Bai Qingfan went into the inner room and took off his clothes, baring a lean, powerful upper body.

But the skin on his body was, of all things, two different colors.

Bai Qingfan studied himself in the bronze mirror. Then, as easily as taking off a garment, he peeled a complete suit of skin off his body.

And the suit was made of real human skin.

With the human-skin suit off, the wounds on Bai Qingfan's shoulder and arm showed.

The wounds had barely scabbed over.

Bai Qingfan's face turned vicious. His wounds had almost healed, but when Ning Chen tested him, they had torn open again.

Bai Qingfan put medicine on the wounds. Then he drew half a basin of clean water, took out a small porcelain bottle, dripped in a few drops of some unknown liquid, and finally soaked the human-skin suit in the water.

The suit had been flayed from a living person by a secret method, then soaked in a specially prepared solution... Without that, the human-skin suit would discolor and start to stink.

When all that was done, Bai Qingfan changed into night clothes and left the room.

Half an hour later, Bai Qingfan appeared in Ning Chen's study and searched it from end to end.

He turned the study upside down, but plainly he hadn't found what he was after.

"Where did that dog stash it? If it isn't in the study, could it be in his room?"

Bai Qingfan muttered to himself.

He'd meant to go search Ning Chen's room, but on second thought, Xiao Yanxi might be in there. Besides, Ning Chen's room was guarded on every side by the Ning'an Army. It wouldn't be too late to act once he'd found out more.

The next day.

Bai Qingfan went to find Xiao Yanxi.

"Teacher, did you want to see me?"

After a night of Ning Chen's attentions, Xiao Yanxi was more alluring than ever.

Bai Qingfan looked at her with burning eyes. "Little Music, your teacher has been in Xiguan City for a few days now. This visit was mainly to…