Chapter 28: Deceived into Marriage

Qiao Ke wanted to struggle, but the current situation had already left her with no way out. Gazing into Lin Qianze’s indifferent eyes, the final glimmer of hope in Qiao Ke’s heart shattered completely.

After Qiao Ke was escorted out, Gu Zixi looked at Lin Qianze with a half-smile, half-mockery. “You really do have the bigger picture in mind, don’t you, sir? Your own wife, and you won’t save her?”

Lin Qianze felt a twinge of discomfort, but...

A pair of large hands landed on her shoulders, gripping gently but firmly, turning her slender body around.

Too many inexplicable things were weighing on my chest; I felt I needed to calm down and think it all through.

Just then, the elevator arrived. Lin Qicheng automatically let Zhang Minglang step in first, then himself, while I stood there somewhat dazed and helpless.

Lota opened his own status panel for a quick glance—he was now level 33. Lately, neither killing nor slaying monsters yielded much experience. Now, the main source of experience was completing quests. He shifted his gaze to the regional quest panel, to the investigation mission he’d received earlier.

I was thunderstruck, inside and out. Of course I would treat my husband well—who are you to tell me otherwise?

Yet, back then, the Supreme Elder of the Ice Palace, who had survived two Nirvana Tribulations and ranked among the top three in the entire Tianluo Domain, was still ruthlessly slain by that heartless master from Shadow Moon Valley, meeting a tragic end.

Jiggs delivered a flamboyant outstep long pass, slicing through most of the field—it had echoes of his friend Scholes’s style. Kai Sa received the ball without breaking stride, directing his teammates forward.

“I’m not going out!” Ever since his last long journey, Du Ziyuan had resolved never to leave home again.

It wasn’t a holiday, because I feared that if it were, Tongtong would find another excuse not to come to me. So I deliberately chose a weekday to visit her school. After informing her homeroom teacher, Ms. Zhou, in advance, I took Tongtong out at noon.

He sent cheers to Loliya through the King’s Ring’s resonance. All he had to do was wait for rescue.

There were more than thirty thousand troops in the Grand Military Advisor’s Guard Battalion. Gan Ning led the vanguard steadily northward. On horseback, Cao Ang glanced back at Xun, who still stood guard before the gates of Xudu, a complex look in his eyes. He sighed deeply, then turned his horse and rode away at a slow pace.

Greed Wolf let out a cold laugh, his palm rising slowly as divine power from the Realm of Longevity descended like a range of mountains, crushing everything in its path.

At this, Cao Cao spoke coolly, “Very well. I still have matters to attend to and will not linger here.” He then turned to his bodyguards. “Take good care of Lü Bu’s family.” With a cold sweep of his eyes, he glanced at Diao Chan, lips curling in a faint, mocking smile, as if plotting something, and without another look, he strode away.

He and Xue Hongbing both came from Sun Hung Kai, a classic family-owned corporation whose assets totaled tens of billions in Hong Kong dollars. All those in charge were members of the Kwok family; no matter how well Huang Zhirong performed, he was still just an employee, inherently a rung below.

Another hour or so passed—it was already the latter half of the night—and yet Cai Yan’s voice inside the room remained clear and resounding, though tinged with hoarseness, and still showed no sign of labor beginning.

Thinking of this, he felt a measure of relief—glad he’d arrived in time, or that blockhead Li Ming would have paid dearly. Yi Tian was Xiao Keke’s boyfriend; if he’d been injured by Li Ming, given Xiao Minghai’s famously protective nature, there’d be no end to the trouble.

In the other’s frightened eyes, his body-tempering technique was instantly broken; as if his body were blocks of tofu, a surge of true energy pierced straight through his shoulder.

“You still dare to curse?” Buse blurted out more obscenities in a crude dialect, which nearly made Xiao Keke faint with rage. Fueled by anger, she raised her hand and slapped Buse hard across the face.