Volume 1 Chapter 45 Are You Failing Now?

"Your Majesty, an urgent report from the Ministry of Rites." Song Chengen gently knocked on the door of the imperial study.

"Enter." Xiao Jun'an's tone was unmistakably impatient.

The words that had reached the tip of his tongue were forcefully swallowed back, choking him with a sudden surge of anger.

Song Chengen presented the memorial and quietly stood aside with his hands folded.

"Dongzhao wants to send Princess Lanmin for a political marriage with Nanling?" Xiao Jun'an scanned the memorial at a glance, his brows and expression icy cold.

During the years of stalemated warfare between Nanling and Northern Desert, countless frictions had occurred between Dongzhao and the Nanling garrison near the Yan'er Ridge.

Although small in scale, they posed no substantial threat to Nanling.

However, they caused the Ministry of War to not dare withdraw garrison troops from Yan'er Ridge to support...

Everyone present felt their hearts ache at the child's crying. The man pulled a glowing red copper pillar from the iron basin, delaying his action.

"Regardless of daytime or nighttime, whatever work there is must be finished before sleeping." In the military, it meant obeying all arrangements, and most of them required his review for strategic task needs. A delay of one minute on his part could mean a life lost.

Chang Jimiao ignored Chang Tianyao's shifting attitude and quickly pulled up the video footage taken before Chang Guanyan lost consciousness. Her brows immediately knitted together, anger gathering in the depths of her eyes.

Qiao Chu had never experienced true familial affection; those people in the Qiao family were all cold-hearted. Yet in the Zhan family, she felt their care and love.

For many years afterward, the man constantly marveled at his own precise intuition back then, which had essentially saved his life. Although it felt somewhat cowardly in retrospect, nothing surpassed the importance of simply staying alive.

Beryl and the two others had been staying with the coalition forces. They had long known about the emergence of those young elven clansmen who were hostile to humans, but choosing not to meet them, they remained inside Linna's room without coming out.

Mingjing sighed softly, turning to gaze toward the inner courtyard in deep contemplation, wondering what she was thinking. For a moment, everyone else remaining in the courtyard held their breath, not daring to utter a single word.

Hearing her words, Mo Youxun's expression shifted drastically. He was left utterly speechless and unable to refute her—had he truly been in the wrong?

Su Yirong glanced at Leng Lieyi. At this moment, he sat quietly in a chair, gazing silently at Ye Ruofeng. Sensing her gaze, he shifted his eyes to look at her, then back at Ye Ruofeng.

This was also Wan Qi's first time hearing data statistics regarding herself. As a hacker, she naturally understood the implications behind these figures best. Judging by this rate of dissemination, her popularity was something few could match in the entire entertainment industry.

Watching Shen Xixi blocking Li Xiao not far away, Yan Hong could not help but twitch the corners of her mouth. No sooner had she finished muttering than she bumped right into it downstairs. Was Shen Xixi perhaps not born of the Heavenly Dao?

She tried to comfort herself, telling herself to trust Jian Liu. She had witnessed his performance in the illusion with her own eyes, and no matter what happened, as his companion, she should believe in him.

Even if she failed to find out what she wanted to know, she wouldn't stubbornly push the matter. Anyway, whatever Buran was plotting, it was certainly for her sake.

Antique shops were relatively austere; those were places only high officials and nobles could frequent. Jewelry shops, however, were different. Although there were many such stores, every single one of them was crowded with people.

Looking somewhat nervously at the physician, she hoped to glean something from his eyes in advance so she could take preventive measures in time. She certainly did not want A-Heng to know that something had gone wrong with her health.

Arriving at the parking lot, several burly men in sunglasses and black suits stepped down swiftly from a vehicle, standing respectfully and solemnly in front of the Lincoln stretch limousine.

Later on, my parents forced me to look for Ah Hui, wanting the child back and demanding that he return to acknowledge his ancestors and enter the family registry.

She walked toward Luoran, pushed the man against the elevator wall, stood on tiptoe, and wrapped her arms around his neck.

At the very least, Chu He believed that Ubisoft and EA inviting him this time must mean they had something specific they wanted to showcase.

Changsun Mingzhi walked over to the weapon rack, placed his long spear upon it, weighed the stone in his hand, and laid that stone beneath the rack as well.

On her lower body, she wore a pair of black, wide-legged flared trousers with lace at the hems, and a pair of jet-black high heels that added a good seven or eight centimeters to the teacher's height.

The fire that Wu Ziyi ignited in the scholar tree yesterday evening occurred after the Jiaoyan flagship store had closed for the day, so none of the clerks reported it to Ren Ruoyun, and Ren Ruoxi didn't mention it upon returning either.

Wu Ziyi paid it no mind. After chatting for a while, Xu Gaojun likely grew tired as well and closed her eyes. Wu Ziyi tilted her seat back a bit to let her sleep more comfortably.

"Yes, Captain!" Those twenty or so warriors were completely enveloped in gleaming armor, wearing steel helmets on their heads, both hands holding slender halberds and sabers. Hearing Qilongke's words, they shouted in unison and immediately charged toward the roadway indicated by Qilongke's withered finger.

"That useless creature had two thousand men completely wiped out by others today. This is purely an insult to our military might! Someone, drag him out and behead him!" Hearing this, it seemed Li Xixiao had no intention of sparing this General Sun.

General Gou, seeing the situation now, also realized that the man before him had lured them into a trap with the intent to slaughter both him and General Wei entirely. Seeing his trusted guards fall one by one to flying arrows, he brandished the saber in his hand and charged toward the man to complete the mission of killing the man's family.

The surroundings were dead silent; the onlookers seemed immersed in that moving melody, remaining unresponsive for a long time. The scene of Jiang Chuxia chanting poetry and battling bailiffs was like a deity descending to the mortal realm—singing unrestrainedly, waving his brush with abandon, with an air of complete composure.

Gu Feishao had not seen the bodies of Dilongjie and his two companions along the way; instead, he found that all the traitors of the Wulong Gang had been completely exterminated. He figured those three might have escaped; otherwise, the body of the heavily wounded big man should have remained at the scene.

Han Zhijun was still furious, roaring, "Get lost! Filming a movie with them is ten times more disgusting than filming with animals!" With that, he hung up the phone, leaving a series of busy tones. Li Qiang, Wang Feng, and the others looked on in confusion.

"I wouldn't know about that. Probably just jealous that I'm better-looking than him," Ye Bai replied, rubbing his nose.

Very few people knew this new account of his. These vibrations led him to mistakenly think his parents were messaging him, so he quickly stopped fighting, wiped his hands, and pulled out his phone to take a look, almost jumping up in fury. Well, fine! I didn't go looking for trouble with you lot, yet you come looking for trouble with me repeatedly. Do you really take me for a soft persimmon? Even soft persimmons have pits inside them!

Afterward, Wang Yu took out a bit of the energy fluid acquired in the worm nest, placed it in a cup, and motioned for Xiao Yuanshan to drink it.

By the time these miscellaneous matters were all handled, the sky had grown pitch black. Fearing that his grandparents would worry, Tian Tian went back to stay at their place that night. Lying in bed at night, Tian Xiu did not extinguish the oil lamp, chatting with her right there on the bed.

Although楚殇 (Chu Shang) desperately wanted to tell Shangguan Feng about Xuan Yuanye's deception when he brought her along, the moment he saw Shangguan Feng's eyes reddened from crying over that deception, he instantly lost all courage because he did not want to hurt her, nor did he want to see her cry.

At this moment, morale in the Immortal Palace was soaring, and Long Qianxun simply issued an order to welcome the arrival of Chiyan and the others right here. By now, Chiyan and the group were less than a hundred miles away from the Immortal Palace; in half a day at most, Chiyan would appear beneath the Immortal Palace. Long Qianxun had no intention of returning to the palace at this moment and chose instead to await Chiyan's arrival right beneath the Immortal Palace.