Volume One, Chapter 76: Unattractive in Appearance, Beautiful in Ambition

Jiang Ning turned around to look back.

He locked eyes with Zheng Yi, who sat by the window. The glass reflected the outline of the girl sitting across from him.

Jiang Ning raised his eyebrows.

Jiangcheng really was a small place; you could run into acquaintances anywhere.

Faced with his teasing, the Queen of Gu was slightly taken aback, but Ruoshui arched her brows, a faint smile lifting her lips.

“You’re such a fool! If you tell him now, and he doesn’t let us go, wouldn’t we be finished?” The older brother was clearly exasperated.

“Heavens, who did this?” Everyone’s eyes widened; they simply couldn’t believe what was happening before them. They had set such careful ambushes in the villa, yet all these people had managed to escape. Who could possibly have dispatched so many ninjas in such a short span of time?

“They’re dead for sure,” Guo Rong said, walking to the window. Dawn had fully broken. Outside Villa No. 2, Li Zijing was firing his sniper rifle toward the villa. People kept coming out from the adjacent building, gathering outside the walls, launching a counterattack against the brain-eating zombies.

Around Freya, the priests helped her up and began healing her. Behind them, the soil suddenly shifted—tentacles shot out, seizing the priests and lifting them into the air. From the ground beside Freya, a fully intact Richard emerged from the earth.

“Well said.” The words slipped from Ark’s mouth, catching Fang Yu a bit off guard.

Aiman’s tone was distinctly unfriendly. Chu Yun could clearly feel the surge of magic swirling around him—not overwhelming, but brimming with hostility; instinctively, she prepared to cast a shield.

“Damn it, let’s see how many more shots you have left, how many bullets you’ve got,” Han Fei muttered to himself as he heard the gunfire.

Even if Ouyang Feiyu went to the hospital for surgery, wouldn’t he still need to be put under anesthesia for a while?

After all their time together, Wanying was no longer deliberately making things difficult for Hu Tianming. She wasn’t exactly close to him, but in truth, he was quite useful. Not to mention daily life, but at the very least, he’d saved her quite a bit of money for now... Hahaha! She chuckled secretly at her own thriftiness.

Yunya Zi plummeted, the feathers of his guardian spirit crane scattering in all directions as he emerged, badly wounded.

My goodness! Who is this person? How dare they speak to Young Master Ao like that, and yet Young Master Ao doesn’t even seem annoyed?

They did it on purpose, refusing him just to savor the heated gaze of that man. Once, Wen Qianyu had gone too far—in broad daylight, she was carried back to the room by that man, tossed about all afternoon, and when someone finally came to call her for dinner, she still hadn’t woken. Even now, the memory made her blush.

He dipped his head slightly, the bones and muscles beneath his face twisting and shifting. In the span of a single breath, he transformed into a completely unfamiliar visage.

With that, Li Mingqiu gave Zheng Xiuyan no time to react, dragging the nearly three-hundred-pound Jack directly in front of her.

Besides the outing, Li Mingqiu also took them to other places for fun. But no matter where they went, everyone treated him like a lord—which was a privilege her own boyfriend, Li Yanqiu, had never enjoyed.

It was a summer night, the air still carrying the remnants of the day’s heat. Zhang Jing’s clothing was a bit thin; when her collar was pulled open, it revealed a stretch of fair, delicate neck—so pale it was almost blinding.

“This still requires the head’s decision,” Yu Meiyun replied, turning back—only to see Yu Xiaotian not far away, rolling his eyes skyward and fainting dead away. Happiness had come too suddenly; Yu Xiaotian simply couldn’t handle it. Twenty years’ rent—ten billion spiritual coins!