Volume 1, Chapter 53: The Two Competing in Secret

"Hekun, you are not a child anymore. The first good night's sleep I managed to get here with Qianqian was completely ruined by you."

"Well, I haven't even said how my good mood for listening to music was ruined by you yet."

Meng Huan thought he was completely unreasonable. "Who plays music in someone else's room? And at such a high volume."

Hekun smiled and sat down on the sofa. "The entire Alliance belongs to the Winly family. Say it again whose house this is?"

Uh... Meng Huan really couldn't argue with him on that. The place they were staying at truly was a property of the Winly family.

"Aren't we going out? Fine! Just wait a moment, I'll go back and change my clothes." With that, Meng Huan turned and walked away...

Meanwhile, Bai Yufei was still in the haze of sleep. Out of sheer instinct, she sleepily pinned the other person beneath her. Noticing that the person remained completely unresponsive, she began to feel a bit strange and hurriedly opened her eyes to look.

Everything remained calm and peaceful. A month later, unable to withstand Lin Xiangyang's urging, Lin Mohuan finally brought the truth about Zhao Zhou completely to the surface. Once the matter regarding Zhao Zhou came to light, it was impossible for Mo Qianxia, who had lost her memories, to accept it. In her eyes, Zhao Zhou was a loving father.

While he was deep in thought, a flicker of fire suddenly caught his eye, immediately followed by the sound of uniform footsteps echoing in his ears.

"Of course I can, as long as someone at the Tianxuan Academy also creates a magical teleportation array, I can go over, and Teacher Ren Yuan happens to have one in his office. But with my current insufficient magical power, even if I were to create a teleportation array and get across, I would already be drained into a dried corpse by the time I arrived," Long Ming sighed.

Gu Yi left immediately after speaking. Shen Xinyang hurried to catch up and follow behind, leaving the family members petrified in their places.

Cai Feng clenched her fists tightly, her teeth biting down hard on her lower lip. Although her back appeared immensely tall and strong to the sisters behind her, sufficient to prop up a safe sky for them, unfortunately, Cai Feng's trembling shoulders betrayed her cowardly heart.

Hanyue, who had just calmed down, saw the old man shaking his head, and anger surged straight to her head again. "Old man, do you have no other word besides this one?" The old man remained silent, and the atmosphere fell into a deadlock once more.

"You two, what are you still standing there for in a daze? Come with me and get to work!" the steward barked with a stern and cold face.

However, these frozen magic spiders were, after all, Tier 9 magical beasts, and Huohua's fireball attacks could not harm them. Instead, it infuriated the giant spiders. Abandoning their ice spikes, they charged forward together, preparing to attack with their legs.

"Hump, now it's my turn!" Yet this battle-ax still failed to injure Long Quan; he swiftly raised his spear to counterattack.

Yun Duoduo's eyes rolled, and she already understood his meaning. Although things had been approved openly by the Emperor, they still needed to maintain a low profile to prevent people from accusing the Emperor of going back on his word.

The golden wheel dissipated. The black battle character flowed within the sword intent armor on Zong Yang's body, leaving him battered and in tatters. Holding the large black sword with a single arm, he thrust its tip into the earth, and beneath the ground, the tip pinned down the stealthily approaching golden wheel.

He had come today because he had managed to make Luo Yuling ingest the concentric pill given to him by Cui'er, so he wanted to see whether this concentric pill was truly as miraculous as Cui'er had claimed.

The mountain colors were misty and hazy in the rain, presenting a marvelous sight. Wisps of clouds coiled around the waist of the mountain. Along the quiet mountain path, several people from the Iron Sword Sect, still reminiscing about the recent sparring match, caught sight of another group of people ascending the mountain from afar.

"Capable in the parlor and adept in the kitchen—that is the classic definition of a good man. Master, don't you want to take this opportunity to trick a young lady into coming back?" Susan coaxed step by step.

Susan exerted all her strength to dodge the attacks of the golden flying shuttle. Even so, she still took several hits, and her spiritual flow shield had only a single effective charge remaining.

"Uh, I don't understand medicine. You'd better wait for them to come over and ask them yourself, but as you know, the technology level of the Dragonet Society is much higher than that of the outside world," Toge said with a dry laugh.

"Grandma, why not open it and take a look?" The playful tone and affectionate posture made Chen Xia feel deeply envious.

Lin Chengwu cursed endlessly in his heart. Li Chen's words almost made him want to smash his head against a wall in despair; no matter how one looked at it, he was clearly the victim here.

She lifted her foot and followed. This place was actually bustling with activity every day, yet Rouyi seemed to have no emotional fluctuations whatsoever.

Zhou Ming immediately took out his phone to check, and a grin spread across his face—it was actually a call from Zhao Ru; it was truly wishing for rain and getting thunder.

Hearing Suhan's thoroughly uncultured remarks, Li Wen felt an even stronger sense of aversion toward him. Seeing Ye Ming flushed with anger and grabbing Suhan by the collar to hit him, she hurriedly walked over with Tuxing, one grabbing Suhan and the other grabbing Ye Ming, dragging them apart.

After a few barely audible shrieks, not a single guard capable of movement remained around the entire encampment.

The remaining pirates looked at each other in dismay, clueless as to what was happening or why they were suddenly retreating so abruptly. However, this time they dared not utter any boastful words; with the regular troops having retreated, they stood no chance of defeating the two knightly orders of the Temple and the Hospitaliers, no matter what.

"Thank you for your concern, I have a place to stay in the capital. That, just now..." He wanted to explain the matter of offering the old man a cigarette before leaving.

"Ah! My eyes! My eyes!" the dependable Nut Wall shrieked as she retreated rapidly in a panic. Fortunately, being of a warrior-class profession, her balance stat had a certain modifier, preventing her from easily falling over even without sight.

From the oath-taking ceremony at Dongzhiyuan to the capture of Lanzhou, the Liberation Army had appeared on the Northwest land for less than a month. Although they had already gained control of Gansu, in the eyes of the common people, this was still an extremely unfamiliar army, and the same held true for the people inside this room. Therefore, Di Shixiang's question went unanswered.

Su Xing had another task tonight, which was to use the opportunity of going to sing at Jinqiao to request a meeting with Chen Yuanqiao to discuss cooperation on building the construction materials market.

"What are you buying?" Paris rubbed her dark-rimmed eyes, shuffled in slippers to the bathroom door, and tied the sash of her cicada-wing silk nightgown.

As he spoke these words, his expression remained tightly drawn without a trace of a smile, leaving it unclear whether he was angry at the taxi driver or worried about his mother.

To provide disaster relief, the first necessity to prepare was grain. Once the grain ran out, the more common people gathered, the larger the trouble that would ensue.

Yansinian's warm breath brushed against Mo Ning's face as she lay in his arms, his fingers dancing twice against her waist before silently slipping beneath the hem of her clothes.