Volume 1, Chapter 25: I Was Not Looking for Trouble, Yet You Came Looking for Me!
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Seeing Leng Ran’s puzzled, half-understanding expression, the maids said nothing. They simply began washing her face and helping her change clothes.
“Sorry, but I can’t disclose Zhe Yu’s whereabouts. However, he’s rarely at the company, so you generally won’t be able to find him there.” The receptionist had clearly grown accustomed to dealing with fans and refused them with practiced ease.
Wang Jianguo explained that the gifts were for his younger brother and sister. He treated them equally, telling his second brother, “Once you graduate, I’ll give you an imported watch.” Grandpa Wang was highly pleased with his eldest grandson’s behavior. In private, he slipped him two hundred yuan and told him to repay the money he owed his colleague.
According to Huang Zhan, someone from the dragon clan had to intervene and resolve the matter; otherwise, the power of Dragon Raises Its Head might not acknowledge them. It was not enough merely for Dragon Raises Its Head to trust Huang Zhan. At present, after unleashing its Thousand-Mile Ice Seal, Dragon Raises Its Head acted entirely on instinct.
To me, however, Jing Rong was now nothing more than a ghost, albeit a little stronger than ordinary ghosts, with an especially heavy aura of blackness. I had experienced that feeling before on a vicious spirit, so Jing Rong must once have been a vicious ghost, right? But it no longer mattered. After everything I had been through, I was no longer afraid of him.
Cao Ruoxi gazed at their retreating figures and sighed softly. Lying there, Fu Ye saw the trace of sorrow in her eyes, and a flicker of heartache crossed his own.
It wasn’t that I was afraid of death. The main issue was that I had no idea what would become of this family if I died. So I wanted to be happy, and I would never casually choose to make a sacrifice. Sometimes the person making the sacrifice might think they were being noble, but the pain they left the living could last a lifetime.
The spatula clattered into the sink. Jiang Jinyan, his hair damp and wrapped in a black bathrobe, had appeared behind her at some point.
The Jiang family dealt with the matter promptly. The newspapers and media merely speculated wildly, and after a few scattered reports, they never mentioned it again. The departments adjacent to the restroom where Chu Yun had been were precisely among those that had closed down.
“I’ve become like this now. Will you despise me?” Jiang Yining was very weak, yet remarkably calm, as though he had known all along that this would happen.
After a while, the curtains hanging from the ceiling to the floor behind the sliding glass doors of the balcony facing Longyuan Spring began to stir.
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According to Ling Hao’s observations, this was the only high vantage point in the area, and the natural sniping position was right at the top of the chimney.
That was true. In fact, the blueprint provided by the system was only for the mecha. As for the weapons, Yang Zhenkun had added them later, so compared with the system’s rewards, there were still a few minor inconveniences.
Zhang Xian remembered now. Back then, Pan Fengxu had been a terrible student, smoking, drinking, and chasing girls all day long. He had dropped out without even taking the college entrance examination.
The chieftain stood on the lookout platform on the second floor, watching his slaves work in humiliation within the stronghold. He was in an exceptionally good mood.
The moment Ling Hao set foot on this path, he realized that although it was rugged, no one had ever traveled it before.
She was always riding on her husband’s head, insulting him day after day for being useless. What kind of ability was that? Did she look anything like a proper wife?
He held up the last piece of bear-leg meat in his hand and took a vicious bite. His shameless expression seemed to say that it was unbelievably delicious.
The workers of Abast were all shaken by the Second Prince’s cold-blooded methods, but Dari, who had witnessed the horrors of battle, paid it no mind. On the battlefield, losing a hand was nothing; even being torn into pieces was commonplace.
After finishing a bowl of udon noodles, Lihua broke into a sweat. Her throat felt much better, and her mind had calmed as well. If Yuan Zimo was deliberately avoiding her, anything she did would be futile. To thank Zhou Shuliang, she might as well honestly go back to work.
Gu Tian looked at me strangely. He must have thought my words were merely meant to comfort him, but I truly could try to help. Although blessings seemed capable of curing only physical ailments, I could tell Gu Le to make a deal with the devil. The devil might refuse to see me, but that did not mean he had stopped trading with humans.
After sending people to investigate the situation, the district committee concluded that someone had indeed been deliberately causing trouble. It decided that the demolition office would take the lead, with the police and urban management authorities assisting, and that several departments would work together to forcibly demolish the homes of these holdout residents.
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He brought the emperor to Wang Family Village and then disappeared—not truly disappearing, but hiding in the shadows and watching everything unfold.
“I don’t have time to joke around with you right now. I have a task for you…” Ye Binglan said anxiously.
I had no idea where I was. All I knew was that one of my hands was being clasped tightly by another, slender and delicate hand as soft as jade. In a daze, I was led all the way onto an extraordinarily spacious stage.
Yang Dong collapsed in a pool of blood. A day later, he died despite emergency treatment. From then on, the Yang and Zhou families fell into a deep freeze. The childhood sweethearts were separated as well. Zhou Ting was sent by the Zhou family to a country in Europe, partly as exile and partly for his protection.
Just as Huang Yan, expressionless, was bending down to pick up the large coin someone had knocked to the ground, a large foot wearing silk shoes stepped on it first.
The man’s household had been plagued by unrest lately, leaving him deeply frustrated. He had been thinking of turning Jin Chanzi and Wukong away, but then reconsidered. After all, they were men beyond the secular world, and there was no escaping the matter at home anyway. He might as well perform a few good deeds and accumulate some merit for his two unfortunate children.
“Uh… Xinyi can prepare one for everyone in the future, hehe…” Huang Yan seemed to sense the faint murderous intent in their gazes and hurriedly forced an awkward smile.
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