a woman?"

The corner of Ning Chen's mouth twitched hard. "Are you sick? Why would a man give me a savage aphrodisiac?"

Feng Qizheng muttered, "Not necessarily. The drug you got is called the Yin-Yang Stamen. It's the stamen of some flower.

The doctor who treated you said the Yin-Yang Stamen is powerful stuff. Never mind people—even the wild beasts in the mountains, if they eat it by accident, will mate with anything, whatever kind it is.

The old doctor said that with the state you were in last night, all you wanted was to get it out of your system, man or woman, didn't matter."

Little by little, Ning Chen's expression turned to horror. He looked at Pan Yucheng.

Pan Yucheng nodded. "That really is what the old doctor said.

Think hard. Was the one who drugged you last night a man or a woman?"

Ning Chen was stunned. His scalp prickled.

"A woman. From her build, it couldn't have been a man. It was definitely a woman."

Pan Yucheng said, "When we came in, there was no lamp lit in the room. In pitch darkness, with nothing but a blurry shape to go on, it's hard…