Volume One, Chapter 113: Seeking Rescue

Xiao Zhao glanced at Xiao Li’s terrified face, then suddenly flashed a savage grin and yanked a dagger from his waist. “So you’ve found out...”

On the first day of the lunar new year, a death was considered the gravest of taboos. By custom, anyone who died on that day could not have funeral rites, could not hold a mourning banquet, and no coffin could be left in the house. The body had to be dressed in everyday clothes and laid on the bed, wrapped in blankets, as if merely asleep.

As she spoke, Li Xixi did not miss the slightest change in Mi Liang’s expression. Though he looked surprised, it seemed he did not know that Li Yanqing had been to K City.

To leave the palace, one had to keep going straight ahead; there was only this one road nearby, and Liang Yiru would not turn back and leave. Besides, he was not very familiar with the palace paths. More importantly, Dongfang Qing harbored no ill intent.

After Wei Yong left, I was still standing there in a daze. It was not until Qin Yishou spat a mouthful of blood onto the stone table that I hurried over with Xiao Lianshan and helped him back into the house.

Bu Xiyue shed tears of grievance. Even she did not know whether Bu Zhengrong was truly still alive now, and that uncertainty began to shake her already fragile heart.

When Cheng Yue got home, Mi Jia was still awake, sitting on the sofa in the living room. The television was off, and she was not even looking at the magazines and documents on the table. She simply sat there in silence.

When old acquaintances met, there was always much to say. Hong Zhenxing invited Dou Zhanlong into the room and treated him as warmly as if they were brothers.

Dou Zhanlong nodded, and a chill of lingering fear rose in his heart. If Ghoul had planned this together with Ye Bufan and Wang Kaixuan, then as long as Ghoul delayed things a little, the affairs of his company would have descended into chaos. Thankfully, the problem had been uncovered in time.

The exchange rate was different in every place, so I had no choice but to nod and agree. After all, she had waited for me in the shop the entire day; I could not very well spoil her mood, could I?

Qiao Man was furious, her indignation almost overflowing, wearing an expression of utter disbelief. She had completely forgotten that the reason she had asked Li Yanqing to come was to solve her own problem.

This man was also tall and imposing, with a decent face, though a little soft around the middle and not in particularly good shape. Still, the suit on him fit impeccably, and at a glance one could tell it was something very expensive.

“What exactly is in there?” Luo Xixi frowned tightly as she looked at Michelle, unable to suppress her curiosity.

Yan Cheng roared in fury, his eyes already burning red with rage. Yet that two-star soul master clung to him like a blister that would not come off, leaving him only able to watch as that heavy leg, as if falling from the heavens, stamped toward He Qingsong.

As long as the finish line was reached, the effect of the speed-racing space would activate unconditionally, and by then the enemy would be doomed.

“You became my concubine because we were both drugged that day, which is why I said what I did. That is my punishment; you should never have been dragged into it.” This was also one of the reasons Feng Yaojue indulged and protected Li Pian’er in every possible way, as a kind of compensation.

When he arrived at the scene, everything was exactly as he had expected. The one in rebellion was the Third Prince, and the Second Prince’s body had already been split in two, cold and lifeless.

I took the initiative and attacked the one-armed ghost. My heated sword knocked aside his broken blade, and my eagle-beak sword slashed across horizontally, sending the ghost’s head tumbling to the ground.

“Zhi’er, my Zhi’er... sob... Mother, tell me, will I ever see him again? Have I been a terrible mother, never truly caring for him? Sob... Zhi’er...” In the end, Li Pian’er cried herself unconscious, her body going limp as she collapsed into Feng Yaojue’s arms.