Chapter 31: They Are Watching Me

After this little episode passed, the remaining days at the farm were utterly uneventful.

Fu Luoning moved into a guest room on the second floor, using her lingering cold as an excuse. During the day, she followed the old master wherever he went, while Gu Linzhou, unusually, refrained from provoking her. For several days, Fu Luoning enjoyed a rare stretch of comfort.

On the day they left the farm, the old master sighed repeatedly in the car on the way home. “They were supposed to spend time nurturing their relationship as husband and wife. How did it turn into a vacation spent keeping an old man company?”

Though Nanny Lu was not the most favored matron in the Palace of Longevity and Wellbeing, she still had enough standing to say a few words. If she happened to remember the matter later and grew displeased, merely mentioning it once or twice before the Ancestor at an opportune moment would be enough to make Wen Jingyan and the Old Madam suffer.

Wang Qiang thought to himself that the herb was difficult to find. If it had been easy to locate, and if he knew where it was, he would already have hurried there without stopping.

“He’s lying to you, Manager. I’m eighteen. I turned eighteen the month before last. If you don’t believe me, look at my ID card. It’s true…” Mo Qianqian was furious with Han Jinfeng. It was bad enough that he had ruined her chance; now he had even told the manager never to hire her again. She was so miserable that she felt she might as well die.

“Take off your clothes and go inside to bathe!” Han Jinfeng ordered Mo Qianqian. His gaze flicked toward the clothes on the sofa, indicating that she should change into them afterward.

When Mo Qianqian heard Han Jinfeng say that he would not do anything to her, she became even more frightened. Certain parts of a man were more honest than his mouth, and her thighs had already felt the heat—one that was growing more intense by the moment. Holding her breath, she widened her eyes and watched Han Jinfeng warily, bracing herself for a sudden attack.

Phantom thought it over and decided it did not matter. Since he intended to temper his state of mind amid the mortal world, he might as well live like an ordinary person. Only then could he truly blend into it.

Xia Yao knew that her mother had long since decided that something had happened to her father—that he had been taken away in retaliation by someone seeking revenge. When an ordinary person disappeared, kidnapping or revenge were usually the only possibilities. Yet they were always unwilling to believe such things, much less mention anything so painful, and therefore had never discussed why he might have been abducted.

At the Duke of Rong’s residence, Lianxin heard the news Chun Tao had gathered and could not help twitching at the corner of her cheek, astonished by Feng Chenrui’s shamelessness.

Pei Xuerou gave a cold laugh. “Can a physician cure me? Even if a physician can heal my body, can he heal my heart? It is not my body that is ill—it is my heart!” And her illness had already reached the point of no return. Who could save her? No one. All she was doing now was waiting to die. To her, death would be a release.

“Lian’er, he has grown up. Stop treating him like a child.” Feng Chenrui frowned as he spoke, unable to let go of the fact that his nephew had continued to occupy such an important place in his beloved wife’s heart.

Once Lan Qiyun was entangled, she immediately realized how dire her situation was. The two gear-shaped magical treasures came spinning toward her at great speed, leaving her able only to struggle against them. In a matter of moments, the Qin brothers had forced her back more than a dozen steps, and the situation had become perilous.

For a moment, even these two divine experts at the late stage of the Perfected Celestial Body realm were somewhat dazed. They had assumed that dealing with two opponents at the early stage would be effortless. Never had they imagined that, upon exchanging blows, they would not only gain no advantage at all, but that one of them would suffer a loss while the other could not even get close.

“Pass down my order. Have everyone keep watch and keep their eyes on the sky. The moment anyone is spotted, shoot them down at any cost.” After Emperor Cangmo finished speaking, someone immediately went to relay the command.

Siya sat to one side. The previous night, she had truly hated Lan Chunin. It was Lan Chunin’s appearance that had caused her mother to be imprisoned and made her father resent her so bitterly.

Yang Bai’s cheek was pressed tightly against Feng Feiyan’s, and the two of them maintained the same position. At that moment, Yang Bai’s hand began to wander.