Chapter 89: Uproar
Prince Fang hurried back to finish cooking and did not linger. After agreeing to come by and see her off, he left in haste.
Just as Gu Zhuo was preparing to return, the letter she had previously sent home arrived in Jiujia Village and fell into Gu Dashan’s hands.
And it was this very letter that set the entire village abuzz.
“Is it true? Linzi isn’t dead?”
“Not dead, not dead. Didn’t you hear when Comrade Liu read the letter just now? Xiuxiu said that back then, when they came to deliver the news—”
An Nuan frowned, called the shopkeeper over, paid the bill, and had only taken a few steps with her bag when a man grabbed her wrist.
Bei Wuyou swung the steel pipe down hard, smashing it onto Li Mingyuan’s knee. A crack of bone followed, along with Li Mingyuan’s scream. He clutched his own thigh tightly, his face twisted in agony.
“Why has the princess come out too?” By rights, as a princess, Xiao Yumo should have been in the palace for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth; how had she slipped out on her own?
Yi Qing伸出手指，扯了扯旁边唐睿的衣角，指着不远处，卖棉花糖的铺子，今天唐睿穿着一套白色的休闲套装，带着眼睛，看起来就是翩翩君子的模样。
Yi Qing’s loud, booming voice came through the phone, and even Bobo had to hold it farther away as she stammered out her reply.
After a while, several items were auctioned off, and the prices were all high. Zhou Tianchuan on the side was grinning from ear to ear, utterly delighted.
When Fu Jinci heard it, she also gave a soft laugh. In her previous life, she had only known that Dongfang Chunyan was a grossly corrupt official, insatiably greedy, yet she had never imagined that in this life she would happen to see what true greed looked like.
It was truly, infuriatingly, especially annoying. The child was already over ten years old, and he wanted to be a father at twenty? He really had quite the imagination.
By the time the gathering broke up, it was nearly eleven at night. Since everyone had come by car, they all went off to find their own rides. I had not met the manager’s expectations, and she could not be bothered to care whether I lived or died; without even bothering to greet me, she simply left on her own.
But Liu Ji must have seen something else. She suddenly drew herself up, and my gaze sharpened as I saw her slowly remove her coat.
Jiang Ming, however, suddenly understood. So this was the root of Wen Qingqing’s change of heart. He could not help but look toward her.
With that, Han Qingying led Zhu Yingying into the pitch-black hidden door. Once the door closed, the marble floor shifted back into place, and the water around them surged once more. The bath returned to its former stillness, as though nothing at all had happened.
Lu Yun reacted quickly; he struck out with a palm, but it hit nothing but empty air, and the force carried him forward so that his whole body lunged ahead.
“Huh? Huh? Why is Minister Yuan still bringing a girl along on official business?” The soldiers watched their retreating figures and muttered in confusion.
“What are you doing? Looking for death?” Zhu Juhua on the other boat said with a ferocious expression, while reaching toward his waist, clearly intending to draw the gun he had just tucked back away.
They could not understand it, so they attributed everything to Chen Jinghui, believing that as the “all beings” he had used some sort of supernatural power, like a magician, to make everyone in Thousand Wind Gorge willing to unite and fight side by side.
Xinxi gave a noncommittal shrug. Sima Haoyu had far too many skeletons in his closet; regarding her friend’s romance, she could not see much possibility of a happy ending.
Wandering everywhere, aside from the Spirit Realm, the Divine Realm, and the Demon God Realm, there were in fact many other hidden great worlds, only they were little known because of certain events.
Four years later, Sima Haoyu returned to the country, only to find that the internet was still rife with rumors that he was an illegitimate son of the Sima family. There were even whispers that he had been missing for years and was likely already doomed.
Tianming said coldly, “Who says we’re here to die? Go report to your commander. We’re breaking through now!”
Tianming did not have Ge Nie’s patience.
But since there was already an heir, Cao Rong had also accepted her fate. After arriving here, she hoped that Zhang Junyu and the others would guide this child in the years to come. She did not ask that the child become a hero, but only that he be upright and honorable.