Volume One, Chapter 41: You Two Are Married?

With an opportunity for a new job right before her, Shen Qingran decided to take advantage of the weekend to thoroughly review her professional knowledge. However, fearing she might be late on Monday morning, she decided to ask Huo Tingxiao to get a formal introduction letter so she could stay overnight at the city guesthouse the night before.

That evening, as soon as Huo Tingxiao stepped through the front door, his gaze swept across the empty living room. Her belongings were pitifully scarce. Whenever he came home, she would hide away in her room, seemingly going out of her way to avoid sharing the same space with him. When had she begun to change like this?

Huo Tingxiao closed the door, took off his coat, and hung it on the bare clothes rack. He walked toward the study. Suddenly, her bedroom door opened, revealing her delicate face...

"Self-taught? Are you joking? That's sheer nonsense!" Sure enough, upon hearing Chen Fei introduce himself in such a manner, the contempt and mockery on Zhong Zhengming's face grew even more intense. Staring at Chen Fei, he rebuked him with a hostile expression.

"You..." Weyland said half a sentence in anger before running toward the emergency escape pod, followed closely by Vickers, while Lu Yu and the others naturally did not dare to linger and rushed after them toward the escape pods.

To strike the leader of a delegation right under the noses of the Jiangzhou government officials?

Beneath a hundred-zhang precipice, a river a hundred zhang wide surged furiously. The yellowish-black water churned up giant waves from time to time, tumbling the river's surface into a rolling turmoil, while massive whirlpools occasionally formed, swirling the river water slowly onward to some unknown destination.

He never expected that the other party would refuse to trust him—a formal member of the Loyabes Medical Alliance of America, one of the top three medical alliance organizations in the world—and instead consider some noble Traditional Chinese Medicine, which was completely fraudulent.

For no other reason than that the Royal Palace was heavily guarded, and they were its closest guard detachment; how could anyone have infiltrated this place silently without causing the slightest ripple in the external barriers?

Gangsters were still gangsters; even when equipped like special forces, they could not shed their habitual tone. The leading member of the Chinese Youth Gang looked playfully at the remaining Mafia members and said.

Every single one of Thompson's attacks took a life, yet Jack was a creature teeming with biological variants. However, Jack was now fighting with his very life on the line; with so many genes erupting within him, who could tell when a genetic conflict might occur and trigger an immediate collapse?

After finishing all this, Annie quickly clattered on her keyboard, and the image on the screen before her shifted once again into several distinct frames.

Therefore, the exploited party had always been the majority of the hereditary house servants. Resistance after resistance, suppression after suppression—the deep-seated blood feud accumulated over long years meant that although most of the servants had learned to submit, resigned to their fate and devoid of defiance, a faction among them was still silently accumulating strength, waiting for the day of an explosion.

"Go back?" The expressionless youth's iceberg-like face showed a slight frown between his brows, but he said nothing more. Compared to his clear and orderly explanations just moments ago, he was naturally a man of few words in ordinary life. Yet, after a pause of a few seconds, he still offered a reminder to Li Kezhou.

However, just as the ghost corpse was closely pursuing them from behind, Muli discovered a few other issues.

"Swish—Click!" The syringe barely pierced the skin before bending into a precarious arc as if it had struck solid steel.

It was bitterly cold. The divine senses they projected froze into icy threads and snapped. Upon drawing closer to the crystal ice, even Mao Yi and the wild giant's physically refined body—forged through secret arts—could not withstand the intrusion of the freezing poison and would require many days of recuperation to recover.

The moment those people stood in a daze, Fang Shan took a fierce stride forward, his figure lunging directly beside one of them. With a single punch, that fellow instantly curled up like a boiled shrimp.

"Then? And then that's it." Fantasy glanced sideways at Li Kezhou again, stuffing the painting into his pocket.

As for Li Kezhou and Fantasy, they exchanged glances, their expressions inevitably turning unsightly. Clearly, they had thought their cleanup was thorough, but to be seen right through at a single glance was something neither of them had expected.

Immediately, Jiang Shan directly produced the ghost-taming gourd and removed the lid. Ning Xin's hazy figure quietly materialized before him.

Chu Yunmo wore his usual lecherous expression, acting the part convincingly, though he had heard every single sound from next door with absolute clarity. Lin Yixuan attempted to imitate Chu Yunmo, but no matter how hard she tried, it felt awkward; her energy remained primarily focused on eavesdropping on the adjoining room.

After speaking with utmost solemnity, Li Duoduo ignored Scholar Gao, took Caigua's mother by the arm, and climbed straight into the carriage.

Yet now... Could this be destiny? Or was life simply wired this way—the more you feared something, the closer it came?

Jiang Lizhi cast a resentful look at the culprit of it all. Yet that person showed not the slightest self-awareness of having caused trouble for others, instead earnestly introducing the two to each other.

"Spirit Water Team, follow me!" The captain of the Spirit Water Team snapped out of it, though his reaction was clearly half a beat too slow.

"General Shentu flatters me. Being able to serve His Highness is my utmost honor!" Shen Zuiyi hurriedly seized the opportunity to declare his devotion.

Li Duoduo was utterly oblivious to this; aside from supervising the bandits as they toiled away turning the soil, she simply looked on with cold detachment as King Jin and Chen Tingting displayed their affection.

Jiang Lizhi looked toward Gongsun Yan and happened to catch him gazing directly at her. As their eyes met, her heart once again began to pound wildly.

At that moment, as the feeling of danger receded into the distance, the whip lashes on her body suddenly felt excruciatingly painful and unbearable.

Director Zhou instantly came up with a title for today's footage. It was practically a standard inspirational film, with a lofty theme and a sufficiently dramatic plot.

He could clearly distinguish that these blue hues and the faint, rippling waves were not scenes Chu Chong perceived through his own elemental perception.