Volume One, Chapter Ninety-Nine: Gathering Evidence

Seeing his resolute expression, Jiang Yingli pressed a hand to her temples and said gently to her cousin, “You must be tired after such a long journey. Come with me to the guest room and rest for a while.”

“Your plan was perfect, and it went smoothly enough. So why did Yang Kexin later say that you changed your mind?” After a long silence, I asked Ye Xing again.

“You just said ‘a ruined dog.’ What did you mean by that?” His voice was deep and magnetic, pleasant to the ear, yet edged with coldness.

This was only the second floor, not very high at all. Besides, Long Yi had a tall, well-built frame; with a mere lift of his leg, he could land safely.

Seeing that Sivin, though recovered from illness and somewhat frail, still possessed a certain heroic air between her delicate brows, Suma nodded quietly to herself.

Little by little, the private room began to blur. All the corners and edges of the tables and chairs softened into rounded, flattened shapes, and even Xie Cunhui’s face grew indistinct.

Bai Yanshui swallowed the words she had been about to say. The matter of the human skeleton was not yet known to outsiders; it was a deal between her and Bai Yunxi.

After saying this, he stood up and shut the car door. Through the amber-tinted glass, Gu Jinjin glanced after him.

“So that is all? Nothing else you dislike about me? You might as well say it all at once.” I said calmly to Xu Minghui.

Was the rumor untrustworthy, or was the person before me untrustworthy? These two were probably impostors, posing under false names.

Seeing that she also approved of his decision, Gu Qingyun became even more confident. He still believed that safety came first and did not want to be exposed to the public eye.

It seemed that Lady Li was quite satisfied with her future eldest daughter-in-law, or else her smile would not have been so broad.

Xingyang lies east of Luoyang. Beyond Hulao lies Luoyang; Chang’an lies west of Luoyang. Beyond the Yellow River lies Luoyang. Both places are extremely close to Luoyang, and both command great armies, ready at any moment to march on the city.

Zhong Hanlin’s expression froze, and for a moment he was unable to speak. After a while, he rose stiffly and turned to leave.

It was said that the Fifth Prince of the Celestial Realm Kingdom had once been determined to seize the throne, only to be outmaneuvered by the Second Prince.

Such a procedure was unheard of in this era; Shi Zhong had never even heard of it, much less seen it.

“Ah Yan, do you have a map? I want to look at the layout of Jizhou City,” An Mi’er asked Chu Cangyan beside her as she sat in the carriage.

Jiang Yunjin was terrified nearly to death, her body trembling like a sieve. She clenched her teeth and spat hard into the black-clad man’s face. Though she feared death, she would never betray her master; if they hoped to learn her master’s whereabouts from her mouth, they had truly chosen the wrong person.

At the thought of this, Ning Yao quickly turned her head to look beside her, only to find that the other side of the pillow was already empty. A touch of disappointment rose in her heart, and then she remembered what had happened last night; a faint blush spread at once across her lovely pale face.

Pah, pah, pah—what nonsense was this? What did he mean, perhaps he would be buried in the earth? Her father would surely live to a hundred. Qu Qiusheng and Qu Dongsheng shot Qu Chunsheng resentful glances, their eyes so full of grievance it seemed they could swallow him whole.

For example, during the infant stage, it was necessary to kill mechanical creatures below level thirty. If one killed a mechanical creature above level thirty, Sky-Sea Wings would gain no experience. The same held true for the growth stage: one had to kill mechanical creatures from level thirty-one to sixty, or there would again be no experience, and so on thereafter.

Ghost Plush knew that, according to Chen Zhi Fan’s nature, before he even got close to Mei Jingshu, he would already be caught and given a thorough beating by Chen Zhi Fan.

Aside from the first place, the ranking list had remained unchanged, the other positions in constant fierce competition. Today you were second; tomorrow I was second; within a single day, the rankings could even shift several times.