Chapter 39: Entanglement

Su Wan glanced toward the doorway. She was genuinely afraid that Grandma Qin would take an “overly” keen interest in her.

When it came to something so private, it was best not to let a third person know if it could be avoided.

Grandma Qin was not the sort to gossip, but Su Wan still had her dignity.

Su Wan shot him a sidelong glance. “Give me the medicine. I’ll apply it myself.”

Qin Yi showed no intention of handing it over. In a hoarse voice, he said, “It’s in a place you can’t see.”

Su Wan whispered fiercely, “I...”

After hearing this, Ji Beichen reacted first. He hurriedly helped Shen Qingwu put her veil back on, then supported her into the carriage. He and Sun Wei rode ahead of it on horseback, and before long, Ji Beichen had brought everyone back to the Ji residence.

Felicia’s reply was equally straightforward. In any case, you had not suffered in the end, so if you were dissatisfied with the process, then be a little dissatisfied.

This was the morning of my ninth day since arriving in this place. I felt a foul odor coming from my body, and I also felt itchy all over. Unable to resist, I reached out to scratch myself, only to discover that both my hands were covered in black grime. Even I found it disgusting.

“Don’t worry. I’m much better now. I just wanted to come out and get some sunlight. It was too stuffy inside.” Ming Fan spun around nimbly to reassure Yu Manli. He had never been some pampered young master to begin with.

Ye Mingkai lunged straight at me. I seized both his hands, and his strength seemed far greater than before. The two of us remained locked in a stalemate, but all five of Ye Mingkai’s tentacles began to move, piercing into my body.

I really had no good plan, but now that the mission had arrived, I had to find some way to complete it. So I drove to the airport, bought a ticket, and boarded a plane, waiting for it to take me to Three Gorges Airport.

He had once been admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music, but for various reasons, he had been forced to leave before completing his studies. Jin Yan remembered that, while abroad, the boy who had saved her had kept a particularly beautiful piano piece on his phone. From then on, she had gradually fallen in love with the instrument. Perhaps it was because of him.

“You don’t need to worry about that!” A-Cheng interrupted him. He still could not forgive the way that man had treated Ming Fan back then, because he could sense Ming Fan’s suffering. In his opinion, Uncle Zhou was even more heartless than Aunt Gui. At least they were not his biological parents, whereas the man standing before Ming Fan was his own father.

“...” Ming Fan had no strength left to answer her. He lowered his head and breathed with difficulty. He had to conserve his energy and regain some of his strength, because he did not know how much longer he would have to endure. He had originally intended to find Mo Ying’s corpse and kill himself, but he had failed.

“Indeed, the temperature here is far too cold. I don’t remember the intelligence reports mentioning that the climate here was this frigid.” Feng Dong also realized that something was wrong.

If Mu Cang could break through to the Earth Origin level, he would never have been left behind in the marquis’s residence to serve as an ordinary guard.

“When will the next stage of the competition begin?” Cheng Mo asked again, and several of his roommates leaned over as well.

After the people above pulled him up beside them, he took the opportunity to vent his dissatisfaction with his superior once more.

“Damn it—Guo Jia!” Upon hearing those words, the laughter came to an abrupt halt, and the atmosphere in the Sikong Residence’s main hall became extremely strange.

He knew that being trapped alone in the valley put him at a disadvantage. If he were truly killed by covert agents using something like a suppressed weapon, no one would ever know—not even the gods or ghosts—and he would die without justice.

After that, this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to the veteran Hollywood actor Robert Redford.

Although by then, Robert Redford’s name had become an unfamiliar symbol to younger audiences.

Yang Gaige turned around and said to Wang Cheng’en, “Grand Attendant, summon Yuan Chonghuan to the Palace of Heavenly Purity to see me.”

Yang Gaige had just dealt with the policy-related matters, but there were still some details that needed to be handled. The matter was of great importance, and Yang Gaige had no choice but to proceed with caution.