Chapter 49: Prince Yu's Favor

Song Rouxi turned and walked away, almost sprinting in her eagerness to leave the place where she had suffered such utter humiliation.

The third floor fell silent for a moment.

Song Ci clenched her hands and broke the silence first.

"Thank you today for not exposing me. That day..."

Li Jiabi sneered and rolled her eyes with a look of utter disdain. As she moved, the jade pendants on her ears swayed, and she deliberately touched them a few times to show them off.

Gu Shen raised his head, suppressing the surging desire within him, and listened to her inner voice with calm restraint.

"Love is something too precious to be spoken aloud casually." Liu Anli acted entirely as if he were not drunk, patiently explaining it to him.

Just as she was about to enter the village, she suddenly caught sight of two ghostly figures. Looking closer, they were none other than Impermanence of Life in black and white. Carrying soul-recalling banners and holding a soul-binding rope, they drifted waveringly toward the village.

Although Zheng Yan did not crowd around, she had been closely following their conversation. Zhuang Jingting was Zhuang Xinye's only son and the sole heir of the Zhuang Group. With such a privileged birth and such a distinguished family background, was he just going to be handed over to Xia Yurun so easily?

She could not possibly remember wrongly. In her hazy state, she distinctly remembered instructing Ruan Ling to make sure it was returned.

Luke smiled and shook his head. "Are you sure? Once it's stained, it can never be washed out." He knew this was Jiang Yuan's favorite piece of clothing, as it appeared most frequently both in her social media posts and in real life.

The other party remained unmoved. Huang Shiyun sighed, and just as she was about to press the gas pedal, the person ran right in front of the car.

"What profit-sharing?" Liu Anli picked up the Lion Unleashed, his finger tracing the blade before thrusting it straight toward Lan Huan.

"You also know he is our father." Ouyang Sisi poked her on the forehead. "How could he bear to abandon us!" When they plotted to assassinate Ouyang Bing back then, hadn't Ouyang Qing forgiven them in the end?

After leaving the building, Fatty Wang and I each lit a cigarette and exchanged a smile, though it was a painful one. Neither of us said anything, but we both understood each other in our hearts.

In truth, Chen Tian was also quaking in his boots. After all, he was negotiating terms with someone at the half-step Divine Soul realm, and he was extremely nervous inside. He knew nothing about Tian Zhiling and had no idea what his temperament was like.

Xie You was certainly detestable, but could one turn a blind eye and refuse to rescue the frontline army simply out of hatred for him? Dai Zhang, who had once been a general, could not do such a thing, nor could Dai Jin.

Cheng Ling smiled slightly and said to Bai Jianli, "My lord, you truly are a capable man. Before I even spoke, you already knew it would be disadvantageous to you? Have you no confidence in yourself?" Bai Jianli simply remained silent, letting her finish. Knowing she had only this one chance, Cheng Ling continued.

After several cups of hard liquor went down, my eyes finally grew dizzy, and the world before me began to blur accordingly.

Now it was Lin Yin's turn to be astonished. She never expected that someone would be eavesdropping outside. Qingyu Zi arched her slender eyebrows and narrowed her phoenix eyes, saying, "Lin Yin, Wanwan, stay by Master's side and do not run around." Without waiting for the two of them to reply, she opened the door and flew out.

A gentle-natured person could never come up with any good ideas, nor did they possess much backbone when faced with irreversible disasters. This was the crux of his career bottleneck.

After Cao Guang left, Chen Tian fell into deep thought. What puzzled him was that the timing of these events was rather sensitive—they happened to coincide with the invasion of the Tianfeng Kingdom. Could there be some connection behind all this?

That senior apprentice brother stroked his plump chin, seemingly hesitating and pondering for a moment before finally gritting his teeth and saying, "Deal! But we cannot delay too long. We must return to the mountain ten days from now, or I fear Master will severely punish us!"