Volume One, Chapter 97: The Suitor

At once, several aunts surrounded Gu Qingqing, waving their fists as they shouted, “You little girl, it would have been bad enough if you were just mooching off us, but now you’re cursing us too! What kind of poisonous heart do you have!”

“I’m not wrong! Apples aren’t anything rare. How much can they possibly be worth? Don’t let Su Ningxia fool you—she’s far more devious than she looks!”

Gu Qingqing rolled her eyes.

Her rose-colored eyes blinked with feigned innocence, but against that icy, spotless face, no matter how one looked at it, it seemed… demonic.

Gradually, reason was dismantled piece by piece. The entire room filled with springtime allure, woven together by his heavy breathing and her soft, sweet gasps into an intoxicating rhythm of perfect union, body and soul.

Since the Autumn Whirlwind set was destroyed, the bonus attribute effects belonging to the set vanished along with it.

She took a rough look. Aside from the members of the White Wolf force who were more or less unharmed, everyone else had suffered injuries to varying degrees. The only thing that comforted her was that, compared with the casualties of the Prosperity Gang, the losses of the Azure Rock Gang truly were nothing much.

Even for someone as unrequitedly infatuated as Mr. Mo, this was his first experience in nearly thirty years, and his heart could not help but stir.

Frowning, Zhao Mingyue lightly bit the pad of her finger and cast a suspicious glance over the women, who had instantly gone quiet. She expressed strong doubt about their fighting ability, which was utterly inconsistent with their earlier boldness.

Xiao Yunjie pushed the whiteboard in the conference room to the center and casually pulled off the green curtain covering it.

He was always on guard, focused, sharp, and cold, as though everything he did existed for no other purpose than to find a flaw and tear his opponent to pieces.

The young man before him was no longer the one who had once worn a face crisscrossed with ferocious scars. He was now a handsome man with a jade-like face, clear brows and eyes, thin lips, and a high nose bridge. In this world, whose average looks were so high they almost seemed like something out of an anime, he still stood out as exceptionally handsome.

If the acting is bad, then adjust the script. Later, tamper with the editing a bit, and the whole drama won’t be ruined. Anyway, he was only the third male lead, not the hero or the second male lead.

As for Murong Tianxue, Ning Xuan, Xue Jing, and Xiaoyao Qing, the four of them had no way to take part in the encirclement and suppression of Chu Yan at all, because the moment they came close to her, they would be effortlessly absorbed.

Sure enough, the moment Ji Weiyan heard those words, his expression darkened instantly. Cold-faced, he spoke in a sharper tone.

Zhong Ming was also waiting for Ren Jingshu to return. When he heard that everything was proceeding according to plan, he was beyond delighted. Next would come the report to Xue Chenyan, forcing him to choose between his friend and his wife.

The night grew deeper and deeper. If this went on, they would be talking until dawn. Mo Ran and Tang Tian had drunk quite a lot, and the liquor was shockingly potent. She grew more and more excited, with no trace of sleepiness at all, but experience told her not to get too worked up, or joy might turn to sorrow.

Lian Hongyuan said in disbelief as he looked at the three supreme spirit herbs lying quietly in the box. As an alchemist, what grand scene had he not seen? Yet even he could not remain calm after seeing Mo Ran produce such rare herbs all at once.

He Xin gently patted his waist. A streak of black light converged toward his right arm, and in less than a second it had already transformed into a flowing firearm. Its ferocious muzzle, shaped like five dragon heads, fired toward Xiao Yong and Ye Sheng.

Xiang Tianba’s men trailed that man from afar, wanting to see whether he truly had something strange about him.

It seemed as though it had been a long time since it had felt this way. Perhaps it was precisely this familiar sensation that gave it a little expectation.

Although Yan Tianyou did not toast them one by one, his single sentence outweighed a thousand cups of wine. Hearing it, they were all filled with joy, their faces blooming into radiant smiles as they drank with Yan Tianyou.

Lin Xiu’s gaze sharpened. He had not expected the burly man to be so bold as to kill someone in front of so many people.