Volume 1 Chapter 42 She Hung Onto Shang Chen

By the time Chu Tian learned that Chu Cunan had been forced into a grand marriage in Western Chu, the raw rice had already been cooked into unhallowed porridge.

Taking the steaming bowl of venison soup from Yuying's hands, the man stirred it gently, releasing an overwhelming fragrance.

"Drink it. It has quite a few graded medicinal herbs added to it, which are great for nourishing the complexion and protecting the skin," Jinxiu said.

Hearing this, Xiao Rang sighed as well, "Miss Li, please leave. From now on, the grudges between me and the Li family are settled. As long as the Li family stops coming to trouble me, I will definitely not bother you ever again."

Crane wanted to speak further, but noticed that the bronze crane ornament beside Miaoyun twitched slightly before spitting a vermilion bead from its beak onto the bronze tray.

The waves churned violently as the mutant octopus, wounded by my strike once again, plunged abruptly and dove beneath the sea surface.

"That doesn't count! With two face masks in between, and it was just a fleeting touch like a dragonfly skimming the water—what kind of first kiss is that?"

Well, if looks could kill, he figured he would have died ten thousand times over already. Liu Qianzhan hurriedly clamped his mouth shut, lacking the courage to voice the words that followed.

Could that man in black who had previously pretended to be a fan actually be him, having deliberately hired someone to dress up?

"What's wrong, Arthur? Surely you aren't afraid that you'll have no one to accompany you tonight?" Valentine patted Arthur's shoulder with a wicked smile.

Feng Yunfeng's expression shifted abruptly. He had clearly caught a glimpse of hope, only to be plunged into deep despair the very next instant.

With Wang Xuanlong's speed, the Li family residence was only about two kilometers away, and in less than a minute, he arrived at his doorstep. As soon as he stepped inside, his mother, Yan Fang, tightly grabbed his hand and pulled him toward the bedroom.

"You imprisoned me—what exactly is your purpose?" The Elephant Clan cultivator, named Xiangcheng, asked with a guarded expression as he appeared before Cui Feng, his injuries slightly healed after a night of rest.

"Shiyan has already stayed at the estate for nearly a month, yet there is still no news regarding my family's vendetta. Therefore, Shiyan has come to bid farewell to Uncle and venture outside to see if I can uncover any information," Shiyan said to Han Hongji.

"Chen Ning, you can arrange the ships to Hanyang Iron Works now. The workers have already been arranged," Zai Xun said.

However, the flame armor could only withstand it for a few moments. "Thud, thud, thud!" The eighteen silver catchers fell one after another, leaving only the eldest and second eldest to struggle bitterly. Although Dong Zhanyun's surface cultivation seemed lower than theirs, through years of hard work and several extraordinary battles, he was already far beyond a standard early-stage patriarch.

"Shiyi, the English proficiency test is coming up soon. You don't have an ID card—have you figured out what to do?" Lu Tong brought up this massive headache-inducing problem once again.

"Brother Yan, it really is you? You're not dead?" Lan Bing'er was the first to snap back to her senses, saying with intense excitement.

"My name is Wu Xing. I am the Student Union President of Yanglin Middle School and also serve as the class grade representative," he said, extending his right hand toward Wang Xuanlong to initiate a handshake.

Chen Xiyu used to have a fiancée, yet he denied having one. Moreover, judging by Su Changyu's questioning, it was evident that Su Changyu and Chen Xiyu's so-called fiancée must share some connection.

She had clearly contributed both money and effort to this club, yet when trouble struck, she was expected to step aside and hide. Whether viewed as an investor or as a friend, that was truly inappropriate.

Gu Yuying's two casual words effectively pulled back Lu Qingge, who already had her hand on the door.

"Don't be like that! We're old classmates after all—let's go out for a drink together tonight!" The person on the other end stated their true purpose.

I stopped giving her money because I had severely underestimated her capacity to spend. If I gave her one hundred million, she would burn through it all within a single day.

There were no traces of blood or similar marks on the ground, as if nothing had happened at all.

Because later generations practiced nine-year compulsory education, no one had the right to deny students the completion of those nine years—unless, of course, they were unwilling to continue of their own accord.

The windows were pasted over tightly with newspapers by Scarface, making the room completely airtight. In the dead of summer, it felt like a steaming cage being roasted by a blazing fire.

Yet, it seemed this young girl did not share a room with Gu Yuying. Did this imply that, in reality, Gu Yuying did not care for her?

To become the deity of an empire was something no one would refuse, especially an empire boasting such fanatical believers.

Bound by a millennium-long limit of servitude and having sworn an oath to the Starry Sky God, the fact was already unalterable. Should he defy Wang King and provoke his wrath, the consequences would likely be too dreadful to bear.

Lang Fei and the others all shook their heads, as they truly could not discern what might be hidden inside that black box.

The sounds of wind and thunder exploded in the air, forcing Xu Tianhao and Chang Xing to instinctively cover their ears.

Damn it, they weren't blind. Who wouldn't notice that merely walking down the street and turning a corner would reveal a cluster of surveillance cameras within a radius of just a few meters?

The people of the world are all like lively, jumping frogs. Meanwhile, the lukewarm water manipulated by malevolent forces is gradually rising, slowly boiling these frogs until the day they realize the temperature is too high, by which time any possibility of resistance is completely gone.

Their movements were neat and highly efficient in executing instructions from above; within a dozen minutes or so, the cargo had been completely unloaded.

Normally speaking, among the nine individuals I was searching for who were connected to me and had successfully ascended to Tianzhou or even the starry skies, weren't there only nine left?

Lin Feng seemed almost numb; the power displayed by these two phantom beasts far exceeded his imagination, while Fang Qin patiently explained it to him.

Old Fang was speechless. He had to admit that these two girls certainly deserved to be friends—they both loved to reject him at the very first instance.

Furthermore, Han Lin did not believe that the lightning ball, conjured with such painstaking effort by the burly man, was meant to deal with him. His greatest threat naturally remained the final gray-robed man and the purple-haired youth.

Just as Xia Qing was about to call back the sick wolf, which was still scouting ahead, she noticed it stop before a mountain crevice. It sniffed a few times and let out a low whimper, indicating a strong stench of blood ahead.