Chapter 104: Suspected Infidelity

Even after Sun Furong came out and, in the blink of an eye, fell on hard times, it did nothing to diminish the swagger that ran in her bones.

“Gu Shenshen, you really are shameless. Sleeping with Zhou Ci in Haicheng, and once you got bored of him, coming to Shangcheng to look for your childhood sweetheart.” Sun Furong’s unrestrained words were vicious and ugly.

And this was right at the entrance of a hotel. Speaking so recklessly drew the attention of everyone nearby.

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A Lai did not answer. He held the hilt in one hand and, with the other, kept dragging his fingers back and forth along the blade for a long while.

Such an ending was, of course, not what he wanted. Even if he was only an avatar now, he still did not wish to die pointlessly in the inner space beneath the gray canopy.

“I just don’t understand. If you hated me that much, why did you give birth to me in the first place?” To him, the question was nothing more than the doubt that had lived in his heart all these years. But to parents hearing it, it brought entirely different thoughts.

As Zilin explained, he could not help finding it odd. You’re only an inland reserve mountain god, far from the sea entirely—so why are you worrying about a monkey demon from the far-off oceans?

The staff member responsible for counting the entries for the Golden Axe competition had indeed been stunned by that figure.

After Fuluohan reached Shanggu Commandery, Yan Rou came under great pressure. He sent Xianyu Fu to guard Xialuo County, because only Xialuo County, north of the Sang River, could be attacked by the Northern Xianbei.

Even with dreams that could foretell the future, no matter how hard she tried, she still could not change the rotten nature in that scummy father’s bones.

A little farther on, however, they all stopped at the same time, because they were about to enter the territory of the Rong tribes. On the grasslands, the Rong were the undisputed kings, feared by every force.

For all his sweet words that night, she had been moved to tears at the time, utterly carried away—only to find out in the end that it had all been a lie.

Watching their classmates from the performance troupe come out, faces fully made up, the crowd looked this way and that, laughing and chattering without end. The boys, especially, had eyes bright with mischief, and a few of the more impudent ones even let out whistles.

Fog billowed in every direction, and thunder kept rolling across the sky overhead from time to time. Both sight and hearing were severely hindered; everything had to be done by instinct and perception alone.

Hot springs were extremely rare in Qian Kingdom. Around the capital, however, Tianquan Mountain and Yuquan Mountain had many hot-spring vents. Tianquan Mountain was the emperor’s imperial retreat, so ordinary people were naturally forbidden even to approach its foot. Yuquan Mountain, too, had been divided up among several of Qian Kingdom’s most powerful families, and entry there was never easy.

Now the world was divided into three. Snowfield Kingdom lay above them, Water Mirror Kingdom lay below them, and their Aoyu Kingdom was wedged between the two.

Zhuge Chen was beginning to regret it. If he had known this princess consort was so extraordinarily skilled at chess, he should never have let her make the first move. And yet that only made him more excited. It seemed this princess consort’s skill was on par with the Second Prince’s. He truly found it strange that the two opponents he had ever met in his life were husband and wife. He had to concede defeat to them.

Although the power of the abyss had receded, and although it had suffered no fundamental damage, it still posed a tremendous threat to the human world.

But if they were going into horse trading, they really would not have gone all the way to Mount Tai; that would have clashed with the planned itinerary.

The silver-masked man’s sharp gaze naturally caught both her earlier excitement and the disappointment she showed after learning she had changed masters. But since she had failed, he could not be bothered to hold it against her.

A county garrison officer shouted at Yan Liang and the others. The rest of the county soldiers instinctively tightened their grips on their spears, staring hard at Yan Liang and his party. Liu Yu jumped down from his horse, stepped forward a few paces, and cupped his hands in salute to the gate guard.

Those few simple words seemed to slam into Ye Tian’s heart like a heavy hammer. It hurt. It hurt so much....

The Indians in the open space were clearly growing impatient, bouncing up and down again and again, their mouths letting out hoarse cries like a beast in heat at night.