Chapter 57: Retaliation

Qin Yueran looked up at the sky through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Tonight, the island was once again shrouded in thick clouds, with neither stars nor moon to be seen anywhere.

However, she wondered if the weather in the mortal world was just like the one here.

"Huhu, send me the address," Qin Yueran said calmly, a cryptic smile playing at the corners of her lips.

"Sent," Huhu replied coyly, looking up to ask, "Can I go along?"

Qin Yueran squatted down and picked Huhu up in her arms: "Of course."

The frozen meat, once thawed by roasting, lost its firmness and became as loose as cooked meat. With just a gentle pinch, a piece could be easily detached.

One does not strike a smiling person. Since Xu Hanfeng was treating her with courtesy, she certainly couldn't act unreasonably. After all, this was a school, with so many people around—how embarrassing would it be if they became the laughingstock?

Jian Jie caught the slight hint of impatience in Jian Hao's tone and froze for a moment. Had she somehow displeased him?

"Humph, who wants you to yield?" That person let out a cold snort, tapped the ground with his toes, and hurled a punch straight at Shi Feng, yet Shi Feng completely ignored the incoming blow.

"Behind the mountain!" Lan Xin pointed in the direction where Xiyou Zhizhi had fled, then revived the Qilong Pine, and accompanied by the tree, followed the rest of the group to the back mountain of Mount Beimang.

"Someone always has to take the blame. Don't worry about it, let's get out of here first!" Without further explanation, Xu Tian cast one last sweeping glance through the courtyard gate into the yard, then grabbed Zhang Cong and sprinted directly toward the alley entrance.

He had been wearing a mask for a full month. For a whole month—and today was the first time she had ever laid eyes on his true face. She realized then just how deeply she still loved this visage.

"Brother, you knew all along?" Dropping heavily onto the sofa in the center of the office and setting down her handbag, Han Zehui began to play with the tea set before him with a flattering expression.

After returning to the hotel and finishing my dinner, I lay back down on the bed, my heart a tangled mix of joy and apprehension.

The steps where Qingbao and the others sat probably led to a back door, as no one was guarding it, and entering it led straight to the garden.

Xiabi County was originally a large county with a population of two thousand households. Because the town had served as the starting point for the Han army's northern expedition, more than half of its residents had been temporarily evacuated to various parts of Hanzhong.

Even back when Lin Dong was still at the Earth Realm, such a feat would have been quite formidable. Steward Wang truly did not want to miss this opportunity. Moreover, although he had been complaining earlier, in reality, he would never back down.

However, this was clearly not the time to dwell on that. Looking at the guild token in his hand and feeling the hostile gazes directed at him from all around, he took a deep breath and directly crushed the town-portal scroll in his grip, returning to the city.

As for Jiang Fei, his perspective had truly shifted somewhat now. He genuinely wanted to learn some real skills from this formidable brother-in-law of his.

Lin Feng fell silent. He understood Santai's point: in a vast expanse of white reeds, finding a single specific reed might be difficult, but spotting a green tree was remarkably easy. Something out of the ordinary inevitably stood out.

During his experiments, Orochimaru was an absolute madman of a researcher. Even someone like Yefeng, who had been tempered by the crucible of real bloodshed, couldn't help but feel a bit nauseous watching him. Yet, Yefeng endured it. He knew that everything he witnessed here would prove immensely beneficial to him, whether it was spiritual perception, the lightning release activation technique, or the gate-opening methods.

Ren Yaoxi smiled helplessly, reached out, and scratched the chin of the silly girl who kept staring at her. The silly girl narrowed her eyes in pleasure, then happily sprawled out all four limbs, exposing her belly to Ren Yaoxi.

Grandma Rong was none other than the elder Lady Liu, who had married a platoon commander named Rong Zhi as his legitimate wife last year. Although Rong Zhi was already forty years old, bore a scar on his face, and had remained unmarried well into his advanced age, he was an upright man who treated his wife exceptionally well. The couple was deeply in love, and the elder Lady Liu was already five months pregnant.

With a soft sigh, I finished the remaining ginger soup in the bowl, too lazy to tidy anything up, and plunged headfirst into the bed, wrapping myself tightly in the comforter. I waited for the heavy sweat to break, waiting for all those damned anxieties and unease to leave my body along with the perspiration.

"It's a fantastic fit! I received it and came right over to report. I've never seen lyrics like these before—I don't understand musical arrangement, as you know, but it's written so brilliantly, and it matches our drama in absolute perfection," Old Wang said excitedly.

Half-truth and half-illusion filled the paintings, yet they also contained the genuine laughter and sorrows of the world. How could such a man fail to stir her heart?

In a daze, she recalled the feeling she had when she first stepped out of the vehicle upon arriving here—that inexplicable premonition that something unexpected was bound to happen tonight.

Li Jingyan kept his eyes fixed on her, attentive to every shift in her expression. Hearing her words, he felt no displeasure; instead, the corners of his mouth curled upward on their own accord.

She truly didn't feel like saying anything at all. Dabai threw such a complex personnel management task at her right off the bat, yet she still had the nerve to call herself merciful!

One moment she would pat a villager on the shoulder, and the next she would blow a gust of cold air past someone's neck. To me, her actions were merely playful mischief, but in the eyes of those villagers, she was unmistakably a murderous evil ghost! Panic-stricken, they began fleeing for their lives, weeping and wailing to the heavens!

If he had been in charge of this process, he certainly would have prioritized using the excuse of training Tianyou to naturally and seamlessly expand Tianyou's networking circle, making the path ahead smooth and effortless.

Due to Qin Ming's sudden appearance, the noisy entrance of the Zhao Family Auction House plunged into an instant silence. Everyone waited to see what Qin Ming would do next.

However, the moment their thunderous roars faded, one of them turned pale with horror as Zhang Yuan materialized directly before him, a terrifying blade aura slashing across his body like lightning.

It wasn't that she didn't want to produce more, but since she insisted on relying entirely on her family members, many of the items had to be handcrafted, which severely limited output and made it impossible to scale up production.